Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Simultaneous overactivation of Wnt/β-catenin and TGFβ signalling by miR-128-3p confers chemoresistance-associated metastasis in NSCLC

  • Junchao Cai,
  • Lishan Fang,
  • Yongbo Huang,
  • Rong Li,
  • Xiaonan Xu,
  • Zhihuang Hu,
  • Le Zhang,
  • Yi Yang,
  • Xun Zhu,
  • Heng Zhang,
  • Jueheng Wu,
  • Yan Huang,
  • Jun Li,
  • Musheng Zeng,
  • Erwei Song,
  • Yukai He,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Mengfeng Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15870
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Chemoresistance and metastasis are tightly associated features in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here, the authors show that resistant NSCLCs have high levels of miR-128-3p which promotes EMT and cancer stem cell survival through the modulation of both Wnt/B-catenin and TGF-β pathway.