Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Nuclear Smad6 promotes gliomagenesis by negatively regulating PIAS3-mediated STAT3 inhibition

  • Jiantong Jiao,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Zheng Li,
  • Ying Yin,
  • Xiangming Fang,
  • Xiaopeng Ding,
  • Ying Cai,
  • Shudong Yang,
  • Huijun Mu,
  • Da Zong,
  • Yuexin Chen,
  • Yansong Zhang,
  • Jian Zou,
  • Junfei Shao,
  • Zhaohui Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04936-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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In glioma STAT3 signaling contributes to gliomagenesis. Here, the authors show that Smad6 expression correlates with poor survival and is overexpressed in glioma cells, and regulates STAT3 activity via negatively regulating PIAS3.