Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Perturbed myoepithelial cell differentiation in BRCA mutation carriers and in ductal carcinoma in situ

  • Lina Ding,
  • Ying Su,
  • Anne Fassl,
  • Kunihiko Hinohara,
  • Xintao Qiu,
  • Nicholas W. Harper,
  • Sung Jin Huh,
  • Noga Bloushtain-Qimron,
  • Bojana Jovanović,
  • Muhammad Ekram,
  • Xiaoyuan Zi,
  • William C. Hines,
  • Maša Alečković,
  • Carlos Gil del Alcazar,
  • Ryan J. Caulfield,
  • Dennis M. Bonal,
  • Quang-De Nguyen,
  • Vanessa F. Merino,
  • Sibgat Choudhury,
  • Gabrielle Ethington,
  • Laura Panos,
  • Michael Grant,
  • William Herlihy,
  • Alfred Au,
  • Gedge D. Rosson,
  • Pedram Argani,
  • Andrea L. Richardson,
  • Deborah Dillon,
  • D. Craig Allred,
  • Kirsten Babski,
  • Elizabeth Min Hui Kim,
  • Charles H. McDonnell,
  • Jon Wagner,
  • Ron Rowberry,
  • Kristie Bobolis,
  • Celina G. Kleer,
  • E. Shelley Hwang,
  • Joanne L. Blum,
  • Simona Cristea,
  • Piotr Sicinski,
  • Rong Fan,
  • Henry W. Long,
  • Saraswati Sukumar,
  • So Yeon Park,
  • Judy E. Garber,
  • Mina Bissell,
  • Jun Yao,
  • Kornelia Polyak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12125-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Myoepithelial cells prevent tumour growth and invasion in DCIS. Here, the authors show that p63 and TCF7 cooperate to regulate a transcription factor network for the maintenance of normal myoepithelial function and altered expression of these genes perturb myoepithelial function in DCIS to promote invasive progression.