Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

RNF208, an estrogen-inducible E3 ligase, targets soluble Vimentin to suppress metastasis in triple-negative breast cancers

  • Kyoungwha Pang,
  • Jinah Park,
  • Sung Gwe Ahn,
  • Jihee Lee,
  • Yuna Park,
  • Akira Ooshima,
  • Seiya Mizuno,
  • Satoshi Yamashita,
  • Kyung-Soon Park,
  • So-Young Lee,
  • Joon Jeong,
  • Toshikazu Ushijima,
  • Kyung-Min Yang,
  • Seong-Jin Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13852-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype lacking effective targeted therapies. Here, the authors show that RNF208, an estrogen-induced ubiquitin ligase, promotes the degradation of Vimentin, thereby suppressing lung metastasis of TNBC, and may serve as a biomarker for the disease.