Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Targeting 17q23 amplicon to overcome the resistance to anti-HER2 therapy in HER2+ breast cancer

  • Yunhua Liu,
  • Jiangsheng Xu,
  • Hyun Ho Choi,
  • Cecil Han,
  • Yuanzhang Fang,
  • Yujing Li,
  • Kevin Van der Jeught,
  • Hanchen Xu,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Michael Frieden,
  • Lifei Wang,
  • Haniyeh Eyvani,
  • Yifan Sun,
  • Gang Zhao,
  • Yuntian Zhang,
  • Sheng Liu,
  • Jun Wan,
  • Cheng Huang,
  • Guang Ji,
  • Xiongbin Lu,
  • Xiaoming He,
  • Xinna Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07264-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The 17q23 amplicon containing the WIP1 oncogene is frequently amplified in HER2+ breast cancer. Here they find MIR21 to be present in WIP1-containing amplicons, and report nanoparticle based co-delivery of WIP1 and miR-21 inhibitors to be effective in trastuzumab-resistant HER2+ breast cancer.