Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Microenvironmental IL1β promotes breast cancer metastatic colonisation in the bone via activation of Wnt signalling

  • Rachel Eyre,
  • Denis G. Alférez,
  • Angélica Santiago-Gómez,
  • Kath Spence,
  • James C. McConnell,
  • Claire Hart,
  • Bruno M. Simões,
  • Diane Lefley,
  • Claudia Tulotta,
  • Joanna Storer,
  • Austin Gurney,
  • Noel Clarke,
  • Mick Brown,
  • Sacha J. Howell,
  • Andrew H. Sims,
  • Gillian Farnie,
  • Penelope D. Ottewell,
  • Robert B. Clarke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12807-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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In breast cancer, dormant cancer cells may develop into bone metastases. Here, the authors demonstrate that microenvironmental IL1β stimulates metastatic breast cancer cell colonisation in the bone via IL1β-NFKB/CREB-Wnt pathway activation and cancer stem cell colony formation