Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

MiR-31 promotes mammary stem cell expansion and breast tumorigenesis by suppressing Wnt signaling antagonists

  • Cong Lv,
  • Fengyin Li,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Yuhua Tian,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Xiaole Sheng,
  • Yongli Song,
  • Qingyong Meng,
  • Shukai Yuan,
  • Liming Luan,
  • Thomas Andl,
  • Xu Feng,
  • Baowei Jiao,
  • Mingang Xu,
  • Maksim V. Plikus,
  • Xing Dai,
  • Christopher Lengner,
  • Wei Cui,
  • Fazheng Ren,
  • Jianwei Shuai,
  • Sarah E. Millar,
  • Zhengquan Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01059-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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MicroRNAs play an important role in stem cell fate and tumorigenesis. In this work, the authors show that miR-31 controls mammary stem cell self-renewal and tumorigenesis by simultaneously activating Wnt/β-catenin and repressing TGFβ signaling pathways.