Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

FOXF2 reprograms breast cancer cells into bone metastasis seeds

  • Shuo Wang,
  • Gui-Xi Li,
  • Cong-Cong Tan,
  • Rui He,
  • Li-Juan Kang,
  • Jun-Tao Lu,
  • Xiao-Qing Li,
  • Qing-Shan Wang,
  • Pei-Fang Liu,
  • Qiong-Li Zhai,
  • Yu-Mei Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10379-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Bone metastasis in breast cancer patients causes major skeletal-related complications. Here, the authors show that FOXF2/BMP/SMAD pathway plays a major role in bone metastasis and suggest targeting this axis to manage bone metastasis.