Nature Communications (May 2021)

BAD regulates mammary gland morphogenesis by 4E-BP1-mediated control of localized translation in mouse and human models

  • John Maringa Githaka,
  • Namita Tripathi,
  • Raven Kirschenman,
  • Namrata Patel,
  • Vrajesh Pandya,
  • David A. Kramer,
  • Rachel Montpetit,
  • Lin Fu Zhu,
  • Nahum Sonenberg,
  • Richard P. Fahlman,
  • Nika N. Danial,
  • D. Alan Underhill,
  • Ing Swie Goping

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23269-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Preventing phosphorylation of BAD (3SA) in mouse models and human cells inhibits mammary gland development, acting by disrupting 4E-BP1- mediated translation and affecting focal adhesion/protrusion stability, cell migration and ductal tubulogenesis.