Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

TRIB3-EGFR interaction promotes lung cancer progression and defines a therapeutic target

  • Jiao-jiao Yu,
  • Dan-dan Zhou,
  • Xiao-xiao Yang,
  • Bing Cui,
  • Feng-wei Tan,
  • Junjian Wang,
  • Ke Li,
  • Shuang Shang,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Xiao-xi Lv,
  • Xiao-wei Zhang,
  • Shan-shan Liu,
  • Jin-mei Yu,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Bo Huang,
  • Fang Hua,
  • Zhuo-Wei Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17385-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Depletion of tribbles pseudokinase 3 (TRIB3) is known to suppress the expression of several tumor-promoting factors, including EGFR. Here, the authors show that TRIB3 interacts with EGFR and regulates its stability and activity, and perturbing EGFR-TRIB3 interaction attenuates NSCLC progression by accelerating EGFR degradation.