Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

PAK4 suppresses RELB to prevent senescence-like growth arrest in breast cancer

  • Tânia D. F. Costa,
  • Ting Zhuang,
  • Julie Lorent,
  • Emilia Turco,
  • Helene Olofsson,
  • Miriam Masia-Balague,
  • Miao Zhao,
  • Parisa Rabieifar,
  • Neil Robertson,
  • Raoul Kuiper,
  • Jonas Sjölund,
  • Matthias Spiess,
  • Pablo Hernández-Varas,
  • Uta Rabenhorst,
  • Pernilla Roswall,
  • Ran Ma,
  • Xiaowei Gong,
  • Johan Hartman,
  • Kristian Pietras,
  • Peter D. Adams,
  • Paola Defilippi,
  • Staffan Strömblad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11510-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Oncogene induced senescence protects cells from unrestricted growth and cancer. Here, the authors show that PAK4 overrides this senescence in breast cancer cells through phosphorylation of RELB, thereby inhibiting transcription of the senescence regulator C/EBPβ.