Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

A regulatory circuit of miR-125b/miR-20b and Wnt signalling controls glioblastoma phenotypes through FZD6-modulated pathways

  • Tianzhi Huang,
  • Angel A. Alvarez,
  • Rajendra P. Pangeni,
  • Craig M. Horbinski,
  • Songjian Lu,
  • Sung-Hak Kim,
  • C. David James,
  • Jeffery J. Raizer,
  • John A. Kessler,
  • Cameron W. Brenann,
  • Erik P. Sulman,
  • Gaetano Finocchiaro,
  • Ming Tan,
  • Ryo Nishikawa,
  • Xinghua Lu,
  • Ichiro Nakano,
  • Bo Hu,
  • Shi-Yuan Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12885
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Glioblastoma (GBM) is classified as proneural (PN), neural, mesenchymal (MES) and classical GBM. Here the authors show that Wnt signalling, miR-125b and miR-20b establish a regulatory circuitry including FZD6 which distinguishes PN from the MES subtype.