Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Gpr125 is a unifying hallmark of multiple mammary progenitors coupled to tumor latency

  • Elena Spina,
  • Julia Simundza,
  • Angela Incassati,
  • Anupama Chandramouli,
  • Matthias C. Kugler,
  • Ziyan Lin,
  • Alireza Khodadadi-Jamayran,
  • Christine J. Watson,
  • Pamela Cowin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28937-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Gpr125 has emerged as a specific marker of mammary stem cells and basal progenitors. Here they show that Gpr125 cells congregate at ductal tips during morphogenesis and amass at tumor margins, and that high Gpr125 predicts early tumor onset and poor outcome in basal breast cancer.