Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

CDK4/6-dependent activation of DUB3 regulates cancer metastasis through SNAIL1

  • Tongzheng Liu,
  • Jia Yu,
  • Min Deng,
  • Yujiao Yin,
  • Haoxing Zhang,
  • Kuntian Luo,
  • Bo Qin,
  • Yunhui Li,
  • Chenming Wu,
  • Tao Ren,
  • Yang Han,
  • Peng Yin,
  • JungJin Kim,
  • SeungBaek Lee,
  • Jing Lin,
  • Lizhi Zhang,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Somaira Nowsheen,
  • Liewei Wang,
  • Judy Boughey,
  • Matthew P. Goetz,
  • Jian Yuan,
  • Zhenkun Lou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13923
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Overexpression of SNAIL confers tumour cells with cancer stem-like characteristics associated with tumour progression. Here the authors show that inhibition of CDK4/6 blocks tumour metastasis in triple negative breast cancer by targeting DUB3 which in turns deubiquitinates and stabilises SNAIL1.