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ArticleOncotarget2018

The ERβ4 variant induces transformation of the normal breast mammary epithelial cell line MCF-10A; the ERβ variants ERβ2 and ERβ5 increase aggressiveness of TNBC by regulation of hypoxic signaling.

Michelle Faria, Samaneh Karami, Sergio Granados-Principal, Prasenjit Dey, Akanksha Verma, Dong S Choi, Olivier Elemento, Tasneem Bawa-Khalfe, Jenny C Chang, Anders M Strom and 1 more

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Article in Oncotarget, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Michelle FariaUniversity of Houston, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, Science & Engineering Research Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Samaneh KaramiUniversity of Houston, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, Science & Engineering Research Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Sergio Granados-PrincipalDepartment of Medical Oncology, Hospital of Jaen, Jaen, Spain.
Prasenjit DeyDepartment of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Akanksha VermaInstitute for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Dong S ChoiMethodist Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Olivier ElementoInstitute for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Tasneem Bawa-KhalfeUniversity of Houston, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, Science & Engineering Research Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Jenny C ChangMethodist Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Anders M StromUniversity of Houston, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, Science & Engineering Research Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Jan-Åke GustafssonUniversity of Houston, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, Science & Engineering Research Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
University of Houston · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USMethodist Hospital · USCornell University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) still remains a challenge to treat in the clinic due to a lack of good targets for treatment. Although TNBC lacks expression of ERα, the expression of ERβ and its variants are detected quite frequently in this cancer type and can represent an avenue for treatment. We show that two of the variants of ERβ, namely ERβ2 and ERβ5, control aggressiveness of TNBC by regulating hypoxic signaling through stabilization of HIF-1α. RNA-seq of patient derived xenografts (PDX) from TNBC shows expression of ERβ2, ERβ4 and ERβ5 variants in more than half of the samples. Furthermore, expression of ERβ4 in the immortalized, normal mammary epithelial cell line MCF-10A that is resistant to tumorsphere formation caused transformation and development of tumorspheres. By contrast, ERβ1, ERβ2 or ERβ5 were unable to support tumorsphere formation. We have previously shown that all variants except ERβ1 stabilize HIF-1α but only ERβ4 appears to have the ability to transform normal mammary epithelial cells, pointing towards a unique property of ERβ4. We propose that ERβ variants may be good diagnostic tools and also serve as novel targets for treatment of breast cancer.

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PMID29552303
PMCPMC5844739
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