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ArticleCancer medicine2018

Friend leukemia virus integration 1 is a predictor of poor prognosis of breast cancer and promotes metastasis and cancer stem cell properties of breast cancer cells.

Xu Yan, Yu Yu, Lingyu Li, Naifei Chen, Wei Song, Hua He, Jie Dong, Xiangliang Liu, Jiuwei Cui

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xu YanPathological Diagnostic Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9596-2979
Yu YuCancer Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Lingyu LiCancer Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Naifei ChenCancer Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Wei SongCancer Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Hua HeCancer Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Jie DongCancer Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Xiangliang LiuCancer Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2282-3265
Jiuwei CuiCancer Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Jilin University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide; despite the developments in diagnosis and therapy, recurrence and metastasis remain the main causes of death among patients with breast cancer. This study aimed to identify a promising biomarker for this disease. The study clarified (1) the association between Friend leukemia virus integration 1 (FLI-1) and various molecular subtypes and (2) the prognostic value of FLI-1 in breast cancer. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to report that FLI-1 is a predictor of poor prognosis in patients with breast cancer and overexpressed in the triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtype. To further verify the effect of FLI-1 in promoting the metastasis of TNBC, we performed a series of functional experiments in vitro and orthotopic xenograft experiments in the mammary fat pad of nude mice. FLI-1, as a transcription factor, bound to the promoters of key EMT-related genes (CDH1 and VIM), and regulated their expressions at the transcriptional level, thus induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). The overexpression of FLI-1 significantly upregulated the expression of mesenchymal markers. After the modulation of FLI-1, the changes in mammary stem cell markers (ALDH1A1 and CD133) and the capacity to form mammospheres were consistent with those of the EMT-related markers. The orthotopic xenograft models further confirmed that the attenuation of stem cell traits after silencing FLI-1 decreased the ability of tumorigenesis. These results indicate that FLI-1 is a useful predictor of poor prognosis in patients with breast cancer. Furthermore, the preliminary exploration of metastatic mechanism in the patients with TNBC will provide a potential target to treat breast cancer in the near future.

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Biomarkers, TumorAdultAgedBreast NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorCell Transformation, NeoplasticFemaleGene ExpressionGene Knockdown TechniquesHumansMiddle AgedNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasm StagingNeoplastic Stem CellsPrognosisProto-Oncogene Protein c-fli-1Biomarkers, TumorFLI1 protein, humanProto-Oncogene Protein c-fli-1breast carcinomaepithelial-mesenchymal transitionFriend leukemia virus integration 1invasivenessstemness

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