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ArticleOncogene2021

The interactions of Bcl9/Bcl9L with β-catenin and Pygopus promote breast cancer growth, invasion, and metastasis.

Vida Vafaizadeh, David Buechel, Natalia Rubinstein, Ravi K R Kalathur, Lorenzo Bazzani, Meera Saxena, Tomas Valenta, George Hausmann, Claudio Cantù, Konrad Basler and 1 more

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Article in Oncogene, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 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 6 institutions in 5 countries.

Vida VafaizadehDepartment of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. vidavafaizadeh@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-0875-6246
David BuechelDepartment of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Natalia RubinsteinInstituto de Biociencias, Biotecnología y Biología Traslacional, Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ravi K R KalathurDepartment of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Lorenzo BazzaniDepartment of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Meera SaxenaDepartment of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Tomas ValentaDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
George HausmannDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2146-6665
Claudio CantùWallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1547-5415
Konrad BaslerDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Gerhard ChristoforiDepartment of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. gerhard.christofori@unibas.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-8696-9896
University of Basel · CHUniversity of Zurich · CHLinköping University · SERoyal Children's Hospital · AUUniversidad de Buenos Aires · ARUniversity of Siena · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling is an established regulator of cellular state and its critical contributions to tumor initiation, malignant tumor progression and metastasis formation have been demonstrated in various cancer types. Here, we investigated how the binding of β-catenin to the transcriptional coactivators B-cell CLL/lymphoma 9 (Bcl9) and Bcl9-Like (Bcl9L) affected mammary gland carcinogenesis in the MMTV-PyMT transgenic mouse model of metastatic breast cancer. Conditional knockout of both Bcl9 and Bcl9L resulted into tumor cell death. In contrast, disrupting the interaction of Bcl9/Bcl9L with β-catenin, either by deletion of their HD2 domains or by a point mutation in the N-terminal domain of β-catenin (D164A), diminished primary tumor growth and tumor cell proliferation and reduced tumor cell invasion and lung metastasis. In comparison, the disruption of HD1 domain-mediated binding of Bcl9/Bcl9L to Pygopus had only moderate effects. Interestingly, interfering with the β-catenin-Bcl9/Bcl9L-Pygo chain of adapters only partially impaired the transcriptional response of mammary tumor cells to Wnt3a and TGFβ treatments. Together, the results indicate that Bcl9/Bcl9L modulate but are not critically required for canonical Wnt signaling in its contribution to breast cancer growth and malignant progression, a notion consistent with the "just-right" hypothesis of Wnt-driven tumor progression.

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Animalsbeta CateninBreast NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorDisease ProgressionDNA-Binding ProteinsEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionFemaleHumansIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsMiceNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasm TransplantationTranscription FactorsWnt Signaling PathwayBCL9L protein, humanBCL9 protein, humanbeta CateninCTNNB1 protein, humanDNA-Binding ProteinsIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsTranscription Factors

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PMID34545187
PMCPMC8553620
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