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ArticleMolecular cancer2025

CREPT is required for the metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer through a co-operational-chromatin loop-based gene regulation.

Jianghua Li, Lu Xu, Jiayu Wang, Xuning Wang, Yuting Lin, Alex Yutian Zou, Fangli Ren, Yinyin Wang, Jun Li, Zhijie Chang

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Article in Molecular cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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10 authors.

Jianghua LiState Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Lu XuState Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Jiayu WangState Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Xuning WangDepartment of General Surgery, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, No. 83, Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang, 110016, China.
Yuting LinState Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Alex Yutian ZouCollege of Letters & Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Fangli RenState Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Yinyin WangState Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. wangyinyin@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Jun LiJinfeng Laboratory, No. 313, Jinyue Road, High-Tech Zone, Chongqing, 401329, China. junlibenben@163.com.
Zhijie ChangState Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. zhijiec@tsinghua.edu.cn.

Funding

Beijing Scientific Projects 7172213Chinese National Major Scientific Research Program 2016YFA0500301Jinfeng Lab JFLKYXM202303AZ-203National Natural Science Foundation of China 81230044, 81872249 and 81830092
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is recognized for its aggressiveness, yet the mechanism underlying metastasis remains unclear. Here, we report that CREPT/RPRD1B, which exhibits somatic gene copy-number amplifications and elevated expression, correlates with poor patient survival and drives TNBC metastasis. We demonstrate that CREPT alters three-dimensional genome structures in topologically-associating domain (TAD) status and chromatin loops via occupying promoters and enhancers. Specifically, CREPT mediates 1082 co-operational chromatin loops configured by enhancer-promoter and promoter-termination loops, which are validated by HiChIP analyses and visualized by Tn5-FISH experiments. These loops orchestrate RNAPII loading and recycling to enhance the metastatic gene expression. Disruption of these co-operational loops using CRISPR-dCas9 suppresses TNBC metastasis in vivo. Furthermore, depletion of CREPT using an AAV-based shRNA blocks TNBC metastasis in both preventative and therapeutic mouse models. We propose that targeting CREPT to disrupt the co-operational chromatin loop structures represents a promising therapeutic strategy for metastatic TNBC.

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ChromatinGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsAnimalsCell Line, TumorFemaleHumansMiceNeoplasm MetastasisPrognosisPromoter Regions, GeneticChromatin

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PMID40495214
PMCPMC12150493

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