Differences in the starvation-induced autophagy response in MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 breast cancer cells

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Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with distinct subtypes that have made targeted therapy of breast cancer challenging. Previous studies have demonstrated that an altered autophagy capacity can influence the development of breast cancer. However, the molecular differences in starvation-induced autophagic responses in MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 cells have not been fully elucidated. In this study, we found that an...

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