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NOTCH and EZH2 collaborate to repress PTEN expression in breast cancer.
Communications biology - 9 Mar 2021
Pappas Kyrie, Martin Tiphaine C, Wolfe Andrew L, Nguyen Christie B, Su Tao, Jin Jian, Hibshoosh Hanina, Parsons Ramon
Abstract excerpt
Downregulation of the PTEN tumor suppressor transcript is frequent in breast cancer and associates with poor prognosis and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) when comparing breast cancers to one another. Here we show that in almost all cases, when comparing breast tumors to adjacent normal ducts, PTEN expression is decreased and the PRC2-associated methyltransferase EZH2 is increased. We further find that when...
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