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ONCOTARGET
Volume 4, Issue 8, Pages 1293-1308Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.1136
Keywords
Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; stemness; HMGA1; breast cancer; invasion; metastasis; gene-signature
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- Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC), Milan (Italy)
- Universita degli Studi di Trieste (Italy)
- MIUR
- FIRB [2008-RBRN07BMCT]
- Friuli-Venezia-Giulia
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Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease that progresses to the critical hallmark of metastasis. In the present study, we show that the High Mobility Group A1 (HMGA1) protein plays a fundamental role in this process in basal-like breast cancer subtype. HMGA1 knockdown induces the mesenchymal to epithelial transition and dramatically decreases stemness and self-renewal. Notably, HMGA1 depletion in basal-like breast cancer cell lines reduced migration and invasion in vitro and the formation of metastases in vivo. Mechanistically, HMGA1 activated stemness and key migration-associated genes which were linked to the Wnt/beta-catenin, Notch and Pin1/mutant p53 signalling pathways. Moreover, we identified a specific HMGA1 gene expression signature that was activated in a large subset of human primary breast tumours and was associated with poor prognosis. Taken together, these data provide new insights into the role of HMGA1 in the acquisition of aggressive features in breast cancer.
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