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The deubiquitinating enzyme USP1 modulates ERα and modulates breast cancer progression
- Source :
- Journal of Cancer
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Ivyspring International Publisher, 2020.
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Abstract
- Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide, while the luminal types (ERα positive) accounts for two third of all breast cancer cases. Although ERα positive breast cancer could be effective controlled by endocrine therapy, most of the patients will develop endocrine resistance, which becomes a headache clinical issue for breast cancer field. Endocrine resistance could be caused by multiple pathway disorders, the dys-regulation of ERα signaling might be a critical factor, which makes it urgent and important to reveal the potential molecular mechanism of ERα signaling. In our current study, we identified a new deubiquitination enzyme USP1 through screening the whole DUB (Deubiquitinases) siRNA library. The expression of USP1 is elevated in human breast cancer compared with normal mammary tissues. Importantly, USP1 expression levels are specially correlated with poor survival in ERα positive patients. USP1 depletion inhibited breast cancer cell progression and ERα signaling activity. Immuno-precipitation assays indicate that USP1 associates with ERα and promotes its stability possibly via inhibiting ERα K48-linked poly-ubiquitination. In conclusion, our data implicate a non-genomic mechanism by USP1 via stabilizing ERα protein controls ERα target gene expression linked to breast cancer progression.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Deubiquitinating enzyme
03 medical and health sciences
Breast cancer
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
ERα
chemistry.chemical_classification
Deubiquitin, Stabilize
biology
Mechanism (biology)
business.industry
Endocrine therapy
Cancer
medicine.disease
USP1
030104 developmental biology
Enzyme
Oncology
chemistry
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Molecular mechanism
Cancer research
biology.protein
business
Research Paper
Deubiquitination
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18379664
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cancer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8cacf51a4a509fae9ec85add06b806b1