학술논문
Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity determines estrogen receptor positive breast cancer dormancy and epithelial reconversion drives recurrence
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2022)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2041-1723
Abstract
The study of tumour dormancy is limited by suitable in vivo models. Here the authors show that mammary intraductal breast cancer (BC) xenografts model estrogen receptor α-positive (ER+) BC dormancy and rapid metastatic progression characteristic of triple-negative (TN) BC. The dormant disseminated ER+ BC cells display characteristics of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity and forced expression of E-cadherin allows them to overcome dormancy.