MicroRNA-182 targets SMAD7 to potentiate TGFβ-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition and metastasis of cancer cells

SMAD7 is a transcriptional target and a negative regulator of TGFβ signalling forming a negative feedback loop. Here the authors show that in cancer cells TGFβ activates the expression of microRNA-182 that suppresses SMAD7 protein, promoting TGFβ-mediated breast tumour invasion and bone metastasis....

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Main Authors: Jingyi Yu, Rong Lei, Xueqian Zhuang, Xiaoxun Li, Gang Li, Sima Lev, Miguel F. Segura, Xue Zhang, Guohong Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13884