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@article{Giannoudis:2020:10.1186/s13058-020-01359-7,
author = {Giannoudis, A and Malki, MI and Rudraraju, B and Mohhamed, H and Menon, S and Liloglou, T and Ali, S and Carroll, JS and Palmieri, C},
doi = {10.1186/s13058-020-01359-7},
journal = {Breast Cancer Research},
pages = {1--17},
title = {Activating transcription factor-2 (ATF2) is a key determinant of resistance to endocrine treatment in an in vitro model of breast cancer},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13058-020-01359-7},
volume = {22},
year = {2020}
}

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AB  - BackgroundActivating transcription factor-2 (ATF2), a member of the leucine zipper family of DNA binding proteins, has been implicated as a tumour suppressor in breast cancer. However, its exact role in breast cancer endocrine resistance is still unclear. We have previously shown that silencing of ATF2 leads to a loss in the growth-inhibitory effects of tamoxifen in the oestrogen receptor (ER)-positive, tamoxifen-sensitive MCF7 cell line and highlighted that this multi-faceted transcription factor is key to the effects of tamoxifen in an endocrine sensitive model. In this work, we explored further the in vitro role of ATF2 in defining the resistance to endocrine treatment.Materials and methodsWe knocked down ATF2 in TAMR, LCC2 and LCC9 tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cell lines as well as the parental tamoxifen sensitive MCF7 cell line and investigated the effects on growth, colony formation and cell migration. We also performed a microarray gene expression profiling (Illumina Human HT12_v4) to explore alterations in gene expression between MCF7 and TAMRs after ATF2 silencing and confirmed gene expression changes by quantitative RT-PCR.ResultsBy silencing ATF2, we observed a significant growth reduction of TAMR, LCC2 and LCC9 with no such effect observed with the parental MCF7 cells. ATF2 silencing was also associated with a significant inhibition of TAMR, LCC2 and LCC9 cell migration and colony formation. Interestingly, knockdown of ATF2 enhanced the levels of ER and ER-regulated genes, TFF1, GREB1, NCOA3 and PGR, in TAMR cells both at RNA and protein levels. Microarray gene expression identified a number of genes known to mediate tamoxifen resistance, to be differentially regulated by ATF2 in TAMR in relation to the parental MCF7 cells. Moreover, differential pathway analysis confirmed enhanced ER activity after ATF2 knockdown in TAMR cells.ConclusionThese data demonstrate that ATF2 silencing may overcome endocrine resistance and highlights further the dual role
AU  - Giannoudis,A
AU  - Malki,MI
AU  - Rudraraju,B
AU  - Mohhamed,H
AU  - Menon,S
AU  - Liloglou,T
AU  - Ali,S
AU  - Carroll,JS
AU  - Palmieri,C
DO  - 10.1186/s13058-020-01359-7
EP  - 17
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1465-542X
SP  - 1
TI  - Activating transcription factor-2 (ATF2) is a key determinant of resistance to endocrine treatment in an in vitro model of breast cancer
T2  - Breast Cancer Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13058-020-01359-7
UR  - https://breast-cancer-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13058-020-01359-7
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/84541
VL  - 22
ER  -

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