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ID4 controls mammary stem cells and marks breast cancers with a stem cell-like phenotype
Abstract
Basal-like breast cancer (BLBC) is a heterogeneous disease with poor prognosis; however, its cellular origins and aetiology are poorly understood. In this study, we show that inhibitor of differentiation 4 (ID4) is a key regulator of mammary stem cell self-renewal and marks a subset of BLBC with a putative mammary basal cell of origin. Using an ID4GFP knock-in reporter mouse and single-cell transcriptomics, we show that ID4 marks a stem cell-enriched subset of the mammary basal cell population. ID4 maintains the mammary stem cell pool by suppressing key factors required for luminal differentiation. Furthermore, ID4 is specifically expressed by a subset of human BLBC that possess a very poor prognosis and a transcriptional signature similar to a mammary stem cell. These studies identify ID4 as a mammary stem cell regulator, deconvolute the heterogeneity of BLBC and link a subset of mammary stem cells to the aetiology of BLBC.
Type | Journal |
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Authors | Junankar, S.; Baker, L. A.; Roden, D. L.; Nair, R.; Elsworth, B.; Gallego-Ortega, D.; Lacaze, P.; Cazet, A.; Nikolic, I.; Teo, W. S.; Yang, J.; McFarland, A.; Harvey, K.; Naylor, M. J.; Lakhani, S. R.; Simpson, P. T.; Raghavendra, A.; Saunus, J.; Madore, J.; Kaplan, W.; Ormandy, C.; Millar, E. K.; O'Toole, S.; Yun, K.; Swarbrick, A.; |
Publisher Name | Nature Communications |
Published Date | 2015-05-01 |
Published Volume | 6 |
Published Pages | 6548 |
Status | Published in-print |
URL link to publisher's version | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25813983 |
OpenAccess link to author's accepted manuscript version | https://publications.gimr.garvan.org.au/open-access/12102 |