Eventually, the hub genes SRC, EGFR, JUN, CTNNB1, and MYC were derived using distinct topological parameters such as degree, betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, and clustering coefficient, which implicated a central role in TNBC.
We also found that treatment of the TNBC VM phenotype cells with entinostat downregulated the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF‑A), and that of the epithelial‑mesenchymal transition (EMT)‑related genes, Vimentin and β‑catenin.
β-catenin will possibly serve as a potential therapeutic target for patients with triple-negative breast cancer through further understanding the role of Wnt/β-catenin pathway activation.
These findings suggest that ITGA5-targeting nanoparticles may provide a facil and unique strategy of specially attenuating β-catenin in vivo for treating metastatic TNBC.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of RX-5902 in preclinical models of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and to explore effects on β-catenin expression.
Our findings suggested that circRNA_069718 promoted TNBC progression via Wnt/β-catenin pathway and could serve as a novel therapeutic target for TNBC treatment.
The co-expression of Nek2B and β-catenin in TNBC surgical sections and cells were analysed by immunohistochemistry, Q-RT-PCR, Western-blot and immunofluorescent staining.