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SUBMITTER: Cannizzaro E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6100109 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cannizzaro Ester E Bannister Andrew John AJ Han Namshik N Alendar Andrej A Kouzarides Tony T
FEBS letters 20180621 13
DDX3X is a multifunctional RNA helicase with documented roles in different cancer types. Here, we demonstrate that DDX3X plays an oncogenic role in breast cancer cells by modulating the cell cycle. Depletion of DDX3X in MCF7 cells slows cell proliferation by inducing a G1 phase arrest. Notably, DDX3X inhibits expression of Kruppel-like factor 4 (KLF4), a transcription factor and cell cycle repressor. Moreover, DDX3X directly interacts with KLF4 mRNA and regulates its splicing. We show that DDX3X ...[more]