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ETS transcription factor ELF5 modulates estrogen action in breast cancer via participation in FOXA1-ER driven transcription

ABSTRACT: The ETS transcription factor ELF5 drives mammary alveolar development in preparation for lactation by forcing differentiation within the progenitor cell population. In luminal A breast cancer, early disease progression is predicted by high levels of ELF5, and in preclinical models elevated ELF5 is associated with its two key features, the acquisition of resistance to endocrine therapy and increased metastasis. Here we demonstrate using chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing that ELF5 binding overlaps with FOXA1 and ER at enhancers and promoters, and when elevated causes FOXA1 and ER to bind to new regions of the genome involved in resistance to endocrine therapy.

INSTRUMENT(S): LTQ Orbitrap Velos, TripleTOF 5600

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)

TISSUE(S): Epithelial Cell, Cell Culture

DISEASE(S): Breast Cancer

SUBMITTER: Christoph Krisp

LAB HEAD: Christopher Ormandy

PROVIDER: PXD013349 | Pride | 2020-05-26

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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ELF5 modulates the estrogen receptor cistrome in breast cancer.

Piggin Catherine L CL Roden Daniel L DL Law Andrew M K AMK Molloy Mark P MP Krisp Christoph C Swarbrick Alexander A Naylor Matthew J MJ Kalyuga Maria M Kaplan Warren W Oakes Samantha R SR Gallego-Ortega David D Clark Susan J SJ Carroll Jason S JS Bartonicek Nenad N Ormandy Christopher J CJ

PLoS genetics 20200102 1

Acquired resistance to endocrine therapy is responsible for half of the therapeutic failures in the treatment of breast cancer. Recent findings have implicated increased expression of the ETS transcription factor ELF5 as a potential modulator of estrogen action and driver of endocrine resistance, and here we provide the first insight into the mechanisms by which ELF5 modulates estrogen sensitivity. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing we found that ELF5 binding overlapped with FOXA1 an ...[more]

PMID: 31895944

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