Basic & Clinical Medicine ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (3): 393-397.doi: 10.16352/j.issn.1001-6325.2024.03.0393

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Research progress on the mechanism of annexin A family members in breast cancer

NAN Lu1, GUO Menjie1, GAO Yanan1, JIA Hongyan2*   

  1. 1. The First Clinical College of Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001;
    2. Department of Breast, the First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, China
  • Received:2023-10-17 Revised:2023-12-27 Online:2024-03-05 Published:2024-02-22
  • Contact: *:swallow_jhy@163.com

Abstract: The annexins(ANX) family is widely present in the cell membrane, cytoplasm or extracellular matrix. As key tumor regulatory molecules, annexins A (ANX A) family can promote or inhibit invasion and metastasis of breast cancer cells by influencing cell membrane and cytoskeleton formation and participating in signaling pathways. ANX A family also plays a role in the apoptosis of breast cancer cells by regulation of pro-apoptotic proteins and cell cycle independent kinases (CDKs) and related pathways. In addition, ANX A family can also promote therapeutic resistance to a large number of drugs. For instance,ANX A1 enhances triple-negative breast cancer resistance by inducing epithelial-mesenchymal transformation. ANX A4 induces resistance by forming ANX A4-Fhit complexes and secretion of exosomes containing ANX A6 promotes paclitaxel resistance in breast cancer cells in a YAP1-dependent manner. So ANX A family may be a new target for breast cancer treatment.

Key words: annexins A family, breast cancer, tumorigenesis

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