Estrogen receptor gets a grip on RNA.

Katzenellenbogen, Benita S · Cell · 2021

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Abstract

The nuclear hormone receptor estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) is a well-known transcription factor present in many breast cancers, where it promotes cancer progression. In this issue of Cell, Xu et al. report that ERα is also an RNA-binding protein and that its post-transcriptional activity enables cancer cell fitness and survival.

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