Response to Yang et. al.
Response to Yang et. al.
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对杨等人的回应
DOI:
10.1007/s00109-019-01775-z
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发表时间:
2019
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影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Takeuchi T.
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作者:
Asano Y;Saigo C;Kito Y;Iwata Y;Yoshida K;Takeuchi T.
To the editor: We would like to express our appreciation to Yang and colleagues for their constructive comments on our recent article entitled BNuclear localization of LDL receptorrelated protein 1B in mammary gland carcinogenesis^[1]. As Yang et al. have noted with interest, nuclearlocalized LDL receptor-related protein 1B (LRP1B) may be a new therapeutic target for patients with breast cancer. We would like to especially emphasize that nuclear localization of the LRP1B intracellular domain was significantly correlated with lymph node metastasis and poor prognosis of patients with luminal A-type breast cancers (which tend to be positive for estrogen and progesterone receptors and negative for HER-2). However, not all patients with advanced estrogen receptor positive breast cancer benefit from endocrine therapy. Unfortunately, treatment difficulties are sometimes encountered including minimal initial response, and more commonly, little response during progression, following an initial response to endocrine therapy [2]. The present finding indicates that abrogating nuclear import of the intracellular domain of LRP1B may benefit many patients with luminal A-type breast cancer who present de novo resistance to endocrine therapy.In this study, as pointed out by Yang and colleagues, we first identified the nuclear fraction of the intracellular domain of LRP1B as having a significant correlation with poor prognosis in mammary gland carcinogenesis patients. Thereafter, we applied a microarray-based assay to screen for genes that are differentially expressed between mock transfected MCF-7