The antineoplastic drug metformin downregulates YAP by interfering with IRF-1 binding to the YAP promoter in NSCLCResearch in context

Background: Activation of the oncogene YAP has been shown to be related to lung cancer progression and associates with poor prognosis and metastasis. Metformin is a drug commonly used in the treatment of diabetes and with anticancer activity. However, the mechanism through which metformin inhibits t...

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Main Authors: Dan Jin, Jiwei Guo, Deqiang Wang, Yan Wu, Xiaohong Wang, Yong Gao, Cuijie Shao, Xin Xu, Shuying Tan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-11-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396418304626