Estrogen receptor degradation: a CUE for endocrine resistance?
Cancer Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
St Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia
Breast Cancer Research 2011, 13:312 doi:10.1186/bcr2914
Published: 16 August 2011Abstract
Despite the undoubted success of adjuvant endocrine therapies that target the estrogen receptor pathway, not all women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer respond to these therapies, and many who initially respond will subsequently relapse. Deregulation of various aspects of estrogen receptor signaling has been highlighted as a mechanism of resistance and as a basis for alternative therapeutic approaches. However, a recent publication refocuses attention on the estrogen receptor itself by showing that the ubiquitin-binding CUE domain-containing protein 2 is a regulator of estrogen receptor protein degradation and a marker of endocrine resistance in breast cancer.
