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    Ghergurovich J, Xu X, Wang J, Yang L, Ryseck R-P, Wang L, Rabinowitz J. Methionine synthase supports tumour tetrahydrofolate pools. Nat Metab. 2021;3(11):1512–1520. PMCID: PMC9284419
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    Kumar S, Nandi A, Singh S, Regulapati R, Li N, Tobias J, Siebel C, Blanco M, Klein-Szanto A, Lengner C, Welm A, Kang Y, Chakrabarti R. Dll1 quiescent tumor stem cells drive chemoresistance in breast cancer through NF-κB survival pathway. Nat Commun. 2021;12(1):432. PMCID: PMC7813834
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    Esposito M, Fang C, Cook K, Park N, Wei Y, Spadazzi C, Bracha D, Gunaratna R, Laevsky G, DeCoste C, Slabodkin H, Brangwynne C, Cristea I, Kang Y. TGF-β-induced DACT1 biomolecular condensates repress Wnt signalling to promote bone metastasis. Nat Cell Biol. 2021;23(3):257–267. PMCID: PMC7970447
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    Shen M, Kang Y. Stresses in the metastatic cascade: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities. Genes Dev. 2020;34(23-24):1577–1598. PMCID: PMC7706714
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    Shen M, Xie S, Rowicki M, Michel S, Wei Y, Hang X, Wan L, Lu X, Yuan M, Jin J, Jaschinski F, Zhou T, Klar R, Kang Y. Therapeutic Targeting of Metadherin Suppresses Colorectal and Lung Cancer Progression and Metastasis. Cancer Res. 2021;81(4):1014–1025. PMCID: PMC8026491
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    Li W, Shen M, Jiang Y-Z, Zhang R, Zheng H, Wei Y, Shao Z-M, Kang Y. Deubiquitinase USP20 promotes breast cancer metastasis by stabilizing SNAI2. Genes Dev. 2020;34(19-20):1310–1315. PMCID: PMC7528704
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    Jain S, Do T, Lund P, Rashoff A, Diehl K, Cieslik M, Bajic A, Juretic N, Deshmukh S, Venneti S, Muir T, Garcia B, Jabado N, Lewis P. PFA ependymoma-associated protein EZHIP inhibits PRC2 activity through a H3 K27M-like mechanism. Nat Commun. 2019;10(1):2146. PMCID: PMC6513997
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    Zhuo W, Liu Y, Li S, Guo D, Sun Q, Jin J, Rao X, Li M, Sun M, Jiang M, Xu Y, Teng L, Jin Y, Si J, Liu W, Kang Y, Zhou T. Long Noncoding RNA GMAN, Up-regulated in Gastric Cancer Tissues, Is Associated With Metastasis in Patients and Promotes Translation of Ephrin A1 by Competitively Binding GMAN-AS. Gastroenterology. 2019;156(3):676–691.e11. PMID: 30445010
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