The role and regulatory mechanism of FSCN1 in breast tumorigenesis and progression.

FSCN1, an actin-bundling protein, is highly expressed in almost all metastatic tumors and is associated with the poor prognosis. In breast cancer FSCN1 is highly expressed in basal-like and triple negative subgroups. There is significant progress in understanding the role of fascin in breast cancer. Studies on FSCN1 in recent years have revealed that FSCN1 not only promotes tumor migration, invasion, metastic colonization, cancer cell self-renewal and drug resistance, but also regulates glucose and lipid metabolism and mitochondrial remodeling in tumor cells. In this review, we focus on the structure and regulatory mechanism of FSCN1 in breast tumorigenesis and metastasis, and discuss the clinical value of FSCN1 with the aim to provide a direction for further research in this field.