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The role of AFAP1-AS1 in mitotic catastrophe and metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer cells by activating the PLK1 signaling pathway

SHUIZHONG CEN^1,#, XIAOJIE PENG^2,#, JIANWEN DENG^3,#, HAIYUN JIN⁴, ZHINAN DENG⁵, XIAOHUA LIN³, DI ZHU³, MING JIN⁶, YANWEN ZHU³, PUSHENG ZHANG³, YUNFENG LUO³, HONGYAN HUANG^3,*

1 Department of Spinal Surgery, Orthopedic Medical Center, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510280, China
2 Department of Critical Care Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China
3 Department of Breast Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510280, China
4 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Southern Hospital Taihe Branch, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510540, China
5 Department of Clinical Medicine, Nanshan Class, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 511436, China
6 Department of Gastroenterology, Shenzhen Hospital, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen, 518110, China

* Corresponding Author: HONGYAN HUANG. Email:
# These authors provided equal contribution to this work