To investigate how the tumor cell-produced MMP9 drives the invasive/metastatic phenotype of triple negative/basal breast cancer cells, we performed transcriptional profiling of the MDA-MB-231 cells transduced with nontarget and MMP9 KD lentivirus, and found substantial alterations associated with MMP9 KD (Fig. 5A). This evidence concerns the gene MMP9 and neoplasm.