NFE2L2 and breast cancer: In order to understand to what extent the NRF2 transcriptional profile differs between normal and cancer cells of the breast epithelium, we compared MDA-MB-231 (a breast cancer cell line bearing missense mutant p53), MCF7 (a breast cancer cell line harboring wild-type p53) and MCF10A (untransformed, immortalized breast epithelial cells) for basal expression of the NRF2 gene signature (Figure 1A).