TSC2 and triple-negative breast carcinoma: Further, TXNIP was induced by CHX-treatment in MEFs that lack the TSC2 tumor suppressor and in MDA-MDA-231 cells, which is a triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cell line that harbors an inactivating mutation in TP53 and activating mutations in KRAS and BRAF (Fig. 4b, c).