FOS and neoplasm: However, contrary to PCa, in which phospho-STAT stabilized AR causing proliferation, in MTC, phospho-STAT3 led to increased cell proliferation and tumor formation via the downstream genes c-FOS and JUNB. Accordingly, phospho-dead STAT3 (S727A) prevented p35-induced human TT and mouse MTC-M cell proliferation (Fig. 3A) [62].