Cytosolic Cadherin 4 promotes angiogenesis and metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer by suppressing the ubiquitination/degradation of β-catenin.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe specimens of patients with PTC were conducted with permission from the Ethics Committee of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital. The tissue samples were obtained with written informed consent from each patient. All animal experiments were conducted according to animal protocols approved by Nanjing Medical University and were approved by the Ethics Committee of Nanjing Medical University. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study was supported by the Special Fund for Science and Technology Program of Jiangsu Province (key R & D program for Social Development) (Grant No. BE2023657)."