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Tumour-associated E-cadherin mutations alter cellular morphology, decrease cellular adhesion and increase cellular motility.
Oncogene - 29 Jul 1999
Handschuh G, Candidus S, Luber B, Reich U, Schott C, Oswald S, Becke H, Hutzler P, Birchmeier W, Höfler H, Becker K F
Abstract excerpt
A major function of the cell-to-cell adhesion molecule E-cadherin is the maintenance of cell adhesion and tissue integrity. E-cadherin deficiency in tumours leads to changes in cell morphology and motility, so that E-cadherin is considered to be a suppressor of invasion. In this study we investigated the functional consequences of three tumour-associated gene mutations that affect the extracellular portion of...
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