Article
Interstitial collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase 1) associated with the plasma membrane of both neoplastic and nonneoplastic cells.
Invasion & metastasis - 1 Jan 1991
Whitelock J M, O'Grady R L, Gibbins J R
Abstract excerpt
Epithelial cell lines (BC1, BC3, BC4, and BC5), derived from 4 separate invasive and metastatic rat mammary carcinomas, all secreted interstitial collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase 1, MMP 1) in culture. Neither a cloned cell line (A5P/B10), derived from a noninvasive rat epithelial tumor, nor...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Membrane
- Cell Survival
- Epithelium
- Fibroblasts
- Microbial Collagenase
- Neoplasm Invasiveness
- Neoplasm Metastasis
- Neoplasms, Experimental
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
