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A laminin-collagen complex drives human epidermal carcinogenesis through phosphoinositol-3-kinase activation.
Cancer research - 1 May 2007
Waterman Elizabeth A, Sakai Noriyasu, Nguyen Ngon T, Horst Basil A J, Veitch Dallas P, Dey Clara N, Ortiz-Urda Susana, Khavari Paul A, Marinkovich M Peter
Abstract excerpt
Laminin-332 (formerly laminin-5) and collagen VII are basement membrane proteins expressed at the invasive front of human squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) tumors. These proteins have protumorigenic properties, but whether laminin-332 and collagen VII promote SCC tumors by providing adhesion or other nonadhesive extracellular cues, or whether laminin-332 and collagen VII interact together in this process remains...
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