Article
Constitutive K-RasG12D activation of ERK2 specifically regulates 3D invasion of human pancreatic cancer cells via MMP-1.
Molecular cancer research : MCR - 1 Feb 2012
Botta Gregory P, Reginato Mauricio J, Reichert Maximilian, Rustgi Anil K, Lelkes Peter I
Abstract excerpt
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC) are highly invasive and metastatic neoplasms commonly unresponsive to current drug therapy. Overwhelmingly, PDAC harbors early constitutive, oncogenic mutations in K-Ras(G12D) that exist prior to invasion. Histologic and genetic analyses of human PDAC biopsies also exhibit increased expression of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 and proinvasive matrix...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
