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Interleukin-like EMT inducer regulates partial phenotype switching in MITF-low melanoma cell lines.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Noguchi Ken, Dalton Annamarie C, Howley Breege V, McCall Buckley J, Yoshida Akihiro, Diehl J Alan, Howe Philip H
Abstract excerpt
ILEI (FAM3C) is a secreted factor that contributes to the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a cell biological process that confers metastatic properties to a tumor cell. Initially, we found that ILEI mRNA is highly expressed in melanoma metastases but not in primary tumors, suggesting that ILEI contributes to the malignant properties of melanoma. While melanoma is not an epithelial cell-derived tumor...
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