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Mutant collagen COL11A1 enhances cancerous invasion.
Oncogene - 1 Nov 2021
Lee Carolyn S, Siprashvili Zurab, Mah Angela, Bencomo Tomas, Elcavage Lara E, Che Yonglu, Shenoy Rajani M, Aasi Sumaira Z, Khavari Paul A
Abstract excerpt
Collagens are the most abundant proteins in the body and comprise the basement membranes and stroma through which cancerous invasion occurs; however, a pro-neoplastic function for mutant collagens is undefined. Here we identify COL11A1 mutations in 66 of 100 cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (cSCCs), the second most common U.S. cancer, concentrated in a triple helical region known to produce trans-dominant...
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