Article
Expression of Mts1, a metastasis-associated gene, increases motility but not invasion of a nonmetastatic mouse mammary adenocarcinoma cell line.
Oncogene - 16 Nov 1995
Ford H L, Salim M M, Chakravarty R, Aluiddin V, Zain S B
Abstract excerpt
The mts1 gene codes for a 101 amino acid protein belonging to the S100 subfamily of Ca(2+)-binding proteins. Mts1 is overexpressed in metastatic cancers as compared to their nonmetastatic counterparts, and although mts1 is known to be involved in the metastatic phenotype (Davies et al., 1993; Grigorian et al., 1993), the role mts1 plays in this process is not clearly understood. In order to determine what role...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.