Article
E-cadherin gene mutations in human gastric carcinoma cell lines.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Mar 1994
Oda T, Kanai Y, Oyama T, Yoshiura K, Shimoyama Y, Birchmeier W, Sugimura T, Hirohashi S
Abstract excerpt
Reduced expression of E-cadherin has been regarded as one of the main molecular events involved in dysfunction of the cell-cell adhesion system, triggering cancer invasion and metastasis. However, even with a sufficient amount of E-cadherin, cell-cell adhesion is sometimes lost in "diffusely invasive" human carcinomas. Ten human cancer cell lines, showing growth characterized morphologically by loose cell-cell...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cadherins
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Complementary
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Exons
- Humans
- Introns
