Human Protease-Activated Receptor 1 Expression in Malignant Epithelia

Autor: Yong-Jun Yin, Tamar Peretz, Myriam Maoz, Beatrice Uziely, Rachel Bar-Shavit, Sharona Even-Ram, Zaidoun Salah, Sorina Grisaru-Granovsky, Irit Cohen
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 23:940-944
ISSN: 1524-4636
1079-5642
DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.0000066878.27340.22
Popis: While protease-activated receptors (PARs) play a traditional role in vascular biology, they emerge with surprisingly new assignments in tumor biology. PAR1 expression correlates with the invasion properties of breast carcinoma, whereas human PAR1 antisense reduces their ability to migrate through Matrigel. Part of the molecular mechanism of PAR1 invasion involves the formation of focal contact complexes on PAR1 activation. PAR1 induces angiogenesis in animal models in vivo and exhibits an oncogenic phenotype of enhanced ductal complexity when overexpressed in mouse mammary glands.
Databáze: OpenAIRE