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Directing cancer cell migration

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August 29, 2014

A team of researchers at Sanford-Burnham has discovered how a single protein directs cancer cells to move and spread from one part of the body to another. The study, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, shows that it is an intricate balance between levels of the full-length protein with levels of its cleaved segments that control a tumor cell’s ability to metastasize.

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