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SUBMITTER: Wei X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3103704 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wei Xiaomu X Moncada-Pazos Angela A Cal Santiago S Soria-Valles Clara C Gartner Jared J Rudloff Udo U Lin Jimmy C JC Rosenberg Steven A SA López-Otín Carlos C Samuels Yardena Y
Human mutation 20110224 6
We performed a mutational analysis of the 19 disintegrin-metalloproteinases (ADAMs) genes in human cutaneous metastatic melanoma and identified eight to be somatically mutated in 79 samples, affecting 34% of the melanoma tumors analyzed. Functional analysis of the two frequently mutated ADAM genes, ADAM29 and ADAM7 demonstrated that the mutations affect adhesion of melanoma cells to specific extracellular matrix proteins and in some cases increase their migration ability. This suggests that muta ...[more]