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SUBMITTER: Sorokin AV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4417433 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sorokin Alexey V AV Nair Binoj C BC Wei Yongkun Y Aziz Kathryn E KE Evdokimova Valentina V Hung Mien-Chie MC Chen Junjie J
Cancer research 20150415 9
The protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor PTPRN2 is expressed predominantly in endocrine and neuronal cells, where it functions in exocytosis. We found that its immature isoform proPTPRN2 is overexpressed in various cancers, including breast cancer. High proPTPRN2 expression was associated strongly with lymph node-positive breast cancer and poor clinical outcome. Loss of proPTPRN2 in breast cancer cells promoted apoptosis and blocked tumor formation in mice, whereas enforced expression of proPTP ...[more]