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SUBMITTER: Pavlenko E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6539446 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pavlenko Egor E Cabron Anne-Sophie AS Arnold Philipp P Dobert Jan Philipp JP Rose-John Stefan S Zunke Friederike F
International journal of molecular sciences 20190504 9
Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies in the Western world and is associated with elevated expression and activity of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGF-R). The metalloproteinase ADAM17 is involved in EGF-R activation by processing EGF-R ligands from membrane-bound pro-ligands. Underlining the link between colon cancer and ADAM17, genetic intestinal cancer models in ADAM17-deficient mice show a reduced tumor burden. In this study, we characterize point mutation ...[more]