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SUBMITTER: Okada A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC42292 | biostudies-other | 1995 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19950301 7
From breast cancer cDNA libraries, we have cloned cDNAs that proved to correspond to the membrane-type matrix metalloproteinase (MT-MMP) recently identified in human placenta and proposed to be an activator of progelatinase A [Sato, H., Takino, T., Okada, Y., Cao, J., Shinagawa, A., Yamamoto, E. & Seiki, M. (1994) Nature (London) 370, 61-65]. Using one of these cDNAs as a probe, we have detected MT-MMP gene expression in all 83 human carcinoma specimens examined by RNA in situ hybridization and ...[more]