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Protein interactions of cortactin in relation to invadopodia formation in metastatic renal clear cell carcinoma

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In the present study, we wanted to examine the predominant factor/s in the initiation of metastasis. We used samples of advanced grades of renal clear cell carcinoma with documented clinical history of vena caval spread as the experimental group. The major rationale for this selection is the fact that renal cell carcinoma metastasize extensively through the inferior vena cava up to the pulmonary bed and often exist as a continuous mass of metastatic tissue. As cortactin plays a significant role in invadopodia formation during initiation of metastasis, in the present study, we tested expression of cortactin and phosphotyr421-cortactin in different grades of renal cell clear carcinoma and examined its property to bind to actin. The findings of the present study suggest that the variations of the local physiological milieu are the driving forces for metastasis by enhancing molecular mechanisms for lamellipodia formation. We conclude that localization of cortactin in cancer cells and interaction between actin and its nucleators are crucial for cancer progression.

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    Hong-Liang Shen, Qing-Jun Liu, Pei-Qian Yang & Ye Tian

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Shen, HL., Liu, QJ., Yang, PQ. et al. Protein interactions of cortactin in relation to invadopodia formation in metastatic renal clear cell carcinoma. Tumor Biol. 36, 3417–3422 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13277-014-2976-8

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