| Literature DB >> 17851543 |
Carlos López-Otín1, Lynn M Matrisian.
Abstract
Proteases have long been associated with cancer progression because of their ability to degrade extracellular matrices, which facilitates invasion and metastasis. However, recent studies have shown that these enzymes target a diversity of substrates and favour all steps of tumour evolution. Unexpectedly, the post-trial studies have also revealed proteases with tumour-suppressive effects. These effects are associated with more than 30 different enzymes that belong to three distinct protease classes. What are the clinical implications of these findings?Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17851543 DOI： 10.1038/nrc2228
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Rev Cancer ISSN： 1474-175X Impact factor: 60.716