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Xiaomu Wei1, Angela Moncada-Pazos, Santiago Cal, Clara Soria-Valles, Jared Gartner, Udo Rudloff, Jimmy C Lin, Steven A Rosenberg, Carlos López-Otín, Yardena Samuels.
Abstract
We performed a mutational analysis of the 19 disintegrin-metalloproteinases (ADAMs) genes in human cutaneous metastatic melanoma and identified eight to be somatically mutated in 79 samples, affecting 34% of the melanoma tumors analyzed. Functional analysis of the two frequently mutated ADAM genes, ADAM29 and ADAM7 demonstrated that the mutations affect adhesion of melanoma cells to specific extracellular matrix proteins and in some cases increase their migration ability. This suggests that mutated ADAM genes could play a role in melanoma progression.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21618342 PMCID: PMC3103704 DOI: 10.1002/humu.21477
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Hum Mutat ISSN: 1059-7794 Impact factor: 4.878