Rock And Rho: Proteins that help cancer cells groove
Friday, December 27, 2013 - 00:00
in Health & Medicine
This is a breast cancer cell in normal oxygen conditions. Biologists at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered that low oxygen conditions, which often persist inside tumors, are sufficient to initiate a molecular chain of events that transforms breast cancer cells from being rigid and stationery to mobile and invasive. Their evidence, published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Dec. 9, underlines the importance of hypoxia-inducible factors in promoting breast cancer metastasis.