Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

TOM1L1 drives membrane delivery of MT1-MMP to promote ERBB2-induced breast cancer cell invasion

  • Clément Chevalier,
  • Guillaume Collin,
  • Simon Descamps,
  • Heiani Touaitahuata,
  • Valérie Simon,
  • Nicolas Reymond,
  • Laurent Fernandez,
  • Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet,
  • Virginie Georget,
  • Serge Urbach,
  • Laurence Lasorsa,
  • Béatrice Orsetti,
  • Florence Boissière-Michot,
  • Evelyne Lopez-Crapez,
  • Charles Theillet,
  • Serge Roche,
  • Christine Benistant

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10765
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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ERBB2 overexpression in human breast cancer leads to invasion and metastasis. Here the authors report that ERBB2 induces indirect phosphorylation of TOM1L1 that promotes trafficking of the metalloprotease MT1-MMP to invadopodia, which leads to tumour cell invasion.