Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

LPP is a Src substrate required for invadopodia formation and efficient breast cancer lung metastasis

  • Elaine Ngan,
  • Konstantin Stoletov,
  • Harvey W. Smith,
  • Jessica Common,
  • William J. Muller,
  • John D. Lewis,
  • Peter M. Siegel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15059
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Lipoma preferred partner (LPP) mediates TGFβ-induced breast cancer cell migration and invasion. Here the authors show that LPP is a Src-family kinase substrate that regulates the formation of protrusions of the plasma membrane -called invadopodia- required for breast cancer metastasis.