Mouneimne Ghassan, Brugge Joan S
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Dev Cell. 2007 Sep;13(3):317-9. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.08.010.
Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) is an important regulator of normal epithelial and carcinoma cell migration. The mechanism by which EGF induces cell migration is not fully understood. A recent report in Nature Cell Biology (Katz et al., 2007) demonstrates that EGF regulates migration through a switch in the expression of two tensin isoforms, weakening the association of beta1 integrin with the actin cytoskeleton in focal adhesions.
表皮生长因子(EGF)是正常上皮细胞和癌细胞迁移的重要调节因子。EGF诱导细胞迁移的机制尚未完全明确。《自然细胞生物学》杂志最近发表的一篇报告(Katz等人,2007年)表明,EGF通过两种张力蛋白异构体表达的转换来调节迁移,从而削弱β1整合素与粘着斑中肌动蛋白细胞骨架的结合。