Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Keywords
CRC, metastasis, actin dynamics, PKC-ι, PKC-ζ, cofilin
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/19336918.2018.1546513
Abstract
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the United States. The exact mechanism of CRC cells metastasis is poorly understood. Actin polymerization is thought to be an initial step in the cancer cell motility cycle which drives the formation of cell protrusions and defines the direction of migration. Cofilin, a significant actin-regulating molecule, regulates the migration of cancer cells by the formation of lamellipodia and filopodia, however, little is known about the upstream regulation of cofilin. In this study, the effect of atypical Protein Kinase C (atypical PKC) on Cofilin activity in CRC was studied. This study demonstrates that the atypical PKC inhibition impedes the metastasis of CRC cells by increasing phospho-Cofilin (S3) and changing actin organization.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Cell Adhesion & Migration, v. 13, issue 1, p. 106-120
Scholar Commons Citation
Islam, S. M. Anisul; Patel, Rekha; Bommareddy, Raja Reddy; Khalid, Khandker Mohammad; and Acevedo-Duncan, Mildred, "The Modulation of Actin Dynamics via Atypical Protein Kinase-C Activated Cofilin Regulates Metastasis of Colorectal Cancer Cells" (2019). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 118.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/chm_facpub/118
