Martin, Tracey Amanda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2690-4908, Mansel, Robert Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8051-0726 and Jiang, Wen Guo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3283-1111 2001. Hepatocyte growth factor modulates vascular endothelial-cadherin expresssion in human endothelial cells. Clinical Cancer Research 7 (3) , pp. 734-737. |
Abstract
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)/scatter factor (SF) is a cytokine exerting a wide range of biological functions on many cell types, including vascular endothelial cells. HGF/SF increases migration, motility, and dissociation of human umbilical vascular endothelial cells (HUVECs). This study demonstrated that such action of HGF/SF on HUVECs was achieved by regulation of the endothelial cell-specific cadherin, vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin. HGF/SF induced a time-dependent reduction of VE-cadherin protein from HUVECs as shown by Western blotting and immunocytochemistry, accompanied by an increase in the migration of HUVECs. The change of VE-cadherin appeared at the mRNA level, as demonstrated by reverse transcription-PCR, with a decrease in the VE-cadherin signal. These results show, for the first time, that HGF/SF targets the endothelial cell-specific adhesion molecule VE-cadherin.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Medicine |
Publisher: | American Association for Cancer Research |
ISSN: | 1078-0432 |
Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2022 08:25 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144 |
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