作者: Hartland W. Jackson , Virginie Defamie , Paul Waterhouse , Rama Khokha
DOI: 10.1038/NRC.2016.115
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摘要: A compelling long-term goal of cancer biology is to understand the crucial players during tumorigenesis in order develop new interventions. Here, we review how four non-redundant tissue inhibitors metalloproteinases (TIMPs) regulate pericellular proteolysis a vast range matrix and cell surface proteins, generating simultaneous effects on tumour architecture signalling. Experimental studies demonstrate contribution TIMPs majority hallmarks, human cancers invariably show TIMP deregulation or stroma. Of TIMPs, TIMP1 overexpression TIMP3 silencing consistently associated with progression poor patient prognosis. Future efforts will align mouse model systems changes patients, delineate protease-independent function, pinpoint therapeutic targets within TIMP-metalloproteinase-substrate network use liquid biopsy samples as biomarkers for