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The C-terminal region of S100A4 is important for its metastasis-inducing properties

Oncogene volume 24, pages 4401–4411 (2005)Cite this article

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The EF-hand protein, S100A4, binds calcium ions and interacts specifically in vitro with protein targets. Elevated levels of S100A4 have been shown to produce a metastatic phenotype in independent models of breast cancer. The presence of S100A4 in the carcinoma cells of patients with different carcinomas is associated with reduced patient survival. In order to identify the region of the S100A4 molecule that is responsible for its metastasis-inducing properties, specific mutant S100A4 genes and proteins have been produced which contain targeted mutations to the two calcium-binding sites and a deletion of the last 15 amino-acid residues of the protein. The ability of the mutant proteins to bind to a potential specific target in vitro, nonmuscle myosin heavy chain, is correlated with their ability to cause motile, invasive and metastatic phenotypes. Mutation of the C-EF hand of S100A4 virtually abolished calcium binding and motility/invasion in vitro, abolished interaction with a molecular target and reduced metastasis induction by 2.5–3-fold. However, deletion of the last 15 amino acids of S100A4 reduced motility/invasion, target binding and metastasis-induction to similar extents as the C-EF-hand mutant, but reduced calcium binding by only 26%. The results suggest that the ability to interact with protein target(s) is important in S100A4-induced metastasis.

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We thank Mrs Angela Platt Higgins for help with histology and Mr Joe Carroll for technical assistance with animals. The work could not have been carried out without the financial support from the Breast Cancer Campaign, the North West Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer and Polio Research Fund Ltd.

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Zhang, S., Wang, G., Liu, D. et al. The C-terminal region of S100A4 is important for its metastasis-inducing properties. Oncogene 24, 4401–4411 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1208663

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