Collapsin response mediator protein-1 (CRMP1) acts as an invasion and metastasis suppressor of prostate cancer via its suppression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and remodeling of actin cytoskeleton organization.

ABSTRACT: The cancer cells can acquire migration and invasion capacities during the metastasis process through the developmental regulatory program epithelial-mesenchymal-transition (EMT), and through its reverse process mesenchymal-epithelial transition cancer cells can recolonize at distant metastatic sites. Among the multifaceted effects exerted by this program, reorganization of actin cytoskeleton is the key mechanical drive for the invasive properties gained by cancer cells. Collapsin response mediator protein-1 (CRMP1) is a cytosolic phosphoprotein and originally characterized as the mediator of semaphorin 3A signaling involved in axon differentiation during neural development. Here we report that CRMP1 can act as a suppressor of tumorigenicity and metastasis in prostate cancer cells. We demon

SUBMITTER: Cai G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5290039 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature