Thursday, 19 March 2020

A protein that helps trap bacteria may contribute to metastasis in a mouse model of breast cancer

The protein peptidyl arginine deiminase 4 (PAD4), which enables some immune cells to trap bacteria, promoted breast cancer metastasis in mice when expressed in cancer cells, according to data published in Molecular Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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