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A myosin-containing protein fraction from tobacco BY2 cells was used in motility assays with F-actin.
We conclude that any cellular alteration required for this dynamic actin polymerization in an infected cell is supported post-transcriptionally, certainly with respect to known cytoskeletal genes, and that bacterial regulation of cellular systems required for motility is therefore probably mediated by biochemical events.
To diagnose the metastatic potential of highly versus poorly invasive melanoma cells we compared their gene expression profile with our metastasis chip, which contains genes critical for aspects of the metastatic process, including tumor cell motility and the ability to form primitive tubular networks [ 17 27 ] . Each ratio was tested for the Null hypothesis that there is no difference between the means of the ranks of the Cy5 and Cy3 signals over 6 replicate spots representing a unique sequence.
One of great importance, urokinase (uPA) and its high affinity receptor, the GPI-anchored membrane CD87 (uPAR), is critical in tumour progression and its level of expression is correlated with poor prognosis of various cancers such as prostate [ 2 ] , breast [ 3 ] , colon [ 4 ] , ovarian [ 5 ] , gastric [ 6 ] , brain [ 7 ] , and lung cancer [ 8 ] . Urokinase (uPA) and its main product plasmin belong to the very early proteases [ 9 10 11 ] that activate the metallo-protease (MMP) cascade and therefore control cell motility, tissue remodelling and the activation of various angiogenic factors (VEGF, TGFβ).
ActA-dependent actin polymerization generates force and thereby cytoplasmic motility [ 16].