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Conversely, the expression of thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) [ 4 ] and of tyrosinase-related protein-1 (TYRP-1) was markedly overexpressed in the nonmetastatic NM-2C5 cell line [ 2 5 ] .
To begin to identify genes that might be targets of BP1, we have overexpressed BP1 in K562 cells and screened a microarray (Davenport GJ, Fu S, Haga SB, Do K, Stevenson H, Pinzone J, Chase MB, Berg PE, unpublished data).
It was suggested that this excess neural tissue arose from specification of excess uncommitted precursor cells to a neural fate once levels of the overexpressed Notch protein fell.
Seven percent is certainly a large underestimate of the frequency at which genes are overexpressed, as embryogenesis was not tested, and not all genes will be lethal or have an obvious visible phenotype when overexpressed.
In later stages of tumorigenesis, TGFβ can act as a stimulator of invasion and metastasis [ 3 ] acting directly on the tumor cells or inducing angiogenesis and facilitating local and systemic immunosuppression, respectively [ 4 ] . For example, TGFβ may stimulate the expression of proteases such as uPA, MMP-3 or MMP-9, enzymes frequently overexpressed in invasive tumor cells [ 5 6 ] .