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Rac activation and inactivation control plasticity of tumor cell movement.

Victoria Sanz‐Moreno,Gilles Gadea,5 Authors,C. Marshall

2008 · DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.09.043
Cell · 989 Citations

TLDR

It is shown that mesenchymal-type movement in melanoma cells is driven by activation of the GTPase Rac through a complex containing NEDD9, a recently identified melanoma metastasis gene, and DOCK3, a Rac guanine nucleotide exchange factor.