Like deactivating a bomb by cutting the correct wire, what if we can disable a cancer cell from spreading by “terminating” the right switch in its machinery? A team of researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute and the Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, with their local and overseas collaborators, might have identified that key component—a scaffold protein known as BPGAP1, and how it works. Their research has been featured in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell in its “Forces On and Within Cells” Special Issue.
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