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Metallothionein Expression and its Influence on the In Vitro Biological Behavior of Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma.
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- Pan-Fibrotic Gene Expression Signature in Major Chronic Diseases by Integrative Bulk and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analyses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Metallothioneins, a Part of the Retinal Endogenous Protective System in Various Ocular Diseases.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Metallothionein 2A (MT2A) controls cell proliferation and liver metastasis by controlling the MST1/LATS2/YAP1 signaling pathway in colorectal cancer.Cancer cell international · 2022Article
- Downregulation of metallothionein 2A reduces migration, invasion and proliferation activities in human squamous cell carcinoma cells.Molecular biology reports · 2022Article
- Genetic Variations in Metallothionein Genes and Susceptibility to Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Case-Control Study.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is the most common tumor in the salivary glands, often presenting with recurrence and metastasis due to its high invasive capacity. Metallothionein (MT), a zinc storage protein that supplies this element for protease activity, is probably related to mucoepidermoid carcinoma behavior. This prompted us to characterize a cell line derived from mucoepidermoid carcinoma and to correlate metallothionein expression with transforming growth factor-α (TGF-α), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Transcriptomic analysis and cytogenetic assays were performed to detect the expression of genes of interest and cellular chromosomal alterations, respectively. MEC cells with a depleted metallothionein 2A (
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