Maram Hilwi, Katherina Shulman, Inna Naroditsky, Sari Feld, Miriam Gross-Cohen, Ilanit Boyango, Soaad Soboh, Olga Vornicova, Malik Farhoud, Preeti Singh, Gil Bar-Sela, Hadassah Goldberg, Martin Götte, Andrew D Sharrocks, Yaoyong Li, Ralph D Sanderson, Neta Ilan, Israel Vlodavsky
Unlike the intense research effort devoted to exploring the significance of heparanase in cancer, very little attention was given to Hpa2, a close homolog of heparanase. Here, we explored the role of Hpa2 in breast cancer. Unexpectedly, we found that patients endowed with high levels of Hpa2 exhibited a higher incidence of tumor metastasis and survived less than patients with low levels of Hpa2. Immunohistochemical examination revealed that in normal breast tissue, Hpa2 localizes primarily in the cell nucleus...
March 22, 2024: Cell Death & Disease