SIK2 Promotes Ovarian Cancer Spread.

A recent study reveals that the kinase SIK2 helps ovarian cancer cells metastasize and establish themselves in the fat-rich tissues of the abdominal cavity by promoting fatty-acid metabolism and cell proliferation. Mice bearing SIK2-overexpressing human ovarian cancer cells had larger, more abundant metastases than those whose tumors bore an inactive form of the kinase.