Cancer and Metastasis Reviews

Guest Editor

Preface: Membrane-associated proteases

Motoharu Seiki

Role of pericellular proteolysis by membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase in cancer invasion and angiogenesis

Motoharu Seiki, Naohiko Koshikawa, Ikuo Yana

MT1-MMP and MMP-7 in invasion and metastasis of human cancers

Takayuki Shiomi, Yasunori Okada

Cell surface association of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (gelatinase B)

Rafael Fridman, Marta Toth, Irina Chvyrkova, Samy O. Meroueh, Shahriar Mobashery

RECK: A novel suppressor of malignancy linking oncogenic signaling to extracellular matrix remodeling

Makoto Noda, Junseo Oh, Rei Takahashi, Shunya Kondo, Hitoshi Kitayama, Chiaki Takahashi

Matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors (MMPIs): The beginning of phase I or the termination of phase III clinical trials

Maria Pavlaki, Stanley Zucker

The urokinase plasminogen activator system in cancer: Recent advances and implication for prognosis and therapy

Nicolai Sidenius, Francesco Blasi

Roles of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) activator and HGF activator inhibitor in the pericellular activation of HGF/scatter factor

Hiroaki Kataoka, Shiro Miyata, Shunro Uchinokura, Hiroshi Itoh

Membrane anchored serine proteases: A rapidly expanding group of cell surface proteolytic enzymes with potential roles in cancer

Sarah Netzel-Arnett, John D. Hooper, Roman Szabo, Edwin L. Madison, James P. Quigley, Thomas H. Bugge, Toni M. Antalis

Seprase complexes in cellular invasiveness

Wen-Tien Chen, Thomas Kelly

Pericellular cathepsin B and malignant progression

Stefanie Roshy, Bonnie F. Sloane, Kamiar Moin