In the process of metastasis, the movement of cancer cells
to different parts of the body, a specific master regulator gene plays a
central role: a transcription factor named Sox4 activates a sequence of genes
and triggers the formidable process. This finding is reported by researchers
from the University of Basel and from the Friedrich Miescher Institute in
Cancer Cell. Inhibition of Sox4 and subsequent processes may prevent metastasis
in cancer