Objective: To understand the role of NM23/NDPK in the transmembrane signal transduction proccess in tumor metastasis.
Methods: The NDPK activity, IP3 contents, the invasive potentials of the cells of mouse forestomach carcinoma(MFC) substrains with different metastatic potentials and the effect of LN and EGF were observed.
Results: Both the NDPK activity and the contents of IP3 of the cells of the subclone with lower metastatic potential was higher than that with higher metastatic potential. Also, the cells with lower metastatic potential had lower invasive potential and higher responsibility to the challenge of EGF compared with that higher metastatic potential. However, no different effect of LN on the cells of those subclones was found.
Conclusions: NDPK might regulate the metastasis of FMC cells by impacting the G protein efficacy with the selection of exotic signal ligands.