RECK
Encyclopedia
Reversion-inducing-cysteine-rich protein with kazal motifs, also known as RECK, is a human gene
, thought to be a metastasis suppressor
.
Gene
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...
, thought to be a metastasis suppressor
Metastasis suppressor
A metastasis suppressor is a protein that acts to slow or prevent metastases from spreading in the body of an organism with cancer. Metastasis is one of the most lethal attributes of cancer. This attribute is responsible for about ninety percent of human cancer deaths...
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