Identification and validation of an alternatively spliced novel isoform of maspin that modulate genes involved in inflammatory and apoptotic pathways.
Maspin regulates cellular adhesion, migration, apoptosis, angiogenesis, and tumor suppression in a tissue and context-dependent manner. Its functional diversity is governed largely thorough extracellular matrix interactions, subcellular localization, and the reactive center loop (RCL), although the structural details a...