Research Article

High Mobility Group Box Protein 1 Serves as a Potential Prognostic Marker of Lung Cancer and Promotes Its Invasion and Metastasis by Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 in a Nuclear Factor-κB-Dependent Manner

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HMGB1 promoted the activity of MMP2 in lung cancer cells. Pretreatment of HMGB1 significantly promoted the activity of MMP2 in A549 and H1299 cells ( compared with the control). Significant differences were assessed by the Student -test.