Functional effects of EpCAM N-glycosylation in MDA-MB-468 breast cancer cells. (PubMed, Sci Rep)
Similarly, there was no effect of unglycosylated EpCAM on cell viability, migration, invasion, or homotypic adhesion, although we did observe slight increases in homotypic cell-cell adhesion in EpCAM overexpressing cells. These findings show that N-glycosylation has a significant impact on stability and subcellular localization of EpCAM, but not on several critical breast cancer cell properties important for cancer progression and metastasis in human triple-negative MDA-MB-468 breast cancer cells.