. "Transcriptional downregulation of E-cadherin appears to be an important event in the progression of various epithelial tumors. SIP1 (ZEB-2) is a Smad-interacting, multi-zinc finger protein that shows specific DNA binding activity. Here, we report that expression of wild-type but not of mutated SIP1 downregulates mammalian E-cadherin transcription via binding to both conserved E2 boxes of the minimal E-cadherin promoter. SIP1 and Snail bind to partly overlapping promoter sequences and showed similar silencing effects. SIP1 can be induced by TGF-beta treatment and shows high expression in several E-cadherin-negative human carcinoma cell lines. Conditional expression of SIP1 in E-cadherin-positive MDCK cells abrogates E-cadherin-mediated intercellular adhesion and simultaneously induces invasion. SIP1 therefore appears to be a promoter of invasion in malignant epithelial tumors." . . . "Mol. Cell" . "Huylebroeck D." . "Verschueren K." . "Berx G." . "van Roy F." . "Mareel M." . "Bruyneel E." . "Vermassen P." . "Comijn J." . "van Grunsven L." . "2001"^^ . "1267-1278" . "The two-handed E box binding zinc finger protein SIP1 downregulates E-cadherin and induces invasion." . "7" . "doi:10.1016/S1097-2765(01)00260-X" .