autocrine motility factor
Physiology
noun
A cytokine that stimulates the motility of cells (typically malignant tumour cells) that produce it.
- Autocrine motility factor has now been shown to be identical with phosphoglucose isomerase, an enzyme involved in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis..
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.