PLAU and neoplasm: Numerous Ets proteins are aberrantly expressed in both tumor and stromal cells, resulting in the overexpression of tumor-promoting factors such as matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1, MMP-3, MMP-9, urokinase plasminogen activator (PLAU/uPA), vascular endothelial growth factor and endothelium-specific tyrosine kinase 2 [3,30,31,47-50,55,61,65].