We previously reported that the four-transmembrane L6 family member 5 (TM4SF5) was highly expressed in hepatocarcinoma, induced morphological elongation and epithelialmesenchymal transition, and caused abnormal cell growth in multilayers in vitro and tumor formation in vivo. In this study, we identified a synthetic compound, 4 -(p-toluenesulfonylamido)-4-hydroxychalcone (TSAHC) that antagonized both the TM4SF5-mediated multilayer growth and TM4SF5-enhanced migration/invasion. TSAHC treatment induced multilayer-growing cells to grow in monolayers, recovering contact inhibition without accompanying apoptosis, and inhibited chemotactic migration and invasion. E pithelial monolayer integrity is maintained by integrin-mediated cell adhesion between the cell and the extracellular matrix (ECM) and by E-cadherin-mediated contact between adjacent cells. 1 Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) through loss of cellcell contacts disrupts monolayer integrity and alters cell-ECM interactions. 2 Tumor cells disseminated from primary tumors via loss of cell adhesion and contact can migrate to and invade distal tissues. 3 We recently reported that TM4SF5-mediated EMT results in a loss of contact inhibition and multilayer growth. 4 Therefore, altered cell adhesion and contact may lead to both a loss of contact inhibition and a dissemination of metastatic cells from the primary tumor. 5 Integrin-mediated cell adhesion reorganizes actin filaments 6 through activation of diverse intracellular signaling molecules, including focal adhesion kinase (FAK), Rho guanosine triphosphatases (RhoA, Rac1, and CDC42), and others, 7 which are critical for cellular morphology and migration. 8 TM4SF proteins (i.e., tetraspanins or tetraspans) are a group of membrane proteins with four transmembrane