Hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotypes promote metastasis and therapy resistance across carcinomas

MK Jolly, JA Somarelli, M Sheth, A Biddle… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cancer metastasis and therapy resistance are the major unsolved clinical challenges, and
account for nearly all cancer-related deaths. Both metastasis and therapy resistance are …

A role for partial epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in enabling stemness in homeostasis and cancer

J Verstappe, G Berx - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Stem cells have self-renewal capacities and the ability to give rise to differentiated cells
thereby sustaining tissues during homeostasis and injury. This structural hierarchy extends …

[PDF][PDF] Distinct contributions of partial and full EMT to breast cancer malignancy

F Lüönd, N Sugiyama, R Bill, L Bornes, C Hager… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a transient, reversible process of cell de-
differentiation where cancer cells transit between various stages of an EMT continuum …

[HTML][HTML] Exosomal lncRNA SNHG10 derived from colorectal cancer cells suppresses natural killer cell cytotoxicity by upregulating INHBC

Y Huang, Y Luo, W Ou, Y Wang, D Dong, X Peng… - Cancer cell …, 2021 - Springer
Background Exosome-mediated crosstalk between cancer cells and immune cells
contributes to tumor growth. In this study, we investigated the mechanism underlying the …

[PDF][PDF] A hierarchical regulatory landscape during the multiple stages of EMT

N Meyer-Schaller, M Cardner, M Diepenbruck… - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) enables cells to gain migratory and invasive
features underlined by major transcriptional and epigenetic reprogramming. However, most …

[HTML][HTML] The interactions of Bcl9/Bcl9L with β-catenin and Pygopus promote breast cancer growth, invasion, and metastasis

V Vafaizadeh, D Buechel, N Rubinstein, RKR Kalathur… - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling is an established regulator of cellular state and its critical
contributions to tumor initiation, malignant tumor progression and metastasis formation have …

[PDF][PDF] Partial EMT takes the lead in cancer metastasis

J Haerinck, G Berx - Developmental Cell, 2021 - cell.com
In this issue of Developmental Cell, Lüönd et al. developed a tracing system, using the
uncharacterized early epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-marker Tenascin C, to …

TGFβ-induced expression of long noncoding lincRNA Platr18 controls breast cancer axonogenesis

S Grelet, C Fréreux, C Obellianne… - Life Science …, 2022 - life-science-alliance.org
Metastasis is the leading driver of cancer-related death. Tumor cell plasticity associated with
the epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT), an embryonic program also observed in …

[HTML][HTML] Thymic stromal lymphopoietin-stimulated CD4+ T cells induce senescence in advanced breast cancer

M Boieri, E Marchese, QM Pham, M Azin… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin (TSLP) plays a prominent role in inducing type 2 immune
response, commonly associated with atopic diseases. TSLP-activated CD4+ T helper 2 cells …

The long non-coding RNA ET-20 mediates EMT by impairing desmosomes in breast cancer cells

M Saxena, M Hisano, M Neutzner… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
The vast majority of breast cancer-associated deaths are due to metastatic spread of cancer
cells, a process aided by epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Mounting evidence …