Alternative‐splicing defects in cancer: Splicing regulators and their downstream targets, guiding the way to novel cancer therapeutics

LM Urbanski, N Leclair… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Defects in alternative splicing are frequently found in human tumors and result either from
mutations in splicing‐regulatory elements of specific cancer genes or from changes in the …

RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer

RK Bradley, O Anczuków - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Dysregulated RNA splicing is a molecular feature that characterizes almost all tumour types.
Cancer-associated splicing alterations arise from both recurrent mutations and altered …

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy induces breast cancer metastasis through a TMEM-mediated mechanism

GS Karagiannis, JM Pastoriza, Y Wang… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Breast cancer cells disseminate through TIE2/MENACalc/MENAINV-dependent cancer cell
intravasation sites, called tumor microenvironment of metastasis (TMEM), which are …

Acidification of tumor at stromal boundaries drives transcriptome alterations associated with aggressive phenotypes

N Rohani, L Hao, MS Alexis, BA Joughin, K Krismer… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Acidosis is a fundamental feature of the tumor microenvironment, which directly regulates
tumor cell invasion by affecting immune cell function, clonal cell evolution, and drug …

[HTML][HTML] Actin stress fiber organization promotes cell stiffening and proliferation of pre-invasive breast cancer cells

S Tavares, AF Vieira, AV Taubenberger… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Studies of the role of actin in tumour progression have highlighted its key contribution in cell
softening associated with cell invasion. Here, using a human breast cell line with conditional …

Tumor cell–driven extracellular matrix remodeling drives haptotaxis during metastatic progression

MJ Oudin, O Jonas, T Kosciuk, LC Broye, BC Guido… - Cancer discovery, 2016 - AACR
Fibronectin (FN) is a major component of the tumor microenvironment, but its role in
promoting metastasis is incompletely understood. Here, we show that FN gradients elicit …

Chemotherapy-induced metastasis: mechanisms and translational opportunities

GS Karagiannis, JS Condeelis, MH Oktay - Clinical & experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Tumors often overcome the cytotoxic effects of chemotherapy through either acquired or
environment-mediated drug resistance. In addition, signals from the microenvironment …

Scaffold stiffness influences breast cancer cell invasion via EGFR-linked Mena upregulation and matrix remodeling

AJ Berger, CM Renner, I Hale, X Yang, SM Ponik… - Matrix Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Clinically, increased breast tumor stiffness is associated with metastasis and poorer
outcomes. Yet, in vitro studies of tumor cells in 3D scaffolds have found decreased invasion …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophage-dependent tumor cell transendothelial migration is mediated by Notch1/MenaINV-initiated invadopodium formation

J Pignatelli, JJ Bravo-Cordero, M Roh-Johnson… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The process of intravasation involving transendothelial migration is a key step in metastatic
spread. How the triple cell complex composed of a macrophage, Mena over-expressing …

The role of the tumor microenvironment in tumor cell intravasation and dissemination

L Borriello, GS Karagiannis, CL Duran, A Coste… - European journal of cell …, 2020 - Elsevier
Metastasis, a process that requires tumor cell dissemination followed by tumor growth, is the
primary cause of death in cancer patients. An essential step of tumor cell dissemination is …