Cell motility in cancer invasion and metastasis: insights from simple model organisms

CH Stuelten, CA Parent, DJ Montell - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Metastasis remains the greatest challenge in the clinical management of cancer. Cell motility
is a fundamental and ancient cellular behaviour that contributes to metastasis and is …

Basement membranes: cell scaffoldings and signaling platforms

PD Yurchenco - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2011 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Basement membranes are widely distributed extracellular matrices that coat the basal
aspect of epithelial and endothelial cells and surround muscle, fat, and Schwann cells …

OrthoList 2: A New Comparative Genomic Analysis of Human and Caenorhabditis elegans Genes

W Kim, RS Underwood, I Greenwald, DD Shaye - Genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
OrthoList, a compendium of Caenorhabditis elegans genes with human orthologs compiled
in 2011 by a meta-analysis of four orthology-prediction methods, has been a popular tool for …

Matrix metalloproteinases and the regulation of tissue remodelling

A Page-McCaw, AJ Ewald, Z Werb - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2007 - nature.com
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) were discovered because of their role in amphibian
metamorphosis, yet they have attracted more attention because of their roles in disease …

Basement membranes in development and disease

R Sekiguchi, KM Yamada - Current topics in developmental biology, 2018 - Elsevier
The basement membrane is a thin but dense, sheet-like specialized type of extracellular
matrix that has remarkably diverse functions tailored to individual tissues and organs. Tightly …

Caenorhabditis elegans: An Emerging Model in Biomedical and Environmental Toxicology

MCK Leung, PL Williams, A Benedetto… - Toxicological …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as an important animal model in
various fields including neurobiology, developmental biology, and genetics. Characteristics …

Molecular circuits shared by placental and cancer cells, and their implications in the proliferative, invasive and migratory capacities of trophoblasts

C Ferretti, L Bruni, V Dangles-Marie… - Human reproduction …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Trophoblast research over the past decades has underlined the striking similarities between
the proliferative, migratory and invasive properties of placental cells and those of cancer …

Comprehensive endogenous tagging of basement membrane components reveals dynamic movement within the matrix scaffolding

DP Keeley, E Hastie, R Jayadev, LC Kelley, Q Chi… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Basement membranes (BMs) are supramolecular matrices built on laminin and type IV
collagen networks that provide structural and signaling support to tissues. BM complexity …

A 4D single-cell protein atlas of transcription factors delineates spatiotemporal patterning during embryogenesis

X Ma, Z Zhao, L Xiao, W Xu, Y Kou, Y Zhang, G Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Complex biological processes such as embryogenesis require precise coordination of cell
differentiation programs across both space and time. Using protein-fusion fluorescent …

Adaptive F-actin polymerization and localized ATP production drive basement membrane invasion in the absence of MMPs

LC Kelley, Q Chi, R Cáceres, E Hastie, AJ Schindler… - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are associated with decreased patient prognosis but
have failed as anti-invasive drug targets despite promoting cancer cell invasion. Through …