Linking EMT programmes to normal and neoplastic epithelial stem cells

AW Lambert, RA Weinberg - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Epithelial stem cells serve critical physiological functions in the generation, maintenance
and repair of diverse tissues through their ability to self-renew and spawn more specialized …

EMT/MET plasticity in cancer and Go-or-Grow decisions in quiescence: the two sides of the same coin?

A Akhmetkaliyev, N Alibrahim, D Shafiee, E Tulchinsky - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal epithelial transition (MET) are
genetic determinants of cellular plasticity. These programs operate in physiological …

Epithelial–mesenchymal transitions: from cell plasticity to concept elasticity

P Savagner - Current topics in developmental biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a developmental cellular process occurring
during early embryo development, including gastrulation and neural crest cell migration. It …

Epithelial and mesenchymal subpopulations within normal basal breast cell lines exhibit distinct stem cell/progenitor properties

D Sarrio, CK Franklin, A Mackay, JS Reis-Filho… - Stem …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
It has been proposed that epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) in mammary epithelial
cells and breast cancer cells generates stem cell features, and that the presence of EMT …

Molecular regulation of Snai2 in development and disease

W Zhou, KM Gross, C Kuperwasser - Journal of cell science, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
The transcription factor Snai2, encoded by the SNAI2 gene, is an evolutionarily conserved
C2H2 zinc finger protein that orchestrates biological processes critical to tissue development …

An" unexpected" role for EMT transcription factors in hematological development and malignancy

K Radhakrishnan, L Truong… - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a fundamental developmental process
essential for normal embryonic development. It is also important during various pathogenic …

“In medio stat virtus”: Insights into hybrid E/M phenotype attitudes

A Canciello, A Cerveró-Varona, A Peserico… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity (EMP) refers to the ability of cells to dynamically
interconvert between epithelial (E) and mesenchymal (M) phenotypes, thus generating an …

Slug controls stem/progenitor cell growth dynamics during mammary gland morphogenesis

M Nassour, Y Idoux-Gillet, A Selmi, C Côme… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Morphogenesis results from the coordination of distinct cell signaling pathways
controlling migration, differentiation, apoptosis, and proliferation, along stem/progenitor cell …

Loss of ATF4 leads to functional aging-like attrition of adult hematopoietic stem cells

Y Sun, X Lin, B Liu, Y Zhang, W Li, S Zhang, F He… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Aging of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) directly contributes to dysfunction of
hematopoietic and immune systems due to aging-associated alterations in HSC features …

The transcription factor Slug represses p16Ink4a and regulates murine muscle stem cell aging

P Zhu, C Zhang, Y Gao, F Wu, Y Zhou… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Activation of the p16Ink4a-associated senescence pathway during aging breaks muscle
homeostasis and causes degenerative muscle disease by irreversibly dampening satellite …