Extracellular matrix remodeling in tumor progression and immune escape: from mechanisms to treatments

Z Yuan, Y Li, S Zhang, X Wang, H Dou, X Yu, Z Zhang… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
The malignant tumor is a multi-etiological, systemic and complex disease characterized by
uncontrolled cell proliferation and distant metastasis. Anticancer treatments including …

The molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies of EMT in tumor progression and metastasis

Y Huang, W Hong, X Wei - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an essential process in normal embryonic
development and tissue regeneration. However, aberrant reactivation of EMT is associated …

Breast cancer metastasis: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

M Park, D Kim, S Ko, A Kim, K Mo, H Yoon - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide. Metastasis is the
leading cause of high mortality in most cancers. Although predicting the early stage of breast …

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] TGF-β in developmental and fibrogenic EMTs

JH Lee, J Massagué - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
TGF-β plays a prominent role as an inducer of epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMTs)
during development and wound healing and in disease conditions such as fibrosis and …

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, and tumor metastasis

B Bakir, AM Chiarella, JR Pitarresi, AK Rustgi - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer cell identity and plasticity are required in transition states, such as epithelial–
mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal–epithelial transition (MET), in primary …

Breast cancer as an example of tumour heterogeneity and tumour cell plasticity during malignant progression

F Lüönd, S Tiede, G Christofori - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Heterogeneity within a tumour increases its ability to adapt to constantly changing
constraints, but adversely affects a patient's prognosis, therapy response and clinical …

Ribosome biogenesis: a central player in cancer metastasis and therapeutic resistance

AR Elhamamsy, BJ Metge, HA Alsheikh, LA Shevde… - Cancer research, 2022 - AACR
Ribosomes are a complex ensemble of rRNA and ribosomal proteins that function as mRNA
translation machines. Ribosome biogenesis is a multistep process that begins in the …

Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of the tumor ecosystems underlying initiation and progression of papillary thyroid carcinoma

W Pu, X Shi, P Yu, M Zhang, Z Liu, L Tan, P Han… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The tumor ecosystem of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is poorly characterized. Using
single-cell RNA sequencing, we profile transcriptomes of 158,577 cells from 11 patients' …