Vimentin is at the heart of epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) mediated metastasis

S Usman, NH Waseem, TKN Nguyen, S Mohsin… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Vimentin is an important filamentous protein providing structural and
functional support to the cell. During initial stages of cancer development, vimentin …

CD44: A multifunctional mediator of cancer progression

M Hassn Mesrati, SE Syafruddin, MA Mohtar, A Syahir - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
CD44, a non-kinase cell surface transmembrane glycoprotein, has been widely implicated
as a cancer stem cell (CSC) marker in several cancers. Cells overexpressing CD44 possess …

Intravital imaging to study cancer progression and metastasis

D Entenberg, MH Oktay, JS Condeelis - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Navigation through the bulk tumour, entry into the blood vasculature, survival in the
circulation, exit at distant sites and resumption of proliferation are all steps necessary for …

The deubiquitylase OTUB1 mediates ferroptosis via stabilization of SLC7A11

T Liu, L Jiang, O Tavana, W Gu - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Although cell-cycle arrest, senescence, and apoptosis are established mechanisms of tumor
suppression, accumulating evidence reveals that ferroptosis, an iron-dependent …

CD44-targeted nanocarrier for cancer therapy

P Kesharwani, R Chadar, A Sheikh, WY Rizg… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44) is a cell surface glycoprotein overexpressed in varieties
of solid tumors including pancreatic, breast, ovary, brain, and lung cancers. It is a multi …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer stem cell surface markers on normal stem cells

WT Kim, CJ Ryu - BMB reports, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis has captured the attention of many scientists. It is
believed that elimination of CSCs could possibly eradicate the whole cancer. CSC surface …

Cancer cell CD44 mediates macrophage/monocyte-driven regulation of head and neck cancer stem cells

KE Gomez, FL Wu, SB Keysar, JJ Morton, B Miller… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) in the tumor microenvironment (TME) cooperate with
cancer stem cells (CSC) to maintain stemness. We recently identified cluster of …

Nanoparticle drug delivery systems for synergistic delivery of tumor therapy

D Chen, X Liu, X Lu, J Tian - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nanoparticle drug delivery systems have proved anti-tumor effects; however, they are not
widely used in tumor therapy due to insufficient ability to target specific sites, multidrug …

Hyaluronan-conjugated carbon quantum dots for bioimaging use

BB Karakoçak, A Laradji, T Primeau… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This work demonstrates the application of hyaluronan-conjugated nitrogen-doped carbon
quantum dots (HA-nCQDs) for bioimaging of tumor cells and illustrates their potential use as …

Morphological and molecular characteristics of spheroid formation in HT-29 and Caco-2 colorectal cancer cell lines

E Gheytanchi, M Naseri, F Karimi-Busheri… - Cancer cell …, 2021 - Springer
Background Relapse and metastasis in colorectal cancer (CRC) are often attributed to
cancer stem-like cells (CSCs), as small sub-population of tumor cells with ability of drug …