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 …

Towards targeting of shared mechanisms of cancer metastasis and therapy resistance

F Weiss, D Lauffenburger, P Friedl - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Resistance to therapeutic treatment and metastatic progression jointly determine a fatal
outcome of cancer. Cancer metastasis and therapeutic resistance are traditionally studied as …

Rho GTPase signaling in cancer progression and dissemination

E Crosas-Molist, R Samain… - Physiological …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Rho GTPases are a family of small G proteins that regulate a wide array of cellular
processes related to their key roles controlling the cytoskeleton. Cancer is a multistep …

Genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors illuminate the spatiotemporal regulation of signaling networks

EC Greenwald, S Mehta, J Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cellular signaling networks are the foundation which determines the fate and function of
cells as they respond to various cues and stimuli. The discovery of fluorescent proteins over …

LOVTRAP: an optogenetic system for photoinduced protein dissociation

H Wang, M Vilela, A Winkler, M Tarnawski… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
LOVTRAP is an optogenetic approach for reversible light-induced protein dissociation using
protein A fragments that bind to the LOV domain only in the dark, with tunable kinetics and …

HER2+ breast cancers evade anti-HER2 therapy via a switch in driver pathway

AE Smith, E Ferraro, A Safonov, CB Morales… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Inhibition of HER2 in HER2-amplified breast cancer has been remarkably successful
clinically, as demonstrated by the efficacy of HER-kinase inhibitors and HER2-antibody …

Engulfed cadherin fingers are polarized junctional structures between collectively migrating endothelial cells

A Hayer, L Shao, M Chung, LM Joubert, HW Yang… - Nature cell …, 2016 - nature.com
The development and maintenance of tissues requires collective cell movement, during
which neighbouring cells coordinate the polarity of their migration machineries. Here, we …

RAS and RHO families of GTPases directly regulate distinct phosphoinositide 3-kinase isoforms

R Fritsch, I de Krijger, K Fritsch, R George, B Reason… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
RAS proteins are important direct activators of p110α, p110γ, and p110δ type I
phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks), interacting via an amino-terminal RAS-binding domain …

[HTML][HTML] Leader cells regulate collective cell migration via Rac activation in the downstream signaling of integrin β1 and PI3K

N Yamaguchi, T Mizutani, K Kawabata, H Haga - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Collective cell migration plays a crucial role in several biological processes, such as
embryonic development, wound healing and cancer metastasis. Here, we focused on …

MicroRNAs and the PTEN/PI3K/Akt pathway in gastric cancer

M Hu, S Zhu, S Xiong, X Xue… - Oncology reports, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
Gastric carcinogenesis arises from complicated interactions among host, environmental and
bacterial factors, which cause genetic and epigenetic dysregulation of oncogenic and tumor …