Controversies around epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity in cancer metastasis

ED Williams, D Gao, A Redfern… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Experimental evidence accumulated over decades has implicated epithelial–mesenchymal
plasticity (EMP), which collectively encompasses epithelial–mesenchymal transition and the …

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 …

Cell–cell adhesion and 3D matrix confinement determine jamming transitions in breast cancer invasion

O Ilina, PG Gritsenko, S Syga, J Lippoldt… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Plasticity of cancer invasion and metastasis depends on the ability of cancer cells to switch
between collective and single-cell dissemination, controlled by cadherin-mediated cell–cell …

The functional activity of E-cadherin controls tumor cell metastasis at multiple steps

TY Na, L Schecterson, AM Mendonsa… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
E-cadherin is a tumor suppressor protein, and the loss of its expression in association with
the epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) occurs frequently during tumor metastasis …

[HTML][HTML] Vimentin and cytokeratin: Good alone, bad together

NA Kuburich, P den Hollander, JT Pietz… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
The cytoskeleton plays an integral role in maintaining the integrity of epithelial cells.
Epithelial cells primarily employ cytokeratin in their cytoskeleton, whereas mesenchymal …

EMT and MET: necessary or permissive for metastasis?

MK Jolly, KE Ware, S Gilja, JA Somarelli… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) and its reverse mesenchymal‐to‐epithelial
transition (MET) have been suggested to play crucial roles in metastatic dissemination of …

Three-dimensional organotypic culture: experimental models of mammalian biology and disease

ER Shamir, AJ Ewald - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2014 - nature.com
Mammalian organs are challenging to study as they are fairly inaccessible to experimental
manipulation and optical observation. Recent advances in three-dimensional (3D) culture …

[HTML][HTML] EMT: 2016

MA Nieto, RYJ Huang, RA Jackson, JP Thiery - cell, 2016 - cell.com
The significant parallels between cell plasticity during embryonic development and
carcinoma progression have helped us understand the importance of the epithelial …

[HTML][HTML] The epithelial-mesenchymal transition and the cytoskeleton in bioengineered systems

SE Leggett, AM Hruska, M Guo, IY Wong - Cell Communication and …, 2021 - Springer
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is intrinsically linked to alterations of the
intracellular cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. After EMT, cells acquire an elongated …

Roles for E-cadherin cell surface regulation in cancer

YI Petrova, L Schecterson… - Molecular biology of the …, 2016 - Am Soc Cell Biol
The loss of E-cadherin expression in association with the epithelial–mesenchymal transition
(EMT) occurs frequently during tumor metastasis. However, metastases often retain E …