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 …

Tumor microenvironment as a therapeutic target in cancer

Y Xiao, D Yu - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
Tumor microenvironment denotes the non-cancerous cells and components presented in
the tumor, including molecules produced and released by them. The constant interactions …

[HTML][HTML] The role of collagen in cancer: from bench to bedside

S Xu, H Xu, W Wang, S Li, H Li, T Li, W Zhang… - Journal of translational …, 2019 - Springer
Collagen is the major component of the tumor microenvironment and participates in cancer
fibrosis. Collagen biosynthesis can be regulated by cancer cells through mutated genes …

[HTML][HTML] RETRACTED ARTICLE: RNA m6A methylation regulates the epithelial mesenchymal transition of cancer cells and translation of Snail

X Lin, G Chai, Y Wu, J Li, F Chen, J Liu, G Luo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) modification has been implicated in the progression of
several cancers. We reveal that during epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), one …

[HTML][HTML] The extracellular matrix modulates the metastatic journey

FB Kai, AP Drain, VM Weaver - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
The extracellular matrix is perturbed in tumors. The tumor matrix promotes the growth,
survival, and invasion of the cancer and modifies fibroblast and immune cell behavior to …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging role of tumor cell plasticity in modifying therapeutic response

S Qin, J Jiang, Y Lu, EC Nice, C Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Resistance to cancer therapy is a major barrier to cancer management. Conventional views
have proposed that acquisition of resistance may result from genetic mutations. However …

Remodelling the extracellular matrix in development and disease

C Bonnans, J Chou, Z Werb - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2014 - nature.com
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a highly dynamic structure that is present in all tissues and
continuously undergoes controlled remodelling. This process involves quantitative and …

Epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity: a central regulator of cancer progression

X Ye, RA Weinberg - Trends in cell biology, 2015 - cell.com
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) program has emerged as a central driver of
tumor malignancy. Moreover, the recently uncovered link between passage through an EMT …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular matrix alterations in metastatic processes

M Paolillo, S Schinelli - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex network of extracellular-secreted
macromolecules, such as collagen, enzymes and glycoproteins, whose main functions deal …

The role of cancer-associated fibroblasts and fibrosis in liver cancer

S Affo, LX Yu, RF Schwabe - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, causing more than
700,000 deaths annually. Because of the wide landscape of genomic alterations and limited …