Implications of the hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype in metastasis

MK Jolly, M Boareto, B Huang, D Jia, M Lu… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes–the epithelial to
mesenchymal transition (EMT) and its reverse the mesenchymal to epithelial transition …

Hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotypes promote metastasis and therapy resistance across carcinomas

MK Jolly, JA Somarelli, M Sheth, A Biddle… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cancer metastasis and therapy resistance are the major unsolved clinical challenges, and
account for nearly all cancer-related deaths. Both metastasis and therapy resistance are …

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 …

Toward understanding cancer stem cell heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment

F Bocci, L Gearhart-Serna, M Boareto… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and cancer stem cell (CSC) formation are two
paramount processes driving tumor progression, therapy resistance, and cancer metastasis …

Focus on the emerging new fields of network physiology and network medicine

PC Ivanov, KKL Liu, RP Bartsch - New journal of physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite the vast progress and achievements in systems biology and integrative physiology
in the last decades, there is still a significant gap in understanding the mechanisms through …

Landscape of epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity as an emergent property of coordinated teams in regulatory networks

K Hari, V Ullanat, A Balasubramanian, A Gopalan… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Elucidating the design principles of regulatory networks driving cellular decision-making has
fundamental implications in mapping and eventually controlling cell-fate decisions. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling the modules of EMT and stemness: A tunable 'stemness window'model

MK Jolly, D Jia, M Boareto, SA Mani, KJ Pienta… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Metastasis of carcinoma involves migration of tumor cells to distant organs and initiate
secondary tumors. Migration requires a complete or partial Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal …

Understanding the principles of pattern formation driven by notch signaling by integrating experiments and theoretical models

F Bocci, JN Onuchic, MK Jolly - Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Notch signaling is an evolutionary conserved cell-cell communication pathway. Besides
regulating cell-fate decisions at an individual cell level, Notch signaling coordinates the …

The physics of cellular decision making during epithelial–mesenchymal transition

S Tripathi, H Levine, MK Jolly - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process by which cells lose epithelial
traits, such as cell–cell adhesion and apico-basal polarity, and acquire migratory and …

Phenotypic plasticity, bet-hedging, and androgen independence in prostate cancer: role of non-genetic heterogeneity

MK Jolly, P Kulkarni, K Weninger, J Orban… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
It is well known that genetic mutations can drive drug resistance and lead to tumor relapse.
Here, we focus on alternate mechanisms—those without mutations, such as phenotypic …