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 …

[HTML][HTML] TGF-β signaling in health and disease

J Massagué, D Sheppard - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The TGF-β regulatory system plays crucial roles in the preservation of organismal integrity.
TGF-β signaling controls metazoan embryo development, tissue homeostasis, and injury …

[HTML][HTML] TGF-β in developmental and fibrogenic EMTs

JH Lee, J Massagué - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
TGF-β plays a prominent role as an inducer of epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMTs)
during development and wound healing and in disease conditions such as fibrosis and …

Targeting TGF-β signal transduction for fibrosis and cancer therapy

D Peng, M Fu, M Wang, Y Wei, X Wei - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) has long been identified with its intensive involvement
in early embryonic development and organogenesis, immune supervision, tissue repair, and …

Cell death in pancreatic cancer: from pathogenesis to therapy

X Chen, HJ Zeh, R Kang, G Kroemer… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating gastrointestinal cancer characterized by late diagnosis,
limited treatment success and dismal prognosis. Exocrine tumours account for 95% of …

Transforming growth factor-β signaling in immunity and cancer

E Batlle, J Massagué - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β is a crucial enforcer of immune homeostasis and
tolerance, inhibiting the expansion and function of many components of the immune system …

Localization, tissue biology and T cell state—implications for cancer immunotherapy

JM Schenkel, KE Pauken - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Tissue localization is a critical determinant of T cell immunity. CD8+ T cells are contact-
dependent killers, which requires them to physically be within the tissue of interest to kill …

Recovering gene interactions from single-cell data using data diffusion

D Van Dijk, R Sharma, J Nainys, K Yim, P Kathail… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing technologies suffer from many sources of technical noise,
including under-sampling of mRNA molecules, often termed" dropout," which can severely …

Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity in cancer progression and metastasis

W Lu, Y Kang - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and its reversed process, mesenchymal-to-
epithelial transition (MET), are fundamental processes in embryonic development and tissue …

TGF-β orchestrates fibrogenic and developmental EMTs via the RAS effector RREB1

J Su, SM Morgani, CJ David, Q Wang, EE Er… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions (EMTs) are phenotypic plasticity processes that confer
migratory and invasive properties to epithelial cells during development, wound-healing …