Mechanism of epithelial‐mesenchymal transition in cancer and its regulation by natural compounds

HL Ang, CD Mohan, MK Shanmugam… - Medicinal research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Epithelial‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a complex process with a primordial role in
cellular transformation whereby an epithelial cell transforms and acquires a mesenchymal …

Non-redundant functions of EMT transcription factors

MP Stemmler, RL Eccles, S Brabletz, T Brabletz - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a crucial embryonic programme that is executed
by various EMT transcription factors (EMT-TFs) and is aberrantly activated in cancer and …

Signaling mechanisms of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition

DM Gonzalez, D Medici - Science signaling, 2014 - science.org
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an essential mechanism in embryonic
development and tissue repair. EMT also contributes to the progression of disease …

Snail, Zeb and bHLH factors in tumour progression: an alliance against the epithelial phenotype?

H Peinado, D Olmeda, A Cano - Nature reviews cancer, 2007 - nature.com
The molecular mechanisms that underlie tumour progression are still poorly understood, but
recently our knowledge of particular aspects of some of these processes has increased …

Genome‐wide cooperation of EMT transcription factor ZEB 1 with YAP and AP‐1 in breast cancer

N Feldker, F Ferrazzi, H Schuhwerk, SA Widholz… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Invasion, metastasis and therapy resistance are the major cause of cancer‐associated
deaths, and the EMT‐inducing transcription factor ZEB 1 is a crucial stimulator of these …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional control by the TGF‐β/Smad signaling system

J Massagué, D Wotton - The EMBO journal, 2000 - embopress.org
The deployment of a cell's genetic program in a multicellular organism must be tightly
controlled for the sake of the organism as a whole. Over the past 20 years the transforming …

The two-handed E box binding zinc finger protein SIP1 downregulates E-cadherin and induces invasion

J Comijn, G Berx, P Vermassen, K Verschueren… - Molecular cell, 2001 - cell.com
Transcriptional downregulation of E-cadherin appears to be an important event in the
progression of various epithelial tumors. SIP1 (ZEB-2) is a Smad-interacting, multi-zinc …

A double-negative feedback loop between ZEB1-SIP1 and the microRNA-200 family regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition

CP Bracken, PA Gregory, N Kolesnikoff, AG Bert… - Cancer …, 2008 - aacrjournals.org
Epithelial to mesenchymal transition occurs during embryologic development to allow tissue
remodeling and is proposed to be a key step in the metastasis of epithelial-derived tumors …

The SLUG zinc-finger protein represses E-cadherin in breast cancer

KM Hajra, DYS Chen, ER Fearon - Cancer research, 2002 - aacrjournals.org
Loss of expression of the E-cadherin cell-cell adhesion molecule is important in carcinoma
development and progression. Because previous data suggest that loss of E-cadherin …

Adherens junction: molecular architecture and regulation

W Meng, M Takeichi - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2009 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The adherens junction (AJ) is an element of the cell–cell junction in which cadherin
receptors bridge the neighboring plasma membranes via their homophilic interactions …