The E-cadherin and N-cadherin switch in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition: signaling, therapeutic implications, and challenges

CY Loh, JY Chai, TF Tang, WF Wong, G Sethi… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) has been shown to be crucial in tumorigenesis
where the EMT program enhances metastasis, chemoresistance and tumor stemness. Due …

Glycosylation: mechanisms, biological functions and clinical implications

M He, X Zhou, X Wang - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Protein post-translational modification (PTM) is a covalent process that occurs in proteins
during or after translation through the addition or removal of one or more functional groups …

New functionalities in the TCGAbiolinks package for the study and integration of cancer data from GDC and GTEx

M Mounir, M Lucchetta, TC Silva, C Olsen… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The advent of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies has opened new
perspectives in deciphering the genetic mechanisms underlying complex diseases …

E-cadherin in contact inhibition and cancer

AM Mendonsa, TY Na, BM Gumbiner - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
E-cadherin is a key component of the adherens junctions that are integral in cell adhesion
and maintaining epithelial phenotype of cells. Homophilic E-cadherin binding between cells …

Advances in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

MCG Winge, LN Kellman, K Guo, JY Tang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Human malignancies arise predominantly in tissues of epithelial origin, where the stepwise
transformation from healthy epithelium to premalignant dysplasia to invasive neoplasia …

Regulatory networks defining EMT during cancer initiation and progression

BD Craene, G Berx - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is essential for driving plasticity during
development, but is an unintentional behaviour of cells during cancer progression. The EMT …

Epigenetic heterogeneity in cancer

M Guo, Y Peng, A Gao, C Du, JG Herman - Biomarker research, 2019 - Springer
Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity is one of the hallmarks of human cancers. Tumor
genotype variations among tumors within different patients are known as interpatient …

The hallmarks of cancer: a long non-coding RNA point of view

T Gutschner, S Diederichs - RNA biology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
With the advent of next generation sequencing methods and progress in transcriptome
analysis, it became obvious that the human genome contains much more than just protein …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer invasion and the microenvironment: plasticity and reciprocity

P Friedl, S Alexander - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Cancer invasion is a cell-and tissue-driven process for which the physical, cellular, and
molecular determinants adapt and react throughout the progression of the disease. Cancer …

Hallmarks of cancer: the next generation

D Hanahan, RA Weinberg - cell, 2011 - cell.com
The hallmarks of cancer comprise six biological capabilities acquired during the multistep
development of human tumors. The hallmarks constitute an organizing principle for …