Classical epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and alternative cell death process-driven blebbishield metastatic-witch (BMW) pathways to cancer metastasis

GG **esh, AS Brohl - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Metastasis is a pivotal event that accelerates the prognosis of cancer patients towards
mortality. Therapies that aim to induce cell death in metastatic cells require a more detailed …

[HTML][HTML] Hypoxia, partial EMT and collective migration: Emerging culprits in metastasis

K Saxena, MK Jolly, K Balamurugan - Translational oncology, 2020 - Elsevier
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular biological process involved in
migration of primary cancer cells to secondary sites facilitating metastasis. Besides, EMT …

Cancer stem cell plasticity–a deadly deal

AP Thankamony, K Saxena, R Murali… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Intratumoral heterogeneity is a major ongoing challenge in the effective therapeutic targeting
of cancer. Accumulating evidence suggests that a fraction of cells within a tumor termed …

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 map** and eventually controlling cell-fate decisions. Despite …

Unraveling non-genetic heterogeneity in cancer with dynamical models and computational tools

M Pillai, E Hojel, MK Jolly, Y Goyal - Nature Computational Science, 2023 - nature.com
Individual cells within an otherwise genetically homogenous population constantly undergo
fluctuations in their molecular state, giving rise to non-genetic heterogeneity. Such diversity …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic heterogeneity of triple-negative breast cancer mediated by epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity

B Kvokačková, J Remšík, MK Jolly, K Souček - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and its reverse process
mesenchymal–epithelial transition (MET) are considered critical events in the cancer …

Dynamical hallmarks of cancer: Phenotypic switching in melanoma and epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity

P Jain, M Pillai, AS Duddu, JA Somarelli… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phenotypic plasticity was recently incorporated as a hallmark of cancer. This plasticity can
manifest along many interconnected axes, such as stemness and differentiation, drug …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: Ensembles at the limits of Anfinsen's dogma

P Kulkarni, VBP Leite, S Roy, S Bhattacharyya… - Biophysics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are proteins that lack rigid 3D structure. Hence, they
are often misconceived to present a challenge to Anfinsen's dogma. However, IDPs exist as …

Cancer plasticity: investigating the causes for this agility

S Saha, N Pradhan, B Neha, R Mahadevappa… - Seminars in cancer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is not a hard-wired phenomenon but an evolutionary disease. From the onset of
carcinogenesis, cancer cells continuously adapt and evolve to satiate their ever-growing …