Mechanisms of cancer metastasis

M Castaneda, P den Hollander, NA Kuburich… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Metastatic cancer is almost always terminal, and more than 90% of cancer deaths result from
metastatic disease. Combating cancer metastasis and post-therapeutic recurrence …

Biomechanical, biophysical and biochemical modulators of cytoskeletal remodelling and emergent stem cell lineage commitment

VDL Putra, KA Kilian, ML Knothe Tate - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Across complex, multi-time and-length scale biological systems, redundancy confers
robustness and resilience, enabling adaptation and increasing survival under dynamic …

Vimentin and cytokeratin: Good alone, bad together

NA Kuburich, P den Hollander, JT Pietz… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
The cytoskeleton plays an integral role in maintaining the integrity of epithelial cells.
Epithelial cells primarily employ cytokeratin in their cytoskeleton, whereas mesenchymal …

Cell swelling, softening and invasion in a three-dimensional breast cancer model

YL Han, AF Pegoraro, H Li, K Li, Y Yuan, G Xu, Z Gu… - Nature physics, 2020 - nature.com
Control of the structure and function of three-dimensional multicellular tissues depends
critically on the spatial and temporal coordination of cellular physical properties, yet the …

The epithelial-mesenchymal transition and the cytoskeleton in bioengineered systems

SE Leggett, AM Hruska, M Guo, IY Wong - Cell Communication and …, 2021 - Springer
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is intrinsically linked to alterations of the
intracellular cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. After EMT, cells acquire an elongated …

Vimentin filaments integrate low-complexity domains in a complex helical structure

M Eibauer, MS Weber, R Kronenberg-Tenga… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Intermediate filaments (IFs) are integral components of the cytoskeleton. They provide cells
with tissue-specific mechanical properties and are involved in numerous cellular processes …

Proactive and reactive roles of TGF-β in cancer

NA Kuburich, T Sabapathy, BR Demestichas… - Seminars in cancer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer cells adapt to varying stress conditions to survive through plasticity. Stem cells
exhibit a high degree of plasticity, allowing them to generate more stem cells or differentiate …

Vimentin is a key regulator of cell mechanosensing through opposite actions on actomyosin and microtubule networks

F Alisafaei, K Mandal, R Saldanha, M Swoger… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The cytoskeleton is a complex network of interconnected biopolymers consisting of actin
filaments, microtubules, and intermediate filaments. These biopolymers work in concert to …

Volumetric compression induces intracellular crowding to control intestinal organoid growth via Wnt/β-catenin signaling

Y Li, M Chen, J Hu, R Sheng, Q Lin, X He, M Guo - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Enormous amounts of essential intracellular events are crowdedly packed inside picoliter-
sized cellular space. However, the significance of the physical properties of cells remains …

Vimentin intermediate filaments and filamentous actin form unexpected interpenetrating networks that redefine the cell cortex

H Wu, Y Shen, S Sivagurunathan, MS Weber… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
The cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells is primarily composed of networks of filamentous
proteins, F-actin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments. Interactions among the …