Gap junctions and cancer: communicating for 50 years

T Aasen, M Mesnil, CC Naus, PD Lampe… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Fifty years ago, tumour cells were found to lack electrical coupling, leading to the hypothesis
that loss of direct intercellular communication is commonly associated with cancer onset and …

Connexins in cancer: bridging the gap to the clinic

T Aasen, E Leithe, SV Graham, P Kameritsch… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Gap junctions comprise arrays of intercellular channels formed by connexin proteins and
provide for the direct communication between adjacent cells. This type of intercellular …

Regulation of gap junction intercellular communication by connexin ubiquitination: physiological and pathophysiological implications

MZ Totland, NL Rasmussen, LM Knudsen… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Gap junctions consist of arrays of intercellular channels that enable adjacent cells to
communicate both electrically and metabolically. Gap junctions have a wide diversity of …

Connexins: synthesis, post-translational modifications, and trafficking in health and disease

T Aasen, S Johnstone, L Vidal-Brime, KS Lynn… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Connexins are tetraspan transmembrane proteins that form gap junctions and facilitate
direct intercellular communication, a critical feature for the development, function, and …

Connexins: key players in the control of vascular plasticity and function

U Pohl - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Of the 21 members of the connexin family, 4 (Cx37, Cx40, Cx43, and Cx45) are expressed in
the endothelium and/or smooth muscle of intact blood vessels to a variable and dynamically …

The involvement of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in doxorubicin resistance: Possible molecular targets

S Mirzaei, AJ Abadi, MH Gholami, F Hashemi… - European journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Considering the fact that cancer cells can switch among various molecular pathways and
mechanisms to ensure their progression, chemotherapy is no longer effective enough in …

Tunneling nanotubes (TNT) mediate long-range gap junctional communication: Implications for HIV cell to cell spread

G Okafo, L Prevedel, E Eugenin - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Cell-to-cell communication is essen for the development of multicellular systems and is
coordinated by soluble factors, exosomes, gap junction (GJ) channels, and the recently …

Insights into the role of connexins and specialized intercellular communication pathways in breast cancer: mechanisms and applications

MRC Mateos, P Carpintero-Fernández… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gap junctions, membrane-based channels comprised of connexin proteins (Cxs), facilitate
direct communication among neighbouring cells and between cells and the extracellular …

Connexins in cancer: Jekyll or Hyde?

EE Mulkearns-Hubert, O Reizes, JD Lathia - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The expression, localization, and function of connexins, the protein subunits that comprise
gap junctions, are often altered in cancer. In addition to cell–cell coupling through gap …

[HTML][HTML] Connexin 43 gap junctions contribute to brain endothelial barrier hyperpermeability in familial cerebral cavernous malformations type III by modulating tight …

AM Johnson, JP Roach, A Hu, SM Stamatovic… - The FASEB …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Familial cerebral cavernous malformations type III (fCCM3) is a disease of the
cerebrovascular system caused by loss-of-function mutations in ccm3 that result in dilated …