Epithelial plasticity, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and the TGF-β family

Y Katsuno, R Derynck - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Epithelial cells repress epithelial characteristics and elaborate mesenchymal characteristics
to migrate to other locations and acquire new properties. Epithelial plasticity responses are …

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in fibrosis: concepts and targeting strategies

S Lovisa - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), an embryonic program relaunched during
wound healing and in pathological conditions such as fibrosis and cancer, continues to gain …

Identification of EMT signaling cross-talk and gene regulatory networks by single-cell RNA sequencing

AP Deshmukh, SV Vasaikar… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a critical role during normal
development and in cancer progression. EMT is induced by various signaling pathways …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell lineage tracing of metastatic cancer reveals selection of hybrid EMT states

KP Simeonov, CN Byrns, ML Clark, RJ Norgard… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The underpinnings of cancer metastasis remain poorly understood, in part due to a lack of
tools for probing their emergence at high resolution. Here we present macsGESTALT, an …

Single-cell transcriptional changes associated with drug tolerance and response to combination therapies in cancer

AF Aissa, AB Islam, MM Ariss, CC Go, AE Rader… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors were found to be clinically effective for treatment of patients with
certain subsets of cancers carrying somatic mutations in receptor tyrosine kinases. However …

Spearheading future omics analyses using dyngen, a multi-modal simulator of single cells

R Cannoodt, W Saelens, L Deconinck… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We present dyngen, a multi-modal simulation engine for studying dynamic cellular
processes at single-cell resolution. dyngen is more flexible than current single-cell …

Zeb1 induces immune checkpoints to form an immunosuppressive envelope around invading cancer cells

Y Guo, X Lu, Y Chen, B Rendon, RA Mitchell… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The PDL1-PD1 immune checkpoint inhibits T cell activation, and its blockade is effective in a
subset of patients. Studies are investigating how checkpoints are hijacked by cancer cells …

Functional antagonism of chromatin modulators regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition

M Serresi, S Kertalli, L Li, MJ Schmitt… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a developmental process hijacked by cancer
cells to modulate proliferation, migration, and stress response. Whereas kinase signaling is …

Collective metastasis: coordinating the multicellular voyage

E Wrenn, Y Huang, K Cheung - Clinical & experimental metastasis, 2021 - Springer
The metastatic process is arduous. Cancer cells must escape the confines of the primary
tumor, make their way into and travel through the circulation, then survive and proliferate in …

High-resolution characterization of gene function using single-cell CRISPR tiling screen

L Yang, AKN Chan, K Miyashita, CD Delaney… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Identification of novel functional domains and characterization of detailed regulatory
mechanisms in cancer-driving genes is critical for advanced cancer therapy. To date …