Targeting metastasis

PS Steeg - Nature reviews cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Tumour metastasis, the movement of tumour cells from a primary site to progressively
colonize distant organs, is a major contributor to the deaths of cancer patients. Therapeutic …

PGC-1α promotes breast cancer metastasis and confers bioenergetic flexibility against metabolic drugs

S Andrzejewski, E Klimcakova, RM Johnson… - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
Metabolic adaptations play a key role in fueling tumor growth. However, less is known
regarding the metabolic changes that promote cancer progression to metastatic disease …

Emerging roles for LPP in metastatic cancer progression

E Ngan, A Kiepas, CM Brown, PM Siegel - Journal of cell communication …, 2018 - Springer
LIM domain containing proteins are important regulators of diverse cellular processes, and
play pivotal roles in regulating the actin cytoskeleton. Lipoma Preferred Partner (LPP) is a …

Optimizing live-cell fluorescence imaging conditions to minimize phototoxicity

A Kiepas, E Voorand, F Mubaid… - Journal of cell …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Fluorescence illumination can cause phototoxicity that negatively affects living samples. This
study demonstrates that much of the phototoxicity and photobleaching experienced with live …

LPP is a Src substrate required for invadopodia formation and efficient breast cancer lung metastasis

E Ngan, K Stoletov, HW Smith, J Common… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We have previously shown that lipoma preferred partner (LPP) mediates TGFβ-induced
breast cancer cell migration and invasion. Herein, we demonstrate that diminished LPP …

GPNMB cooperates with neuropilin-1 to promote mammary tumor growth and engages integrin α5β1 for efficient breast cancer metastasis

G Maric, MG Annis, Z Dong, AAN Rose, S Ng… - Oncogene, 2015 - nature.com
Glycoprotein nmb (GPNMB) promotes breast tumor growth and metastasis and its
expression in tumor epithelium correlates with poor prognosis in breast cancer patients …

Up-regulation of N-cadherin by collagen I-activated discoidin domain receptor 1 in pancreatic cancer requires the adaptor molecule Shc1

H Huang, RA Svoboda, AJ Lazenby, J Saowapa… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas are highly malignant cancers characterized by
extensive invasion into surrounding tissues, metastasis to distant organs, and a limited …

Agonists and knockdown of estrogen receptor β differentially affect invasion of triple-negative breast cancer cells in vitro

S Schüler-Toprak, J Häring, EC Inwald, C Moehle… - BMC cancer, 2016 - Springer
Background Estrogen receptor β (ERβ) is expressed in the majority of invasive breast cancer
cases, irrespective of their subtype, including triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Thus …

Chordin-like 1 suppresses bone morphogenetic protein 4-induced breast cancer cell migration and invasion

C Cyr-Depauw, JJ Northey, S Tabariès… - … and Cellular Biology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ShcA is an important mediator of ErbB2-and transforming growth factor β (TGF-β)-induced
breast cancer cell migration, invasion, and metastasis. We show that in the context of …

The SHCA adapter protein cooperates with lipoma-preferred partner in the regulation of adhesion dynamics and invadopodia formation

A Kiepas, E Voorand, J Senecal, R Ahn… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
SHC adaptor protein (SHCA) and lipoma-preferred partner (LPP) mediate transforming
growth factor β (TGFβ)-induced breast cancer cell migration and invasion. Reduced …