Decoding leader cells in collective cancer invasion

SA Vilchez Mercedes, F Bocci, H Levine… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Collective cancer invasion with leader–follower organization is increasingly recognized as a
predominant mechanism in the metastatic cascade. Leader cells support cancer invasion by …

Cadherin mechanotransduction in leader-follower cell specification during collective migration

AA Khalil, J de Rooij - Experimental cell research, 2019 - Elsevier
Collective invasion drives the spread of multicellular cancer groups, into the normal tissue
surrounding several epithelial tumors. Collective invasion recapitulates various aspects of …

Clinical and genomic implications of luminal and basal subtypes across carcinomas

SG Zhao, WS Chen, R Das, SL Chang, SA Tomlins… - Clinical cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: Carcinomas originate from epithelial tissues, which have apical (luminal) and
basal orientations. The degree of luminal versus basal differentiation in cancer has been …

[HTML][HTML] Stem cell determinant SOX9 promotes lineage plasticity and progression in basal-like breast cancer

JR Christin, C Wang, CY Chung, Y Liu, C Dravis… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Lineage plasticity is important for the development of basal-like breast cancer (BLBC), an
aggressive cancer subtype. While BLBC is likely to originate from luminal progenitor cells, it …

[HTML][HTML] Breast cancer plasticity is restricted by a LATS1-NCOR1 repressive axis

Y Aylon, N Furth, G Mallel, G Friedlander… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Breast cancer, the most frequent cancer in women, is generally classified into several
distinct histological and molecular subtypes. However, single-cell technologies have …

Biomimetic nanovesicles made from iPS cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells for targeted therapy of triple-negative breast cancer

Q Zhao, B Hai, X Zhang, J Xu, B Koehler… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles made from membrane of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) showed active
targeting capacities to prostate and lung cancers, but further studies are hindered by limited …

[HTML][HTML] A YAP-centered mechanotransduction loop drives collective breast cancer cell invasion

AA Khalil, D Smits, PD Haughton, T Koorman… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dense and aligned Collagen I fibers are associated with collective cancer invasion led by
protrusive tumor cells, leader cells. In some breast tumors, a population of cancer cells …

[HTML][HTML] A novel six metastasis-related prognostic gene signature for patients with osteosarcoma

D Zheng, K Xia, L Yu, C Gong, Y Shi, W Li… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant bone tumor, and although there has been
significant progress in its management, metastases often herald incurable disease. Here we …

In vivo selection of highly metastatic human ovarian cancer sublines reveals role for AMIGO2 in intra-peritoneal metastatic regulation

Y Liu, J Yang, Z Shi, X Tan, N Jin, C O'Brien, C Ott… - Cancer letters, 2021 - Elsevier
The majority of women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed with metastatic disease, therefore
elucidating molecular events that contribute to successful metastatic dissemination may …

[HTML][HTML] AMIGO2 as a novel indicator of liver metastasis in patients with colorectal cancer

A Tanio, H Saito, M Amisaki, K Hara… - Oncology …, 2021 - spandidos-publications.com
Our previous study showed that adhesion molecule with immunoglobulin like domain 2
(AMIGO2) is a pivotal driver gene of liver metastasis via regulating tumor cell adhesion to …