The epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity landscape: principles of design and mechanisms of regulation

J Haerinck, S Goossens, G Berx - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity (EMP) enables cells to interconvert between several
states across the epithelial–mesenchymal landscape, thereby acquiring hybrid epithelial …

Epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity in cancer: signaling pathways and therapeutic targets

X Wang, X Xue, M Pang, L Yu, J Qian, X Li, M Tian… - MedComm, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, cancer is still a leading cause of human death globally. Tumor deterioration
comprises multiple events including metastasis, therapeutic resistance and immune …

PD-L1 activity is associated with partial EMT and metabolic reprogramming in carcinomas

S Muralidharan, M Sehgal, R Soundharya, S Mandal… - Current …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Immune evasion and metabolic reprogramming are hallmarks of cancer progression often
associated with a poor prognosis and frequently present significant challenges for cancer …

Pictolysin-III, a Hemorrhagic Type-III Metalloproteinase Isolated from Bothrops pictus (Serpentes: Viperidae) Venom, Reduces Mitochondrial Respiration and Induces …

DE Vivas-Ruiz, P Rosas, A Proleón, D Torrejón, F Lazo… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
From the venom of the Bothrops pictus snake, an endemic species from Peru, we recently
have described toxins that inhibited platelet aggregation and cancer cell migration. In this …

HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Expression in HPV16-Infected Epidermoid Carcinoma Cells Alters E6 Expression and Cellular Metabolism, and Induces a Hybrid …

A Zhitkevich, E Bayurova, D Avdoshina, N Zakirova… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
The high incidence of epithelial malignancies in HIV-1 infected individuals is associated with
co-infection with oncogenic viruses, such as high-risk human papillomaviruses (HR HPVs) …

EMT Features in Claudin-Low versus Claudin-Non-Suppressed Breast Cancers and the Role of Epigenetic Modifications

IA Voutsadakis - Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Breast cancers are heterogeneous and are classified according to the
expression of ER, PR and HER2 receptors to distinct groups with prognostic and therapeutic …

Characterizing heterogeneous single-cell dose responses computationally and experimentally using threshold inhibition surfaces and dose-titration assays

PC Kinnunen, BA Humphries, GD Luker… - npj Systems Biology …, 2024 - nature.com
Single cancer cells within a tumor exhibit variable levels of resistance to drugs, ultimately
leading to treatment failures. While tumor heterogeneity is recognized as a major obstacle to …

Advances in microfluidic platforms for tumor cell phenotyping: from bench to bedside

R Joshi, H Ahmadi, K Gardner, RK Bright, W Wang… - Lab on a Chip, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Heterogeneities among tumor cells significantly contribute towards cancer progression and
therapeutic inefficiency. Hence, understanding the nature of cancer through liquid biopsies …

Gedatolisib shows superior potency and efficacy versus single-node PI3K/AKT/mTOR inhibitors in breast cancer models

S Rossetti, A Broege, A Sen, S Khan, I MacNeil… - NPJ Breast …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The PI3K, AKT, and mTOR (PAM) pathway is frequently dysregulated in breast
cancer (BC) to accommodate high catabolic and anabolic activities driving tumor growth …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impact of extracellular matrix fiber orientation on breast cancer cellular metabolism

MR Pickett, YI Chen, M Kamra, S Kumar… - Cancer Cell …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a dynamic and complex microenvironment that modulates
cell behavior and cell fate. Changes in ECM composition and architecture have been …