Movers and shakers: cell cytoskeleton in cancer metastasis

CM Fife, JA McCarroll… - British journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Metastasis is responsible for the greatest number of cancer deaths. Metastatic disease, or
the movement of cancer cells from one site to another, is a complex process requiring …

Genetic determinants of cancer metastasis

DX Nguyen, J Massagué - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Metastasis can be viewed as an evolutionary process, culminating in the prevalence of rare
tumour cells that overcame stringent physiological barriers as they separated from their …

A novel prognostic subtype of human hepatocellular carcinoma derived from hepatic progenitor cells

JS Lee, J Heo, L Libbrecht, IS Chu, P Kaposi-Novak… - Nature medicine, 2006 - nature.com
The variability in the prognosis of individuals with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) suggests
that HCC may comprise several distinct biological phenotypes. These phenotypes may …

The membrane-cytoskeleton linker ezrin is necessary for osteosarcoma metastasis

C Khanna, X Wan, S Bose, R Cassaday, O Olomu… - Nature medicine, 2004 - nature.com
Metastatic cancers, once established, are the primary cause of mortality associated with
cancer. Previously, we used a genomic approach to identify metastasis-associated genes in …

Mechanisms of cancer cell invasion

E Sahai - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2005 - Elsevier
The movement of cancer cells into tissue surrounding the tumour and the vasculature is the
first step in the spread of metastatic cancers. Recent advances in imaging, the use of 3D …

Modeling metastasis in vivo

C Khanna, K Hunter - Carcinogenesis, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Metastasis, the spread of a tumor from its primary site to other parts of the body, continues to
be the most significant problem in the field of cancer. Patients who present with metastatic …

Expression of Notch-1 and its ligands, Delta-like-1 and Jagged-1, is critical for glioma cell survival and proliferation

BW Purow, RM Haque, MW Noel, Q Su, MJ Burdick… - Cancer research, 2005 - AACR
The Notch family of proteins plays an integral role in determining cell fates, such as
proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. We show that Notch-1 and its ligands, Delta-like …

ERM proteins in cancer progression

J Clucas, F Valderrama - Journal of cell science, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Members of the ezrin–radixin–moesin (ERM) family of proteins are involved in multiple
aspects of cell migration by acting both as crosslinkers between the membrane, receptors …

Identification of FGFR4-activating mutations in human rhabdomyosarcomas that promote metastasis in xenotransplanted models

JGT Vi, AT Cheuk, PS Tsang, JY Chung… - The Journal of …, 2009 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a childhood cancer originating from skeletal muscle, and
patient survival is poor in the presence of metastatic disease. Few determinants that regulate …

Indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase serves as a marker of poor prognosis in gene expression profiles of serous ovarian cancer cells

A Okamoto, T Nikaido, K Ochiai, S Takakura… - Clinical cancer …, 2005 - AACR
Purpose: We aimed to find key molecules associated with chemoresistance in ovarian
cancer using gene expression profiling as a screening tool. Experimental Design: Using two …