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Transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal states: acquisition of malignant and stem cell traits

Polyak, Kornelia, Weinberg, Robert A.·2009·Nature Reviews Cancer

Abstract

Transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal states have crucial roles in embryonic development. Emerging data suggest a role for these processes in regulating cellular plasticity in normal adult tissues and in tumours, where they can generate multiple, distinct cellular subpopulations contributing to intratumoural heterogeneity. Some of these subpopulations may exhibit more differentiated features, whereas others have characteristics of stem cells. Owing to the importance of these tumour-associated phenotypes in metastasis and cancer-related mortality, targeting the products of such cellular plasticity is an attractive but challenging approach that is likely to lead to improved clinical management of cancer patients.

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  • Tumor cells with more Slug and less E-cadherin become more invasive, acquire cancer stem-cell-like traits, and resist certain chemotherapy drugs.

    “In tumor cells, upregulation of Slug and decreased E-cadherin promotes invasiveness of tumor cells as well as acquisition of a ‘cancer stem- cell’ like phenotype and resistance to some chemotherapeutic agents [97].”

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Authors
Polyak, K., & Weinberg, R. A.
Affiliations
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (US)
Venue
Nature Reviews Cancer
Published
2009-03-05
Volume
9
Issue
4
Pages
265-273
ISSN
  • 1474-175X (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-1768
OpenAlex
W2042198997
Cited by
3,302
References
88
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FWCI
19.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature reviews. Cancer (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Cancer Institute (P50 CA 89393, P01 CA80111, P01CA080111, P50CA089393, U54CA126515)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › TGF-β signaling in diseases
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Keywords
epithelial-mesenchymal transition, mesenchymal-epithelial transition, tumor heterogeneity, cancer stem cells, cellular plasticity, metastasis, intratumoral heterogeneity, tumor microenvironment, embryonic development, therapeutic targeting
MeSH terms
Animals, Epithelial Cells, Humans, Mesoderm, Neoplasms, Neoplastic Stem Cells, Signal Transduction, Epigenesis, Genetic, Mice

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