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TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 11, Pages 675-686Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2015.07.012
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- Breast Cancer Research Foundation
- Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation
- Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology at MIT
- National Cancer Institute Program [P01-CA080111, R01-CA078461, U01-CA184897, K99-CA194160]
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
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The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) program has emerged as a central driver of tumor malignancy. Moreover, the recently uncovered link between passage through an EMT and acquisition of stem-like properties indicates that activation of the EMT programs serves as a major mechanism for generating cancer stem cells (CSCs); that is, a subpopulation of cancer cells that are responsible for initiating and propagating the disease. In this review, we summarize the evidence supporting the widespread involvement of the EMT program in tumor pathogenesis and attempt to rationalize the connection between the EMT program and acquisition of stem cell traits. We propose that epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity is likely controlled by multiple varients of the core EMT program, and foresee the need to resolve the various programs and the molecular mechanisms that underlie them.
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