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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms231911962
Keywords
alpha-catulin; CTNNAL1; catenin; invasion; epithelial-mesenchymal transition; EMT; vascular mimicry
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- Polish National Science Center (NCN) [2015/17/B/NZ5/02551, 2017/25/B/NZ5/01597, 2020/37/B/NZ5/03950]
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This review highlights the recent discoveries on the involvement of alpha-catulin in diverse biological processes, with a focus on its role in cancer progression. The molecular basis of its actions and control of various signals during morphogenesis and tissue homeostasis, however, remains elusive.
alpha-catulin, together with vinculin and the alpha-catenins, belongs to the vinculin family of proteins, best known for their actin-filament binding properties and crucial roles in cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion. In the past few years, an array of binding partners for alpha-catulin have surfaced, which has shed new light on the possible functions of this protein. Despite all this information, the molecular basis of how alpha-catulin acts in cells and controls a wide variety of signals during morphogenesis, tissue homeostasis, and cancer progression remains elusive. This review aims to highlight recent discoveries on how alpha-catulin is involved in a broad range of diverse biological processes with an emphasis on cancer progression.
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