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Overcoming anoikis - pathways to anchorage-independent growth in cancer

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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
卷 124, 期 19, 页码 3189-3197

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COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.072165

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Anchorage-independent-growth; Anoikis; Metastasis

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  1. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) [SAF2008-02100, RTICC RD06/0020/1033, CSD2009-00016]
  2. EMBO
  3. European Heads Of Research Councils and the Councils
  4. Asociacion Espanola Contra el Cancer (AECC)
  5. MICINN
  6. Pro-CNIC Foundation
  7. European Science Foundation (ESF)

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Anoikis (or cell-detachment-induced apoptosis) is a self-defense strategy that organisms use to eliminate 'misplaced' cells, i.e. cells that are in an inappropriate location. Occasionally, detached or misplaced cells can overcome anoikis and survive for a certain period of time in the absence of the correct signals from the extracellular matrix (ECM). If cells are able to adapt to their new environment, then they have probably become anchorage-independent, which is one of the hallmarks of cancer cells. Anoikis resistance and anchorage-independency allow tumor cells to expand and invade adjacent tissues, and to disseminate through the body, giving rise to metastasis. Thus, overcoming anoikis is a crucial step in a series of changes that a tumor cell undergoes during malignant transformation. Tumor cells have developed a variety of strategies to bypass or overcome anoikis. Some strategies consist of adaptive cellular changes that allow the cells to behave as they would in the correct environment, so that induction of anoikis is aborted. Other strategies aim to counteract the negative effects of anoikis induction by hyperactivating survival and proliferative cascades. The recently discovered processes of autophagy and entosis also highlight the contribution of these mechanisms to rendering the cells in a dormant state until they receive a signal initiated at the ECM, thereby circumventing anoikis. In all situations, the final outcome is the ability of the tumor to grow and metastasize. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying anoikis resistance could help to counteract tumor progression and prevent metastasis formation.

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