期刊
CELL ADHESION & MIGRATION
卷 8, 期 4, 页码 327-338出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/19336918.2014.970012
关键词
Breast; cell-cell; Eph receptor; ephrin; epithelial; intestine; receptor tyrosine kinase; skin; stem cell
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资金
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [AR062110, AR057216]
- NIH-T32 training program fellowship [AR060710]
Epithelial cells are tightly coupled together through specialized intercellular junctions, including adherens junctions, desmosomes, tight junctions, and gap junctions. A growing body of evidence suggests epithelial cells also directly exchange information at cell-cell contacts via the Eph family of receptor tyrosine kinases and their membrane-associated ephrin ligands. Ligand-dependent and -independent signaling via Eph receptors as well as reverse signaling through ephrins impact epithelial tissue homeostasis by organizing stem cell compartments and regulating cell proliferation, migration, adhesion, differentiation, and survival. This review focuses on breast, gut, and skin epithelia as representative examples for how Eph receptors and ephrins modulate diverse epithelial cell responses in a context-dependent manner. Abnormal Eph receptor and ephrin signaling is implicated in a variety of epithelial diseases raising the intriguing possibility that this cell-cell communication pathway can be therapeutically harnessed to normalize epithelial function in pathological settings like cancer or chronic inflammation.
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