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BIOMOLECULES
卷 13, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom13101430
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phosphoinositide; microtubules; cell polarity; epithelial cell; mesenchymal cells; cell adhesion; cell migration
This article focuses on the processes of cell adhesion and migration in cancer cells, specifically discussing the reorganization of microtubule cytoskeleton, cell polarity, and phosphoinositide signaling and their impact on adhesion and migration.
The capacity for cancer cells to metastasize to distant organs depends on their ability to execute the carefully choreographed processes of cell adhesion and migration. As most human cancers are of epithelial origin (carcinoma), the transcriptional downregulation of adherent/tight junction proteins (e.g., E-cadherin, Claudin and Occludin) with the concomitant gain of adhesive and migratory phenotypes has been extensively studied. Most research and reviews on cell adhesion and migration focus on the actin cytoskeleton and its reorganization. However, metastasizing cancer cells undergo the extensive reorganization of their cytoskeletal system, specifically in originating/nucleation sites of microtubules and their orientation (e.g., from non-centrosomal to centrosomal microtubule organizing centers). The precise mechanisms by which the spatial and temporal reorganization of microtubules are linked functionally with the acquisition of an adhesive and migratory phenotype as epithelial cells reversibly transition into mesenchymal cells during metastasis remains poorly understood. In this Special Issue of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cell Adhesion and Migration, we highlight cell adhesion and migration from the perspectives of microtubule cytoskeletal reorganization, cell polarity and phosphoinositide signaling.
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