Abstract：
:The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a fundamental process governing morphogenesis in multicellular organisms. This process is also reactivated in a variety of diseases including fibrosis and in the progression of carcinoma. The molecular mechanisms of EMT were primarily studied in epithelial cell lines, leading to the discovery of transduction pathways involved in the loss of epithelial cell polarity and the acquisition of a variety of mesenchymal phenotypic traits. Similar mechanisms have also been uncovered in vivo in different species, showing that EMT is controlled by remarkably well-conserved mechanisms. Current studies further emphasise the critical importance of EMT and provide a better molecular and functional definition of mesenchymal cells and how they emerged >500 million years ago as a key event in evolution.
journal_name
Curr Opin Cell Bioljournal_title
Current opinion in cell biologyauthors
Thiery JPdoi
10.1016/j.ceb.2003.10.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-12-01 00:00:00pages
740-6issue
6eissn
0955-0674issn
1879-0410pii
S0955067403001339journal_volume
15pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:The principal subunits of a large superfamily of plasma-membrane cation channels are functionally autonomous in ion conductance and in gating by membrane potential and intracellular ligands. Recent work has located the structural elements responsible for the ion conductance and gating of these channels. These studies ...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0955-0674(94)90083-3
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abstract：:Peroxisomes are part of the ubiquitous set of eukaryotic organelles. They are small, single membrane bounded vesicles, specialized in the degradation of very-long-chain fatty acids and in synthesis of myelin lipids. Once considered inconspicuous, recent new insights in the formation and function of peroxisomes have re...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2013.05.004
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0955-0674(93)90038-r
更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have been viewed as bulldozers, destroying the extracellular matrix to permit normal remodeling and contribute to pathological tissue destruction and tumor cell invasion. More recently, the identification of specific matrix and non-matrix substrates for MMPs and the elucidation of ...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0955-0674(00)00248-9
更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The structure of mitochondria is highly dynamic. Mitochondrial shape is cell-type specific and can be modified to meet changing requirements in energy production, calcium homeostasis, lipid biogenesis, fatty acid synthesis and other mitochondrial activities. This is achieved by modulating the dynamic properties of mit...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2014.03.005
更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Analyses of the sequences and structures of many transport proteins that differ in substrate specificity, direction of transport and mechanism of transport suggest that they form a family of related proteins. Their sequence similarities imply a common mechanism of action. This hypothesis provides an objective basis fo...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0955-0674(92)90090-y
更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0955-0674(03)00012-7
更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2007.10.009
更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2013.07.002
更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2010.08.025
更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The shaping of the vertebrate embryonic body plan depends heavily on the narrowing and lengthening (convergence and extension) of embryonic tissues by cell intercalation, a process by which cells actively crawl between one another along the axis of convergence to produce a narrower, longer array. We discuss recent evi...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2010.07.012
更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2018.02.015
更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2005.09.008
更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Studies from the past several years have revealed that adipogenesis is controlled by an interplay of transcription factors, including members of the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein family and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma. In addition to providing a new understanding of this aspect of the energy bala...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0955-0674(99)00037-x
更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cilia are evolutionarily conserved, membrane-bound, microtubular projections emanating from the cell surface. They are assembled on virtually all cell types in the human body, with very few exceptions, and several recent reviews have covered the topic in great detail. The cilium is assembled from mature (mother) centr...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2013.04.011
更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2015.10.005
更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cilia (and flagella) are microtubule-based protrusions that are found in single or multiple copies on the surface of most eukaryotic cells. Defects in cilia formation and/or function have now been correlated with an expanding spectrum of human genetic diseases termed ciliopathies. Recent work indicates that cilia are ...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2016.05.004
更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Emerging studies indicate that connexins have activities completely unrelated to gap junctions and, conversely, that non-connexin proteins can form gap junction channels. ...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2004.07.014
更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Metastatic cancer cells produce invasive membrane protrusions called invadopodia and pseudopodia, which play a central role in driving cancer cell dissemination in the body. Malignant cells use these structures to attach to and degrade extracellular matrix proteins, generate force for cell locomotion, and to penetrate...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2012.08.005
更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0955-0674(95)80107-3
更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2019.11.005
更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2009.03.006
更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:New techniques have enhanced our picture of E2F regulation. These studies have shed light on the roles played by individual E2F and retinoblastoma family members and implicate these proteins in processes extending well beyond the G1/S transition. One thorny issue remains: do our current molecular models of E2F and ret...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0955-0674(02)00388-5
更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Particle engulfment during phagocytosis has long been appreciated to be an active, actin-driven process. By contrast, the preceding stage--securing the target to the surface of the phagocyte--was thought to result from the passive diffusion of receptors along the membrane towards their ligands on the particle surface....
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2010.10.006
更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0955-0674(91)90118-i
更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0955-0674(00)00109-5
更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Through selective disruption of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activity and the use of green fluorescent protein tagged derivatives of domains capable of specifically binding the lipid products of PI3Ks in vivo, it has been shown that this family of signalling enzymes have vital and distinct roles in chemotaxis, pha...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0955-0674(02)00311-3
更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Rab GTPases and their regulatory proteins play a crucial role in vesicle-mediated membrane trafficking. During vesicle membrane tethering Rab GTPases are activated by GEFs (guanine nucleotide exchange factors) and then inactivated by GAPs (GTPase activating proteins). Recent evidence shows that in addition to activati...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2019.03.004
更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A skin wound requires several cell lineages to exhibit considerable plasticity as they migrate towards and over the site of damage to contribute to repair. The keratinocytes that re-epithelialize the tissue, the dermal fibroblasts and potentially other mesenchymal stem cell populations that repopulate damaged connecti...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2016.04.001
更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Genetic analysis in model organisms has recently achieved a detailed molecular description of many key cellular processes controlling embryonic morphogenesis. To understand higher order tissue morphogenesis, we now need to define how these processes become integrated across different cell groups and cell layers. Here,...
journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ceb.2010.08.011
更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00
