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Nature Cell Biology 10, 757 - 759 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ncb0708-757
Breaking down EMT
Romain Levayer1 & Thomas Lecuit1
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Romain Levayer and Thomas Lecuit are at IBDML, UMR6216 CNRS-Université de la Méditerranée, Campus de Luminy, case 907. 13288 Marseille Cedex 09 France.
e-mail: lecuit@ibdm.univ-mrs.fr
Abstract
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition, in which epithelial cells lose their polarity and become motile mesenchymal cells, occurs during development and marks a key step in tumour progression towards metastasis. Most studies of this process have focused on the disassembly of adherens junctions, but regulation of basement membrane breakdown by a pathway involving RhoA and microtubules may be equally important.
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