Lambert Arthur W, Pattabiraman Diwakar R, Weinberg Robert A
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Cell. 2017 Feb 9;168(4):670-691. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.037.
Metastases account for the great majority of cancer-associated deaths, yet this complex process remains the least understood aspect of cancer biology. As the body of research concerning metastasis continues to grow at a rapid rate, the biological programs that underlie the dissemination and metastatic outgrowth of cancer cells are beginning to come into view. In this review we summarize the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in metastasis, with a focus on carcinomas where the most is known, and we highlight the general principles of metastasis that have begun to emerge.
转移是大多数癌症相关死亡的原因,然而这个复杂的过程仍然是癌症生物学中最不为人所了解的方面。随着有关转移的研究数量持续快速增长,癌细胞扩散和转移生长背后的生物学程序开始逐渐清晰。在这篇综述中,我们总结了转移过程中涉及的细胞和分子机制,重点关注了解最多的 carcinomas(此处原文有误,推测可能是“癌”carcinomas),并强调了已开始显现的转移的一般原则。