Department of Experimental Medicine 1, Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Center for Molecular Medicine, FAU University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Nat Cell Biol. 2019 Jan;21(1):102-112. doi: 10.1038/s41556-018-0196-y. Epub 2019 Jan 2.
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a crucial embryonic programme that is executed by various EMT transcription factors (EMT-TFs) and is aberrantly activated in cancer and other diseases. However, the causal role of EMT and EMT-TFs in different disease processes, especially cancer and metastasis, continues to be debated. In this Review, we identify and describe specific, non-redundant functions of the different EMT-TFs and discuss the reasons that may underlie disputes about EMT in cancer.
上皮-间充质转化(EMT)是一个关键的胚胎程序,由各种 EMT 转录因子(EMT-TFs)执行,并在癌症和其他疾病中异常激活。然而,EMT 和 EMT-TFs 在不同疾病过程中的因果作用,特别是在癌症和转移中,仍存在争议。在这篇综述中,我们确定并描述了不同 EMT-TFs 的具体的、非冗余的功能,并讨论了导致癌症中 EMT 争议的原因。