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Role of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in drug sensitivity and metastasis in bladder cancer

Authors: David J. McConkey, Woonyoung Choi, Lauren Marquis, Frances Martin, Michael B. Williams, Jay Shah, Robert Svatek, Aditi Das, Liana Adam, Ashish Kamat, Arlene Siefker-Radtke, Colin Dinney

Published in: Cancer and Metastasis Reviews | Issue 3-4/2009

Abstract

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process that plays essential roles in development and wound healing that is characterized by loss of homotypic adhesion and cell polarity and increased invasion and migration. At the molecular level, EMT is characterized by loss of E-cadherin and increased expression of several transcriptional repressors of E-cadherin expression (Zeb-1, Zeb-2, Twist, Snail, and Slug). Early work established that loss of E-cadherin and increased expression of MMP-9 was associated with a poor clinical outcome in patients with urothelial tumors, suggesting that EMT might also be associated with bladder cancer progression and metastasis. More recently, we have used global gene expression profiling to characterize the molecular heterogeneity in human urothelial cancer cell lines (n = 20) and primary patient tumors, and unsupervised clustering analyses revealed that the cells naturally segregate into two discrete “epithelial” and “mesenchymal” subsets, the latter consisting entirely of muscle-invasive tumors. Importantly, sensitivity to inhibitors of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) or type-3 fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR3) was confined to the “epithelial” subset, and sensitivity to EGFR inhibitors could be reestablished by micro-RNA-mediated molecular reversal of EMT. The results suggest that EMT coordinately regulates drug resistance and muscle invasion/metastasis in urothelial cancer and is a dominant feature of overall cancer biology.

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Title: Role of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in drug sensitivity and metastasis in bladder cancer
Authors: David J. McConkey
Woonyoung Choi
Lauren Marquis
Frances Martin
Michael B. Williams
Jay Shah
Robert Svatek
Aditi Das
Liana Adam
Ashish Kamat
Arlene Siefker-Radtke
Colin Dinney
Publication date: 01-12-2009
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Cancer and Metastasis Reviews / Issue 3-4/2009
Print ISSN: 0167-7659
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10555-009-9194-7

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