Loss of the keratin cytoskeleton is not sufficient to induce epithelial mesenchymal transition in a novel KRAS driven sporadic lung cancer mouse model.

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), the phenotypical change of cells from an epithelial to a mesenchymal type, is thought to be a key event in invasion and metastasis of adenocarcinomas. These changes involve loss of keratin expression as well as loss of cell polarity and adhesion. We here a...

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Main Authors: Katharina König, Lydia Meder, Cornelia Kröger, Linda Diehl, Alexandra Florin, Ursula Rommerscheidt-Fuss, Philip Kahl, Eva Wardelmann, Thomas M Magin, Reinhard Buettner, Lukas C Heukamp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23536778/?tool=EBI