Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18192284›Full record

ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2008

Zeb1 links epithelial-mesenchymal transition and cellular senescence.

Yongqing Liu, Shahenda El-Naggar, Douglas S Darling, Yujiro Higashi, Douglas C Dean

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 179 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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179citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

179 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 302 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yongqing LiuJames Graham Brown Cancer Center, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Louisville Health Sciences Center, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
Shahenda El-Naggar
Douglas S Darling
Yujiro Higashi
Douglas C Dean
Ube Frontier University · JP

Funding

PROJ 12: STEM CELL-BASED VACCINE FOR CANCER PROPHYLAXISP20RR018733 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI TRENT, JOHN O · 2003 to 2011
$18.9M
Vision Research Infrastructure DevelopmentR24EY015636 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI KAPLAN, HENRY JERROLD · 2004 to 2008
$1.0M
Ocular defects caused by TCF8/Zfhx1a mutationsR21EY017869 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI DARLING, DOUGLAS S · 2007 to 2008
$403k
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR018733NCRR NIH HHS RR018733NEI NIH HHS EY015636NEI NIH HHS R21 EY017869NEI NIH HHS R24 EY015636
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Overexpression of zinc finger E-box binding homeobox transcription factor 1 (Zeb1) in cancer leads to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and increased metastasis. As opposed to overexpression, we show that mutation of Zeb1 in mice causes a mesenchymal-epithelial transition in gene expression characterized by ectopic expression of epithelial genes such as E-cadherin and loss of expression of mesenchymal genes such as vimentin. In contrast to rapid proliferation in cancer cells where Zeb1 is overexpressed, this mesenchymal-epithelial transition in mutant mice is associated with diminished proliferation of progenitor cells at sites of developmental defects, including the forming palate, skeleton and CNS. Zeb1 dosage-dependent deregulation of epithelial and mesenchymal genes extends to mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), and mutant MEFs also display diminished replicative capacity in culture, leading to premature senescence. Replicative senescence in MEFs is classically triggered by products of the Ink4a (Cdkn2a) gene. However, this Ink4a pathway is not activated during senescence of Zeb1 mutant MEFs. Instead, there is ectopic expression of two other cell cycle inhibitory cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors, p15Ink4b (Cdkn2b) and p21Cdkn1a (Cdkn1a). We demonstrate that this ectopic expression of p15Ink4b extends in vivo to sites of diminished progenitor cell proliferation and developmental defects in Zeb1-null mice.

Indexed as

Cellular SenescenceAnimalsBrainCadherinsCartilageCell ProliferationCyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p15Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16Embryo, MammalianEpitheliumEyeFibroblastsGene DosageGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHomeodomain ProteinsKruppel-Like Transcription FactorsCadherinsCdkn2b protein, mouseCyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p15Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16Homeodomain ProteinsKruppel-Like Transcription FactorsRepressor ProteinsTransforming Growth Factor betaVimentinZEB1 protein, mouseZinc Finger E-box-Binding Homeobox 1

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PMID18192284
PMCPMC2507753
OpenAlexW2112575854

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