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Type II transglutaminase stimulates epidermal cancer stem cell epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
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- The Role of the TG2-GPR56 Complex in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (CSCC) Aggression and Therapeutic Resistance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Transglutaminase 2 regulates ovarian cancer metastasis by modulating the immune microenvironment.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Pathogenetic Contributions and Therapeutic Implications of Transglutaminase 2 in Neurodegenerative Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Cell-Impermeable Inhibitors Confirm That Intracellular Human Transglutaminase 2 Is Responsible for the Transglutaminase-Associated Cancer Phenotype.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Novel irreversible peptidic inhibitors of transglutaminase 2.RSC medicinal chemistry · 2023Article
- The Impact ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- The transglutaminase 2 cancer cell survival factor maintains mTOR activity to drive an aggressive cancer phenotype.Molecular carcinogenesis · 2023Article
- A tEMTing target? Clinical and experimental evidence for epithelial-mesenchymal transition in the progression of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (a scoping systematic review).Discover oncology · 2022Article
- Transglutaminase 2 enhances hepatocyte growth factor signaling to drive the mesothelioma cancer cell phenotype.Molecular carcinogenesis · 2022Article
- Dysregulation of Transglutaminase type 2 through GATA3 defines aggressiveness and Doxorubicin sensitivity in breast cancer.International journal of biological sciences · 2022Article
- Sulforaphane covalently interacts with the transglutaminase 2 cancer maintenance protein to alter its structure and suppress its activity.Molecular carcinogenesis · 2022Article
- Transglutaminase 2 Maintains Hepatocyte Growth Factor Signaling to Enhance the Cancer Cell Phenotype.Molecular cancer research : MCR · 2021Article
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- VGLL4 inhibits YAP1/TEAD signaling to suppress the epidermal squamous cell carcinoma cancer phenotype.Molecular carcinogenesis · 2021Article
- The Biological and Biomechanical Role of Transglutaminase-2 in the Tumour Microenvironment.Cancers · 2021Review
- Role of Tissue Transglutaminase Catalytic and Guanosine Triphosphate-Binding Domains in Renal Cell Carcinoma Progression.ACS omega · 2020Article
- ACTL6A suppresses p21Oncogene · 2020Article
- Moonlighting Proteins Are Important Players in Cancer Immunology.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Review
- Cancer-associated Fibroblasts induce epithelial-mesenchymal transitionInternational journal of biological sciences · 2020Article
- Transglutaminase 2 maintains a colorectal cancer stem phenotype by regulating epithelial-mesenchymal transition.Oncotarget · 2019Article
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Abstract
Type II transglutaminase (TG2) is a multifunctional protein that has recently been implicated as having a role in ECS cell survival. In the present study we investigate the role of TG2 in regulating epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) in ECS cells. Our studies show that TG2 knockdown or treatment with TG2 inhibitor, results in a reduced EMT marker expression, and reduced cell migration and invasion. TG2 has several activities, but the most prominent are its transamidase and GTP binding activity. Analysis of a series of TG2 mutants reveals that TG2 GTP binding activity, but not the transamidase activity, is required for expression of EMT markers (Twist, Snail, Slug, vimentin, fibronectin, N-cadherin and HIF-1α), and increased ECS cell invasion and migration. This coupled with reduced expression of E-cadherin. Additional studies indicate that NFÏ°B signaling, which has been implicated as mediating TG2 impact on EMT in breast cancer cells, is not involved in TG2 regulation of EMT in skin cancer. These studies suggest that TG2 is required for maintenance of ECS cell EMT, invasion and migration, and suggests that inhibiting TG2 GTP binding/G-protein related activity may reduce skin cancer tumor survival.
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