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ArticleNature communications2024

Modelling variability and heterogeneity of EMT scenarios highlights nuclear positioning and protrusions as main drivers of extrusion.

Steffen Plunder, Cathy Danesin, Bruno Glise, Marina A Ferreira, Sara Merino-Aceituno, Eric Theveneau

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Steffen PlunderMolecular, Cellular and Developmental biology department (MCD), Centre de Biologie Integrative (CBI), University of Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062, Toulouse, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3371-3790
Cathy DanesinMolecular, Cellular and Developmental biology department (MCD), Centre de Biologie Integrative (CBI), University of Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062, Toulouse, France.
Bruno GliseMolecular, Cellular and Developmental biology department (MCD), Centre de Biologie Integrative (CBI), University of Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062, Toulouse, France.
Marina A FerreiraCMUC, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, 3000-413, Coimbra, Portugal.
Sara Merino-AceitunoFaculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090, Vienna, Austria. sara.merino@univie.ac.at.ORCID 0000-0003-2114-9210
Eric TheveneauMolecular, Cellular and Developmental biology department (MCD), Centre de Biologie Integrative (CBI), University of Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062, Toulouse, France. eric.theveneau@univ-tlse3.fr.ORCID 0000-0001-6510-5717

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency) ANR-21-CE13-0028-02Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (Foundation for Medical Research in France) FRM AJE201224
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) is a key process in physiological and pathological settings. EMT is often presented as a linear sequence with (i) disassembly of cell-cell junctions, (ii) loss of epithelial polarity and (iii) reorganization of the cytoskeleton leading to basal extrusion from the epithelium. Once out, cells can adopt a migratory phenotype with a front-rear polarity. While this sequence can occur, in vivo observations have challenged it. It is now accepted that multiple EMT scenarios coexist in heterogeneous cell populations. However, the relative importance of each step as well as that of variability and heterogeneity on the efficiency of cell extrusion has not been assessed. Here we used computational modelling to simulate multiple EMT-like scenarios and confronted these data to the EMT of neural crest cells. Overall, our data point to a key role of nuclear positioning and protrusive activity to generate timely basal extrusion.

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Cell NucleusEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionAnimalsCell MovementCell PolarityComputer SimulationCytoskeletonEpithelial CellsHumansModels, BiologicalNeural Crest

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PMID39198505
PMCPMC11358417

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