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Neoplasm Metastasis

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    Bartman C, Weilandt D, Shen Y, Lee W, Han Y, TeSlaa T, Jankowski C, Samarah L, Park N, da Silva-Diz V, Aleksandrova M, Gultekin Y, Marishta A, Wang L, Yang L, Roichman A, Bhatt V, Lan T, Hu Z, Xing X, Lu W, Davidson S, Wühr M, Heiden M, Herranz D, Guo J, Kang Y, Rabinowitz J. Slow TCA flux and ATP production in primary solid tumours but not metastases. Nature. 2023;614(7947):349–357. PMID: 36725930
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    Quinn J, Jones M, Okimoto R, Nanjo S, Chan M, Yosef N, Bivona T, Weissman J. Single-cell lineages reveal the rates, routes, and drivers of metastasis in cancer xenografts. Science. 2021;371(6532). PMCID: PMC7983364
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    Shen M, Kang Y. Stresses in the metastatic cascade: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities. Genes Dev. 2020;34(23-24):1577–1598. PMCID: PMC7706714
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    Shen M, Xie S, Rowicki M, Michel S, Wei Y, Hang X, Wan L, Lu X, Yuan M, Jin J, Jaschinski F, Zhou T, Klar R, Kang Y. Therapeutic Targeting of Metadherin Suppresses Colorectal and Lung Cancer Progression and Metastasis. Cancer Res. 2021;81(4):1014–1025. PMCID: PMC8026491
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    Spadazzi C, Mercatali L, Esposito M, Wei Y, Liverani C, De Vita A, Miserocchi G, Carretta E, Zanoni M, Cocchi C, Bongiovanni A, Recine F, Kang Y, Ibrahim T. Trefoil factor-1 upregulation in estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer correlates with an increased risk of bone metastasis. Bone. 2021;144:115775. PMID: 33249323
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    Fang C, Kang Y. Cellular plasticity in bone metastasis. Bone. 2022;158:115693. PMCID: PMC8046848
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    Li W, Shen M, Jiang Y-Z, Zhang R, Zheng H, Wei Y, Shao Z-M, Kang Y. Deubiquitinase USP20 promotes breast cancer metastasis by stabilizing SNAI2. Genes Dev. 2020;34(19-20):1310–1315. PMCID: PMC7528704
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    Fan H, Wang X, Li W, Shen M, Wei Y, Zheng H, Kang Y. ASB13 inhibits breast cancer metastasis through promoting SNAI2 degradation and relieving its transcriptional repression of YAP. Genes Dev. 2020;34(19-20):1359–1372. PMCID: PMC7528707
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    Lu W, Kang Y. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity in Cancer Progression and Metastasis. Dev Cell. 2019;49(3):361–374. PMCID: PMC6506183
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    Zijlstra A, Von Lersner A, Yu D, Borrello L, Oudin M, Kang Y, Sahai E, Fingleton B, Stein U, Cox T, Price J, Kato Y, Welm A, Aguirre-Ghiso J, Board Members of the Metastasis Research Society. The importance of developing therapies targeting the biological spectrum of metastatic disease. Clin Exp Metastasis. 2019;36(4):305–309. PMCID: PMC8794535
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    Celià-Terrassa T, Bastian C, Liu D, Ell B, Aiello N, Wei Y, Zamalloa J, Blanco A, Hang X, Kunisky D, Li W, Williams E, Rabitz H, Kang Y. Hysteresis control of epithelial-mesenchymal transition dynamics conveys a distinct program with enhanced metastatic ability. Nat Commun. 2018;9(1):5005. PMCID: PMC6258667
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    Monsivais D, Peng J, Kang Y, Matzuk M. Activin-like kinase 5 (ALK5) inactivation in the mouse uterus results in metastatic endometrial carcinoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019;116(9):3883–3892. PMCID: PMC6397539
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    Aiello N, Kang Y. Context-dependent EMT programs in cancer metastasis. J Exp Med. 2019;216(5):1016–1026. PMCID: PMC6504222
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    Esposito M, Mondal N, Greco T, Wei Y, Spadazzi C, Lin S-C, Zheng H, Cheung C, Magnani J, Lin S-H, Cristea I, Sackstein R, Kang Y. Bone vascular niche E-selectin induces mesenchymal-epithelial transition and Wnt activation in cancer cells to promote bone metastasis. Nat Cell Biol. 2019;21(5):627–639. PMCID: PMC6556210
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    Zhuo W, Liu Y, Li S, Guo D, Sun Q, Jin J, Rao X, Li M, Sun M, Jiang M, Xu Y, Teng L, Jin Y, Si J, Liu W, Kang Y, Zhou T. Long Noncoding RNA GMAN, Up-regulated in Gastric Cancer Tissues, Is Associated With Metastasis in Patients and Promotes Translation of Ephrin A1 by Competitively Binding GMAN-AS. Gastroenterology. 2019;156(3):676–691.e11. PMID: 30445010
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    Celià-Terrassa T, Kang Y. Metastatic niche functions and therapeutic opportunities. Nat Cell Biol. 2018;20(8):868–877. PMCID: 4161226
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    Jin L, Chun J, Pan C, Kumar A, Zhang G, Ha Y, Li D, Alesi G, Kang Y, Zhou L, Yu W-M, Magliocca K, Khuri F, Qu C-K, Metallo C, Owonikoko T, Kang S. The PLAG1-GDH1 Axis Promotes Anoikis Resistance and Tumor Metastasis through CamKK2-AMPK Signaling in LKB1-Deficient Lung Cancer. Mol Cell. 2018;69(1):87–99.e7. PMCID: PMC5777230
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    Celià-Terrassa T, Liu D, Choudhury A, Hang X, Wei Y, Zamalloa J, Alfaro-Aco R, Chakrabarti R, Jiang Y-Z, Koh B, Smith H, DeCoste C, Li J-J, Shao Z-M, Kang Y. Normal and cancerous mammary stem cells evade interferon-induced constraint through the miR-199a-LCOR axis. Nat Cell Biol. 2017;19(6):711–723. PMCID: PMC5481166
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    Zheng H, Li W, Kang Y. Tumor-Stroma Interactions in Bone Metastasis: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 2016;81:151–161. PMID: 28381439
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    Peinado H, Zhang H, Matei I, Costa-Silva B, Hoshino A, Rodrigues G, Psaila B, Kaplan R, Bromberg J, Kang Y, Bissell M, Cox T, Giaccia A, Erler J, Hiratsuka S, Ghajar C, Lyden D. Pre-metastatic niches: organ-specific homes for metastases. Nat Rev Cancer. 2017;17(5):302–317. PMID: 28303905
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    Celià-Terrassa T, Kang Y. Mouse genomic screen reveals novel host regulator of metastasis. Genome Biol. 2017;18(1):31. PMCID: PMC5314612
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    Alesi G, Jin L, Li D, Magliocca K, Kang Y, Chen Z, Shin D, Khuri F, Kang S. RSK2 signals through stathmin to promote microtubule dynamics and tumor metastasis. Oncogene. 2016;35(41):5412–5421. PMCID: PMC5226067
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    Kang Y. Imaging TGFβ Signaling in Mouse Models of Cancer Metastasis. Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1344:219–32. PMID: 26520127
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    Ren G, Esposito M, Kang Y. Bone metastasis and the metastatic niche. J Mol Med (Berl). 2015;93(11):1203–12. PMCID: PMC4636917
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    Celià-Terrassa T, Kang Y. Distinctive properties of metastasis-initiating cells. Genes Dev. 2016;30(8):892–908. PMCID: PMC4840296
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    Lu W, Kang Y. Cell lineage determinants as regulators of breast cancer metastasis. Cancer Metastasis Rev. 2016;35(4):631–644. PMID: 27866304
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