Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

KRas-transformed epithelia cells invade and partially dedifferentiate by basal cell extrusion

  • John Fadul,
  • Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa,
  • Gloria M. Slattum,
  • Nadja M. Redd,
  • Mauricio Franco Jin,
  • Michael J. Redd,
  • Stephan Daetwyler,
  • Danielle Hedeen,
  • Jan Huisken,
  • Jody Rosenblatt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27513-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The ability to visualise stochastic invasion events is limited in murine models of metastatic cancers. Here the authors use a transparent zebrafish epidermis model to follow the invasion events of K-Ras transformed epithelial cells and show that these cells invade through basal cell extrusion.