Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Co-evolution of matrisome and adaptive adhesion dynamics drives ovarian cancer chemoresistance

  • Elina A. Pietilä,
  • Jordi Gonzalez-Molina,
  • Lidia Moyano-Galceran,
  • Sanaz Jamalzadeh,
  • Kaiyang Zhang,
  • Laura Lehtinen,
  • S. Pauliina Turunen,
  • Tomás A. Martins,
  • Okan Gultekin,
  • Tarja Lamminen,
  • Katja Kaipio,
  • Ulrika Joneborg,
  • Johanna Hynninen,
  • Sakari Hietanen,
  • Seija Grénman,
  • Rainer Lehtonen,
  • Sampsa Hautaniemi,
  • Olli Carpén,
  • Joseph W. Carlson,
  • Kaisa Lehti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24009-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Platinum chemotherapy is standard of care in ovarian cancers but treatment resistance commonly develops. Here, the authors show that the extracellular microenvironment is modulated following chemotherapy and the changes in matrix proteins and stiffness alter the cell death response of tumour cells.