Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Transient commensal clonal interactions can drive tumor metastasis

  • Suha Naffar-Abu Amara,
  • Hendrik J. Kuiken,
  • Laura M. Selfors,
  • Timothy Butler,
  • Marco L. Leung,
  • Cheuk T. Leung,
  • Elaine P. Kuhn,
  • Teodora Kolarova,
  • Carina Hage,
  • Kripa Ganesh,
  • Richard Panayiotou,
  • Rosemary Foster,
  • Bo R. Rueda,
  • Athena Aktipis,
  • Paul Spellman,
  • Tan A. Ince,
  • Joanne Xiu,
  • Matthew Oberley,
  • Zoran Gatalica,
  • Nicholas Navin,
  • Gordon B. Mills,
  • Rodrick T. Bronson,
  • Joan S. Brugge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19584-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Cooperative interactions among tumor cells may have important implications for metastasis. Here, the authors examined the spatio-temporal nature of interactions among clonal populations of ovarian carcinoma cells and found that transient interactions cells can promote metastases via commensal interactions.