Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Single cell polarity in liquid phase facilitates tumour metastasis

  • Anna Lorentzen,
  • Paul F. Becker,
  • Jan Kosla,
  • Massimo Saini,
  • Kathrin Weidele,
  • Paolo Ronchi,
  • Corinna Klein,
  • Monika J. Wolf,
  • Felix Geist,
  • Bastian Seubert,
  • Marc Ringelhan,
  • Daniela Mihic-Probst,
  • Knud Esser,
  • Marko Roblek,
  • Felix Kuehne,
  • Gaia Bianco,
  • Tracy O’Connor,
  • Quentin Müller,
  • Kathleen Schuck,
  • Sebastian Lange,
  • Daniel Hartmann,
  • Saskia Spaich,
  • Olaf Groß,
  • Jochen Utikal,
  • Sebastian Haferkamp,
  • Martin R. Sprick,
  • Amruta Damle-Vartak,
  • Alexander Hapfelmeier,
  • Norbert Hüser,
  • Ulrike Protzer,
  • Andreas Trumpp,
  • Dieter Saur,
  • Nachiket Vartak,
  • Christoph A. Klein,
  • Bernhard Polzer,
  • Lubor Borsig,
  • Mathias Heikenwalder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03139-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Polarisation of metastasising cancer cells in circulation has not been investigated before. Here the authors identify single cell polarity as a distinct polarisation state of single cells in liquid phase, and show that perturbing single cell polarity affects attachment, adhesion, transmigration and metastasis in vitro and in vivo.