Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Melanoblast transcriptome analysis reveals pathways promoting melanoma metastasis

  • Kerrie L. Marie,
  • Antonella Sassano,
  • Howard H. Yang,
  • Aleksandra M. Michalowski,
  • Helen T. Michael,
  • Theresa Guo,
  • Yien Che Tsai,
  • Allan M. Weissman,
  • Maxwell P. Lee,
  • Lisa M. Jenkins,
  • M. Raza Zaidi,
  • Eva Pérez-Guijarro,
  • Chi-Ping Day,
  • Kris Ylaya,
  • Stephen M. Hewitt,
  • Nimit L. Patel,
  • Heinz Arnheiter,
  • Sean Davis,
  • Paul S. Meltzer,
  • Glenn Merlino,
  • Pravin J. Mishra

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14085-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Metastatic cells can mimic many of the phenotypic behaviors of embryonic cells. Here, the authors generate a melanoblast-specific transcriptome using a genetically engineered mouse model and identify KDELR3 as a pro-metastasis gene in melanoma.