Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Hepatocyte growth factor derived from senescent cells attenuates cell competition-induced apical elimination of oncogenic cells

  • Nanase Igarashi,
  • Kenichi Miyata,
  • Tze Mun Loo,
  • Masatomo Chiba,
  • Aki Hanyu,
  • Mika Nishio,
  • Hiroko Kawasaki,
  • Hao Zheng,
  • Shinya Toyokuni,
  • Shunsuke Kon,
  • Keiji Moriyama,
  • Yasuyuki Fujita,
  • Akiko Takahashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31642-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Ras mutations induce cell competition and cellular senescence to inhibit the proliferation of oncogenic mutated cells. Here the authors demonstrate that cellular senescence inhibits cell competition-induced elimination of oncogenic cells through HGF signalling.