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SUBMITTER: Deckwirth V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8111680 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Deckwirth Vivi V Rajakylä Eeva Kaisa EK Cattavarayane Sandhanakrishnan S Acheva Anna A Schaible Niccole N Krishnan Ramaswamy R Valle-Delgado Juan José JJ Österberg Monika M Björkenheim Pia P Sukura Antti A Tojkander Sari S
iScience 20210415 5
At invasion, transformed mammary epithelial cells expand into the stroma through a disrupted myoepithelial (ME) cell layer and basement membrane (BM). The intact ME cell layer has thus been suggested to act as a barrier against invasion. Here, we investigate the mechanisms behind the disruption of ME cell layer. We show that the expression of basal/ME proteins CK5, CK14, and α-SMA altered along increasing grade of malignancy, and their loss affected the maintenance of organotypic 3D mammary arch ...[more]