Cadherins and the mammary gland

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 488-496

  Knudsen, Karen A ^a   Wheelock, Margaret J ^b  

^a LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadherins; Catenins; Mammary gland

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; P CADHERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DESMOSOME; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BREAST TUMOR; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLAND; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; UDDER;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CADHERINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 23944501378     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.20419     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Anastasiadis PZ, Reynolds AB. 2000. The p120 catenin family: Complex roles in adhesion, signaling, and cancer. J Cell Sci 113:1319-1334.
2. Berx G, van Roy R. 2001. The E-cadherin/catenin complex: An important gatekeeper in breast cancer tumorigenesis and malignant progression. Breast Cancer Res 3:289-293.
3. Boussadia O, Kutsch S, Hierholzer A, Delmas V, Kemler R. 2002. E-cadherin is a survival factor for the lactating mouse mammary gland. Mech Dev 115:53-62.
4. Cavallaro U, Christofori G. 2001. Cell adhesion in tumor invasion and metastasis loss of the glue is not enough. Biochim Biophys Acta 1552:39-45.
5. Cavallaro U, Schaffhauser B, Christofori G. 2002. Cadherins and the tumor progression: Is it all in a switch? Cancer Lett 176:123-128.
6. Conacci-Sorrell M, Zhurinsky J, Ben-Ze'ev A. 2002. The cadherin-cantenin adhesion system in signaling and cancer. J Clin Invest 109:987-991.
7. Daniel C, Strickland P, Friedmann Y. 1995. Expression and functional role of E- and P-cadherins in mouse mammary ductal morphogenesis and growth. Dev Biol 169:511-551.
8. Davies EL, Gee JM, Cochrane RA, Jiang WG, Sharma KA, Nicholson R, Mansel RE. 1999. The immunohistochemical expression of desmoplakin and its role in vivo in the progression and metastasis of breast cancer. Eur J Cancer 35(6):902-907.
9. Delmas V, Pla P, Feracci H, Thiery JP, Kemler R, Larue L. 1999. Expression of the cytoplasmic domain of E-cadherin induces precocious mammary epithelial alveolar formation and affects cell polarity and cell-matrix integrity. Dev Biol 216:491-506.
10. Gumbiner BM. 2000. Regulation of cadherin adhesive activity. J Cell Biol 148:399-403.
11. Hatsell S, Rowlands T, Hiremath M, Cowin P. 2003. B-Catenin and tefs in mammary development and cancer. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasis 8:145-158.
12. Imbert A, Eelkema R, Jordan S, Feiner H, Cowin P. 2001. Delta N89 beta-catenin induces precocious development differentiation, and neoplasia in mammary gland. J Cell Biol 153:555-568.
13. Kang Y, Massague J. 2004. Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions: Twist in development and metastasis. Cell 118: 277-279.
14. Knudsen KA, Frankowski C, Johnson KR, Wheelock MJ. 1998. A role for cadherins in cellular signaling and differentiation. J Cell Biochem Suppl 30(31):168-176.
15. Knudsen KA, Sauer CL, Johnson KR, Wheelock MJ. 2005. Effect of N-cadherin misexpression by the mammary epithelium in mice. J Cell Biochem (in press).
16. Maeda M, Johnson KR, Wheelock MJ. 2005. Cadherin switching: Essential for behavioral but not morphological changes in epithelial to mesenchymal transition. J Cell Sci 118:873-887.
17. Mielnicki LM, Asch HL, Asch BB. 2001. Genes, chromatin, and breast cancer: An epigenetic tale. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasis 6:169-182.
18. Nelson W, Nusse R. 2004. Convergence of Wnt, B-catenin, and cadherin pathways. Science 303:1483-1487.
19. Nieman MT, Prudoff RS, Johnson KR, Wheelock MJ. 1999. N-cadherin promotes motility in human breast cancer cells regardless of their E-cadherin expression. J Cell Biol 147:631-643.
20. Pitelka DR, Hamamoto ST, Duafala JG, Nemanic MK. 1973. Cell contacts in the mouse mammary gland. J Cell Biol 56:797-818.
21. Radice GL, Ferreira-Cornwall MC, Robinson SD, Rayburn H, Chodosh LA, Takeichi M, Hynes RO. 1997. Precocious mammary gland development in P-cadherin-deficient mice. J Cell Biol 139:1025-1032.
22. Radice GL, Sauer CL, Kostetskii I, Peralta Soler A, Knudsen KA. 2003. Inappropriate P-cadherin expression in the mouse mammary epithelium is compatible with normal mammary gland function. Differrentiation 71: 361-373.
23. Runswick SK, O'Hare MJ, Jones L, Streuli CH, Garrod DR. 2001. Desmosomal adhesion regulates epithelial morphogenesis and cell positioning. Nat Cell Biol 3:823-830.
24. Soler AP, Knudsen KA, Salazar H, Han AC, Keshgegian AA. 1999. P-Cadherin expression in breast carcinoma indicates poor survival. Cancer 86:1263-1272.
25. Soler AP, Russo J, Russo IH, Knudsen KA. 2002. Soluble fragment of P-cadherin adhesion protein found in human milk. J Cell Biochem 85:180-184.
26. Sprecher E, Bergman R, Richard G, Lurie R, Shalev S, Petronius D, Shalata A, Anbinder Y, Leibu R, Perlman I, Cohen N, Szargel R. 2001. Hypotrichosis with juvenile macular dystrophy is caused by a mutation in CDH3, encoding P-cadherin. Nat Genet 29:134-136.
27. Suyama K, Shapiro I, Guttman M, Kazan RB. 2002. A signaling pathway leading to metastasis is controlled by N-cadherin and the FGF receptor. Cancer Cell 2:301-314.
28. Syed SH, Trinnaman B, Martin S, Major S, Hutchinson J, Magee AI. 2002. Molecular interactions between desmosomal cadherins. Biochem J 362:317-327.
29. Wheelock MJ, Johnson KR. 2003. Cadherins as modulators of cellular phenotype. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 19:207-235.
30. Wheelock MJ, Soler AP, Knudsen KA. 2001. Cadherin junctions in mammary tumors. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasis 6:275-285.
31. Yap AS, Kovacs EM. 2003. Direct cadherin-activated cell signaling: A view from the plasma membrane. J Cell Biol 160:11-16.