Title:Entosis: Cell-in-Cell Formation that Kills Through Entotic Cell Death
Volume: 15
Issue: 9
Author(s): O. Florey, S. E. Kim and M. Overholtzer
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关键词:
Cell-in-cell
摘要: Entosis is a cell-in-cell formation mechanism that targets viable cells for uptake in
epithelial cell cultures and human tumors. Entotic cells control their own engulfment, by
invading into their hosts in a Rho-GTPase and actomyosin-dependent manner. Although entotic cells are
internalized while alive, most eventually undergo a non-apoptotic form of cell death, called entotic cell death,
that is executed non-cell-autonomously by autophagy proteins and lysosomes. Here we review the current
understanding of entosis and entotic cell death and discuss the potential roles of this process in cancer.
