A mechanism by which pancreatic cancer, known as a difficult-to-treat form of cancer, becomes malignant has been uncovered by a Kyoto University research team. According to research published June 2 ...

A recent study found that consuming walnuts can reduce inflammation markers and may lower the risk of colon cancer. The study ...

The authors investigate the mechanism behind the widely observed but poorly understood phenomenon of reversible vimentin disassembly upon hypotonic challenge. Using permeabilized COS-7 cells ...

The interdisciplinary field of spatial biology continues to connect omics research with the goal of understanding the spatial distribution of biomolecules that influence biological processes and ...

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States Vimentin intermediate filaments, a type III intermediate ...

Vimentin intermediate filaments are generally present in mesenchymal cells. Vimentin is found not only in eukaryotic cells, but also in bacteria, where it helps to form the cytoskeleton. Vimentin is ...

A recent iScience journal study reports that cell-surface vimentin functions as a co-receptor for the entry of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) into host cells to ...

In addition, they identified that the mesenchymal protein vimentin promoted invasion and repressed metastatic outgrowth. And, the tumors gain survival advantages by producing E-cadherin.

To do this, breast cancer cells gain a cellular skeleton protein dubbed vimentin, which enhances the migratory ability of so-called mesenchymal cells, a cell type typically found in bones and bone ...