Human and bacterial cells interact in a number of ways, including physical cell - to - cell contact in which molecules are passed back and forth between the cells. (gladstone.org)
Plakoglobin is a component of two important structures involved in cell - to - cell adhesion, and the investigators found that suppressing its expression caused CTC clusters to fall apart, reducing their metastatic potential, and also disrupted cell - to - cell contact between breast cancer cells but not normal breast tissue. (sciencedaily.com)
By analyzing the evolution over time of ft mutant cells and clones, we show that ft clones reduce their cell - cell contacts with the surrounding wt tissue in the absence of concomitant cell divisions and over-proliferation. (science.institut-curie.org)