Vito Quaranta, M.D.

Professor, Emeritus, Pharmacology

: vito.quaranta@vanderbilt.edu

Clinical Interest

Selected Publications

McKenna MT, Weis JA, Barnes SL, Tyson DR, Miga MI, Quaranta V, Yankeelov TE. A Predictive Mathematical Modeling Approach for the Study of Doxorubicin Treatment in Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Sci Rep. 2017 Jul 7/18/2017; 7(1): 5725. PMID: 28720897, PMCID: PMC5516013, PII: 10.1038/s41598-017-05902-z, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05902-z, ISSN: 2045-2322.
Wooten DJ, Quaranta V. Mathematical models of cell phenotype regulation and reprogramming: Make cancer cells sensitive again!. Biochim. Biophys. Acta [print-electronic]. 2017 Apr; 1867(2): 167-75. PMID: 28396217, PII: S0304-419X(17)30065-3, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2017.04.001, ISSN: 0006-3002.
Hormuth DA, Weis JA, Barnes SL, Miga MI, Rericha EC, Quaranta V, Yankeelov TE. A mechanically coupled reaction-diffusion model that incorporates intra-tumoural heterogeneity to predict in vivo glioma growth. J R Soc Interface. 2017 Mar; 14(128): PMID: 28330985, PMCID: PMC5378136, PII: rsif.2016.1010, DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.1010, ISSN: 1742-5662.
Udyavar AR, Wooten DJ, Hoeksema M, Bansal M, Califano A, Estrada L, Schnell S, Irish JM, Massion PP, Quaranta V. Novel Hybrid Phenotype Revealed in Small Cell Lung Cancer by a Transcription Factor Network Model That Can Explain Tumor Heterogeneity. Cancer Res [print-electronic]. 2017 Mar 3/1/2017; 77(5): 1063-74. PMID: 27932399, PMCID: PMC5532541, PII: 0008-5472.CAN-16-1467, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-1467, ISSN: 1538-7445.
Hardeman KN, Peng C, Paudel BB, Meyer CT, Luong T, Tyson DR, Young JD, Quaranta V, Fessel JP. Dependence On Glycolysis Sensitizes BRAF-mutated Melanomas For Increased Response To Targeted BRAF Inhibition. Sci Rep. 2017 Feb 2/16/2017; 7: 42604. PMID: 28205616, PMCID: PMC5311997, PII: srep42604, DOI: 10.1038/srep42604, ISSN: 2045-2322.
Viquez OM, Yazlovitskaya EM, Tu T, Mernaugh G, Secades P, McKee KK, Georges-Labouesse E, De Arcangelis A, Quaranta V, Yurchenco P, Gewin LC, Sonnenberg A, Pozzi A, Zent R. Integrin alpha6 maintains the structural integrity of the kidney collecting system. Matrix Biol [print-electronic]. 2017 Jan; 57-58: 244-57. PMID: 28043890, PMCID: PMC5330664, PII: S0945-053X(16)30262-1, DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2016.12.003, ISSN: 1569-1802.
Franco OE, Tyson DR, Konvinse KC, Udyavar AR, Estrada L, Quaranta V, Crawford SE, Hayward SW. Altered TGF-a/ß signaling drives cooperation between breast cancer cell populations. FASEB J [print-electronic]. 2016 Oct; 30(10): 3441-52. PMID: 27383183, PMCID: PMC5024699, PII: fj.201500187RR, DOI: 10.1096/fj.201500187RR, ISSN: 1530-6860.
Harris LA, Frick PL, Garbett SP, Hardeman KN, Paudel BB, Lopez CF, Quaranta V, Tyson DR. An unbiased metric of antiproliferative drug effect in vitro. Nat. Methods [print-electronic]. 2016 Jun; 13(6): 497-500. PMID: 27135974, PMCID: PMC4887341, PII: nmeth.3852, DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3852, ISSN: 1548-7105.
Frick PL, Paudel BB, Tyson DR, Quaranta V. Quantifying heterogeneity and dynamics of clonal fitness in response to perturbation. J. Cell. Physiol. 2015 Jul; 230(7): 1403-12. PMID: 25600161, DOI: 10.1002/jcp.24888, ISSN: 1097-4652.
Hormuth DA, Weis JA, Barnes SL, Miga MI, Rericha EC, Quaranta V, Yankeelov TE. Predicting in vivo glioma growth with the reaction diffusion equation constrained by quantitative magnetic resonance imaging data. Phys Biol. 2015 Jun 6/4/2015; 12(4): 46006. PMID: 26040472, PMCID: PMC4486062, DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/12/4/046006, ISSN: 1478-3975.
Yazlovitskaya EM, Tseng HY, Viquez O, Tu T, Mernaugh G, McKee KK, Riggins K, Quaranta V, Pathak A, Carter BD, Yurchenco P, Sonnenberg A, Böttcher RT, Pozzi A, Zent R. Integrin a3ß1 regulates kidney collecting duct development via TRAF6-dependent K63-linked polyubiquitination of Akt. Mol. Biol. Cell [print-electronic]. 2015 May 5/15/2015; 26(10): 1857-74. PMID: 25808491, PMCID: PMC4436831, PII: mbc.E14-07-1203, DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E14-07-1203, ISSN: 1939-4586.
Yankeelov TE, Quaranta V, Evans KJ, Rericha EC. Toward a science of tumor forecasting for clinical oncology. Cancer Res [print-electronic]. 2015 Mar 3/15/2015; 75(6): 918-23. PMID: 25592148, PMCID: PMC4359948, PII: 0008-5472.CAN-14-2233, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-2233, ISSN: 1538-7445.
Broussard JA, Diggins NL, Hummel S, Georgescu W, Quaranta V, Webb DJ. Automated analysis of cell-matrix adhesions in 2D and 3D environments. Sci Rep. 2015 Jan 1/29/2015; 5: 8124. PMID: 25630460, PMCID: PMC4309964, PII: srep08124, DOI: 10.1038/srep08124, ISSN: 2045-2322.
Leander R, Allen EJ, Garbett SP, Tyson DR, Quaranta V. Derivation and experimental comparison of cell-division probability densities. J. Theor. Biol [print-electronic]. 2014 Oct 10/21/2014; 359: 129-35. PMID: 24931675, PMCID: PMC5488810, PII: S0022-5193(14)00341-5, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.06.004, ISSN: 1095-8541.
Quaranta V, Tyson DR. What lies beneath: looking beyond tumor genetics shows the complexity of signaling networks underlying drug sensitivity. Sci Signal. 2013 Sep 9/24/2013; 6(294): pe32. PMID: 24065144, PII: 6/294/pe32, DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2004715, ISSN: 1937-9145.
Yankeelov TE, Atuegwu N, Hormuth D, Weis JA, Barnes SL, Miga MI, Rericha EC, Quaranta V. Clinically relevant modeling of tumor growth and treatment response. Sci Transl Med. 2013 May 5/29/2013; 5(187): 187ps9. PMID: 23720579, PMCID: PMC3938952, PII: 5/187/187ps9, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3005686, ISSN: 1946-6242.
Tyson DR, Quaranta V. Beyond genetics in personalized cancer treatment: assessing dynamics and heterogeneity of tumor responses. Per Med. 2013 May 5/1/2013; 10(3): 221-5. PMID: 24696699, PMCID: PMC3970774, DOI: 10.2217/pme.13.6, ISSN: 1741-0541.
Tyson DR, Garbett SP, Frick PL, Quaranta V. Fractional proliferation: a method to deconvolve cell population dynamics from single-cell data. Nat. Methods [print-electronic]. 2012 Sep; 9(9): 923-8. PMID: 22886092, PMCID: PMC3459330, PII: nmeth.2138, DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2138, ISSN: 1548-7105.
Takahashi K, Mernaugh RL, Friedman DB, Weller R, Tsuboi N, Yamashita H, Quaranta V, Takahashi T. Thrombospondin-1 acts as a ligand for CD148 tyrosine phosphatase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A [print-electronic]. 2012 Feb 2/7/2012; 109(6): 1985-90. PMID: 22308318, PMCID: PMC3277540, PII: 1106171109, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106171109, ISSN: 1091-6490.
Georgescu W, Wikswo JP, Quaranta V. CellAnimation: an open source MATLAB framework for microscopy assays. Bioinformatics [print-electronic]. 2012 Jan 1/1/2012; 28(1): 138-9. PMID: 22121157, PMCID: PMC3244774, PII: btr633, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr633, ISSN: 1367-4811.
Hassanein M, Weidow B, Koehler E, Bakane N, Garbett S, Shyr Y, Quaranta V. Development of high-throughput quantitative assays for glucose uptake in cancer cell lines. Mol Imaging Biol. 2011 Oct; 13(5): 840-52. PMID: 20809209, PMCID: PMC3627351, DOI: 10.1007/s11307-010-0399-5, ISSN: 1860-2002.
Xu J, Xie J, Jourquin J, Colvin DC, Does MD, Quaranta V, Gore JC. Influence of cell cycle phase on apparent diffusion coefficient in synchronized cells detected using temporal diffusion spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med [print-electronic]. 2011 Apr; 65(4): 920-6. PMID: 21413058, PMCID: PMC3433804, DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22704, ISSN: 1522-2594.
Tripathi M, Potdar AA, Yamashita H, Weidow B, Cummings PT, Kirchhofer D, Quaranta V. Laminin-332 cleavage by matriptase alters motility parameters of prostate cancer cells. Prostate. 2011 Feb 2/1/2011; 71(2): 184-96. PMID: 20672321, PMCID: PMC3669684, DOI: 10.1002/pros.21233, ISSN: 1097-0045.
Ocak S, Yamashita H, Udyavar AR, Miller AN, Gonzalez AL, Zou Y, Jiang A, Yi Y, Shyr Y, Estrada L, Quaranta V, Massion PP. DNA copy number aberrations in small-cell lung cancer reveal activation of the focal adhesion pathway. Oncogene [print-electronic]. 2010 Dec 12/2/2010; 29(48): 6331-42. PMID: 20802517, PMCID: PMC4637980, PII: onc2010362, DOI: 10.1038/onc.2010.362, ISSN: 1476-5594.
Riggins KS, Mernaugh G, Su Y, Quaranta V, Koshikawa N, Seiki M, Pozzi A, Zent R. MT1-MMP-mediated basement membrane remodeling modulates renal development. Exp. Cell Res [print-electronic]. 2010 Oct 10/15/2010; 316(17): 2993-3005. PMID: 20727881, PMCID: PMC2945451, PII: S0014-4827(10)00397-6, DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2010.08.003, ISSN: 1090-2422.
Gruver JS, Potdar AA, Jeon J, Sai J, Anderson B, Webb D, Richmond A, Quaranta V, Cummings PT, Chung CY. Bimodal analysis reveals a general scaling law governing nondirected and chemotactic cell motility. Biophys. J. 2010 Jul 7/21/2010; 99(2): 367-76. PMID: 20643054, PMCID: PMC2905119, PII: S0006-3495(10)00710-1, DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.03.073, ISSN: 1542-0086.
Yamashita H, Tripathi M, Harris MP, Liu S, Weidow B, Zent R, Quaranta V. The role of a recombinant fragment of laminin-332 in integrin alpha3beta1-dependent cell binding, spreading and migration. Biomaterials [print-electronic]. 2010 Jul; 31(19): 5110-21. PMID: 20347131, PMCID: PMC2861493, PII: S0142-9612(10)00343-1, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.03.003, ISSN: 1878-5905.
Yamashita H, Shang M, Tripathi M, Jourquin J, Georgescu W, Liu S, Weidow B, Quaranta V. Epitope mapping of function-blocking monoclonal antibody CM6 suggests a “weak” integrin binding site on the laminin-332 LG2 domain. J. Cell. Physiol. 2010 Jun; 223(3): 541-8. PMID: 20301201, PMCID: PMC2874318, DOI: 10.1002/jcp.22107, ISSN: 1097-4652.
Quaranta V, Garbett SP. Not all noise is waste. Nat. Methods. 2010 Apr; 7(4): 269-72. PMID: 20354516, PII: nmeth0410-269, DOI: 10.1038/nmeth0410-269, ISSN: 1548-7105.
Liu S, Yamashita H, Weidow B, Weaver AM, Quaranta V. Laminin-332-beta1 integrin interactions negatively regulate invadopodia. J. Cell. Physiol. 2010 Apr; 223(1): 134-42. PMID: 20039268, PMCID: PMC3150482, DOI: 10.1002/jcp.22018, ISSN: 1097-4652.
Jeon J, Quaranta V, Cummings PT. An off-lattice hybrid discrete-continuum model of tumor growth and invasion. Biophys. J. 2010 Jan 1/6/2010; 98(1): 37-47. PMID: 20074513, PMCID: PMC2800960, PII: S0006-3495(09)01573-2, DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.10.002, ISSN: 1542-0086.
Potdar AA, Jeon J, Weaver AM, Quaranta V, Cummings PT. Human mammary epithelial cells exhibit a bimodal correlated random walk pattern. PLoS ONE. 2010; 5(3): e9636. PMID: 20224792, PMCID: PMC2835765, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009636, ISSN: 1932-6203.
Yamashita H, Tripathi M, Jourquin J, Kam Y, Liu S, Weidow B, Quaranta V. Lysophosphatidic Acid Upregulates Laminin-332 Expression during A431 Cell Colony Dispersal. J Oncol [print-electronic]. 2010; 2010: PMID: 20862207, PMCID: PMC2938436, DOI: 10.1155/2010/107075, ISSN: 1687-8469.
Guess CM, Quaranta V. Defining the role of laminin-332 in carcinoma. Matrix Biol [print-electronic]. 2009 Oct; 28(8): 445-55. PMID: 19686849, PMCID: PMC2875997, PII: S0945-053X(09)00103-6, DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2009.07.008, ISSN: 1569-1802.
Hinow P, Gerlee P, McCawley LJ, Quaranta V, Ciobanu M, Wang S, Graham JM, Ayati BP, Claridge J, Swanson KR, Loveless M, Anderson AR. A spatial model of tumor-host interaction: application of chemotherapy. Math Biosci Eng. 2009 Jul; 6(3): 521-46. PMID: 19566124, PMCID: PMC2981353, ISSN: 1547-1063.
Guess CM, Lafleur BJ, Weidow BL, Quaranta V. A decreased ratio of laminin-332 beta3 to gamma2 subunit mRNA is associated with poor prognosis in colon cancer. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev [print-electronic]. 2009 May; 18(5): 1584-90. PMID: 19383890, PMCID: PMC2869450, PII: 1055-9965.EPI-08-1027, DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-1027, ISSN: 1055-9965.
Anderson AR, Rejniak KA, Gerlee P, Quaranta V. Microenvironment driven invasion: a multiscale multimodel investigation. J Math Biol [print-electronic]. 2009 Apr; 58(4-5): 579-624. PMID: 18839176, DOI: 10.1007/s00285-008-0210-2, ISSN: 0303-6812.
Wang SE, Xiang B, Zent R, Quaranta V, Pozzi A, Arteaga CL. Transforming growth factor beta induces clustering of HER2 and integrins by activating Src-focal adhesion kinase and receptor association to the cytoskeleton. Cancer Res. 2009 Jan 1/15/2009; 69(2): 475-82. PMID: 19147560, PMCID: PMC2629389, PII: 69/2/475, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-2649, ISSN: 1538-7445.
Quaranta V, Tyson DR, Garbett SP, Weidow B, Harris MP, Georgescu W. Trait variability of cancer cells quantified by high-content automated microscopy of single cells. Meth. Enzymol. 2009; 467: 23-57. PMID: 19897088, PMCID: PMC2915824, PII: S0076-6879(09)67002-6, DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(09)67002-6, ISSN: 1557-7988.
Kam Y, Quaranta V. Cadherin-bound beta-catenin feeds into the Wnt pathway upon adherens junctions dissociation: evidence for an intersection between beta-catenin pools. PLoS ONE [print-electronic]. 2009; 4(2): e4580. PMID: 19238201, PMCID: PMC2640460, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004580, ISSN: 1932-6203.
Tripathi M, Nandana S, Yamashita H, Ganesan R, Kirchhofer D, Quaranta V. Laminin-332 is a substrate for hepsin, a protease associated with prostate cancer progression. J. Biol. Chem [print-electronic]. 2008 Nov 11/7/2008; 283(45): 30576-84. PMID: 18784072, PMCID: PMC2576550, PII: M802312200, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M802312200, ISSN: 0021-9258.
Quaranta V, Rejniak KA, Gerlee P, Anderson AR. Invasion emerges from cancer cell adaptation to competitive microenvironments: quantitative predictions from multiscale mathematical models. Semin. Cancer Biol [print-electronic]. 2008 Oct; 18(5): 338-48. PMID: 18524624, PMCID: PMC3789515, PII: S1044-579X(08)00039-4, DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2008.03.018, ISSN: 1096-3650.
Harris MP, Kim E, Weidow B, Wikswo JP, Quaranta V. Migration of isogenic cell lines quantified by dynamic multivariate analysis of single-cell motility. Cell Adh Migr. 2008 Apr; 2(2): 127-36. PMID: 19271355, PMCID: PMC2634586, ISSN: 1933-6926.
Anderson AR, Quaranta V. Integrative mathematical oncology. Nat. Rev. Cancer. 2008 Mar; 8(3): 227-34. PMID: 18273038, PII: nrc2329, DOI: 10.1038/nrc2329, ISSN: 1474-1768.
Georgescu W, Jourquin J, Estrada L, Anderson AR, Quaranta V, Wikswo JP. Model-controlled hydrodynamic focusing to generate multiple overlapping gradients of surface-immobilized proteins in microfluidic devices. Lab Chip [print-electronic]. 2008 Feb; 8(2): 238-44. PMID: 18231661, PMCID: PMC4357342, DOI: 10.1039/b716203k, ISSN: 1473-0197.
Kam Y, Guess C, Estrada L, Weidow B, Quaranta V. A novel circular invasion assay mimics in vivo invasive behavior of cancer cell lines and distinguishes single-cell motility in vitro. BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 198. PMID: 18625060, PMCID: PMC2491634, PII: 1471-2407-8-198, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-198, ISSN: 1471-2407.
Hu G, Quaranta V, Li D. Modeling of effects of nutrient gradients on cell proliferation in microfluidic bioreactor. Biotechnol. Prog [print-electronic]. 2007 Nov; 23(6): 1347-54. PMID: 17935347, DOI: 10.1021/bp070234n, ISSN: 8756-7938.
Anderson AR, Weaver AM, Cummings PT, Quaranta V. Tumor morphology and phenotypic evolution driven by selective pressure from the microenvironment. Cell. 2006 Dec 12/1/2006; 127(5): 905-15. PMID: 17129778, PII: S0092-8674(06)01348-1, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.042, ISSN: 0092-8674.
Jourquin J, Yang N, Kam Y, Guess C, Quaranta V. Dispersal of epithelial cancer cell colonies by lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). J. Cell. Physiol. 2006 Feb; 206(2): 337-46. PMID: 16110477, DOI: 10.1002/jcp.20470, ISSN: 0021-9541.
Quaranta V, Weaver AM, Cummings PT, Anderson AR. Mathematical modeling of cancer: the future of prognosis and treatment. Clin. Chim. Acta. 2005 Jul 7/24/2005; 357(2): 173-9. PMID: 15907826, PII: S0009-8981(05)00194-4, DOI: 10.1016/j.cccn.2005.03.023, ISSN: 0009-8981.
Hintermann E, Yang N, O’Sullivan D, Higgins JM, Quaranta V. Integrin alpha6beta4-erbB2 complex inhibits haptotaxis by up-regulating E-cadherin cell-cell junctions in keratinocytes. J. Biol. Chem [print-electronic]. 2005 Mar 3/4/2005; 280(9): 8004-15. PMID: 15579904, PII: M406301200, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M406301200, ISSN: 0021-9258.
Hintermann E, Quaranta V. Epithelial cell motility on laminin-5: regulation by matrix assembly, proteolysis, integrins and erbB receptors. Matrix Biol. 2004 May; 23(2): 75-85. PMID: 15246107, PII: S0945053X04000289, DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2004.03.001, ISSN: 0945-053X.
Bilban M, Ghaffari-Tabrizi N, Hintermann E, Bauer S, Molzer S, Zoratti C, Malli R, Sharabi A, Hiden U, Graier W, Knöfler M, Andreae F, Wagner O, Quaranta V, Desoye G. Kisspeptin-10, a KiSS-1/metastin-derived decapeptide, is a physiological invasion inhibitor of primary human trophoblasts. J. Cell. Sci. 2004 Mar 3/15/2004; 117(Pt 8): 1319-28. PMID: 15020672, PII: 117/8/1319, DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00971, ISSN: 0021-9533.
Wang, H., Fu, W., Im, J.H., Zhou, Z., Santoro, S.A., Iyer, V., Dipersio, C.M., Yu, Q.C., Quaranta, V.. Tumor cell alpha3beta 1 integrin and vascular laminin-5 mediate pulmonary arrest and metastasis. J Cell Biol. 2004; 164: 935-41.
Schenk S, Quaranta V. Tales from the crypt[ic] sites of the extracellular matrix. Trends Cell Biol. 2003 Jul; 13(7): 366-75. PMID: 12837607, PII: S0962892403001296, ISSN: 0962-8924.
Hendrix MJ, Seftor EA, Kirschmann DA, Quaranta V, Seftor RE. Remodeling of the microenvironment by aggressive melanoma tumor cells. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 2003 May; 995: 151-61. PMID: 12814947, ISSN: 0077-8923.
Pirilä E, Sharabi A, Salo T, Quaranta V, Tu H, Heljasvaara R, Koshikawa N, Sorsa T, Maisi P. Matrix metalloproteinases process the laminin-5 gamma 2-chain and regulate epithelial cell migration. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2003 Apr 4/18/2003; 303(4): 1012-7. PMID: 12684035, PII: S0006291X03004522, ISSN: 0006-291X.
Schenk S, Hintermann E, Bilban M, Koshikawa N, Hojilla C, Khokha R, Quaranta V. Binding to EGF receptor of a laminin-5 EGF-like fragment liberated during MMP-dependent mammary gland involution. J. Cell Biol. 2003 Apr 4/14/2003; 161(1): 197-209. PMID: 12695504, PMCID: PMC2172889, PII: jcb.200208145, DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200208145, ISSN: 0021-9525.
Gao C, Mao S, Ronca F, Zhuang S, Quaranta V, Wirsching P, Janda KD. De novo identification of tumor-specific internalizing human antibody-receptor pairs by phage-display methods. J. Immunol. Methods. 2003 Mar 3/1/2003; 274(1-2): 185-97. PMID: 12609544, PII: S0022175902005227, ISSN: 0022-1759.
Quaranta, V., Giannelli, G.. Cancer invasion:watch your neighbourhood. Tumori. 2003; 89: 343-8.
Schenk, S., Quaranta, V.. Tales from the crypt [ic] sites of the extracellular matrix. Trends Cell Biol. 2003; 13: 366-75.
Quaranta V. Motility cues in the tumor microenvironment. Differentiation. 2002 Dec; 70(9-10): 590-8. PMID: 12492500, PII: S0301-4681(09)60468-0, DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.2002.700912.x, ISSN: 0301-4681.
Hintermann E, Haake SK, Christen U, Sharabi A, Quaranta V. Discrete proteolysis of focal contact and adherens junction components in Porphyromonas gingivalis-infected oral keratinocytes: a strategy for cell adhesion and migration disabling. Infect. Immun. 2002 Oct; 70(10): 5846-56. PMID: 12228316, PMCID: PMC128337, ISSN: 0019-9567.
Quaranta, V. Motility cues in the tumor microenvironment. Differentiation. 2002; 590-8.
Hintermann E, Bilban M, Sharabi A, Quaranta V. Inhibitory role of alpha 6 beta 4-associated erbB-2 and phosphoinositide 3-kinase in keratinocyte haptotactic migration dependent on alpha 3 beta 1 integrin. J. Cell Biol. 2001 Apr 4/30/2001; 153(3): 465-78. PMID: 11331299, PMCID: PMC2190561, ISSN: 0021-9525.
Giannelli, G., Bergamini, C., Fransvea, E., Marinosci, F., Quaranta, V., and Antonaci, S.. Human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells require both alpha3beta1 integrin and matrix metalloproteinases activity for migration and invasion. Lab Invest. 2001; 81: 613-27.
Hintermann, E., Bilban, M., Sharabi, A., and Quaranta, V.. Inhibitory role of alpha6beta 4-associated erbB-2 and phosphoinositide 3-kinase in keratinocyte haptotactic migration dependent on alpha3beta1 integrin. J Cell Biol. 2001; 153: 465-75.
Kiosses, W.B., Hahn, K.M., Giannelli, G., and Quaranta, V.. Characterization of morphological and cytoskeletal changes in MCF10A breast epithelial cells plated on laminin-5: comparison with breast cancer cell line MCF7. Cell Adhes Commun. 2001; 8: 29-44.
Seftor, R.E., Seftor, E.A., Koshikawa, N., Meltzer, P.S., Gardner, L.M., Bilban, M., Stetler-Stevenson, W.G., Quaranta, V., and Hendrix, M.J.. Cooperative interactions of laminin 5 gamma2 chain, matrix metalloproteinase-2, and membrane type-1-matrix/metalloproteinase are required for mimicry of embryonic vasculogenesis by aggressive melanoma. Cancer Res. 2001; 61: 6322-7.
Shang, M., Koshikawa, N., Schenk, S., and Quaranta, V.. The LG3 module of laminin-5 harbors a binding site for integrin alpha3beta1 that promotes cell adhesion, spreading, and migration. J Biol Chem. 2001; 276: 33045-53.
Zent, R., Bush, K.T., Pohl, M.L., Quaranta, V., Koshikawa, N., Wang, Z., Kreidberg, J.A., Sakurai, H., Stuart, R.O., and Nigam, S.K.. Involvement of laminin binding integrins and laminin-5 in branching morphogenesis of the ureteric bud during kidney development. Dev Biol. 2001; 238: 289-302.
Plopper,G.E., Huff, J.L., Rust, W.L., Schwartz, M.A.,Quaranta, V.. Antibody-induced activation of betal integrin receptors stimulates cAMP-dependent migration of breast cells on laminin-5. Mol. Cell Biol Res Commun. 2000; 4: 129-35.
Quaranta, V.. Cell migration through extracellular matrix; membrane-type metalloproteinases make the way. J Cell Biol. 2000; ((149)): 1167-79.
Mullen, L.M., Richards, D.W., Quaranta, V.. Evidence that laminin-5 is a component of the tooth surface internal basal lamina, supporting epithelial cell adhesion. J. Periodontal Res. 1999; 34: 16-24.
Falk-Marzillier, J., Domanico, S.Z., Pelletier, A, Mullen, L., Quaranta, V.. Characterization of a tight molecular complex between integrin alpha6beta4 and laminin-5 extracellular matrix. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1998; 251: 49-55.
Giannelli, G., Falk-Marzillier, J., Schiraldi, O., Stetler-Stevenson, W.G., Quaranta, V.. Induction of cell migration by matrix metalloprotease-2 cleavage of laminin-5. Science. 1997; 277: 225-8.
Quaranta, V., Plopper, G.E.. Integrins and laminins in tissue remodeling. Kidney Int. 1997; 51: 1441-6.
Baker, S.E., DiPasquale, A.P., Stock, E.L., Quaranta, V., Fitchmum, M., Jones, J.C.. Morphogenetic effects of soluble laminin-5 on cultured epithelial cells and tissue explants. Exp. Cell Res. 1996; 228: 262-70.
Baker, S.E., Hopkinson, S.B., Fitchmun, M., Andereason, G.L., Frasier, F., Plopper, G., Quaranta, V., Jones, J.C.. Laminin-5 and hemidesmosomes: role of the alpha3 chain subunit in hemidesmosome stability and assembly. J Cell Sci. 1996; 2509-20.
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