1. Biographies

   Acknowledgments 21 January 2009 Pages: 1 - 2

   

2. Preface

   • Rakesh Kumar
   • Alan Hall

   EditorialNotes 20 January 2009 Pages: 3 - 3

3. The cytoskeleton and cancer

   • Alan Hall

   OriginalPaper 21 January 2009 Pages: 5 - 14

   

4. EMT, the cytoskeleton, and cancer cell invasion

   • Mahmut Yilmaz
   • Gerhard Christofori

   OriginalPaper 24 January 2009 Pages: 15 - 33

   

5. Signal transduction by focal adhesion kinase in cancer

   • Jihe Zhao
   • Jun-Lin Guan

   OriginalPaper 24 January 2009 Pages: 35 - 49

   

6. Pak protein kinases and their role in cancer

   • Bettina Dummler
   • Kazufumi Ohshiro
   • Jeffrey Field

   OriginalPaper 23 January 2009 Pages: 51 - 63

   

7. Rho signaling, ROCK and mDia1, in transformation, metastasis and invasion

   • Shuh Narumiya
   • Masahiro Tanji
   • Toshimasa Ishizaki

   OriginalPaper Open access 22 January 2009 Pages: 65 - 76

   

8. Role of DLC-1, a tumor suppressor protein with RhoGAP activity, in regulation of the cytoskeleton and cell motility

   • T. Y. Kim
   • D. Vigil
   • R. L. Juliano

   OriginalPaper 17 February 2009 Pages: 77 - 83

   

9. Centrosomes and cancer: how cancer cells divide with too many centrosomes

   • Susana A. Godinho
   • Mijung Kwon
   • David Pellman

   OriginalPaper 21 January 2009 Pages: 85 - 98

   

10. The mitotic functions of integrin-linked kinase

    • Andrew B. Fielding
    • Shoukat Dedhar

    OriginalPaper 20 January 2009 Pages: 99 - 111

    

11. Mechanics, malignancy, and metastasis: The force journey of a tumor cell

    • Sanjay Kumar
    • Valerie M. Weaver

    OriginalPaper Open access 21 January 2009 Pages: 113 - 127

    

12. Proteolytic interstitial cell migration: a five-step process

    • Peter Friedl
    • Katarina Wolf

    OriginalPaper Open access 21 January 2009 Pages: 129 - 135

    

13. Invadopodia: specialized tumor cell structures for the focal degradation of the extracellular matrix

    • Roberto Buccione
    • Giusi Caldieri
    • Inmaculada Ayala

    OriginalPaper 21 January 2009 Pages: 137 - 149

    

14. E-cadherin, β-catenin, and ZEB1 in malignant progression of cancer

    • Otto Schmalhofer
    • Simone Brabletz
    • Thomas Brabletz

    OriginalPaper 20 January 2009 Pages: 151 - 166

    

15. Tissue architecture and function: dynamic reciprocity via extra- and intra-cellular matrices

    • Ren Xu
    • Aaron Boudreau
    • Mina J. Bissell

    OriginalPaper 23 January 2009 Pages: 167 - 176

    

16. Tumor stroma derived biomarkers in cancer

    • Malin Sund
    • Raghu Kalluri

    OriginalPaper 04 March 2009 Pages: 177 - 183

    

17. Mitotic drivers—inhibitors of the Aurora B Kinase

    • Nicholas Keen
    • Stephen Taylor

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 February 2009 Pages: 185 - 195

    

18. Kinesin motor proteins as targets for cancer therapy

    • Dennis Huszar
    • Maria-Elena Theoclitou
    • Ronald Herbst

    OriginalPaper 21 January 2009 Pages: 197 - 208

    

19. Targeting group II PAKs in cancer and metastasis

    • Jeyanthy Eswaran
    • Meera Soundararajan
    • Stefan Knapp

    OriginalPaper 22 January 2009 Pages: 209 - 217

    

20. The unfolded protein response during prostate cancer development

    • Alex Yick-Lun So
    • Erwin de la Fuente
    • Sebastián Bernales

    NON-THEMATIC REVIEW Open access 27 January 2009 Pages: 219 - 223

    

21. Emerging role of nuclear protein 1 (NUPR1) in cancer biology

    • Uttio Roy Chowdhury
    • Rajeev S. Samant
    • Lalita A. Shevde

    NON-THEMATIC REVIEW 20 January 2009 Pages: 225 - 232

    

22. The biological role and regulation of versican levels in cancer

    • Carmela Ricciardelli
    • Andrew J. Sakko
    • David J. Horsfall

    NON-THEMATIC REVIEW 22 January 2009 Pages: 233 - 245

    

23. Osteosarcoma treatment: state of the art

    • Hang T. Ta
    • Crispin R. Dass
    • Dave E. Dunstan

    NON-THEMATIC REVIEW 12 February 2009 Pages: 247 - 263