title: Alternative path to EMT: regulation of apicobasal polarity in Drosophila.
abstract: The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a key process in morphogenesis, is often driven by repressing expression of adherens junction components, such as E-cadherin. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Campbell et al. (2011) uncover an alternative mechanism in the Drosophila embryonic gut that promotes EMT via Serpent, a GATA transcriptional repressor of the apicobasal polarity gene crumbs.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, A*STAR, 61 Biopolis Drive, 138673 Singapore.
authors.forename: Jormay
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Jean Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Thiery