This article is a report of the “International Colloquium on Gap junctions: 50 Years of Impact on Cancer” that was held 8–9 September 2016, at the Amphitheater “Pôle Biologie Santé” of the University of Poitiers (Poitiers, France). The colloquium was organized by M Mesnil (Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France) and C Naus (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the seminal work published in 1966 by Loewenstein and Kanno [Intercellular communication and the control of tissue growth: lack of communication between cancer cells, Nature, 116 (1966) 1248–1249] which initiated studies on the involvement of gap junctions in carcinogenesis. During the colloquium, 15 participants presented reviews or research updates in the field which are summarized below.

Keywords:
Cancer
Gap junction
Connexin
Tumor progression
Cell migration
Invasion

Mesnil et al., Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr. 2018 Jan;1860(1):237-243