In colorectal cancer cell lines, TNF‐α and TGF‐β induce EMT‐like changes either in a NLRP3/Snail1 axis‐dependent way (NLRP3 stands for ‘NOD‐like receptor family, pyrin domain containing 3’) (Song et al., 2016), or via an increase in expression of claudin‐1. The gene discussed is NLRP3; the disease is colorectal cancer.