Tumor initiation and early tumorigenesis: molecular mechanisms and interventional targets

S Zhang, X **ao, Y Yi, X Wang, L Zhu, Y Shen… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Tumorigenesis is a multistep process, with oncogenic mutations in a normal cell conferring
clonal advantage as the initial event. However, despite pervasive somatic mutations and …

Extrachromosomal DNA in cancer

X Yan, P Mischel, H Chang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) has recently been recognized as a major contributor to
cancer pathogenesis that is identified in most cancer types and is associated with poor …

Extrachromosomal DNA in the cancerous transformation of Barrett's oesophagus

J Luebeck, AWT Ng, PC Galipeau, X Li, CA Sanchez… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Oncogene amplification on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) drives the evolution of tumours
and their resistance to treatment, and is associated with poor outcomes for patients with …

The evolutionary dynamics of extrachromosomal DNA in human cancers

JT Lange, JC Rose, CY Chen, Y Pichugin, L **e… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Oncogene amplification on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) is a common event, driving
aggressive tumor growth, drug resistance and shorter survival. Currently, the impact of …

Chromosomal instability as a driver of cancer progression

X Chen, AS Agustinus, J Li, M DiBona… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) refers to an increased propensity of cells to acquire structural
and numerical chromosomal abnormalities during cell division, which contributes to tumour …

Extrachromosomal DNA amplifications in cancer

E Yi, R Chamorro González, AG Henssen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) amplification is an important driver alteration in cancer. It
has been observed in most cancer types and is associated with worse patient outcome. The …

Identifying synergistic high-order 3D chromatin conformations from genome-scale nanopore concatemer sequencing

AS Deshpande, N Ulahannan, M Pendleton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract High-order three-dimensional (3D) interactions between more than two genomic
loci are common in human chromatin, but their role in gene regulation is unclear. Previous …

Chromatin accessibility: methods, mechanisms, and biological insights

AR Mansisidor, VI Risca - Nucleus, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Access to DNA is a prerequisite to the execution of essential cellular processes that include
transcription, replication, chromosomal segregation, and DNA repair. How the proteins that …

Parallel sequencing of extrachromosomal circular DNAs and transcriptomes in single cancer cells

R Chamorro González, T Conrad, MC Stöber, R Xu… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) are common in cancer, but many questions about their
origin, structural dynamics and impact on intratumor heterogeneity are still unresolved. Here …

Single cell multi-omics reveal intra-cell-line heterogeneity across human cancer cell lines

Q Zhu, X Zhao, Y Zhang, Y Li, S Liu, J Han… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Human cancer cell lines have long served as tools for cancer research and drug discovery,
but the presence and the source of intra-cell-line heterogeneity remain elusive. Here, we …