The CDK4/6 inhibitor revolution—a game-changing era for breast cancer treatment

L Morrison, S Loibl, NC Turner - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibition in combination with endocrine
therapy is the standard-of-care treatment for patients with advanced-stage hormone receptor …

Coordinating gene expression during the cell cycle

M Fischer, AE Schade, TB Branigan, GA Müller… - Trends in biochemical …, 2022 - cell.com
Cell cycle-dependent gene transcription is tightly controlled by the retinoblastoma (RB): E2F
and DREAM complexes, which repress all cell cycle genes during quiescence. Cyclin …

A tumor-derived type III collagen-rich ECM niche regulates tumor cell dormancy

JS Di Martino, AR Nobre, C Mondal, I Taha, EF Farias… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells disseminate and seed in distant organs, where they can remain dormant for
many years before forming clinically detectable metastases. Here we studied how …

Rapid adaptation to CDK2 inhibition exposes intrinsic cell-cycle plasticity

M Arora, J Moser, TE Hoffman, LP Watts, M Min… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CDK2 is a core cell-cycle kinase that phosphorylates many substrates to drive progression
through the cell cycle. CDK2 is hyperactivated in multiple cancers and is therefore an …

Mechanisms of sensitivity and resistance to CDK4/6 inhibition

M Álvarez-Fernández, M Malumbres - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Inhibiting the cell-cycle kinases CDK4 and CDK6 results in significant therapeutic effect in
patients with advanced hormone-positive breast cancer. The efficacy of this strategy is …

Ki67 is a graded rather than a binary marker of proliferation versus quiescence

I Miller, M Min, C Yang, C Tian, S Gookin, D Carter… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Ki67 staining is widely used as a proliferation indicator in the clinic, despite poor
understanding of this protein's function or dynamics. Here, we track Ki67 levels under …

The cell cycle in stem cell proliferation, pluripotency and differentiation

L Liu, W Michowski, A Kolodziejczyk, P Sicinski - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases and other components of the core cell cycle machinery
drive cell division. Growing evidence indicates that this machinery operates in a distinct …

Topologically associating domains and chromatin loops depend on cohesin and are regulated by CTCF, WAPL, and PDS5 proteins

G Wutz, C Várnai, K Nagasaka, DA Cisneros… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
Mammalian genomes are spatially organized into compartments, topologically associating
domains (TADs), and loops to facilitate gene regulation and other chromosomal functions …

Loss of CDK4/6 activity in S/G2 phase leads to cell cycle reversal

JA Cornwell, A Crncec, MM Afifi, K Tang, R Amin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In mammalian cells, the decision to proliferate is thought to be irreversibly made at the
restriction point of the cell cycle,, when mitogen signalling engages a positive feedback loop …

Genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors illuminate the spatiotemporal regulation of signaling networks

EC Greenwald, S Mehta, J Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cellular signaling networks are the foundation which determines the fate and function of
cells as they respond to various cues and stimuli. The discovery of fluorescent proteins over …