Functions and consequences of AID/APOBEC-mediated DNA and RNA deamination

R Pecori, S Di Giorgio, J Paulo Lorenzo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The AID/APOBEC polynucleotide cytidine deaminases have historically been classified as
either DNA mutators or RNA editors based on their first identified nucleic acid substrate …

The hallmarks of cancer immune evasion

C Galassi, TA Chan, I Vitale, L Galluzzi - Cancer Cell, 2024‏ - cell.com
According to the widely accepted" three Es" model, the host immune system eliminates
malignant cell precursors and contains microscopic neoplasms in a dynamic equilibrium …

The role of APOBEC3B in lung tumor evolution and targeted cancer therapy resistance

DR Caswell, P Gui, MK Mayekar, EK Law, O Pich… - Nature Genetics, 2024‏ - nature.com
In this study, the impact of the apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing catalytic subunit-like
(APOBEC) enzyme APOBEC3B (A3B) on epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-driven …

The evolution of non-small cell lung cancer metastases in TRACERx

M Al Bakir, A Huebner, C Martínez-Ruiz, K Grigoriadis… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Metastatic disease is responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths. We report the
longitudinal evolutionary analysis of 126 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumours from …

A pan-cancer compendium of chromosomal instability

RM Drews, B Hernando, M Tarabichi, K Haase… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) results in the accumulation of large-scale losses, gains and
rearrangements of DNA. The broad genomic complexity caused by CIN is a hallmark of …

Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021‏ - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

Chromosomal instability as a driver of cancer progression

X Chen, AS Agustinus, J Li, M DiBona… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - 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 …

Genomic–transcriptomic evolution in lung cancer and metastasis

C Martínez-Ruiz, JRM Black, C Puttick, MS Hill… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Intratumour heterogeneity (ITH) fuels lung cancer evolution, which leads to immune evasion
and resistance to therapy. Here, using paired whole-exome and RNA sequencing data, we …

Addressing the benefits of inhibiting APOBEC3-dependent mutagenesis in cancer

M Petljak, AM Green, J Maciejowski, MD Weitzman - Nature genetics, 2022‏ - nature.com
Mutational signatures associated with apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic
polypeptide-like (APOBEC) 3 cytosine deaminase activity have been found in over half of …

Multi-stage mechanisms of tumor metastasis and therapeutic strategies

Z Liu, J Chen, Y Ren, S Liu, Y Ba, A Zuo… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024‏ - nature.com
The cascade of metastasis in tumor cells, exhibiting organ-specific tendencies, may occur at
numerous phases of the disease and progress under intense evolutionary pressures. Organ …