Epigenetics as a mediator of plasticity in cancer

AP Feinberg, A Levchenko - Science, 2023 - science.org
The concept of an epigenetic landscape describing potential cellular fates arising from
pluripotent cells, first advanced by Conrad Waddington, has evolved in light of experiments …

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 …

Diverse silent chromatin states modulate genome compartmentalization and loop extrusion barriers

G Spracklin, N Abdennur, M Imakaev… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The relationships between chromosomal compartmentalization, chromatin state and function
are poorly understood. Here by profiling long-range contact frequencies in HCT116 colon …

Long-range phasing of dynamic, tissue-specific and allele-specific regulatory elements

S Battaglia, K Dong, J Wu, Z Chen, FJ Najm, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenomic maps identify gene regulatory elements by their chromatin state. However,
prevailing short-read sequencing methods cannot effectively distinguish alleles, evaluate …

Integrated analyses highlight interactions between the three-dimensional genome and DNA, RNA and epigenomic alterations in metastatic prostate cancer

SG Zhao, M Bootsma, S Zhou, R Shrestha… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The impact of variations in the three-dimensional structure of the genome has been
recognized, but solid cancer tissue studies are limited. Here, we performed integrated deep …

Mutant IDH1 inhibition induces dsDNA sensing to activate tumor immunity

MJ Wu, H Kondo, AV Kammula, L Shi, Y **ao, S Dhiab… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) is the most commonly mutated metabolic gene across
human cancers. Mutant IDH1 (mIDH1) generates the oncometabolite (R)-2 …

The co-evolution of the genome and epigenome in colorectal cancer

T Heide, J Househam, GD Cresswell, I Spiteri, C Lynn… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal malignancies are a leading cause of cancer-related death and have undergone
extensive genomic study,. However, DNA mutations alone do not fully explain malignant …

dcHiC detects differential compartments across multiple Hi-C datasets

A Chakraborty, JG Wang, F Ay - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The compartmental organization of mammalian genomes and its changes play important
roles in distinct biological processes. Here, we introduce dcHiC, which utilizes a multivariate …

Tumor editing suppresses innate and adaptive antitumor immunity and is reversed by inhibiting DNA methylation

Y Zhang, P Naderi Yeganeh, H Zhang, SY Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer cells edit gene expression to evade immunosurveillance. However, genome-wide
studies of gene editing during early tumorigenesis are lacking. Here we used single-cell …

Mechanisms of chromosome folding and nuclear organization: their interplay and open questions

L Mirny, J Dekker - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2022 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Microscopy and genomic approaches provide detailed descriptions of the three-dimensional
folding of chromosomes and nuclear organization. The fundamental question is how activity …