The two sides of chromosomal instability: drivers and brakes in cancer

R Hosea, S Hillary, S Naqvi, S Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer and is associated with tumor cell
malignancy. CIN triggers a chain reaction in cells leading to chromosomal abnormalities …

Cancer, metastasis, and the epigenome

S Kiri, T Ryba - Molecular Cancer, 2024 - Springer
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide and disease burden is expected to
increase globally throughout the next several decades, with the majority of cancer-related …

A p62-dependent rheostat dictates micronuclei catastrophe and chromosome rearrangements

S Martin, S Scorzoni, S Cordone, A Mazzagatti… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Chromosomal instability (CIN) generates micronuclei—aberrant extranuclear structures that
catalyze the acquisition of complex chromosomal rearrangements present in cancer …

Oncogenic c-Myc induces replication stress by increasing cohesins chromatin occupancy in a CTCF-dependent manner

S Peripolli, L Meneguello, C Perrod, T Singh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Oncogene-induced replication stress is a crucial driver of genomic instability and one of the
key events contributing to the onset and evolution of cancer. Despite its critical role in …

Human aneuploid cells depend on the RAF/MEK/ERK pathway for overcoming increased DNA damage

J Zerbib, MR Ippolito, Y Eliezer, G De Feudis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Aneuploidy is a hallmark of human cancer, yet the molecular mechanisms to cope with
aneuploidy-induced cellular stresses remain largely unknown. Here, we induce …

Disentangling the roles of aneuploidy, chromosomal instability and tumour heterogeneity in develo** resistance to cancer therapies

JR Andrade, AD Gallagher, J Maharaj… - Chromosome …, 2023 - Springer
Aneuploidy is defined as the cellular state of having a number of chromosomes that deviates
from a multiple of the normal haploid chromosome number of a given organism. Aneuploidy …

Mechanical stress during confined migration causes aberrant mitoses and c-MYC amplification

G Bastianello, GR Kidiyoor, C Lowndes, Q Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Confined cell migration hampers genome integrity and activates the ATR and ATM mechano-
transduction pathways. We investigated whether the mechanical stress generated by …

Permission to pass: on the role of p53 as a gatekeeper for aneuploidy

JF Marques, GJPL Kops - Chromosome Research, 2023 - Springer
Aneuploidy—the karyotype state in which the number of chromosomes deviates from a
multiple of the haploid chromosome set—is common in cancer, where it is thought to …

[HTML][HTML] Chromosomal instability-induced cell invasion through caspase-driven DNA damage

L Barrio, AE Gaspar, M Muzzopappa, K Ghosh… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN), an increased rate of changes in chromosome structure and
number, is observed in most sporadic human carcinomas with high metastatic activity. Here …

A survey of chromosomal instability measures across mechanistic models

AR Lynch, S Bradford, AS Zhou, K Oxendine… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is the persistent reshuffling of cancer karyotypes via
chromosome mis-segregation during cell division. In cancer, CIN exists at varying levels that …