Drug-tolerant persister cells in cancer: the cutting edges and future directions

Y Pu, L Li, H Peng, L Liu, D Heymann… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Drug-tolerant persister (DTP) cell populations were originally discovered in antibiotic-
resistant bacterial biofilms. Similar populations with comparable features have since been …

Pharmacological targeting of the cancer epigenome

NW Mabe, JA Perry, CF Malone, K Stegmaier - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is increasingly appreciated as a hallmark of cancer, including
disease initiation, maintenance and therapy resistance. As a result, there have been …

Cellular adaptation to cancer therapy along a resistance continuum

GS França, M Baron, BR King, JP Bossowski… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Advancements in precision oncology over the past decades have led to new therapeutic
interventions, but the efficacy of such treatments is generally limited by an adaptive process …

Cancer drug-tolerant persister cells: from biological questions to clinical opportunities

M Russo, M Chen, E Mariella, H Peng… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of drug resistance is the most substantial challenge to the effectiveness of
anticancer therapies. Orthogonal approaches have revealed that a subset of cells, known as …

PINK1-mediated mitophagy promotes oxidative phosphorylation and redox homeostasis to induce drug-tolerant persister cancer cells

Y Li, H Chen, X **e, B Yang, X Wang, J Zhang… - Cancer …, 2023 - aacrjournals.org
The drug-tolerant persister (DTP) state enables cancer cells to evade cytotoxic stress from
anticancer therapy. However, the mechanisms governing DTP generation remain poorly …

Redox signaling in drug-tolerant persister cells as an emerging therapeutic target

Z Zhang, Y Tan, C Huang, X Wei - EBioMedicine, 2023 - thelancet.com
Drug-tolerant persister (DTP) cells have attracted significant interest, given their
predominant role in treatment failure. In this respect, DTP cells reportedly survive after …

[HTML][HTML] Single cell cancer epigenetics

M Casado-Pelaez, A Bueno-Costa, M Esteller - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Bulk sequencing methodologies have allowed us to make great progress in cancer
research. Unfortunately, these techniques lack the resolution to fully unravel the epigenetic …

Epigenomic heterogeneity as a source of tumour evolution

M Laisné, M Lupien, C Vallot - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2025 - nature.com
In the past decade, remarkable progress in cancer medicine has been achieved by the
development of treatments that target DNA sequence variants. However, a purely genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic modulations in triple-negative breast cancer: Therapeutic implications for tumor microenvironment

L Zhou, CW Yu - Pharmacological research, 2024 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype lacking estrogen receptors,
progesterone receptors and lacks HER2 overexpression. This absence of critical molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges for triple negative breast cancer treatment: defeating heterogeneity and cancer stemness

R Mahmoud, P Ordóñez-Morán, C Allegrucci - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Triple Negative Breast Cancer represents a cancer type with an unmet
clinical need. This type of breast cancer presents the worse clinical outcome due to its …