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 …

A survey of open questions in adaptive therapy: Bridging mathematics and clinical translation

J West, F Adler, J Gallaher, M Strobl, R Brady-Nicholls… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Adaptive therapy is a dynamic cancer treatment protocol that updates (or 'adapts') treatment
decisions in anticipation of evolving tumor dynamics. This broad term encompasses many …

Acquired resistance to KRAS G12C small-molecule inhibitors via genetic/nongenetic mechanisms in lung cancer

A Mohanty, A Nam, S Srivastava, J Jones… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Inherent or acquired resistance to sotorasib poses a substantialt challenge for NSCLC
treatment. Here, we demonstrate that acquired resistance to sotorasib in isogenic cells …

Landscape of epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity as an emergent property of coordinated teams in regulatory networks

K Hari, V Ullanat, A Balasubramanian, A Gopalan… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Elucidating the design principles of regulatory networks driving cellular decision-making has
fundamental implications in map** and eventually controlling cell-fate decisions. Despite …

Spatial structure impacts adaptive therapy by sha** intra-tumoral competition

MAR Strobl, J Gallaher, J West… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Adaptive therapy aims to tackle cancer drug resistance by leveraging resource
competition between drug-sensitive and resistant cells. Here, we present a theoretical study …

Computational identification of surface markers for isolating distinct subpopulations from heterogeneous cancer cell populations

AL Gardner, TA Jost, D Morgan, A Brock - npj Systems Biology and …, 2024 - nature.com
Intratumor heterogeneity reduces treatment efficacy and complicates our understanding of
tumor progression and there is a pressing need to understand the functions of …

Leveraging cancer phenotypic plasticity for novel treatment strategies

S Ramisetty, AR Subbalakshmi, S Pareek… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells, like all other organisms, are adept at switching their phenotype to adjust to the
changes in their environment. Thus, phenotypic plasticity is a quantitative trait that confers a …

A systems biology approach for addressing cisplatin resistance in non-small cell lung cancer

S Ramisetty, P Kulkarni, S Bhattacharya… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Translational research in medicine, defined as the transfer of knowledge and discovery from
the basic sciences to the clinic, is typically achieved through interactions between members …

In vitro competition between two transmissible cancers and potential implications for their host, the Tasmanian devil

AL Gérard, RS Owen, AM Dujon, B Roche… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Since the emergence of a transmissible cancer, devil facial tumour disease (DFT1), in the
1980s, wild Tasmanian devil populations have been in decline. In 2016, a second …

Statistical inference of the rates of cell proliferation and phenotypic switching in cancer

EB Gunnarsson, J Foo, K Leder - Journal of theoretical biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent evidence suggests that nongenetic (epigenetic) mechanisms play an important role
at all stages of cancer evolution. In many cancers, these mechanisms have been observed …