Cancer cell plasticity during tumor progression, metastasis and response to therapy

A Pérez-González, K Bévant, C Blanpain - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cell plasticity represents the ability of cells to be reprogrammed and to change their fate and
identity, enabling homeostasis restoration and tissue regeneration following damage. Cell …

Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

Mismatch repair deficiency is not sufficient to elicit tumor immunogenicity

PMK Westcott, F Muyas, H Hauck, OC Smith… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair deficiency (MMRd) is associated with a high tumor mutational burden
(TMB) and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. Nevertheless, most …

[HTML][HTML] Lineage tracing reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity, and paths of tumor evolution

D Yang, MG Jones, S Naranjo, WM Rideout, KHJ Min… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor evolution is driven by the progressive acquisition of genetic and epigenetic
alterations that enable uncontrolled growth and expansion to neighboring and distal tissues …

Tumor cell plasticity in targeted therapy-induced resistance: mechanisms and new strategies

ZD Shi, K Pang, ZX Wu, Y Dong, L Hao… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the success of targeted therapies in cancer treatment, therapy-induced resistance
remains a major obstacle to a complete cure. Tumor cells evade treatments and relapse via …

Linking EMT programmes to normal and neoplastic epithelial stem cells

AW Lambert, RA Weinberg - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Epithelial stem cells serve critical physiological functions in the generation, maintenance
and repair of diverse tissues through their ability to self-renew and spawn more specialized …

WNT as a driver and dependency in cancer

MJ Parsons, T Tammela, LE Dow - Cancer discovery, 2021 - aacrjournals.org
The WNT signaling pathway is a critical regulator of development and adult tissue
homeostasis and becomes dysregulated in many cancer types. Although hyperactivation of …

New insights into the mechanisms of epithelial–mesenchymal transition and implications for cancer

A Dongre, RA Weinberg - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular programme that is known to be crucial
for embryogenesis, wound healing and malignant progression. During EMT, cell–cell and …

[HTML][HTML] Therapy-induced evolution of human lung cancer revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

A Maynard, CE McCoach, JK Rotow, L Harris, F Haderk… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer mortality, exhibits heterogeneity that enables
adaptability, limits therapeutic success, and remains incompletely understood. Single-cell …

Emergence of a high-plasticity cell state during lung cancer evolution

ND Marjanovic, M Hofree, JE Chan, D Canner, K Wu… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Tumor evolution from a single cell into a malignant, heterogeneous tissue remains poorly
understood. Here, we profile single-cell transcriptomes of genetically engineered mouse …