Brain cancer stem cells: resilience through adaptive plasticity and hierarchical heterogeneity

RC Gimple, K Yang, ME Halbert, S Agnihotri… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Malignant brain tumours are complex ecosystems containing neoplastic and stromal
components that generate adaptive and evolutionarily driven aberrant tissues in the central …

Molecular characteristics and therapeutic vulnerabilities across paediatric solid tumours

DTW Jones, A Banito, TGP Grünewald, M Haber… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The spectrum of tumours arising in childhood is fundamentally different from that seen in
adults, and they are known to be divergent from adult malignancies in terms of cellular …

K27M in canonical and noncanonical H3 variants occurs in distinct oligodendroglial cell lineages in brain midline gliomas

S Jessa, A Mohammadnia, AS Harutyunyan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Canonical (H3. 1/H3. 2) and noncanonical (H3. 3) histone 3 K27M-mutant gliomas
have unique spatiotemporal distributions, partner alterations and molecular profiles. The …

Childhood cerebellar tumours mirror conserved fetal transcriptional programs

MC Vladoiu, I El-Hamamy, LK Donovan, H Farooq… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Study of the origin and development of cerebellar tumours has been hampered by the
complexity and heterogeneity of cerebellar cells that change over the course of …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular heterogeneity during mouse pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma progression at single-cell resolution

AN Hosein, H Huang, Z Wang, K Parmar, W Du… - JCI insight, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a major cause of cancer-related death, with
limited therapeutic options available. This highlights the need for improved understanding of …

Locoregional delivery of CAR T cells to the cerebrospinal fluid for treatment of metastatic medulloblastoma and ependymoma

LK Donovan, A Delaidelli, SK Joseph, K Bielamowicz… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Recurrent medulloblastoma and ependymoma are universally lethal, with no approved
targeted therapies and few candidates presently under clinical evaluation. Nearly all …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell RNA-seq reveals cellular hierarchies and impaired developmental trajectories in pediatric ependymoma

J Gojo, B Englinger, L Jiang, JM Hübner, MKL Shaw… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Ependymoma is a heterogeneous entity of central nervous system tumors with well-
established molecular groups. Here, we apply single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze …

Molecular heterogeneity and CXorf67 alterations in posterior fossa group A (PFA) ependymomas

KW Pajtler, J Wen, M Sill, T Lin, W Orisme, B Tang… - Acta …, 2018 - Springer
Of nine ependymoma molecular groups detected by DNA methylation profiling, the posterior
fossa type A (PFA) is most prevalent. We used DNA methylation profiling to look for further …

[HTML][HTML] Pervasive H3K27 acetylation leads to ERV expression and a therapeutic vulnerability in H3K27M gliomas

B Krug, N De Jay, AS Harutyunyan, S Deshmukh… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
High-grade gliomas defined by histone 3 K27M driver mutations exhibit global loss of
H3K27 trimethylation and reciprocal gain of H3K27 acetylation, respectively sha** …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus targets glioblastoma stem cells through a SOX2-integrin αvβ5 axis

Z Zhu, P Mesci, JA Bernatchez, RC Gimple, X Wang… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) causes microcephaly by killing neural precursor cells (NPCs) and other
brain cells. ZIKV also displays therapeutic oncolytic activity against glioblastoma (GBM) stem …