Clonal heterogeneity and tumor evolution: past, present, and the future

N McGranahan, C Swanton - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Intratumor heterogeneity, which fosters tumor evolution, is a key challenge in cancer
medicine. Here, we review data and technologies that have revealed intra-tumor …

The roles of DNA, RNA and histone methylation in ageing and cancer

EM Michalak, ML Burr, AJ Bannister… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Chromatin is a macromolecular complex predominantly comprising DNA, histone proteins
and RNA. The methylation of chromatin components is highly conserved as it helps …

Clonal expansion in non-cancer tissues

N Kakiuchi, S Ogawa - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a clonal disorder derived from a single ancestor cell and its progenies that are
positively selected by acquisition of 'driver mutations'. However, the evolution of positively …

H3K27M induces defective chromatin spread of PRC2-mediated repressive H3K27me2/me3 and is essential for glioma tumorigenesis

AS Harutyunyan, B Krug, H Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Lys-27-Met mutations in histone 3 genes (H3K27M) characterize a subgroup of deadly
gliomas and decrease genome-wide H3K27 trimethylation. Here we use primary H3K27M …

Mechanisms of Polycomb group protein function in cancer

V Parreno, AM Martinez, G Cavalli - Cell research, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer arises from a multitude of disorders resulting in loss of differentiation and a stem cell-
like phenotype characterized by uncontrolled growth. Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins are …

Pediatric gliomas: current concepts on diagnosis, biology, and clinical management

D Sturm, SM Pfister, DTW Jones - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Gliomas are the most common CNS tumors in children and adolescents, and they show an
extremely broad range of clinical behavior. The majority of pediatric gliomas present as …

Pharmaco-proteogenomic profiling of pediatric diffuse midline glioma to inform future treatment strategies

IJ Findlay, GN De Iuliis, RJ Duchatel, ER Jackson… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Diffuse midline glioma (DMG) is a deadly pediatric and adolescent central nervous system
(CNS) tumor localized along the midline structures of the brain atop the spinal cord. With a …

Characteristics of H3 K27M-mutant gliomas in adults

D Meyronet, M Esteban-Mader, C Bonnet… - Neuro …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background. Diffuse H3 K27M-mutant gliomas occur primarily in children but can
also be encountered in adults. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of H3 …

H3. 3K27M cooperates with Trp53 loss and PDGFRA gain in mouse embryonic neural progenitor cells to induce invasive high-grade gliomas

M Pathania, N De Jay, N Maestro, AS Harutyunyan… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Gain-of-function mutations in histone 3 (H3) variants are found in a substantial proportion of
pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG), often in association with TP53 loss and platelet …

Functionalized macrophage exosomes with panobinostat and PPM1D‐siRNA for diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas therapy

S Shan, J Chen, Y Sun, Y Wang, B **a, H Tan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a rare and fatal pediatric brain tumor. Mutation of
p53‐induced protein phosphatase 1 (PPM1D) in DIPG cells promotes tumor cell …