Leukemic stem cells and therapy resistance in acute myeloid leukemia

P Stelmach, A Trumpp - Haematologica, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A major obstacle in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is refractory disease or
relapse after achieving remission. The latter arises from a few therapy-resistant cells within …

Biomarkers of aging

Aging Biomarker Consortium, H Bao, J Cao… - Science China Life …, 2023 - Springer
Aging biomarkers are a combination of biological parameters to (i) assess age-related
changes,(ii) track the physiological aging process, and (iii) predict the transition into a …

The longitudinal dynamics and natural history of clonal haematopoiesis

MA Fabre, JG de Almeida, E Fiorillo, E Mitchell… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal expansions driven by somatic mutations become pervasive across human tissues
with age, including in the haematopoietic system, where the phenomenon is termed clonal …

Aggressive lymphoma after CD19 CAR T-cell therapy

G Kobbe, M Brüggemann, BN Baermann… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
The development of a fatal, clonal, autonomously proliferating CD4− CD8− chimeric antigen
receptor (CAR)+ peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) occurred 1 month after a patient …

The epigenetic hallmarks of cancer

M Esteller, MA Dawson, C Kadoch, FV Rassool… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Cancer is a complex disease in which several molecular and cellular pathways converge to
foster the tumoral phenotype. Notably, in the latest iteration of the cancer hallmarks,“ …

SRCAP mutations drive clonal hematopoiesis through epigenetic and DNA repair dysregulation

CW Chen, L Zhang, R Dutta, A Niroula, PG Miller… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Somatic mutations accumulate in all cells with age and can confer a selective advantage,
leading to clonal expansion over time. In hematopoietic cells, mutations in a subset of genes …

Loss-of-function mutations in Dnmt3a and Tet2 lead to accelerated atherosclerosis and concordant macrophage phenotypes

PJ Rauch, J Gopakumar, AJ Silver, D Nachun… - Nature Cardiovascular …, 2023 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is defined by the presence of a
cancer-associated somatic mutation in white blood cells in the absence of overt …

Base editor scanning charts the DNMT3A activity landscape

NZ Lue, EM Garcia, KC Ngan, C Lee… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
DNA methylation is critical for regulating gene expression, necessitating its accurate
placement by enzymes such as the DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A. Dysregulation of this …

DNMT3A-coordinated splicing governs the stem state switch towards differentiation in embryonic and haematopoietic stem cells

R Ramabadran, JH Wang, JM Reyes, AG Guzman… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Upon stimulation by extrinsic stimuli, stem cells initiate a programme that enables
differentiation or self-renewal. Disruption of the stem state exit has catastrophic …

The N-terminal region of DNMT3A engages the nucleosome surface to aid chromatin recruitment

H Wapenaar, G Clifford, W Rolls, M Pasquier… - EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Abstract DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A) plays a critical role in establishing and
maintaining DNA methylation patterns in vertebrates. Here we structurally and biochemically …