Pharmacological targeting of the cancer epigenome

NW Mabe, JA Perry, CF Malone, K Stegmaier - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is increasingly appreciated as a hallmark of cancer, including
disease initiation, maintenance and therapy resistance. As a result, there have been …

WNT signaling and cancer stemness

M Katoh, M Katoh - Essays in biochemistry, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Cancer stemness, defined as the self-renewal and tumor-initiation potential of cancer stem
cells (CSCs), is a cancer biology property featuring activation of CSC signaling networks …

Loss of Kmt2c or Kmt2d drives brain metastasis via KDM6A-dependent upregulation of MMP3

M Seehawer, Z Li, J Nishida, P Foidart, AH Reiter… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract KMT2C and KMT2D, encoding histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferases, are among
the most commonly mutated genes in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). However, how …

MLL3 loss drives metastasis by promoting a hybrid epithelial–mesenchymal transition state

J Cui, C Zhang, JE Lee, BA Bartholdy, D Yang… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity associated with the hybrid epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is
crucial to metastatic seeding and outgrowth. However, the mechanisms governing the hybrid …

Classical epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and alternative cell death process-driven blebbishield metastatic-witch (BMW) pathways to cancer metastasis

GG **esh, AS Brohl - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Metastasis is a pivotal event that accelerates the prognosis of cancer patients towards
mortality. Therapies that aim to induce cell death in metastatic cells require a more detailed …

[HTML][HTML] TGF-β, EMT, and resistance to anti-cancer treatment

X Wang, PJA Eichhorn, JP Thiery - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling regulates cell-specific programs involved in
embryonic development, wound-healing, and immune homeostasis. Yet, during tumor …

A role for partial epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in enabling stemness in homeostasis and cancer

J Verstappe, G Berx - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Stem cells have self-renewal capacities and the ability to give rise to differentiated cells
thereby sustaining tissues during homeostasis and injury. This structural hierarchy extends …

Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition (EMT)

G Manfioletti, M Fedele - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular process involved in many
physiological and pathological conditions. However, in the last decade there has been a …

Lung endothelium exploits susceptible tumor cell states to instruct metastatic latency

M Jakab, KH Lee, A Uvarovskii, S Ovchinnikova… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
In metastasis, cancer cells travel around the circulation to colonize distant sites. Due to the
rarity of these events, the immediate fates of metastasizing tumor cells (mTCs) are poorly …

Synthetic augmentation of cancer cell line multi-omic datasets using unsupervised deep learning

Z Cai, S Apolinário, AR Baião, C Pacini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Integrating diverse types of biological data is essential for a holistic understanding of cancer
biology, yet it remains challenging due to data heterogeneity, complexity, and sparsity …