Circular ecDNA promotes accessible chromatin and high oncogene expression

S Wu, KM Turner, N Nguyen, R Raviram, M Erb… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Oncogenes are commonly amplified on particles of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in
cancer,, but our understanding of the structure of ecDNA and its effect on gene regulation is …

Extrachromosomal oncogene amplification drives tumour evolution and genetic heterogeneity

KM Turner, V Deshpande, D Beyter, T Koga, J Rusert… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Human cells have twenty-three pairs of chromosomes. In cancer, however, genes can be
amplified in chromosomes or in circular extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), although the …

Parallel sequencing of extrachromosomal circular DNAs and transcriptomes in single cancer cells

R Chamorro González, T Conrad, MC Stöber, R Xu… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) are common in cancer, but many questions about their
origin, structural dynamics and impact on intratumor heterogeneity are still unresolved. Here …

Gene regulation on extrachromosomal DNA

KL Hung, PS Mischel, HY Chang - Nature structural & molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Oncogene amplification on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) is prevalent in human cancer
and is associated with poor outcomes. Clonal, megabase-sized circular ecDNAs in cancer …

Live-cell imaging shows uneven segregation of extrachromosomal DNA elements and transcriptionally active extrachromosomal DNA hubs in cancer

E Yi, AD Gujar, M Guthrie, H Kim, D Zhao, KC Johnson… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Oncogenic extrachromosomal DNA elements (ecDNA) play an important role in tumor
evolution, but our understanding of ecDNA biology is limited. We determined the distribution …

Extrachromosomal DNA in cancer

V Bafna, PS Mischel - Annual review of genomics and human …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
In cancer, complex genome rearrangements and other structural alterations, including the
amplification of oncogenes on circular extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) elements, drive the …

Extrachromosomal DNA: an emerging hallmark in human cancer

S Wu, V Bafna, HY Chang… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Human genes are arranged on 23 pairs of chromosomes, but in cancer, tumor-promoting
genes and regulatory elements can free themselves from chromosomes and relocate to …

The genomic and spatial mobility of extrachromosomal DNA and its implications for cancer therapy

E van Leen, L Brückner, AG Henssen - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) amplification has been observed in at least 30 different
cancer types and is associated with worse patient outcomes. This has been linked to …

ATAC-seq identifies thousands of extrachromosomal circular DNA in cancer and cell lines

P Kumar, S Kiran, S Saha, Z Su, T Paulsen… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Extrachromosomal circular DNAs (eccDNAs) are somatically mosaic and contribute to
intercellular heterogeneity in normal and tumor cells. Because short eccDNAs are poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Oncogenic extrachromosomal DNA functions as mobile enhancers to globally amplify chromosomal transcription

Y Zhu, AD Gujar, CH Wong, H Tjong, CY Ngan, L Gong… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Extrachromosomal, circular DNA (ecDNA) is emerging as a prevalent yet less characterized
oncogenic alteration in cancer genomes. We leverage ChIA-PET and ChIA-Drop chromatin …