Context is everything: aneuploidy in cancer

U Ben-David, A Amon - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by multiple types of genetic alterations, which range in size from point
mutations to whole-chromosome gains and losses, known as aneuploidy. Chromosome …

The lung microenvironment: an important regulator of tumour growth and metastasis

NK Altorki, GJ Markowitz, D Gao, JL Port… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Lung cancer is a major global health problem, as it is the leading cause of cancer-related
deaths worldwide. Major advances in the identification of key mutational alterations have led …

[HTML][HTML] Lineage tracing reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity, and paths of tumor evolution

D Yang, MG Jones, S Naranjo, WM Rideout, KHJ Min… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor evolution is driven by the progressive acquisition of genetic and epigenetic
alterations that enable uncontrolled growth and expansion to neighboring and distal tissues …

Mismatch repair deficiency is not sufficient to elicit tumor immunogenicity

PMK Westcott, F Muyas, H Hauck, OC Smith… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair deficiency (MMRd) is associated with a high tumor mutational burden
(TMB) and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. Nevertheless, most …

The role of APOBEC3B in lung tumor evolution and targeted cancer therapy resistance

DR Caswell, P Gui, MK Mayekar, EK Law, O Pich… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
In this study, the impact of the apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing catalytic subunit-like
(APOBEC) enzyme APOBEC3B (A3B) on epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-driven …

Emergence of a high-plasticity cell state during lung cancer evolution

ND Marjanovic, M Hofree, JE Chan, D Canner, K Wu… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Tumor evolution from a single cell into a malignant, heterogeneous tissue remains poorly
understood. Here, we profile single-cell transcriptomes of genetically engineered mouse …

Molecular epidemiology and diagnostics of KRAS mutations in human cancer

J Timar, K Kashofer - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2020 - Springer
RAS mutation is the most frequent oncogenic alteration in human cancers. KRAS is the most
frequently mutated followed by NRAS. The emblematic KRAS mutant cancers are …

RAS proteins and their regulators in human disease

DK Simanshu, DV Nissley, F McCormick - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
RAS proteins are binary switches, cycling between ON and OFF states during signal
transduction. These switches are normally tightly controlled, but in RAS-related diseases …

Systemic dysfunction and plasticity of the immune macroenvironment in cancer models

BM Allen, KJ Hiam, CE Burnett, A Venida, R DeBarge… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding of the factors governing immune responses in cancer remains incomplete,
limiting patient benefit. In this study, we used mass cytometry to define the systemic immune …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the untargetable KRAS in cancer therapy

P Liu, Y Wang, X Li - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2019 - Elsevier
RAS is one of the most well-known proto-oncogenes. Its gain-of-function mutations occur in
approximately 30% of all human cancers. As the most frequently mutated RAS isoform …