Drug tolerant persister cell plasticity in cancer: A revolutionary strategy for more effective anticancer therapies

J He, Z Qiu, J Fan, X Xie, Q Sheng, X Sui - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Non-genetic mechanisms have recently emerged as important drivers of anticancer drug
resistance. Among these, the drug tolerant persister (DTP) cell phenotype is attracting more …

Plastic persisters: revival stem cells in colorectal cancer

CJ Tape - Trends in Cancer, 2024 - cell.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is traditionally considered to be a genetically driven disease.
However, nongenetic plasticity has recently emerged as a major driver of tumour initiation …

Pathway level subtyping identifies a slow-cycling biological phenotype associated with poor clinical outcomes in colorectal cancer

SB Malla, RM Byrne, MW Lafarge, SM Corry… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Molecular stratification using gene-level transcriptional data has identified subtypes with
distinctive genotypic and phenotypic traits, as exemplified by the consensus molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Trellis tree-based analysis reveals stromal regulation of patient-derived organoid drug responses

MR Zapatero, A Tong, JW Opzoomer, R O'Sullivan… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Patient-derived organoids (PDOs) can model personalized therapy responses; however,
current screening technologies cannot reveal drug response mechanisms or how tumor …

Divergent WNT signaling and drug sensitivity profiles within hepatoblastoma tumors and organoids

TA Kluiver, Y Lu, SA Schubert, LJ Kraaier… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Hepatoblastoma, the most prevalent pediatric liver cancer, almost always carries a WNT-
activating CTNNB1 mutation, yet exhibits notable molecular heterogeneity. To characterize …

Decoding p53 tumor suppression: a crosstalk between genomic stability and epigenetic control?

A Janic, E Abad, I Amelio - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2024 - nature.com
Genomic instability, a hallmark of cancer, is a direct consequence of the inactivation of the
tumor suppressor protein p53. Genetically modified mouse models and human tumor …

Polyclonality overcomes fitness barriers in Apc-driven tumorigenesis

ID Sadien, S Adler, S Mehmed, S Bailey, A Sawle… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Loss-of-function mutations in the tumour suppressor APC are an initial step in intestinal
tumorigenesis 1, 2. APC-mutant intestinal stem cells outcompete their wild-type neighbours …

Molecular pathological classification of colorectal cancer—an update

PD Dunne, MJ Arends - Virchows Archiv, 2024 - Springer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has a broad range of molecular alterations with two major
mechanisms of genomic instability (chromosomal instability and microsatellite instability) …

[HTML][HTML] Progressive plasticity during colorectal cancer metastasis

A Moorman, EK Benitez, F Cambulli, Q Jiang… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
As cancers progress, they become increasingly aggressive—metastatic tumours are less
responsive to first-line therapies than primary tumours, they acquire resistance to successive …

Clusterin: a marker and mediator of chemoresistance in colorectal cancer

S Hlavca, WH Chan, RM Engel, HE Abud - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2024 - Springer
Intra-tumoural heterogeneity and cancer cell plasticity in colorectal cancer (CRC) have been
key challenges to effective treatment for patients. It has been suggested that a subpopulation …