Mechanisms driving the immunoregulatory function of cancer cells

A van Weverwijk, KE de Visser - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumours display an astonishing variation in the spatial distribution, composition and
activation state of immune cells, which impacts their progression and response to …

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] Epigenomic state transitions characterize tumor progression in mouse lung adenocarcinoma

LM LaFave, VK Kartha, S Ma, K Meli, I Del Priore… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Regulatory networks that maintain functional, differentiated cell states are often dysregulated
in tumor development. Here, we use single-cell epigenomics to profile chromatin state …

Genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies PRC2 and KMT2D-COMPASS as regulators of distinct EMT trajectories that contribute differentially to metastasis

Y Zhang, JL Donaher, S Das, X Li, F Reinhardt… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) programs operate within carcinoma cells, where
they generate phenotypes associated with malignant progression. In their various …

Lung cancers: molecular characterization, clonal heterogeneity and evolution, and cancer stem cells

U Testa, G Castelli, E Pelosi - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer causes the largest number of cancer-related deaths in the world. Most (85%) of
lung cancers are classified as non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small-cell lung …

Epigenetic balance of gene expression by Polycomb and COMPASS families

A Piunti, A Shilatifard - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Multicellular organisms depend on the precise orchestration of gene
expression to direct embryonic development and to maintain tissue homeostasis through …

Stemness in cancer: stem cells, cancer stem cells, and their microenvironment

PM Aponte, A Caicedo - Stem cells international, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Stemness combines the ability of a cell to perpetuate its lineage, to give rise to differentiated
cells, and to interact with its environment to maintain a balance between quiescence …

Maintaining cell identity: PRC2-mediated regulation of transcription and cancer

I Comet, EM Riising, B Leblanc, K Helin - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Enhancer of zeste homologue 2 (EZH2), the catalytic subunit of Polycomb repressive
complex 2 (PRC2), has attracted broad research attention in the past few years because of …

MALAT1: an epigenetic regulator of inflammation in diabetic retinopathy

S Biswas, AA Thomas, S Chen, E Aref-Eshghi… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Despite possessing limited protein-coding potential, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have
been implicated in a myriad of pathologic conditions. Most well documented in cancer, one …

Nanomedicines inhibiting tumor metastasis and recurrence and their clinical applications

X Kong, R Cheng, J Wang, Y Fang, KC Hwang - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Tumor metastasis and recurrence is one of the biggest problems in curing cancers. Due to
the difficulty in complete removal of the primary tumor in traditional surgeries and the poor …