Oncometabolites at the crossroads of genetic, epigenetic and ecological alterations in cancer

L Lanzetti - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2024 - nature.com
By the time a tumor reaches clinical detectability, it contains around 108–109 cells.
However, during tumor formation, significant cell loss occurs due to cell death. In some …

Epigenomic heterogeneity as a source of tumour evolution

M Laisné, M Lupien, C Vallot - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
In the past decade, remarkable progress in cancer medicine has been achieved by the
development of treatments that target DNA sequence variants. However, a purely genetic …

Evolving cell states and oncogenic drivers during the progression of IDH-mutant gliomas

J Wu, LN Gonzalez Castro, S Battaglia, CA El Farran… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutants define a class of gliomas that are initially slow-
growing but inevitably progress to fatal disease. To characterize their malignant cell …

Droplet Hi-C enables scalable, single-cell profiling of chromatin architecture in heterogeneous tissues

L Chang, Y Xie, B Taylor, Z Wang, J Sun… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Current methods for analyzing chromatin architecture are not readily scalable to
heterogeneous tissues. Here we introduce Droplet Hi-C, which uses a commercial …

Dissection of a CTCF topological boundary uncovers principles of enhancer-oncogene regulation

KL Kim, GJ Rahme, VY Goel, CA El Farran, AS Hansen… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Enhancer-gene communication is dependent on topologically associating domains (TADs)
and boundaries enforced by the CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) insulator, but the underlying …

Glioblastoma vaccines: past, present, and opportunities

Z Xiong, I Raphael, M Olin, H Okada, X Li… - …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most lethal central nervous systems (CNS) tumours in
adults. As supplements to standard of care (SOC), various immunotherapies improve the …

The impact of the embryonic DNA methylation program on CTCF-mediated genome regulation

A Monteagudo-Sánchez, J Richard Albert… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
During mammalian embryogenesis, both the 5-cytosine DNA methylation (5meC) landscape
and three dimensional (3D) chromatin architecture are profoundly remodeled during a …

Gender differences in gliomas: from epidemiological trends to changes at the hormonal and molecular levels

J Yin, G Liu, Y Zhang, Y Zhou, Y Pan, Q Zhang, R Yu… - Cancer Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Gender plays a crucial role in the occurrence and development of cancer, as well as in the
metabolism of nutrients and energy. Men and women display significant differences in the …

Epigenetic regulation of tumor-immune symbiosis in glioma

Y Liu, H Ali, F Khan, L Pang, P Chen - Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2024 - cell.com
Glioma is a type of aggressive and incurable brain tumor. Patients with glioma are highly
resistant to all types of therapies, including immunotherapies. Epigenetic reprogramming is …

The long non-coding RNA ANRIL in cancers

A Sanchez, J Lhuillier, G Grosjean, L Ayadi, S Maenner - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The human genome produces various types of RNA molecules. A
significant portion of these are long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) exceeding 200 nts without …