Applications of single-cell sequencing in cancer research: progress and perspectives

Y Lei, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, B Zhang, J Liu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Single-cell sequencing, including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics and
metabolomics sequencing, is a powerful tool to decipher the cellular and molecular …

Cancer cell heterogeneity and plasticity: A paradigm shift in glioblastoma

YA Yabo, SP Niclou, A Golebiewska - Neuro-oncology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Phenotypic plasticity has emerged as a major contributor to intra-tumoral heterogeneity and
treatment resistance in cancer. Increasing evidence shows that glioblastoma (GBM) cells …

Gradient of developmental and injury response transcriptional states defines functional vulnerabilities underpinning glioblastoma heterogeneity

LM Richards, OKN Whitley, G MacLeod, FMG Cavalli… - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Glioblastomas harbor diverse cell populations, including rare glioblastoma stem cells
(GSCs) that drive tumorigenesis. To characterize functional diversity within this population …

Chemoresistance evolution in triple-negative breast cancer delineated by single-cell sequencing

C Kim, R Gao, E Sei, R Brandt, J Hartman, T Hatschek… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype that frequently develops
resistance to chemotherapy. An unresolved question is whether resistance is caused by the …

Glioblastoma stem cells: driving resilience through chaos

BC Prager, S Bhargava, V Mahadev, CG Hubert… - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Glioblastoma is an aggressive and heterogeneous tumor in which glioblastoma stem cells
(GSCs) are at the apex of an entropic hierarchy and impart devastating therapy resistance …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals that glioblastoma recapitulates a normal neurodevelopmental hierarchy

CP Couturier, S Ayyadhury, PU Le, J Nadaf… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells are critical for cancer initiation, development, and treatment resistance.
Our understanding of these processes, and how they relate to glioblastoma heterogeneity, is …

Molecular mechanisms of treatment resistance in glioblastoma

A Ou, WKA Yung, N Majd - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma is the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults and is almost
invariably fatal. Despite our growing understanding of the various mechanisms underlying …

An anatomic transcriptional atlas of human glioblastoma

RB Puchalski, N Shah, J Miller, R Dalley, SR Nomura… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain tumor that carries a poor prognosis. The tumor's
molecular and cellular landscapes are complex, and their relationships to histologic features …

T-cell exhaustion signatures vary with tumor type and are severe in glioblastoma

K Woroniecka, P Chongsathidkiet, K Rhodin… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: T-cell dysfunction is a hallmark of glioblastoma (GBM). Although anergy and
tolerance have been well characterized, T-cell exhaustion remains relatively unexplored …

Intra-tumour diversification in colorectal cancer at the single-cell level

SF Roerink, N Sasaki, H Lee-Six, MD Young… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Every cancer originates from a single cell. During expansion of the neoplastic cell
population, individual cells acquire genetic and phenotypic differences from each other …