Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

Functions and consequences of AID/APOBEC-mediated DNA and RNA deamination

R Pecori, S Di Giorgio, J Paulo Lorenzo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The AID/APOBEC polynucleotide cytidine deaminases have historically been classified as
either DNA mutators or RNA editors based on their first identified nucleic acid substrate …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx

AM Frankell, M Dietzen, M Al Bakir, EL Lim, T Karasaki… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide. Here we
analysed 1,644 tumour regions sampled at surgery or during follow-up from the first 421 …

Robust mapping of spatiotemporal trajectories and cell–cell interactions in healthy and diseased tissues

D Pham, X Tan, B Balderson, J Xu, LF Grice… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies generate multiple data types from biological
samples, namely gene expression, physical distance between data points, and/or tissue …

[HTML][HTML] ESMO recommendations on the use of circulating tumour DNA assays for patients with cancer: a report from the ESMO Precision Medicine Working Group

J Pascual, G Attard, FC Bidard, G Curigliano… - Annals of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) assays conducted on plasma are rapidly developing a
strong evidence base for use in patients with cancer. The European Society for Medical …

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 …

The evolution of non-small cell lung cancer metastases in TRACERx

M Al Bakir, A Huebner, C Martínez-Ruiz, K Grigoriadis… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Metastatic disease is responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths. We report the
longitudinal evolutionary analysis of 126 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumours from …

Overcoming therapy resistance in EGFR-mutant lung cancer

A Passaro, PA Jänne, T Mok, S Peters - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have dramatically changed the clinical prospects of patients
with non-small cell lung cancer harboring epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) …

Therapy-induced APOBEC3A drives evolution of persistent cancer cells

H Isozaki, R Sakhtemani, A Abbasi, N Nikpour… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Acquired drug resistance to anticancer targeted therapies remains an unsolved clinical
problem. Although many drivers of acquired drug resistance have been identified,,–, the …

Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …