Cancer cell plasticity during tumor progression, metastasis and response to therapy

A Pérez-González, K Bévant, C Blanpain - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cell plasticity represents the ability of cells to be reprogrammed and to change their fate and
identity, enabling homeostasis restoration and tissue regeneration following damage. Cell …

Therapy resistance: opportunities created by adaptive responses to targeted therapies in cancer

M Labrie, JS Brugge, GB Mills… - Nature reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Normal cells explore multiple states to survive stresses encountered during development
and self-renewal as well as environmental stresses such as starvation, DNA damage, toxins …

Diverse clonal fates emerge upon drug treatment of homogeneous cancer cells

Y Goyal, GT Busch, M Pillai, J Li, RH Boe, EI Grody… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Even among genetically identical cancer cells, resistance to therapy frequently emerges
from a small subset of those cells,,,,,–. Molecular differences in rare individual cells in 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 …

The journey from melanocytes to melanoma

PP Centeno, V Pavet, R Marais - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, melanoma has led the field in new cancer treatments, with impressive
gains in on-treatment survival but more modest improvements in overall survival. Melanoma …

Towards precision oncology with patient-derived xenografts

ER Zanella, E Grassi, L Trusolino - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Under the selective pressure of therapy, tumours dynamically evolve multiple adaptive
mechanisms that make static interrogation of genomic alterations insufficient to guide …

Drug-tolerant persister cells in cancer: the cutting edges and future directions

Y Pu, L Li, H Peng, L Liu, D Heymann… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Drug-tolerant persister (DTP) cell populations were originally discovered in antibiotic-
resistant bacterial biofilms. Similar populations with comparable features have since been …

Chromosomal instability accelerates the evolution of resistance to anti-cancer therapies

DA Lukow, EL Sausville, P Suri, NK Chunduri… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Aneuploidy is a ubiquitous feature of human tumors, but the acquisition of aneuploidy
typically antagonizes cellular fitness. To investigate how aneuploidy could contribute to …

Acquired resistance to KRAS G12C small-molecule inhibitors via genetic/nongenetic mechanisms in lung cancer

A Mohanty, A Nam, S Srivastava, J Jones… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Inherent or acquired resistance to sotorasib poses a substantialt challenge for NSCLC
treatment. Here, we demonstrate that acquired resistance to sotorasib in isogenic cells …

Single cell multi-omics reveal intra-cell-line heterogeneity across human cancer cell lines

Q Zhu, X Zhao, Y Zhang, Y Li, S Liu, J Han… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Human cancer cell lines have long served as tools for cancer research and drug discovery,
but the presence and the source of intra-cell-line heterogeneity remain elusive. Here, we …