Boveri and beyond: Chromothripsis and genomic instability from mitotic errors

A Mazzagatti, JL Engel, P Ly - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
Mitotic cell division is tightly monitored by checkpoints that safeguard the genome from
instability. Failures in accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis can cause …

Aneuploidy in human cancer: new tools and perspectives

AA Lakhani, SL Thompson, JM Sheltzer - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Chromosome copy number imbalances, otherwise known as aneuploidies, are a common
but poorly understood feature of cancer. Here, we describe recent advances in both …

Loss of p53 and mutational heterogeneity drives immune resistance in an autochthonous mouse lung cancer model with high tumor mutational burden

M Zhu, J Kim, Q Deng, B Ricciuti, JV Alessi… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The role of tumor mutational burden (TMB) in shaping tumor immunity is a key question that
has not been addressable using genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) of lung …

Targeted assembly of ectopic kinetochores to induce chromosome‐specific segmental aneuploidies

L Tovini, SC Johnson, MA Guscott, AM Andersen… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Cancer cells display persistent underlying chromosomal instability, with individual tumour
types intriguingly exhibiting characteristic subsets of whole, and subchromosomal …

Chromosome 8p engineering reveals increased metastatic potential targetable by patient-specific synthetic lethality in liver cancer

T Huth, EC Dreher, S Lemke, S Fritzsche… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Large-scale chromosomal aberrations are prevalent in human cancer, but their function
remains poorly understood. We established chromosome-engineered hepatocellular …

The two sides of chromosomal instability: drivers and brakes in cancer

R Hosea, S Hillary, S Naqvi, S Wu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer and is associated with tumor cell
malignancy. CIN triggers a chain reaction in cells leading to chromosomal abnormalities …

[HTML][HTML] Positioning centrioles and centrosomes

MR Hannaford, NM Rusan - Journal of Cell Biology, 2024 - rupress.org
Centrosomes are the primary microtubule organizer in eukaryotic cells. In addition to
shaping the intracellular microtubule network and the mitotic spindle, centrosomes are …

Permission to pass: on the role of p53 as a gatekeeper for aneuploidy

JF Marques, GJPL Kops - Chromosome Research, 2023 - Springer
Aneuploidy—the karyotype state in which the number of chromosomes deviates from a
multiple of the haploid chromosome set—is common in cancer, where it is thought to …

Consequences of gaining an extra chromosome

EM Torres - Chromosome Research, 2023 - Springer
Mistakes in chromosome segregation leading to aneuploidy are the primary cause of
miscarriages in humans. Excluding sex chromosomes, viable aneuploidies in humans …

Disentangling the roles of aneuploidy, chromosomal instability and tumour heterogeneity in developing resistance to cancer therapies

JR Andrade, AD Gallagher, J Maharaj… - Chromosome …, 2023 - Springer
Aneuploidy is defined as the cellular state of having a number of chromosomes that deviates
from a multiple of the normal haploid chromosome number of a given organism. Aneuploidy …