Targeting the cancer epigenome for therapy

PA Jones, JPJ Issa, S Baylin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing has revealed that more than 50% of human cancers harbour
mutations in enzymes that are involved in chromatin organization. Tumour cells not only are …

From melanocytes to melanomas

AH Shain, BC Bastian - nature reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Melanomas on sun-exposed skin are heterogeneous tumours, which can be subtyped on
the basis of their cumulative levels of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. A melanocytic …

Genomic and transcriptomic features of response to anti-PD-1 therapy in metastatic melanoma

W Hugo, JM Zaretsky, LU Sun, C Song, BH Moreno… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
PD-1 immune checkpoint blockade provides significant clinical benefits for melanoma
patients. We analyzed the somatic mutanomes and transcriptomes of pretreatment …

Loss of PTEN promotes resistance to T cell–mediated immunotherapy

W Peng, JQ Chen, C Liu, S Malu, C Creasy, MT Tetzlaff… - Cancer discovery, 2016 - AACR
T cell–mediated immunotherapies are promising cancer treatments. However, most patients
still fail to respond to these therapies. The molecular determinants of immune resistance are …

Regulatory circuits of T cell function in cancer

DE Speiser, PC Ho, G Verdeil - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Recent progress in cancer immunotherapy emphasizes the importance of understanding
immune-regulatory pathways in tumours. Dysfunction of antitumour T cells may be due to …

Targeted next generation sequencing identifies markers of response to PD-1 blockade

DB Johnson, GM Frampton, MJ Rioth, E Yusko… - Cancer immunology …, 2016 - AACR
Therapeutic antibodies blocking programmed death-1 and its ligand (PD-1/PD-L1) induce
durable responses in a substantial fraction of melanoma patients. We sought to determine …

Genomic analysis identifies new drivers and progression pathways in skin basal cell carcinoma

X Bonilla, L Parmentier, B King, F Bezrukov, G Kaya… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the skin is the most common malignant neoplasm in humans.
BCC is primarily driven by the Sonic Hedgehog (Hh) pathway. However, its phenotypic …

Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq

I Tirosh, B Izar, SM Prakadan, MH Wadsworth… - Science, 2016 - science.org
To explore the distinct genotypic and phenotypic states of melanoma tumors, we applied
single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to 4645 single cells isolated from 19 patients …

The many roles of BAF (mSWI/SNF) and PBAF complexes in cancer

C Hodges, JG Kirkland… - Cold Spring …, 2016 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
During the last decade, a host of epigenetic mechanisms were found to contribute to cancer
and other human diseases. Several genomic studies have revealed that∼ 20% of …

Mutational signatures in esophageal adenocarcinoma define etiologically distinct subgroups with therapeutic relevance

M Secrier, X Li, N De Silva, MD Eldridge, G Contino… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has a poor outcome, and targeted therapy trials have
thus far been disappointing owing to a lack of robust stratification methods. Whole-genome …