Reactivation of embryonic genetic programs in tissue regeneration and disease

H Fazilaty, K Basler - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Embryonic genetic programs are reactivated in response to various types of tissue damage,
providing cell plasticity for tissue regeneration or disease progression. In acute conditions …

Wnt/β-catenin-driven EMT regulation in human cancers

W Xue, L Yang, C Chen, M Ashrafizadeh, Y Tian… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Metastasis accounts for 90% of cancer-related deaths among the patients. The
transformation of epithelial cells into mesenchymal cells with molecular alterations can occur …

Mechanisms of resistance to oncogenic KRAS inhibition in pancreatic cancer

J Dilly, MT Hoffman, L Abbassi, Z Li, F Paradiso… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
KRAS inhibitors demonstrate clinical efficacy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC);
however, resistance is common. Among patients with KRAS G12C-mutant PDAC treated …

Netrin-1 blockade inhibits tumor associated Myeloid-derived suppressor cells, cancer stemness and alleviates resistance to chemotherapy and immune checkpoint …

B Ducarouge, AR Redavid, C Victoor, R Chira… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
Drug resistance and cancer relapse represent significant therapeutic challenges after
chemotherapy or immunotherapy, and a major limiting factor for long-term cancer survival …

Custom microfluidic chip design enables cost-effective three-dimensional spatiotemporal transcriptomics with a wide field of view

J Zhu, K Pang, B Hu, R He, N Wang, Z Jiang, P Ji… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomic techniques offer unprecedented insights into the molecular
organization of complex tissues. However, integrating cost-effectiveness, high throughput, a …

Decoding the interplay between genetic and non-genetic drivers of metastasis

P Karras, JRM Black, N McGranahan, JC Marine - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Metastasis is a multistep process by which cancer cells break away from their original
location and spread to distant organs, and is responsible for the vast majority of cancer …

How important is EMT for cancer metastasis?

T Celià-Terrassa, Y Kang - PLoS biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a biological phenomenon of cellular plasticity
initially reported in embryonic development, has been increasingly recognized for its …

[HTML][HTML] Immune checkpoints between epithelial-mesenchymal transition and autophagy: A conflicting triangle

M Cordani, R Strippoli, F Trionfetti, AB Behrooz… - Cancer Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Inhibitory immune checkpoint (ICP) molecules are pivotal in inhibiting innate and acquired
antitumor immune responses, a mechanism frequently exploited by cancer cells to evade …

Single-cell transcriptome profiles the heterogeneity of tumor cells and microenvironments for different pathological endometrial cancer and identifies specific sensitive …

F Ren, L Wang, Y Wang, J Wang, Y Wang… - Cell Death & …, 2024 - nature.com
Endometrial cancer (EC) is a highly heterogeneous malignancy characterized by varied
pathology and prognoses, and the heterogeneity of its cancer cells and the tumor …

The mesodermal and myogenic specification of hESCs depend on ZEB1 and are inhibited by ZEB2

C Ninfali, L Siles, A Esteve-Codina, A Postigo - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can differentiate into any cell lineage. Here, we report
that ZEB1 and ZEB2 promote and inhibit mesodermal-to-myogenic specification of hESCs …