Addressing the benefits of inhibiting APOBEC3-dependent mutagenesis in cancer

M Petljak, AM Green, J Maciejowski, MD Weitzman - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Mutational signatures associated with apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic
polypeptide-like (APOBEC) 3 cytosine deaminase activity have been found in over half of …

Aristolochic acid-associated cancers: a public health risk in need of global action

S Das, S Thakur, M Korenjak, VS Sidorenko… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Aristolochic acids (AAs) are a group of naturally occurring compounds present in many plant
species of the Aristolochiaceae family. Exposure to AA is a significant risk factor for severe …

[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 …

Insights for precision oncology from the integration of genomic and clinical data of 13,880 tumors from the 100,000 Genomes Cancer Programme

A Sosinsky, J Ambrose, W Cross, C Turnbull… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Cancer Programme of the 100,000 Genomes Project was an initiative to
provide whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for patients with cancer, evaluating opportunities …

The chemotherapeutic drug CX-5461 is a potent mutagen in cultured human cells

GCC Koh, S Boushaki, SJ Zhao, AM Pregnall… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The chemotherapeutic agent CX-5461, or pidnarulex, has been fast-tracked by the United
States Food and Drug Administration for early-stage clinical studies of BRCA1-, BRCA2-and …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer analysis of post-translational modifications reveals shared patterns of protein regulation

Y Geffen, S Anand, Y Akiyama, TM Yaron, Y Song… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) play key roles in regulating cell signaling and
physiology in both normal and cancer cells. Advances in mass spectrometry enable high …

Comprehensive analysis of mutational signatures reveals distinct patterns and molecular processes across 27 pediatric cancers

V Thatikonda, SMA Islam, RJ Autry, BC Jones… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Analysis of mutational signatures can reveal underlying molecular mechanisms of
the processes that have imprinted the somatic mutations found in cancer genomes. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Homologous recombination repair deficiency: an overview for pathologists

KD Doig, AP Fellowes, SB Fox - Modern Pathology, 2023 - Elsevier
The repair of DNA double-stranded breaks relies on the homologous recombination repair
pathway and is critical to cell function. However, this pathway can be lost in some cancers …

Assigning mutational signatures to individual samples and individual somatic mutations with SigProfilerAssignment

M Díaz-Gay, R Vangara, M Barnes, X Wang… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Analysis of mutational signatures is a powerful approach for understanding the
mutagenic processes that have shaped the evolution of a cancer genome. To evaluate the …

Implementation of whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing into clinical cancer care

E Cuppen, O Elemento, R Rosenquist, S Nikic… - JCO Precision …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE The combination of whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing (WGTS) is
expected to transform diagnosis and treatment for patients with cancer. WGTS is a …