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 …

The causes and consequences of genetic heterogeneity in cancer evolution

RA Burrell, N McGranahan, J Bartek, C Swanton - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Recent studies have revealed extensive genetic diversity both between and within tumours.
This heterogeneity affects key cancer pathways, driving phenotypic variation, and poses a …

Nuclear chromosome locations dictate segregation error frequencies

SJ Klaasen, MA Truong, RH van Jaarsveld, I Koprivec… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chromosome segregation errors during cell divisions generate aneuploidies and
micronuclei, which can undergo extensive chromosomal rearrangements such as …

Causes and consequences of aneuploidy in cancer

DJ Gordon, B Resio, D Pellman - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Genetic instability, which includes both numerical and structural chromosomal
abnormalities, is a hallmark of cancer. Whereas the structural chromosome rearrangements …

Molecular mechanisms of micronucleus, nucleoplasmic bridge and nuclear bud formation in mammalian and human cells

M Fenech, M Kirsch-Volders, AT Natarajan… - …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Micronuclei (MN) and other nuclear anomalies such as nucleoplasmic bridges (NPBs) and
nuclear buds (NBUDs) are biomarkers of genotoxic events and chromosomal instability …

The impact of mitotic errors on cell proliferation and tumorigenesis

MS Levine, AJ Holland - Genes & development, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Mitosis is a delicate event that must be executed with high fidelity to ensure genomic
stability. Recent work has provided insight into how mitotic errors shape cancer genomes by …

Kinesins and cancer

O Rath, F Kozielski - Nature reviews cancer, 2012 - nature.com
Kinesins are a family of molecular motors that travel unidirectionally along microtubule
tracks to fulfil their many roles in intracellular transport or cell division. Over the past few …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of chromosomal instability

SL Thompson, SF Bakhoum, DA Compton - Current biology, 2010 - cell.com
Most solid tumors are aneuploid, having a chromosome number that is not a multiple of the
haploid number, and many frequently mis-segregate whole chromosomes in a phenomenon …

Mechanisms underlying spindle assembly and robustness

VA Valdez, L Neahring, S Petry… - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
The microtubule-based spindle orchestrates chromosome segregation during cell division.
Following more than a century of study, many components and pathways contributing to …

Genome instability in multiple myeloma

CJ Neuse, OC Lomas, C Schliemann, YJ Shen… - Leukemia, 2020 - nature.com
Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable plasma cell malignancy characterized by clonal
proliferation of plasma cells and a heterogenous genomic landscape. Copy number and …