Phagocytosis checkpoints as new targets for cancer immunotherapy

M Feng, W Jiang, BYS Kim, CC Zhang, YX Fu… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapies targeting adaptive immune checkpoints have substantially
improved patient outcomes across multiple metastatic and treatment-refractory cancer types …

Context is everything: aneuploidy in cancer

U Ben-David, A Amon - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by multiple types of genetic alterations, which range in size from point
mutations to whole-chromosome gains and losses, known as aneuploidy. Chromosome …

Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing

ML Leibowitz, S Papathanasiou, PA Doerfler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome editing has therapeutic potential for treating genetic diseases and cancer.
However, the currently most practicable approaches rely on the generation of DNA double …

Chromothripsis drives the evolution of gene amplification in cancer

O Shoshani, SF Brunner, R Yaeger, P Ly… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Focal chromosomal amplification contributes to the initiation of cancer by mediating
overexpression of oncogenes,–, and to the development of cancer therapy resistance by …

Extrachromosomal DNA is associated with oncogene amplification and poor outcome across multiple cancers

H Kim, NP Nguyen, K Turner, S Wu, AD Gujar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) amplification promotes intratumoral genetic heterogeneity
and accelerated tumor evolution,–; however, its frequency and clinical impact are unclear …

Chromosomal instability as a driver of cancer progression

X Chen, AS Agustinus, J Li, M DiBona… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) refers to an increased propensity of cells to acquire structural
and numerical chromosomal abnormalities during cell division, which contributes to tumour …

RHINO directs MMEJ to repair DNA breaks in mitosis

A Brambati, O Sacco, S Porcella, J Heyza, M Kareh… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR) are the primary
pathways for repairing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) during interphase, whereas …

Cytoplasmic DNA: sources, sensing, and role in aging and disease

KN Miller, SG Victorelli, H Salmonowicz, N Dasgupta… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Endogenous cytoplasmic DNA (cytoDNA) species are emerging as key mediators of
inflammation in diverse physiological and pathological contexts. Although the role of …

TP53-Mutated Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Biology, Current Therapy, and Future Directions

NG Daver, A Maiti, TM Kadia, P Vyas, R Majeti, AH Wei… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
TP53-mutated myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) form a
distinct group of myeloid disorders with dismal outcomes. TP53-mutated MDS and AML …

Mechanisms generating cancer genome complexity from a single cell division error

NT Umbreit, CZ Zhang, LD Lynch, LJ Blaine… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The chromosome breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycle is a catastrophic
mutational process, common during tumorigenesis, that results in gene amplification and …