Principles and dynamics of spindle assembly checkpoint signalling

AD McAinsh, GJPL Kops - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The transmission of a complete set of chromosomes to daughter cells during cell division is
vital for development and tissue homeostasis. The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) …

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 …

Aneuploidy as a driver of human cancer

E Sdeor, H Okada, R Saad, T Ben-Yishay… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Aneuploidy, an abnormal chromosome composition, is a major contributor to cancer
development and progression and an important determinant of cancer therapeutic …

A p62-dependent rheostat dictates micronuclei catastrophe and chromosome rearrangements

S Martin, S Scorzoni, S Cordone, A Mazzagatti… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Chromosomal instability (CIN) generates micronuclei—aberrant extranuclear structures that
catalyze the acquisition of complex chromosomal rearrangements present in cancer …

KaryoCreate: a CRISPR-based technology to study chromosome-specific aneuploidy by targeting human centromeres

N Bosco, A Goldberg, X Zhao, JC Mays, P Cheng… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Aneuploidy, the presence of chromosome gains or losses, is a hallmark of cancer. Here, we
describe KaryoCreate (karyotype CRISPR-engineered aneuploidy technology), a system …

Short-term molecular consequences of chromosome mis-segregation for genome stability

L Garribba, G De Feudis, V Martis, M Galli… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chromosome instability (CIN) is the most common form of genome instability and is a
hallmark of cancer. CIN invariably leads to aneuploidy, a state of karyotype imbalance. Here …

Diverse microtubule-targeted anticancer agents kill cells by inducing chromosome missegregation on multipolar spindles

AS Zhou, JB Tucker, CM Scribano, AR Lynch… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Microtubule-targeted agents are commonly used for cancer treatment, though many patients
do not benefit. Microtubule-targeted drugs were assumed to elicit anticancer activity via …

Loss of RanGAP1 drives chromosome instability and rapid tumorigenesis of osteosarcoma

Y Gong, S Zou, D Deng, L Wang, H Hu, Z Qiu, T Wei… - Developmental Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Chromothripsis is a catastrophic event of chromosomal instability that involves intensive
fragmentation and rearrangements within localized chromosomal regions. However, its …

Aneuploidy in human cancer: new tools and perspectives

AA Lakhani, SL Thompson, JM Sheltzer - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Chromosome copy number imbalances, otherwise known as aneuploidies, are a common
but poorly understood feature of cancer. Here, we describe recent advances in both …

p53 mutation in normal esophagus promotes multiple stages of carcinogenesis but is constrained by clonal competition

K Murai, S Dentro, SH Ong, R Sood… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Aging normal human oesophagus accumulates TP53 mutant clones. These are the origin of
most oesophageal squamous carcinomas, in which biallelic TP53 disruption is almost …