It's getting complicated—a fresh look at p53-MDM2-ARF triangle in tumorigenesis and cancer therapy

CP Kung, JD Weber - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Anti-tumorigenic mechanisms mediated by the tumor suppressor p53, upon oncogenic
stresses, are our bodies' greatest weapons to battle against cancer onset and development …

The present and future of the Cancer Dependency Map

R Arafeh, T Shibue, JM Dempster, WC Hahn… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite tremendous progress in the past decade, the complex and heterogeneous nature of
cancer complicates efforts to identify new therapies and therapeutic combinations that …

Comprehensive genomic and transcriptomic analysis for guiding therapeutic decisions in patients with rare cancers

P Horak, C Heining, S Kreutzfeldt, B Hutter, A Mock… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
The clinical relevance of comprehensive molecular analysis in rare cancers is not
established. We analyzed the molecular profiles and clinical outcomes of 1,310 patients …

Generation and multi-dimensional profiling of a childhood cancer cell line atlas defines new therapeutic opportunities

CX Sun, P Daniel, G Bradshaw, H Shi, M Loi, N Chew… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Pediatric solid and central nervous system tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related
death among children. Identifying new targeted therapies necessitates the use of pediatric …

[HTML][HTML] Global computational alignment of tumor and cell line transcriptional profiles

A Warren, Y Chen, A Jones, T Shibue, WC Hahn… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cell lines are key tools for preclinical cancer research, but it remains unclear how well they
represent patient tumor samples. Direct comparisons of tumor and cell line transcriptional …

Building a translational cancer dependency map for The Cancer Genome Atlas

X Shi, C Gekas, D Verduzco, S Petiwala, C Jeffries… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer dependency maps have accelerated the discovery of tumor vulnerabilities that can
be exploited as drug targets when translatable to patients. The Cancer Genome Atlas …

Weakened APC/C activity at mitotic exit drives cancer vulnerability to KIF18A inhibition

CR Gliech, ZY Yeow, D Tapias-Gomez, Y Yang… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
The efficacy of current antimitotic cancer drugs is limited by toxicity in highly proliferative
healthy tissues. A cancer-specific dependency on the microtubule motor protein KIF18A …

Mutational signatures are markers of drug sensitivity of cancer cells

J Levatić, M Salvadores, F Fuster-Tormo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Genomic analyses have revealed mutational footprints associated with DNA maintenance
gone awry, or with mutagen exposures. Because cancer therapeutics often target DNA …

Phosphate dysregulation via the XPR1–KIDINS220 protein complex is a therapeutic vulnerability in ovarian cancer

DP Bondeson, BR Paolella, A Asfaw, MV Rothberg… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Despite advances in precision medicine, the clinical prospects for patients with ovarian and
uterine cancers have not substantially improved. Here, we analyzed genome-scale CRISPR …

Synthetic augmentation of cancer cell line multi-omic datasets using unsupervised deep learning

Z Cai, S Apolinário, AR Baião, C Pacini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Integrating diverse types of biological data is essential for a holistic understanding of cancer
biology, yet it remains challenging due to data heterogeneity, complexity, and sparsity …