Cellular functions of cGAS-STING signaling

C Chen, P Xu - Trends in cell biology, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract Cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS) senses misplaced genomic,
mitochondrial, and microbial double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) to synthesize 2′ 3′-cGAMP …

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 …

STING inhibits the reactivation of dormant metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma

J Hu, FJ Sánchez-Rivera, Z Wang, GN Johnson, Y Ho… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Metastasis frequently develops from disseminated cancer cells that remain dormant after the
apparently successful treatment of a primary tumour. These cells fluctuate between an …

Cigarette smoke exposure and inflammatory signaling increase the expression of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in the respiratory tract

JC Smith, EL Sausville, V Girish, ML Yuan… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
The factors mediating fatal SARS-CoV-2 infections are poorly understood. Here, we show
that cigarette smoke causes a dose-dependent upregulation of angiotensin converting …

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

V Girish, AA Lakhani, SL Thompson, CM Scaduto… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Most cancers exhibit aneuploidy, but its functional significance in tumor development is
controversial. Here, we describe ReDACT (Restoring Disomy in Aneuploid cells using …

Mutational drivers of cancer cell migration and invasion

NM Novikov, SY Zolotaryova, AM Gautreau… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic instability and mutations underlie the hallmarks of cancer—genetic alterations
determine cancer cell fate by affecting cell proliferation, apoptosis and immune response …

Aneuploidy as a promoter and suppressor of malignant growth

A Vasudevan, KM Schukken, EL Sausville… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Aneuploidy has been recognized as a hallmark of tumorigenesis for more than 100 years,
but the connection between chromosomal errors and malignant growth has remained …

Chromosomal instability accelerates the evolution of resistance to anti-cancer therapies

DA Lukow, EL Sausville, P Suri, NK Chunduri… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Aneuploidy is a ubiquitous feature of human tumors, but the acquisition of aneuploidy
typically antagonizes cellular fitness. To investigate how aneuploidy could contribute to …

Genomic and microenvironmental heterogeneity shaping epithelial-to-mesenchymal trajectories in cancer

G Malagoli Tagliazucchi, AJ Wiecek, E Withnell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a key cellular process underlying cancer
progression, with multiple intermediate states whose molecular hallmarks remain poorly …

Genome-wide identification and analysis of prognostic features in human cancers

JC Smith, JM Sheltzer - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Clinical decisions in cancer rely on precisely assessing patient risk. To improve our ability to
identify the most aggressive malignancies, we constructed genome-wide survival models …