Decoding the interplay between genetic and non-genetic drivers of metastasis

P Karras, JRM Black, N McGranahan, JC Marine - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Metastasis is a multistep process by which cancer cells break away from their original
location and spread to distant organs, and is responsible for the vast majority of cancer …

Plasticity-induced repression of Irf6 underlies acquired resistance to cancer immunotherapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

IK Kim, MS Diamond, S Yuan, SB Kemp… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Acquired resistance to immunotherapy remains a critical yet incompletely understood
biological mechanism. Here, using a mouse model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive therapy: a tumor therapy strategy based on Darwinian evolution theory

L Zhang, J Ma, L Liu, G Li, H Li, Y Hao, X Zhang… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer progression is a dynamic process of continuous evolution, in which genetic diversity
and heterogeneity are generated by clonal and subclonal amplification based on random …

Clonal differences underlie variable responses to sequential and prolonged treatment

DL Schaff, AJ Fasse, PE White, RJ Vander Velde… - Cell systems, 2024 - cell.com
Cancer cells exhibit dramatic differences in gene expression at the single-cell level, which
can predict whether they become resistant to treatment. Treatment perpetuates this …

[HTML][HTML] Plasticity-induced repression of Irf6 underlies acquired resistance to cancer immunotherapy

IK Kim, M Diamond, S Yuan, S Kemp, Q Li, J Lin… - Research …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Acquired resistance to immune checkpoint immunotherapy remains a critical yet
incompletely understood biological mechanism. Here, using a mouse model of pancreatic …

Leveraging Cancer Phenotypic Plasticity for Novel Treatment Strategies

S Ramisetty, AR Subbalakshmi, S Pareek… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells, like all other organisms, are adept at switching their phenotype to adjust to the
changes in their environment. Thus, phenotypic plasticity is a quantitative trait that confers a …

[HTML][HTML] Single‐cell isogrowth profiling: Uniform inhibition uncovers non‐uniform drug responses

M Lukačišin, A Espinosa‐Cantú… - Clinical and …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Non-genetic inter-cellular heterogeneity, in which cells from a population sharing the same
genome exhibit phenotypic variability, is increasingly recognised as a major variable …