Glioblastoma stem cells: driving resilience through chaos

BC Prager, S Bhargava, V Mahadev, CG Hubert… - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Glioblastoma is an aggressive and heterogeneous tumor in which glioblastoma stem cells
(GSCs) are at the apex of an entropic hierarchy and impart devastating therapy resistance …

Emerging evidence that the mammalian sperm epigenome serves as a template for embryo development

A Lismer, S Kimmins - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Although more studies are demonstrating that a father's environment can influence child
health and disease, the molecular mechanisms underlying non-genetic inheritance remain …

Clinical efficacy of ONC201 in H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline gliomas is driven by disruption of integrated metabolic and epigenetic pathways

S Venneti, AR Kawakibi, S Ji, SM Waszak, SR Sweha… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Abstract Patients with H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma (DMG) have no proven
effective therapies. ONC201 has recently demonstrated efficacy in these patients, but the …

K27M in canonical and noncanonical H3 variants occurs in distinct oligodendroglial cell lineages in brain midline gliomas

S Jessa, A Mohammadnia, AS Harutyunyan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Canonical (H3. 1/H3. 2) and noncanonical (H3. 3) histone 3 K27M-mutant gliomas
have unique spatiotemporal distributions, partner alterations and molecular profiles. The …

An evolutionarily conserved function of polycomb silences the MHC class I antigen presentation pathway and enables immune evasion in cancer

ML Burr, CE Sparbier, KL Chan, YC Chan… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Loss of MHC class I (MHC-I) antigen presentation in cancer cells can elicit immunotherapy
resistance. A genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen identified an evolutionarily conserved …

Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic modifications on the path to cancer

L Sun, H Zhang, P Gao - Protein & cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Metabolic rewiring and epigenetic remodeling, which are closely linked and reciprocally
regulate each other, are among the well-known cancer hallmarks. Recent evidence …

Spatially controlled construction of assembloids using bioprinting

JG Roth, LG Brunel, MS Huang, Y Liu, B Cai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The biofabrication of three-dimensional (3D) tissues that recapitulate organ-specific
architecture and function would benefit from temporal and spatial control of cell-cell …

Interplay between chromatin marks in development and disease

SM Janssen, MC Lorincz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAme) and histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) have
important roles in transcriptional regulation. Although many reports have characterized the …

Signaling pathways in brain tumors and therapeutic interventions

S Li, C Wang, J Chen, Y Lan, W Zhang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Brain tumors, although rare, contribute to distinct mortality and morbidity at all ages.
Although there are few therapeutic options for brain tumors, enhanced biological …

[HTML][HTML] Histone H3. 3G34-mutant interneuron progenitors co-opt PDGFRA for gliomagenesis

CCL Chen, S Deshmukh, S Jessa, D Hadjadj, V Lisi… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary Histone H3. 3 glycine 34 to arginine/valine (G34R/V) mutations drive deadly
gliomas and show exquisite regional and temporal specificity, suggesting a developmental …