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 …

[HTML][HTML] The regulatory role of mitotic catastrophe in hepatocellular carcinoma drug resistance mechanisms and its therapeutic potential

J Li, X Cheng, D Huang, R Cui - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2024 - Elsevier
This review focuses on the role and underlying mechanisms of mitotic catastrophe (MC) in
the regulation of drug resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCC is one of the …

Disparate pathways for extrachromosomal DNA biogenesis and genomic DNA repair

JC Rose, JA Belk, ITL Wong, J Luebeck… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Oncogene amplification on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) is a pervasive driver event in
cancer, yet our understanding of how ecDNA forms is limited. In this study, we couple a …

Repair and misrepair of telomeric DNA in dynamic interactions with PML nuclear bodies and lamin B1. A gear-wheel nuclear traffic.

K Salmina, F Rūmnieks, D Pjanova, J Erenpreisa - 2024 - preprints.org
Telomeres in epithelial tumours are usually maintained by telomerase, however, in the
breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cell line, polyploid cells, induced by doxorubicin (DOX) were …

The Fanconi anemia pathway induces chromothripsis and ecDNA-driven cancer drug resistance

JL Engel, X Zhang, M Wu, Y Wang, JE Valle-Inclán… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Chromothripsis describes the catastrophic shattering of mis-segregated chromosomes
trapped within micronuclei. Although micronuclei accumulate DNA double-strand breaks …