The journey from melanocytes to melanoma

PP Centeno, V Pavet, R Marais - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, melanoma has led the field in new cancer treatments, with impressive
gains in on-treatment survival but more modest improvements in overall survival. Melanoma …

Untangling the web of intratumour heterogeneity

Z Li, M Seehawer, K Polyak - Nature cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Intratumour heterogeneity (ITH) is a hallmark of cancer that drives tumour evolution and
disease progression. Technological and computational advances have enabled us to …

Triple-negative breast cancer metastasis involves complex epithelial-mesenchymal transition dynamics and requires vimentin

EM Grasset, M Dunworth, G Sharma, M Loth… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype associated with early
metastatic recurrence and worse patient outcomes. TNBC tumors express molecular …

Metastasis from the tumor interior and necrotic core formation are regulated by breast cancer-derived angiopoietin-like 7

A Yamamoto, Y Huang, BA Krajina… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Necrosis in the tumor interior is a common feature of aggressive cancers that is associated
with poor clinical prognosis and the development of metastasis. How the necrotic core …

Orchestration of collective migration and metastasis by tumor cell clusters

A Yamamoto, AE Doak… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Metastatic dissemination has lethal consequences for cancer patients. Accruing evidence
supports the hypothesis that tumor cells can migrate and metastasize as clusters of cells …

Heterogeneity in melanoma

MF Ng, JL Simmons, GM Boyle - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Tumour heterogeneity is a phenomenon where the cancer cells evolve
diversely over the course of the disease. As a result of the evolution, the cancer cells can be …

A Scribble/Cdep/Rac pathway controls follower-cell crawling and cluster cohesion during collective border-cell migration

JP Campanale, JA Mondo, DJ Montell - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
Collective cell movements drive normal development and metastasis. Drosophila border
cells move as a cluster of 6–10 cells, where the role of the Rac GTPase in migration was first …

Structural basis for specific DNA sequence motif recognition by the TFAP2 transcription factors

K Liu, Y Xiao, L Gan, W Li, J Zhang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The TFAP2 family regulates gene expression during differentiation, development, and
organogenesis, and includes five homologs in humans. They all possess a highly conserved …

Shifting the focus of zebrafish toward a model of the tumor microenvironment

JM Weiss, D Lumaquin-Yin, E Montal, S Suresh… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cancer cells exist in a complex ecosystem with numerous other cell types in the tumor
microenvironment (TME). The composition of this tumor/TME ecosystem will vary at each …

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 …