Glioma progression is shaped by genetic evolution and microenvironment interactions

FS Varn, KC Johnson, J Martinek, JT Huse… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The factors driving therapy resistance in diffuse glioma remain poorly understood. To identify
treatment-associated cellular and genetic changes, we analyzed RNA and/or DNA …

Mapping and validation of scRNA-seq-derived cell-cell communication networks in the tumor microenvironment

K Bridges, K Miller-Jensen - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in single-cell technologies, particularly single-cell RNA-sequencing
(scRNA-seq), have permitted high throughput transcriptional profiling of a wide variety of …

GFAP Alternative splicing and the relevance for disease–A focus on diffuse gliomas

JV van Asperen, PAJT Robe, EM Hol - ASN neuro, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is an intermediate filament protein that is characteristic
for astrocytes and neural stem cells, and their malignant analogues in glioma. Since the …

CTLA-4 blockade induces a microglia-Th1 cell partnership that stimulates microglia phagocytosis and anti-tumor function in glioblastoma

D Chen, SK Varanasi, T Hara, K Traina, M Sun… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
The limited efficacy of immunotherapies against glioblastoma underscores the urgency of
better understanding immunity in the central nervous system. We found that treatment with …

Spatiotemporal analysis of glioma heterogeneity reveals COL1A1 as an actionable target to disrupt tumor progression

A Comba, SM Faisal, PJ Dunn, AE Argento… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Intra-tumoral heterogeneity is a hallmark of glioblastoma that challenges treatment efficacy.
However, the mechanisms that set up tumor heterogeneity and tumor cell migration remain …

Glioblastoma evolution and heterogeneity from a 3D whole-tumor perspective

R Mathur, Q Wang, PG Schupp, A Nikolic, S Hilz… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Treatment failure for the lethal brain tumor glioblastoma (GBM) is attributed to intratumoral
heterogeneity and tumor evolution. We utilized 3D neuronavigation during surgical resection …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets

L Wang, J Jung, H Babikir, K Shamardani, S Jain… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Recent longitudinal studies of glioblastoma (GBM) have demonstrated a lack of apparent
selection pressure for specific DNA mutations in recurrent disease. Single-cell lineage …

Functional contribution and clinical implication of cancer-associated fibroblasts in glioblastoma

PM Galbo Jr, AT Madsen, Y Liu, M Peng, Y Wei… - Clinical Cancer …, 2024 - AACR
Purpose: The abundance and biological contribution of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF)
in glioblastoma (GBM) are poorly understood. Here, we aim to uncover its molecular …

The proteomic landscape of glioblastoma recurrence reveals novel and targetable immunoregulatory drivers

N Tatari, S Khan, J Livingstone, K Zhai, D Mckenna… - Acta …, 2022 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) is characterized by extensive cellular and genetic heterogeneity. Its
initial presentation as primary disease (pGBM) has been subject to exhaustive molecular …

Rab32 promotes glioblastoma migration and invasion via regulation of ERK/Drp1-mediated mitochondrial fission

P Chen, Y Lu, B He, T Xie, C Yan, T Liu, S Wu… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
The highly widespread and infiltrative nature of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) makes
complete surgical resection hard, causing high recurrence rate and poor patients' prognosis …