Chromosome inequality: causes and consequences of non-random segregation errors in mitosis and meiosis

SJ Klaasen, GJPL Kops - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aneuploidy is a hallmark of cancer and a major cause of miscarriages in humans. It is
caused by chromosome segregation errors during cell divisions. Evidence is mounting that …

Aneuploidy in human cancer: new tools and perspectives

AA Lakhani, SL Thompson, JM Sheltzer - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Chromosome copy number imbalances, otherwise known as aneuploidies, are a common
but poorly understood feature of cancer. Here, we describe recent advances in both …

Chromosomal instability accelerates the evolution of resistance to anti-cancer therapies

DA Lukow, EL Sausville, P Suri, NK Chunduri… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Aneuploidy is a ubiquitous feature of human tumors, but the acquisition of aneuploidy
typically antagonizes cellular fitness. To investigate how aneuploidy could contribute to …

Chromosome evolution screens recapitulate tissue-specific tumor aneuploidy patterns

EV Watson, JJK Lee, DC Gulhan, GEM Melloni… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Whole chromosome and arm-level copy number alterations occur at high frequencies in
tumors, but their selective advantages, if any, are poorly understood. Here, utilizing …

Extensive protein dosage compensation in aneuploid human cancers

KM Schukken, JM Sheltzer - Genome research, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Aneuploidy is a hallmark of human cancers, but the effects of aneuploidy on protein
expression remain poorly understood. To uncover how chromosome copy number changes …

Human aneuploid cells depend on the RAF/MEK/ERK pathway for overcoming increased DNA damage

J Zerbib, MR Ippolito, Y Eliezer, G De Feudis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Aneuploidy is a hallmark of human cancer, yet the molecular mechanisms to cope with
aneuploidy-induced cellular stresses remain largely unknown. Here, we induce …

Targeted assembly of ectopic kinetochores to induce chromosome‐specific segmental aneuploidies

L Tovini, SC Johnson, MA Guscott, AM Andersen… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Cancer cells display persistent underlying chromosomal instability, with individual tumour
types intriguingly exhibiting characteristic subsets of whole, and subchromosomal …

Diverse microtubule-targeted anticancer agents kill cells by inducing chromosome missegregation on multipolar spindles

AS Zhou, JB Tucker, CM Scribano, AR Lynch… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Microtubule-targeted agents are commonly used for cancer treatment, though many patients
do not benefit. Microtubule-targeted drugs were assumed to elicit anticancer activity via …

Proteogenomic analysis of cancer aneuploidy and normal tissues reveals divergent modes of gene regulation across cellular pathways

P Cheng, X Zhao, L Katsnelson… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
How cells control gene expression is a fundamental question. The relative contribution of
protein-level and RNA-level regulation to this process remains unclear. Here, we perform a …

The two sides of chromosomal instability: drivers and brakes in cancer

R Hosea, S Hillary, S Naqvi, S Wu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer and is associated with tumor cell
malignancy. CIN triggers a chain reaction in cells leading to chromosomal abnormalities …