Cancer Biology

Sex differences in bile acid homeostasis and excretion underlie the disparity in liver cancer incidence between males and females

1. Megan E Patton
2. Sherwin Kelekar
3. Lauren J Taylor
4. Angela E Dean
5. Qianying Zuo
6. Rhishikesh N Thakare
7. Sung Hwan Lee
8. Emily Gentry
9. Morgan Panitchpakdi
10. Pieter Dorrestein
11. Yazen Alnouti
12. Zeynep Madak-Erdogan
13. Ju-Seog Lee
14. Milton J Finegold
15. Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk

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  eLife Assessment

  This study provides valuable insights into the influence of sex on bile acid metabolism and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The data to support that there are inter-relationships between sex, bile acids, and HCC in mice are convincing, although this is a largely descriptive study. Future studies are needed to understand the interaction of sex hormones, bile acids, and chronic liver diseases and cancer at a mechanistic level. Also, there is not enough evidence to determine the clinical significance of the findings given the differences in bile acid composition between mice and men.

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Leveraging autophagy and pyrimidine metabolism to target pancreatic cancer

1. Suzanne Dufresne
2. Ramya S Kuna
3. Kristiana Wong
4. Anvita Komarla
5. Angelica Rock
6. Joel Rosada-Encarnación
7. Celina Shen
8. Payel Mondal
9. Louis R Parham
10. Fabiana Izidro Layng
11. Kristina L Peck
12. Alexandra Fowler
13. Andrew M Lowy
14. Dannielle Engle
15. Herve Tiriac
16. Reuben Shaw
17. Nicholas Cosford
18. Christian Metallo
19. Christina Towers

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Monitoring circulating cell-free HPV DNA in metastatic or recurrent cervical cancer: clinical significance and treatment implications

1. Zhuomin Yin
2. Tao Feng
3. Qing Xu
4. Wumin Dai
5. Maowei Ni
6. Juan Ni
7. Hanmei Lou

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  eLife Assessment

  This study presents useful findings on the application of HPV cfDNA as a marker for monitoring treatment response and prognosis in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, although inclusion of a larger number of patient samples would have strengthened the study. The work will be of interest to medics and biologists working on cervical cancer.

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Interplay of YEATS2 and GCDH regulates histone crotonylation and drives EMT in head and neck cancer

1. Deepak Pant
2. Parik Kakani
3. Rushikesh Joshi
4. Abin Sabu
5. Shruti Agrawal
6. Atul Samaiya
7. Sanjeev Shukla

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  eLife Assessment

  These useful findings assigned a novel functional implication of histone acylation, crotonylation. Mechanistic insights have been provided in great detail regarding the role of the YEATS2-GCDH axis in modulating epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in head and neck cancer, and overall the strength of evidence is solid.

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Deciphering the CD73⁺ Regulatory γδ T Cell ecosystem associated with poor survival in Ovarian cancer

1. Ghita Chabab
2. Henri-Alexandre Michaud
3. Cécile Dejou
4. Laure-Agnès Chépeaux
5. Yaël Glasson
6. Florence Boissière
7. Marion Lenain
8. Anne-Sophie Dumé
9. Pauline Sarrant
10. Gabriel Chemin
11. Pauline Wajda
12. Bertrand Dubois
13. Anna MacManus
14. Pierre-Emmanuel Colombo
15. Michel Fabbro
16. Nathalie Bonnefoy
17. Maeva Chauvin
18. Virginie Lafont

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Repression of PRMT activities sensitize homologous recombination-proficient ovarian and breast cancer cells to PARP inhibitor treatment

1. Youyou Zhang
2. Mu Xu
3. Jiao Yuan
4. Zhongyi Hu
5. Junjie Jiang
6. Yanrong Sun
7. Jie Huang
8. Yuxin Wang
9. Bingwei Wang
10. Jianfeng Shen
11. Meixiao Long
12. Yi Fan
13. Kathleen T Montone
14. Janos L Tanyi
15. Sarah H Kim
16. Omid Tavana
17. Robert H Vonderheide
18. Ho Man Chan
19. Susan M Domchek
20. Xiaowen Hu
21. Lin Zhang

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  eLife Assessment

  This study presents a rather valuable finding that a combination of arginine methyltransferase inhibitors synergize with PARP inhibitors to kill ovarian and triple negative cancer cells. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, although some comments and elaborations in the main text would have enhanced the comprehension and clarity of the data. The work will be of interest to scientists working in the field of breast cancer.

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Altered thymic niche synergistically drives the massive proliferation of malignant thymocytes

1. Erika Tsingos
2. Advaita M Dick
3. Baubak Bajoghli

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study combines agent-based modelling and in vivo experiments in medaka embryos to provide new insights into the role of the thymic niche in T cell development. The modelling yields some interesting and solid findings regarding the importance of thymic epithelial cells. This study would be of interest to oncologists, immunologists, and mathematical modelers.

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Subtypes and proliferation patterns of small intestine neuroendocrine tumors revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

1. Einav Somech
2. Debdatta Halder
3. Avishay Spitzer
4. Chaya Barbolin
5. Michael Tyler
6. Reut Halperin
7. Moshe Biton
8. Amit Tirosh
9. Itay Tirosh

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  eLife Assessment

  This is a valuable study that uses single-cell RNA sequencing to define tumor-intrinsic transcriptional programs that characterize distinct types of small intestine neuroendocrine tumors. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, but would benefit from a larger sample size. The work will be of interest to cancer biologists studying neuroendocrine tumors, as well as those studying tumor heterogeneity more broadly.

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The long noncoding RNA lnc-FANCI-2 intrinsically restricts RAS signaling in human papillomavirus type 16-infected cervical cancer cells

1. Haibin Liu
2. Lulu Yu
3. Vladimir Majerciak
4. Thomas J Meyer
5. Ming Yi
6. Peter F Johnson
7. Maggie Cam
8. Douglas R Lowy
9. Zhi-Ming Zheng

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  eLife Assessment

  This study reports important new insights into the roles of a long noncoding RNA, lnc-FANCI-2, in the progression of cervical cancer induced by a type of human papillomavirus. Through a blend of cell biological, biochemical, and genetic analyses of RNA and protein expression, protein-protein interaction, cell signaling, and cell morphology, the authors provide convincing evidence that lnc-FANCI-2 affects cervical cancer outcome by regulating the RAS signaling pathway. These findings will be of interest to scientists in the fields of cervical cancer, long noncoding RNA, and cell signaling.

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Recurrent cancer-associated ERBB4 mutations are transforming and confer resistance to targeted therapies

1. Veera K. Ojala
2. Sini Ahonen
3. Aura Tuohisto-Kokko
4. Olaya Esparta
5. Peppi Suominen
6. Anne Jokilammi
7. Iman Farahani
8. Deepankar Chakroborty
9. Nikol Dibus
10. Steffen Boettcher
11. Tomi T. Airenne
12. Mark S. Johnson
13. Lisa D. Eli
14. Klaus Elenius
15. Kari J. Kurppa

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