Cancer Biology

Nuclear fascin regulates cancer cell survival

1. Campbell D Lawson
2. Samantha Peel
3. Asier Jayo
4. Adam Corrigan
5. Preeti Iyer
6. Mabel Baxter Dalrymple
7. Richard J Marsh
8. Susan Cox
9. Isabel Van Audenhove
10. Jan Gettemans
11. Maddy Parsons

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  This work explores a topic of high interest to cell and cancer biologists - the role of actin polymerization, and here specifically the role of fascin, in the nucleus. The authors show that fascin regulates nuclear actin, chromatin organization, response to DNA damage, and demonstrate the need for control of steady-state nuclear levels to avoid cell death. Studying nuclear actin is technically challenging, and the authors deploy some novel technologies towards this goal. There are some very elegant experiments in this paper that suggest fascin has an important role in regulating nuclear actin and other important aspects of cancer cell behaviour. The work could be enhanced by the authors considering adding some additional experiments and providing clarifications and some further details or discussion.

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The “LINC” between Δ40p53-miRNA Axis in the Regulation of Cellular Homeostasis

1. Apala Pal
2. Pritam Kumar Ghosh
3. Saumitra Das

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Therapeutic resistance in acute myeloid leukemia cells is mediated by a novel ATM/mTOR pathway regulating oxidative phosphorylation

1. Hae J Park
2. Mark A Gregory
3. Vadym Zaberezhnyy
4. Andrew Goodspeed
5. Craig T Jordan
6. Jeffrey S Kieft
7. James DeGregori

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  FLT3 (Fms Related Receptor Tyrosine Kinase 3) activation occurs in a subset of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cases and is associated with poor prognosis. This work is focused on the mechanisms of resistance to FLT3 inhibitors in AML. The authors show that the combination of the FLT3 inhibitor and an mTORC1 inhibitor reduces tumor burden and prevents relapse in FLT3 mutant AML. This paper is of interest in scientists and physicians investigating AML as well as scientists studying signaling pathways.

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Cancer stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles preferentially target MHC-II–macrophages and PD1+ T cells in the tumor microenvironment

1. Patricia Gonzalez-Callejo
2. Zihan Guo
3. Tahereh Ziglari
4. Natalie Marcia Claudio
5. Kayla Hoang Nguyen
6. Naoki Oshimori
7. Joaquim Seras-Franzoso
8. Ferdinando Pucci

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The scaffolding protein flot2 promotes cytoneme-based transport of wnt3 in gastric cancer

1. Daniel Routledge
2. Sally Rogers
3. Yosuke Ono
4. Lucy Brunt
5. Valerie Meniel
6. Giusy Tornillo
7. Hassan Ashktorab
8. Toby J Phesse
9. Steffen Scholpp

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  Evaluation Summary:

  The manuscript by Routledge et al. describes the role of Reggie-1/Flottilin2 in the formation of filopodia-like membrane protrusions called cytonemes and which were shown to be conserved between gastric cancer cells and Zebrafish. Authors demonstrate that Flot2 is present on the cytoneme along with Wnt3 in gastric cancer and with Wnt8a in Zebrafish. Furthermore, Flot2 is also present with Ror2 on the cytoneme and together they are believed to modulate cytoneme formation. This study extended the previous studies and provides new details about regulatory events controlling a cell biological process that will be of interest to those in the Wnt and cytoneme fields.

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Suppression of endothelial miR-22 mediates non-small cell lung cancer cell-induced angiogenesis

1. Yuan Gu
2. Gianni Pais
3. Vivien Becker
4. Christina Körbel
5. Emmanuel Ampofo
6. Elke Ebert
7. Johannes Hohneck
8. Nicole Ludwig
9. Eckart Meese
10. Rainer M. Bohle
11. Yingjun Zhao
12. Michael D. Menger
13. Matthias W. Laschke

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  This study reports a novel function of non-coding RNA miR-22 in the regulation of tumor-associated angiogenesis. The presented data suggest a possible link between microRNA and endothelial cell function. If the underlying mechanisms were further explored, this work would be interesting for people working on microRNA function in endothelial cells. Furthermore, considering the increasing interest of combination of anti-angiogenesis agents with anti-PD1 immunotherapy, this work may attract readers interested in immunology.

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DNA methylome combined with chromosome cluster-oriented analysis provides an early signature for cutaneous melanoma aggressiveness

1. Arnaud Carrier
2. Cécile Desjobert
3. Loic Ponger
4. Laurence Lamant
5. Matias Bustos
6. Jorge Torres-Ferreira
7. Rui Henrique
8. Carmen Jeronimo
9. Luisa Lanfrancone
10. Audrey Delmas
11. Gilles Favre
12. Antoine Daunay
13. Florence Busato
14. Dave SB Hoon
15. Jorg Tost
16. Chantal Etievant
17. Joëlle Riond
18. Paola B Arimondo

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  Predicting if a tumour has aggressive or metastatic characteristics would be of great utility in the clinic as it would help patient stratification and management. In this manuscript, Carrier and collaborators derive a signature for melanoma aggressiveness relying on methylated regions of tumour and cell line genomes. The identification of a 4-gene methylation biomarker for melanoma aggressiveness and survival is an important contribution. This manuscript is of relevance to clinicians and melanoma researchers interested in biomarker research.

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Non-canonical miRNA-RNA base-pairing impedes tumor suppressor activity of miR-16

1. Anaïs M Quéméner
2. Laura Bachelot
3. Marc Aubry
4. Stéphane Avner
5. Delphine Leclerc
6. Gilles Salbert
7. Florian Cabillic
8. Didier Decaudin
9. Bernard Mari
10. Frédéric Mouriaux
11. Marie-Dominique Galibert
12. David Gilot

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Defining cellular population dynamics at single-cell resolution during prostate cancer progression

1. Alexandre A Germanos
2. Sonali Arora
3. Ye Zheng
4. Erica T Goddard
5. Ilsa M Coleman
6. Anson T Ku
7. Scott Wilkinson
8. Hanbing Song
9. Nicholas J Brady
10. Robert A Amezquita
11. Michael Zager
12. Annalysa Long
13. Yu Chi Yang
14. Jason H Bielas
15. Raphael Gottardo
16. David S Rickman
17. Franklin W Huang
18. Cyrus M Ghajar
19. Peter S Nelson
20. Adam G Sowalsky
21. Manu Setty
22. Andrew C Hsieh

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  Prostate cancer cellular heterogeneity is a major problem for disease progression and treatment resistance. This body of work addresses the cellular identity and populations that make up prostate cancer using single-cell sequencing technology and state-of-the-art mouse models. The cellular identities, associated signaling networks, and immune complexes accompanying the heterogeneity of the prostate are identified in this work and a resource is provided for scientists in the field.

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Activation of targetable inflammatory immune signaling is seen in myelodysplastic syndromes with SF3B1 mutations

1. Gaurav S Choudhary
2. Andrea Pellagatti
3. Bogos Agianian
4. Molly A Smith
5. Tushar D Bhagat
6. Shanisha Gordon-Mitchell
7. Srabani Sahu
8. Sanjay Pandey
9. Nishi Shah
10. Srinivas Aluri
11. Ritesh Aggarwal
12. Sarah Aminov
13. Leya Schwartz
14. Violetta Steeples
15. Robert N Booher
16. Murali Ramachandra
17. Maria Samson
18. Milagros Carbajal
19. Kith Pradhan
20. Teresa V Bowman
21. Manoj M Pillai
22. Britta Will
23. Amittha Wickrema
24. Aditi Shastri
25. Robert K Bradley
26. Robert E Martell
27. Ulrich G Steidl
28. Evripidis Gavathiotis
29. Jacqueline Boultwood
30. Daniel T Starczynowski
31. Amit Verma

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  This is an outstanding manuscript evaluating a mutation commonly seen in AML and MDS in a spliceosome protein called SF3B1. The authors link this spliceosome mutation to altered transcripts and ultimately to cell cycle proteins and differentiation. This paper will be of high interest for oncologists in that it demonstrates that AML and MDS cells with this mutation can be targeted in a precision medicine approach.

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