Epigenomic heterogeneity as a source of tumour evolution.
Journal
Nature reviews. Cancer
ISSN: 1474-1768
Titre abrégé: Nat Rev Cancer
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101124168
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Date de publication:
16 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024
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accepted:
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09
2024
medline:
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10
2024
pubmed:
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10
2024
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10
2024
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Résumé
In the past decade, remarkable progress in cancer medicine has been achieved by the development of treatments that target DNA sequence variants. However, a purely genetic approach to treatment selection is hampered by the fact that diverse cell states can emerge from the same genotype. In multicellular organisms, cell-state heterogeneity is driven by epigenetic processes that regulate DNA-based functions such as transcription; disruption of these processes is a hallmark of cancer that enables the emergence of defective cell states. Advances in single-cell technologies have unlocked our ability to quantify the epigenomic heterogeneity of tumours and understand its mechanisms, thereby transforming our appreciation of how epigenomic changes drive cancer evolution. This Review explores the idea that epigenomic heterogeneity and plasticity act as a reservoir of cell states and therefore as a source of tumour evolution. Best practices to quantify epigenomic heterogeneity and explore its various causes and consequences are discussed, including epigenomic reprogramming, stochastic changes and lasting memory. The design of new therapeutic approaches to restrict epigenomic heterogeneity, with the long-term objective of limiting cancer development and progression, is also addressed.
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doi: 10.1038/s41568-024-00757-9
pii: 10.1038/s41568-024-00757-9
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