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ArticleNature cancer2025

Evolving cell states and oncogenic drivers during the progression of IDH-mutant gliomas.

Jingyi Wu, L Nicolas Gonzalez Castro, Sofia Battaglia, Chadi A El Farran, Joshua P D'Antonio, Tyler E Miller, Mario L Suvà, Bradley E Bernstein

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Article in Nature cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Jingyi Wu *Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
L Nicolas Gonzalez Castro *Gene Regulation Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7699-5188
Sofia BattagliaDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Chadi A El FarranDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9374-103X
Joshua P D'AntonioDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Tyler E MillerDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Mario L SuvàGene Regulation Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9898-5351
Bradley E BernsteinDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA. bradley_bernstein@dfci.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5726-6278

Funding

Training Program in Nervous System TumorsK12CA090354 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PLOTKIN, SCOTT R · 2001 to 2025
$16.3M
Epigenetic plasticity in tumor initiation and evolutionDP1CA216873 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BERNSTEIN, BRADLEY EVAN · 2016 to 2020
$5.9M
Dissecting the cellular hierarchies of malignant gliomas by single-cell functional genomicsR37CA245523 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Mario Luca Suva · 2020 to 2026
$2.8M
Deciphering heritability, plasticity and differentiation trajectories in gliomas via single-cell multi-omicsR01CA258763 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SUVA, MARIO LUCA · 2021 to 2025
$2.8M
The role of genetic and epigenetic variation in the progression of IDH mutant gliomasK22CA285824 · NCI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI JINGYI WU · 2025 to 2026
$340k
NCI NIH HHS DP1 CA216873NCI NIH HHS K12 CA090354NCI NIH HHS K22 CA285824NCI NIH HHS R01 CA258763NCI NIH HHS R37 CA245523
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutants define a class of gliomas that are initially slow-growing but inevitably progress to fatal disease. To characterize their malignant cell hierarchy, we profiled chromatin accessibility and gene expression across single cells from low-grade and high-grade IDH-mutant gliomas and ascertained their developmental states through a comparison to normal brain cells. We provide evidence that these tumors are initially fueled by slow-cycling oligodendrocyte progenitor cell-like cells. During progression, a more proliferative neural progenitor cell-like population expands, potentially through partial reprogramming of 'permissive' chromatin in progenitors. This transition is accompanied by a switch from methylation-based drivers to genetic ones. In low-grade IDH-mutant tumors or organoids, DNA hypermethylation appears to suppress interferon (IFN) signaling, which is induced by IDH or DNA methyltransferase 1 inhibitors. High-grade tumors frequently lose this hypermethylation and instead acquire genetic alterations that disrupt IFN and other tumor-suppressive programs. Our findings explain how these slow-growing tumors may progress to lethal malignancies and have implications for therapies that target their epigenetic underpinnings.

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Brain NeoplasmsGliomaIsocitrate DehydrogenaseMutationAnimalsCell ProliferationDisease ProgressionDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansInterferonsIDH1 protein, humanInterferonsIsocitrate Dehydrogenase

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PMID39572850
PMCPMC13459074

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