Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Glioma-initiating cells at tumor edge gain signals from tumor core cells to promote their malignancy

  • Soniya Bastola,
  • Marat S. Pavlyukov,
  • Daisuke Yamashita,
  • Sadashib Ghosh,
  • Heejin Cho,
  • Noritaka Kagaya,
  • Zhuo Zhang,
  • Mutsuko Minata,
  • Yeri Lee,
  • Hirokazu Sadahiro,
  • Shinobu Yamaguchi,
  • Svetlana Komarova,
  • Eddy Yang,
  • James Markert,
  • Louis B. Nabors,
  • Krishna Bhat,
  • James Lee,
  • Qin Chen,
  • David K. Crossman,
  • Kazuo Shin-Ya,
  • Do-Hyun Nam,
  • Ichiro Nakano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18189-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Intratumoural spatial heterogeneity is crucial to enhance therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma. Here, the authors show a paracrine signaling mechanism where glioblastoma-initiating cells located in the tumour edge elevate their malignancy by interaction with core-located tumour cells.