Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Exploiting evolutionary steering to induce collateral drug sensitivity in cancer

  • Ahmet Acar,
  • Daniel Nichol,
  • Javier Fernandez-Mateos,
  • George D. Cresswell,
  • Iros Barozzi,
  • Sung Pil Hong,
  • Nicholas Trahearn,
  • Inmaculada Spiteri,
  • Mark Stubbs,
  • Rosemary Burke,
  • Adam Stewart,
  • Giulio Caravagna,
  • Benjamin Werner,
  • Georgios Vlachogiannis,
  • Carlo C. Maley,
  • Luca Magnani,
  • Nicola Valeri,
  • Udai Banerji,
  • Andrea Sottoriva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15596-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Evolutionary steering uses therapies to control tumour evolution by exploiting trade-offs. Here, using a barcoding approach applied to large cell populations, the authors explore evolutionary steering in lung cancer cells treated with EGFR inhibitors.