Nature Communications (May 2020)

Multi-omic single-cell snapshots reveal multiple independent trajectories to drug tolerance in a melanoma cell line

  • Yapeng Su,
  • Melissa E. Ko,
  • Hanjun Cheng,
  • Ronghui Zhu,
  • Min Xue,
  • Jessica Wang,
  • Jihoon W. Lee,
  • Luke Frankiw,
  • Alexander Xu,
  • Stephanie Wong,
  • Lidia Robert,
  • Kaitlyn Takata,
  • Dan Yuan,
  • Yue Lu,
  • Sui Huang,
  • Antoni Ribas,
  • Raphael Levine,
  • Garry P. Nolan,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Sylvia K. Plevritis,
  • Guideng Li,
  • David Baltimore,
  • James R. Heath

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15956-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Detailed understanding of how cancer cells transition from a drug sensitive to a tolerant state is lacking. Here, using single cell proteomic and metabolic data the authors uncover that isogenic BRAF mutant melanoma cells can take two distinct paths to become tolerant to BRAF inhibition.