Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Stem cell-associated heterogeneity in Glioblastoma results from intrinsic tumor plasticity shaped by the microenvironment

  • Anne Dirkse,
  • Anna Golebiewska,
  • Thomas Buder,
  • Petr V. Nazarov,
  • Arnaud Muller,
  • Suresh Poovathingal,
  • Nicolaas H. C. Brons,
  • Sonia Leite,
  • Nicolas Sauvageot,
  • Dzjemma Sarkisjan,
  • Mathieu Seyfrid,
  • Sabrina Fritah,
  • Daniel Stieber,
  • Alessandro Michelucci,
  • Frank Hertel,
  • Christel Herold-Mende,
  • Francisco Azuaje,
  • Alexander Skupin,
  • Rolf Bjerkvig,
  • Andreas Deutsch,
  • Anja Voss-Böhme,
  • Simone P. Niclou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09853-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

Read online

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) comprise a putative population that can drive growth and resistance. Here, in glioblastoma models the authors show that rather than being a distinct clonal entity, the CSC population represents a plastic state adoptable by most cancer cells via reversible state transitions induced by the microenvironment.