Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Club cells employ regeneration mechanisms during lung tumorigenesis

  • Yuanyuan Chen,
  • Reka Toth,
  • Sara Chocarro,
  • Dieter Weichenhan,
  • Joschka Hey,
  • Pavlo Lutsik,
  • Stefan Sawall,
  • Georgios T. Stathopoulos,
  • Christoph Plass,
  • Rocio Sotillo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32052-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Lung adenocarcinoma is a highly plastic tumour type. Here, the authors use single cell RNA sequencing to show that Club cells use regeneration mechanisms to develop tumours after an epigenetic switch towards an AT2-like phenotype shown by methylome analysis.