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    • This Review summarizes how the structural details that were revealed by cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography and insights into molecular basis of polyspecificity and mechanistic studies shaped the understanding of the role of ATP-binding cassette transporter in cancer multidrug resistance, culminating in new therapeutic approaches to sensitize multidrug-resistant cancer cells to conventional and targeted therapies.

      • Andaleeb Sajid
      • Hadiar Rahman
      • Suresh V. Ambudkar
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    • Live-cell imaging can provide spatial, morphological and molecular understanding of cancer response to treatment. Here, Alieva et al. review its recent application for uncovering drug mode of action and tumour heterogeneity in response to treatment and discuss its application for next-generation precision medicine.

      • Maria Alieva
      • Amber K. L. Wezenaar
      • Anne C. Rios
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    • Sex steroids are major promoters of the growth of breast and prostate cancers. This Review by Poutanen et al. describes the development of treatments for these cancer types that act to restrict sex steroid availability for receptor binding by inhibiting steroid biosynthesis, being a complementary mechanism of action to the more traditional sex steroid antagonists.

      • Matti Poutanen
      • Malin Hagberg Thulin
      • Pirkko Härkönen
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    • This Review discusses the impact of steroid-receptor-mediated modifications of long-range chromatin interactions on transcriptional heterogeneity and the initiation, progression and therapy response of hormone-dependent cancers.

      • Theophilus T. Tettey
      • Lorenzo Rinaldi
      • Gordon L. Hager
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    • Although selective antagonism of oestrogen receptor signalling in breast cancer has been one of the most successful therapeutic approaches in oncology, resistance is a major clinical challenge. In this Review, Will et al. explore mechanisms of oestrogen-receptor-α-targeted therapeutic resistance and strategies to overcome it.

      • Marie Will
      • Jackson Liang
      • Sarat Chandarlapaty
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  • In this Tool of the Trade article, Nicolas Mathey-Andrews describes the generation and use of a prime editor mouse that enables in vivo modelling of the multitude of cancer alleles found in human tumours.

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  • In a recent study, Sanchez-Aguilera, Masmudi-Martín et al. find that a molecular program explains the cognitive impairment often seen in patients with brain metastasis, challenging the prevailing paradigm of the tumour mass being the sole cause of altered brain function.

    • Daniela Senft
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  • In this Journal Club, Kinker & Medina discuss a study showing the role of tumour-associated tertiary lymphoid structures in improving immunotherapy response and overall survival in patients with melanoma.

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    • Tiago da Silva Medina
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  • Karttunen et al. identify the contribution of transposable elements to gene regulatory function in colorectal and liver cancer cell lines.

    • Gabrielle Brewer
    Research Highlight

  • In a recent study, Tagore et al. find that the formation of synapse-like structures that serve to transfer GABA between premalignant melanocytes and keratinocytes promotes melanoma initiation by the BRAFV600E oncogene.

    • Daniela Senft
    Research Highlight

  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Dezhong Ji describes the development and use of a chimeric antigenic peptide influenza virus (CAP-Flu) system as a cancer vaccine strategy to promote tumour-infiltrating T cell activation in lung metastasis.

    • Dezhong Ji
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This series of articles explores how changes in diet and systemic metabolism can influence tumour development and progression, how this is affected by the presence of metabolic disease and how we can use this knowledge to improve anticancer therapy.
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