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A Similar Speciation Process Relying on Cellular Stochasticity in Microbial and Cancer Cell Populations

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Similarities between microbial and cancer cells were noticed in recent years and serve as a basis for an atavism theory of cancer. Cancer cells would rely on the reactivation of an ancestral "genetic program" that would have been repressed in metazoan cells. Here we argue that cancer cells resemble unicellular organisms mainly in their similar way to exploit cellular stochastiity to produce cell specialization and maximize proliferation. Indeed, the relationship between low stochasticity, specialization, and quiescence found in normal differentiated metazoan cells is lost in cancer. On the contrary, low stochasticity and specialization are associated with high proliferation among cancer cells, as it is observed for the "specialist" cells in microbial populations that fully exploit nutritional resources to maximize proliferation. Thus, we propose a model where the appearance of cancer phenotypes can be solely due to an adaptation and a speciation process based on initial increase in cellular stochasticity.
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Jean-Pascal Capp, Frédéric Thomas. A Similar Speciation Process Relying on Cellular Stochasticity in Microbial and Cancer Cell Populations. iScience, 2020, 23 (9), pp.1-12. ⟨10.1016/j.isci.2020.101531⟩. ⟨hal-02982941⟩
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