Selected Publications

1. Padhye A, Konen JM, Rodriguez BL, Fradette JJ, Ochieng JK, Diao L, Wang J, Lu W, Solis LS, Batra H, Raso MG, Peoples MD, Minelli R, Carugo A, Bristow CA, Gibbons DL. Targeting CDK4 overcomes EMT-mediated tumor heterogeneity and therapeutic resistance in KRAS-mutant lung cancer. JCI Insight. 2021 Sep 8;6(17):148392. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.148392.

2. Peng DH, Rodriguez BL, Diao L, Gaudreau PO, Padhye A, Konen JM, Ochieng JK, Class CA, Fradette JJ, Gibson L,Chen L, Wang J, Byers LA, Gibbons DL Th17 cells contribute to combination MEK inhibitor and anti-PD-L1 therapy resistance in KRAS/p53 mutant lung cancers. Nat Commun. 2021 May10;12(1):2606. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22875-w.

3. Rocha P, Salazar R, Zhang J, Ledesma D, Solorzano JL, Mino B, Villalobos P, Dejima H, Douse DY, Diao L, Mitchell KG, Le X, Zhang J, Weissferdt A, Parra-Cuentas E, Cascone T, Rice DC, Sepesi B, Kalhor N, Moran C, Vaporciyan A, Heymach J, Gibbons DL, Lee JJ, Kadara H, Wistuba I, Behrens C, Solis LM . CD73 expression defines immune, molecular, and clinicopathological subgroups of lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2021 Jan 8. doi: 10.1007/s00262-020-02820-4.

4. Peng, DH, Rodriguez BL, Diao L, Chen L, Wang J, Byers LA, Wei Y, Chapman, HA, Yamauchi M, Behrens C, Raso G, Soto LMS, Cuentes ERP, Wistuba II, Kurie JM, Gibbons DL. Collagen promotes anti-PD-1/PD-L1 resistance in cancer through LAIR1-dependent CD8* T cell exhaustion. Nat Commun. 2020 Sep 9;11(1):4520. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18298-8..

2. Konen JM, Rodriguez BL, Padhye A, Ochieng JK, Gibson L, Diao L, Fowlkes NW, Fradette JJ, Peng DH, Cardnell RJ, Kovacs JJ, Wang J, Byers LA, Gibbons DL. Dual inhibition of MEK and AXL targets tumor cell heterogeneity and prevents resistant outgrowth mediated by the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in NSCLC. Cancer Res. 2021 Jan 5:canres.1895.2020. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-20-1895. 

3. Le X, Negrao MV, Reuben A, Federico L, Diao L, McGrail D, Nilsson M, Robichaux J, Munoz IG, Patel S, Elamin Y, Fan YH, Lee WC, Parra E, Solis Soto LM, Chen R, Li J, Karpinets T, Khairullah R, Kadara H, Behrens C, Sepesi B, Wang R, Zhu M, Wang L, Vaporiciyan A, Roth J, Swisher S, Haymaker C, Zhang J, Wang J, Wong KK, Byers LA, Bernatchez C, Zhang J, Wistuba II, Gibbons DL, Akbay EA, Heymach JV. Characterization of the immune landscape of EGFR-mutant NSCLC identifies CD73/adenosine pathway as a potential therapeutic target. J Thorac Oncol. 2020 Dec 31:S1556-0864(20)31136-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2020.12.010.

4. Lam VK, Zhang J, Wu CC, Tran HT, Li L, Diao L, Wang J, Rinsurongkawong W, Raymond VM, Lanman RB, Lewis J, Roarty EB, Roth J, Swisher S, Lee JJ, Gibbons DL, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Heymach JV. Genotype-specific differences in circulating tumor DNA levels in advanced NSCLC.  J Thorac Oncol. 2020 Dec 31:S1556-0864(20)31137-0. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2020.12.011

5. Monteiro de Oliveira Novaes JA, Hirz T, Guijarro I, Nilsson M, Pisegna MA, Poteete A, Barsoumian HB, Fradette JJ, Chen LN, Gibbons DL, Tian X, Wang J, Myers JN, McArthur MJ, Bell D, William WN Jr, Heymach JV. Targeting of CD40 and PD-L1 Pathways Inhibits Progression of Oral Premalignant Lesions in a Carcinogen-induced Model of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2020 Dec 4. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-20-0418.

6. Ramkumar K, Stewart CA, Cargill KR, Della Corte CM, Wang Q, Shen L, Diao L, Cardnell RJ, Peng DH, Rodriguez BL, Fan YH, Heymach JV, Wang J, Gay CM, Gibbons DL, Byers LA. AXL Inhibition Induces DNA Damage and Replication Stress in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells and Promotes Sensitivity to ATR Inhibitors. Mol Cancer Res. 2020 Nov 10. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-20-0414. 

7. Lee WC, Reuben A, Hu X, McGranahan N, Chen R, Jalali A, Negrao MV, Hubert SM, Tang C, Wu CC, Lucas AS, Roh W, Suda K, Kim J, Tan AC, Peng DH, Lu W, Tang X, Chow CW, Fujimoto J, Behrens C, Kalhor N, Fukumura K, Coyle M, Thornton R, Gumbs C, Li J, Wu CJ, Little L, Roarty E, Song X, Lee JJ, Sulman EP, Rao G, Swisher S, Diao L, Wang J, Heymach JV, Huse JT, Scheet P, Wistuba II, Gibbons DL, Futreal PA, Zhang J, Gomez D, Zhang J. Multiomics profiling of primary lung cancers and distant metastases reveals immunosuppression as a common characteristic of tumor cells with metastatic plasticity. Genome Biol. 2020 Nov 4;21(1):271. doi: 10.1186/s13059-020-02175-0.

8. Gaudreau PO, Negrao MV, Mitchell KG, Reuben A, Corsini EM, Li J, Karpinets TV, Wang Q, Diao L, Wang J, Federico L, Parra-Cuentas ER, Khairullah R, Behrens C, Correa AM, Gomez D, Little L, Gumbs C, Kadara HN, Fujimoto J, McGrail DJ, Vaporciyan AA, Swisher SG, Walsh G, Antonoff MB, Weissferdt A, Tran H, Roarty E, Haymaker C, Bernatchez C, Zhang J, Futreal PA, Wistuba II, Cascone T, Heymach JV, Sepesi B, Zhang J, Gibbons DL. Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Increases Cytotoxic T Cell, Tissue Resident Memory T Cell, and B Cell Infiltration in Resectable NSCLC. J Thorac Oncol. 2021 Jan;16(1):127-139. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2020.09.027. Epub 2020 Oct 21.PMID: 33096269 

9. Creelan BC, Yeh TC, Kim SW, Nogami N, Kim DW, Chow LQM, Kanda S, Taylor R, Tang W, Tang M, Angell HK, Roudier MP, Marotti M, Gibbons DL . A Phase 1 study of gefitinib combined with durvalumab in EGFR TKI-naive patients with EGFR mutation-positive locally advanced/metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. Br J Cancer. 2020 Oct 5. doi: 10.1038/s41416-020-01099-7.

10. Ochieng JK, Kundu ST, Bajaj R, Leticia Rodriguez B, Fradette JJ, Gibbons DL. MBIP (MAP3K12 binding inhibitory protein) drives NSCLC metastasis by JNK-dependent activation of MMPs. Oncogene. 2020 Sep 22. doi: 10.1038/s41388-020-01463-0.

11. Tan X, Shi L, Banerjee P, Liu X, Guo HF, Yu J, Bota-Rabassedas N, Rodriguez BL, Gibbons DL, Russell WK, Creighton CJ, Kurie JM. A pro-tumorigenic secretory pathway activated by p53 deficiency in lung adenocarcinoma. J Clin Invest. 2020 Sep 15:137186. doi: 10.1172/JCI137186.

12. Peng DH, Rodriguez BL, Diao L, Chen L, Wang J, Byers LA, Wei Y, Chapman HA, Yamauchi M, Behrens C, Raso G, Soto LMS, Cuentes ERP, Wistuba II, Kurie JM, Gibbons DL . Collagen promotes anti-PD-1/PD-L1 resistance in cancer through LAIR1-dependent CD8+ T cell exhaustion. Nat Commun. 2020 Sep 9;11(1):4520. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18298-8.

13. Nilsson MB, Sun H, Robichaux J, Pfeifer M, McDermott U, Travers J, Diao L, Xi Y, Tong P, Shen L, Hofstad M, Kawakami M, Le X, Liu X, Fan Y, Poteete A, Hu L, Negrao MV, Tran H, Dmitrovsky E, Peng D, Gibbons DL, Wang J, Heymach JV. A YAP/FOXM1 axis mediates EMT-associated EGFR inhibitor resistance and increased expression of spindle assembly checkpoint components. Sci Transl Med. 2020 Sep 2;12(559):eaaz4589. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaz4589.

14. Bajaj R, Kundu ST, Grzeskowiak CL, Fradette JJ, Scott KL, Creighton CJ, Gibbons DL. IMPAD1 and KDELR2 drive invasion and metastasis by enhancing Golgi-mediated secretion. Oncogene. 2020 Sep;39(37):5979-5994. doi: 10.1038/s41388-020-01410-z

15. Corsini EM, Wang Q, Tran HT, Mitchell KG, Antonoff MB, Hofstetter WL, Mehran RJ, Rice DC, Roth JA, Swisher SG, Vaporciyan AA, Walsh GL, Reuben A, Vasquez ME, Bernatchez C, Wang J, Cascone T, Zhang J, Heymach J, Gibbons DL, Haymaker CL, Sepesi B. Peripheral cytokines are not influenced by the type of surgical approach for non-small cell lung cancer by four weeks postoperatively. Lung Cancer. 2020 Aug;146:303-309. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2020.06.022.

16. Behrens C, Rocha P, Parra ER, Feng L, Rodriguez-Canales J, Solis LM, Mino B, Zhang J, Gibbons DL, Sepesi B, Rice D, Heymach JV, Moran C, Creighton CJ, Lee JJ, Kadara H, Wistuba II . Female Gender Predicts Augmented Immune Infiltration in Lung Adenocarcinoma. Clin Lung Cancer. 2020 Jun 14:S1525-7304(20)30185-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2020.06.003.

17. Stewart CA, Gay CM, Ramkumar K, Cargill KR, Cardnell RJ, Nilsson MB, Heeke S, Park EM, Kundu ST, Diao L, Wang Q, Shen L, Xi Y, Maria Della Corte C, Fan Y, Kundu K, Pickering CR, Johnson FM, Zhang J, Kadara H, Minna JD, Gibbons DL, Wang J, Heymach JV, Byers LA SARS-CoV-2 infection induces EMT-like molecular changes, including ZEB1-mediated repression of the viral receptor ACE2, in lung cancer models. bioRxiv. 2020 May 29:2020.05.28.122291. doi: 10.1101/2020.05.28.122291.

18. Yamauchi M, Gibbons DL, Zong C, Fradette JJ, Bota-Rabassedas N, Kurie JM. Fibroblast heterogeneity and its impact on extracellular matrix and immune landscape remodeling in cancer. Matrix Biol. 2020 May 19:S0945-053X(20)30052-4. doi: 10.1016/j.matbio.2020.05.001.

19. Della Corte CM, Sen T, Gay CM, Ramkumar K, Diao L, Cardnell RJ, Rodriguez BL, Stewart CA, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Gibson L, Fradette JJ, Wang Q, Fan Y, Peng DH, Negrao MV, Wistuba II, Fujimoto J, Solis Soto LM, Behrens C, Skoulidis F, Heymach JV, Wang J, Gibbons DL, Byers LA. STING Pathway Expression Identifies NSCLC With an Immune-Responsive Phenotype. J Thorac Oncol. 2020 May;15(5):777-791. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2020.01.009. Epub 2020 Feb 15.

20. Reuben A, Zhang J, Chiou SH, Gittelman RM, Li J, Lee WC, Fujimoto J, Behrens C, Liu X, Wang F, Quek K, Wang C, Kheradmand F, Chen R, Chow CW, Lin H, Bernatchez C, Jalali A, Hu X, Wu CJ, Eterovic AK, Parra ER, Yusko E, Emerson R, Benzeno S, Vignali M, Wu X, Ye Y, Little LD, Gumbs C, Mao X, Song X, Tippen S, Thornton RL, Cascone T, Snyder A, Wargo JA, Herbst R, Swisher S, Kadara H, Moran C, Kalhor N, Zhang J, Scheet P, Vaporciyan AA, Sepesi B, Gibbons DL, Robins H, Hwu P, Heymach JV, Sharma P, Allison JP, Baladandayuthapani V, Lee JJ, Davis MM, Wistuba II, Futreal PA, Zhang J. Comprehensive T cell repertoire characterization of non-small cell lung cancer. Nat Commun. 2020 Jan 30;11(1):603. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-14273-0.

21. Tan X, Banerjee P, Pham EA, Rutaganira FUN, Basu K, Bota-Rabassedas N, Guo HF, Grzeskowiak CL, Liu X, Yu J, Shi L, Peng DH, Rodriguez BL, Zhang J, Zheng V, Duose DY, Solis LM, Mino B, Raso MG, Behrens C, Wistuba II, Scott KL, Smith M, Nguyen K, Lam G, Choong I, Mazumdar A, Hill JL, Gibbons DL, Brown PH, Russell WK, Shokat K, Creighton CJ, Glenn JS, Kurie JM. PI4KIIIβ is a therapeutic target in chromosome 1q-amplified lung adenocarcinoma. Sci Transl Med. 2020 Jan 22;12(527):eaax3772. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aax3772.

22. Konen JM, Fradette JJ, Gibbons DL. The Good, the Bad and the Unknown of CD38 in the Metabolic Microenvironment and Immune Cell Functionality of Solid Tumors. Cells. 2019 Dec 24;9(1):52. doi: 10.3390/cells9010052.

23. Manshouri R, Coyaud E, Kundu ST, Peng DH, Stratton SA, Alton K, Bajaj R, Fradette JJ, Minelli R, Peoples MD, Carugo A, Chen F, Bristow C, Kovacs JJ, Barton MC, Heffernan T, Creighton CJ, Raught B, Gibbons DL. ZEB1/NuRD complex suppresses TBC1D2b to stimulate E-cadherin internalization and promote metastasis in lung cancer. Nat Commun. 2019 Nov 12;10(1):5125. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12832-z.

24. Soundararajan R, Fradette JJ, Konen JM, Moulder S, Zhang X, Gibbons DL, Varadarajan N, Wistuba II, Tripathy D, Bernatchez C, Byers LA, Chang JT, Contreras A, Lim B, Parra ER, Roarty EB, Wang J, Yang F, Barton M, Rosen JM, Mani SA. Targeting the Interplay between Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal-Transition and the Immune System for Effective Immunotherapy. Cancers (Basel). 2019 May 24;11(5):714. doi: 10.3390/cancers11050714.

25. Konen JM, Rodriguez BL, Fradette JJ, Gibson L, Davis D, Minelli R, Peoples MD, Kovacs J, Carugo A, Bristow C, Heffernan T, Gibbons DL. Ntrk1 Promotes Resistance to PD-1 Checkpoint Blockade in Mesenchymal Kras/p53 Mutant Lung Cancer. Cancers (Basel). 2019 Apr 2;11(4). pii: E462. doi: 10.3390/cancers11040462.

26. Padhye A, Ungewiss C, Fradette JJ, Rodriguez BL, Albritton JL, Miller JS, Gibbons DL. A novel ex vivo tumor system identifies Src-mediated invasion and metastasis in mesenchymal tumor cells in non-small cell lung cancer. Sci Rep. 2019 Mar 20;9(1):4819. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41301-2.

27. Peng DH, Kundu ST, Fradette JJ, Diao L, Tong P, Byers LA, Wang J, Canales JR, Villalobos PA, Mino B, Yang Y, Minelli R, Peoples MD, Bristow CA, Heffernan TP, Carugo A, Wistuba II, Gibbons DL. ZEB1 suppression sensitizes KRAS mutant cancers to MEK inhibition by an IL17RD-dependent mechanism. Sci Transl Med. 2019 Mar 13;11(483). pii: eaaq1238. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaq1238.

28. Negrao MV, Lam VK, Reuben A, Rubin ML, Landry LL, Roarty EB, Rinsurongkawong W, Lewis J, Roth JA, Swisher SG, Gibbons DL, Wistuba II, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Glisson BS, Blumenschein GR Jr, Lee JJ, Heymach JV, Zhang J. PD-L1 Expression, Tumor Mutational Burden, and Cancer Gene Mutations Are Stronger Predictors of Benefit from Immune Checkpoint Blockade than HLA Class I Genotype in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2019 Feb 16. pii: S1556-0864(19)30116-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2019.02.008.

29. Sen T, Rodriguez BL, Chen L, Corte CMD, Morikawa N, Fujimoto J, Cristea S, Nguyen T, Diao L, Li L, Fan Y, Yang Y, Wang J, Glisson BS, Wistuba II, Sage J, Heymach JV, Gibbons DL, Byers LA. Targeting DNA Damage Response Promotes Antitumor Immunity through STING-Mediated T-cell Activation in Small Cell Lung Cancer. Cancer Discov. 2019 Feb 18. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-18-1020.

30. Kundu ST, Grzeskowiak CL, Fradette JJ, Gibson LA, Rodriguez LB, Creighton CJ, Scott KL, Gibbons DL. TMEM106B drives lung cancer metastasis by inducing TFEB-dependent lysosome synthesis and secretion of cathepsins. Nat Commun. 2018 Jul 16;9(1):2731. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05013-x. PMID: 30013069

31. Grzeskowiak CL, Kundu ST, Mo X, Ivanov AA, Zagorodna O, Lu H, Chapple RH, Tsang YH, Moreno D, Mosqueda M, Eterovic K, Fradette JJ, Ahmad S, Chen F, Chong Z, Chen K, Creighton CJ, Fu H, Mills GB, Gibbons DL, Scott KL. In vivo screening identifies GATAD2B as a metastasis driver in KRAS-driven lung cancer. Nat Commun. 2018 Jul 16;9(1):2732. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04572-3. PMID: 30013058

32. Chen L, Diao L, Yang Y, Yi X, Rodriguez BL, Li Y, Villalobos PA, Cascone T, Liu X, Tan L, Lorenzi PL, Huang A, Zhao Q, Peng D, Fradette J, Peng DH, Ungewiss C, Roybal JD, Tong P, Oba J, Skoulidis F, Peng W, Carter BW, Gay CM, Fan Y, Class CA, Zhu J, Rodriguez-Canales J, Kawakami M, Byers LA, Woodman SE, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Dmitrovsky E, Wang J, Ullrich SE, Wistuba II, V Heymach J, Qin FX, Gibbons DL. CD38-mediated immunosuppression as a mechanism of tumor cell escape from PD-1/PD-L1 blockade. Cancer Discov. 2018 Jul 16. pii: CD-17-1033. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-1033. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30012853

33. Parra ER, Villalobos P, Behrens C, Jiang M, Pataer A, Swisher SG, William WN Jr, Zhang J, Lee J, Cascone T, Heymach JV, Forget MA, Haymaker C, Bernatchez C, Kalhor N, Weissferdt A, Moran C, Zhang J, Vaporciyan A, Gibbons DL, Sepesi B, Wistuba II. Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on the immune microenvironment in non-small cell lung carcinomas as determined by multiplex immunofluorescence and image analysis approaches. J Immunother Cancer. 2018 Jun 6;6(1):48. doi: 10.1186/s40425-018-0368-0. PMID: 29871672

34. Sepesi B, Nelson DB, Mitchell KG, Gibbons DL, Heymach JV, Vaporciyan AA, Swisher SG, Roszik J. Prognostic Value of PD-L1 mRNA Sequencing Expression Profile in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Ann Thorac Surg. 2018 Jun;105(6):1621-1626. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.01.081. Epub 2018 Mar 3. PMID: 29510096

35. Tan X, Banerjee P, Liu X, Yu J, Gibbons DL, Wu P, Scott KL, Diao L, Zheng X, Wang J, Jalali A, Suraokar M, Fujimoto J, Behrens C, Liu X, Liu CG, Creighton CJ, Wistuba II, Kurie JM. The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition activator ZEB1 initiates a prometastatic competing endogenous RNA network. J Clin Invest. 2018 Apr 2;128(4):1267-1282. doi: 10.1172/JCI97225. Epub 2018 Feb 26. PMID: 29324442

36. Yamauchi M, Barker TH, Gibbons DL, Kurie JM. The fibrotic tumor stroma. J Clin Invest. 2018 Jan 2;128(1):16-25. doi: 10.1172/JCI93554. Epub 2018 Jan 2. PMID: 29293090

37. Wei Y, Kim TJ, Peng DH, Duan D, Gibbons DL, Yamauchi M, Jackson JR, Le Saux CJ, Calhoun C, Peters J, Derynck R, Backes BJ, Chapman HA. Fibroblast-specific inhibition of TGF-β1 signaling attenuates lung and tumor fibrosis. J Clin Invest. 2017 Oct 2;127(10):3675-3688. doi: 10.1172/JCI94624. Epub 2017 Sep 5. PMID: 28872461

38.  Tan X, Banerjee P, Guo HF, Ireland S, Pankova D, Ahn YH, Nikolaidis IM, Liu X, Zhao Y, Xue Y, Burns AR, Roybal J, Gibbons DL, Zal T, Creighton CJ, Ungar D, Wang Y, Kurie JM. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition drives a pro-metastatic Golgi compaction process through scaffolding protein PAQR11. J Clin Invest. 2017 Jan 3;127(1):117-131. doi: 10.1172/JCI88736. Epub 2016 Nov 21. PMID: 27869652

39.  Chen F, Zhang Y, Parra E, Rodriguez J, Behrens C, Akbani R, Lu Y, Kurie JM, Gibbons DL, Mills GB, Wistuba II, Creighton CJ. Multiplatform-based molecular subtypes of non-small-cell lung cancer. Oncogene. 2016 Oct 24. doi: 10.1038/onc.2016.303.

40. Peng DH, Ungewiss C, Tong P, Byers LA, Wang J, Canales JR, Villalobos PA, Uraoka N, Mino B, Behrens C, Wistuba II, Han RI, Wanna CA, Fahrenholtz M, Grande-Allen KJ, Creighton CJ, Gibbons DL. ZEB1 induces LOXL2-mediated collagen stabilization and deposition in the extracellular matrix to drive lung cancer invasion and metastasis. Oncogene. 2016 Oct 3. doi: 10.1038/onc.2016.358. 

41. Chen L, Yi X, Goswami S, Ahn YH, Roybal JD, Yang Y, Diao L, Peng D, Peng D, Fradette JJ, Wang J, Byers LA, Kurie JM, Ullrich SE, Qin FX, Gibbons DL. Growth and metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma is potentiated by BMP4-mediated immunosuppression. Oncoimmunology. 2016 Sep 26;5(11):e1234570. doi: 10.1080/2162402X.2016.1234570.

42. Zhang T, Guo L, Creighton CJ, Lu Q, Gibbons DL, Yi ES, Deng B, Molina JR, Sun Z, Yang P, Yang Y. A genetic cell context-dependent role for ZEB1 in lung cancer. Nat Commun. 2016 Jul 26;7:12231. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12231.

43.  Lou Y, Diao L, Parra Cuentas ER, Denning WL, Chen L, Fan YH, Byers LA, Wang J, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Behrens C, Rodriguez J, Hwu P, Wistuba II, Heymach JV, Gibbons DL. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition is associated with a distinct tumor microenvironment including elevation of inflammatory signals and multiple immune checkpoints in lung adenocarcinoma. Clin Cancer Res. e-Pub 2/2016. PMID: 26851185.

44.  Ungewiss C, Rizvi ZH, Roybal JD, Peng DH, Gold KA, Shin DH, Creighton CC, Gibbons DL. The microRNA-200/Zeb1 axis regulates ECM-dependent β1-integrin/FAK signaling, cancer cell invasion and metastasis through CRKL. Nature Scientific Reports, 1/2016.

45.  Mak MP, Tong P, Lixia Diao L, Cardnell RJ, Gibbons DL, William WN, Skoulidis F, Parra ER, Rodriguez-Canales J, Wistuba II, Heymach JV, Weinstein JN, Coombes KR, Wang J, Byers LA. A patient-derived, pan-cancer EMT signature identifies global molecular alterations and immune target enrichment following epithelial to mesenchymal transition. Clin Cancer Res. e-Pub 9/2015.

46.  Kundu ST, Byers LA, Peng DH, Roybal JD, Diao L, Wang J, Tong P, Creighton CJ, Gibbons DL. The miR-200 family and the miR-183~96~182 cluster target Foxf2 to inhibit invasion and metastasis in lung cancers. Oncogene. e-Pub 3/2015. PMID: 25798833.

47.  Gibbons DL, Byers LA. A HER 1-2 Punch: Dual EGFR targeting deals resistance a deadly blow. Cancer Discov 4(9):991-4, 9/2014. PMID: 25185188.

48.  Yang Y, Ahn YH, Chen Y, Tan X, Guo L, Gibbons DL, Ungewiss C, Peng DH, Liu X, Lin SH, Thilaganathan N, Wistuba II, Rodriguez-Canales J, McLendon G, Creighton CJ, Kurie JM. ZEB1 sensitizes lung adenocarcinoma to metastasis suppression by PI3K antagonism. J Clin Invest 124(6):2696-708, 6/2014. e-Pub 4/2014. PMCID: PMC4038569.

49.  Gibbons DL, Byers LA, Kurie JM. Smoking, p53 mutation, and lung cancer. Mol Cancer Res 12(1):3-13, 1/2014. PMCID: PMC3925633.

50.  Chen L, Gibbons DL, Goswami S, Cortez MA, Ahn YH, Byers LA, Zhang X, Yi X, Dwyer D, Lin W, Diao L, Wang J, Roybal JD, Patel M, Ungewiss C, Peng D, Antonia S, Mediavilla-Varela M, Robertson G, Jones S, Suraokar M, Welsh JW, Erez B, Wistuba II, Chen L, Peng D, Wang S, Ullrich SE, Heymach JV, Kurie JM, Qin FX. Metastasis is regulated via microRNA-200/ZEB1 axis control of tumour cell PD-L1 expression and intratumoral immunosuppression. Nat Commun 5:5241, 2014. e-Pub 10/2014. PMCID: PMC4212319.

51.  Creighton CJ, Gibbons DL, Kurie JM. The role of epithelial-mesenchymal transition programming in invasion and metastasis: a clinical perspective. Cancer Manag Res 5:187-95, 2013. e-Pub 7/2013. PMCID: PMC3754282.

52.  Gill BJ, Gibbons DL†, Roudsari LC, Saik JE, Rizvi ZH, Roybal JD, Kurie JM, West JL†. A synthetic matrix with independently tunable biochemistry and mechanical properties to study epithelial morphogenesis and EMT in a lung adenocarcinoma model. Cancer Res 72(22):6013-23, 11/2012. e-Pub 9/2012. PMCID: PMC3632398.

53.  Ahn YH, Gibbons DL, Chakravarti D, Creighton CJ, Rizvi ZH, Adams HP, Pertsemlidis A, Gregory PA, Wright JA, Goodall GJ, Flores ER, Kurie JM. ZEB1 drives prometastatic actin cytoskeletal remodeling by downregulating miR-34a expression. J Clin Invest 122(9):3170-83, 9/2012. e-Pub 8/2012. PMCID: PMC3428095.

54.  Schliekelman MJ, Gibbons DL, Faca VM, Creighton CJ, Rizvi ZH, Zhang Q, Wong CH, Wang H, Ungewiss C, Ahn YH, Shin DH, Kurie JM, Hanash SM. Targets of the tumor suppressor miR-200 in regulation of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancer. Cancer Res 71(24):7670-82, 12/2011. e-Pub 10/2011. PMCID: PMC3419137.

55.  Yang Y, Ahn YH, Gibbons DL*, Zang Y, Lin W, Thilaganathan N, Alvarez CA, Moreira DC, Creighton CJ, Gregory PA, Goodall GJ, Kurie JM. The notch ligand jagged 2 promotes lung adenocarcinoma metastasis through a miR-200-dependent pathway in mice. J Clin Invest 121(4):1373-85, 4/2011. e-Pub 3/2011. PMCID: PMC3069760.

56.  Cataldo VD, Gibbons DL, Pérez-Soler R, Quintás-Cardama A. Treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer with Erlotinib or Gefitinib. N Engl J Med 364(10):947-55, 3/2011. PMID: 21388312.

57.  Gibbons DL, Lin W, Creighton CJ, Rizvi ZH, Gregory PA, Goodall GJ, Thilaganathan N, Du L, Zhang Y, Pertsemlidis A, Kurie JM. Contextual extracellular cues promote tumor cell EMT and metastasis by regulating miR-200 family expression. Genes Dev 23(18):2140-51, 9/2009. PMCID: PMC2751985.