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Amit M, Takahashi H, Dragomir MP, Lindemann A, Gleber-Netto FO, Pickering CR, Anfossi S, Osman AA, Cai Y, Wang R, Knutsen E, Shimizu M, Ivan C, Rao X, Wang J, Silverman DA, Tam S, Zhao M, Caulin C, Zinger A, Tasciotti E, Dougherty PM, El-Naggar A, Calin GA, Myers JN. Loss of p53 drives neuron reprogramming in head and neck cancer. Nature. 2020 Feb;578(7795):449-454.
Anfossi S, Darbaniyan F, Quinlan J, Calin S, Shimizu M, Chen M, Rausseo P, Winters M, Bogatenkova E, Do KA, Martinez I, Li Z, Antal L, Olariu TR, Wistuba I, Calin GA. MicroRNAs are enriched at COVID-19 genomic risk regions, and their blood levels correlate with the COVID-19 prognosis of cancer patients infected by SARS-CoV-2. Mol Cancer. 2024; 23(1):235.
Boiarsky D, Lydon CA, Chambers ES, Sholl LM, Nishino M, Skoulidis F, Heymach JV, Luo J, Awad MA, Janne PA, Van Allen EM, Barbie DA, Vokes NI. Molecular markers of metastatic disease in KRAS-mutant lung adenocarcinoma. Ann Oncol. 2023; 34(7):589-604.
Chakravarti D, Hu B, Mao X, Rashid A, Li J, Li J, Liao WT, Whitley EM, Dey P, Hou P, LaBella KA, Chang A, Wang G, Spring DJ, Deng P, Zhao D, Liang X, Lan Z, Lin Y, Sarkar S, Terranova C, Deribe YL, Blutt SE, Okhuysen P, Zhang J, Vilar E, Nielsen OH, Dupont A, Younes M, Patel KR, Shroyer NF, Rai K, Estes MK, Wang YA, Bertuch AA, DePinho RA. Telomere dysfunction activates YAP1 to drive tissue inflammation. Nat Commun. 2020; 11(1):4766.
Chen B, Dragomir MP, Fabris L, Bayraktar R, Knutsen E, Liu X, Tang C, Li Y, Shimura T, Ivkovic TC, De Los Santos MC, Anfossi S, Shimizu M, Shah MY, Ling H, Shen P, Multani AS, Pardini B, Burks JK, Katayama H, Reineke LC, Huo L, Syed M, Song S, Ferracin M, Oki E, Fromm B, Ivan C, Bhuvaneshwar K, Gusev Y, Mimori K, Menter D, Sen S, Matsuyama T, Uetake H, Vasilescu C, Kopetz S, Parker-Thornburg J, Taguchi A, Hanash SM, Girnita L, Slaby O, Goel A, Varani G, Gagea M, Li C, Ajani JA, Calin GA. The long noncoding RNA CCAT2 induces chromosomal instability through BOP1-AURKB signaling. Gastroenterology. 2020; 159(6):2146-2162.e33.
Chen F, Li H, Wang Y, Tang X, Lin K, Li Q, Meng C, Shi W, Leo J, Liang X, Zhang J, Van V, Mahmud I, Wei B, Lorenzi PL, Raso MG, Aparicio A, Lu Y, Frigo DE, Gan B, Zhao D. CHD1 loss reprograms SREBP2-driven cholesterol synthesis to fuel androgen-responsive growth and castration resistance in SPOP-mutated prostate tumors. Nat Cancer. 2025; 6(5):854-873.
Chen P, Zhao D, Li J, Liang X, Li J, Chang A, Henry VK, Lan Z, Spring DJ, Rao G, Wang YA, DePinho RA. Symbiotic macrophage-glioma cell interactions reveal synthetic lethality in PTEN-null glioma. Cancer Cell. 2019; 35(6):868-884.e6.
Chen P, Hsu WH, Chang A, Tan Z, Lan Z, Zhou A, Spring DJ, Lang FF, Wang YA, DePinho RA. Circadian regulator CLOCK recruits immune-suppressive microglia into the GBM tumor microenvironment. Cancer Discov. 2020; 10(3):371-381.
Chen Y, Kim J, Yang S, Wang H, Wu CJ, Sugimoto H, LeBleu VS, Kalluri R. Type I collagen deletion in αSMA+ myofibroblasts augments immune suppression and accelerates progression of pancreatic cancer. Cancer Cell. 2021; 39(4):548-565.e6.
Chen Y, Yang S, Tavormina J, Tampe D, Zeisberg M, Wang H, Mahadevan KK, Wu CJ, Sugimoto H, Chang CC, Jenq RR, McAndrews KM, Kalluri R. Oncogenic collagen I homotrimers from cancer cells bind to α3β1 integrin and impact tumor microbiome and immunity to promote pancreatic cancer. Cancer Cell. 2022; 40(8):818-834.e9.
Chen Z, Ho IL, Soeung M, Yen EY, Liu J, Yan L, Rose JL, Srinivasan S, Jiang S, Edward Chang Q, Feng N, Gay JP, Wang Q, Wang J, Lorenzi PL, Veillon LJ, Wei B, Weinstein JN, Deem AK, Gao S, Genovese G, Viale A, Yao W, Lyssiotis CA, Marszalek JR, Draetta GF, Ying H. Ether phospholipids are required for mitochondrial reactive oxygen species homeostasis. Nat Commun. 2023; 14(1):2194.
Deng Y, Xia X, Zhao Y, Zhao Z, Martinez C, Yin W, Yao J, Hang Q, Wu W, Zhang J, Yu Y, Xia W, Yao F, Zhao D, Sun Y, Ying H, Hung MC, Ma L. Glucocorticoid receptor regulates PD-L1 and MHC-I in pancreatic cancer cells to promote immune evasion and immunotherapy resistance. Nat Commun. 2021; 12(1):7014.
Deng Y, Zhao Z, Sheldon M, Zhao Y, Teng H, Martinez C, Zhang J, Lin C, Sun Y, Yao F, Curran MA, Zhu H, Ma L. LIFR regulates cholesterol-driven bidirectional hepatocyte-neutrophil cross-talk to promote liver regeneration. Nat Metab. 2024; 6(9):1756-74.
Dey P, Li J, Zhang J, Chaurasiya S, Strom A, Wang H, Liao WT, Cavallaro F, Denz P, Bernard V, Yen EY, Genovese G, Gulhati P, Liu J, Chakravarti D, Deng P, Zhang T, Carbone F, Chang Q, Ying H, Shang X, Spring DJ, Ghosh B, Putluri N, Maitra A, Wang YA, DePinho RA. Oncogenic KRAS-driven metabolic reprogramming in pancreatic cancer cells utilizes cytokines from the tumor microenvironment. Cancer Discov. 2020; 10(4):608-625.
Ferrarotto R, Sousa LG, Feng L, Mott F, Blumenschein G, Altan M, Bell D, Bonini F, Li K, Marques-Piubelli ML, Dal Lago EA, Johnson JJ, Mitani Y, Godoy M, Lee A, Kupferman M, Hanna E, Glisson BS, Elamin Y, El-Naggar A. Phase II Clinical trial of axitinib and avelumab in patients with recurrent/metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma. J Clin Oncol. 2023; 41(15):2843-2851.
Gulhati P, Schalck A, Jiang S, Shang X, Wu CJ, Hou P, Ruiz SH, Soto LS, Parra E, Ying H, Han J, Dey P, Li J, Deng P, Sei E, Maeda DY, Zebala JA, Spring DJ, Kim M, Wang H, Maitra A, Moore D, Clise-Dwyer K, Wang YA, Navin NE, DePinho RA. Targeting T cell checkpoints 41BB and LAG3 and myeloid cell CXCR1/CXCR2 results in antitumor immunity and durable response in pancreatic cancer. Nat Cancer. 2023; 4(1):62-80.
Hong L, Aminu M, Li S, Lu X, Petranovic M, Saad MB, Chen P, Qin K, Varghese S, Rinsurongkawong W, Rinsurongkawong V, Spelman A, Elamin YY, Negrao MV, Skoulidis F, Gay CM, Cascone T, Gandhi SJ, Lin SH, Lee PP, Carter BW, Wu CC, Antonoff MB, Sepesi B, Lewis J, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Le X, Jack Lee J, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Routbort MJ, Gainor JF, Heymach JV, Lou Y, Wu J, Zhang J, Vokes NI. Efficacy and clinicogenomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors alone or with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer. Nat Commun. 2023; 14(1):695.
Hou P, Kapoor A, Zhang Q, Li J, Wu CJ, Li J, Lan Z, Tang M, Ma X, Ackroyd JJ, Kalluri R, Zhang J, Jiang S, Spring DJ, Wang YA, DePinho RA. Tumor microenvironment remodeling enables bypass of oncogenic KRAS dependency in pancreatic cancer. Cancer Discov. 2020; 10(7):1058-1077.
Hsu WH, LaBella KA, Lin Y, Xu P, Lee R, Hsieh CE, Yang L, Zhou A, Blecher JM, Wu CJ, Lin K, Shang X, Jiang S, Spring DJ, Xia Y, Chen P, Shen JP, Kopetz S, DePinho RA. Oncogenic KRAS drives lipofibrogenesis to promote angiogenesis and colon cancer progression. Cancer Discov. 2023; 13(12):2652-2673.
Hu Q, Li C, Wang S, Li Y, Wen B, Zhang Y, Liang K, Yao J, Ye Y, Hsiao H, Nguyen TK, Park PK, Egranov SD, Hawke DH, Marks JR, Han L, Hung MC, Zhang B, Lin C, Yang L. LncRNAs-directed PTEN enzymatic switch governs epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Cell Res. 2019; 29(4):286-304.
Hu Q, Ye Y, Chan LC, Li Y, Liang K, Lin A, Egranov SD, Zhang Y, Xia W, Gong J, Pan Y, Chatterjee SS, Yao J, Evans KW, Nguyen TK, Park PK, Liu J, Coarfa C, Donepudi SR, Putluri V, Putluri N, Sreekumar A, Ambati CR, Hawke DH, Marks JR, Gunaratne PH, Caudle AS, Sahin AA, Hortobagyi GN, Meric-Bernstam F, Chen L, Yu D, Hung MC, Curran MA, Han L, Lin C, Yang L. Oncogenic lncRNA downregulates cancer cell antigen presentation and intrinsic tumor suppression. Nat Immunol. 2019; 20(7):835-851.
Ko SY, Lee W, Weigert M, Jonasch E, Lengyel E, Naora H. The glycoprotein CD147 defines miRNA-enriched extracellular vesicles that derive from cancer cells. J Extracell Vesicles. 2023; 12(4):e12318.
Lee R, Li J, Li J, Wu CJ, Jiang S, Hsu WH, Chakravarti D, Chen P, LaBella KA, Li J, Spring DJ, Zhao D, Wang YA, DePinho RA. Synthetic essentiality of tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase 2 in APC-mutated colorectal cancer. Cancer Discov. 2022; 12(7):1702-1717.
Lee W, Ko SY, Akasaka H, Weigert M, Lengyel E, Naora H. Neutrophil extracellular traps promote pre-metastatic niche formation in the omentum by expanding innate-like B cells that express IL-10. Cancer Cell. 2025; 43(1):69-85.e11.
Li H, Xiao Y, Li Q, Yao J, Yuan X, Zhang Y, Yin X, Saito Y, Fan H, Li P, Kuo WL, Halpin A, Gibbons DL, Yagita H, Zhao Z, Pang D, Ren G, Yee C, Lee JJ, Yu D. The allergy mediator histamine confers resistance to immunotherapy in cancer patients via activation of the macrophage histamine receptor H1. Cancer Cell. 2022; 40(1):36-52.e9.
Li J, Lan Z, Liao W, Horner JW, Xu X, Liu J, Yoshihama Y, Jiang S, Shim HS, Slotnik M, LaBella KA, Wu CJ, Dunner K, Hsu WH, Lee R, Khanduri I, Terranova C, Akdemir K, Chakravarti D, Shang X, Spring DJ, Wang YA, DePinho RA. Histone demethylase KDM5D upregulation drives sex differences in colon cancer. Nature. 2023; 619(7970):632-639.
Li Y, Tan Z, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Hu Q, Liang K, Jun Y, Ye Y, Li YC, Li C, Liao L, Xu J, Xing Z, Pan Y, Chatterjee SS, Nguyen TK, Hsiao H, Egranov SD, Putluri N, Coarfa C, Hawke DH, Gunaratne PH, Tsai KL, Han L, Hung MC, Calin GA, Namour F, Guéant JL, Muntau AC, Blau N, Sutton VR, Schiff M, Feillet F, Zhang S, Lin C, Yang L. A noncoding RNA modulator potentiates phenylalanine metabolism in mice. Science. 2021; 373(6555):662-673.
Liao W, Overman MJ, Boutin AT, Shang X, Zhao D, Dey P, Li J, Wang G, Lan Z, Li J, Tang M, Jiang S, Ma X, Chen P, Katkhuda R, Korphaisarn K, Chakravarti D, Chang A, Spring DJ, Chang Q, Zhang J, Maru DM, Maeda DY, Zebala JA, Kopetz S, Wang YA, DePinho RA. KRAS-IRF2 axis drives immune suppression and immune therapy resistance in colorectal cancer. Cancer Cell. 2019; 35(4):559-572.e7.
Liu Y, Han J, Hsu WH, LaBella KA, Deng P, Shang X, Tallón de Lara P, Cai L, Jiang S, DePinho RA. Combined KRAS inhibition and immune therapy generates durable complete responses in an autochthonous PDAC Model. Cancer Discov. 2025; 15(1):162-178.
Longo MA, Roy S, Chen Y, Tomaszowski KH, Arvai AS, Pepper JT, Boisvert RA, Kunnimalaiyaan S, Keshvani C, Schild D, Bacolla A, Williams GJ, Tainer JA, Schlacher K. RAD51C-XRCC3 structure and cancer patient mutations define DNA replication roles. Nat Commun. 2023; 14(1):4445.
Lv X, Lu X, Cao J, Luo Q, Ding Y, Peng F, Pataer A, Lu D, Han D, Malmberg E, Chan DW, Wang X, Savage SR, Mao S, Yu J, Peng F, Yan L, Meng H, Maneix L, Han Y, Chen Y, Yao W, Chang EC, Catic A, Lin X, Miles G, Huang P, Sun Z, Burt B, Wang H, Wang J, Yao QC, Zhang B, Roth JA, O'Malley BW, Ellis MJ, Rimawi MF, Ying H, Chen X. Modulation of the proteostasis network promotes tumor resistance to oncogenic KRAS inhibitors. Science. 2023; 381(6662):eabn4180.
Mahadevan KK, McAndrews KM, LeBleu VS, Yang S, Lyu H, Li B, Sockwell AM, Kirtley ML, Morse SJ, Moreno Diaz BA, Kim MP, Feng N, Lopez AM, Guerrero PA, Paradiso F, Sugimoto H, Arian KA, Ying H, Barekatain Y, Sthanam LK, Kelly PJ, Maitra A, Heffernan TP, Kalluri R. KRASG12D inhibition reprograms the microenvironment of early and advanced pancreatic cancer to promote FAS-mediated killing by CD8+ T cells. Cancer Cell. 2023; 41(9):1606-1620.e8.
Mahadevan KK, Dyevoich AM, Chen Y, Li B, Sugimoto H, Sockwell AM, McAndrews KM, Sthanam LK, Wang H, Shalapour S, Watowich SS, Kalluri R. Type I conventional dendritic cells facilitate immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer. Science. 2024 Jun 28;384(6703):eadh4567.
McAndrews KM, Chen Y, Darpolor JK, Zheng X, Yang S, Carstens JL, Li B, Wang H, Miyake T, Correa de Sampaio P, Kirtley ML, Natale M, Wu CC, Sugimoto H, LeBleu VS, Kalluri R. Identification of functional heterogeneity of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts with distinct IL6-mediated therapy resistance in pancreatic cancer. Cancer Discov. 2022; 12(6):1580-1597.
Mise K, Long J, Galvan DL, Ye Z, Fan G, Sharma R, Serysheva II, Moore TI, Jeter CR, Anna Zal M, Araki M, Wada J, Schumacker PT, Chang BH, Danesh FR. NDUFS4 regulates cristae remodeling in diabetic kidney disease. Nat Commun. 2024; 15(1):1965.
Park MK, Yao Y, Xia W, Setijono SR, Kim JH, Vila IK, Chiu HH, Wu Y, Billalabeitia EG, Lee MG, Kalb RG, Hung MC, Pandolfi PP, Song SJ, Song MS. PTEN self-regulates through USP11 via the PI3K-FOXO pathway to stabilize tumor suppression. Nat Commun. 2019; 10(1):636.
Park MK, Zhang L, Min KW, Cho JH, Yeh CC, Moon H, Hormaechea-Agulla D, Mun H, Ko S, Lee JW, Jathar S, Smith AS, Yao Y, Giang NT, Vu HH, Yan VC, Bridges MC, Kourtidis A, Muller F, Chang JH, Song SJ, Nakagawa S, Hirose T, Yoon JH, Song MS. NEAT1 is essential for metabolic changes that promote breast cancer growth and metastasis. Cell Metab. 2021; 33(12):2380-2397.e9.
Parlani M, Bedell ML, Mikos AG, Friedl P, Dondossola E. Dissecting the recruent and self-organization of αSMA-positive fibroblasts in the foreign body response. Sci Adv. 2022; 8(51):eadd0014.
Pichler M, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Nam SY, Dragomir MP, Bayraktar R, Anfossi S, Knutsen E, Ivan C, Fuentes-Mattei E, Lee SK, Ling H, Catela Ivkovic T, Huang G, Huang L, Okugawa Y, Katayama H, Taguchi A, Bayraktar E, Bhattacharya R, Amero P, He WR, Tran AM, Vychytilova-Faltejskova P, Klec C, Bonilla DL, Zhang X, Kapitanovic S, Loncar B, Gafà R, Wang Z, Cristini V, Hanash SM, Bar-Eli M, Lanza G, Slaby O, Goel A, Rigoutsos I, Lopez-Berestein G, Calin GA. Therapeutic potential of FLANC, a novel primate-specific long non-coding RNA in colorectal cancer. Gut. 2020; 69(10):1818-1831.
Shim HS, Iaconelli J, Shang X, Li J, Lan ZD, Jiang S, Nutsch K, Beyer BA, Lairson LL, Boutin AT, Bollong MJ, Schultz PG, DePinho RA. TERT activation targets DNA methylation and multiple aging hallmarks. Cell. 2024; 187(15):4030-4042.e13.
Tomaszowski KH, Roy S, Guerrero C, Shukla P, Keshvani C, Chen Y, Ott M, Wu X, Zhang J, DiNardo CD, Schindler D, Schlacher K. Hypomorphic BRCA2 and RAD51c double mutant mice display Fanconi anemia, cancer and polygenic replication stress. Nat Commun. 2023; 14(1):1333.
Yao F, Deng Y, Zhao Y, Mei Y, Zhang Y, Liu X, Martinez C, Su X, Rosato RR, Teng H, Hang Q, Yap S, Chen D, Wang Y, Chen MM, Zhang M, Liang H, Xie D, Chen X, Zhu H, Chang JC, You MJ, Sun Y, Gan B, Ma L. A targetable LIFR-NF-κB-LCN2 axis controls liver tumorigenesis and vulnerability to ferroptosis. Nat Commun. 2021; 12(1):7333.
Yuan X, Duan Y, Xiao Y, Sun K, Qi Y, Zhang Y, Ahmed Z, Moiani D, Yao J, Li H, Zhang L, Yuzhalin AE, Li P, Zhang C, Badu-Nkansah A, Saito Y, Liu X, Kuo WL, Ying H, Sun SC, Chang JC, Tainer JA, Yu D. Vitamin E enhances cancer immunotherapy by reinvigorating dendritic cells via targeting checkpoint SHP1. Cancer Discov. 2022; 12(7):1742-1759.
Yuzhalin AE, Lowery FJ, Saito Y, Yuan X, Yao J, Duan Y, Ding J, Acharya S, Zhang C, Fajardo A, Chen HN, Wei Y, Sun Y, Zhang L, Xiao Y, Li P, Lorenzi PL, Huse JT, Fan H, Zhao Z, Hung MC, Yu D. Astrocyte-induced Cdk5 expedites breast cancer brain metastasis by suppressing MHC-I expression to evade immune recognition. Nat Cell Biol. 2024; 26(10):1773-1789.
Zhang L, Qu J, Qi Y, Duan Y, Huang YW, Zhou Z, Li P, Yao J, Huang B, Zhang S, Yu D. EZH2 engages TGFβ signaling to promote breast cancer bone metastasis via integrin β1-FAK activation. Nat Commun. 2022; 13(1):2543.
Zhang Y, Zhao Z, Huang LA, Liu Y, Yao J, Sun C, Li Y, Zhang Z, Ye Y, Yuan F, Nguyen TK, Garlapati NR, Wu A, Egranov SD, Caudle AS, Sahin AA, Lim B, Beretta L, Calin GA, Yu D, Hung MC, Curran MA, Rezvani K, Gan B, Tan Z, Han L, Lin C, Yang L. Molecular mechanisms of snoRNA-IL-15 crosstalk in adipocyte lipolysis and NK cell rejuvenation. Cell Metab. 2023; 35(8):1457-1473.e13.
Zhao D, Cai L, Lu X, Liang X, Li J, Chen P, Ittmann M, Shang X, Jiang S, Li H, Meng C, Flores I, Song JH, Horner JW, Lan Z, Wu CJ, Li J, Chang Q, Chen KC, Wang G, Deng P, Spring DJ, Wang YA, DePinho RA. Chromatin regulator CHD1 remodels the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in PTEN-deficient prostate cancer. Cancer Discov. 2020; 10(9):1374-1387.
Zhao M, Wang T, Gleber-Netto FO, Chen Z, McGrail DJ, Gomez JA, Ju W, Gadhikar MA, Ma W, Shen L, Wang Q, Tang X, Pathak S, Raso MG, Burks JK, Lin SY, Wang J, Multani AS, Pickering CR, Chen J, Myers JN, Zhou G. Mutant p53 gains oncogenic functions through a chromosomal instability-induced cytosolic DNA response. Nat Commun. 2024; 15(1):180.
Zhao Z, Hu B, Deng Y, Soeung M, Yao J, Bei L, Zhang Y, Gong P, Huang LA, Jiang Z, Gao J, Peng S, Nguyen TK, Karki M, Lim B, Yee C, Burks JK, Zhang Q, Ma L, Gao J, Tannir NM, Han L, Yu D, Wang L, Curran MA, Gubbiotti MA, Genovese G, Gan B, Li W, Msaouel P, Yang L, Lin C. Sickle cell disease induces chromatin introversion and ferroptosis in CD8+ T cells to suppress anti-tumor immunity. Immunity. 2025;
Zhou X, LeBleu VS, Fletcher-Sananikone E, Kim J, Dai J, Li B, Wu CC, Sugimoto H, Miyake T, Becker LM, Volpert OV, Lawson E, Espinosa Da Silva C, Patel SI, Kizu A, Ehsanipour EA, Sha D, Karam JA, McAndrews KM, Kalluri R. Vascular heterogeneity of tight junction Claudins guides organotropic metastasis. Nat Cancer. 2024; 5(9):1371-1389.

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