UT Health San Antonio scientists uncover how some cancers outsmart immune system (Rao, Sung, Zheng, & Chen Labs)

July 17, 2025

 Shared By: Claire Kowalick July 17, 2025 FOXM1 protein identified as key driver in immunotherapy resistance, unlocking new therapeutic avenues   For years, scientists have found the overexpression of a specific protein called FOXM1 in a wide range of cancers, including ovarian, breast, and pediatric cancers. A recent study by scientists at The University of Texas [...]

Nature Communications: Loss of CD98HC phosphorylation by ATM impairs antiporter trafficking and drives glutamate toxicity in Ataxia telangiectasia (Bishop Lab)

June 3, 2025

 July Carolina Romero, Sonal S. Tonapi,Manish Parihar,Eva Loranc,Henry E. Miller,Liesl A. Lawrence,Nicklas Bassani,Daniel G. Robledo,Lin Cao,Jia Nie,Kairi Kanda,Aiola Stoja,Natalia Garcia,Aparna Gorthi,Brian J. Stoveken,Teresa W-M Fan,Teresa A. Cassel,Shan Zha,James D. Lechleiter,Nicolas Musi,Lily Q. Dong,Andrew N. Lane &Alexander J. R. Bishop Abstract Ataxia-telangiectasia is a rare genetic disorder characterized by neurological defects, immunodeficiency, cancer predisposition, radiosensitivity, decreased blood vessel [...]

Nature Communications: Epigenetic silencing of DNA sensing pathway by FOXM1 blocks stress ligand-dependent antitumor immunity and immune memory (Rao, Chen, Zheng, Sung Labs et al)

April 29, 2025

 Santosh Timilsina, Jian Yu Huang, Nourhan Abdelfattah, Daisy Medina, Deepika Singh, Shahad Abdulsahib, Panneerdoss Subbarayalu, Trong Phat Do, Prabhakar Pitta Venkata, Saif Nirzhor, Jack Prochnau, Mukund Bhandari, Siyuan Zheng, Yidong Chen, Gang Huang, Neelam Mukherjee, Robert Hromas, Patrick Sung, Virginia Kaklamani, Ratna Vadlamudi, Nu Zhang & Manjeet K. Rao Abstract The interplay between tumor cells and [...]

Neuro-Oncology: Dual Inhibition of MAPK and TORC1 Signaling Retards Development of Radiation Resistance in Pediatric BRAF V600E Glioma Models (Chen, Houghton, et al labs)

April 11, 2025

 Abstract Background MAPK pathway inhibitors (MAPKi) have shown significant efficacy in treating childhood BRAF-activated brain tumors. For tumors harboring BRAFV600E mutations, the drugs are rarely curative, and patients can become refractory to treatment. MAPKi, combining X-radiation therapy (XRT), may improve the cure rate, but the development of XRT-resistance is a challenge. Read Full Text

Cell: Fine-tuning of gene expression through the Mettl3-Mettl14-Dnmt1 axis controls ESC differentiation (Gupta Lab)

January 17, 2025

 Giuseppe Quarto1,12 ∙ Andrea Li Greci1,12 ∙ Martin Bizet1,12 ∙ Audrey Penning1 ∙ Irina Primac1 ∙ Frédéric Murisier1 ∙ Liliana Garcia-Martinez2 ∙ Rodrigo L. Borges2 ∙ Qingzeng Gao3,4 ∙ Pradeep K.R. Cingaram2 ∙ Emilie Calonne1 ∙ Bouchra Hassabi1 ∙ Céline Hubert1 ∙ Adèle Herpoel1 ∙ Pascale Putmans1 ∙ Frédérique Mies1 ∙ Jérôme Martin1 ∙ Louis [...]

Nature: Promotion of DNA end resection by BRCA1–BARD1 in homologous recombination (Sung, Libich)

September 12, 2024

 Sameer Salunkhe, James M. Daley, Hardeep Kaur, Nozomi Tomimatsu, Chaoyou Xue, Vivek B. Raina, Angela M. Jasper, Cody M. Rogers, Wenjing Li, Shuo Zhou, Rahul Mojidra, Youngho Kwon, Qingming Fang, Jae-Hoon Ji, Aida Badamchi Shabestari, O’Taveon Fitzgerald, Hoang Dinh, Bipasha Mukherjee, Amyn A. Habib, Robert Hromas, Alexander V. Mazin, Elizabeth V. Wasmuth, Shaun K. Olsen, [...]

Nature Communications: DSS1 restrains BRCA2’s engagement with dsDNA for homologous recombination, replication fork protection, and R-loop homeostasis (Zhao)

August 20, 2024

 Yuxin Huang, Wenjing Li, Tzeh Foo, Jae-Hoon Ji, Bo Wu, Nozomi Tomimatsu, Qingming Fang, Boya Gao, Melissa Long, Jingfei Xu, Rouf Maqbool, Bipasha Mukherjee, Tengyang Ni, Salvador Alejo, Yuan He, Sandeep Burma, Li Lan, Bing Xia & Weixing Zhao Abstract DSS1, essential for BRCA2-RAD51 dependent homologous recombination (HR), associates with the helical domain (HD) and OB-fold [...]

Science Advances: IRF8-mutant B cell lymphoma evades immunity through a CD74-dependent deregulation of antigen processing and presentation in MHCII complexes (Gupta Lab)

July 17, 2024

                   ZHIJUN QIU JIHANE KHALIFE,  PURUSHOTH ETHIRAJ CARINE JAAFAR,  AN-PING LIN,  KENNETH N. HOLDER,  JACOB P. RITTER,  LILLY CHIOU GABRIELA HUELGAS-MORALES SADIA ASLAM, ZHAO ZHANG ZHIJIE LIU SHAILEE ARYA,  YOGESH K. GUPTA PATRICIA L. M. DAHIA RICARDO C.T. AGUIAR Abstract The mechanism by which interferon regulatory factor 8 (IRF8) mutation contributes to [...]