2021
An expanded universe of cancer targets
Hahn W, Bader J, Braun T, Califano A, Clemons P, Druker B, Ewald A, Fu H, Jagu S, Kemp C, Kim W, Kuo C, McManus M, B. Mills G, Mo X, Sahni N, Schreiber S, Talamas J, Tamayo P, Tyner J, Wagner B, Weiss W, Gerhard D, Dancik V, Gill S, Hua B, Sharifnia T, Viswanathan V, Zou Y, Dela Cruz F, Kung A, Stockwell B, Boehm J, Dempster J, Manguso R, Vazquez F, Cooper L, Du Y, Ivanov A, Lonial S, Moreno C, Niu Q, Owonikoko T, Ramalingam S, Reyna M, Zhou W, Grandori C, Shmulevich I, Swisher E, Cai J, Chan I, Dunworth M, Ge Y, Georgess D, Grasset E, Henriet E, Knútsdóttir H, Lerner M, Padmanaban V, Perrone M, Suhail Y, Tsehay Y, Warrier M, Morrow Q, Nechiporuk T, Long N, Saultz J, Kaempf A, Minnier J, Tognon C, Kurtz S, Agarwal A, Brown J, Watanabe-Smith K, Vu T, Jacob T, Yan Y, Robinson B, Lind E, Kosaka Y, Demir E, Estabrook J, Grzadkowski M, Nikolova O, Chen K, Deneen B, Liang H, Bassik M, Bhattacharya A, Brennan K, Curtis C, Gevaert O, Ji H, Karlsson K, Karagyozova K, Lo Y, Liu K, Nakano M, Sathe A, Smith A, Spees K, Wong W, Yuki K, Hangauer M, Kaufman D, Balmain A, Bollam S, Chen W, Fan Q, Kersten K, Krummel M, Li Y, Menard M, Nasholm N, Schmidt C, Serwas N, Yoda H, Ashworth A, Bandyopadhyay S, Bivona T, Eades G, Oberlin S, Tay N, Wang Y, Weissman J. An expanded universe of cancer targets. Cell 2021, 184: 1142-1155. PMID: 33667368, PMCID: PMC8066437, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-oncogene dependenciesDiversity of therapeutic targetsSomatically altered genesCancer targetCancer allelesInfluence therapyCancer genomesGenomic characterizationTherapeutic strategiesAltered genesCancer featuresCancer genesClinical translationCancerCancer biologyTherapeutic targetTumorGenomeGenes
2020
Mesenchymal and MAPK Expression Signatures Associate with Telomerase Promoter Mutations in Multiple Cancers
Stern J, Hibshman G, Hu K, Ferrara S, Costello J, Kim W, Tamayo P, Cech T, Huang F. Mesenchymal and MAPK Expression Signatures Associate with Telomerase Promoter Mutations in Multiple Cancers. Molecular Cancer Research 2020, 18: 1050-1062. PMID: 32276990, PMCID: PMC8020009, DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-19-1244.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsCell Line, TumorChromatin ImmunoprecipitationEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionExtracellular Signal-Regulated MAP KinasesGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene Regulatory NetworksHumansMutationNeoplasmsPromoter Regions, GeneticSequence Analysis, RNASmall Molecule LibrariesTelomeraseTumor MicroenvironmentConceptsCell linesAnalysis of cell linesAdherens junction protein E-cadherinKnock-down experimentsExpression signaturesRAS pathway inhibitorsInhibition of MEK1Promoter mutationsSensitivity to specific drugsCatalytic subunit of telomeraseJunction protein E-cadherinProtein E-cadherinSubunit of telomeraseInvestigational treatment approachesMesenchymal transcription factorsPan-cancer analysisCatalytic subunitEpithelial-to-mesenchymal transitionTranscription factorsCell line growthMutantsPathway effectorsTERT mRNA expressionMAPK signalingProliferative immortality
2018
Tumor innate immunity primed by specific interferon-stimulated endogenous retroviruses
Cañadas I, Thummalapalli R, Kim J, Kitajima S, Jenkins R, Christensen C, Campisi M, Kuang Y, Zhang Y, Gjini E, Zhang G, Tian T, Sen D, Miao D, Imamura Y, Thai T, Piel B, Terai H, Aref A, Hagan T, Koyama S, Watanabe M, Baba H, Adeni A, Lydon C, Tamayo P, Wei Z, Herlyn M, Barbie T, Uppaluri R, Sholl L, Sicinska E, Sands J, Rodig S, Wong K, Paweletz C, Watanabe H, Barbie D. Tumor innate immunity primed by specific interferon-stimulated endogenous retroviruses. Nature Medicine 2018, 24: 1143-1150. PMID: 30038220, PMCID: PMC6082722, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-018-0116-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInnate immune signalingSmall cell lung cancerEndogenous retrovirusesCell lung cancerPro-tumorigenic cytokinesImmune signalingAnalysis of cell linesCancer immunotherapyMesenchymal cell stateIFN-gTumor subpopulationsLung cancerLong terminal repeatHuman tumorsSPARC expressionMesenchymal markersTumorBi-directional transcriptionChromatin-modifying enzymesSTAT1 signalingCell linesCancerInnate immunityInducible SPARCS expressionGene promoter
2017
Decomposing Oncogenic Transcriptional Signatures to Generate Maps of Divergent Cellular States
Kim J, Abudayyeh O, Yeerna H, Yeang C, Stewart M, Jenkins R, Kitajima S, Konieczkowski D, Medetgul-Ernar K, Cavazos T, Mah C, Ting S, Van Allen E, Cohen O, Mcdermott J, Damato E, Aguirre A, Liang J, Liberzon A, Alexe G, Doench J, Ghandi M, Vazquez F, Weir B, Tsherniak A, Subramanian A, Meneses-Cime K, Park J, Clemons P, Garraway L, Thomas D, Boehm J, Barbie D, Hahn W, Mesirov J, Tamayo P. Decomposing Oncogenic Transcriptional Signatures to Generate Maps of Divergent Cellular States. Cell Systems 2017, 5: 105-118.e9. PMID: 28837809, PMCID: PMC5639711, DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.08.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCellular statesActivated downstream of RasDownstream of RasGenomic hallmarksIndividual tumor samplesCancer genomesRas pathwayPrecision medicine paradigmPharmacological perturbationsGenetic alterationsFunctional consequencesTranscriptional signatureSystematic sequenceReference mapEffective disease modelsOncogenic alterationsRasComplex landscapeTumor samplesDisease modelsTherapeutic strategiesMedicine paradigmGenomeAlterationsFunctional state
2016
Characterizing genomic alterations in cancer by complementary functional associations
Kim J, Botvinnik O, Abudayyeh O, Birger C, Rosenbluh J, Shrestha Y, Abazeed M, Hammerman P, DiCara D, Konieczkowski D, Johannessen C, Liberzon A, Alizad-Rahvar A, Alexe G, Aguirre A, Ghandi M, Greulich H, Vazquez F, Weir B, Van Allen E, Tsherniak A, Shao D, Zack T, Noble M, Getz G, Beroukhim R, Garraway L, Ardakani M, Romualdi C, Sales G, Barbie D, Boehm J, Hahn W, Mesirov J, Tamayo P. Characterizing genomic alterations in cancer by complementary functional associations. Nature Biotechnology 2016, 34: 539-546. PMID: 27088724, PMCID: PMC4868596, DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3527.Peer-Reviewed Original Research