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Alex Kentsis

Tow Center for Developmental Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Verified email at mskcc.org
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Nedd8 on cullin: building an expressway to protein destruction

ZQ Pan, A Kentsis, DC Dias, K Yamoah, K Wu - Oncogene, 2004 - nature.com
This review summarizes recent advances concerning the Nedd8 regulatory pathway in four
areas. One, substantial progress has been made in delineating the role of cullin family …

Towards comprehensive and quantitative proteomics for diagnosis and therapy of human disease

P Cifani, A Kentsis - Proteomics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Given superior analytical features, MS proteomics is well suited for the basic investigation
and clinical diagnosis of human disease. Modern MS enables detailed functional …

Further evidence that ribavirin interacts with eIF4E

A Kentsis, L Volpon, I Topisirovic, CE Soll, B Culjkovic… - Rna, 2005 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
This commentary discusses the recent reports in RNA by Yan and colleagues and Westman
and colleagues of the apparent failure of ribavirin to bind to recombinant eIF4E and inhibit 7-…

[HTML][HTML] Phenothiazines induce PP2A-mediated apoptosis in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

…, RWJ Groen, F Baleydier, A Kentsis… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Clin Investig
T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive cancer that is frequently associated
with activating mutations in NOTCH1 and dysregulation of MYC. Here, we performed 2 …

DPP8/DPP9 inhibitor-induced pyroptosis for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia

…, C Reed, E Peguero, E de Stanchina, A Kentsis… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Small-molecule inhibitors of the serine dipeptidases DPP8 and DPP9 (DPP8/9) induce a lytic
form of cell death called pyroptosis in mouse and human monocytes and macrophages 1 , …

Ribavirin suppresses eIF4E-mediated oncogenic transformation by physical mimicry of the 7-methyl guanosine mRNA cap

A Kentsis, I Topisirovic, B Culjkovic… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E is deregulated in many human cancers, and
its overexpression in cells leads to malignant transformation. Oncogenic properties of eIF4E …

Autocrine activation of the MET receptor tyrosine kinase in acute myeloid leukemia

A Kentsis, C Reed, KL Rice, T Sanda, SJ Rodig… - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
Although the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has improved substantially in the
past three decades, more than half of all patients develop disease that is refractory to …

[HTML][HTML] Antileukemic activity of nuclear export inhibitors that spare normal hematopoietic cells

J Etchin, Q Sun, A Kentsis, A Farmer, ZC Zhang… - Leukemia, 2013 - nature.com
Drugs that target the chief mediator of nuclear export, chromosome region maintenance 1
protein (CRM1) have potential as therapeutics for leukemia, but existing CRM1 inhibitors show …

KPT‐330 inhibitor of CRM 1 (XPO 1)‐mediated nuclear export has selective anti‐leukaemic activity in preclinical models of T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and …

…, T Sanda, MR Mansour, A Kentsis… - British journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study explored the anti‐leukaemic efficacy of novel irreversible inhibitors of the major
nuclear export receptor, chromosome region maintenance 1 ( CRM 1, also termed XPO 1). We …

The BCL11B tumor suppressor is mutated across the major molecular subtypes of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

A Gutierrez, A Kentsis, T Sanda… - Blood, The Journal …, 2011 - ashpublications.org
The BCL11B transcription factor is required for normal T-cell development, and has recently
been implicated in the pathogenesis of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) induced …