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Julia Belk

Stanford University
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Transient rest restores functionality in exhausted CAR-T cells through epigenetic remodeling

…, RC Lynn, H Anbunathan, J Lattin, Z Good, JA Belk… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION More than 50% of patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)–T
cells for B cell malignancies develop progressive disease after CAR therapy, and these …

[PDF][PDF] Genome-wide CRISPR screens of T cell exhaustion identify chromatin remodeling factors that limit T cell persistence

JA Belk, W Yao, N Ly, KA Freitas, YT Chen, Q Shi… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
T cell exhaustion limits antitumor immunity, but the molecular determinants of this process
remain poorly understood. Using a chronic stimulation assay, we performed genome-wide …

[PDF][PDF] Lymph node colonization induces tumor-immune tolerance to promote distant metastasis

NE Reticker-Flynn, W Zhang, JA Belk, PA Basto… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
For many solid malignancies, lymph node (LN) involvement represents a harbinger of distant
metastatic disease and, therefore, an important prognostic factor. Beyond its utility as a …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering circular RNA for enhanced protein production

R Chen, SK Wang, JA Belk, L Amaya, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are stable and prevalent RNAs in eukaryotic cells that arise from
back-splicing. Synthetic circRNAs and some endogenous circRNAs can encode proteins, …

Epigenetic regulation of T cell exhaustion

JA Belk, B Daniel, AT Satpathy - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic antigen stimulation during viral infections and cancer can lead to T cell exhaustion,
which is characterized by reduced effector function and proliferation, and the expression of …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide bidirectional CRISPR screens identify mucins as host factors modulating SARS-CoV-2 infection

…, E Van Dis, C Catamura, LH Yamashiro, JA Belk… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes a range of symptoms
in infected individuals, from mild respiratory illness to acute respiratory distress syndrome. …

[PDF][PDF] Discovery and functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-host protein interactions

RA Flynn, JA Belk, Y Qi, Y Yasumoto, J Wei… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of a pandemic with growing global mortality. Using comprehensive
identification of RNA-binding proteins by mass spectrometry (ChIRP-MS), we identified …

Divergent clonal differentiation trajectories of T cell exhaustion

…, M Black, C J. Raposo, Q Shi, SL Meier, JA Belk… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic antigen exposure during viral infection or cancer promotes an exhausted T cell (Tex)
state with reduced effector function. However, whether all antigen-specific T cell clones …

Enhanced T cell effector activity by targeting the Mediator kinase module

KA Freitas, JA Belk, E Sotillo, PJ Quinn, MC Ramello… - Science, 2022 - science.org
T cells are the major arm of the immune system responsible for controlling and regressing
cancers. To identify genes limiting T cell function, we conducted genome-wide CRISPR …

Aberrant activation of TCL1A promotes stem cell expansion in clonal haematopoiesis

…, BB Burugula, MM Uddin, N Jahn, JA Belk… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Mutations in a diverse set of driver genes increase the fitness of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs),
leading to clonal haematopoiesis 1 . These lesions are precursors for blood cancers …