Transcriptional control of autophagy–lysosome function drives pancreatic cancer metabolism

…, BN Nicolay, KN Ross, J Fitamant, M Boukhali… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Activation of cellular stress response pathways to maintain metabolic homeostasis is emerging
as a critical growth and survival mechanism in many cancers 1 . The pathogenesis of …

[PDF][PDF] Stromal microenvironment shapes the intratumoral architecture of pancreatic cancer

…, KD Vo, CN Yashaswini, F Marangoni, M Boukhali… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Single-cell technologies have described heterogeneity across tissues, but the spatial
distribution and forces that drive single-cell phenotypes have not been well defined. Combining …

Pharmacological perturbation of CDK9 using selective CDK9 inhibition or degradation

…, Z Zhang, T Zhang, N Kwiatkowski, M Boukhali… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9), an important regulator of transcriptional elongation, is a
promising target for cancer therapy, particularly for cancers driven by transcriptional …

HER2 expression identifies dynamic functional states within circulating breast cancer cells

…, R Desai, RM O'Keefe, RY Ebright, M Boukhali… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Circulating tumour cells in women with advanced oestrogen-receptor (ER)-positive/human
epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer acquire a HER2-positive …

A comprehensive Xist interactome reveals cohesin repulsion and an RNA-directed chromosome conformation

…, D Colognori, D Lessing, B Payer, M Boukhali… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The mammal has evolved an epigenetic mechanism to silence one of two
X chromosomes in the XX female to equalize gene dosages with the XY male. Once …

LKB1 loss links serine metabolism to DNA methylation and tumorigenesis

…, M Boukhali, MC Hayward, YY Li, T Chen, M Liesa… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Intermediary metabolism generates substrates for chromatin modification, enabling the
potential coupling of metabolic and epigenetic states. Here we identify a network linking …

[PDF][PDF] TERRA RNA antagonizes ATRX and protects telomeres

…, B Kesner, E Aeby, H Lee, C Wei, HJ Oh, M Boukhali… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Through an integration of genomic and proteomic approaches to advance understanding of
long noncoding RNAs, we investigate the function of the telomeric transcript, TERRA. By …

Mutant GNAS drives pancreatic tumourigenesis by inducing PKA-mediated SIK suppression and reprogramming lipid metabolism

…, Y Kato, Y Mizukami, S Widholz, M Boukhali… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
G protein α s (GNAS) mediates receptor-stimulated cAMP signalling, which integrates
diverse environmental cues with intracellular responses. GNAS is mutationally activated in …

Tau contributes to sevoflurane-induced neurocognitive impairment in neonatal mice

…, M Boukhali, A Khatri, Y Yu, F Hua, L Liu, M Li… - …, 2020 - pubs.asahq.org
Background Sevoflurane anesthesia induces Tau phosphorylation and cognitive impairment
in neonatal but not in adult mice. This study tested the hypothesis that differences in brain …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic instability is induced by persistent proliferation of cells undergoing epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

…, M Yu, MW Madden, JA LiCausi, M Boukhali… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
… and expressing E-cadherin and Fibronectin (E+M+) or fibronectin (M+) alone. Graph shows
the percentage of cells in the E (E+) and M (E+M+, and M+) states (black). Red and yellow …