Dependency of a therapy-resistant state of cancer cells on a lipid peroxidase pathway

…, S Chattopadhyay, P Tamayo, WS Yang, MG Rees… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Plasticity of the cell state has been proposed to drive resistance to multiple classes of cancer
therapies, thereby limiting their effectiveness 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . A high-mesenchymal cell state …

Correlating chemical sensitivity and basal gene expression reveals mechanism of action

MG Rees, B Seashore-Ludlow, JH Cheah… - Nature chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in cellular gene expression in response to small-molecule or genetic
perturbations have yielded signatures that can connect unknown mechanisms of action (MoA) to …

Harnessing connectivity in a large-scale small-molecule sensitivity dataset

B Seashore-Ludlow, MG Rees, JH Cheah, M Cokol… - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
Identifying genetic alterations that prime a cancer cell to respond to a particular therapeutic
agent can facilitate the development of precision cancer medicines. Cancer cell-line (CCL) …

Discovering the anticancer potential of non-oncology drugs by systematic viability profiling

…, U Ben-David, CW Garvie, Y Chen, MG Rees… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Anticancer uses of non-oncology drugs have occasionally been found, but such discoveries
have been serendipitous. We sought to create a public resource containing the growth-…

Massively parallel pooled screening reveals genomic determinants of nanoparticle delivery

…, JP Straehla, HC Safford, M Kocak, MG Rees… - Science, 2022 - science.org
To accelerate the translation of cancer nanomedicine, we used an integrated genomic
approach to improve our understanding of the cellular processes that govern nanoparticle …

[HTML][HTML] The PTPN2/PTPN1 inhibitor ABBV-CLS-484 unleashes potent anti-tumour immunity

…, P Tiwari, KJ Colvin, CL Chuong, IC Kohnle, MG Rees… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade is effective for some patients with cancer, but most are refractory
to current immunotherapies and new approaches are needed to overcome resistance 1 , …

INK4 tumor suppressor proteins mediate resistance to CDK4/6 kinase inhibitors

…, Z Li, P Razavi, B Liu, AS Boghossian, MG Rees… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
CDK4/6 kinase activation represents a common mechanism by which oncogenic signaling
induces proliferation and is potentially targetable by ATP competitive inhibitors. We identify a …

[HTML][HTML] Salvage of ribose from uridine or RNA supports glycolysis in nutrient-limited conditions

…, H Shen, LV Kemény, L Joesch-Cohen, MG Rees… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Glucose is vital for life, serving as both a source of energy and carbon building block for
growth. When glucose is limiting, alternative nutrients must be harnessed. To identify …

Systematic profiling of conditional pathway activation identifies context-dependent synthetic lethalities

…, A Atari, DJ Rodriguez, D Kesar, TY Song, MG Rees… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The paradigm of cancer-targeted therapies has focused largely on inhibition of critical pathways
in cancer. Conversely, conditional activation of signaling pathways as a new source of …

[HTML][HTML] Glucokinase regulatory protein: complexity at the crossroads of triglyceride and glucose metabolism

A Raimondo, MG Rees, AL Gloyn - Current opinion in lipidology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
GCKR variants across the allelic spectrum have effects on glucose and lipid homeostasis.
Functional analysis has highlighted numerous molecular mechanisms for GKRP dysfunction. …