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Robert A. Amezquita, PhD

Sr Computational Immunologist
Verified email at pfizer.com
Cited by 3775

Orchestrating single-cell analysis with Bioconductor

RA Amezquita, ATL Lun, E Becht, VJ Carey… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent technological advancements have enabled the profiling of a large number of genome-wide
features in individual cells. However, single-cell data present unique challenges that …

[PDF][PDF] Immunogenic chemotherapy enhances recruitment of CAR-T cells to lung tumors and improves antitumor efficacy when combined with checkpoint blockade

…, SM Garrison, JM Specht, SM Lee, RA Amezquita… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Adoptive therapy using chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells (CAR-T cells) is effective
in hematologic but not epithelial malignancies, which cause the greatest mortality. In breast …

[PDF][PDF] IL-7-induced glycerol transport and TAG synthesis promotes memory CD8+ T cell longevity

G Cui, MM Staron, SM Gray, PC Ho, RA Amezquita… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Memory T cells are critical for long-term immunity against reinfection and require interleukin-7
(IL-7), but the mechanisms by which IL-7 controls memory T cell survival, particularly …

The transcription factors ZEB2 and T-bet cooperate to program cytotoxic T cell terminal differentiation in response to LCMV viral infection

CX Dominguez, RA Amezquita, T Guan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - rupress.org
The transcription factor T-bet is critical for cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) differentiation, but it
is unclear how it operates in a graded manner in the formation of both terminal effector and …

[PDF][PDF] Polycomb repressive complex 2-mediated chromatin repression guides effector CD8+ T cell terminal differentiation and loss of multipotency

SM Gray, RA Amezquita, T Guan, SH Kleinstein… - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Understanding immunological memory formation depends on elucidating how multipotent
memory precursor (MP) cells maintain developmental plasticity and longevity to provide long-…

Production of IL-10 by CD4+ regulatory T cells during the resolution of infection promotes the maturation of memory CD8+ T cells

BJ Laidlaw, W Cui, RA Amezquita, SM Gray… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Memory CD8 + T cells are critical for host defense upon reexposure to intracellular pathogens.
We found that interleukin 10 (IL-10) derived from CD4 + regulatory T cells (T reg cells) …

Interleukin-10 from CD4+ follicular regulatory T cells promotes the germinal center response

BJ Laidlaw, Y Lu, RA Amezquita, JS Weinstein… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
CD4 + follicular regulatory T (T fr ) cells suppress B cell responses through modulation of
follicular helper T (T fh ) cells and germinal center (GC) development. We found that T fr cells …

Myeloid-targeted immunotherapies act in synergy to induce inflammation and antitumor immunity

…, KM Meeth, LN Kellman, RA Amezquita… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
Eliciting effective antitumor immune responses in patients who fail checkpoint inhibitor
therapy is a critical challenge in cancer immunotherapy, and in such patients, tumor-associated …

[HTML][HTML] ZEB1, ZEB2, and the miR-200 family form a counterregulatory network to regulate CD8+ T cell fates

T Guan, CX Dominguez, RA Amezquita… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
Long-term immunity depends partly on the establishment of memory CD8+ T cells. We
identified a counterregulatory network between the homologous transcription factors ZEB1 and …

IL-17 promotes neutrophil-mediated immunity by activating microvascular pericytes and not endothelium

R Liu, HM Lauridsen, RA Amezquita… - The Journal of …, 2016 - journals.aai.org
A classical hallmark of acute inflammation is neutrophil infiltration of tissues, a multistep
process that involves sequential cell–cell interactions of circulating leukocytes with IL-1–or TNF-…