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Triantafyllia Karakousi

New York University, Amanda Lund Lab
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Association of pesticide exposure with human congenital abnormalities

…, L Kalafati, R Barouni, T Karakousi… - Toxicology and Applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
Human pesticide exposure can occur both occupationally and environmentally during
manufacture and after the application of indoor and outdoor pesticides, as well as through …

Keap1 loss promotes Kras-driven lung cancer and results in dependence on glutaminolysis

…, MR Bauer, SX Singh, SE LeBoeuf, TR Karakousi… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Treating KRAS-mutant lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) remains a major challenge in cancer
treatment given the difficulties associated with directly inhibiting the KRAS oncoprotein 1 . …

[PDF][PDF] Nrf2 activation promotes lung cancer metastasis by inhibiting the degradation of Bach1

…, H Homer, S Jiang, M Askenazi, TR Karakousi… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Approximately 30% of human lung cancers acquire mutations in either Keap1 or Nfe2l2,
resulting in the stabilization of Nrf2, the Nfe2l2 gene product, which controls oxidative …

[PDF][PDF] SARS-CoV-2 exacerbates proinflammatory responses in myeloid cells through C-type lectin receptors and Tweety family member 2

…, X Ran, P Damani-Yokota, H Tang, T Karakousi… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Despite mounting evidence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
engagement with immune cells, most express little, if any, of the canonical receptor of …

Activation of the NRF2 antioxidant program generates an imbalance in central carbon metabolism in cancer

…, BS Guzelhan, SW Alvarez, WL Wu, TR Karakousi… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.28083.001 During tumorigenesis, the high metabolic demand of cancer cells
results in increased production of reactive oxygen species. To maintain oxidative …

[PDF][PDF] Activation of oxidative stress response in cancer generates a druggable dependency on exogenous non-essential amino acids

SE LeBoeuf, WL Wu, TR Karakousi, B Karadal… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Rewiring of metabolic pathways is a hallmark of tumorigenesis as cancer cells acquire
novel nutrient dependencies to support oncogenic growth. A major genetic subtype of lung …

Lymphatic vessels in the age of cancer immunotherapy

T Karakousi, T Mudianto, AW Lund - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Lymphatic transport maintains homeostatic health and is necessary for immune surveillance,
and yet lymphatic growth is often associated with solid tumour development and …

Rlf–Mycl Gene Fusion Drives Tumorigenesis and Metastasis in a Mouse Model of Small Cell Lung Cancer

M Ciampricotti, T Karakousi, AL Richards… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
The biological and therapeutic implications of gene fusions in SCLC, an aggressive metastatic
lung cancer, are unknown. Our study investigates the functional significance of the in-…

[PDF][PDF] Hyperactive CDK2 activity in basal-like breast cancer imposes a genome integrity liability that can be exploited by targeting DNA polymerase ε

…, L Blumenberg, E Gorodetsky, TR Karakousi… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Knowledge of fundamental differences between breast cancer subtypes has driven
therapeutic advances; however, basal-like breast cancer (BLBC) remains clinically intractable. …

[PDF][PDF] KEAP1 mutation in lung adenocarcinoma promotes immune evasion and immunotherapy resistance

…, R Pillai, Y Hao, WL Wu, E Bartnicki, T Karakousi… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Lung cancer treatment has benefited greatly through advancements in immunotherapies.
However, immunotherapy often fails in patients with specific mutations like KEAP1, which are …