2020
Tumor progression and chromatin landscape of lung cancer are regulated by the lineage factor GATA6
Arnal-Estapé A, Cai WL, Albert AE, Zhao M, Stevens LE, López-Giráldez F, Patel KD, Tyagi S, Schmitt EM, Westbrook TF, Nguyen DX. Tumor progression and chromatin landscape of lung cancer are regulated by the lineage factor GATA6. Oncogene 2020, 39: 3726-3737. PMID: 32157212, PMCID: PMC7190573, DOI: 10.1038/s41388-020-1246-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChromatin landscapeTranscription factorsBone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signalingDiverse transcriptional programsAlters chromatin accessibilityMultiple genomic lociMorphogenetic protein signalingDistal enhancer elementsSelective transcription factorsEpithelial cell typesSurfactant protein CChromatin accessibilityGenomic lociTranscriptional programsLung adenocarcinoma progressionTumor progressionEpigenetic mechanismsProtein signalingBiological functionsLUAD progressionLUAD cellsEnhancer elementsLineage dependencyTumor suppressionLung cancer cells
2019
Progenitor-derived human endothelial cells evade alloimmunity by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated complete ablation of MHC expression
Merola J, Reschke M, Pierce RW, Qin L, Spindler S, Baltazar T, Manes TD, Lopez-Giraldez F, Li G, Bracaglia LG, Xie C, Kirkiles-Smith N, Saltzman WM, Tietjen GT, Tellides G, Pober JS. Progenitor-derived human endothelial cells evade alloimmunity by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated complete ablation of MHC expression. JCI Insight 2019, 4 PMID: 31527312, PMCID: PMC6824302, DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.129739.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAllograftsAnimalsBeta 2-MicroglobulinCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationCells, CulturedCRISPR-Cas SystemsDisease Models, AnimalEndothelial CellsEndothelial Progenitor CellsFemaleFetal BloodGene Knockout TechniquesGraft RejectionHealthy VolunteersHumansIsoantibodiesKiller Cells, NaturalLymphocyte ActivationMiceMicrovesselsNuclear ProteinsOrgan TransplantationPrimary Cell CultureTissue EngineeringTrans-ActivatorsConceptsDonor-specific antibodiesClass II transactivatorEndothelial cellsMHC expressionAllogeneic natural killer (NK) cellsT effector memory cellsEffector memory T cellsClass IClass II major histocompatibility complex moleculesEffector memory cellsMHC molecule expressionMemory T cellsNatural killer cellsAlloreactive cytotoxic T lymphocytesAllogeneic endothelial cellsMajor histocompatibility complex moleculesCytotoxic T lymphocytesClass I MHC moleculesHistocompatibility complex moleculesI MHC moleculesAllogeneic CD4Donor leukocytesHuman endothelial cellsGraft perfusionKiller cells