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
Adaptive Protein Translation by the Integrated Stress Response Maintains the Proliferative and Migratory Capacity of Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells
Albert AE, Adua SJ, Cai WL, Arnal-Estapé A, Cline GW, Liu Z, Zhao M, Cao PD, Mariappan M, Nguyen DX. Adaptive Protein Translation by the Integrated Stress Response Maintains the Proliferative and Migratory Capacity of Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells. Molecular Cancer Research 2019, 17: 2343-2355. PMID: 31551255, PMCID: PMC6938689, DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-19-0245.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsActivating Transcription Factor 4Adenocarcinoma of LungAmino AcidsCarbon-Nitrogen Ligases with Glutamine as Amide-N-DonorCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationCyclin B1Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-2Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansNF-E2-Related Factor 2Oxidative StressPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProtein BiosynthesisProteostasisSignal TransductionStress, PhysiologicalTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesConceptsIntegrated stress responseProtein translationCell cycle progressionLung adenocarcinoma cellsLung cancer cellsNew regulatory layerCertain oncogenic mutationsAmino acid limitationNovel regulatory mechanismControl of proteostasisCancer cellsDifferent biological consequencesEIF2α-dependent mannerAmino acid metabolismAdenocarcinoma cellsNrf2 protein levelsPI3K pathwayConserved pathwayRegulatory layerISR pathwayATF4 branchCell cycle regulator cyclin B1MTOR/PI3K pathwaySelect proteinsAsparagine synthetase
2018
Pre-Conditioning the Airways of Mice with Bleomycin Increases the Efficiency of Orthotopic Lung Cancer Cell Engraftment.
Stevens LE, Arnal-Estapé A, Nguyen DX. Pre-Conditioning the Airways of Mice with Bleomycin Increases the Efficiency of Orthotopic Lung Cancer Cell Engraftment. Journal Of Visualized Experiments 2018 PMID: 30010648, PMCID: PMC6102009, DOI: 10.3791/56650.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCancer cell engraftmentAirways of miceLung cancer cellsCell engraftmentLung cancerTumor cellsTumorigenic capacityNew orthotopic modelNon-physiological sitesTumor cell injectionCancer cellsLung tumor incidenceTreatment-refractory diseaseFull clinical spectrumLung cancer subtypesLung adenocarcinoma subtypesAdditional animal modelsStrains of miceFlanks of miceRefractory diseaseThoracic malignanciesAdenocarcinoma subtypeClinical spectrumOrthotopic transplantationTumor incidence
2015
Sweets for a Bitter End: Lung Cancer Cell–Surface Protein Glycosylation Mediates Metastatic Colonization
Arnal-Estapé A, Nguyen DX. Sweets for a Bitter End: Lung Cancer Cell–Surface Protein Glycosylation Mediates Metastatic Colonization. Cancer Discovery 2015, 5: 109-111. PMID: 25656895, PMCID: PMC4340588, DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-15-0013.Peer-Reviewed Original Research