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 cellsSpecific chromatin landscapes and transcription factors couple breast cancer subtype with metastatic relapse to lung or brain
Cai WL, Greer CB, Chen JF, Arnal-Estapé A, Cao J, Yan Q, Nguyen DX. Specific chromatin landscapes and transcription factors couple breast cancer subtype with metastatic relapse to lung or brain. BMC Medical Genomics 2020, 13: 33. PMID: 32143622, PMCID: PMC7060551, DOI: 10.1186/s12920-020-0695-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOpen chromatin signaturesTranscription factorsChromatin landscapeChromosome conformation captureOpen chromatin landscapeSpecific chromatin landscapesHomophilic cell adhesionTransposase-accessible chromatinEnhancer-promoter interactionsSpecific transcription factorsActive chromatin sitesATAC-seq dataMetastatic cellsGene expression dataChromatin signaturesConformation captureChromatin sitesActive chromatinATAC-seqEpigenomic propertiesChIP-seqChromatin immunoprecipitationEndothelial cell migrationEpigenomic analysisTranscriptomic differences
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