James Degregori, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Publications

  • Assante A, Lkhagvadorj K, Clambey ET, Danhorn T, Merrick DT, Keith RL, New ML, Degregori J, Miller YE, Ghosh M. Reduced Progenitor Function and Altered Immune Landscape Contribute to Field Cancerization of Lung Adenocarcinoma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Oct 15;208(8):903-905. PubMed PMID: 37639330
  • De Dominici M, DeGregori J. Our ancestry dictates clonal architecture and skin cancer susceptibility. Nat Genet. 2023 Sep;55(9):1428-1429. PubMed PMID: 37537258
  • Capp JP, Thomas F, Marusyk A, M Dujon A, Tissot S, Gatenby R, Roche B, Ujvari B, DeGregori J, Brown JS, Nedelcu AM. The paradox of cooperation among selfish cancer cells. Evol Appl. 2023 Jul;16(7):1239-1256. PubMed PMID: 37492150
  • Hill W, Lim EL, Weeden CE, Lee C, Augustine M, Chen K, Kuan FC, Marongiu F, Evans EJ Jr, Moore DA, Rodrigues FS, Pich O, Bakker B, Cha H, Myers R, van Maldegem F, Boumelha J, Veeriah S, Rowan A, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Karasaki T, Sivakumar M, De S, Caswell DR, Nagano A, Black JRM, Martínez-Ruiz C, Ryu MH, Huff RD, Li S, Favé MJ, Magness A, Suárez-Bonnet A, Priestnall SL, Lüchtenborg M, Lavelle K, Pethick J, Hardy S, McRonald FE, Lin MH, Troccoli CI, Ghosh M, Miller YE, Merrick DT, Keith RL, Al Bakir M, Bailey C, Hill MS, Saal LH, Chen Y, George AM, Abbosh C, Kanu N, Lee SH, McGranahan N, Berg CD, Sasieni P, Houlston R, Turnbull C, Lam S, Awadalla P, Grönroos E, Downward J, Jacks T, Carlsten C, Malanchi I, Hackshaw A, Litchfield K, DeGregori J, Jamal-Hanjani M, Swanton C. Lung adenocarcinoma promotion by air pollutants. Nature. 2023 Apr;616(7955):159-167. PubMed PMID: 37020004
  • Park HJ, Gregory MA, Zaberezhnyy V, Goodspeed A, Jordan CT, Kieft JS, DeGregori J. Therapeutic resistance in acute myeloid leukemia cells is mediated by a novel ATM/mTOR pathway regulating oxidative phosphorylation. Elife. 2022 Oct 19;11. PubMed PMID: 36259537
  • Pietras EM, DeGregori J. Dangerous Liaisons between Tet2 Mutation, Inflammatory Monocytes, and Leukemogenesis. Cancer Discov. 2022 Oct 5;12(10):2234-2236. PubMed PMID: 36196576
  • Braithwaite D, Anton S, Mohile S, DeGregori J, Gillis N, Zhou D, Bloodworth S, Pahor M, Licht J. Cancer and aging: A call to action. Aging Cancer. 2022 Jun;3(2):87-94. PubMed PMID: 36188489
  • Evans EJ Jr, DeGregori J. Dissecting stepwise mutational impairment of megakaryopoiesis in a model of Down syndrome-associated leukemia. J Clin Invest. 2022 Jul 15;132(14). PubMed PMID: 35838049
  • Somarelli JA, DeGregori J, Gerlinger M, Heng HH, Marusyk A, Welch DR, Laukien FH. Questions to guide cancer evolution as a framework for furthering progress in cancer research and sustainable patient outcomes. Med Oncol. 2022 Jul 4;39(9):137. PubMed PMID: 35781581
  • Marongiu F, DeGregori J. The sculpting of somatic mutational landscapes by evolutionary forces and their impacts on aging-related disease. Mol Oncol. 2022 Sep;16(18):3238-3258. PubMed PMID: 35726685
  • Florez MA, Tran BT, Wathan TK, DeGregori J, Pietras EM, King KY. Clonal hematopoiesis: Mutation-specific adaptation to environmental change. Cell Stem Cell. 2022 Jun 2;29(6):882-904. PubMed PMID: 35659875
  • Promislow D, Anderson RM, Scheffer M, Crespi B, DeGregori J, Harris K, Horowitz BN, Levine ME, Riolo MA, Schneider DS, Spencer SL, Valenzano DR, Hochberg ME. Resilience integrates concepts in aging research. iScience. 2022 May 20;25(5):104199. PubMed PMID: 35494229
  • De Dominici M, DeGregori J. Dnmt3a-Mutant Hematopoietic Stem Cell Rewire IFN? Signaling to Gain Clonal Advantage. Blood Cancer Discov. 2022 May 5;3(3):178-180. PubMed PMID: 35394495
  • De Dominici M, DeGregori J. Shedding Light on Mutant Clonal Dynamics and Cancer Risk in the Skin. Cancer Discov. 2021 Feb;11(2):227-229. PubMed PMID: 33531425
  • Hamilton JAG, Lee MY, Hunter R, Ank RS, Story JY, Talekar G, Sisroe T, Ballak DB, Fedanov A, Porter CC, Eisenmesser EZ, Dinarello CA, Raikar SS, DeGregori J, Henry CJ. Interleukin-37 improves T-cell-mediated immunity and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in aged backgrounds. Aging Cell. 2021 Jan 22;:e13309. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33480151
  • Evans EJ Jr, DeGregori J. Cells with Cancer-associated Mutations Overtake Our Tissues as We Age. Aging Cancer. 2021 Sep;2(3):82-97. PubMed PMID: 34888527
  • Chia SB, DeGregori J. Cancer stem cells in the gut have a bad influence on neighbouring cells. Nature. 2021 Jun;594(7863):340-341. PubMed PMID: 34079113
  • Higa KC, Goodspeed A, Chavez JS, De Dominici M, Danis E, Zaberezhnyy V, Rabe JL, Tenen DG, Pietras EM, DeGregori J. Chronic interleukin-1 exposure triggers selection for Cebpa-knockout multipotent hematopoietic progenitors. J Exp Med. 2021 Jun 7;218(6). PubMed PMID: 33914855
  • Dujon AM, Aktipis A, Alix-Panabières C, Amend SR, Boddy AM, Brown JS, Capp JP, DeGregori J, Ewald P, Gatenby R, Gerlinger M, Giraudeau M, Hamede RK, Hansen E, Kareva I, Maley CC, Marusyk A, McGranahan N, Metzger MJ, Nedelcu AM, Noble R, Nunney L, Pienta KJ, Polyak K, Pujol P, Read AF, Roche B, Sebens S, Solary E, Stanková K, Swain Ewald H, Thomas F, Ujvari B. Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer. Evol Appl. 2021 Apr;14(4):877-892. PubMed PMID: 33897809
  • Chavez JS, Rabe JL, Loeffler D, Higa KC, Hernandez G, Mills TS, Ahmed N, Gessner RL, Ke Z, Idler BM, Niño KE, Kim H, Myers JR, Stevens BM, Davizon-Castillo P, Jordan CT, Nakajima H, Ashton J, Welner RS, Schroeder T, DeGregori J, Pietras EM. PU.1 enforces quiescence and limits hematopoietic stem cell expansion during inflammatory stress. J Exp Med. 2021 Jun 7;218(6). PubMed PMID: 33857288
  • Liggett LA, Galbraith MD, Smith KP, Sullivan KD, Granrath RE, Enriquez-Estrada B, Kinning KT, Shaw JR, Rachubinski AL, Espinosa JM, DeGregori J. Precocious clonal hematopoiesis in Down syndrome is accompanied by immune dysregulation. Blood Adv. 2021 Apr 13;5(7):1791-1796. PubMed PMID: 33787858
  • Capp JP, DeGregori J, Nedelcu AM, Dujon AM, Boutry J, Pujol P, Alix-Panabières C, Hamede R, Roche B, Ujvari B, Marusyk A, Gatenby R, Thomas F. Group phenotypic composition in cancer. Elife. 2021 Mar 30;10. PubMed PMID: 33784238
  • Tengesdal IW, Menon DR, Osborne DG, Neff CP, Powers NE, Gamboni F, Mauro AG, D'Alessandro A, Stefanoni D, Henen MA, Mills TS, De Graaf DM, Azam T, Vogeli B, Palmer BE, Pietras EM, DeGregori J, Tan AC, Joosten LAB, Fujita M, Dinarello CA, Marchetti C. Targeting tumor-derived NLRP3 reduces melanoma progression by limiting MDSCs expansion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Mar 9;118(10). PubMed PMID: 33649199
  • Klionsky DJ, Abdel-Aziz AK, Abdelfatah S, Abdellatif M, Abdoli A, Abel S, Abeliovich H, Abildgaard MH, Abudu YP, Acevedo-Arozena A, Adamopoulos IE, Adeli K, Adolph TE, Adornetto A, Aflaki E, Agam G, Agarwal A, Aggarwal BB, Agnello M, Agostinis P, Agrewala JN, Agrotis A, Aguilar PV, Ahmad ST, Ahmed ZM, Ahumada-Castro U, Aits S, Aizawa S, Akkoc Y, Akoumianaki T, Akpinar HA, Al-Abd AM, Al-Akra L, Al-Gharaibeh A, Alaoui-Jamali MA, Alberti S, Alcocer-Gómez E, Alessandri C, Ali M, Alim Al-Bari MA, Aliwaini S, Alizadeh J, Almacellas E, Almasan A, Alonso A, Alonso GD, Altan-Bonnet N, Altieri DC, Álvarez ÉMC, Alves S, Alves da Costa C, Alzaharna MM, Amadio M, Amantini C, Amaral C, Ambrosio S, Amer AO, Ammanathan V, An Z, Andersen SU, Andrabi SA, Andrade-Silva M, Andres AM, Angelini S, Ann D, Anozie UC, Ansari MY, Antas P, Antebi A, Antón Z, Anwar T, Apetoh L, Apostolova N, Araki T, Araki Y, Arasaki K, Araújo WL, Araya J, Arden C, Arévalo MA, Arguelles S, Arias E, Arikkath J, Arimoto H, Ariosa AR, Armstrong-James D, Arnauné-Pelloquin L, Aroca A, Arroyo DS, Arsov I, Artero R, Asaro DML, Aschner M, Ashrafizadeh M, Ashur-Fabian O, Atanasov AG, Au AK, Auberger P, Auner HW, Aurelian L, Autelli R, Avagliano L, Ávalos Y, Aveic S, Aveleira CA, Avin-Wittenberg T, Aydin Y, Ayton S, Ayyadevara S, Azzopardi M, Baba M, Backer JM, Backues SK, Bae DH, Bae ON, Bae SH, Baehrecke EH, Baek A, Baek SH, Baek SH, Bagetta G, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Bai H, Bai J, Bai X, Bai Y, Bairagi N, Baksi S, Balbi T, Baldari CT, Balduini W, Ballabio A, Ballester M, Balazadeh S, Balzan R, Bandopadhyay R, Banerjee S, Banerjee S, Bánréti Á, Bao Y, Baptista MS, Baracca A, Barbati C, Bargiela A, Barilà D, Barlow PG, Barmada SJ, Barreiro E, Barreto GE, Bartek J, Bartel B, Bartolome A, Barve GR, Basagoudanavar SH, Bassham DC, Bast RC Jr, Basu A, Batoko H, Batten I, Baulieu EE, Baumgarner BL, Bayry J, Beale R, Beau I, Beaumatin F, Bechara LRG, Beck GR Jr, Beers MF, Begun J, Behrends C, Behrens GMN, Bei R, Bejarano ... Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)(1). Autophagy. 2021 Jan;17(1):1-382. PubMed PMID: 33634751
  • De Dominici M, DeGregori J. Shedding Light on Mutant Clonal Dynamics and Cancer Risk in the Skin. Cancer Discov. 2021 Feb;11(2):227-229. PubMed PMID: 33531425
  • Hamilton JAG, Lee MY, Hunter R, Ank RS, Story JY, Talekar G, Sisroe T, Ballak DB, Fedanov A, Porter CC, Eisenmesser EZ, Dinarello CA, Raikar SS, DeGregori J, Henry CJ. Interleukin-37 improves T-cell-mediated immunity and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in aged backgrounds. Aging Cell. 2021 Feb;20(2):e13309. PubMed PMID: 33480151
  • Ciccarelli FD, DeGregori J. Approaching Cancer Evolution from Different Angles. iScience. 2020 Nov 20;23(11):101661. PubMed PMID: 33134891
  • DeGregori J, Pharoah P, Sasieni P, Swanton C. Cancer Screening, Surrogates of Survival, and the Soma. Cancer Cell. 2020 Oct 12;38(4):433-437. PubMed PMID: 32946774
  • Jones CL, Stevens BM, Pollyea DA, Culp-Hill R, Reisz JA, Nemkov T, Gehrke S, Gamboni F, Krug A, Winters A, Pei S, Gustafson A, Ye H, Inguva A, Amaya M, Minhajuddin M, Abbott D, Becker MW, DeGregori J, Smith CA, D'Alessandro A, Jordan CT. Nicotinamide Metabolism Mediates Resistance to Venetoclax in Relapsed Acute Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2020 Nov 5;27(5):748-764.e4. PubMed PMID: 32822582
  • DeGregori J. The special issue on cancer and evolution: Lessons learned. Evol Appl. 2020 Aug;13(7):1784-1790. PubMed PMID: 32821282
  • Rozhok AI, DeGregori J. The three dimensions of somatic evolution: Integrating the role of genetic damage, life-history traits, and aging in carcinogenesis. Evol Appl. 2020 Aug;13(7):1569-1580. PubMed PMID: 32821273
  • Rozhok AI, Silberman RE, Higa KC, Liggett LA, Amon A, DeGregori J. A somatic evolutionary model of the dynamics of aneuploid cells during hematopoietic reconstitution. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 22;10(1):12198. PubMed PMID: 32699207
  • DeGregori J. Aging, inflammation, and HSC. Blood. 2020 Jul 9;136(2):153-154. PubMed PMID: 32645167
  • Laconi E, Marongiu F, DeGregori J. Cancer as a disease of old age: changing mutational and microenvironmental landscapes. Br J Cancer. 2020 Mar;122(7):943-952. PubMed PMID: 32042067
  • DeGregori J. Of mice, genes and aging. Haematologica. 2020;105(2):246-248. PubMed PMID: 32005650
  • Somarelli JA, Gardner H, Cannataro VL, Gunady EF, Boddy AM, Johnson NA, Fisk JN, Gaffney SG, Chuang JH, Li S, Ciccarelli FD, Panchenko AR, Megquier K, Kumar S, Dornburg A, DeGregori J, Townsend JP. Molecular Biology and Evolution of Cancer: From Discovery to Action. Mol Biol Evol. 2020 Feb 1;37(2):320-326. PubMed PMID: 31642480
  • Oliphant MUJ, Vincent MY, Galbraith MD, Pandey A, Zaberezhnyy V, Rudra P, Johnson KR, Costello JC, Ghosh D, DeGregori J, Espinosa JM, Ford HL. SIX2 Mediates Late-Stage Metastasis via Direct Regulation of SOX2 and Induction of a Cancer Stem Cell Program. Cancer Res. 2019 Feb 15;79(4):720-734. PubMed PMID: 30606720
  • Somarelli JA, Gardner H, Cannataro VL, Gunady EF, Boddy AM, Johnson NA, Fisk JN, Gaffney SG, Chuang JH, Li S, Ciccarelli FD, Panchenko AR, Megquier K, Kumar S, Dornburg A, DeGregori J, Townsend JP. Molecular biology and evolution of cancer: from discovery to action. Mol Biol Evol. 2019 Oct 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31642480
  • Rozhok A, DeGregori J. Somatic maintenance impacts the evolution of mutation rate. BMC Evol Biol. 2019 Aug 23;19(1):172. PubMed PMID: 31443631
  • Pham-Danis C, DeGregori J. Studying Cancer Evolution and Therapeutic Responses in Different Organs: The Pros and Cons of a Broad Focus. Cancer Res. 2019 Sep 15;79(18):4582-4584. PubMed PMID: 31439547
  • Liggett LA, Sharma A, De S, DeGregori J. FERMI: A Novel Method for Sensitive Detection of Rare Mutations in Somatic Tissue. G3 (Bethesda). 2019 Sep 4;9(9):2977-2987. PubMed PMID: 31352405
  • Guida JL, Ahles TA, Belsky D, Campisi J, Cohen HJ, DeGregori J, Fuldner R, Ferrucci L, Gallicchio L, Gavrilov L, Gavrilova N, Green PA, Jhappan C, Kohanski R, Krull K, Mandelblatt J, Ness KK, O'Mara A, Price N, Schrack J, Studenski S, Theou O, Tracy RP, Hurria A. Measuring Aging and Identifying Aging Phenotypes in Cancer Survivors. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2019 Dec 1;111(12):1245-1254. PubMed PMID: 31321426
  • Davizon-Castillo P, McMahon B, Aguila S, Bark D, Ashworth K, Allawzi A, Campbell RA, Montenont E, Nemkov T, D'Alessandro A, Clendenen N, Shih L, Sanders NA, Higa K, Cox A, Padilla-Romo Z, Hernandez G, Wartchow E, Trahan GD, Nozik-Grayck E, Jones K, Pietras EM, DeGregori J, Rondina MT, Di Paola J. TNF-a-driven inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction define the platelet hyperreactivity of aging. Blood. 2019 Aug 29;134(9):727-740. PubMed PMID: 31311815
  • Jones CL, Stevens BM, D'Alessandro A, Culp-Hill R, Reisz JA, Pei S, Gustafson A, Khan N, DeGregori J, Pollyea DA, Jordan CT. Cysteine depletion targets leukemia stem cells through inhibition of electron transport complex II. Blood. 2019 Jul 25;134(4):389-394. PubMed PMID: 31101624
  • Rozhok A, DeGregori J. A generalized theory of age-dependent carcinogenesis. Elife. 2019 Apr 29;8. PubMed PMID: 31034356
  • Bilousova G, DeGregori J. Elimination of unfit cells in young and ageing skin. Nature. 2019 Apr;568(7752):318-319. PubMed PMID: 30980033
  • Gregory MA, Nemkov T, Park HJ, Zaberezhnyy V, Gehrke S, Adane B, Jordan CT, Hansen KC, D'Alessandro A, DeGregori J. Targeting Glutamine Metabolism and Redox State for Leukemia Therapy. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Jul 1;25(13):4079-4090. PubMed PMID: 30940653
  • Higa KC, DeGregori J. Decoy fitness peaks, tumor suppression, and aging. Aging Cell. 2019 Jun;18(3):e12938. PubMed PMID: 30848555
  • Pham-Danis C, Gehrke S, Danis E, Rozhok AI, Daniels MW, Gao D, Collins C, Paola JTD, D'Alessandro A, DeGregori J. Urea Cycle Sustains Cellular Energetics upon EGFR Inhibition in EGFR-Mutant NSCLC. Mol Cancer Res. 2019 Jun;17(6):1351-1364. PubMed PMID: 30808730
  • Jones CL, Stevens BM, D'Alessandro A, Reisz JA, Culp-Hill R, Nemkov T, Pei S, Khan N, Adane B, Ye H, Krug A, Reinhold D, Smith C, DeGregori J, Pollyea DA, Jordan CT. Inhibition of Amino Acid Metabolism Selectively Targets Human Leukemia Stem Cells. Cancer Cell. 2019 Feb 11;35(2):333-335. PubMed PMID: 30753831
  • Oliphant MUJ, Vincent MY, Galbraith MD, Pandey A, Zaberezhnyy V, Rudra P, Johnson KR, Costello JC, Ghosh D, DeGregori J, Espinosa JM, Ford HL. SIX2 Mediates Late-Stage Metastasis via Direct Regulation of SOX2 and Induction of a Cancer Stem Cell Program. Cancer Res. 2019 Feb 15;79(4):720-734. PubMed PMID: 30606720
  • Jones CL, Stevens BM, D'Alessandro A, Reisz JA, Culp-Hill R, Nemkov T, Pei S, Khan N, Adane B, Ye H, Krug A, Reinhold D, Smith C, DeGregori J, Pollyea DA, Jordan CT. Inhibition of Amino Acid Metabolism Selectively Targets Human Leukemia Stem Cells. Cancer Cell. 2018 Nov 12;34(5):724-740.e4. PubMed PMID: 30423294
  • Tippimanchai DD, Nolan K, Poczobutt J, Verzosa G, Li H, Scarborough H, Huang J, Young C, DeGregori J, Nemenoff RA, Malkoski SP. Adenoviral vectors transduce alveolar macrophages in lung cancer models. Oncoimmunology. 2018;7(6):e1438105. PubMed PMID: 29872579
  • Pilling AB, Kim J, Estrada-Bernal A, Zhou Q, Le AT, Singleton KR, Heasley LE, Tan AC, DeGregori J, Doebele RC. ALK is a critical regulator of the MYC-signaling axis in ALK positive lung cancer. Oncotarget. 2018 Feb 6;9(10):8823-8835. PubMed PMID: 29507657
  • Gregory MA, Nemkov T, Reisz JA, Zaberezhnyy V, Hansen KC, D'Alessandro A, DeGregori J. Glutaminase inhibition improves FLT3 inhibitor therapy for acute myeloid leukemia. Exp Hematol. 2018 Feb;58:52-58. PubMed PMID: 28947392
  • Gregory MA, Nemkov T, Reisz JA, Zaberezhnyy V, Hansen KC, D'Alessandro A, DeGregori J. Glutaminase inhibition improves FLT3 inhibitor therapy for acute myeloid leukemia. Exp Hematol. 2017 Sep 22. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28947392
  • Henry CJ, Nemkov T, Casás-Selves M, Bilousova G, Zaberezhnyy V, Higa KC, Serkova NJ, Hansen KC, D'Alessandro A, DeGregori J. Folate dietary insufficiency and folic acid supplementation similarly impair metabolism and compromise hematopoiesis. Haematologica. 2017 Dec;102(12):1985-1994. PubMed PMID: 28883079
  • DeGregori J. Connecting Cancer to Its Causes Requires Incorporation of Effects on Tissue Microenvironments. Cancer Res. 2017 Nov 15;77(22):6065-6068. PubMed PMID: 28754675
  • Liggett LA, DeGregori J. Changing mutational and adaptive landscapes and the genesis of cancer. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2017 Apr;1867(2):84-94. PubMed PMID: 28167050
  • Scarborough HA, Helfrich BA, Casás-Selves M, Schuller AG, Grosskurth SE, Kim J, Tan AC, Chan DC, Zhang Z, Zaberezhnyy V, Bunn PA, DeGregori J. AZ1366: An Inhibitor of Tankyrase and the Canonical Wnt Pathway that Limits the Persistence of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells Following EGFR Inhibition. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Mar 15;23(6):1531-1541. PubMed PMID: 27663586
  • Rozhok AI, Salstrom JL, DeGregori J. Stochastic modeling reveals an evolutionary mechanism underlying elevated rates of childhood leukemia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jan 11. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26755588
  • Zhang G, Scarborough H, Kim J, Rozhok AI, Chen YA, Zhang X, Song L, Bai Y, Fang B, Liu RZ, Koomen J, Tan AC, Degregori J, Haura EB. Coupling an EML4-ALK-centric interactome with RNA interference identifies sensitizers to ALK inhibitors. Sci Signal. 2016 Oct 18;9(450):rs12. PubMed PMID: 27811184
  • Gregory MA, D'Alessandro A, Alvarez-Calderon F, Kim J, Nemkov T, Adane B, Rozhok AI, Kumar A, Kumar V, Pollyea DA, Wempe MF, Jordan CT, Serkova NJ, Tan AC, Hansen KC, DeGregori J. ATM/G6PD-driven redox metabolism promotes FLT3 inhibitor resistance in acute myeloid leukemia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Oct 25;113(43):E6669-E6678. PubMed PMID: 27791036
  • Scarborough HA, Helfrich BA, Casás-Selves M, Schuller AG, Grosskurth SE, Kim J, Tan AC, Chan DC, Zhang Z, Zaberezhnyy V, Bunn PA, DeGregori J. AZ1366: An Inhibitor of Tankyrase and the Canonical Wnt Pathway that Limits the Persistence of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells Following EGFR Inhibition. Clin Cancer Res. 2016 Sep 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27663586
  • Sullivan KD, Lewis HC, Hill AA, Pandey A, Jackson LP, Cabral JM, Smith KP, Liggett LA, Gomez EB, Galbraith MD, DeGregori J, Espinosa JM. Trisomy 21 consistently activates the interferon response. Elife. 2016 Jul 29;5. PubMed PMID: 27472900
  • Fernández-Cabezudo MJ, Faour I, Jones K, Champagne DP, Jaloudi MA, Mohamed YA, Bashir G, Almarzooqi S, Albawardi A, Hashim MJ, Roberts TS, El-Salhat H, El-Taji H, Kassis A, O'Sullivan DE, Christensen BC, DeGregori J, Al-Ramadi BK, Rincon M. Deficiency of mitochondrial modulator MCJ promotes chemoresistance in breast cancer. JCI Insight. 2016 May 19;1(7). PubMed PMID: 27275014
  • Yadav VK, DeGregori J, De S. The landscape of somatic mutations in protein coding genes in apparently benign human tissues carries signatures of relaxed purifying selection. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Mar 18;44(5):2075-84. PubMed PMID: 26883632
  • Rozhok AI, Salstrom JL, DeGregori J. Stochastic modeling reveals an evolutionary mechanism underlying elevated rates of childhood leukemia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jan 26;113(4):1050-5. PubMed PMID: 26755588
  • Henry CJ, Sedjo RL, Rozhok A, Salstrom J, Ahnen D, Levin TR, D'Agostino R Jr, Haffner S, DeGregori J, Byers T. Lack of significant association between serum inflammatory cytokine profiles and the presence of colorectal adenoma. BMC Cancer. 2015;15(1):1115. PubMed PMID: 25777438
  • Alvarez-Calderon F, Gregory MA, Pham-Danis C, DeRyckere D, Stevens BM, Zaberezhnyy V, Hill AA, Gemta L, Kumar A, Kumar V, Wempe MF, Pollyea DA, Jordan CT, Serkova NJ, Graham DK, DeGregori J. Tyrosine kinase inhibition in leukemia induces an altered metabolic state sensitive to mitochondrial perturbations. Clin Cancer Res. 2015 Mar 15;21(6):1360-72. PubMed PMID: 25547679
  • Scarborough HA, Bunn PA Jr, DeGregori J. Personalized one-two punches for lung cancer. Cell Res. 2015 Mar;25(3):269-70. PubMed PMID: 25547118
  • Fleenor CJ, Rozhok AI, Zaberezhnyy V, Mathew D, Kim J, Tan AC, Bernstein ID, DeGregori J. Contrasting Roles for C/EBPa and Notch in Irradiation-Induced Multipotent Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Defects. Stem Cells. 2015 Apr;33(4):1345-58. PubMed PMID: 25546133
  • Henry CJ, Casás-Selves M, Kim J, Zaberezhnyy V, Aghili L, Daniel AE, Jimenez L, Azam T, McNamee EN, Clambey ET, Klawitter J, Serkova NJ, Tan AC, Dinarello CA, DeGregori J. Aging-associated inflammation promotes selection for adaptive oncogenic events in B cell progenitors. J Clin Invest. 2015 Dec 1;125(12):4666-80. PubMed PMID: 26551682
  • Fleenor CJ, Higa K, Weil MM, DeGregori J. Evolved Cellular Mechanisms to Respond to Genotoxic Insults: Implications for Radiation-Induced Hematologic Malignancies. Radiat Res. 2015 Oct;184(4):341-51. PubMed PMID: 26414506
  • Rozhok AI, DeGregori J. Toward an evolutionary model of cancer: Considering the mechanisms that govern the fate of somatic mutations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jul 21;112(29):8914-21. PubMed PMID: 26195756
  • Rozhok AI, Wahl GM, DeGregori J. A Critical Examination of the "Bad Luck" Explanation of Cancer Risk. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2015 Sep;8(9):762-4. PubMed PMID: 26122457
  • Henry CJ, Sedjo RL, Rozhok A, Salstrom J, Ahnen D, Levin TR, D'Agostino R Jr, Haffner S, DeGregori J, Byers T. Lack of significant association between serum inflammatory cytokine profiles and the presence of colorectal adenoma. BMC Cancer. 2015 Mar 14;15:123. PubMed PMID: 25884547
  • Alvarez-Calderon F, DeGregori J. Oncogenic drivers and mitochondrial dependency. Aging (Albany NY). 2015 Mar;7(3):148-9. PubMed PMID: 25868642
  • Avasarala S, Van Scoyk M, Karuppusamy Rathinam MK, Zerayesus S, Zhao X, Zhang W, Pergande MR, Borgia JA, DeGregori J, Port JD, Winn RA, Bikkavilli RK. PRMT1 Is a Novel Regulator of Epithelial-Mesenchymal-Transition in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. J Biol Chem. 2015 May 22;290(21):13479-89. PubMed PMID: 25847239
  • Alvarez-Calderon F, Gregory MA, Pham-Danis C, DeRyckere D, Stevens BM, Zaberezhnyy V, Hill AA, Gemta L, Kumar A, Kumar V, Wempe MF, Pollyea DA, Jordan CT, Serkova NJ, Graham DK, DeGregori J. Tyrosine kinase inhibition in leukemia induces an altered metabolic state sensitive to mitochondrial perturbations. Clin Cancer Res. 2015 Mar 15;21(6):1360-72. PubMed PMID: 25547679
  • Scarborough HA, Bunn PA Jr, DeGregori J. Personalized one-two punches for lung cancer. Cell Res. 2015 Mar;25(3):269-70. PubMed PMID: 25547118
  • Fleenor CJ, Rozhok AI, Zaberezhnyy V, Mathew D, Kim J, Tan AC, Bernstein ID, DeGregori J. Contrasting roles for C/EBPa and Notch in irradiation-induced multipotent hematopoietic progenitor cell defects. Stem Cells. 2015 Apr;33(4):1345-58. PubMed PMID: 25546133
  • Ostrow SL, Barshir R, Degregori J, Yeger-Lotem E, Hershberg R. Cancer evolution is associated with pervasive positive selection on globally expressed genes. PLoS Genet. 2014 Mar;10(3):e1004239. PubMed PMID: 24603726
  • Wie SM, Adwan TS, Degregori J, Anderson SM, Reyland ME. Inhibiting Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Protein Kinase Cd (PKCd) Protects the Salivary Gland from Radiation Damage. J Biol Chem. 2014 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24569990
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  • Gardner LA, Klawitter J, Gregory MA, Zaberezhnyy V, Baturin D, Pollyea DA, Takebe N, Christians U, Gore L, DeGregori J, Porter CC. Inhibition of calcineurin combined with dasatinib has direct and indirect anti-leukemia effects against BCR-ABL1( ) leukemia. Am J Hematol. 2014 Sep;89(9):896-903. PubMed PMID: 24891015
  • Aghili L, Foo J, DeGregori J, De S. Patterns of somatically acquired amplifications and deletions in apparently normal tissues of ovarian cancer patients. Cell Rep. 2014 May 22;7(4):1310-9. PubMed PMID: 24794429
  • Ostrow SL, Barshir R, DeGregori J, Yeger-Lotem E, Hershberg R. Cancer evolution is associated with pervasive positive selection on globally expressed genes. PLoS Genet. 2014 Mar;10(3):e1004239. PubMed PMID: 24603726
  • Wie SM, Adwan TS, DeGregori J, Anderson SM, Reyland ME. Inhibiting tyrosine phosphorylation of protein kinase Cd (PKCd) protects the salivary gland from radiation damage. J Biol Chem. 2014 Apr 11;289(15):10900-8. PubMed PMID: 24569990
  • Yang X, La Rosa FG, Genova EE, Huber K, Schaack J, Degregori J, Serkova NJ, Li Y, Su LJ, Kessler E, Flaig TW. Simultaneous activation of Kras and inactivation of p53 induces soft tissue sarcoma and bladder urothelial hyperplasia. PLoS One. 2013;8(9):e74809. PubMed PMID: 24058630
  • Spreafico A, Tentler JJ, Pitts TM, Tan AC, Gregory MA, Arcaroli JJ, Klauck PJ, McManus MC, Hansen RJ, Kim J, Micel LN, Selby HM, Newton TP, McPhillips KL, Gustafson DL, Degregori JV, Messersmith WA, Winn RA, Eckhardt SG. Rational combination of a MEK inhibitor, selumetinib, and the Wnt/calcium pathway modulator, cyclosporin A, in preclinical models of colorectal cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2013 Aug 1;19(15):4149-62. PubMed PMID: 23757356
  • Singleton KR, Kim J, Hinz TK, Marek LA, Casás-Selves M, Hatheway C, Tan AC, DeGregori J, Heasley LE. A receptor tyrosine kinase network composed of fibroblast growth factor receptors, epidermal growth factor receptor, v-erb-b2 erythroblastic leukemia viral oncogene homolog 2, and hepatocyte growth factor receptor drives growth and survival of head and neck squamous carcinoma cell lines. Mol Pharmacol. 2013 Apr;83(4):882-93. PubMed PMID: 23371912
  • Gore L, DeGregori J, Porter CC. Targeting developmental pathways in children with cancer: what price success?. Lancet Oncol. 2013 Feb;14(2):e70-8. PubMed PMID: 23369685
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