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    Author Correction: Distinct molecular and immune hallmarks of inflammatory arthritis induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy

    Sang T. Kim, Yanshuo Chu, Mercy Misoi, Maria E. Suarez-Almazor in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Enhancing NSCLC recurrence prediction with PET/CT habitat imaging, ctDNA, and integrative radiogenomics-blood insights

    While we recognize the prognostic importance of clinicopathological measures and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), the independent contribution of quantitative image markers to prognosis in non-small cell lung ca...

    Sheeba J. Sujit, Muhammad Aminu, Tatiana V. Karpinets in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Efficacy and clinicogenomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors alone or with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer

    The role of combination chemotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) (ICI-chemo) over ICI monotherapy (ICI-mono) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains underexplored. In this retrospective study...

    Lingzhi Hong, Muhammad Aminu, Shenduo Li, Xuetao Lu in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Distinct molecular and immune hallmarks of inflammatory arthritis induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy

    Immune checkpoint inhibitors are associated with immune-related adverse events (irAEs), including arthritis (arthritis-irAE). Management of arthritis-irAE is challenging because immunomodulatory therapy for ar...

    Sang T. Kim, Yanshuo Chu, Mercy Misoi, Maria E. Suarez-Almazor in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Cold and heterogeneous T cell repertoire is associated with copy number aberrations and loss of immune genes in small-cell lung cancer

    Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is speculated to harbor complex genomic intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) associated with high recurrence rate and suboptimal response to immunotherapy. Here, using multi-region whol...

    Ming Chen, Runzhe Chen, Ying **, Jun Li, **n Hu, Jiexin Zhang in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Nodal immune flare mimics nodal disease progression following neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer

    Radiographic imaging is the standard approach for evaluating the disease involvement of lymph nodes in patients with operable NSCLC although the impact of neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) on lym...

    Tina Cascone, Annikka Weissferdt, Myrna C. B. Godoy in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Th17 cells contribute to combination MEK inhibitor and anti-PD-L1 therapy resistance in KRAS/p53 mutant lung cancers

    Understanding resistance mechanisms to targeted therapies and immune checkpoint blockade in mutant KRAS lung cancers is critical to develo** novel combination therapies and improving patient survival. Here, ...

    David H. Peng, B. Leticia Rodriguez, Lixia Diao in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Development, characterization, and applications of multi-material stereolithography bioprinting

    As a 3D bioprinting technique, hydrogel stereolithography has historically been limited in its ability to capture the spatial heterogeneity that permeates mammalian tissues and dictates structure–function rela...

    Bagrat Grigoryan, Daniel W. Sazer, Amanda Avila, Jacob L. Albritton in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Collagen promotes anti-PD-1/PD-L1 resistance in cancer through LAIR1-dependent CD8+ T cell exhaustion

    Tumor extracellular matrix has been associated with drug resistance and immune suppression. Here, proteomic and RNA profiling reveal increased collagen levels in lung tumors resistant to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade. A...

    David H. Peng, Bertha Leticia Rodriguez, Lixia Diao, Limo Chen in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Comprehensive T cell repertoire characterization of non-small cell lung cancer

    Immunotherapy targeting T cells is increasingly utilized to treat solid tumors including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This requires a better understanding of the T cells in the lungs of patients with NS...

    Alexandre Reuben, Jiexin Zhang, Shin-Heng Chiou in Nature Communications (2020)

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    ZEB1/NuRD complex suppresses TBC1D2b to stimulate E-cadherin internalization and promote metastasis in lung cancer

    Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, due in part to the propensity of lung cancer to metastasize. Aberrant epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a ...

    Roxsan Manshouri, Etienne Coyaud, Samrat T. Kundu, David H. Peng in Nature Communications (2019)

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    A novel ex vivo tumor system identifies Src-mediated invasion and metastasis in mesenchymal tumor cells in non-small cell lung cancer

    Lung cancer is the foremost cause of cancer related deaths in the U.S. It is a heterogeneous disease composed of genetically and phenotypically distinct tumor cells surrounded by heterotypic cells and extracel...

    Aparna Padhye, Christin Ungewiss, Jared J. Fradette in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    TMEM106B drives lung cancer metastasis by inducing TFEB-dependent lysosome synthesis and secretion of cathepsins

    Metastatic lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide, therefore necessitating novel approaches to identify specific genetic drivers for lung cancer progression and metastasis. W...

    Samrat T. Kundu, Caitlin L. Grzeskowiak, Jared J. Fradette in Nature Communications (2018)

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    In vivo screening identifies GATAD2B as a metastasis driver in KRAS-driven lung cancer

    Genetic aberrations driving pro-oncogenic and pro-metastatic activity remain an elusive target in the quest of precision oncology. To identify such drivers, we use an animal model of KRAS-mutant lung adenocarcino...

    Caitlin L. Grzeskowiak, Samrat T. Kundu, **ulei Mo in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Pan-urologic cancer genomic subtypes that transcend tissue of origin

    Urologic cancers include cancers of the bladder, kidney, prostate, and testes, with common molecular features spanning different types. Here, we show that 1954 urologic cancers can be classified into nine majo...

    Fengju Chen, Yiqun Zhang, Dominick Bossé, Aly-Khan A. Lalani in Nature Communications (2017)

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    A genetic cell context-dependent role for ZEB1 in lung cancer

    The Zinc-finger E-box-binding Homeobox-1 (ZEB1) is a transcription factor that promotes epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and acts as an oncogene in KRAS-mutated lung cancer models. Here we report that ZEB1...

    Ting Zhang, Lixia Guo, Chad J. Creighton, Qiang Lu, Don L. Gibbons in Nature Communications (2016)

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    The microRNA-200/Zeb1 axis regulates ECM-dependent β1-integrin/FAK signaling, cancer cell invasion and metastasis through CRKL

    Tumor cell metastasis is a complex process that has been mechanistically linked to the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). The double-negative feedback loop between the microRNA-200 family and the Zeb1 tr...

    Christin Ungewiss, Zain H. Rizvi, Jonathon D. Roybal, David H. Peng in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Metastasis is regulated via microRNA-200/ZEB1 axis control of tumour cell PD-L1 expression and intratumoral immunosuppression

    Immunosuppression of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) is a common feature of advanced cancer, but its biological basis has remained obscure. We demonstrate here a molecular link between epithelial-to-mese...

    Limo Chen, Don L. Gibbons, Sangeeta Goswami, Maria Angelica Cortez in Nature Communications (2014)

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    Conformational change and protein–protein interactions of the fusion protein of Semliki Forest virus

    Fusion of biological membranes is mediated by specific lipid-interacting proteins that induce the formation and expansion of an initial fusion pore. Here we report the crystal structure of the ectodomain of th...

    Don L. Gibbons, Marie-Christine Vaney, Alain Roussel, Armelle Vigouroux in Nature (2004)