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    • Association and prognostic significance of BRCA1/2-mutation status with neoantigen load, number of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and expression of PD-1/PD-L1 in high grade serous ovarian cancer 

      Strickland, Kyle C.; Howitt, Brooke E.; Shukla, Sachet A.; Rodig, Scott; Ritterhouse, Lauren L.; Liu, Joyce F.; Garber, Judy E.; Chowdhury, Dipanjan; Wu, Catherine J.; D'Andrea, Alan D.; Matulonis, Ursula A.; Konstantinopoulos, Panagiotis A. (Impact Journals LLC, 2016)
      Immune checkpoint inhibitors (e.g., anti-PD-1 and anti-PD-L1 antibodies) have demonstrated remarkable efficacy against hypermutated cancers such as melanomas and lung carcinomas. One explanation for this effect is that ...
    • Association of Polymerase e–Mutated and Microsatellite-Instable Endometrial Cancers With Neoantigen Load, Number of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes, and Expression of PD-1 and PD-L1 

      Howitt, Brooke Elizabeth; Shukla, Sachet; Sholl, Lynette Marie; Ritterhouse, Lauren Lee; Watkins, Jaclyn Christine; Rodig, Scott J.; Stover, Elizabeth Harmon; Strickland, Kyle Craig; D'Andrea, Alan David; Wu, Catherine Ju-Ying; Matulonis, Ursula Anne; Konstantinopoulos, Panagiotis (American Medical Association (AMA), 2015)
      Importance Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy has shown benefit in various cancers, but their potential in endometrial cancer (EC) is unknown. Observations Prediction of neoantigen load was performed using sequencing ...
    • Boosting leukemia-specific T cell responses in patients following stem cell transplantation 

      Burkhardt, Ute E; Wu, Catherine J (Landes Bioscience, 2013)
      Whole tumor cell-based vaccines administered within the first 2 to 3 months after allogeneic stem cell transplantation stand out as a promising approach to enhance graft-vs.-leukemia responses. Herein, the implications of ...
    • CD40L-Tri, a novel formulation of recombinant human CD40L that effectively activates B cells 

      Naito, Masayasu; Hainz, Ursula; Burkhardt, Ute E.; Fu, Buyin; Ahove, Deborah; Stevenson, Kristen E.; Rajasagi, Mohini; Zhu, Baogong; Alonso, Anselmo; Witten, Elizabeth; Matsuoka, Ken-ichi; Neuberg, Donna; Duke-Cohan, Jonathan S.; Wu, Cathy Ju-Ying; Freeman, Gordon James (Springer-Verlag, 2012)
      CD40L has a well-established role in enhancing the immunostimulatory capacity of normal and malignant B cells, but a formulation suitable for clinical use has not been widely available. Like other TNF family members, in ...
    • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: molecular heterogeneity revealed by high-throughput genomics 

      Landau, Dan A; Wu, Catherine J (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has been consistently at the forefront of genetic research owing to its prevalence and the accessibility of sample material. Recently, genome-wide technologies have been intensively applied ...
    • Clonal evolution in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia developing resistance to BTK inhibition 

      Burger, Jan A.; Landau, Dan A.; Taylor-Weiner, Amaro; Bozic, Ivana; Zhang, Huidan; Sarosiek, Kristopher; Wang, Lili; Stewart, Chip; Fan, Jean; Hoellenriegel, Julia; Sivina, Mariela; Dubuc, Adrian M.; Fraser, Cameron; Han, Yulong; Li, Shuqiang; Livak, Kenneth J.; Zou, Lihua; Wan, Youzhong; Konoplev, Sergej; Sougnez, Carrie; Brown, Jennifer R.; Abruzzo, Lynne V.; Carter, Scott L.; Keating, Michael J.; Davids, Matthew S.; Wierda, William G.; Cibulskis, Kristian; Zenz, Thorsten; Werner, Lillian; Cin, Paola Dal; Kharchencko, Peter; Neuberg, Donna; Kantarjian, Hagop; Lander, Eric; Gabriel, Stacey; O'Brien, Susan; Letai, Anthony; Weitz, David A.; Nowak, Martin A.; Getz, Gad; Wu, Catherine J. (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      Resistance to the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib has been attributed solely to mutations in BTK and related pathway molecules. Using whole-exome and deep-targeted sequencing, we dissect evolution of ...
    • The Cyclophilin A-CD147 complex promotes bone marrow colonization of B-cell malignancies: implications for therapy 

      Zhu, Di; Wang, Zhongqiu; Zhao, Jian-Jun; Calimeri, Teresa; Meng, Jiang; Hideshima, Teru; Fulciniti, Mariateresa; Kang, Yue; Ficarro, Scott; Tai, Yu-Tzu; Hunter, Zachary; McMilin, Douglas; Tong, Haoxuan; Mitsiades, Constantine S.; Wu, Catherine; Treon, Steven; Dorfman, David M.; Pinkus, Geraldine; Munshi, Nikhil; Tassone, Pierfrancesco; Marto, Jarrod; Anderson, Kenneth; Carrasco, Ruben D. (2015)
      B-cell malignancies frequently colonizes the bone marrow (BM). The mechanisms responsible for this preferential homing are not entirely known. Using multiple myeloma (MM) as a model of a terminally differentiated B-cell ...
    • Detecting T-cell Reactivity to Whole Cell Vaccines 

      Brusic, Ana; Hainz, Ursula; Wadleigh, Martha; Neuberg, Donna; Su, Mei; Canning, Christine M.; DeAngelo, Daniel J.; Stone, Richard M.; Lee, Jeng-Shin; Mulligan, Richard C.; Ritz, Jerome; Dranoff, Glenn; Sasada, Tetsuro; Wu, Catherine J. (Landes Bioscience, 2012)
      BCR-ABL\(^+\) K562 cells hold clinical promise as a component of cancer vaccines, either as bystander cells genetically modified to express immunostimulatory molecules, or as a source of leukemia antigens. To develop a ...
    • Distinct patterns of somatic genome alterations in lung adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas 

      Campbell, Joshua D.; Alexandrov, Anton; Kim, Jaegil; Wala, Jeremiah; Berger, Alice H.; Pedamallu, Chandra Sekhar; Shukla, Sachet A.; Guo, Guangwu; Brooks, Angela N.; Murray, Bradley A.; Imielinski, Marcin; Hu, Xin; Ling, Shiyun; Akbani, Rehan; Rosenberg, Mara; Cibulskis, Carrie; Ramachandran, Aruna; Collisson, Eric A.; Kwiatkowski, David J.; Lawrence, Michael S.; Weinstein, John N.; Verhaak, Roel G. W.; Wu, Catherine J.; Hammerman, Peter S.; Cherniack, Andrew D.; Getz, Gad; Artyomov, Maxim N.; Schreiber, Robert; Govindan, Ramaswamy; Meyerson, Matthew (2016)
      To compare lung adenocarcinoma (ADC) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) and to identify new drivers of lung carcinogenesis, we examined exome sequences and copy number profiles of 660 lung ADC and 484 lung SqCC ...
    • A Large Peptidome Dataset Improves HLA Class I Epitope Prediction Across Most of the Human Population 

      Le, Phuong M; Li, Letitia W; Oliveira, Giacomo; Keshishian, Hasmik; Hartigan, Christina R; Zhang, Wandi; Bachireddy, Pavan; Ouspenskaia, Tamara; Law, Travis; Justesen, Sune; Stevens, Jonathan; Eisenhaure, Thomas; Zhang, Guang Lan; Klauser, Karl R; Hacohen, Nir; Carr, Steven A; Sarkizova, Siranush; Klaeger, Susan; Braun, David; Ligon, Keith; Zervantonakis, Ioannis; Rosenbluth, Jennifer; Lane, William; Wu, Catherine; Keskin, Derin (Nature, 2019-12-16)
      Prediction of HLA epitopes is important for the development of cancer immunotherapies and vaccines. However, current prediction algorithms have limited predictive power, in part because they were not trained on high-quality ...
    • Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer genes 

      Lawrence, Michael S.; Stojanov, Petar; Polak, Paz; Kryukov, Gregory V.; Cibulskis, Kristian; Sivachenko, Andrey; Carter, Scott L.; Stewart, Chip; Mermel, Craig H.; Roberts, Steven A.; Kiezun, Adam; Hammerman, Peter S.; McKenna, Aaron; Drier, Yotam; Zou, Lihua; Ramos, Alex H.; Pugh, Trevor J.; Stransky, Nicolas; Helman, Elena; Kim, Jaegil; Sougnez, Carrie; Ambrogio, Lauren; Nickerson, Elizabeth; Shefler, Erica; Cortés, Maria L.; Auclair, Daniel; Saksena, Gordon; Voet, Douglas; Noble, Michael; DiCara, Daniel; Lin, Pei; Lichtenstein, Lee; Heiman, David I.; Fennell, Timothy; Imielinski, Marcin; Hernandez, Bryan; Hodis, Eran; Baca, Sylvan; Dulak, Austin M.; Lohr, Jens; Landau, Dan-Avi; Wu, Catherine J.; Melendez-Zajgla, Jorge; Hidalgo-Miranda, Alfredo; Koren, Amnon; McCarroll, Steven A.; Mora, Jaume; Crompton, Brian; Onofrio, Robert; Parkin, Melissa; Winckler, Wendy; Ardlie, Kristin; Gabriel, Stacey B.; Roberts, Charles W. M.; Biegel, Jaclyn A.; Stegmaier, Kimberly; Bass, Adam J.; Garraway, Levi A.; Meyerson, Matthew; Golub, Todd R.; Gordenin, Dmitry A.; Sunyaev, Shamil; Lander, Eric S.; Getz, Gad (2014)
      Major international projects are now underway aimed at creating a comprehensive catalog of all genes responsible for the initiation and progression of cancer. These studies involve sequencing of matched tumor–normal samples ...
    • Mutations driving CLL and their evolution in progression and relapse 

      Landau, Dan A.; Tausch, Eugen; Taylor-Weiner, Amaro N; Stewart, Chip; Reiter, Johannes G.; Bahlo, Jasmin; Kluth, Sandra; Bozic, Ivana; Lawrence, Mike; Böttcher, Sebastian; Carter, Scott L.; Cibulskis, Kristian; Mertens, Daniel; Sougnez, Carrie; Rosenberg, Mara; Hess, Julian M.; Edelmann, Jennifer; Kless, Sabrina; Kneba, Michael; Ritgen, Matthias; Fink, Anna; Fischer, Kirsten; Gabriel, Stacey; Lander, Eric; Nowak, Martin A.; Döhner, Hartmut; Hallek, Michael; Neuberg, Donna; Getz, Gad; Stilgenbauer, Stephan; Wu, Catherine J. (2015)
      SUMMARY Which genetic alterations drive tumorigenesis and how they evolve over the course of disease and therapy are central questions in cancer biology. We identify 44 recurrently mutated genes and 11 recurrent somatic ...
    • Nanowire-Mediated Delivery Enables Functional Interrogation of Primary Immune Cells: Application to the Analysis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia 

      Shalek, Alexander Kann; Gaublomme, Jellert Thomas; Wang, Lili; Yosef, Nir; Chevrier, Nicolas; Andersen, Mette S.; Robinson, Jacob T.; Pochet, Nathalie; Neuberg, Donna S.; Gertner, Rona S.; Amit, Ido; Brown, Jennifer Ruth; Hacohen, Nir; Regev, Aviv; Wu, Cathy Ju-Ying; Park, Hongkun (American ChemicalSociety, 2012)
      A circuit level understanding of immune cells and hematological cancers has been severely impeded by a lack of techniques that enable intracellular perturbation without significantly altering cell viability and function. ...
    • Personal neoantigen cancer vaccines: The momentum builds 

      Fritsch, Edward F; Hacohen, Nir; Wu, Catherine J (Landes Bioscience, 2014)
      Neoantigen-based cancer vaccines designed to target the unique immunogenic mutations arising in each patient’s tumor are breathing new life into a struggling approach. Data continue to demonstrate the importance of neoantigens ...
    • Predicted neoantigen load in non-hypermutated endometrial cancers: Correlation with outcome and tumor-specific genomic alterations 

      Shukla, Sachet A.; Howitt, Brooke E.; Wu, Catherine J.; Konstantinopoulos, Panagiotis A. (Elsevier, 2017)
      Elevated neoantigen load has been previously correlated with improved outcome and response to immune checkpoint blockade in various tumor types. In endometrial cancer, previous studies of neoantigen load prediction have ...
    • A single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-Seq toolbox for fresh and frozen human tumors 

      Slyper, Michal; Porter, Caroline; Ashenberg, Orr; Waldman, Julia; Drokhlyansky, Eugene; Wakiro, Isaac; Smilie, Christopher; Smith-Rosario, Gabriela; Wu, Jingyi; Dionne, Danielle; Vigneau, Sebastien; Jane-Valbuena, Judit; Tickle, Timothy; Napolitano, Sara; Su, Mei-Ju; Patel, Anand; Karlstrom, Asa; Gristch, Simon; Nomura, Masashi; Waghray, Avinash; Gohil, Satyen; Tsankov, Alexander; Jerby-Arnon, Livnat; Cohen, Ofir; Klughammer, Johanna; Rosen, Yanay; Gould, Joshua; Nguyen, Lan; Hofree, Matan; Tramontozzi, Peter; Levy, Rachel; Li, Bo; Wu, Catherine; Izar, Benjamin; Haq, Rizwan; Hodi, Stephen; Yoon, Charles; Hata, Aaron; Baker, Suzanne; Suva, Mario; Bueno, Raphael; Stover, Elizabeth; Clay, Michael; Dyer, M Aiven; Collins, Natalie; Matulonis, Ursula; Wagle, Nikhil; Johnson, Bruce; Rotem, Asaf; Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit; Regev, Aviv (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-01)
      Single-cell genomics is essential to chart tumor ecosystems. Although single-cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-Seq) profiles RNA from cells dissociated from fresh tumors, single-nucleus RNA-Seq (snRNA-Seq) is needed to profile frozen ...
    • Understanding anti-leukemia responses to donor lymphocyte infusion 

      Bachireddy, Pavan; Wu, Catherine J (Landes Bioscience, 2014)
      Donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) is an established and potentially curative immune therapy for relapsed leukemia after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Herein, we describe the utility of DLI as a tractable model ...