Publications
2024
Citron F, Ho IL, Balestrieri C, Liu Z, Yen EY, Cecchetto L, Perelli L, Zhang L, Montanez LC, Blazanin N, Dyke CA, Shah R, Attanasio S, Srinivasan S, Chen KC, Chen Z, Scognamiglio I, Pham N, Khan H, Jiang S, Pan J, Vanderkruk B, Leung CS, Mattohti M, Rai K, Chu Y, Wang L, Gao S, Deem AK, Carugo A, Wang H, Yao W, Tonon G, Xiong Y, Lorenzi PL, Bonini C, Anna Zal M, Hoffman BG, Heffernan T, Giuliani V, Jeter CR, Lissanu Y, Genovese G, Pilato MD, Viale A, Draetta GF. WRAD core perturbation impairs DNA replication fidelity promoting immunoediting in pancreatic cancer. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Oct 24:2024.10.21.619543. doi: 10.1101/2024.10.21.619543. PMID: 39484624.
Folkert IW, Molina Arocho WA, To TKJ, Devalaraja S, Molina IS, Shoush J, Mohei H, Zhai L, Akhtar MN, Kochat V, Arslan E, Lazar AJ, Wani K, Israel WP, Zhang Z, Chaluvadi VS, Norgard RJ, Liu Y, Fuller AM, Dang MT, Roses RE, Karakousis GC, Miura JT, Fraker DL, Eisinger-Mathason TSK, Simon MC, Weber K, Tan K, Fan Y, Rai K, Haldar M. An iron-rich subset of macrophages promotes tumor growth through a Bach1-Ednrb axis. J Exp Med. 2024 Oct 7;221(10):e20230420. doi: 10.1084/jem.20230420. Epub 2024 Sep 30. PMID: 39347789.
Lee HM, Saw AK, Morris VK, Napolitano S, Bristow C, Srinivasan S, Peoples M, Sorokin A, Kanikarla Marie P, Schulz J, Singh AK, Terranova C, Coker O, Jain A, Kopetz S, Rai K. Epigenome reprogramming through H3K27 and H3K4 trimethylation as a resistance mechanism to DNA methylation inhibition in BRAFV600E-mutated colorectal cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Sep 13. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-1166. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39269307.
Kumar B, Singh A, Basar R, Uprety N, Li Y, Fan H, Cortes AKN, Kaplan M, Acharya S, Shaim H, Xu AC, Wu M, Ensley E, Fang D, Banerjee PP, Garcia LM, Tiberti S, Lin P, Rafei H, Munir MN, Moore M, Shanley M, Mendt M, Kerbauy LN, Liu B, Biederstädt A, Gokdemir E, Ghosh S, Kundu K, Reyes-Silva F, Jiang XR, Wan X, Gilbert AL, Dede M, Mohanty V, Dou J, Zhang P, Liu E, Muniz-Feliciano L, Deyter GM, Jain AK, Rodriguez-Sevilla JJ, Colla S, Garcia-Manero G, Shpall EJ, Chen K, Abbas HA, Rai K, Rezvani K, Daher M. BATF is a major driver of NK cell epigenetic reprogramming and dysfunction in AML. Sci Transl Med. 2024 Sep 11;16(764):eadp0004. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adp0004. Epub 2024 Sep 11. PMID: 39259809.
Jin Y, Miyama T, Brown A, Hayase T, Song X, Singh AK, Huang L, Flores II, McDaniel LK, Glover I, Halsey TM, Prasad R, Chapa V, Ahmed S, Zhang J, Rai K, Peterson CB, Lizee G, Karmouch J, Hayase E, Molldrem JJ, Chang CC, Tsai WB, Jenq RR. Tsyn-Seq: a T-cell Synapse-Based Antigen Identification Platform. Cancer Immunol Res. 2024 May 2;12(5):530-543. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-23-0467. PMID: 38363296.
Chaudhri A, Lizee G, Hwu P, Rai K. Chromatin Remodelers Are Regulators of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment. Cancer Res. 2024 Apr 1;84(7):965-976. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-2244. PMID: 38266066.
Qin K, Wang K, Li S, Hong L, Padmakumar P, Waree R, Hubert SM, Le X, Vokes N, Rai K, Vaporciyan A, Gibbons DL, Heymach JV, Lee JJ, Woodman SE, Chung C, Jaffray DA, Altan M, Lou Y, Zhang J. Clinical Benefit from Docetaxel +/- Ramucirumab Is Not Associated with Mutation Status in Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients Who Progressed on Platinum Doublets and Immunotherapy. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Feb 26;16(5):935. doi: 10.3390/cancers16050935. PMID: 38473297.
Malgulwar PB, Danussi C, Dharmaiah S, Johnson W, Singh A, Rai K, Rao A, Huse JT. Sirtuin 2 inhibition modulates chromatin landscapes genome-wide to induce senescence in ATRX-deficient malignant glioma. Neuro Oncol. 2024 Jan 5;26(1):55-67. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noad155. PMID: 37625115.
2023
Fan H, Wang F, Zeng A, Murison A, Tomczak K, Hao D, Jelloul FZ, Wang B, Barrodia P, Liang S, Chen K, Wang L, Zhao Z, Rai K, Jain AK, Dick J, Daver N, Futreal A, Abbas HA. Single-cell chromatin accessibility profiling of acute myeloid leukemia reveals heterogeneous lineage composition upon therapy-resistance. Commun Biol. 2023 Jul 21;6(1):765. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05120-6. PMID: 37479893.
Osman AA, Arslan E, Bartels M, Michikawa C, Lindemann A, Tomczak K, Yu W, Sandulache V, Ma W, Shen L, Wang J, Singh AK, Frederick MJ, Spencer ND, Kovacs J, Heffernan T, Symmans WF, Rai K, Myers JN. Dysregulation and Epigenetic Reprogramming of NRF2 Signaling Axis Promote Acquisition of Cisplatin Resistance and Metastasis in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Apr 3;29(7):1344-1359. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-2747. PMID: 36689560.
2022
Wu M, Rai K. Demystifying extrachromosomal DNA circles: Categories, biogenesis, and cancer therapeutics. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2022 Oct 26;20:6011-6022. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.10.033. eCollection 2022. PMID: 36382182.
Jiang VC, Hao D, Jain P, Li Y, Cai Q, Yao Y, Nie L, Liu Y, Jin J, Wang W, Lee HH, Che Y, Dai E, Han G, Wang R, Rai K, Futreal A, Flowers C, Wang L, Wang M. TIGIT is the central player in T-cell suppression associated with CAR T-cell relapse in mantle cell lymphoma. Mol Cancer. 2022 Sep 26;21(1):185. doi: 10.1186/s12943-022-01655-0. PMID: 36163179.
Callahan SC, Kochat V, Liu Z, Raman AT, Divenko M, Schulz J, Terranova CJ, Ghosh AK, Tang M, Johnson FM, Wang J, Skinner HD, Pickering CR, Myers JN, Rai K. High enhancer activity is an epigenetic feature of HPV negative atypical head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Jul 19;10:936168. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.936168. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35927986.
Andrews MC, Oba J, Wu CJ, Zhu H, Karpinets T, Creasy CA, Forget MA, Yu X, Song X, Mao X, Robertson AG, Romano G, Li P, Burton EM, Lu Y, Sloane RS, Wani KM, Rai K, Lazar AJ, Haydu LE, Bustos MA, Shen J, Chen Y, Morgan MB, Wargo JA, Kwong LN, Haymaker CL, Grimm EA, Hwu P, Hoon DSB, Zhang J, Gershenwald JE, Davies MA, Futreal PA, Bernatchez C, Woodman SE. Multi-modal molecular programs regulate melanoma cell state. Nat Commun. 2022 Jul 9;13(1):4000. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31510-1. PMID: 35810190.
Zamler DB, Shingu T, Kahn LM, Huntoon K, Kassab C, Ott M, Tomczak K, Liu J, Li Y, Lai I, Zorilla-Veloz R, Yee C, Rai K, Kim BY, Watowich SS, Heimberger AB, Draetta GF, Hu J. Immune landscape of a genetically engineered murine model of glioma compared with human glioma. JCI Insight. 2022 Jun 22;7(12):e148990. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.148990. PMID: 35653194.
Lamhamedi-Cherradi SE, Maitituoheti M, Menegaz BA, Krishnan S, Vetter AM, Camacho P, Wu CC, Beird HC, Porter RW, Ingram DR, Ramamoorthy V, Mohiuddin S, McCall D, Truong DD, Cuglievan B, Futreal PA, Velasco AR, Anvar NE, Utama B, Titus M, Lazar AJ, Wang WL, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Ratan R, Livingston JA, Rai K, MacLeod AR, Daw NC, Hayes-Jordan A, Ludwig JA. The androgen receptor is a therapeutic target in desmoplastic small round cell sarcoma. Nat Commun. 2022 Jun 1;13(1):3057. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30710-z. PMID: 35650195.
Bhalla AD, Landers SM, Singh AK, Landry JP, Yeagley MG, Myerson GSB, Delgado-Baez CB, Dunnand S, Nguyen T, Ma X, Bolshakov S, Menegaz BA, Lamhamedi-Cherradi SE, Mao X, Song X, Lazar AJ, McCutcheon IE, Slopis JM, Ludwig JA, Lev DC, Rai K, Torres KE. Experimental models of undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. Lab Invest. 2022 Jun;102(6):658-666. doi: 10.1038/s41374-022-00734-6. Epub 2022 Feb 28. PMID: 35228656.
Singh S, Roszik J, Saini N, Singh VK, Bavisi K, Wang Z, Vien LT, Yang Z, Kundu S, Davis RE, Bover L, Diab A, Neelapu SS, Overwijk WW, Rai K, Singh M. B Cells Are Required to Generate Optimal Anti-Melanoma Immunity in Response to Checkpoint Blockade. Front Immunol. 2022 May 26;13:794684. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.794684. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35720386.
Orouji E, Raman AT, Singh AK, Sorokin A, Arslan E, Ghosh AK, Schulz J, Terranova C, Jiang S, Tang M, Maitituoheti M, Callahan SC, Barrodia P, Tomczak K, Jiang Y, Jiang Z, Davis JS, Ghosh S, Lee HM, Reyes-Uribe L, Chang K, Liu Y, Chen H, Azhdarinia A, Morris J, Vilar E, Carmon KS, Kopetz SE, Rai K. Chromatin state dynamics confers specific therapeutic strategies in enhancer subtypes of colorectal cancer. Gut. 2022 May;71(5):938-949. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-322835. Epub 2021 May 31. PMID: 34059508.
2021
Arslan E, Schulz J, Rai K. Machine Learning in Epigenomics: Insights into Cancer Biology and Medicine. Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer. 2021 Dec;1876(2):188588. doi: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2021.188588. Epub 2021 Jul 7. PMID: 34245839.
Terranova CJ, Stemler KM, Barrodia P, Jeter-Jones SL, Ge Z, de la Cruz Bonilla M, Raman A, Cheng CW, Allton KL, Arslan E, Yilmaz ÖH, Barton MC, Rai K, Piwnica-Worms H. Reprogramming of H3K9bhb at regulatory elements is a key feature of fasting in the small intestine. Cell Rep. 2021 Nov 23;37(8):110044. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110044. PMID: 34818540.
Liu Y, Baggerly KA, Orouji E, Manyam G, Chen H, Lam M, Davis JS, Lee MS, Broom BM, Menter DG, Rai K, Kopetz S, Morris JS. Methylation-eQTL analysis in cancer research. Bioinformatics. 2021 Nov 18;37(22):4014-4022. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab443. PMID: 34117863.
Abbas HA, Hao D, Tomczak K, Barrodia P, Im JS, Reville PK, Alaniz Z, Wang W, Wang R, Wang F, Al-Atrash G, Takahashi K, Ning J, Ding M, Beird HC, Mathews JT, Little L, Zhang J, Basu S, Konopleva M, Marques-Piubelli ML, Solis LM, Parra ER, Lu W, Tamegnon A, Garcia-Manero G, Green MR, Sharma P, Allison JP, Kornblau SM, Rai K, Wang L, Daver N, Futreal A. Single cell T cell landscape and T cell receptor repertoire profiling of AML in context of PD-1 blockade therapy. Nat Commun. 2021 Oct 18;12(1):6071. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26282-z. PMID: 34663807.
Kochat V, Raman AT, Landers SM, Tang M, Schulz J, Terranova C, Landry JP, Bhalla AD, Beird HC, Wu CC, Jiang Y, Mao X, Lazcano R, Gite S, Ingram DR, Yi M, Zhang J, Keung EZ, Scally CP, Roland CL, Hunt KK, Feig BW, Futreal PA, Hwu P, Wang WL, Lazar AJ, Slopis JM, Wilson-Robles H, Wiener DJ, McCutcheon IE, Wustefeld-Janssens B, Rai K, Torres KE. Enhancer reprogramming in PRC2-deficient malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors induces a targetable de-differentiated state. Acta Neuropathol. 2021 Sep;142(3):565-590. doi: 10.1007/s00401-021-02341-z. Epub 2021 Jul 20. PMID: 34283254.
Terranova CJ, Tang M, Maitituoheti M, Raman AT, Ghosh AK, Schulz J, Amin SB, Orouji E, Tomczak K, Sarkar S, Oba J, Creasy C, Wu CJ, Khan S, Lazcano R, Wani K, Singh A, Barrodia P, Zhao D, Chen K, Haydu LE, Wang WL, Lazar AJ, Woodman SE, Bernatchez C, Rai K. Reprogramming of bivalent chromatin states in NRAS mutant melanoma suggests PRC2 inhibition as a therapeutic strategy. Cell Rep. 2021 Jul 20;36(3):109410. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109410. PMID: 34289358.
Deshmukh AP, Vasaikar SV, Tomczak K, Tripathi S, den Hollander P, Arslan E, Chakraborty P, Soundararajan R, Jolly MK, Rai K, Levine H, Mani SA. Identification of EMT signaling cross-talk and gene regulatory networks by single-cell RNA sequencing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 May 11;118(19):e2102050118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2102050118. PMID: 33941680.
2020
Maitituoheti M, Keung EZ, Tang M, Yan L, Alam H, Han G, Singh AK, Raman AT, Terranova C, Sarkar S, Orouji E, Amin SB, Sharma S, Williams M, Samant NS, Dhamdhere M, Zheng N, Shah T, Shah A, Axelrad JB, Anvar NE, Lin YH, Jiang S, Chang EQ, Ingram DR, Wang WL, Lazar A, Lee MG, Muller F, Wang L, Ying H, Rai K. Enhancer Reprogramming Confers Dependence on Glycolysis and IGF Signaling in KMT2D Mutant Melanoma. Cell Rep. 2020 Oct 20;33(3):108293. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108293. PMID: 33086062.
Chakravarti D, Hu B, Mao X, Rashid A, Li J, Li J, Liao WT, Whitley EM, Dey P, Hou P, LaBella KA, Chang A, Wang G, Spring DJ, Deng P, Zhao D, Liang X, Lan Z, Lin Y, Sarkar S, Terranova C, Deribe YL, Blutt SE, Okhuysen P, Zhang J, Vilar E, Nielsen OH, Dupont A, Younes M, Patel KR, Shroyer NF, Rai K, Estes MK, Wang YA, Bertuch AA, DePinho RA. Telomere dysfunction activates YAP1 to drive tissue inflammation. Nat Commun. 2020 Sep 21;11(1):4766. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18420-w. PMID: 32958778.
Manzo T, Prentice BM, Anderson KG, Raman A, Schalck A, Codreanu GS, Nava Lauson CB, Tiberti S, Raimondi A, Jones MA, Reyzer M, Bates BM, Spraggins JM, Patterson NH, McLean JA, Rai K, Tacchetti C, Tucci S, Wargo JA, Rodighiero S, Clise-Dwyer K, Sherrod SD, Kim M, Navin NE, Caprioli RM, Greenberg PD, Draetta G, Nezi L. Accumulation of long-chain fatty acids in the tumor microenvironment drives dysfunction in intrapancreatic CD8+ T cells. J Exp Med. 2020 Aug 3;217(8):e20191920. doi: 10.1084/jem.20191920. PMID: 32491160.
Alam H, Tang M, Maitituoheti M, Dhar SS, Kumar M, Han CY, Ambati CR, Amin SB, Gu B, Chen TY, Lin YH, Chen J, Muller FL, Putluri N, Flores ER, DeMayo FJ, Baseler L, Rai K, Lee MG. KMT2D Deficiency Impairs Super-Enhancers to Confer a Glycolytic Vulnerability in Lung Cancer. Cancer Cell. 2020 Apr 13;37(4):599-617.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2020.03.005. Epub 2020 Apr 2. PMID: 32243837.
2019
Rai K. Personalized Cancer Therapy: YES1 Is the New Kid on the Block. Cancer Res. 2019 Nov 15;79(22):5702-5703. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-2995. PMID: 31772072.
Cheng CW, Biton M, Haber AL, Gunduz N, Eng G, Gaynor LT, Tripathi S, Calibasi-Kocal G, Rickelt S, Butty VL, Moreno-Serrano M, Iqbal AM, Bauer-Rowe KE, Imada S, Ulutas MS, Mylonas C, Whary MT, Levine SS, Basbinar Y, Hynes RO, Mino-Kenudson M, Deshpande V, Boyer LA, Fox JG, Terranova C, Rai K, Piwnica-Worms H, Mihaylova MM, Regev A, Yilmaz ÖH. Ketone Body Signaling Mediates Intestinal Stem Cell Homeostasis and Adaptation to Diet. Cell. 2019 Aug 22;178(5):1115-1131.e15. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.07.048. PMID: 31442404.
Adhikary S, Chakravarti D, Terranova C, Sengupta I, Maitituoheti M, Dasgupta A, Srivastava DK, Ma J, Raman AT, Tarco E, Sahin AA, Bassett R, Yang F, Tapia C, Roy S, Rai K, Das C. Atypical plant homeodomain of UBR7 functions as an H2BK120Ub ligase and breast tumor suppressor. Nat Commun. 2019 Mar 28;10(1):1398. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08986-5. PMID: 30923315.
2018
Deribe YL, Sun Y, Terranova C, Khan F, Martinez-Ledesma J, Gay J, Gao G, Mullinax RA, Khor T, Feng N, Lin YH, Wu CC, Reyes C, Peng Q, Robinson F, Inoue A, Kochat V, Liu CG, Asara JM, Moran C, Muller F, Wang J, Fang B, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Wistuba II, Rai K, Marszalek J, Futreal PA. Author Correction: Mutations in the SWI/SNF complex induce a targetable dependence on oxidative phosphorylation in lung cancer. Nat Med. 2018 Oct;24(10):1627. doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0173-9. PMID: 30104769.
Ghosh K, Tang M, Kumari N, Nandy A, Basu S, Mall DP, Rai K, Biswas D. Positive Regulation of Transcription by Human ZMYND8 through Its Association with P-TEFb Complex. Cell Rep. 2018 Aug 21;24(8):2141-2154.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.07.064. PMID: 30134174.
Lissanu Deribe Y, Sun Y, Terranova C, Khan F, Martinez-Ledesma J, Gay J, Gao G, Mullinax RA, Khor T, Feng N, Lin YH, Wu CC, Reyes C, Peng Q, Robinson F, Inoue A, Kochat V, Liu CG, Asara JM, Moran C, Muller F, Wang J, Fang B, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Wistuba II, Rai K, Marszalek J, Futreal PA. Mutations in the SWI/SNF complex induce a targetable dependence on oxidative phosphorylation in lung cancer. Nat Med. 2018 Jul;24(7):1047-1057. doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0019-5. Epub 2018 Jun 11. PMID: 29892061.
Hillman RT, Celestino J, Terranova C, Beird HC, Gumbs C, Little L, Nguyen T, Thornton R, Tippen S, Zhang J, Lu KH, Gershenson DM, Rai K, Broaddus RR, Futreal PA. KMT2D/MLL2 inactivation is associated with recurrence in adult-type granulosa cell tumors of the ovary. Nat Commun. 2018 Jun 27;9(1):2496. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04950-x. PMID: 29950560.
Terranova C, Tang M, Orouji E, Maitituoheti M, Raman A, Amin S, Liu Z, Rai K. An Integrated Platform for Genome-wide Mapping of Chromatin States Using High-throughput ChIP-sequencing in Tumor Tissues. J Vis Exp. 2018 Apr 5;(134):56972. doi: 10.3791/56972. PMID: 29683440.
Raman AT, Rai K. Loss of histone acetylation and H3K4 methylation promotes melanocytic malignant transformation. Mol Cell Oncol. 2018 Feb 26;5(3):e1359229. doi: 10.1080/23723556.2017.1359229. eCollection 2018. PMID: 30250885.
2017
Oleksiewicz U, Gładych M, Raman AT, Heyn H, Mereu E, Chlebanowska P, Andrzejewska A, Sozańska B, Samant N, Fąk K, Auguścik P, Kosiński M, Wróblewska JP, Tomczak K, Kulcenty K, Płoski R, Biecek P, Esteller M, Shah PK, Rai K, Wiznerowicz M. TRIM28 and Interacting KRAB-ZNFs Control Self-Renewal of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells through Epigenetic Repression of Pro-differentiation Genes. Stem Cell Reports. 2017 Dec 12;9(6):2065-2080. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2017.10.031. Epub 2017 Nov 30. PMID: 29198826.
Sarkar S, Bristow CA, Dey P, Rai K, Perets R, Ramirez-Cardenas A, Malasi S, Huang-Hobbs E, Haemmerle M, Wu SY, McGuire M, Protopopov A, Jiang S, Liu JF, Hirsch MS, Chang Q, Lazar AJ, Sood AK, Drapkin R, DePinho R, Draetta G, Chin L. PRKCI promotes immune suppression in ovarian cancer. Genes Dev. 2017 Jun 1;31(11):1109-1121. doi: 10.1101/gad.296640.117. Epub 2017 Jul 11. PMID: 28698296.
Fiziev P, Akdemir KC, Miller JP, Keung EZ, Samant NS, Sharma S, Natale CA, Terranova CJ, Maitituoheti M, Amin SB, Martinez-Ledesma E, Dhamdhere M, Axelrad JB, Shah A, Cheng CS, Mahadeshwar H, Seth S, Barton MC, Protopopov A, Tsai KY, Davies MA, Garcia BA, Amit I, Chin L, Ernst J, Rai K. Systematic Epigenomic Analysis Reveals Chromatin States Associated with Melanoma Progression. Cell Rep. 2017 Apr 25;19(4):875-889. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.03.078. PMID: 28445736.
2016
Lissanu Deribe Y, Shi Y, Rai K, Nezi L, Amin SB, Wu CC, Akdemir KC, Mahdavi M, Peng Q, Chang QE, Hornigold K, Arold ST, Welch HC, Garraway LA, Chin L. Truncating PREX2 mutations activate its GEF activity and alter gene expression regulation in NRAS-mutant melanoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Mar 1;113(9):E1296-305. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513801113. Epub 2016 Feb 16. PMID: 26884185.
2015
Rai K, Akdemir KC, Kwong LN, Fiziev P, Wu CJ, Keung EZ, Sharma S, Samant NS, Williams M, Axelrad JB, Shah A, Yang D, Grimm EA, Barton MC, Milton DR, Heffernan TP, Horner JW, Ekmekcioglu S, Lazar AJ, Ernst J, Chin L. Dual Roles of RNF2 in Melanoma Progression. Cancer Discov. 2015 Dec;5(12):1314-27. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-15-0493. Epub 2015 Oct 8. PMID: 26450788.
Keung EZ, Rai K. H3K9me3-mediated repression of KLF6: Discovering a novel tumor suppressor in liposarcoma using a systematic epigenomic approach. Mol Cell Oncol. 2015 Oct 29;3(3):e1093691. doi: 10.1080/23723556.2015.1093691. eCollection 2016 May. PMID: 27314083.
Keung EZ, Akdemir KC, Al Sannaa GA, Garnett J, Lev D, Torres KE, Lazar AJ, Rai K, Chin L. Increased H3K9me3 drives dedifferentiated phenotype via KLF6 repression in liposarcoma. J Clin Invest. 2015 Aug 3;125(8):2965-78. doi: 10.1172/JCI77976. Epub 2015 Jul 20. PMID: 26193637.
Cancer Genome Atlas Network. Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma. Cell. 2015 Jun 18;161(7):1681-96. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.05.044. PMID: 26091043.
2013 and earlier
Cheng CS, Rai K, Garber M, Hollinger A, Robbins D, Anderson S, Macbeth A, Tzou A, Carneiro MO, Raychowdhury R, Russ C, Hacohen N, Gershenwald JE, Lennon N, Nusbaum C, Chin L, Regev A, Amit I. Semiconductor-based DNA sequencing of histone modification states. Nat Commun. 2013;4:2672. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3672. PMID: 24157732.
Genovese G, Ergun A, Shukla SA, Campos B, Hanna J, Ghosh P, Quayle SN, Rai K, Colla S, Ying H, Wu CJ, Sarkar S, Xiao Y, Zhang J, Zhang H, Kwong L, Dunn K, Wiedemeyer WR, Brennan C, Zheng H, Rimm DL, Collins JJ, Chin L. microRNA regulatory network inference identifies miR-34a as a novel regulator of TGF-β signaling in glioblastoma. Cancer Discov. 2012 Aug;2(8):736-49. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-12-0111. Epub 2012 Jun 29. PMID: 22750848.
Rai K, Sarkar S, Broadbent TJ, Voas M, Grossmann KF, Nadauld LD, Dehghanizadeh S, Hagos FT, Li Y, Toth RK, Chidester S, Bahr TM, Johnson WE, Sklow B, Burt R, Cairns BR, Jones DA. DNA demethylase activity maintains intestinal cells in an undifferentiated state following loss of APC. Cell. 2010 Sep 17;142(6):930-42. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.08.030. PMID: 20850014.
Rai K, Jafri IF, Chidester S, James SR, Karpf AR, Cairns BR, Jones DA. Dnmt3 and G9a cooperate for tissue-specific development in zebrafish. J Biol Chem. 2010 Feb 5;285(6):4110-4121. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M109.073676. Epub 2009 Nov 29. PMID: 19946145.
Phelps RA, Chidester S, Dehghanizadeh S, Phelps J, Sandoval IT, Rai K, Broadbent T, Sarkar S, Burt RW, Jones DA. A two-step model for colon adenoma initiation and progression caused by APC loss. Cell. 2009 May 15;137(4):623-34. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.02.037. PMID: 19450512.
Rai K, Huggins IJ, James SR, Karpf AR, Jones DA, Cairns BR. DNA demethylation in zebrafish involves the coupling of a deaminase, a glycosylase, and gadd45. Cell. 2008 Dec 26;135(7):1201-12. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.11.042. PMID: 19109892.
Rai K, Chidester S, Zavala CV, Manos EJ, James SR, Karpf AR, Jones DA, Cairns BR. Dnmt2 functions in the cytoplasm to promote liver, brain, and retina development in zebrafish. Genes Dev. 2007 Feb 1;21(3):261-6. doi: 10.1101/gad.1472907. PMID: 17289917.
Rai K, Nadauld LD, Chidester S, Manos EJ, James SR, Karpf AR, Cairns BR, Jones DA. Zebra fish Dnmt1 and Suv39h1 regulate organ-specific terminal differentiation during development. Mol Cell Biol. 2006 Oct;26(19):7077-85. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00312-06. PMID: 16980612.
Nadauld LD, Chidester S, Shelton DN, Rai K, Broadbent T, Sandoval IT, Peterson PW, Manos EJ, Ireland CM, Yost HJ, Jones DA. Dual roles for adenomatous polyposis coli in regulating retinoic acid biosynthesis and Wnt during ocular development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Sep 5;103(36):13409-14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601634103. Epub 2006 Aug 28. PMID: 16938888.