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Chang, W.H., Vaughan, A.J., Stamey, A.G., Mancini, M., Hayashi, M., Yang, R., Robb, R., Andrussier, D., Klomp, J.A., Waters, A.M., Schaefer, A., Wolpin, B.M., Bryant, K.L., Cox, A.D., Simabuco, F.M., Wong, K.K., Aguirre, A.J., Stalnecker, C.A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Der, C.J. Characterization and therapeutic suppression of KEAP1-NRF2-driven resistance to KRAS inhibitors in pancreatic and lung cancer. (2026) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.18.719329
Pillai, R., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Hao, Y., Wu, W.L., Mancini, M.C.S., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Dimitriadoy, S.G., Cross, M., Yeaton, A.H., Huang, S.M., Bhutkar, A., Herrera, A.M., Rajalingam, S., Hayashi, M., Huang, K.L., Bartnicki, E., Zavitsanou, A.M., Ivanova, E., Wohlhieter, C., LeBoeuf, S.E., Chen, T., Loomis, C.A., Kulicke, R., Davis, F.P., Stransky, N., Smolen, G.A., Tsay, J.J., Simabuco, F.M., Rudin, C.M., Moreira, A.L., Khanna, K.M., Pass, H.I., Wong, K.K., Koide, S., Tsirigos, A., Koralov, S.B., Papagiannakopoulos, T. LIF-Induced Tumor Plasticity Establishes an Immunosuppressive Myeloid Niche in LKB1-Mutant Lung Cancer. (2026) Krebsforschung.:OF1-OF20 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-25-0470
Vaughan, A.J., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Drowning in cysteine. (2026) Nat Metab. 8(4):765-767. DOI: 10.1038/s42255-026-01511-1
Patel, A.A.H., Dzanan, J.J., Ali, K.X., Eklund, E.A., Alvarez, S.W., Raj, D., Dankis, M., Altinönder, I., Schwarz, M., Le Gal, K., Bedel, E., El Zowalaty, A.E., Jonasson, E., Albatrok, H., Gul, N., Bossowski, J.P., Pillai, R., Micke, P., Botling, J., Akyürek, L.M., Angeletti, D., Sayin, S.I., Härtlova, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Olofsson Bagge, R., Ståhlberg, A., Hallqvist, A., Wiel, C., Sayin, V.I. Ageing promotes metastasis via activation of the integrated stress response. (2026) Natur. 652(8112):1339-1348. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10216-0
Bossowski, J.P., Pillai, R., Kilian, J., Wong Lau, A., Nakamura, M., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Hao, Y., Li, R., Wu, K., Hattori, T., Glasser, E., Koide, A., Wang, L., Moreira, A.L., Hajdu, C., Rajalingam, S., LeBoeuf, S.E., Le, H., Lee, S., Oh, J.W., Joe, C., Kim, H., Ock, C.Y., Lee, S.H., Wang, H., Patel, A.A.H., Sayin, V.I., Tsirigos, A., Wong, K.K., Koralov, S.B., Pende, M., Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Simeone, D.M., Zervantonakis, I.K., Koide, S., Papagiannakopoulos, T. The integrated stress response promotes immune evasion through lipocalin 2. (2026) Natur. 652(8112):1329-1338. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10143-0
Vaughan, A.J., Palma, M., Ubellacker, J.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Ferroptosis surveillance: Insights from in vivo contexts. (2026) Ferroptosis Oxid Stress. 2(3). DOI: 10.70401/fos.2026.0021
Wu, K., Vaughan, A.J., Bossowski, J.P., Hao, Y., Ziogou, A., Kim, S.M., Kim, T.H., Nakamura, M.N., Pillai, R., Mancini, M., Rajalingam, S., Han, M., Nakamura, T., Wang, L., Chung, S., Simeone, D., Shackelford, D., Kang, Y.P., Conrad, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Targeting FSP1 triggers ferroptosis in lung cancer. (2026) Natur. 649(8096):487-495. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09710-8
Wu, K., Vaughan, A.J., Bossowski, J.P., Hao, Y., Ziogou, A., Kim, S.M., Kim, T.H., Nakamura, M.N., Pillai, R., Mancini, M., Rajalingam, S., Han, M., Nakamura, T., Wang, L., Chung, S., Simeone, D., Shackelford, D., Kang, Y.P., Conrad, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Targeting FSP1 triggers ferroptosis in lung cancer. (2025) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.07.668766
Cattle, M.A., Aguado, L.C., Sze, S., Venkittu, S., Wang, Y., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Smith, S., Rice, C.M., Schneider, W.M., Poirier, J.T. An enhanced Eco1 retron editor enables precision genome engineering in human cells without double-strand breaks. (2025) Nucleic Acids Research. 53(14). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaf716
Varghese, A., Gusarov, I., Gamallo-Lana, B., Dolgonos, D., Mankan, Y., Shamovsky, I., Phan, M., Jones, R., Gomez-Jenkins, M., White, E., Wang, R., Jones, D.R., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pacold, M.E., Mar, A.C., Littman, D.R., Nudler, E. Unravelling cysteine-deficiency-associated rapid weight loss. (2025) Natur. 643(8072):776-784. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08996-y
Cattle, M.A., Aguado, L.C., Sze, S., Venkittu, S., Wang, D.Y., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Smith, S., Rice, C.M., Schneider, W.M., Poirier, J.T. An enhanced Eco1 retron editor enables precision genome engineering in human cells without double-strand breaks. (2025) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.05.606586
Guzelsoy, G., Elorza, S.D., Ros, M., Schachtner, L.T., Hayashi, M., Hobson-Gutierrez, S., Rundstrom, P., Brunner, J.S., Pillai, R., Walkowicz, W.E., Finley, L.W.S., Deforet, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Carmona-Fontaine, C. Cooperative nutrient scavenging is an evolutionary advantage in cancer. (2025) Natur. 640(8058):534-542. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08588-w
Cross, M., Dillin, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Bridging brain and body in cancer. (2024) Gene & Entwicklung. 38(17-20):814-816. DOI: 10.1101/gad.352300.124
Berndt, C., Alborzinia, H., Amen, V.S., Ayton, S., Barayeu, U., Bartelt, A., Bayir, H., Bebber, C.M., Birsoy, K., Böttcher, J.P., Brabletz, S., Brabletz, T., Brown, A.R., Brüne, B., Bulli, G., Bruneau, A., Chen, Q., DeNicola, G.M., Dick, T.P., Distéfano, A., Dixon, S.J., Engler, J.B., Esser-von Bieren, J., Fedorova, M., Friedmann Angeli, J.P., Friese, M.A., Fuhrmann, D.C., García-Sáez, A.J., Garbowicz, K., Götz, M., Gu, W., Hammerich, L., Hassannia, B., Jiang, X., Jeridi, A., Kang, Y.P., Kagan, V.E., Konrad, D.B., Kotschi, S., Lei, P., Le Tertre, M., Lev, S., Liang, D., Linkermann, A., Lohr, C., Lorenz, S., Luedde, T., Methner, A., Michalke, B., Milton, A.V., Min, J., Mishima, E., Müller, S., Motohashi, H., Muckenthaler, M.U., Murakami, S., Olzmann, J.A., Pagnussat, G., Pan, Z., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pedrera Puentes, L., Pratt, D.A., Proneth, B., Ramsauer, L., Rodriguez, R., Saito, Y., Schmidt, F., Schmitt, C., Schulze, A., Schwab, A., Schwantes, A., Soula, M., Spitzlberger, B., Stockwell, B.R., Thewes, L., Thorn-Seshold, O., Toyokuni, S., Tonnus, W., Trumpp, A., Vandenabeele, P., Vanden Berghe, T., Venkataramani, V., Vogel, F.C.E., von Karstedt, S., Wang, F., Westermann, F., Wientjens, C., Wilhelm, C., Wölk, M., Wu, K., Yang, X., Yu, F., Zou, Y., Conrad, M. Ferroptosis in health and disease. (2024) Redox Biol. 75:103211. DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2024.103211
Varghese, A., Gusarov, I., Gamallo-Lana, B., Dolgonos, D., Mankan, Y., Shamovsky, I., Phan, M., Jones, R., Gomez-Jenkins, M., White, E., Wang, R., Jones, D., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pacold, M.E., Mar, A.C., Littman, D.R., Nudler, E. Unraveling cysteine deficiency-associated rapid weight loss. (2024) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.30.605703
França, G.S., Baron, M., King, B.R., Bossowski, J.P., Bjornberg, A., Pour, M., Rao, A., Patel, A.S., Misirlioglu, S., Barkley, D., Tang, K.H., Dolgalev, I., Liberman, D.A., Avital, G., Kuperwaser, F., Chiodin, M., Levine, D.A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Marusyk, A., Lionnet, T., Yanai, I. Cellular adaptation to cancer therapy along a resistance continuum. (2024) Natur. 631(8022):876-883. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07690-9
Pillai, R., LeBoeuf, S.E., Hao, Y., New, C., Blum, J.L.E., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Huang, S.M., Bahamon, C., Wu, W.L., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Herrera, A., Ivanova, E., Cross, M., Bossowski, J.P., Ding, H., Hayashi, M., Rajalingam, S., Karakousi, T., Sayin, V.I., Khanna, K.M., Wong, K.K., Wild, R., Tsirigos, A., Poirier, J.T., Rudin, C.M., Davidson, S.M., Koralov, S.B., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Glutamine antagonist DRP-104 suppresses tumor growth and enhances response to checkpoint blockade in KEAP1 mutant lung cancer. (2024) Science Advances. 10(13):eadm9859. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adm9859
Wu, K., El Zowalaty, A.E., Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T. The pleiotropic functions of reactive oxygen species in cancer. (2024) Nat Cancer. 5(3):384-399. DOI: 10.1038/s43018-024-00738-9
Ge, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Bar-Peled, L. Reductive stress in cancer: coming out of the shadows. (2024) Trends in der Krebsforschung. 10(2):103-112. DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2023.10.002
Karagiannis, D., Wu, W., Li, A., Hayashi, M., Chen, X., Yip, M., Mangipudy, V., Xu, X., Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Soto-Feliciano, Y.M., Ye, J., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Lu, C. Metabolic reprogramming by histone deacetylase inhibition preferentially targets NRF2-activated tumors. (2024) Cell Reports. 43(1):113629. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113629
Dolgalev, I., Zhou, H., Murrell, N., Le, H., Sakellaropoulos, T., Coudray, N., Zhu, K., Vasudevaraja, V., Yeaton, A., Goparaju, C., Li, Y., Sulaiman, I., Tsay, J.J., Meyn, P., Mohamed, H., Sydney, I., Shiomi, T., Ramaswami, S., Narula, N., Kulicke, R., Davis, F.P., Stransky, N., Smolen, G.A., Cheng, W.Y., Cai, J., Punekar, S., Velcheti, V., Sterman, D.H., Poirier, J.T., Neel, B., Wong, K.K., Chiriboga, L., Heguy, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Nadorp, B., Snuderl, M., Segal, L.N., Moreira, A.L., Pass, H.I., Tsirigos, A. Inflammation in the tumor-adjacent lung as a predictor of clinical outcome in lung adenocarcinoma. (2023) Nature Communications. 14(1):6764. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42327-x
Zavitsanou, A.M., Pillai, R., Hao, Y., Wu, W.L., Bartnicki, E., Karakousi, T., Rajalingam, S., Herrera, A., Karatza, A., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Solis, S., Ciampricotti, M., Yeaton, A.H., Ivanova, E., Wohlhieter, C.A., Buus, T.B., Hayashi, M., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Pass, H.I., Poirier, J.T., Rudin, C.M., Wong, K.K., Moreira, A.L., Khanna, K.M., Tsirigos, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Koralov, S.B. KEAP1 mutation in lung adenocarcinoma promotes immune evasion and immunotherapy resistance. (2023) Cell Reports. 42(11):113295. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113295
Schraink, T., Blumenberg, L., Hussey, G., George, S., Miller, B., Mathew, N., González-Robles, T.J., Sviderskiy, V., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Possemato, R., Fenyö, D., Ruggles, K.V. PhosphoDisco: A Toolkit for Co-regulated Phosphorylation Module Discovery in Phosphoproteomic Data. (2023) Molekulare & Zelluläre Proteomik. 22(8):100596. DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100596
Rashidfarrokhi, A., Pillai, R., Hao, Y., Wu, W.L., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Dimitriadoy, S.G., Cross, M., Yeaton, A.H., Huang, S.M., Bhutkar, A.J., Herrera, A., Rajalingam, S., Hayashi, M., Huang, K.L., Bartnicki, E., Zavitsanou, A.M., Wohlhieter, C.A., Leboeuf, S.E., Chen, T., Loomis, C., Mezzano, V., Kulicke, R., Davis, F.P., Stransky, N., Smolen, G.A., Rudin, C.M., Moreira, A.L., Khanna, K.M., Pass, H.I., Wong, K.K., Koide, S., Tsirigos, A., Koralov, S.B., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Tumor-intrinsic LKB1-LIF signaling axis establishes a myeloid niche to promote immune evasion and tumor growth. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.15.549147
Pillai, R., LeBoeuf, S.E., Hao, Y., New, C., Blum, J.L.E., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Huang, S.M., Bahamon, C., Wu, W.L., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Herrera, A., Ivanova, E., Cross, M., Bossowski, J.P., Ding, H., Hayashi, M., Rajalingam, S., Karakousi, T., Sayin, V.I., Khanna, K.M., Wong, K.K., Wild, R., Tsirigos, A., Poirier, J.T., Rudin, C.M., Davidson, S.M., Koralov, S.B., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Glutamine antagonist DRP-104 suppresses tumor growth and enhances response to checkpoint blockade in KEAP1 mutant lung cancer. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.27.546750
Zhong, H., Lu, W., Tang, Y., Wiel, C., Wei, Y., Cao, J., Riedlinger, G., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Guo, J.Y., Bergo, M.O., Kang, Y., Ganesan, S., Sabaawy, H.E., Pine, S.R. SOX9 drives KRAS-induced lung adenocarcinoma progression and suppresses anti-tumor immunity. (2023) Onkogen. 42(27):2183-2194. DOI: 10.1038/s41388-023-02715-5
Karagiannis, D., Wu, W., Li, A., Hayashi, M., Chen, X., Yip, M., Mangipudy, V., Xu, X., Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Soto-Feliciano, Y.M., Ye, J., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Lu, C. Metabolic Reprogramming by Histone Deacetylase Inhibition Selectively Targets NRF2-activated tumors. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.24.538118
Deng, J., Peng, D.H., Fenyo, D., Yuan, H., Lopez, A., Levin, D.S., Meynardie, M., Quinteros, M., Ranieri, M., Sahu, S., Lau, S.C.M., Shum, E., Velcheti, V., Punekar, S.R., Rekhtman, N., Dowling, C.M., Weerasekara, V., Xue, Y., Ji, H., Siu, Y., Jones, D., Hata, A.N., Shimamura, T., Poirier, J.T., Rudin, C.M., Hattori, T., Koide, S., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Neel, B.G., Bardeesy, N., Wong, K.K. In vivo metabolomics identifies CD38 as an emergent vulnerability in LKB1 -mutant lung cancer. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.18.537350
Weiss-Sadan, T., Ge, M., Hayashi, M., Gohar, M., Yao, C.H., de Groot, A., Harry, S., Carlin, A., Fischer, H., Shi, L., Wei, T.Y., Adelmann, C.H., Wolf, K., Vornbäumen, T., Dürr, B.R., Takahashi, M., Richter, M., Zhang, J., Yang, T.Y., Vijay, V., Fisher, D.E., Hata, A.N., Haigis, M.C., Mostoslavsky, R., Bardeesy, N., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Bar-Peled, L. NRF2 activation induces NADH-reductive stress, providing a metabolic vulnerability in lung cancer. (2023) Zellstoffwechsel. 35(4):722. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2023.03.011
Weiss-Sadan, T., Ge, M., Hayashi, M., Gohar, M., Yao, C.H., de Groot, A., Harry, S., Carlin, A., Fischer, H., Shi, L., Wei, T.Y., Adelmann, C.H., Wolf, K., Vornbäumen, T., Dürr, B.R., Takahashi, M., Richter, M., Zhang, J., Yang, T.Y., Vijay, V., Fisher, D.E., Hata, A.N., Haigis, M.C., Mostoslavsky, R., Bardeesy, N., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Bar-Peled, L. NRF2 activation induces NADH-reductive stress, providing a metabolic vulnerability in lung cancer. (2023) Zellstoffwechsel. 35(3):487-503.e7. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2023.01.012
Guidry, K., Vasudevaraja, V., Labbe, K., Mohamed, H., Serrano, J., Guidry, B.W., DeLorenzo, M., Zhang, H., Deng, J., Sahu, S., Almonte, C., Moreira, A.L., Tsirigos, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pass, H., Snuderl, M., Wong, K.K. DNA Methylation Profiling Identifies Subgroups of Lung Adenocarcinoma with Distinct Immune Cell Composition, DNA Methylation Age, and Clinical Outcome. (2022) Klinische Krebsforschung. 28(17):3824-3835. DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-0391
Pillai, R., Hayashi, M., Zavitsanou, A.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. NRF2: KEAPing Tumors Protected. (2022) Krebsforschung. 12(3):625-643. DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-21-0922
Marzio, A., Kurz, E., Sahni, J.M., Di Feo, G., Puccini, J., Jiang, S., Hirsch, C.A., Arbini, A.A., Wu, W.L., Pass, H.I., Bar-Sagi, D., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pagano, M. EMSY inhibits homologous recombination repair and the interferon response, promoting lung cancer immune evasion. (2022) Zelle. 185(1):169-183.e19. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.005
Thandapani, P., Kloetgen, A., Witkowski, M.T., Glytsou, C., Lee, A.K., Wang, E., Wang, J., LeBoeuf, S.E., Avrampou, K., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Tsirigos, A., Aifantis, I. Valine tRNA levels and availability regulate complex I assembly in leukaemia. (2022) Natur. 601(7893):428-433. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04244-1
Ciampricotti, M., Karakousi, T., Richards, A.L., Quintanal-Villalonga, , Karatza, A., Caeser, R., Costa, E.A., Allaj, V., Manoj, P., Spainhower, K.B., Kombak, F.E., Sanchez-Rivera, F.J., Jaspers, J.E., Zavitsanou, A.M., Maddalo, D., Ventura, A., Rideout, W.M., Akama-Garren, E.H., Jacks, T., Donoghue, M.T.A., Sen, T., Oliver, T.G., Poirier, J.T., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Rudin, C.M. Rlf-Mycl Gene Fusion Drives Tumorigenesis and Metastasis in a Mouse Model of Small Cell Lung Cancer. (2021) Krebsforschung. 11(12):3214-3229. DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-21-0441
Ding, H., Chen, Z., Wu, K., Huang, S.M., Wu, W.L., LeBoeuf, S.E., Pillai, R.G., Rabinowitz, J.D., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Activation of the NRF2 antioxidant program sensitizes tumors to G6PD inhibition. (2021) Science Advances. 7(47):eabk1023. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk1023
Kerk, S.A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Shah, Y.M., Lyssiotis, C.A. Metabolic networks in mutant KRAS-driven tumours: tissue specificities and the microenvironment. (2021) Nature Reviews Cancer. 21(8):510-525. DOI: 10.1038/s41568-021-00375-9
Zavitsanou, A.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Hunger brings down the tumor fort. (2021) Trends in der Zellbiologie. 31(8):616-617. DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2021.05.005
Deng, J., Thennavan, A., Dolgalev, I., Chen, T., Li, J., Marzio, A., Poirier, J.T., Peng, D.H., Bulatovic, M., Mukhopadhyay, S., Silver, H., Papadopoulos, E., Pyon, V., Thakurdin, C., Han, H., Li, F., Li, S., Ding, H., Hu, H., Pan, Y., Weerasekara, V., Jiang, B., Wang, E.S., Ahearn, I., Philips, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Tsirigos, A., Rothenberg, E., Gainor, J., Freeman, G.J., Rudin, C.M., Gray, N.S., Hammerman, P.S., Pagano, M., Heymach, J.V., Perou, C.M., Bardeesy, N., Wong, K.K. ULK1 inhibition overcomes compromised antigen presentation and restores antitumor immunity in LKB1 mutant lung cancer. (2021) Nat Cancer. 2(5):503-514. DOI: 10.1038/s43018-021-00208-6
Buus, T.B., Herrera, A., Ivanova, E., Mimitou, E., Cheng, A., Herati, R.S., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Smibert, P., Odum, N., Koralov, S.B. Improving oligo-conjugated antibody signal in multimodal single-cell analysis. (2021) Elife. 10. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61973
Purohit, V., Wang, L., Yang, H., Li, J., Ney, G.M., Gumkowski, E.R., Vaidya, A.J., Wang, A., Bhardwaj, A., Zhao, E., Dolgalev, I., Zamperone, A., Abel, E.V., Magliano, M.P.D., Crawford, H.C., Diolaiti, D., Papagiannakopoulos, T.Y., Lyssiotis, C.A., Simeone, D.M. ATDC binds to KEAP1 to drive NRF2-mediated tumorigenesis and chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer. (2021) Gene & Entwicklung. 35(3-4):218-233. DOI: 10.1101/gad.344184.120
Tsay, J.J., Wu, B.G., Sulaiman, I., Gershner, K., Schluger, R., Li, Y., Yie, T.A., Meyn, P., Olsen, E., Perez, L., Franca, B., Carpenito, J., Iizumi, T., El-Ashmawy, M., Badri, M., Morton, J.T., Shen, N., He, L., Michaud, G., Rafeq, S., Bessich, J.L., Smith, R.L., Sauthoff, H., Felner, K., Pillai, R., Zavitsanou, A.M., Koralov, S.B., Mezzano, V., Loomis, C.A., Moreira, A.L., Moore, W., Tsirigos, A., Heguy, A., Rom, W.N., Sterman, D.H., Pass, H.I., Clemente, J.C., Li, H., Bonneau, R., Wong, K.K., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Segal, L.N. Lower Airway Dysbiosis Affects Lung Cancer Progression. (2021) Krebsforschung. 11(2):293-307. DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-20-0263
Wu, W.L., Papagiannakopoulos, T. The Center Cannot Hold: NRF2 Battles Ferroptosis in the 3rd Dimension. (2020) Molekulare Zelle. 80(5):760-761. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.11.022
Wu, L., Hollinshead, K.E.R., Hao, Y., Au, C., Kroehling, L., Ng, C., Lin, W.Y., Li, D., Silva, H.M., Shin, J., Lafaille, J.J., Possemato, R., Pacold, M.E., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Kimmelman, A.C., Satija, R., Littman, D.R. Niche-Selective Inhibition of Pathogenic Th17 Cells by Targeting Metabolic Redundancy. (2020) Zelle. 182(3):641-654.e20. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.014
Okazaki, K., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Motohashi, H. Metabolic features of cancer cells in NRF2 addiction status. (2020) Biophys Rev. 12(2):435-441. DOI: 10.1007/s12551-020-00659-8
LeBoeuf, S.E., Wu, W.L., Karakousi, T.R., Karadal, B., Jackson, S.R., Davidson, S.M., Wong, K.K., Koralov, S.B., Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Activation of Oxidative Stress Response in Cancer Generates a Druggable Dependency on Exogenous Non-essential Amino Acids. (2020) Zellstoffwechsel. 31(2):339-350.e4. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2019.11.012
Li, F., Huang, Q., Luster, T.A., Hu, H., Zhang, H., Ng, W.L., Khodadadi-Jamayran, A., Wang, W., Chen, T., Deng, J., Ranieri, M., Fang, Z., Pyon, V., Dowling, C.M., Bagdatlioglu, E., Almonte, C., Labbe, K., Silver, H., Rabin, A.R., Jani, K., Tsirigos, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Hammerman, P.S., Velcheti, V., Freeman, G.J., Qi, J., Miller, G., Wong, K.K. In Vivo Epigenetic CRISPR Screen Identifies Asf1a as an Immunotherapeutic Target in Kras-Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma. (2020) Krebsforschung. 10(2):270-287. DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-19-0780
Sayin, V.I., LeBoeuf, S.E., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Targeting Metabolic Bottlenecks in Lung Cancer. (2019) Trends in der Krebsforschung. 5(8):457-459. DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2019.06.001
Lignitto, L., LeBoeuf, S.E., Homer, H., Jiang, S., Askenazi, M., Karakousi, T.R., Pass, H.I., Bhutkar, A.J., Tsirigos, A., Ueberheide, B., Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pagano, M. Nrf2 Activation Promotes Lung Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting the Degradation of Bach1. (2019) Zelle. 178(2):316-329.e18. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.06.003
McLoughlin, M.R., Orlicky, D.J., Prigge, J.R., Krishna, P., Talago, E.A., Cavigli, I.R., Eriksson, S., Miller, C.G., Kundert, J.A., Sayin, V.I., Sabol, R.A., Heinemann, J., Brandenberger, L.O., Iverson, S.V., Bothner, B., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Shearn, C.T., Arnér, E.S.J., Schmidt, E.E. TrxR1, Gsr, and oxidative stress determine hepatocellular carcinoma malignancy. (2019) Verhandlungen der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. 116(23):11408-11417. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1903244116
Hamza, B., Ng, S.R., Prakadan, S.M., Delgado, F.F., Chin, C.R., King, E.M., Yang, L.F., Davidson, S.M., DeGouveia, K.L., Cermak, N., Navia, A.W., Winter, P.S., Drake, R.S., Tammela, T., Li, C.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Gupta, A.J., Shaw Bagnall, J., Knudsen, S.M., Vander Heiden, M.G., Wasserman, S.C., Jacks, T., Shalek, A.K., Manalis, S.R. Optofluidic real-time cell sorter for longitudinal CTC studies in mouse models of cancer. (2019) Verhandlungen der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. 116(6):2232-2236. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1814102116
Garcia-Bermudez, J., Baudrier, L., La, K., Zhu, X.G., Fidelin, J., Sviderskiy, V.O., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Molina, H., Snuderl, M., Lewis, C.A., Possemato, R.L., Birsoy, K. Publisher Correction: Aspartate is a limiting metabolite for cancer cell proliferation under hypoxia and in tumours. (2018) Nature Cell Biology. 20(10):1228. DOI: 10.1038/s41556-018-0184-2
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Garcia-Bermudez, J., Baudrier, L., La, K., Zhu, X.G., Fidelin, J., Sviderskiy, V.O., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Molina, H., Snuderl, M., Lewis, C.A., Possemato, R.L., Birsoy, K. Aspartate is a limiting metabolite for cancer cell proliferation under hypoxia and in tumours. (2018) Nature Cell Biology. 20(7):775-781. DOI: 10.1038/s41556-018-0118-z
Petersen, D.R., Saba, L.M., Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Schmidt, E.E., Merrill, G.F., Orlicky, D.J., Shearn, C.T. Elevated Nrf-2 responses are insufficient to mitigate protein carbonylation in hepatospecific PTEN deletion mice. (2018) PLOS One. 13(5):e0198139. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198139
Minton, D.R., Nam, M., McLaughlin, D.J., Shin, J., Bayraktar, E.C., Alvarez, S.W., Sviderskiy, V.O., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Sabatini, D.M., Birsoy, K., Possemato, R. Serine Catabolism by SHMT2 Is Required for Proper Mitochondrial Translation Initiation and Maintenance of Formylmethionyl-tRNAs. (2018) Molekulare Zelle. 69(4):610-621.e5. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.01.024
Alvarez, S.W., Sviderskiy, V.O., Terzi, E.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Moreira, A.L., Adams, S., Sabatini, D.M., Birsoy, K., Possemato, R. NFS1 undergoes positive selection in lung tumours and protects cells from ferroptosis. (2017) Natur. 551(7682):639-643. DOI: 10.1038/nature24637
Romero, R., Sayin, V.I., Davidson, S.M., Bauer, M.R., Singh, S.X., LeBoeuf, S.E., Karakousi, T.R., Ellis, D.C., Bhutkar, A., Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Subbaraj, L., Martinez, B., Bronson, R.T., Prigge, J.R., Schmidt, E.E., Thomas, C.J., Goparaju, C., Davies, A., Dolgalev, I., Heguy, A., Allaj, V., Poirier, J.T., Moreira, A.L., Rudin, C.M., Pass, H.I., Vander Heiden, M.G., Jacks, T., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Keap1 loss promotes Kras-driven lung cancer and results in dependence on glutaminolysis. (2017) Nature Medicine. 23(11):1362-1368. DOI: 10.1038/nm.4407
Sayin, V.I., LeBoeuf, S.E., Singh, S.X., Davidson, S.M., Biancur, D., Guzelhan, B.S., Alvarez, S.W., Wu, W.L., Karakousi, T.R., Zavitsanou, A.M., Ubriaco, J., Muir, A., Karagiannis, D., Morris, P.J., Thomas, C.J., Possemato, R., Vander Heiden, M.G., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Activation of the NRF2 antioxidant program generates an imbalance in central carbon metabolism in cancer. (2017) Elife. 6. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.28083
Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Application of CRISPR-mediated genome engineering in cancer research. (2017) Cancer Letters. 387:10-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2016.03.029
Ashouri, A., Sayin, V.I., Van den Eynden, J., Singh, S.X., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Larsson, E. Pan-cancer transcriptomic analysis associates long non-coding RNAs with key mutational driver events. (2016) Nature Communications. 7:13197. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13197
Mayers, J.R., Torrence, M.E., Danai, L.V., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Davidson, S.M., Bauer, M.R., Lau, A.N., Ji, B.W., Dixit, P.D., Hosios, A.M., Muir, A., Chin, C.R., Freinkman, E., Jacks, T., Wolpin, B.M., Vitkup, D., Vander Heiden, M.G. Tissue of origin dictates branched-chain amino acid metabolism in mutant Kras-driven cancers. (2016) Wissenschaft. 353(6304):1161-5. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf5171
Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Bauer, M.R., Davidson, S.M., Heimann, M., Subbaraj, L., Bhutkar, A., Bartlebaugh, J., Vander Heiden, M.G., Jacks, T. Circadian Rhythm Disruption Promotes Lung Tumorigenesis. (2016) Zellstoffwechsel. 24(2):324-31. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.07.001
Masri, S., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Kinouchi, K., Liu, Y., Cervantes, M., Baldi, P., Jacks, T., Sassone-Corsi, P. Lung Adenocarcinoma Distally Rewires Hepatic Circadian Homeostasis. (2016) Zelle. 165(4):896-909. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.039
Davidson, S.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Olenchock, B.A., Heyman, J.E., Keibler, M.A., Luengo, A., Bauer, M.R., Jha, A.K., O'Brien, J.P., Pierce, K.A., Gui, D.Y., Sullivan, L.B., Wasylenko, T.M., Subbaraj, L., Chin, C.R., Stephanopolous, G., Mott, B.T., Jacks, T., Clish, C.B., Vander Heiden, M.G. Environment Impacts the Metabolic Dependencies of Ras-Driven Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. (2016) Zellstoffwechsel. 23(3):517-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.01.007
Akama-Garren, E.H., Joshi, N.S., Tammela, T., Chang, G.P., Wagner, B.L., Lee, D.Y., Rideout, W.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Xue, W., Jacks, T. A Modular Assembly Platform for Rapid Generation of DNA Constructs. (2016) Wissenschaftliche Berichte. 6:16836. DOI: 10.1038/srep16836
Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Romero, R., Tammela, T., Bauer, M.R., Bhutkar, A., Joshi, N.S., Subbaraj, L., Bronson, R.T., Xue, W., Jacks, T. Rapid modelling of cooperating genetic events in cancer through somatic genome editing. (2014) Natur. 516(7531):428-31. DOI: 10.1038/nature13906
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Xue, W., Chen, S., Yin, H., Tammela, T., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Joshi, N.S., Cai, W., Yang, G., Bronson, R., Crowley, D.G., Zhang, F., Anderson, D.G., Sharp, P.A., Jacks, T. CRISPR-mediated direct mutation of cancer genes in the mouse liver. (2014) Natur. 514(7522):380-4. DOI: 10.1038/nature13589
McFadden, D.G., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Taylor-Weiner, A., Stewart, C., Carter, S.L., Cibulskis, K., Bhutkar, A., McKenna, A., Dooley, A., Vernon, A., Sougnez, C., Malstrom, S., Heimann, M., Park, J., Chen, F., Farago, A.F., Dayton, T., Shefler, E., Gabriel, S., Getz, G., Jacks, T. Genetic and clonal dissection of murine small cell lung carcinoma progression by genome sequencing. (2014) Zelle. 156(6):1298-1311. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.031
Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Friedmann-Morvinski, D., Neveu, P., Dugas, J.C., Gill, R.M., Huillard, E., Liu, C., Zong, H., Rowitch, D.H., Barres, B.A., Verma, I.M., Kosik, K.S. Pro-neural miR-128 is a glioma tumor suppressor that targets mitogenic kinases. (2012) Onkogen. 31(15):1884-95. DOI: 10.1038/onc.2011.380
Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Kosik, K.S. MicroRNA-124: micromanager of neurogenesis. (2009) Cell Stem Cell. 4(5):375-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2009.04.007
Xu, N., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pan, G., Thomson, J.A., Kosik, K.S. MicroRNA-145 regulates OCT4, SOX2, and KLF4 and represses pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells. (2009) Zelle. 137(4):647-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.02.038
Carrettiero, D.C., Hernandez, I., Neveu, P., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Kosik, K.S. The cochaperone BAG2 sweeps paired helical filament- insoluble tau from the microtubule. (2009) Journal of Neuroscience. 29(7):2151-61. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4660-08.2009
Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Shapiro, A., Kosik, K.S. MicroRNA-21 targets a network of key tumor-suppressive pathways in glioblastoma cells. (2008) Krebsforschung. 68(19):8164-72. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-1305
Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Kosik, K.S. MicroRNAs: regulators of oncogenesis and stemness. (2008) BMC Med. 6:15. DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-15
Partridge, J.J., Madsen, M.A., Ardi, V.C., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Kupriyanova, T.A., Quigley, J.P., Deryugina, E.I. Functional analysis of matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases differentially expressed by variants of human HT-1080 fibrosarcoma exhibiting high and low levels of intravasation and metastasis. (2007) Zeitschrift für Biologische Chemie. 282(49):35964-77. DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M705993200
Liu, T., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Puskar, K., Qi, S., Santiago, F., Clay, W., Lao, K., Lee, Y., Nelson, S.F., Kornblum, H.I., Doyle, F., Petzold, L., Shraiman, B., Kosik, K.S. Detection of a microRNA signal in an in vivo expression set of mRNAs. (2007) PLOS One. 2(8):e804. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000804
Deryugina, E.I., Zijlstra, A., Partridge, J.J., Kupriyanova, T.A., Madsen, M.A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Quigley, J.P. Unexpected effect of matrix metalloproteinase down-regulation on vascular intravasation and metastasis of human fibrosarcoma cells selected in vivo for high rates of dissemination. (2005) Krebsforschung. 65(23):10959-69. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-2228
BS, Molecular Genetics, University of Sussex
PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Santa Barbara
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT