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Selected Publications
2018
Resistance to epigenetic-targeted therapy engenders tumor cell vulnerabilities associated with enhancer remodeling.
Iniguez AB, Alexe G, Wang EJ, Roti G, Patel S, Chen L, Kitara S, Conway A, Robichaud AL, Stolte B, Bandopadhayay P, Goodale A, Pantel S, Lee Y, Cheff DM, Hall MD, Guha R, Davis MI, Menard M, Nasholm N, Weiss WA, Qi J, Beroukhim R, Piccioni F, Johannessen C, Stegmaier K.
Cancer Cell. 2018 Dec 10;34(6):922-938.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.11.005. PMID:30537514
YAP1 enhances NF-KB-depedent and independent effects on clock-mediated unfolded protein responses and autophagy in sarcoma.
Rivera-Reyes A, Ye S, Marino G, Egolf S, Ciotti G, Chor S, Liu Y, Posimo J, Park PMC, Pak K, Babichev Y, Sostre-Colon J, Tameire F, Leli N, Koumenis C, Brady D, Mancuso A, Weber K, Gladdy R, Qi J, Eisinger-Mathanson TSK.
Cell Death Dis. 2018 Oct 31;9(11):1108. doi: 10.1038/s41419-018-1142-4. PMID:30382078
Small-molecule BCL6 inhibitor effectively treats mice with nonsclerodermatous chronice graft-versus-host disease
Paz K, Flynn R, Du J, Qi J, Luznik L, Maillard I, MacDonald KP, Hill GR, Serody JS, Murphy WJ, Sage PT, Sharpe AH, Miklos D, Cutler CS, Koreth J, Antin JH, Soiffer RJ, Ritz J, Bradner JE, Melnick AM, Blazar BR.
Blood. 2018 Oct 2. doi: 10.1182/blood-2018-03-839993. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30279226
Structural and atropisomeric factors governing the selectivity of pyrimido-benzodiazipinones as inhibitors of kinases and bromodomains.
Wang J, Erazo T, Ferguson FM, Buckley DL, Gomez N, Muñoz-Guardiola P, Diéguez-Martinez N, Deng X, Hao M, Massefski W, Fedorov O, Offei-Addo NK, Park PM, Dai L, DiBona A, Becht K, Kim ND, McKeown MR, Roberts JM, Zhang J, Sim T, Alessi DR, Bradner JE, Lizcano JM, Blacklow SC, Qi J, Xu X, Gray NS.
ACS Chem Biol. 2018 Sep 21;13(9):2438-2448. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00638. Epub 2018 Aug 31. PMID:30102854
Structure-guided design and development of potent and selective dual bromodomain 4 (BRD4)/Polo-like Kinase 1 (PLK1) inhibitors.
Liu S, Yosief HO, Dai L, Huang H, Dhawan G, Zhang X, Muthengi AM, Roberts J, Buckley DL, Perry JA, Wu L, Bradner JE, Qi J‡, Zhang W‡.
J Med Chem. 2018 Sep 13;61(17):7785-7795. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00765. Epub 2018 Aug 30. PMID:30125504
The dTAG system for immediate and target-specific protein degradation.
Nabet B, Roberts JM, Buckley DL, Paulk J, Dastjerdi S, Yang A, Leggett AL, Erb MA, Lawlor MA, Souza A, Scott TG, Vittori S, Perry JA, Qi J, Winter GE, Wong KK, Gray NS, Bradner JE.
Nat Chem Biol. 2018 May;14(5):431-441. doi: 10.1038/s41589-018-0021-8. Epub 2018 Mar 26. PMID:29581585
YAP1-mediated suppression of USP31 enhances NFKB activity to promote sarcomagenesis.
Ye S, Lawlor MA, Rivera-Reyes A, Egolf S, Chor S, Pak K, Ciotti GE, Lee AC, Marino G, Shah J, Niedzwicki D, Weber K, Park PMC, Alam MZ, Grazioli A, Haldar M, Xu M, Perry JA, Qi J‡, Eisinger-Mathason TSK‡.
Cancer Res. 2018 May 15;78(10):2705-2720. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-17-4052. Epub 2018 Feb 28. PMID:29490948
Dual Targeting of Oncogenic Activation and Inflammatory Signaling Increases Therapeutic Efficacy in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.
Kleppe M, Koche R, Zou L, van Galen P, Hill CE, Dong L, De Groote S, Papalexi E, Hanasoge Somasundara AV, Cordner K, Keller M, Farnoud N, Medina J, McGovern E, Reyes J, Roberts J, Witkin M, Rapaport F, Teruya-Feldstein J, Qi J, Rampal R, Bernstein BE, Bradner JE, Levine RL.
Cancer Cell. 2018 Jan 8;33(1):29-43.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2017.11.009. Epub 2017 Dec 14. PMID:29249691
Leukemia-specific delivery of mutant NOTCH1 targeted therapy.
Roti G*, Qi J*, Kitara S, Sanchez-Martin M, Saur Conway A, Varca AC, Su A, Wu L, Ferrando AA, Brander JE, Stegmaier K.
J Exp Med. 2018 Jan 2;215(1):197-216. doi: 10.1084/jem.20151778. Epub 2017 Nov 20. PMID:29158376
2017
Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin.
Erwin GS, Grieshop MP, Ali A, Qi J, Lawlor M, Kumar D, Ahmad I, McNally A, Teider N, Worringer K, Sivasankaran R, Syed DN, Eguchi A, Ashraf M, Jeffery J, Xu M, Park PMC, Mukhtar H, Srivastava AK, Faruq M, Bradner JE, Ansari AZ.
Science. 2017 Dec 22;358(6370):1617-1622. doi: 10.1126/science.aan6414. Epub 2017 Nov 30. PMID:29192133
HDAC6 inhibitor WT161 downregulates growth factor receptors in breast cancer.
Hideshima T, Mazitschek R, Qi J, Mimura N, Tseng JC, Kung AL, Bradner JE, Anderson KC.
Oncotarget. 2017 Jul 5;8(46):80109-80123. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.19019. eCollection 2017 Oct 6. PMID:29113288
Prostate cancer-associated SPOP mutations confer resistance to BET inhibitors through stabilization of BRD4.
Dai X, Gan W, Li X, Wang S, Zhang W, Huang L, Liu S, Zhong Q, Guo J, Zhang J, Chen T, Shimizu K, Beca F, Blattner M, Vasudevan D, Buckley DL, Qi J, Buser L, Liu P, Inuzuka H, Beck AH, Wang L, Wild PJ, Garraway LA, Rubin MA, Barbieri CE, Wong KK, Muthuswamy SK, Huang J, Chen Y, Bradner JE, Wei W.
Nat Med. 2017 Sep;23(9):1063-1071. doi: 10.1038/nm.4378. Epub 2017 Aug 14. PMID:28805820
HIF activation causes synthetic lethality between the VHL tumor suppressor and the EZH1 histone methyltransferase.
Chakraborty AA, Nakamura E, Qi J, Creech A, Jaffe JD, Paulk J, Novak JS, Nagulapalli K, McBrayer SK, Cowley GS, Pineda J, Song J, Wang YE, Carr SA, Root DE, Signoretti S, Bradner JE, Kaelin WG Jr.
Sci Transl Med. 2017 Jul 12;9(398). pii: eaal5272. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aal5272. PMID:28701475
Bromodomain and Extraterminal Protein Inhibitor JQ1 Suppresses Thyroid Tumor Growth in a Mouse Model.
Zhu X, Enomoto K, Zhao L, Zhu YJ, Willingham MC, Meltzer P, Qi J, Cheng SY.
Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jan 15;23(2):430-440. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-0914. Epub 2016 Jul 20. PMID:27440272
2016
Discovery of selective small-molecule HDAC6 inhibitor for overcoming proteasome inhibitor resistance in multiple myeloma.
Hideshima T*, Qi J*, Paranal RM, Tang W, Greenberg E, West N, Colling ME, Estiu G, Mazitschek R, Perry JA, Ohguchi H, Cottini F, Mimura N, Görgün G, Tai YT, Richardson PG, Carrasco RD, Wiest O, Schreiber SL, Anderson KC, Bradner JE.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Nov 15;113(46):13162-13167. Epub 2016 Oct 31. PMID:27799547
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia- Initiating Cells Require Polycomb Group Protein EZH2.
Xie H, Peng C, Huang J, Li BE, Kim W, Smith EC, Fujiwara Y, Qi J, Cheloni G, Das PP, Nguyen M, Li S, Bradner JE, Orkin SH.
Cancer Discov. 2016 Nov;6(11):1237-1247. Epub 2016 Sep 14. PMID:27630126
Oncogenic Deregulation of EZH2 as an Opportunity for Targeted Therapy in Lung Cancer.
Zhang H*, Qi J*, Reyes JM, Li L, Rao PK, Li F, Lin CY, Perry JA, Lawlor MA, Federation A, De Raedt T, Li YY, Liu Y, Duarte MA, Zhang Y, Herter-Sprie GS, Kikuchi E, Carretero J, Perou CM, Reibel JB, Paulk J, Bronson RT, Watanabe H, Brainson CF, Kim CF, Hammerman PS, Brown M, Cichowski K, Long H, Bradner JE, Wong KK.
Cancer Discov. 2016 Sep;6(9):1006-21. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-16-0164. Epub 2016 Jun 16. PMID:27312177
An oncogenic Ezh2 mutation induces tumors through global redistribution of histone 3 lysine 27 trimethylation.
Souroullas GP, Jeck WR, Parker JS, Simon JM, Liu JY, Paulk J, Xiong J, Clark KS, Fedoriw Y, Qi J, Burd CE, Bradner JE, Sharpless NE.
Nat Med. 2016 Jun;22(6):632-40. doi: 10.1038/nm.4092. Epub 2016 May 2. PMID:27135738
An oncogenic MYB feedback loop drives alternate cell fates in adenoid cystic carcinoma.
Drier Y, Cotton MJ, Williamson KE, Gillespie SM, Ryan RJ, Kluk MJ, Carey CD, Rodig SJ, Sholl LM, Afrogheh AH, Faquin WC, Queimado L, Qi J, Wick MJ, El-Naggar AK, Bradner JE, Moskaluk CA, Aster JC, Knoechel B, Bernstein BE.
Nat Genet. 2016 Mar;48(3):265-72. doi: 10.1038/ng.3502. Epub 2016 Feb 1. PMID:26829750
Other Publications
Synergistic activity of BET protein antagonist-based combinations in mantle cell lymphoma cells sensitive or resistant to ibrutinib.
Sun B, Shah B, Fiskus W, Qi J, Rajapakshe K, Coarfa C, Li L, Devaraj SG, Sharma S, Zhang L, Wang ML, Saenz DT, Krieger S, Bradner JE, Bhalla KN.
Blood. 2015 Sep 24;126(13):1565-74. doi: 10.1182/blood-2015-04-639542. Epub 2015 Aug 7. PMID:26254443
Structure-guided DOT1L probe optimization by label-free ligand displacement.
Yi JS*, Federation AJ*, Qi J*, Dhe-Paganon S, Hadler M, Xu X, St Pierre R, Varca AC, Wu L, Marineau JJ, Smith WB, Souza A, Chory EJ, Armstrong SA, Bradner JE.
ACS Chem Biol. 2015 Mar 20;10(3):667-74. doi: 10.1021/cb500796d. Epub 2015 Jan 15. PMID:25397901
Syntheses and discovery of a novel class of cinnamic hydroxamates as histone deacetylase inhibitors by multimodality molecular imaging in living subjects.
Chan CT, Qi J, Smith W, Paranol R, Mazitschek R, West N, Reeves R, Chiosis G, Schreiber SL, Bradner JE, Paulmurugan R, Gambhir SS.
Cancer Res. 2014 Dec 15;74(24):7475-86. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-0197. Epub 2014 Oct 15. PMID:25320008
Biased multicomponent reactions to develop novel bromodomain inhibitors.
McKeown MR, Shaw DL, Fu H, Liu S, Xu X, Marineau JJ, Huang Y, Zhang X, Buckley DL, Kadam A, Zhang Z, Blacklow SC, Qi J, Zhang W, Bradner JE.
J Med Chem. 2014 Nov 13;57(21):9019-27. doi: 10.1021/jm501120z. Epub 2014 Oct 31. PMID:25314271
Epigenetic targeting of Hedgehog pathway transcriptional output through BET bromodomain inhibition.
Tang Y, Gholamin S, Schubert S, Willardson MI, Lee A, Bandopadhayay P, Bergthold G, Masoud S, Nguyen B, Vue N, Balansay B, Yu F, Oh S, Woo P, Chen S, Ponnuswami A, Monje M, Atwood SX, Whitson RJ, Mitra S, Cheshier SH, Qi J, Beroukhim R, Tang JY, Wechsler-Reya R, Oro AE, Link BA, Bradner JE, Cho YJ.
Nat Med. 2014 Jul;20(7):732-40. doi: 10.1038/nm.3613. Epub 2014 Jun 29. PMID:24973920
c-Myc inhibition prevents leukemia initiation in mice and impairs the growth of relapsed and induction failure pediatric T-ALL cells.
Roderick JE, Tesell J, Shultz LD, Brehm MA, Greiner DL, Harris MH, Silverman LB, Sallan SE, Gutierrez A, Look AT, Qi J, Bradner JE, Kelliher MA.
Blood. 2014 Feb 13;123(7):1040-50. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-08-522698. Epub 2014 Jan 6. PMID:24394663
Genome-wide localization of small molecules.
Anders L, Guenther MG, Qi J, Fan ZP, Marineau JJ, Rahl PB, Lovén J, Sigova AA, Smith WB, Lee TI, Bradner JE, Young RA.
Nat Biotechnol. 2014 Jan;32(1):92-6. doi: 10.1038/nbt.2776. Epub 2013 Dec 15. PMID:24336317
BET bromodomains mediate transcriptional pause release in heart failure.
Anand P, Brown JD, Lin CY, Qi J, Zhang R, Artero PC, Alaiti MA, Bullard J, Alazem K, Margulies KB, Cappola TP, Lemieux M, Plutzky J, Bradner JE, Haldar SM.
Cell. 2013 Aug 1;154(3):569-82. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.07.013. PMID:23911322
Small-molecule inhibition of BRDT for male contraception.
Matzuk MM, McKeown MR, Filippakopoulos P, Li Q, Ma L, Agno JE, Lemieux ME, Picaud S, Yu RN, Qi J, Knapp S, Bradner JE.
Cell. 2012 Aug 17;150(4):673-84. PMID:22901802
BET bromodomain inhibition as a therapeutic strategy to target c-Myc.
Delmore JE, Issa GC, Lemieux ME, Rahl PB, Shi J, Jacobs HM, Kastritis E, Gilpatrick T, Paranal RM, Qi J, Chesi M, Schinzel AC, McKeown MR, Heffernan TP, Vakoc CR, Bergsagel PL, Ghobrial IM, Richardson PG, Young RA, Hahn WC, Anderson KC, Kung AL, Bradner JE, Mitsiades CS.
Cell. 2011 Sep 16;146(6):904-17. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.08.017. Epub 2011 Sep 1. PMID:21889194
RNAi screen identifies Brd4 as a therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukaemia.
Zuber J, Shi J, Wang E, Rappaport AR, Herrmann H, Sison EA, Magoon D, Qi J, Blatt K, Wunderlich M, Taylor MJ, Johns C, Chicas A, Mulloy JC, Kogan SC, Brown P, Valent P, Bradner JE, Lowe SW, Vakoc CR.
Nature. 2011 Aug 3;478(7370):524-8. doi: 10.1038/nature10334. PMID:21814200
Selective inhibition of BET bromodomains.
Filippakopoulos P*, Qi J*, Picaud S*, Shen Y, Smith WB, Fedorov O, Morse EM, Keates T, Hickman TT, Felletar I, Philpott M, Munro S, McKeown MR, Wang Y, Christie AL, West N, Cameron MJ, Schwartz B, Heightman TD, La Thangue N, French CA, Wiest O, Kung AL, Knapp S, Bradner JE.
Nature. 2010 Dec 23;468(7327):1067-73. doi: 10.1038/nature09504. Epub 2010 Sep 24. PMID:20871596
Total synthesis of (-)-himandrine.
Movassaghi M, Tjandra M, Qi J.
J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Jul 22;131(28):9648-50. doi: 10.1021/ja903790y. PMID:19555115
* equal contribution
‡ shared corresponding authors
Resistance to epigenetic-targeted therapy engenders tumor cell vulnerabilities associated with enhancer remodeling.
Iniguez AB, Alexe G, Wang EJ, Roti G, Patel S, Chen L, Kitara S, Conway A, Robichaud AL, Stolte B, Bandopadhayay P, Goodale A, Pantel S, Lee Y, Cheff DM, Hall MD, Guha R, Davis MI, Menard M, Nasholm N, Weiss WA, Qi J, Beroukhim R, Piccioni F, Johannessen C, Stegmaier K.
Cancer Cell. 2018 Dec 10;34(6):922-938.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.11.005. PMID:30537514
YAP1 enhances NF-KB-depedent and independent effects on clock-mediated unfolded protein responses and autophagy in sarcoma.
Rivera-Reyes A, Ye S, Marino G, Egolf S, Ciotti G, Chor S, Liu Y, Posimo J, Park PMC, Pak K, Babichev Y, Sostre-Colon J, Tameire F, Leli N, Koumenis C, Brady D, Mancuso A, Weber K, Gladdy R, Qi J, Eisinger-Mathanson TSK.
Cell Death Dis. 2018 Oct 31;9(11):1108. doi: 10.1038/s41419-018-1142-4. PMID:30382078
Small-molecule BCL6 inhibitor effectively treats mice with nonsclerodermatous chronice graft-versus-host disease
Paz K, Flynn R, Du J, Qi J, Luznik L, Maillard I, MacDonald KP, Hill GR, Serody JS, Murphy WJ, Sage PT, Sharpe AH, Miklos D, Cutler CS, Koreth J, Antin JH, Soiffer RJ, Ritz J, Bradner JE, Melnick AM, Blazar BR.
Blood. 2018 Oct 2. doi: 10.1182/blood-2018-03-839993. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30279226
Structural and atropisomeric factors governing the selectivity of pyrimido-benzodiazipinones as inhibitors of kinases and bromodomains.
Wang J, Erazo T, Ferguson FM, Buckley DL, Gomez N, Muñoz-Guardiola P, Diéguez-Martinez N, Deng X, Hao M, Massefski W, Fedorov O, Offei-Addo NK, Park PM, Dai L, DiBona A, Becht K, Kim ND, McKeown MR, Roberts JM, Zhang J, Sim T, Alessi DR, Bradner JE, Lizcano JM, Blacklow SC, Qi J, Xu X, Gray NS.
ACS Chem Biol. 2018 Sep 21;13(9):2438-2448. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00638. Epub 2018 Aug 31. PMID:30102854
Structure-guided design and development of potent and selective dual bromodomain 4 (BRD4)/Polo-like Kinase 1 (PLK1) inhibitors.
Liu S, Yosief HO, Dai L, Huang H, Dhawan G, Zhang X, Muthengi AM, Roberts J, Buckley DL, Perry JA, Wu L, Bradner JE, Qi J‡, Zhang W‡.
J Med Chem. 2018 Sep 13;61(17):7785-7795. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00765. Epub 2018 Aug 30. PMID:30125504
The dTAG system for immediate and target-specific protein degradation.
Nabet B, Roberts JM, Buckley DL, Paulk J, Dastjerdi S, Yang A, Leggett AL, Erb MA, Lawlor MA, Souza A, Scott TG, Vittori S, Perry JA, Qi J, Winter GE, Wong KK, Gray NS, Bradner JE.
Nat Chem Biol. 2018 May;14(5):431-441. doi: 10.1038/s41589-018-0021-8. Epub 2018 Mar 26. PMID:29581585
YAP1-mediated suppression of USP31 enhances NFKB activity to promote sarcomagenesis.
Ye S, Lawlor MA, Rivera-Reyes A, Egolf S, Chor S, Pak K, Ciotti GE, Lee AC, Marino G, Shah J, Niedzwicki D, Weber K, Park PMC, Alam MZ, Grazioli A, Haldar M, Xu M, Perry JA, Qi J‡, Eisinger-Mathason TSK‡.
Cancer Res. 2018 May 15;78(10):2705-2720. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-17-4052. Epub 2018 Feb 28. PMID:29490948
Dual Targeting of Oncogenic Activation and Inflammatory Signaling Increases Therapeutic Efficacy in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.
Kleppe M, Koche R, Zou L, van Galen P, Hill CE, Dong L, De Groote S, Papalexi E, Hanasoge Somasundara AV, Cordner K, Keller M, Farnoud N, Medina J, McGovern E, Reyes J, Roberts J, Witkin M, Rapaport F, Teruya-Feldstein J, Qi J, Rampal R, Bernstein BE, Bradner JE, Levine RL.
Cancer Cell. 2018 Jan 8;33(1):29-43.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2017.11.009. Epub 2017 Dec 14. PMID:29249691
Leukemia-specific delivery of mutant NOTCH1 targeted therapy.
Roti G*, Qi J*, Kitara S, Sanchez-Martin M, Saur Conway A, Varca AC, Su A, Wu L, Ferrando AA, Brander JE, Stegmaier K.
J Exp Med. 2018 Jan 2;215(1):197-216. doi: 10.1084/jem.20151778. Epub 2017 Nov 20. PMID:29158376
2017
Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin.
Erwin GS, Grieshop MP, Ali A, Qi J, Lawlor M, Kumar D, Ahmad I, McNally A, Teider N, Worringer K, Sivasankaran R, Syed DN, Eguchi A, Ashraf M, Jeffery J, Xu M, Park PMC, Mukhtar H, Srivastava AK, Faruq M, Bradner JE, Ansari AZ.
Science. 2017 Dec 22;358(6370):1617-1622. doi: 10.1126/science.aan6414. Epub 2017 Nov 30. PMID:29192133
HDAC6 inhibitor WT161 downregulates growth factor receptors in breast cancer.
Hideshima T, Mazitschek R, Qi J, Mimura N, Tseng JC, Kung AL, Bradner JE, Anderson KC.
Oncotarget. 2017 Jul 5;8(46):80109-80123. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.19019. eCollection 2017 Oct 6. PMID:29113288
Prostate cancer-associated SPOP mutations confer resistance to BET inhibitors through stabilization of BRD4.
Dai X, Gan W, Li X, Wang S, Zhang W, Huang L, Liu S, Zhong Q, Guo J, Zhang J, Chen T, Shimizu K, Beca F, Blattner M, Vasudevan D, Buckley DL, Qi J, Buser L, Liu P, Inuzuka H, Beck AH, Wang L, Wild PJ, Garraway LA, Rubin MA, Barbieri CE, Wong KK, Muthuswamy SK, Huang J, Chen Y, Bradner JE, Wei W.
Nat Med. 2017 Sep;23(9):1063-1071. doi: 10.1038/nm.4378. Epub 2017 Aug 14. PMID:28805820
HIF activation causes synthetic lethality between the VHL tumor suppressor and the EZH1 histone methyltransferase.
Chakraborty AA, Nakamura E, Qi J, Creech A, Jaffe JD, Paulk J, Novak JS, Nagulapalli K, McBrayer SK, Cowley GS, Pineda J, Song J, Wang YE, Carr SA, Root DE, Signoretti S, Bradner JE, Kaelin WG Jr.
Sci Transl Med. 2017 Jul 12;9(398). pii: eaal5272. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aal5272. PMID:28701475
Bromodomain and Extraterminal Protein Inhibitor JQ1 Suppresses Thyroid Tumor Growth in a Mouse Model.
Zhu X, Enomoto K, Zhao L, Zhu YJ, Willingham MC, Meltzer P, Qi J, Cheng SY.
Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jan 15;23(2):430-440. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-0914. Epub 2016 Jul 20. PMID:27440272
2016
Discovery of selective small-molecule HDAC6 inhibitor for overcoming proteasome inhibitor resistance in multiple myeloma.
Hideshima T*, Qi J*, Paranal RM, Tang W, Greenberg E, West N, Colling ME, Estiu G, Mazitschek R, Perry JA, Ohguchi H, Cottini F, Mimura N, Görgün G, Tai YT, Richardson PG, Carrasco RD, Wiest O, Schreiber SL, Anderson KC, Bradner JE.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Nov 15;113(46):13162-13167. Epub 2016 Oct 31. PMID:27799547
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia- Initiating Cells Require Polycomb Group Protein EZH2.
Xie H, Peng C, Huang J, Li BE, Kim W, Smith EC, Fujiwara Y, Qi J, Cheloni G, Das PP, Nguyen M, Li S, Bradner JE, Orkin SH.
Cancer Discov. 2016 Nov;6(11):1237-1247. Epub 2016 Sep 14. PMID:27630126
Oncogenic Deregulation of EZH2 as an Opportunity for Targeted Therapy in Lung Cancer.
Zhang H*, Qi J*, Reyes JM, Li L, Rao PK, Li F, Lin CY, Perry JA, Lawlor MA, Federation A, De Raedt T, Li YY, Liu Y, Duarte MA, Zhang Y, Herter-Sprie GS, Kikuchi E, Carretero J, Perou CM, Reibel JB, Paulk J, Bronson RT, Watanabe H, Brainson CF, Kim CF, Hammerman PS, Brown M, Cichowski K, Long H, Bradner JE, Wong KK.
Cancer Discov. 2016 Sep;6(9):1006-21. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-16-0164. Epub 2016 Jun 16. PMID:27312177
An oncogenic Ezh2 mutation induces tumors through global redistribution of histone 3 lysine 27 trimethylation.
Souroullas GP, Jeck WR, Parker JS, Simon JM, Liu JY, Paulk J, Xiong J, Clark KS, Fedoriw Y, Qi J, Burd CE, Bradner JE, Sharpless NE.
Nat Med. 2016 Jun;22(6):632-40. doi: 10.1038/nm.4092. Epub 2016 May 2. PMID:27135738
An oncogenic MYB feedback loop drives alternate cell fates in adenoid cystic carcinoma.
Drier Y, Cotton MJ, Williamson KE, Gillespie SM, Ryan RJ, Kluk MJ, Carey CD, Rodig SJ, Sholl LM, Afrogheh AH, Faquin WC, Queimado L, Qi J, Wick MJ, El-Naggar AK, Bradner JE, Moskaluk CA, Aster JC, Knoechel B, Bernstein BE.
Nat Genet. 2016 Mar;48(3):265-72. doi: 10.1038/ng.3502. Epub 2016 Feb 1. PMID:26829750
Other Publications
Synergistic activity of BET protein antagonist-based combinations in mantle cell lymphoma cells sensitive or resistant to ibrutinib.
Sun B, Shah B, Fiskus W, Qi J, Rajapakshe K, Coarfa C, Li L, Devaraj SG, Sharma S, Zhang L, Wang ML, Saenz DT, Krieger S, Bradner JE, Bhalla KN.
Blood. 2015 Sep 24;126(13):1565-74. doi: 10.1182/blood-2015-04-639542. Epub 2015 Aug 7. PMID:26254443
Structure-guided DOT1L probe optimization by label-free ligand displacement.
Yi JS*, Federation AJ*, Qi J*, Dhe-Paganon S, Hadler M, Xu X, St Pierre R, Varca AC, Wu L, Marineau JJ, Smith WB, Souza A, Chory EJ, Armstrong SA, Bradner JE.
ACS Chem Biol. 2015 Mar 20;10(3):667-74. doi: 10.1021/cb500796d. Epub 2015 Jan 15. PMID:25397901
Syntheses and discovery of a novel class of cinnamic hydroxamates as histone deacetylase inhibitors by multimodality molecular imaging in living subjects.
Chan CT, Qi J, Smith W, Paranol R, Mazitschek R, West N, Reeves R, Chiosis G, Schreiber SL, Bradner JE, Paulmurugan R, Gambhir SS.
Cancer Res. 2014 Dec 15;74(24):7475-86. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-0197. Epub 2014 Oct 15. PMID:25320008
Biased multicomponent reactions to develop novel bromodomain inhibitors.
McKeown MR, Shaw DL, Fu H, Liu S, Xu X, Marineau JJ, Huang Y, Zhang X, Buckley DL, Kadam A, Zhang Z, Blacklow SC, Qi J, Zhang W, Bradner JE.
J Med Chem. 2014 Nov 13;57(21):9019-27. doi: 10.1021/jm501120z. Epub 2014 Oct 31. PMID:25314271
Epigenetic targeting of Hedgehog pathway transcriptional output through BET bromodomain inhibition.
Tang Y, Gholamin S, Schubert S, Willardson MI, Lee A, Bandopadhayay P, Bergthold G, Masoud S, Nguyen B, Vue N, Balansay B, Yu F, Oh S, Woo P, Chen S, Ponnuswami A, Monje M, Atwood SX, Whitson RJ, Mitra S, Cheshier SH, Qi J, Beroukhim R, Tang JY, Wechsler-Reya R, Oro AE, Link BA, Bradner JE, Cho YJ.
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c-Myc inhibition prevents leukemia initiation in mice and impairs the growth of relapsed and induction failure pediatric T-ALL cells.
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