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Cell Biology Selected Publications

Faculty in the Department of Cell Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine publish research in a wide range of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals.

  • Aging disrupts sympathetic innervation of the thymus. 
    Cell Rep. 2026. DOI.
    Authors: Carpenter RS, Begum F, Lagou MK, Bhuiyan M, Guzik H, DesMarais V, Karagiannis GS, Maryanovich M.
  • EP300 deficiency leads to chronic replication stress mediated by defective replication fork protection. 
    Nat Commun. 2025. DOI. 
    Authors: Barreto-Galvez A, Niljikar M, Gagliardi JE, Guzman CP, Zhang R, Kumar V, Juwarwala A, Pradeep A, Saxena A, Montagna C, Mittal P, Gerhardt J, Xia B, Cao J, Kataoka K, Durbin AD, Qi J, Ye BH, Madireddy A.
  • Haematopoietic stem cell number is not solely defined by niche availability.  
    Nature. 2025. DOI.  
    Authors: Takeishi S, Marchand T, Koba WR, Borger DK, Xu C, Guha C, Bergman A, Frenette PS, Gritsman K, Steidl U. 
  • Reformulation of the necroptosis pathway in reperfused myocardial infarction.   
    Circulation. 2025. DOI.  
    Authors: Qin D, Modanwal R, Ghazi M, Corbalan JJ, Jia XF, Axelrod JL, Medisor R, Jang HJ, Humeres C, Hanna A, Varzideh F, Tallquist MD, Santulli G, Liu Q, Kirshenbaum LA, Ni H, Kamp TJ, Gundry RL, Balachandran S, Degterev A, Calvert JW, Kitsis RN.  
  • Mutations in MLL3 promote breast cancer progression via HIF1α-dependent intratumoral recruitment and differentiation of regulatory T cells.    
    Immunity. 2025. DOI.  
    Authors: Boutet M, Nishitani K, Couturier N, Erler P, Zhang Z, Militello AM, Coutinho De Miranda M, Barbieux E, Guillen E, Leavenworth JW, Suzuki M, Sparano JA, Lu J, Fineberg SA, Wang Y, Mani SA, Montagna C, Guo W, Lauvau G.
  • Lung-resident alveolar macrophages regulate the timing of breast cancer metastasis  
    Cell. 2024. DOI.   
    Authors: Dalla E, Papanicolaou M, Park MD, Barth N, Hou R, Segura-Villalobos D, Salazar LV, Sun D, Forrest ARR, Casanova-Acebes M, Entenberg D, Merad M, Aguirre-Ghiso JA.
  • Pharmacological restriction of genomic binding sites redirects PU.1 pioneer transcription factor activity 
    Nat Genet. 2024. DOI. 
    Authors: Taylor SJ, Stauber J, Bohorquez O, Tatsumi G, Kumari R, Chakraborty J, Bartholdy BA, Schwenger E, Sundaravel S, Farahat AA, Wheat JC, Goldfinger M, Verma A, Kumar A, Boykin DW, Stengel KR, Poon GMK, Steidl U.
  • A mitochondrial NADPH-cholesterol axis regulates extracellular vesicle biogenesis to support hematopoietic stem cell fate 
    Cell Stem Cell. 2024. DOI.  
    Authors: Bonora M, Morganti C, van Gastel N, Ito K, Calura E, Zanolla I, Ferroni L, Zhang Y, Jung Y, Sales G, Martini P, Nakamura T, Lasorsa FM, Finkel T, Lin CP, Zavan B, Pinton P, Georgakoudi I, Romualdi C, Scadden DT, Ito K.
  • The mitochondrial ATP synthase is a negative regulator of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore 
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Pekson R, Liang FG, Axelrod JL, Lee J, Qin D, Wittig AJH, Paulino VM, Zheng M, Peixoto PM, Kitsis RN.  
  • A PERK-specific inhibitor blocks metastatic progression by limiting integrated stress response–dependent survival of quiescent cancer cells 
    Clin Cancer Res. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Calvo V, Zheng W, Anna Adam-Artigues A, Staschke KA, Huang X, Cheung JF, Nobre AR, Fujisawa S, Liu D, Fumagalli M, Surguladze D, Stokes ME, Nowacek A, Mulvihill M, Farias EF, Aguirre-Ghiso JA.  
  • A SOX9-B7x axis safeguards dedifferentiated tumor cells from immune surveillance to drive breast cancer progression 
    Dev Cell. 2023. DOI.  
    Authors: Liu Y, John P, Nishitani K, Cui J, Nishimura CD, Christin JR, Couturier N, Ren X, Wei Y, Pulanco MC, Galbo PM Jr, Zhang X, Fu W, Cui W, Bartholdy BA, Zheng D, Lauvau G, Fineberg SA, Oktay MH, Zang X, Guo W.
  • Intestinal stem cell aging at single-cell resolution: Transcriptional perturbations alter cell developmental trajectory reversed by gerotherapeutics 
    Aging Cell. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Choi J, Houston M, Wang R, Ye K, Li W, Zhang X, Huffman DM, Augenlicht LH.  
  • Chikungunya virus cell-to-cell transmission is mediated by intercellular extensions in vitro and in vivo 
    Nat Microbiol. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Yin P, Davenport BJ, Wan JJ, Kim AS, Diamond MS, Ware BC, Tong K, Couderc T, Lecuit M, Lai JR, Morrison TE, Kielian M.
  • DNA selection by the master transcription factor PU.1 
    Cell Rep. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Terrell JR, Taylor SJ, Schneider AL, Lu Y, Vernon TN, Xhani S, Gumpper RH, Luo M, Wilson WD, Steidl U, Poon GMK.
  • Haploinsufficiency of the essential gene Rps12 causes defects in erythropoiesis and hematopoietic stem cell maintenance 
    Elife. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Folgado-Marco V, Ames K, Chuen J, Gritsman K, Baker NE.
  • 5-Azacytidine- and retinoic-acid-induced reprogramming of DCCs into dormancy suppresses metastasis via restored TGF-β-SMAD4 signaling 
    Cell Rep. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Singh DK, Carcamo S, Farias EF, Hasson D, Zheng W, Sun D, Huang X, Cheung J, Nobre AR, Kale N, Sosa MS, Bernstein E, Aguirre-Ghiso JA.
  • Comparative analysis of Tet2 catalytic-deficient and knockout bone marrow over time 
    Exp Hematol. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Flores JC, Ito K, Huang CY, Tang Q, Yanase C, Ito K, Dawlaty MM.
  • Intestinal stem cell aging at single-cell resolution: Transcriptional perturbations alter cell developmental trajectory reversed by gerotherapeutics 
    Aging Cell. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Choi J, Houston M, Wang R, Ye K, Li W, Zhang X, Huffman DM, Augenlicht LH.
  • Maintenance of a short-lived protein required for long-term memory involves cycles of transcription and local translation 
    Neuron. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Das S, Lituma PJ, Castillo PE, Singer RH.
  • Crizotinib Has Preclinical Efficacy in Philadelphia-Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms 
    Clin Cancer Res. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Gurska LM, Okabe R, Schurer A, Tong MM, Soto M, Choi D, Ames K, Glushakow-Smith S, Montoya A, Tein E, Miles LA, Cheng H, Hankey-Giblin P, Levine RL, Goel S, Halmos B, Gritsman K.
  • PI3-kinase deletion promotes myelodysplasia by dysregulating autophagy in hematopoietic stem cells 
    Sci Adv. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Ames K, Kaur I, Shi Y, Tong MM, Sinclair T, Hemmati S, Glushakow-Smith SG, Tein E, Gurska L, Steidl U, Dubin R, Shan J, Montagna C, Pradhan K, Verma A, Gritsman K.
  • Human SMARCA5 is continuously required to maintain nucleosome spacing 
    Mol Cell. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Bomber ML, Wang J, Liu Q, Barnett KR, Layden HM, Hodges E, Stengel KR, Hiebert SW.
  • Dietary iron restriction protects against vaso-occlusion and organ damage in murine sickle cell disease 
    Blood. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Li H, Kazmi JS, Lee S, Zhang D, Gao X, Maryanovich M, Torres L, Verma D, Kelly L, Ginzburg YZ, Frenette PS, Manwani D.
  • MLL3 loss drives metastasis by promoting a hybrid epithelial-mesenchymal transition state 
    Nat Cell Biol. 2023. DOI. 
    Authors: Cui J, Zhang C, Lee JE, Bartholdy BA, Yang D, Liu Y, Erler P, Galbo PM Jr, Hodge DQ, Huangfu D, Zheng D, Ge K, Guo W.