Publications

Selected publications

Tryptophan fuels MYC-dependent liver tumorigenesis through indole 3-pyruvate synthesis. Nature Communications. 2024.
Niranjan Venkateswaran*, Roy Garcia*, M.Carmen Lafita-Navarro*, Yi-Heng Hao*, Lizbeth Perez-Castro*, Pedro A. S. Nogueira*, Ashley Solmonson, Ilgen Mender, Jessica A. Kilgore, Shun Fang, Isabella N. Brown, Li Li, Emily Parks, Igor Lopes dos Santos, Jiwoong Kim, Yuming Xia, Andrew Lemoff, Nick V Grishin, Lisa Kinch, Lin Xu, Noelle S. Williams, Jerry Shay, Ralph J DeBerardinis, Hao Zhu, Maralice Conacci-Sorrell. *Authors contributed equally.

ZNF692 organizes a nucleolar hub that facilitates ribosome biogenesis in proliferative cells. Cell Reports. 2023.
M.Carmen Lafita-Navarro*, Yi-Heng Hao*, Chunhui Jiang, Seoyon Jang, Niranjan Venkateswaran, Isabella Brown, Elizabeth Maurais, Weronika Stachera, Tsung-Cheng Chang, Dorothy Mundy, Jungsoo Han, Marcel Mettlen, Jeffrey B. Woodruff, Joshua T. Mendell, Nick V Grishin, Lisa Kinch, Michael Buszczak, Maralice Conacci-Sorrell. *Authors contributed equally.

Nucleolar stress: From development to cancer. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2022.
M.Carmen Lafita-Navarro and Maralice Conacci-Sorrell. Nucleolar stress: From development to cancer. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2022.

De novo pyrimidine biosynthesis is necessary to maintain ribosomal RNA transcription in glioblastoma. PLOS Genetics. 2020.
M. Carmen Lafita-Navarro, Niranjan Venkateswaran, Jessica A. Kilgore, Suman Kanji, Jungsoo Han, Spencer Barnes, Noelle S. Williams, Michael Buszczak, Sandeep Burma, and Maralice Conacci-Sorrell. De novo pyrimidine biosynthesis is necessary to maintain ribosomal RNA transcription in glioblastoma. PLOS Genetics. 2020.

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor regulates nucleolar activity and protein synthesis in MYC-expressing cells. Genes Dev. 2018.
M. Carmen Lafita-Navarro, Min Kim, Nofit Borenstein-Auerbach, Niranjan Venkateswaran, Yi-Heng Hao, Roshni Ray, Thomas Brabletz, Pier Paolo Scaglioni, Jerry W Shay, Maralice Conacci-Sorrell.

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