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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