West Lab

Publications

List of publications can be found on google scholar.

  1. West JJ, Golloshi R, Cho CY, Wang Y, Stevenson P, Stein-O’Brien G, Fertig EJ, Ewald AJ. Claudin 7 suppresses invasion and metastasis through repression of a smooth muscle actin program. J Cell Biol. 2024 Dec 2;223(12):e202311002. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202311002. Epub 2024 Sep 25. PMID: 39320351; PMCID: PMC11450322.
  2. Lee G, Wong C, Cho A, West JJ, Crawford AJ, Russo GC, Si BR, Kim J, Hoffner L, Jang C, Jung M, Leone RD, Konstantopoulos K, Ewald AJ, Wirtz D, Jeong S. E-Cadherin Induces Serine Synthesis to Support Progression and Metastasis of Breast Cancer. Cancer Res. 2024 Sep 4;84(17):2820-2835. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-3082. PMID: 38959339; PMCID: PMC11374473.
  3. Murata D, Ito F, Tang G, Iwata W, Yeung N, West JJ, Ewald AJ, Wang X, Iijima M, Sesaki H. Mitochondria-targeted cancer analysis using survival and expression: Prioritizing mitochondrial targets that alleviate pancreatic cancer cell phenotypes. iScience. 2024 Sep 3;27(9):110880. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110880. PMID: 39310760; PMCID: PMC11416656.
  4. Radomski SN, Dunworth M, West JJ, Greer JB, Johnston FM, Ewald AJ. Intra- and Interpatient Drug Response Heterogeneity Exist in Patients Undergoing Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Nongynecologic Cancers. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 Mar;31(3):1996-2007. doi: 10.1245/s10434-023-14696-6. Epub 2024 Jan 4. PMID: 38175427.
  5. West JJ, Harris TJC. The Arf-GEF Steppke promotes F-actin accumulation, cell protrusions and tissue sealing during Drosophila dorsal closure. PLoS One. 2020 Nov 13;15(11):e0239357. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239357. PMID: 33186390; PMCID: PMC7665897.
  6. Zheng S, West JJ, Yu CG, Harris TJC. Arf-GEF localization and function at myosin-rich adherens junctions via coiled-coil heterodimerization with an adaptor protein. Mol Biol Cell. 2019 Dec 15;30(26):3090-3103. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E19-10-0566. Epub 2019 Nov 6. PMID: 31693432; PMCID: PMC6938242.
  7. West JJ, Zulueta-Coarasa T, Maier JA, Lee DM, Bruce AEE, Fernandez-Gonzalez R, Harris TJC. An Actomyosin-Arf-GEF Negative Feedback Loop for Tissue Elongation under Stress. Curr Biol. 2017 Aug 7;27(15):2260-2270.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.038. Epub 2017 Jul 20. PMID: 28736167.
  8. West JJ, Harris TJ. Cadherin Trafficking for Tissue Morphogenesis: Control and Consequences. Traffic. 2016 Dec;17(12):1233-1243. doi: 10.1111/tra.12407. Epub 2016 May 19. PMID: 27105637.