Selected Publications

Patel AS, Yoo S, Kong R, Sato T, Sinha A, Karam S, Bao L, Fridrikh M, Emoto K, Nudelman G, Powell CA, Beasley MB, Zhu J, Watanabe HPrototypical oncogene family Myc defines unappreciated distinct lineage states of small cell lung cancer. Sci Adv2021 Jan;7(5)doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abc2578. Print 2021 Jan. PubMed PMID: 33514539.

Sato T, Yoo S, Kong R, Sinha A, Chandramani-Shivalingappa P, Patel A, Fridrikh M, Nagano O, Masuko T, Beasley MB, Powell CA, Zhu J, Watanabe HEpigenomic Profiling Discovers Trans-lineage SOX2 Partnerships Driving Tumor Heterogeneity in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Res2019 Dec 15;79(24):6084-6100doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-2132. Epub 2019 Sep 24. PubMed PMID: 31551362; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6911633.

Watanabe H, Powell CA. Sequencing Lung Cancer’s Sequence. Am J Respir Crit Care Med2019 Sep 15;200(6):657-659doi: 10.1164/rccm.201904-0837ED. PubMed PMID: 31059279; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6775867.

Kitajima S, Ivanova E, Guo S, Yoshida R, Campisi M, Sundararaman SK, Tange S, Mitsuishi Y, Thai TC, Masuda S, Piel BP, Sholl LM, Kirschmeier PT, Paweletz CP, Watanabe H, Yajima M, Barbie DA. Suppression of STING Associated with LKB1 Loss in KRAS-Driven Lung Cancer. Cancer Discov2019 Jan;9(1):34-45doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-18-0689. Epub 2018 Oct 8. PubMed PMID: 30297358; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6328329.

Rowbotham SP, Li F, Dost AFM, Louie SM, Marsh BP, Pessina P, Anbarasu CR, Brainson CF, Tuminello SJ, Lieberman A, Ryeom S, Schlaeger TM, Aronow BJ, Watanabe H, Wong KK, Kim CF. H3K9 methyltransferases and demethylases control lung tumor-propagating cells and lung cancer progression. Nat Commun2018 Nov 19;9(1):4559doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07077-1. PubMed PMID: 30455465; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6242814.

Kitajima S, Asahina H, Chen T, Guo S, Quiceno LG, Cavanaugh JD, Merlino AA, Tange S, Terai H, Kim JW, Wang X, Zhou S, Xu M, Wang S, Zhu Z, Thai TC, Takahashi C, Wang Y, Neve R, Stinson S, Tamayo P, Watanabe H, Kirschmeier PT, Wong KK, Barbie DA. Overcoming Resistance to Dual Innate Immune and MEK Inhibition Downstream of KRAS. Cancer Cell2018 Sep 10;34(3):439-452.e6doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.08.009. PubMed PMID: 30205046; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6422029.

Cañadas I, Thummalapalli R, Kim JW, Kitajima S, Jenkins RW, Christensen CL, Campisi M, Kuang Y, Zhang Y, Gjini E, Zhang G, Tian T, Sen DR, Miao D, Imamura Y, Thai T, Piel B, Terai H, Aref AR, Hagan T, Koyama S, Watanabe M, Baba H, Adeni AE, Lydon CA, Tamayo P, Wei Z, Herlyn M, Barbie TU, Uppaluri R, Sholl LM, Sicinska E, Sands J, Rodig S, Wong KK, Paweletz CP, Watanabe H, Barbie DA. Tumor innate immunity primed by specific interferon-stimulated endogenous retroviruses. Nat Med2018 Aug;24(8):1143-1150doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0116-5. Epub 2018 Jul 23. PubMed PMID: 30038220; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6082722.

Ruf-Zamojski F, Fribourg M, Ge Y, Nair V, Pincas H, Zaslavsky E, Nudelman G, Tuminello SJ, Watanabe H, Turgeon JL, Sealfon SC. Regulatory Architecture of the LβT2 Gonadotrope Cell Underlying the Response to Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)2018;9:34doi: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00034. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 29487567; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5816955.

Rusan M, Li K, Li Y, Christensen CL, Abraham BJ, Kwiatkowski N, Buczkowski KA, Bockorny B, Chen T, Li S, Rhee K, Zhang H, Chen W, Terai H, Tavares T, Leggett AL, Li T, Wang Y, Zhang T, Kim TJ, Hong SH, Poudel-Neupane N, Silkes M, Mudianto T, Tan L, Shimamura T, Meyerson M, Bass AJ, Watanabe H, Gray NS, Young RA, Wong KK, Hammerman PS. Suppression of Adaptive Responses to Targeted Cancer Therapy by Transcriptional Repression. Cancer Discov2018 Jan;8(1):59-73doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-0461. Epub 2017 Oct 20. PubMed PMID: 29054992; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5819998.

Zhang H, Brainson CF, Koyama S, Redig AJ, Chen T, Li S, Gupta M, Garcia-de-Alba C, Paschini M, Herter-Sprie GS, Lu G, Zhang X, Marsh BP, Tuminello SJ, Xu C, Chen Z, Wang X, Akbay E, Zheng M, Palakurthi S, Sholl LM, Rustgi AK, Kwiatkowski DJ, Diehl JA, Bass AJ, Sharpless NE, Dranoff G, Hammerman PS, Ji H, Bardeesy N, Saur D, Watanabe H, Kim CF, Wong KK. Lkb1 inactivation drives lung cancer lineage switching governed by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2. Nat Commun. 2017

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. Oncogenic Deregulation of EZH2 as an Opportunity for Targeted Therapy in Lung Cancer. Cancer Discov. 2016 Sep;6(9)

Kunitomi A, Yuasa S, Sugiyama F, Saito Y, Seki T, Kusumoto D, Kashimura S, Takei M, Tohyama S, Hashimoto H, Egashira T, Tanimoto Y, Mizuno S, Tanaka S, Okuno H, Yamazawa K, Watanabe H, Oda M, Kaneda R, Matsuzaki Y, Nagai T, Okano H, Yagami K, Tanaka M, Fukuda K. H1foo Has a Pivotal Role in Qualifying Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Stem Cell Reports. 2016 Jun 14;6(6)

Kim N, Cho A, Watanabe H, Choi YL, Aziz M, Kassner M, Joung JG, Park AK, Francis JM, Bae JS, Ahn SM, Kim KM, Park JO, Park WY, Ahn MJ, Park K, Koo J, Yin HH, Cho J. Integrated genomic approaches identify upregulation of SCRN1 as a novel mechanism associated with acquired resistance to erlotinib in PC9 cells harboring oncogenic EGFR mutation. Oncotarget. 2016 Mar 22;7(12)

Zhang X, Choi PS, Francis JM, Imielinski M, Watanabe H, Cherniack AD, Meyerson M. Identification of focally amplified lineage-specific super-enhancers in human epithelial cancers. Nature Genetics 2016 Feb;48(2)

Mima K, Sukawa Y, Nishihara R, Qian ZR, Yamauchi M, Inamura K, Kim SA, Masuda A, Nowak JA, Nosho K, Kostic AD, Giannakis M, Watanabe H, Bullman S, Milner DA, Harris CC, Giovannucci E, Garraway LA, Freeman GJ, Dranoff G, Chan AT, Garrett WS, Huttenhower C, Fuchs CS, Ogino S. Fusobacterium nucleatum and T Cells in Colorectal Carcinoma. JAMA Oncol. 2015 Aug;1(5)

Cai Y, Hirata A, Nakayama S, VanderLaan PA, Levantini E, Yamamoto M, Hirai H, Wong KK, Costa DB, Watanabe H *, Kobayashi SS *. CCAAT/enhancer binding protein β is dispensable for development of lung adenocarcinoma. PLoS One 2015; 10(3).

Lin W *, Watanabe H *, Peng S, Francis JM, Kaplan N, Pedamallu CS, Ramachandran A, Agoston A, Bass AJ, Meyerson M. Dynamic epigenetic regulation by menin during pancreatic islet tumor formation. Molecular cancer research : Mol Cancer Res 2015 Apr; 13(4).

Watanabe H *, Ma Q *, Peng S, Adelmant G, Swain D, Song W, Fox C, Francis JM, Pedamallu CS, DeLuca DS, Brooks AN, Wang S, Que J, Rustgi AK, Wong KK, Ligon KL, Liu XS, Marto JA, Meyerson M, Bass AJ. SOX2 and p63 colocalize at genetic loci in squamous cell carcinomas. The Journal of Clinical Investigation 2014 Apr; 124(4).

Xu C, Fillmore CM, Koyama S, Wu H, Zhao Y, Chen Z, Herter-Sprie GS, Akbay EA, Tchaicha JH, Altabef A, Reibel JB, Walton Z, Ji H, Watanabe H, Jänne PA, Castrillon DH, Rustgi AK, Bass AJ, Freeman GJ, Padera RF, Dranoff G, Hammerman PS, Kim CF, Wong KK. Loss of Lkb1 and Pten leads to lung squamous cell carcinoma with elevated PD-L1 expression. Cancer Cell 2014 May; 25(5).

Watanabe H, Brooks AN, Meyerson M. Breaking down RET breakpoints in lung adenocarcinoma. Journal of Thoracic Oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2014 May 9(5).

Watanabe H, Meyerson M. Hopping between differentiation states in lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer Cell 2013 Jun 23(6).

Snyder EL, Watanabe H, Magendantz M, Hoersch S, Chen TA, Wang DG, Crowley D, Whittaker CA, Meyerson M, Kimura S, Jacks T. Nkx2-1 represses a latent gastric differentiation program in lung adenocarcinoma. Molecular Cell 2013 Apr; 50(2).

Watanabe H, Francis JM, Woo MS, Etemad B, Lin W, Fries DF, Peng S, Snyder EL, Tata PR, Izzo F, Schinzel AC, Cho J, Hammerman PS, Verhaak RG, Hahn WC, Rajagopal J, Jacks T, Meyerson M. Integrated cistromic and expression analysis of amplified NKX2-1 in lung adenocarcinoma identifies LMO3 as a functional transcriptional target. Genes & Development 2013 Jan; 27(2).

Liao RG, Watanabe H, Meyerson M, Hammerman PS. Targeted therapy for squamous cell lung cancer [review]. Lung Cancer Management 2012 Dec; 1(4).

Cho J, Pastorino S, Zeng Q, Xu X, Johnson W, Vandenberg S, Verhaak R, Cherniack AD, Watanabe H, Dutt A, Kwon J, Chao YS, Onofrio RC, Chiang D, Yuza Y, Kesari S, Meyerson M. Glioblastoma-derived epidermal growth factor receptor carboxyl-terminal deletion mutants are transforming and are sensitive to EGFR-directed therapies. Cancer research 2011 Dec; 71(24).

Lin W, Cao J, Liu J, Beshiri ML, Fujiwara Y, Francis J, Cherniack AD, Geisen C, Blair LP, Zou MR, Shen X, Kawamori D, Liu Z, Grisanzio C, Watanabe H, Minamishima YA, Zhang Q, Kulkarni RN, Signoretti S, Rodig SJ, Bronson RT, Orkin SH, Tuck DP, Benevolenskaya EV, Meyerson M, Kaelin WG, Yan Q. Loss of the retinoblastoma binding protein 2 (RBP2) histone demethylase suppresses tumorigenesis in mice lacking Rb1 or Men1. PNAS 2011 Aug; 108(33).

Bass AJ *, Watanabe H *, Mermel CH, Yu S, Perner S, Verhaak RG, Kim SY, Wardwell L, Tamayo P, Gat-Viks I, Ramos AH, Woo MS, Weir BA, Getz G, Beroukhim R, O’Kelly M, Dutt A, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Dziunycz P, Komisarof J, Chirieac LR, Lafargue CJ, Scheble V, Wilbertz T, Ma C, Rao S, Nakagawa H, Stairs DB, Lin L, Giordano TJ, Wagner P, Minna JD, Gazdar AF, Zhu CQ, Brose MS, Cecconello I, Jr UR, Marie SK, Dahl O, Shivdasani RA, Tsao MS, Rubin MA, Wong KK, Regev A, Hahn WC, Beer DG, Rustgi AK, Meyerson M. SOX2 is an amplified lineage-survival oncogene in lung and esophageal squamous cell carcinomas. Nature Genetics 2009 Nov; 41(11).