The transcription factor IRF2 drives interferon-mediated CD8+ T cell exhaustion to restrict anti-tumor immunity

S Lukhele, D Abd Rabbo, M Guo, J Shen, HJ Elsaesser… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Type I and II interferons (IFNs) stimulate pro-inflammatory programs that are critical for immune
activation, but also induce immune-suppressive feedback circuits that impede control of …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative pathway enrichment analysis of multivariate omics data

…, N Sintupisut, NS Fox, H Zhu, D Abd-Rabbo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Multi-omics datasets represent distinct aspects of the central dogma of molecular biology.
Such high-dimensional molecular profiles pose challenges to data interpretation and …

[HTML][HTML] The transcriptional landscape of Shh medulloblastoma

…, BL Holgado, C Nor, X Wu, D Abd-Rabbo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma encompasses a clinically and molecularly diverse group
of cancers of the developing central nervous system. Here, we use unbiased sequencing of …

Pre-encoded responsiveness to type I interferon in the peripheral immune system defines outcome of PD1 blockade therapy

…, R Gadalla, HJ Elsaesser, D Abd-Rabbo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Type I interferons (IFN-Is) are central regulators of anti-tumor immunity and responses to
immunotherapy, but they also drive the feedback inhibition underlying therapeutic resistance. In …

Dynamic CD4+ T cell heterogeneity defines subset-specific suppression and PD-L1-blockade-driven functional restoration in chronic infection

LM Snell, W Xu, D Abd-Rabbo, G Boukhaled… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Inhibiting PD-1:PD-L1 signaling has transformed therapeutic immune restoration. CD4 + T
cells sustain immunity in chronic infections and cancer, yet little is known about how PD-1 …

[PDF][PDF] Candidate cancer driver mutations in distal regulatory elements and long-range chromatin interaction networks

…, D Aduluso-Nwaobasi, M Paczkowska, D Abd-Rabbo… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
A comprehensive catalog of cancer driver mutations is essential for understanding tumorigenesis
and developing therapies. Exome-sequencing studies have mapped many protein-…

[HTML][HTML] Extracting insight from noisy cellular networks

CR Landry, ED Levy, D Abd Rabbo, K Tarassov… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Network biologists attempt to extract meaningful relationships among genes or their products
from very noisy data. We argue that what we categorize as noisy data may sometimes …

[PDF][PDF] Changes of cell biochemical states are revealed in protein homomeric complex dynamics

B Stynen, D Abd-Rabbo, J Kowarzyk, L Miller-Fleming… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
We report here a simple and global strategy to map out gene functions and target pathways
of drugs, toxins, or other small molecules based on "homomer dynamics" protein-fragment …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular, metabolic, and functional CD4 T cell paralysis in the lymph node impedes tumor control

M Guo, D Abd-Rabbo, BC Bertol, M Carew, S Lukhele… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
CD4 T cells are central effectors of anti-cancer immunity and immunotherapy, yet the regulation
of CD4 tumor-specific T (T TS ) cells is unclear. We demonstrate that CD4 T TS cells are …

[HTML][HTML] Functional and genetic determinants of mutation rate variability in regulatory elements of cancer genomes

CA Lee, D Abd-Rabbo, J Reimand - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Cancer genomes are shaped by mutational processes with complex spatial
variation at multiple scales. Entire classes of regulatory elements are affected by local variations …