Christina Towers

Title(s)Assistant Adjunct Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
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    1. Black voices in cancer research and oncology. Nat Rev Cancer. 2024 Feb 19. Ashad-Bishop KC, Balogun OD, Chidebe RCW, Cook LM, Towers C. PMID: 38374427.
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    2. Mitochondrial DNA replication stress triggers a pro-inflammatory endosomal pathway of nucleoid disposal. Nat Cell Biol. 2024 Feb; 26(2):194-206. Newman LE, Weiser Novak S, Rojas GR, Tadepalle N, Schiavon CR, Grotjahn DA, Towers CG, Tremblay MÈ, Donnelly MP, Ghosh S, Medina M, Rocha S, Rodriguez-Enriquez R, Chevez JA, Lemersal I, Manor U, Shadel GS. PMID: 38332353.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    3. Sensitivity of osteosarcoma cell lines to autophagy inhibition as determined by pharmacologic and genetic manipulation. Vet Comp Oncol. 2023 Dec; 21(4):726-738. Gustafson DL, Viola LO, Towers CG, Das S, Duval DL, Van Eaton KM. PMID: 37724007.
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    4. Recent Advances in the Role of Autophagy in Endocrine-Dependent Tumors. Endocr Rev. 2023 07 11; 44(4):629-646. Komarla A, Dufresne S, Towers CG. PMID: 36631217; PMCID: PMC10335171.
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    5. Dusquetide modulates innate immune response through binding to p62. Structure. 2022 08 04; 30(8):1055-1061.e7. Zhang Y, Towers CG, Singh UK, Liu J, Håkansson M, Logan DT, Donini O, Kutateladze TG. PMID: 35640615; PMCID: PMC9357125.
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    6. Beyond mitophagy: mitochondrial-derived vesicles can get the job done! Autophagy. 2022 02; 18(2):449-451. Mondal P, Towers C. PMID: 34781816; PMCID: PMC8942527.
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    7. The Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism Center international eSymposium - an early-career investigators' seminar series during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Cell Sci. 2021 10 01; 134(19). Nieto-Torres JL, Durgan J, Franco-Romero A, Grumati P, Guardia CM, Leidal AM, Mandell MA, Towers CG, Wang F. PMID: 34622922; PMCID: PMC8520733.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic Health
    8. Mitochondrial homeostasis is maintained in the absence of autophagy. Mol Cell Oncol. 2021; 8(5):1984162. Towers CG. PMID: 34859144; PMCID: PMC8632333.
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    9. Mitochondrial-derived vesicles compensate for loss of LC3-mediated mitophagy. Dev Cell. 2021 07 26; 56(14):2029-2042.e5. Towers CG, Wodetzki DK, Thorburn J, Smith KR, Caino MC, Thorburn A. PMID: 34171288; PMCID: PMC8319140.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 41     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    10. Enhancing anti-tumor immunity by autophagy inhibition. Nat Cancer. 2021 05; 2(5):484-486. Thorburn A, Towers CG. PMID: 35122020.
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    11. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1. Autophagy. 2021 Jan; 17(1):1-382. Klionsky DJ, Abdel-Aziz AK, Abdelfatah S, Abdellatif M, Abdoli A, Abel S, Abeliovich H, Abildgaard MH, Abudu YP, Acevedo-Arozena A, Adamopoulos IE, Adeli K, Adolph TE, Adornetto A, Aflaki E, Agam G, Agarwal A, Aggarwal BB, Agnello M, Agostinis P, Agrewala JN, Agrotis A, Aguilar PV, Ahmad ST, Ahmed ZM, Ahumada-Castro U, Aits S, Aizawa S, Akkoc Y, Akoumianaki T, Akpinar HA, Al-Abd AM, Al-Akra L, Al-Gharaibeh A, Alaoui-Jamali MA, Alberti S, Alcocer-Gómez E, Alessandri C, Ali M, Alim Al-Bari MA, Aliwaini S, Alizadeh J, Almacellas E, Almasan A, Alonso A, Alonso GD, Altan-Bonnet N, Altieri DC, Álvarez ÉMC, Alves S, Alves da Costa C, Alzaharna MM, Amadio M, Amantini C, Amaral C, Ambrosio S, Amer AO, Ammanathan V, An Z, Andersen SU, Andrabi SA, Andrade-Silva M, Andres AM, Angelini S, Ann D, Anozie UC, Ansari MY, Antas P, Antebi A, Antón Z, Anwar T, Apetoh L, Apostolova N, Araki T, Araki Y, Arasaki K, Araújo WL, Araya J, Arden C, Arévalo MA, Arguelles S, Arias E, Arikkath J, Arimoto H, Ariosa AR, Armstrong-James D, Arnauné-Pelloquin L, Aroca A, Arroyo DS, Arsov I, Artero R, Asaro DML, Aschner M, Ashrafizadeh M, Ashur-Fabian O, Atanasov AG, Au AK, Auberger P, Auner HW, Aurelian L, Autelli R, Avagliano L, Ávalos Y, Aveic S, Aveleira CA, Avin-Wittenberg T, Aydin Y, Ayton S, Ayyadevara S, Azzopardi M, Baba M, Backer JM, Backues SK, Bae DH, Bae ON, Bae SH, Baehrecke EH, Baek A, Baek SH, Baek SH, Bagetta G, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Bai H, Bai J, Bai X, Bai Y, Bairagi N, Baksi S, Balbi T, Baldari CT, Balduini W, Ballabio A, Ballester M, Balazadeh S, Balzan R, Bandopadhyay R, Banerjee S, Banerjee S, Bánréti Á, Bao Y, Baptista MS, Baracca A, Barbati C, Bargiela A, Barilà D, Barlow PG, Barmada SJ, Barreiro E, Barreto GE, Bartek J, Bartel B, Bartolome A, Barve GR, Basagoudanavar SH, Bassham DC, Bast RC, Basu A, Batoko H, Batten I, Baulieu EE, Baumgarner BL, Bayry J, Beale R, Beau I, Beaumatin F, Bechara LRG, Beck GR, Beers MF, Begun J, Behrends C, Behrens GMN, Bei R, Bejarano E, Bel S, Behl C, Belaid A, Belgareh-Touzé N, Bellarosa C, Belleudi F, Belló Pérez M, Bello-Morales R, Beltran JSO, Beltran S, Benbrook DM, Bendorius M, Benitez BA, Benito-Cuesta I, Bensalem J, Berchtold MW, Berezowska S, Bergamaschi D, Bergami M, Bergmann A, Berliocchi L, Berlioz-Torrent C, Bernard A, Berthoux L, Besirli CG, Besteiro S, Betin VM, Beyaert R, Bezbradica JS, Bhaskar K, Bhatia-Kissova I, Bhattacharya R, Bhattacharya S, Bhattacharyya S, Bhuiyan MS, Bhutia SK, Bi L, Bi X, Biden TJ, Bijian K, Billes VA, Binart N, Bincoletto C, Birgisdottir AB, Bjorkoy G, Blanco G, Blas-Garcia A, Blasiak J, Blomgran R, Blomgren K, Blum JS, Boada-Romero E, Boban M, Boesze-Battaglia K, Boeuf P, Boland B, Bomont P, Bonaldo P, Bonam SR, Bonfili L, Bonifacino JS, Boone BA, Bootman MD, Bordi M, Borner C, Bornhauser BC, Borthakur G, Bosch J, Bose S, Botana LM, Botas J, Boulanger CM, Boulton ME, Bourdenx M, Bourgeois B, Bourke NM, Bousquet G, Boya P, Bozhkov PV, Bozi LHM, Bozkurt TO, Brackney DE, Brandts CH, Braun RJ, Braus GH, Bravo-Sagua R, Bravo-San Pedro JM, Brest P, Bringer MA, Briones-Herrera A, Broaddus VC, Brodersen P, Brodsky JL, Brody SL, Bronson PG, Bronstein JM, Brown CN, Brown RE, Brum PC, Brumell JH, Brunetti-Pierri N, Bruno D, Bryson-Richardson RJ, Bucci C, Buchrieser C, Bueno M, Buitrago-Molina LE, Buraschi S, Buch S, Buchan JR, Buckingham EM, Budak H, Budini M, Bultynck G, Burada F, Burgoyne JR, Burón MI, Bustos V, Büttner S, Butturini E, Byrd A, Cabas I, Cabrera-Benitez S, Cadwell K, Cai J, Cai L, Cai Q, Cairó M, Calbet JA, Caldwell GA, Caldwell KA, Call JA, Calvani R, Calvo AC, Calvo-Rubio Barrera M, Camara NO, Camonis JH, Camougrand N, Campanella M, Campbell EM, Campbell-Valois FX, Campello S, Campesi I, Campos JC, Camuzard O, Cancino J, Candido de Almeida D, Canesi L, Caniggia I, et al. PMID: 33634751; PMCID: PMC7996087.
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    12. Estrogen Regulation of mTOR Signaling and Mitochondrial Function in Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Cell Lines Requires WNT4. Cancers (Basel). 2020 Oct 12; 12(10). Shackleford MT, Rao DM, Bordeaux EK, Hicks HM, Towers CG, Sottnik JL, Oesterreich S, Sikora MJ. PMID: 33053661; PMCID: PMC7650584.
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    13. Autophagy-dependent cancer cells circumvent loss of the upstream regulator RB1CC1/FIP200 and loss of LC3 conjugation by similar mechanisms. Autophagy. 2020 07; 16(7):1332-1340. Towers CG, Wodetzki D, Thorburn A. PMID: 32160093; PMCID: PMC7469620.
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    14. Autophagy and cancer: Modulation of cell death pathways and cancer cell adaptations. J Cell Biol. 2020 01 06; 219(1). Towers CG, Wodetzki D, Thorburn A. PMID: 31753861; PMCID: PMC7039213.
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    15. Circumventing autophagy inhibition. Cell Cycle. 2019 Dec; 18(24):3421-3431. Towers CG, Thorburn A. PMID: 31736401; PMCID: PMC6927706.
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    16. Cancer Cells Upregulate NRF2 Signaling to Adapt to Autophagy Inhibition. Dev Cell. 2019 09 23; 50(6):690-703.e6. Towers CG, Fitzwalter BE, Regan D, Goodspeed A, Morgan MJ, Liu CW, Gustafson DL, Thorburn A. PMID: 31378590; PMCID: PMC7233142.
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    17. Mechanistic insight into the regulation of SQSTM1/p62. Autophagy. 2019 04; 15(4):735-737. Zhang Y, Mun SR, Linares JF, Towers CG, Thorburn A, Diaz-Meco MT, Kwon YT, Kutateladze TG. PMID: 30653391; PMCID: PMC6526835.
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    18. ZZ-dependent regulation of p62/SQSTM1 in autophagy. Nat Commun. 2018 10 22; 9(1):4373. Zhang Y, Mun SR, Linares JF, Ahn J, Towers CG, Ji CH, Fitzwalter BE, Holden MR, Mi W, Shi X, Moscat J, Thorburn A, Diaz-Meco MT, Kwon YT, Kutateladze TG. PMID: 30349045; PMCID: PMC6197226.
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    19. The miR-106b-25 cluster mediates breast tumor initiation through activation of NOTCH1 via direct repression of NEDD4L. Oncogene. 2018 07; 37(28):3879-3893. Guarnieri AL, Towers CG, Drasin DJ, Oliphant MUJ, Andrysik Z, Hotz TJ, Vartuli RL, Linklater ES, Pandey A, Khanal S, Espinosa JM, Ford HL. PMID: 29662198; PMCID: PMC6043359.
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    20. Autophagy Inhibition Mediates Apoptosis Sensitization in Cancer Therapy by Relieving FOXO3a Turnover. Dev Cell. 2018 03 12; 44(5):555-565.e3. Fitzwalter BE, Towers CG, Sullivan KD, Andrysik Z, Hoh M, Ludwig M, O'Prey J, Ryan KM, Espinosa JM, Morgan MJ, Thorburn A. PMID: 29533771; PMCID: PMC5866042.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 102     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    21. Targeting the Lysosome for Cancer Therapy. Cancer Discov. 2017 11; 7(11):1218-1220. Towers CG, Thorburn A. PMID: 29097619; PMCID: PMC5966281.
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    22. Targeting autophagy in cancer. Nat Rev Cancer. 2017 09; 17(9):528-542. Levy JMM, Towers CG, Thorburn A. PMID: 28751651; PMCID: PMC5975367.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1087     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    23. A Genome-Wide Loss-of-Function Screen Identifies SLC26A2 as a Novel Mediator of TRAIL Resistance. Mol Cancer Res. 2017 04; 15(4):382-394. Dimberg LY, Towers CG, Behbakht K, Hotz TJ, Kim J, Fosmire S, Porter CC, Tan AC, Thorburn A, Ford HL. PMID: 28108622; PMCID: PMC5380511.
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    24. Therapeutic Targeting of Autophagy. EBioMedicine. 2016 Dec; 14:15-23. Towers CG, Thorburn A. PMID: 28029600; PMCID: PMC5161418.
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    25. A tale of two ends. Cell Cycle. 2016 06 17; 15(12):1523-4. Towers CG, Ford HL. PMID: 27101085; PMCID: PMC4934064.
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    26. The Six1 oncoprotein downregulates p53 via concomitant regulation of RPL26 and microRNA-27a-3p. Nat Commun. 2015 Dec 21; 6:10077. Towers CG, Guarnieri AL, Micalizzi DS, Harrell JC, Gillen AE, Kim J, Wang CA, Oliphant MUJ, Drasin DJ, Guney MA, Kabos P, Sartorius CA, Tan AC, Perou CM, Espinosa JM, Ford HL. PMID: 26687066; PMCID: PMC4703841.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 28     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    27. The SIX1-EYA transcriptional complex as a therapeutic target in cancer. Expert Opin Ther Targets. 2015 Feb; 19(2):213-25. Blevins MA, Towers CG, Patrick AN, Zhao R, Ford HL. PMID: 25555392; PMCID: PMC4336540.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 49     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
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