Soo-Yun Jeong

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare cancer with high potential for recurrence and metastasis. Efficacy of current treatment options, particularly for advanced disease, is very limited. Recent whole genome and exome sequencing has dramatically improved our understanding of ACC pathogenesis. A balanced translocation resulting in the MYB-NFIB fusion gene appears to be a fundamental signature of ACC. In addition, sequencing has identified a number of other driver genes mutated in downstream pat

We have used DNase I as a probe to examine the chromatin structure of mouse immunoglobulin kappa light chain genes in rearranged and unrearranged chromosomes--i.e., in nuclei from myeloma cells and from brain and liver cells. Tissue-specific DNase I-hypersensitive sites are observed 0.7 and 1.7 kilobases upstream from the 5' end of the C kappa gene in the J kappa -C kappa intron region in myeloma nuclei but not in naked DNA or in brain or liver nuclei. In myeloma cells expressing one functional

Most incidentally detected small subepithelial tumors in the upper gastrointestinal tract showed no size change during follow-up. Thus, regular follow-up with serial endoscopy may be sufficient for small subepithelial tumors (< 2 cm) with intact overlying mucosa.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) accounts for about 3% of all cancers in the United States and about 7% of all cancer deaths. Despite the lower prevalence relative to other solid tumors, it is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in the US. PDAC is highly resistant to chemotherapy as well as radiation therapy. Current standard-of-care chemotherapeutic regimens provide transient disease control but eventually tumors develop chemoresistance. Tumors that are deficient in DNA dam

In recent years, it has been repeatedly demonstrated that the coordinates of the main-chain atoms alone are sufficient to determine the side-chain conformations of buried residues of compact proteins. Given a perfect backbone, the side-chain packing method can predict the side-chain conformations to an accuracy as high as 1.2 A RMS deviation (RMSD) with greater than 80% of the chi angles correct. However, similarly rigorous studies have not been conducted to determine how well these apply, if at

Seven rat homeobox-containing sequences have been isolated by screening a genomic library with a probe derived from a Drosophila antennapedia cDNA clone. The characterization of two of these homeobox-containing clones has been described (Falzon, M., Sanderson, N.D. and Chung, S. Y. (1987) Gene 54, 23-32). Sequence analysis of the remaining five homeobox regions reveals a 180 bp domain sharing 70-95% identity at the amino acid level with the homeodomain from the Drosophila antennapedia gene and w

Homeobox genes encode sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins that are involved in the regulation of gene expression during embryonic development. In this study, we examined the expression of homeobox proteins in human cancer. Antiserum was obtained against a synthetic peptide derived from the highly conserved 60 amino acid homeodomain. This peptide antiserum recognized a protein species of molecular weight 63,000 in immunoblots of nuclear extracts obtained from several tumor cell lines. The pred