Xu J, Cortellino S, Tricarico R, Chang WC, Scher G, Devarajan K, Slifker M, Moore R, Bassi MR, Caretti E, Clapper M, Cooper H, Bellacosa A. Thymine DNA Glycosylase (TDG) is involved in the pathogenesis of intestinal tumors with reduced APC expression. Oncotarget, 8(52):89988-97, 2017. PMC5685726
Tricarico, R., Cortellino, S., Riccio, A., Jagmohan-Changur, S., van der Klift, H., Wijnen, J., Turner, D., Ventura, A., Rovella, V., Percesepe, A., Lucci-Cordisco, E., Radice, P., Bertario, L., Pedroni, M., Ponz de Leon, M., Mancuso, P., Devarajan, K., Cai, K.Q., Klein-Szanto, A.J.P., Neri, G., Møller, P., Viel, A., Genuardi, M., Fodde, R. and Bellacosa, A. Involvement of MBD4 inactivation in mismatch repair-deficient tumorigenesis. Oncotarget. 2015 Dec 15;6(40):42892-904. PubMed
Bellacosa, A. and Drohat A.C. Role of base excision repair in maintaining the genetic and epigenetic integrity of CpG sites. (Invited Review) DNA Repair, 32:33-42 (2015). PubMed
Bellacosa, A. Developmental disease and cancer: biological and clinical overlaps. (Invited Review) Am J Med Genet A, 161:2788-96 (2013). PubMed
Dalton, S.R. and Bellacosa, A. DNA Demethylation by TDG. Epigenomics 4: 459-467 (2012). PubMed
Cortellino, S., Xu, J., Sannai, M., Moore, R., Caretti, E., Cigliano, A., Le Coz, M., Devarajan, K., Wessels, A., Soprano, D., Abramowitz, L. K., Bartolomei, M.S. Rambow, F., Bassi, M.R., Bruno, T., Fanciulli, M., Renner, C., Klein-Szanto, A.J., Matsumoto, Y., Kobi, D., Davidson, I., Alberti, C., Larue, L., Bellacosa, A. Thymine DNA glycosylase is essential for active DNA demethylation by linked deamination-base excision repair. Cell 146:67-79 (2011). PubMed
Bellacosa, A., Godwin, A.K., Peri, S., Devarajan, K., Caretti, E., Vanderveer, L., Bove, B., Slater, C., Zhou, Y., Daly, M., Howard, S., Campbell, K., Nicolas, E., Yeung, A.T., Clapper, M.L., Crowell, J.A., Lynch, H.T., Ross, E., Kopelovich, L., Knudson, A.G. Altered gene expression in morphologically normal epithelial cells from heterozygous carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. Cancer Prev. Res. 3: 48–61 (2010). PubMed
Howard, J.H., Frolov, A., Tzeng, C-W.D., Stewart, A., Midzak, A., Majmundar, A., Godwin, A.K., Heslin, M.J., Bellacosa, A., and Arnoletti, J.P. Epigenetic Downregulation of the DNA Repair Gene MED1/MBD4 in Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Biol. Ther. 8: 1-7 (2009). PubMed
Cortellino, S., Wang, C., Wang, B., Bassi, M.R., Caretti, E., Champeval, D., Calmont, A., Jarnik, M., Burch, J., Zaret, K., Larue, L., Bellacosa, A. Defective ciliogenesis, embryonic lethality and severe impairment of the Sonic Hedgehog pathway caused by inactivation of the mouse complex A intraflagellar transport gene Ift122/Wdr10, partially overlapping with the DNA repair gene Med1/Mbd4. Dev. Biol. 325: 225-237 (2009). PMC2645042. PubMed
Caretti, E., Devarajan, K., Coudry, R., Ross, E., Clapper, M.L., Cooper, H.S. and Bellacosa, A. Comparison of RNA amplification methods and chip platforms for microarray analysis of samples processed by laser capture microdissection. J. Cell. Biochem. 103: 556-563 (2008). PubMed
Julien, S., Puig, I., Caretti, E., Bonaventure, J., Nelles, L., van Roy, F., Dargemont, C., Garcia de Herreros, A., Bellacosa, A. and Larue, L. Activation of NF-kB by Akt upregulates Snail expression and induces epithelium mesenchyme transition. Oncogene 26: 7445-7456 (2007). PubMed
Turner, D.P., Cortellino, S., Schup, J.E., Caretti, E., Loh, T., Kinsella, T.J., Bellacosa, A. The DNA N-glycosylase MED1 exhibits preference for halogenated pyrimidines and is involved in the cytotoxicity of 5-iododeoxyuridine. Cancer Res. 66: 7686-7693 (2006). PubMed
Bellacosa, A., Kumar, C.C., Di Cristofano, A., Testa, J.R. Activation of AKT kinases in cancer: implications for therapeutic targeting. Adv. Cancer Res. 94: 29-86, 2005. PubMed
Larue, L. and Bellacosa, A. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition in development and cancer: role of phosphatidylinositol 3' kinase/AKT pathways. Oncogene 24: 7443-7454, 2005. PubMed