Selected publications

1. SJ Vervoort*a, SA Welsh*, JR Devlin, E Barbieri, DA Knight, M Costacurta I Todorovski, CJ Kearney, J Sandow, S Bjelosevic, Z Fan, J Visser, K Pavic, B Martin, G Gregory, SJ Hogg, M Kelly, A Newbold, K Simpson, O Kauko, K Harvey, M Ohlmeyer, J Westermarck, N Gray, A Gardini#a, R.W. Johnstone#ab, The PP2A-Integrator-CDK9 axis fine tunes transcription and can be targeted therapeutically in cancer. Cell 2021. PMID: 34004147 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.04.022. *Co-corresponding and first author.
2. Simon J. Hogg, Olga Motorna, Leonie A. Cluse, Timmothy M. Johanson, Hannah D. Coughlan, Ramya Raviram, Robert M. Myers, Matteo Costacurta, Izabela Todorovski, Lizzy Pijpers, Stefan Bjelosevic, Tobias Williams, Shannon N. Huskins, Conor J. Kearney, Jennifer R. Devlin, Zheng Fan, Jafar S. Jabbari, Ben P. Martin, Mohamed Fareh, Madison J. Kelly, Daphné Dupéré-Richer, Jarrod J. Sandow, Breon Feran, Deborah Knight, Tiffany Khong, Andrew Spencer, Simon J. Harrison, Gareth Gregory, Vihandha O. Wickramasinghe, Andrew I. Webb, Phillippa C. Taberlay, Kenneth D. Bromberg, Albert Lai, Anthony T. Papenfuss, Gordon K. Smyth, Rhys S. Allan, Jonathan D. Licht, Dan A. Landau, Omar Abdel-Wahab, Jake Shortt, Stephin J. Vervoort^†*, Ricky W. Johnstone^†*. Targeting P300/CBP reveals discrete regulation of transcription and chromatin accessibility by histone acetylation. Molecular Cell 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.04.015. *Co-senior and Co-corresponding authors
3. Kearney CJ*, Vervoort SJ*, Ramsbottom KM, Todorovski I, Lelliott EJ, Zethoven M, Pijpers L, Martin BP, Semple T, Martelotto L, Trapani JA, Parish IA, Scott NE, Oliaro J, Johnstone RW. SUGAR-seq enables simultaneous detection of glycans, epitopes, and the transcriptome in single cells. Science Advances. 2021 Feb 19;7(8):eabe3610. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe3610. PMID: 33608275; PMCID: PMC7895430. *Co-first author
4. Emily J Lelliott, Isabella Y Kong, Magnus Zethoven, Kelly M Ramsbottom, Luciano G. Martelotto, Deborah Meyran, Joe Jiang Zhu, Matteo Costacurta, Laura Kirby, Jarrod J Sandow, Lydia Lim, Pilar M Dominguez, Izabela Todorovski, Nicole M Haynes, Paul A. Beavis, Paul J Neeson, Edwin D Hawkins, Grant A McArthur, Ian A Parish, Ricky W. Johnstone, Jane Oliaro, Karen E Sheppard*, Conor J Kearney* and Stephin J Vervoort*. CDK4/6 inhibition promotes anti-tumor immunity through the induction of T cell memory. Cancer Discovery 2021. PMID: 33990344 Doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-20-1554. *Co-senior and corresponding
5. Kong IY, Rimes JS, Light A, Todorovski I, Jones S, Morand E, Knight DA, Bergman YE, Hogg SJ, Falk H, Monahan BJ, Stupple PA, Street IP, Heinzel S, Bouillet P, Johnstone RW, Hodgkin PD, Vervoort SJ*, Hawkins ED*. Temporal Analysis of Brd4 Displacement in the Control of B Cell Survival, Proliferation, and Differentiation. Cell Rep. 2020 Oct 20;33(3):108290. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108290. PMID: 33086063. *Co-senior and corresponding author
6. Fan Z, Devlin JR, Hogg SJ, Doyle MA, Harrison PF, Todorovski I, Cluse LA, Knight DA, Sandow JJ, Gregory G, Fox A, Beilharz TH, Kwiatkowski N, Scott NE, Vidakovic AT, Kelly GP, Svejstrup JQ, Geyer M, Gray NS, Vervoort SJ*, Johnstone RW*. CDK13 cooperates with CDK12 to control global RNA polymerase II processivity. Sci Adv. 2020 Apr 29;6(18):eaaz5041. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5041. PMID: 32917631; PMCID: PMC7190357. *Co-senior and corresponding author
7. Kelly MJ, So J, Rogers AJ, Gregory G, Li J, Zethoven M, Gearhart MD, Bardwell VJ, Johnstone RW, Vervoort SJ*, Kats LM*. Bcor loss perturbs myeloid differentiation and promotes leukaemogenesis. Nature Communications. 2019 Mar 22;10(1):1347. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09250-6. PMID: 30902969; PMCID: PMC6430802. *Co-senior authors
8. Vervoort SJ, de Jong OG, Roukens MG, Frederiks CL, Vermeulen JF, Lourenço AR, Bella L, Vidakovic AT, Sandoval JL, Moelans C, van Amersfoort M, Dallman MJ, Bruna A, Caldas C, Nieuwenhuis E, van der Wall E, Derksen P, van Diest P, Verhaar MC, Lam EW, Mokry M, Coffer PJ. Global transcriptional analysis identifies a novel role for SOX4 in tumor-induced angiogenesis. Elife. 2018 Dec 3;7:e27706. doi: 10.7554/eLife.27706. PMID: 30507376; PMCID: PMC6277201.
9. Kearney CJ*, Vervoort SJ*, Hogg SJ, Ramsbottom KM, Freeman AJ, Lalaoui N, Pijpers L, Michie J, Brown KK, Knight DA, Sutton V, Beavis PA, Voskoboinik I, Darcy PK, Silke J, Trapani JA, Johnstone RW, Oliaro J. Tumor immune evasion arises through loss of TNF sensitivity. Sci Immunol. 2018 May 18;3(23):eaar3451. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.aar3451. PMID: 29776993. *Co-first authors
10. Vervoort SJ, Lourenço AR, Tufegdzic Vidakovic A, Mocholi E, Sandoval JL, Rueda OM, Frederiks C, Pals C, Peeters JGC, Caldas C, Bruna A, Coffer PJ. SOX4 can redirect TGF-β-mediated SMAD3- transcriptional output in a context-dependent manner to promote tumorigenesis. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Oct 12;46(18):9578-9590. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky755. PMID: 30137431; PMCID: PMC6182182.

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