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Your Environment. Your Health.

Project Publications: University of California-San Diego: Control of Toxin and Obesity Induced Liver Fibrosis by B Cells

Superfund Research Program

Control of Toxin and Obesity Induced Liver Fibrosis by B Cells

Project Leader: Michael Karin
Grant Number: P42ES010337
Funding Period: 2017-2023
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Publications

2023

  • Boslem E, Reibe S, Carlessi R, Smeuninx B, Tegegne S, Egan CL, McLennan E, Terry LV, Nobis M, Mu A, Nowell C, Horadagoda N, Mellett NA, Timpson P, Jones M, Denisenko E, Forrest AR, Tirnitz-Parker JE, Meikle PJ, Rose-John S, Karin M, Febbraio MA. 2023. Therapeutic blockade of ER stress and inflammation prevents NASH and progression to HCC. Sci Adv 9(37):eadh0831. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adh0831 PMID:37703359 PMCID:PMC10499313
  • He F, Zhang P, Liu J, Wang R, Kaufman RJ, Yaden BC, Karin M. 2023. ATF4 suppresses hepatocarcinogenesis by inducing SLC7A11 (xCT) to block stress-related ferroptosis. J Hepatol 79(2):362-377. doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2023.03.016 PMID:36996941
  • Yang X, Weber AA, Mennillo E, Secrest P, Chang M, Wong S, Le S, Liu J, Benner CW, Karin M, Gordts P, Tukey RH, Chen S. 2023. Effects of early life oral arsenic exposure on intestinal tract development and lipid homeostasis in neonatal mice: Implications for NAFLD development. Environ Health Perspect 131(9):doi:10.1289/ehp12381 PMID:37668303 PMCID:10478510

2022

  • Carvalho-Gontijo R, Han C, Zhang L, Zhang V, Hosseini M, Mekeel K, Schnabl B, Loomba R, Karin M, Brenner DA, Kisseleva T. 2022. Metabolic injury of hepatocytes promotes progression of NAFLD and AALD. Semin Liver Dis 42(3):233-249. doi:10.1055/s-0042-1755316 PMID:36001995
  • Gao H, Jin Z, Bandyopadhyay G, Wang G, Zhang D, Rocha KC, Liu X, Zhao H, Kisseleva T, Brenner DA, Karin M, Ying W. 2022. Aberrant iron distribution via hepatocyte-stellate cell axis drives liver lipogenesis and fibrosis. Cell Metab 34(8):1201-1213. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2022.07.006 PMID:35921818 PMCID:PMC9365100
  • Kim J, Wang LQ, Sladky VC, Oh TG, Liu J, Trinh K, Eichin F, Downes M, Hosseini M, Jacotot ED, Evans RM, Villunger A, Karin M. 2022. PIDDosome-SCAP crosstalk controls high-fructose-diet-dependent transition from simple steatosis to steatohepatitis. Cell Metab 34(10):1548-1560. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2022.08.005 PMID:36041455 PMCID:PMC9547947
  • Weber AA, Yang X, Mennillo E, Ding J, Watrous JD, Jain M, Chen S, Karin M, Tukey RH. 2022. Lactational delivery of Triclosan promotes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in newborn mice. Nat Commun 13(1):4346. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31947-4 PMID:35896521 PMCID:PMC9329322

2021

2020

  • He F, Antonucci L, Karin M. 2020. NRF2 as a regulator of cell metabolism and inflammation in cancer. Carcinogenesis 41:doi:10.1093/carcin/bgaa039 PMID:32347301 PMCID:PMC7298623 (accepted for publication)
  • He F, Antonucci L, Yamachika S, Zhang Z, Taniguchi K, Umemura A, Hatzivassiliou G, Roose-Girma M, Reina-Campos M, Molina AD, Diaz-Meco MT, Moscat J, Sun B, Karin M. 2020. NRF2 activates growth factor genes and downstream AKT signaling to induce mouse and human hepatomegaly. J Hepatol 72:1182-1195. doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2020.01.023 PMID:32105670
  • Ma H, Yamamoto G, Xu J, Liu X, Karin D, Kim J, Alexandrov LB, Koyama Y, Nishio T, Benner CW, Heinz S, Rosenthal S, Liang S, Sun M, Karin G, Zhao P, Brodt P, Mckillop I, Quehenberger O, Dennis EA, Saltiel AR, Tsukamoto H, Gao B, Karin M, Brenner DA, Kisseleva T. 2020. IL-17 signaling in steatotic hepatocytes and macrophages promotes hepatocellular carcinoma in alcohol-related liver disease. J Hepatol 72:946-959. doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2019.12.016 PMID:31899206 PMCID:PMC7167339
  • Todoric J, Di Caro G, Reibe S, Henstridge DC, Green CR, Vrbanac AF, Ceteci F, Conche C, McNulty R, Shalapour S, Taniguchi K, Meikle PJ, Watrous JD, Moranchel R, Najhawan M, Jain M, Liu X, Kisseleva T, Diaz-Meco MT, Moscat J, Knight R, Greten FR, Lau LF, Metallo CM, Febbraio MA, Karin M. 2020. Fructose stimulated de novo lipogenesis is promoted by inflammation. Nat Metab 2:1034-1045. doi:10.1038/s42255-020-0261-2 PMID:32839596 PMCID:PMC8018782
  • Xu J, Ma H, Liu X, Rosenthal SB, Baglieri J, Mccubbin R, Sun M, Koyama Y, Geoffroy C, Saijo K, Shang L, Nishio T, Maricic I, Kriefeldt M, Kusumanchi P, Roberts a, Zheng B, Kumar V, Zengler K, Pizzo D, Hosseini M, Contet C, Glass CK, Liangpunsakul S, Tsukamoto H, Gao B, Karin M, Brenner DA, Koob G, Kisseleva T. 2020. Blockade of IL-17 signaling reverses alcohol-induced liver injury and excessive alcohol drinking in mice. JCI Insight doi:10.1172/jci.insight.131277 PMID:32051339 PMCID:PMC7098802
  • Yueh MF, He F, Chen C, Vu C, Tripathi A, Knight R, Karin M, Chen S, Tukey RH. 2020. Triclosan leads to dysregulation of the metabolic regulator FGF21 exacerbating high fat diet-induced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117:31259-31266. doi:10.1073/pnas.2017129117 PMID:33229553 PMCID:PMC7733785
  • Zhao P, Sun X, Chaggan C, Liao Z, Wong KI, He F, Singh S, Loomba R, Karin M, Witztum JL, Saltiel AR. 2020. An AMPK-caspase-6 axis controls liver damage in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Science 367:doi:10.1126/science.aay0542 PMID:32029622 PMCID:PMC8012106 (accepted for publication)

2019

  • Febbraio MA, Reibe S, Shalapour S, Ooi GJ, Watt MJ, Karin M. 2019. Preclinical models for studying NASH-driven HCC: How useful are they?. Cell Metab 29:18-26. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2018.10.012 PMID:30449681 PMCID:PMC6326872
  • Liang S, Ma H, Zhong Z, Dhar D, Liu X, Xu J, Koyama Y, Nishio T, Karin D, Karin G, Mccubbin R, Zhang C, Hu R, Yang G, Chen L, Ganguly S, Lan T, Karin M, Kisseleva T, Brenner DA. 2019. NADPH Oxidase 1 in Liver Macrophages Promotes Inflammation and Tumor Development in Mice. Gastroenterology 156(4):1156-1172. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2018.11.019 PMID:30445007 PMCID:PMC6409207
  • Sanchez-Lopez E, Zhong Z, Stubelius A, Sweeney SR, Booshehri LM, Antonucci L, Liu-Bryan R, Lodi A, Terkeltaub R, Lacal JC, Murphy AN, Hoffman HM, Tiziani S, Guma M, Karin M. 2019. Choline Uptake and metabolism modulate macrophage IL-1 beta and IL-18 production. Cell Metab 29:1350. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2019.03.011 PMID:30982734 PMCID:PMC6675591

2018

  • Dhar D, Antonucci L, Nakagawa H, Kim J, Glitzner E, Caruso S, Shalapour S, Yang L, Valasek MA, Lee S, Minnich K, Seki E, Tuckermann J, Sibilia M, Zucman-Rossi J, Karin M. 2018. Liver cancer initiation requires p53 inhibition by CD44-enhanced growth factor signaling. Cancer Cell 33:1061. doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2018.05.003 PMID:29894692 PMCID:PMC6005359
  • Dow M, Pyke RM, Tsui BY, Alexandrov LB, Nakagawa H, Taniguchi K, Seki E, Harismendy O, Shalapour S, Karin M, Carter H, Font-Burgada J. 2018. Integrative genomic analysis of mouse and human hepatocellular carcinoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115:E9879-E9888. doi:10.1073/pnas.1811029115 PMID:30287485 PMCID:PMC6196518
  • Karin M. 2018. New insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of non-viral hepatocellular carcinoma: a balancing act between immunosuppression and immunosurveillance. Precis Clin Med 1(1):21-28. doi:10.1093/pcmedi/pby005 PMID:30687560 PMCID:PMC6333043
  • Kim J, Garcia-Carbonell R, Yamachika S, Zhao P, Dhar D, Loomba R, Kaufman RJ, Saltiel AR, Karin M. 2018. ER stress drives lipogenesis and steatohepatitis via caspase-2 activation of S1P. Cell 175(1):133-145. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.020 PMID:30220454 PMCID:PMC6159928
  • Song N, Zhu F, Wang Z, Willette-Brown J, Xi S, Sun Z, Su L, Xu X, Ma B, Nussinov R, Xia X, Schrump DS, Johnson PF, Karin M, Hu Y. 2018. IKK alpha inactivation promotes Kras-initiated lung adenocarcinoma development through disrupting major redox regulatory pathways. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115:E812-E821. doi:10.1073/pnas.1717520115 PMID:29311298 PMCID:PMC5789942
  • Tripathi A, Debelius J, Brenner DA, Karin M, Loomba R, Schnabl B, Knight R. 2018. The gut-liver axis and the intersection with the microbiome. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 15:397-411. doi:10.1038/s41575-018-0011-z PMID:29748586 PMCID:PMC6319369
  • Zhong Z, Liang S, Sanchez-Lopez E, He F, Shalapour S, Lin X, Wong J, Ding S, Seki E, Schnabl B, Hevener AL, Greenberg HB, Kisseleva T, Karin M. 2018. New mitochondrial DNA synthesis enables NLRP3 inflammasome activation. Nature 560:198-203. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0372-z PMID:30046112 PMCID:PMC6329306

2017

  • Shalapour S, Lin X, Bastian IN, Brain J, Burt AD, Aksenov AA, Vrbanac AF, Li W, Perkins A, Matsutani T, Zhong Z, Dhar D, Navas-Molina JA, Xu J, Loomba R, Downes M, Yu RT, Evans RM, Dorrestein PC, Knight R, Benner CW, Anstee QM, Karin M. 2017. Inflammation-induced IgA+ cells dismantle anti-liver cancer immunity. Nature 551(7680):340-345. doi:10.1038/nature24302 PMID:29144460 PMCID:PMC5884449
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