Jennifer Devlin

Targeting transcription cycles in cancer

Stephin J Vervoort, Jennifer R Devlin, Nicholas Kwiatkowski, Mingxing Teng, Nathanael S Gray, Ricky W Johnstone

Journal article  |  2021  |  NATURE REVIEWS CANCER

Accurate control of gene expression is essential for normal development and dysregulation of transcription underpins cancer onset ..

The PP2A-Integrator-CDK9 axis fine-tunes transcription and can be targeted therapeutically in cancer

Stephin J Vervoort, Sarah A Welsh, Jennifer R Devlin, Elisa Barbieri, Deborah A Knight, Sarah Offley, Stefan Bjelosevic, Matteo Costacurta, Izabela Todorovski, Conor J Kearney, Jarrod J Sandow, Zheng Fan, Benjamin Blyth, Victoria McLeod, Joseph HA Vissers, Karolina Pavic, Ben P Martin, Gareth Gregory, Elena Demosthenous, Magnus Zethoven, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  CELL

Gene expression by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is tightly controlled by cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) at discrete checkpoints dur..

Serine Biosynthesis Is a Metabolic Vulnerability in FLT3-ITD-Driven Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Stefan Bjelosevic, Emily Gruber, Andrea Newbold, Carolyn Shembrey, Jennifer R Devlin, Simon J Hogg, Lev Kats, Izabela Todorovski, Zheng Fan, Thomas C Abrehart, Giovanna Pomilio, Andrew Wei, Gareth P Gregory, Stephin J Vervoort, Kristin K Brown, Ricky W Johnstone

Journal article  |  2021  |  CANCER DISCOVERY

Internal tandem duplication of the FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 gene (FLT3-ITD) occurs in 30% of all acute myeloid leukemias (AML). ..

Targeting histone acetylation dynamics and oncogenic transcription by catalytic P300/CBP inhibition

Simon J Hogg, Olga Motorna, Leonie A Cluse, Timothy 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, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOLECULAR CELL

To separate causal effects of histone acetylation on chromatin accessibility and transcriptional output, we used integrated epigen..

Reprogrammed mRNA translation drives resistance to therapeutic targeting of ribosome biogenesis

Eric P Kusnadi, Anna S Trigos, Carleen Cullinane, David L Goode, Ola Larsson, Jennifer R Devlin, Keefe T Chan, David P De Souza, Malcolm J McConville, Grant A McArthur, George Thomas, Elaine Sanij, Gretchen Poortinga, Ross D Hannan, Katherine M Hannan, Jian Kang, Richard B Pearson

Journal article  |  2020  |  EMBO JOURNAL

Elevated ribosome biogenesis in oncogene-driven cancers is commonly targeted by DNA-damaging cytotoxic drugs. Our previous first-i..

A novel CDK9 inhibitor increases the efficacy of venetoclax (ABT-199) in multiple models of hematologic malignancies

Darren C Phillips, Sha Jin, Gareth P Gregory, Qi Zhang, John Xue, Xiaoxian Zhao, Jun Chen, Yunsong Tong, Haichao Zhang, Morey Smith, Stephen K Tahir, Rick F Clark, Thomas D Penning, Jennifer R Devlin, Jake Shortt, Eric D Hsi, Daniel H Albert, Marina Konopleva, Ricky W Johnstone, Joel D Leverson, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  LEUKEMIA

MCL-1 is one of the most frequently amplified genes in cancer, facilitating tumor initiation and maintenance and enabling resistan..

CDK13 cooperates with CDK12 to control global RNA polymerase II processivity

Zheng Fan, Jennifer R Devlin, Simon J Hogg, Maria A Doyle, Paul F Harrison, Izabela Todorovski, Leonie A Cluse, Deborah A Knight, Jarrod J Sandow, Gareth Gregory, Andrew Fox, Traude H Beilharz, Nicholas Kwiatkowski, Nichollas E Scott, Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic, Gavin P Kelly, Jesper Q Svejstrup, Matthias Geyer, Nathanael S Gray, Stephin J Vervoort, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENCE ADVANCES

The RNA polymerase II (POLII)-driven transcription cycle is tightly regulated at distinct checkpoints by cyclin-dependent kinases ..

More than a Tumor Suppressor: E-Cadherin Loss Drives Lung Cancer Metastasis

Jennifer R Devlin, Emmy W Verschuren

Journal article  |  2018  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY