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Overview

Amina Zoubeidi is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on prostate cancer, encompassing treatment, diagnosis, and underlying molecular mechanisms. They have contributed extensively to understanding epigenetics, DNA methylation, and PARP inhibition in cancer therapy, among other related biological processes.

The scientist's work spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of publications also pertaining to subfields including Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, Oncology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism.

Their recent publications include the following notable papers:

  • The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Reprogramming of the FOXA1 cistrome in treatment-emergent neuroendocrine prostate cancer, 2021, Nature Communications
  • An androgen receptor switch underlies lineage infidelity in treatment-resistant prostate cancer, 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • Trop2 is a driver of metastatic prostate cancer with neuroendocrine phenotype via PARP1, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • ASCL1 activates neuronal stem cell-like lineage programming through remodeling of the chromatin landscape in prostate cancer, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent publication venues for Amina Zoubeidi include:

  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Discovery

Their frequent co-authors, reflecting ongoing collaboration, include:

  • Himisha Beltran
  • Martin Gleave
  • Shaghayegh Nouruzi
  • Olena Sivak
  • Dwaipayan Ganguli

Main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • PARP inhibition in cancer therapy
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Cancer-related gene regulation

Best Publications

  • Genomic Hallmarks and Structural Variation in Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

    David A. Quigley;Ha X. Dang;Shuang G. Zhao;Paul Lloyd

  • The Master Neural Transcription Factor BRN2 Is an Androgen Receptor-Suppressed Driver of Neuroendocrine Differentiation in Prostate Cancer.

    Jennifer L Bishop;Daksh Thaper;Daksh Thaper;Sepideh Vahid;Sepideh Vahid;Alastair Davies

  • Cellular plasticity and the neuroendocrine phenotype in prostate cancer

    Alastair H Davies;Himisha Beltran;Amina Zoubeidi;Amina Zoubeidi

  • Risk SNP-Mediated Promoter-Enhancer Switching Drives Prostate Cancer through lncRNA PCAT19

    Junjie Tony Hua;Junjie Tony Hua;Musaddeque Ahmed;Haiyang Guo;Yuzhe Zhang;Yuzhe Zhang;Yuzhe Zhang

  • Cooperative interactions between androgen receptor (AR) and heat-shock protein 27 facilitate AR transcriptional activity.

    Amina Zoubeidi;Anousheh Zardan;Eliana Beraldi;Ladan Fazli

  • The role of lineage plasticity in prostate cancer therapy resistance

    Himisha Beltran;Andrew Hruszkewycz;Howard I. Scher;Jeffrey Hildesheim

  • PD-L1 is highly expressed in Enzalutamide resistant prostate cancer

    Jennifer L. Bishop;Alexander Sio;Arkhjamil Angeles;Morgan E. Roberts

  • The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer

    Shuang G. Zhao;Shuang G. Zhao;William S. Chen;William S. Chen;Haolong Li;Adam Foye

  • The Placental Gene PEG10 Promotes Progression of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer

    Shusuke Akamatsu;Alexander W. Wyatt;Dong Lin;Summer Lysakowski

  • Hsp27 regulates epithelial mesenchymal transition, metastasis, and circulating tumor cells in prostate cancer.

    Masaki Shiota;Jennifer L. Bishop;Ka Mun Nip;Anousheh Zardan

  • Small heat shock proteins in cancer therapy and prognosis.

    Amina Zoubeidi;Martin Gleave

  • From sequence to molecular pathology, and a mechanism driving the neuroendocrine phenotype in prostate cancer

    Anna V Lapuk;Chunxiao Wu;Alexander W Wyatt;Andrew McPherson;Andrew McPherson

  • ONECUT2 is a driver of neuroendocrine prostate cancer.

    Haiyang Guo;Xinpei Ci;Xinpei Ci;Musaddeque Ahmed;Junjie Tony Hua;Junjie Tony Hua

  • Targeting the PI3K/Akt pathway in prostate cancer: challenges and opportunities (review).

    Paul Toren;Amina Zoubeidi

  • Targeting the Cytoprotective Chaperone, Clusterin, for Treatment of Advanced Cancer

    Amina Zoubeidi;Kim Chi;Martin Gleave

  • Clusterin Mediates TGF-β–Induced Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition and Metastasis via Twist1 in Prostate Cancer Cells

    Masaki Shiota;Anousheh Zardan;Ario Takeuchi;Masafumi Kumano

  • Erratum: Genomic Hallmarks and Structural Variation in Metastatic Prostate Cancer (Cell (2018) 174(3) (758–769.e9), (S0092867418308420) (10.1016/j.cell.2018.06.039))

    David A. Quigley;Ha X. Dang;Shuang G. Zhao;Paul Lloyd

  • Clusterin facilitates COMMD1 and I-κB degradation to enhance NF-κB activity in prostate cancer cells

    Amina Zoubeidi;Susan Ettinger;Eliana Beraldi;Boris Hadaschik

  • Clusterin as a therapeutic target

    Mark R Wilson;Amina Zoubeidi

  • Targeting Lyn regulates Snail family shuttling and inhibits metastasis

    D Thaper;S Vahid;K M Nip;I Moskalev

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin E. Gleave
Martin E. Gleave University of British Columbia
Ladan Fazli
Ladan Fazli University of British Columbia
Yuzhuo Wang
Yuzhuo Wang University of British Columbia
Himisha Beltran
Himisha Beltran Harvard University
Housheng Hansen He
Housheng Hansen He University of Toronto
Colin Collins
Colin Collins University of British Columbia
Colleen C. Nelson
Colleen C. Nelson Queensland University of Technology
Alexander W. Wyatt
Alexander W. Wyatt University of British Columbia
Kim N. Chi
Kim N. Chi BC Cancer Agency
Fan Zhang
Fan Zhang University of British Columbia

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