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John M. Koomen is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

Their work includes significant contributions in the following areas:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, Koomen has concentrated on subfields such as molecular biology, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, immunology, and cancer research.

Key research topics covered by Koomen include:

  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis

Koomen's most recent published papers demonstrate a focus on immunology, cellular metabolism, and cancer biology. Notable recent works include:

  • Macrophage Metabolism of Apoptotic Cell-Derived Arginine Promotes Continual Efferocytosis and Resolution of Injury (2020, Cell Metabolism)
  • Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte treatment for anti-PD-1-resistant metastatic lung cancer: a phase 1 trial (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • Sirt2 Inhibition Enhances Metabolic Fitness and Effector Functions of Tumor-Reactive T Cells (2020, Cell Metabolism)
  • Macrophages use apoptotic cell-derived methionine and DNMT3A during efferocytosis to promote tissue resolution (2022, Nature Metabolism)
  • Macrophage-Derived Cholesterol Contributes to Therapeutic Resistance in Prostate Cancer (2021, Cancer Research)

The scientist has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Bin Fang
  • Eric B. Haura
  • Eric A. Welsh
  • Paul A. Stewart
  • Lancia Darville

Koomen's research has been published across a range of venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Cancer Research
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Blood

Best Publications

  • HDAC6 Modulates Cell Motility by Altering the Acetylation Level of Cortactin

    Xiaohong Zhang;Zhigang Yuan;Yingtao Zhang;Sarah Yong

  • PTEN loss confers BRAF inhibitor resistance to melanoma cells through the suppression of BIM expression

    Kim H.T. Paraiso;Yun Xiang;Vito W. Rebecca;Ethan V. Abel

  • Targeted Peptide Measurements in Biology and Medicine: Best Practices for Mass Spectrometry-based Assay Development Using a Fit-for-Purpose Approach

    Steven A. Carr;Susan E. Abbatiello;Bradley L. Ackermann;Christoph Borchers

  • Feature extraction and quantification for mass spectrometry in biomedical applications using the mean spectrum

    Jeffrey S. Morris;Kevin R. Coombes;John Koomen;Keith A. Baggerly

  • Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte treatment for anti-PD-1-resistant metastatic lung cancer: a phase 1 trial.

    Benjamin C. Creelan;Chao Wang;Jamie K. Teer;Eric M. Toloza

  • Anion template effect on the self-assembly and interconversion of metallacyclophanes.

    Cristian Saul Campos-Fernández;Brandi L. Schottel;Helen T. Chifotides;Jitendra K. Bera

  • Macrophage Metabolism of Apoptotic Cell-Derived Arginine Promotes Continual Efferocytosis and Resolution of Injury

    Arif Yurdagul;Manikandan Subramanian;Xiaobo Wang;Scott B. Crown

  • Induction of p21 by p53 following DNA damage inhibits both Cdk4 and Cdk2 activities

    Guangan He;Zahid H Siddik;Zaifeng Huang;Ruoning Wang

  • A chemical and phosphoproteomic characterization of dasatinib action in lung cancer.

    Jiannong Li;Uwe Rix;Bin Fang;Yun Bai

  • Direct tandem mass spectrometry reveals limitations in protein profiling experiments for plasma biomarker discovery.

    John M. Koomen;Donghui Li;Lian Chun Xiao;Thomas C. Liu

  • Comparative Analyses of the Three-dimensional Structures and Enzymatic Properties of α, β, γ, and δ Isoforms of Ca2+-Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase II

    Tara R. Gaertner;Steven J. Kolodziej;Dan Wang;Ryuji Kobayashi

  • SIRT1 deacetylates the DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) protein and alters its activities.

    Lirong Peng;Zhigang Yuan;Hongbo Ling;Kenji Fukasawa

  • Plasma protein profiling for diagnosis of pancreatic cancer reveals the presence of host response proteins.

    John M. Koomen;Lichen Nancy Shih;Kevin R. Coombes;Donghui Li

  • Ack1 Mediated AKT/PKB Tyrosine 176 Phosphorylation Regulates Its Activation

    Kiran Mahajan;Domenico Coppola;Sridevi Challa;Bin Fang

  • The HSP90 inhibitor XL888 overcomes BRAF inhibitor resistance mediated through diverse mechanisms

    Kim H.T. Paraiso;H. Eirik Haarberg;Elizabeth Wood;Vito W. Rebecca

  • Fine-tuning the ring-size of metallacyclophanes: a rational approach to molecular pentagons.

    Cristian Saul Campos-Fernández;Rodolphe Clérac;John M. Koomen;David H. Russell

  • Chronic acidosis in the tumour microenvironment selects for overexpression of LAMP2 in the plasma membrane.

    Mehdi Damaghi;Narges K. Tafreshi;Mark C. Lloyd;Robert Sprung

  • Lipid/Peptide/Nucleotide Separation with MALDI-Ion Mobility-TOF MS

    Amina S. Woods;Michael Ugarov;Tom Egan;John Koomen

  • MPP8 mediates the interactions between DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a and H3K9 methyltransferase GLP/G9a.

    Yanqi Chang;Lidong Sun;Kenji Kokura;John R. Horton

  • Abstract 5370: PTEN loss confers BRAF inhibitor resistance to melanoma cells through the suppression of BIM expression

    Kim H. Paraiso;Vito Rebecca;Inna V. Fedorenko;Yun Xiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric B. Haura
Eric B. Haura University of South Florida
Jane L. Messina
Jane L. Messina University of South Florida
Ryuji Kobayashi
Ryuji Kobayashi The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
William S. Dalton
William S. Dalton University of South Florida
Vernon K. Sondak
Vernon K. Sondak University of South Florida
David H. Russell
David H. Russell Texas A&M University
Edward Seto
Edward Seto George Washington University
John L. Cleveland
John L. Cleveland Moffitt Cancer Center
Robert J. Gillies
Robert J. Gillies Moffitt Cancer Center
Alvaro N.A. Monteiro
Alvaro N.A. Monteiro University of South Florida

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