Publications

1. Dowling NM, Khramtsova G, Olopade O, Samankan S, Lee BS, Lee J. Differential BACH1 Expression in Basal-like Breast Tumors of Black Women Identified via Immunohistochemistry.  Current Oncology, 2025. PMID: 40710214 DOI: 10.3390/curroncol32070404

2. S Mazambani, A Nguyen, J Choe, B-S Lee, JY Jeong, SY Lee, C-H Kim, J Lee, TG Oh, P Singh, H Hur, J-W Kim, and TH Kim. Targeting the glucose-insulin link in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma induces cytotoxic oxidative stress and inhibits cancer growth. Cancer Research Communication, 2025. PMID: 40371988 DOI: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0506

3. B-S Lee, Y-I Park, H Liu, S G Kim, H J Kim, J-H Choi, S H Rho, J Padilla, J Roh, H G Woo, H J Seo, M H Choi, Y-J Jeong, E C. Lien, S H Mehdi, D Lee, D Yoon, C-H Kim*, and J Lee*. The role of 7-dehydrocholesterol in inducing ER stress and apoptosis of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Letters, 2025. PMID: 40456399 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2025.217842

4. Joselyn Padilla, Bok-Soon Lee, Allen Kim, Yea-In Park, Avani Bansal, Jiyoung Lee. Tumor Regulatory Effect of 15-Hydroxyprostaglandin Dehydrogenase (HPGD) in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Int J Mol Sci, 2025. PMID: 40076539 DOI: 10.3390/ijms26051912

5. Lee J, Olivieri C, Ong C, Masterson LR, Gomez S, Lee B-S, Lorenz K, Veglia G, and Rosner MR. Raf-kinase inhibitory protein (RKIP) regulates the cAMP-dependent protein kinase signaling pathway through a positive feedback loop. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2025. PMID: 35696587 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2121867119

6. J. Padilla, B-S. Lee, K. Zhai, B. Rentz, T. Bobo, N. M. Dowling, and J. Lee. A heme-binding transcription factor BACH1 regulates lactate catabolism in triple-negative breast cancer. Cells, 2022. PMID: 35406740 DOI: 10.3390/cells11071177

7. J. Padilla and J. Lee. A novel therapeutic target, BACH1, regulates cancer metabolism. Cells, 2021. PMID: 33809182 DOI: 10.3390/cells10030634

8. Rabe DC, Walker ND, Rustandy FD, Wallace J, Lee J, Stott SL, and Rosner MR. Tumor extracellular vesicles regulate macrophage-driven metastasis through CCL5. Cancers, 2021. PMID: 34298673 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13143459

9. Yesilkanal AE, Yang D, Valdespino A, Tiwari P, Sabino AU, Nguyen LC, Lee J, Xie X, Sun S, Dann C, Robinson-Mailman L, Steinberg E, Stuhlmiller T, Frankenberger C, Goldsmith E, Jonhson GL, Ramos AF, and Rosner MR. Limited inhibition of multiple nodes in a driver network blocks metastasis.  eLife, 2021. PMID: 33973518 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.59696

10. Lee J, Yesilkanal AE, Wynne J, Frankenberger C, Liu J, Yan J, Elbaz M, Rabe DC, Rustandy FD, Grossman EA, Hart PC, Kang C, Sanderson SM, Andrade J, Nomura DK, Bonini MG, Locasale JW, and Rosner MR. Effective breast cancer combination therapy targeting BACH1 and mitochondrial metabolism.  Nature, 2019. PMID: 30842661 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1005-x

11. M. R. Rosner and J. Lee. Chapter 2. Function of BACH1 as a key target of RKIP in breast cancer. In: Prognostic and Therapeutic Applications of RKIP in Cancer. 2019.