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William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Phone: (617) 632-3975
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william_kaelin@dfci.harvard.edu

William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Senior Physician, Medicine, Brigham And Women's Hospital

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Research Abstract

The Kaelin Laboratory studies the functions of tumor suppressor proteins including the retinoblastoma protein (pRB), the von Hippel-Lindau protein (pVHL), and a homolog of the p53 tumor suppressor protein called p73. The laboratory uses a variety of molecular and cellular approaches to understand how, mechanistically, these proteins prevent tumor growth. One long term goal of this work is to lay the foundation for novel anticancer strategies. For example, one could envision the development of drugs that will selectively kill cells that lack a particular tumor suppressor protein or which will mimic a particular biochemical activity normally performed by a tumor suppressor protein.

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  • Grubb T, Maganti S, Krill-Burger JM, Fraser C, Stransky L, Radivoyevitch T, Sarosiek KA, Vazquez F, Kaelin WG, Chakraborty AA. A Mesenchymal Tumor Cell State Confers Increased Dependency on the BCL-XL Anti-apoptotic Protein in Kidney Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2022. PubMed
  • Stransky LA, Vigeant SM, Huang B, West D, Denize T, Walton E, Signoretti S, Kaelin WG. Sensitivity of mutant kidney cancers to HIF2 inhibitors does not require an intact p53 pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2120403119. PubMed
  • Koduri V, Duplaquet L, Lampson BL, Wang AC, Sabet AH, Ishoey M, Paulk J, Teng M, Harris IS, Endress JE, Liu X, Dasilva E, Paulo JA, Briggs KJ, Doench JG, Ott CJ, Zhang T, Donovan KA, Fischer ES, Gygi SP, Gray NS, Bradner J, Medin JA, Buhrlage SJ, Oser MG, Kaelin WG. Targeting oncoproteins with a positive selection assay for protein degraders. Sci Adv 2021. PubMed
  • Kamihara J, Hamilton KV, Pollard JA, Clinton CM, Madden JA, Lin J, Imamovic A, Wall CB, Wassner AJ, Weil BR, Heeney MM, Vargas SO, Kaelin WG, Janeway KA, Perini RF, Zojwalla NJ, Voss SD, DuBois SG. Belzutifan, a Potent HIF2α Inhibitor, in the Pacak-Zhuang Syndrome. N Engl J Med 2021; 385:2059-2065. PubMed
  • Liu J, Peng Y, Shi L, Wan L, Inuzuka H, Long J, Guo J, Zhang J, Yuan M, Zhang S, Wang X, Gao J, Dai X, Furumoto S, Jia L, Pandolfi PP, Asara JM, Kaelin WG, Liu J, Wei W. Skp2 dictates cell cycle-dependent metabolic oscillation between glycolysis and TCA cycle. Cell Res 2020. PubMed
  • Choueiri TK, Kaelin WG. Targeting the HIF2-VEGF axis in renal cell carcinoma. Nat Med 2020; 26:1519-1530. PubMed
  • Losman JA, Koivunen P, Kaelin WG. 2-Oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases in cancer. Nat Rev Cancer 2020; 20:710-726. PubMed
  • Zhang H, Christensen CL, Dries R, Oser MG, Deng J, Diskin B, Li F, Pan Y, Zhang X, Yin Y, Papadopoulos E, Pyon V, Thakurdin C, Kwiatkowski N, Jani K, Rabin AR, Castro DM, Chen T, Silver H, Huang Q, Bulatovic M, Dowling CM, Sundberg B, Leggett A, Ranieri M, Han H, Li S, Yang A, Labbe KE, Almonte C, Sviderskiy VO, Quinn M, Donaghue J, Wang ES, Zhang T, He Z, Velcheti V, Hammerman PS, Freeman GJ, Bonneau R, Kaelin WG, Sutherland KD, Kersbergen A, Aguirre AJ, Yuan GC, Rothenberg E, Miller G, Gray NS, Wong KK. CDK7 Inhibition Potentiates Genome Instability Triggering Anti-tumor Immunity in Small Cell Lung Cancer. Cancer Cell 2019. PubMed
  • Nicholson HE, Tariq Z, Housden BE, Jennings RB, Stransky LA, Perrimon N, Signoretti S, Kaelin WG. HIF-independent synthetic lethality between CDK4/6 inhibition and VHL loss across species. Sci Signal 2019. PubMed
  • Li S, Rodriguez J, Li W, Bullova P, Fell SM, Surova O, Westerlund I, Topcic D, Bergsland M, Stenman A, Muhr J, Nistér M, Holmberg J, Juhlin CC, Larsson C, von Kriegsheim A, Kaelin WG, Schlisio S. EglN3 hydroxylase stabilizes BIM-EL linking VHL type 2C mutations to pheochromocytoma pathogenesis and chemotherapy resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:16997-17006. PubMed
  • Harris IS, Endress JE, Coloff JL, Selfors LM, McBrayer SK, Rosenbluth JM, Takahashi N, Dhakal S, Koduri V, Oser MG, Schauer NJ, Doherty LM, Hong AL, Kang YP, Younger ST, Doench JG, Hahn WC, Buhrlage SJ, DeNicola GM, Kaelin WG, Brugge JS. Deubiquitinases Maintain Protein Homeostasis and Survival of Cancer Cells upon Glutathione Depletion. Cell Metab 2019. PubMed
  • Oser MG, Sabet AH, Gao W, Chakraborty AA, Schinzel AC, Jennings RB, Fonseca R, Bonal DM, Booker MA, Flaifel A, Novak JS, Christensen CL, Zhang H, Herbert ZT, Tolstorukov MY, Buss EJ, Wong KK, Bronson RT, Nguyen QD, Signoretti S, Kaelin WG. The KDM5A/RBP2 histone demethylase represses NOTCH signaling to sustain neuroendocrine differentiation and promote small cell lung cancer tumorigenesis. Genes Dev 2019; 33:1718-1738. PubMed
  • Sethi N, Kikuchi O, McFarland J, Zhang Y, Chung M, Kafker N, Islam M, Lampson B, Chakraborty A, Kaelin WG, Bass AJ. Mutant p53 induces a hypoxia transcriptional program in gastric and esophageal adenocarcinoma. JCI Insight 2019. PubMed
  • Koduri V, McBrayer SK, Liberzon E, Wang AC, Briggs KJ, Cho H, Kaelin WG. Peptidic degron for IMiD-induced degradation of heterologous proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:2539-2544. PubMed
  • Chakraborty AA, Laukka T, Myllykoski M, Ringel AE, Booker MA, Tolstorukov MY, Meng YJ, Meier SR, Jennings RB, Creech AL, Herbert ZT, McBrayer SK, Olenchock BA, Jaffe JD, Haigis MC, Beroukhim R, Signoretti S, Koivunen P, Kaelin WG. Histone demethylase KDM6A directly senses oxygen to control chromatin and cell fate. Science 2019; 363:1217-1222. PubMed
  • Oser MG, Fonseca R, Chakraborty AA, Brough R, Spektor A, Jennings RB, Flaifel A, Novak JS, Gulati A, Buss E, Younger ST, McBrayer SK, Cowley GS, Bonal DM, Nguyen QD, Brulle-Soumare L, Taylor P, Cairo S, Ryan CJ, Pease EJ, Maratea K, Travers J, Root DE, Signoretti S, Pellman D, Ashton S, Lord CJ, Barry ST, Kaelin WG. Cells Lacking the RB1 Tumor Suppressor Gene are Hyperdependent on Aurora B Kinase for Survival. 2018. PubMed
  • Li AG, Murphy EC, Culhane AC, Powell E, Wang H, Bronson RT, Von T, Giobbie-Hurder A, Gelman RS, Briggs KJ, Piwnica-Worms H, Zhao JJ, Kung AL, Kaelin WG, Livingston DM. BRCA1-IRIS promotes human tumor progression through PTEN blockade and HIF-1α activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018. PubMed
  • McBrayer SK, Mayers JR, DiNatale GJ, Shi DD, Khanal J, Chakraborty AA, Sarosiek KA, Briggs KJ, Robbins AK, Sewastianik T, Shareef SJ, Olenchock BA, Parker SJ, Tateishi K, Spinelli JB, Islam M, Haigis MC, Looper RE, Ligon KL, Bernstein BE, Carrasco RD, Cahill DP, Asara JM, Metallo CM, Yennawar NH, Vander Heiden MG, Kaelin WG. Transaminase Inhibition by 2-Hydroxyglutarate Impairs Glutamate Biosynthesis and Redox Homeostasis in Glioma. Cell 2018; 175:101-116.e25. PubMed
  • McBrayer SK, Olenchock BA, DiNatale GJ, Shi DD, Khanal J, Jennings RB, Novak JS, Oser MG, Robbins AK, Modiste R, Bonal D, Moslehi J, Bronson RT, Neuberg D, Nguyen QD, Signoretti S, Losman JA, Kaelin WG. Autochthonous tumors driven byloss have an ongoing requirement for the RBP2 histone demethylase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. HIF2 Inhibitor Joins the Kidney Cancer Armamentarium. J Clin Oncol 2018; 36:908-910. PubMed
  • Miao D, Margolis CA, Gao W, Voss MH, Li W, Martini DJ, Norton C, Bossé D, Wankowicz SM, Cullen D, Horak C, Wind-Rotolo M, Tracy A, Giannakis M, Hodi FS, Drake CG, Ball MW, Allaf ME, Snyder A, Hellmann MD, Ho T, Motzer RJ, Signoretti S, Kaelin WG, Choueiri TK, Van Allen EM. Genomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint therapies in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Science 2018. PubMed
  • Zhang J, Wu T, Simon J, Takada M, Saito R, Fan C, Liu XD, Jonasch E, Xie L, Chen X, Yao X, Teh BT, Tan P, Zheng X, Li M, Lawrence C, Fan J, Geng J, Liu X, Hu L, Wang J, Liao C, Hong K, Zurlo G, Parker JS, Auman JT, Perou CM, Rathmell WK, Kim WY, Kirschner MW, Kaelin WG, Baldwin AS, Zhang Q. VHL substrate transcription factor ZHX2 as an oncogenic driver in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Science 2018; 361:290-295. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. Common pitfalls in preclinical cancer target validation. Nat Rev Cancer 2017; 17:425-440. PubMed
  • Ivan M, Kaelin WG. The EGLN-HIF O2-Sensing System: Multiple Inputs and Feedbacks. Mol Cell 2017; 66:772-779. PubMed
  • Gao W, Li W, Xiao T, Liu XS, Kaelin WG. Inactivation of the PBRM1 tumor suppressor gene amplifies the HIF-response in VHL-/- clear cell renal carcinoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:1027-1032. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. The VHL Tumor Suppressor Gene: Insights into Oxygen Sensing and Cancer. Trans. Am. Clin. Climatol. Assoc. 2017; 128:298-307. PubMed
  • Cho H, Kaelin WG. Targeting HIF2 in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 2016. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG, Ratcliffe PJ, Semenza GL. Pathways for Oxygen Regulation and Homeostasis: The 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. JAMA 2016; 316:1252-3. PubMed
  • German NJ, Yoon H, Yusuf RZ, Murphy JP, Finley LW, Laurent G, Haas W, Satterstrom FK, Guarnerio J, Zaganjor E, Santos D, Pandolfi PP, Beck AH, Gygi SP, Scadden DT, Kaelin WG, Haigis MC. PHD3 Loss in Cancer Enables Metabolic Reliance on Fatty Acid Oxidation via Deactivation of ACC2. Mol Cell 2016; 63:1006-20. PubMed
  • Briggs KJ, Koivunen P, Cao S, Backus KM, Olenchock BA, Patel H, Zhang Q, Signoretti S, Gerfen GJ, Richardson AL, Witkiewicz AK, Cravatt BF, Clardy J, Kaelin WG. Paracrine Induction of HIF by Glutamate in Breast Cancer: EglN1 Senses Cysteine. Cell 2016; 166:126-39. PubMed
  • Olenchock BA, Moslehi J, Baik AH, Davidson SM, Williams J, Gibson WJ, Pierce KA, Miller CM, Hanse EA, Kelekar A, Sullivan LB, Wagers AJ, Clish CB, Vander Heiden MG, Kaelin WG. EGLN1 Inhibition and Rerouting of α-Ketoglutarate Suffice for Remote Ischemic Protection. Cell 2016; 164:884-95. PubMed
  • Laukka T, Mariani CJ, Ihantola T, Cao JZ, Hokkanen J, Kaelin WG, Godley LA, Koivunen P. Fumarate and Succinate Regulate Expression of Hypoxia-inducible Genes via TET Enzymes. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:4256-65. PubMed
  • Guo J, Chakraborty AA, Liu P, Gan W, Zheng X, Inuzuka H, Wang B, Zhang J, Zhang L, Yuan M, Novak J, Cheng JQ, Toker A, Signoretti S, Zhang Q, Asara JM, Kaelin WG, Wei W. pVHL suppresses kinase activity of Akt in a proline-hydroxylation-dependent manner. Science 2016; 353:929-32. PubMed
  • Cho H, Du X, Rizzi JP, Liberzon E, Chakraborty AA, Gao W, Carvo I, Signoretti S, Bruick RK, Josey JA, Wallace EM, Kaelin WG. On-target efficacy of a HIF-2α antagonist in preclinical kidney cancer models. Nature 2016. PubMed
  • Zhang C, Li X, Adelmant G, Dobbins J, Geisen C, Oser MG, Wucherpfenning KW, Marto JA, Kaelin WG. Peptidic degron in EID1 is recognized by an SCF E3 ligase complex containing the orphan F-box protein FBXO21. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:15372-15377. PubMed
  • Zhang J, Wang C, Chen X, Takada M, Fan C, Zheng X, Wen H, Liu Y, Wang C, Pestell RG, Aird KM, Kaelin WG, Liu XS, Zhang Q. EglN2 associates with the NRF1-PGC1α complex and controls mitochondrial function in breast cancer. EMBO J 2015; 34:2953-70. PubMed
  • Andronesi OC, Loebel F, Bogner W, Marjanska M, Vander Heiden MG, Iafrate AJ, Dietrich J, Batchelor T, Gerstner ER, Kaelin W, Chi AS, Rosen B, Cahill DP. Treatment response assessment in IDH-mutant glioma patients by non-invasive 3D functional Spectroscopic Mapping of 2-Hydroxyglutarate. Clin Cancer Res 2015. PubMed
  • Suhara T, Hishiki T, Kasahara M, Hayakawa N, Oyaizu T, Nakanishi T, Kubo A, Morisaki H, Kaelin WG, Suematsu M, Minamishima YA. Inhibition of the oxygen sensor PHD2 in the liver improves survival in lactic acidosis by activating the Cori cycle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:11642-7. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. DisABLing kidney cancers caused by fumarate hydratase mutations. Cancer Cell 2014; 26:779-80. PubMed
  • Lu G, Zhang Q, Huang Y, Song J, Tomaino R, Ehrenberger T, Lim E, Liu W, Bronson RT, Bowden M, Brock J, Krop IE, Dillon DA, Gygi SP, Mills GB, Richardson AL, Signoretti S, Yaffe MB, Kaelin WG. Phosphorylation of ETS1 by Src family kinases prevents its recognition by the COP1 tumor suppressor. Cancer Cell 2014; 26:222-34. PubMed
  • Zheng X, Zhai B, Koivunen P, Shin SJ, Lu G, Liu J, Geisen C, Chakraborty AA, Moslehi JJ, Smalley DM, Wei X, Chen X, Chen Z, Beres JM, Zhang J, Tsao JL, Brenner MC, Zhang Y, Fan C, DePinho RA, Paik J, Gygi SP, Kaelin WG, Zhang Q. Prolyl hydroxylation by EglN2 destabilizes FOXO3a by blocking its interaction with the USP9x deubiquitinase. Genes Dev 2014; 28:1429-44. PubMed
  • Akbay EA, Moslehi J, Christensen CL, Saha S, Tchaicha JH, Ramkissoon SH, Stewart KM, Carretero J, Kikuchi E, Zhang H, Cohoon TJ, Murray S, Liu W, Uno K, Fisch S, Jones K, Gurumurthy S, Gliser C, Choe S, Keenan M, Son J, Stanley I, Losman JA, Padera R, Bronson RT, Asara JM, Abdel-Wahab O, Amrein PC, Fathi AT, Danial NN, Kimmelman AC, Kung AL, Ligon KL, Yen KE, Kaelin WG, Bardeesy N, Wong KK. D-2-hydroxyglutarate produced by mutant IDH2 causes cardiomyopathy and neurodegeneration in mice. Genes Dev 2014; 28:479-90. PubMed
  • Lu G, Middleton RE, Sun H, Naniong M, Ott CJ, Mitsiades CS, Wong KK, Bradner JE, Kaelin WG. The myeloma drug lenalidomide promotes the cereblon-dependent destruction of Ikaros proteins. Science 2014; 343:305-9. PubMed
  • Li L, Shen C, Nakamura E, Ando K, Signoretti S, Beroukhim R, Cowley GS, Lizotte P, Liberzon E, Bair S, Root DE, Tamayo P, Tsherniak A, Cheng SC, Tabak B, Jacobsen A, Hakimi AA, Schultz N, Ciriello G, Sander C, Hsieh JJ, Kaelin WG. SQSTM1 is a pathogenic target of 5q copy number gains in kidney cancer. Cancer Cell 2013; 24:738-50. PubMed
  • Losman JA, Looper RE, Koivunen P, Lee S, Schneider RK, McMahon C, Cowley GS, Root DE, Ebert BL, Kaelin WG. (R)-2-hydroxyglutarate is sufficient to promote leukemogenesis and its effects are reversible. Science 2013; 339:1621-5. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG, McKnight SL. Influence of metabolism on epigenetics and disease. Cell 2013; 153:56-69. PubMed
  • Shen C, Kaelin WG. The VHL/HIF axis in clear cell renal carcinoma. Semin Cancer Biol 2013. PubMed
  • Beshiri ML, Holmes KB, Richter WF, Hess S, Islam AB, Yan Q, Plante L, Litovchick L, Gévry N, Lopez-Bigas N, Kaelin WG, Benevolenskaya EV. Coordinated repression of cell cycle genes by KDM5A and E2F4 during differentiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:18499-504. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. Molecular biology. Use and abuse of RNAi to study mammalian gene function. Science 2012; 337:421-2. PubMed
  • Wei W, Kaelin WG. Good COP1 or bad COP1? In vivo veritas. J Clin Invest 2011. PubMed
  • Rogers LR, LoRusso P, Nadler P, Malik G, Shields A, Kaelin W. Erlotinib therapy for central nervous system hemangioblastomatosis associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease: a case report. J. Neurooncol. 2011; 101:307-10. PubMed
  • Astuti D, Ricketts C, Chowdury R, McDonough MA, Gentle D, Kirby G, Schlisio S, Kenchappa R, Carter B, Kaelin WG, Ratcliffe PJ, Schofield CJ, Latif F, Maher E. Mutation analysis of HIF-prolylhydroxylases (PHD/EGLN) in individuals with features of phaeochromocytoma and renal cell carcinoma susceptibility. Endocr. Relat. Cancer 2011; 18:73-83. PubMed
  • Gan B, Lim C, Chu G, Hua S, Ding Z, Collins M, Hu J, Jiang S, Fletcher-Sananikone E, Zhuang L, Chang M, Zheng H, Wang YA, Kwiatkowski DJ, Kaelin WG, Signoretti S, DePinho RA. FoxOs enforce a progression checkpoint to constrain mTORC1-activated renal tumorigenesis. Cancer Cell 2010; 18:472-84. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. New cancer targets emerging from studies of the Von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2010; 1210:1-7. PubMed
  • Moslehi J, Minamishima YA, Shi J, Neuberg D, Charytan DM, Padera RF, Signoretti S, Liao R, Kaelin WG. Loss of hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase activity in cardiomyocytes phenocopies ischemic cardiomyopathy. Circulation 2010; 122:1004-16. PubMed
  • Inuzuka H, Tseng A, Gao D, Zhai B, Zhang Q, Shaik S, Wan L, Ang XL, Mock C, Yin H, Stommel JM, Gygi S, Lahav G, Asara J, Xiao ZX, Kaelin WG, Harper JW, Wei W. Phosphorylation by casein kinase I promotes the turnover of the Mdm2 oncoprotein via the SCF(beta-TRCP) ubiquitin ligase. Cancer Cell 2010; 18:147-59. PubMed
  • Minamishima YA, Kaelin WG. Reactivation of hepatic EPO synthesis in mice after PHD loss. Science 2010; 329:407. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG, Thompson CB. Q&A: Cancer: clues from cell metabolism. Nature 2010; 465:562-4. PubMed
  • Sorrell A, Lee S, Stolle C, Ellenhorn J, Grix A, Kaelin W, Weitzel J. Clinical and functional properties of novel VHL mutation (X214L) consistent with Type 2A phenotype and low risk of renal cell carcinoma. Clin Genet 2010. PubMed
  • Loda M, Kaelin WG. Prostate cancer: beta control your hormones. Cancer Cell 2010; 17:311-2. PubMed
  • Bommi-Reddy A, Kaelin WG. Slaying RAS with a synthetic lethal weapon. Cell Res 2010; 20:119-21. PubMed
  • Zhang Q, Gu J, Li L, Liu J, Luo B, Cheung HW, Boehm JS, Ni M, Geisen C, Root DE, Polyak K, Brown M, Richardson AL, Hahn WC, Kaelin WG, Bommi-Reddy A. Control of cyclin D1 and breast tumorigenesis by the EglN2 prolyl hydroxylase. Cancer Cell 2009; 16:413-24. PubMed
  • Minamishima YA, Moslehi J, Padera RF, Bronson RT, Liao R, Kaelin WG. A feedback loop involving the Phd3 prolyl hydroxylase tunes the mammalian hypoxic response in vivo. Mol Cell Biol 2009; 29:5729-41. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. SDH5 mutations and familial paraganglioma: somewhere Warburg is smiling. Cancer Cell 2009; 16:180-2. PubMed
  • Kim WY, Perera S, Zhou B, Carretero J, Yeh JJ, Heathcote SA, Jackson AL, Nikolinakos P, Ospina B, Naumov G, Brandstetter KA, Weigman VJ, Zaghlul S, Hayes DN, Padera RF, Heymach JV, Kung AL, Sharpless NE, Kaelin WG, Wong KK. HIF2alpha cooperates with RAS to promote lung tumorigenesis in mice. J Clin Invest 2009; 119:2160-70. PubMed
  • Beroukhim R,Brunet JP,Di Napoli A,Mertz KD,Seeley A,Pires MM,Linhart D,Worrell RA,Moch H,Rubin MA,Sellers WR,Meyerson M,Linehan WM,Kaelin WG Jr,Signoretti S. Patterns of Gene Expression and Copy-Number Alterations in von-Hippel Lindau Disease-Associated and Sporadic Clear Cell Carcinoma of the Kidney. Cancer Res 2009; 69:4674-4681. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. Treatment of kidney cancer: insights provided by the VHL tumor-suppressor protein. Cancer 2009; 115:2262-72. PubMed
  • Atkins MB, Bukowski RM, Escudier BJ, Figlin RA, Hudes GH, Kaelin WG, Linehan WM, McDermott DF, Mier JW, Pedrosa I, Rini BI, Signoretti S, Sosman JA, Teh BT, Wood CG, Zurita AJ, King L. Innovations and challenges in renal cancer: summary statement from the Third Cambridge Conference. Cancer 2009; 115:2247-51. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. Synthetic lethality: a framework for the development of wiser cancer therapeutics. Genome Med 2009; 1:99. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. Kidney cancer: now available in a new flavor. Cancer Cell 2008; 14:423-4. PubMed
  • van Oevelen C, Wang J, Asp P, Yan Q, Kaelin WG, Kluger Y, Dynlacht BD. A role for mammalian Sin3 in permanent gene silencing. Mol Cell 2008; 32:359-70. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. The von Hippel-Lindau tumour suppressor protein: O2 sensing and cancer. Nat Rev Cancer 2008; 8:865-73. PubMed
  • Bommi-Reddy A, Almeciga I, Sawyer J, Geisen C, Li W, Harlow E, Kaelin WG, Grueneberg DA. Kinase requirements in human cells: III. Altered kinase requirements in VHL-/- cancer cells detected in a pilot synthetic lethal screen. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:16484-9. PubMed
  • Young AP, Kaelin WG. Senescence triggered by the loss of the VHL tumor suppressor. Cell Cycle 2008; 7:1709-12. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG, Ratcliffe PJ. Oxygen sensing by metazoans: the central role of the HIF hydroxylase pathway. Mol Cell 2008; 30:393-402. PubMed
  • Schlisio S, Kenchappa RS, Vredeveld LC, George RE, Stewart R, Greulich H, Shahriari K, Nguyen NV, Pigny P, Dahia PL, Pomeroy SL, Maris JM, Look AT, Meyerson M, Peeper DS, Carter BD, Kaelin WG Jr. The kinesin KIF1Bbeta acts downstream from EglN3 to induce apoptosis and is a potential 1p36 tumor suppressor. Genes Dev 2008; 22:884-93. PubMed
  • Minamishima YA, Moslehi J, Bardeesy N, Cullen D, Bronson RT, Kaelin WG. Somatic inactivation of the PHD2 prolyl hydroxylase causes polycythemia and congestive heart failure. Blood 2008; 111:3236-44. PubMed
  • Young AP, Schlisio S, Minamishima YA, Zhang Q, Li L, Grisanzio C, Signoretti S, Kaelin WG Jr. VHL loss actuates a HIF-independent senescence programme mediated by Rb and p400. Nat Cell Biol 2008; 10:361-9. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG, Sawyers CL, Mihich E. Nineteenth Annual Pezcoller Symposium: hypothesis-driven clinical investigation in cancer. Cancer Res 2007; 67:11102-5. PubMed
  • Yang H, Minamishima YA, Yan Q, Schlisio S, Ebert BL, Zhang X, Zhang L, Kim WY, Olumi AF, Kaelin WG. pVHL acts as an adaptor to promote the inhibitory phosphorylation of the NF-kappaB agonist Card9 by CK2. Mol Cell 2007; 28:15-27. PubMed
  • Li L, Zhang L, Zhang X, Yan Q, Minamishima YA, Olumi AF, Mao M, Bartz S, Kaelin WG. HIF LINKED TO DIFFERENTIAL KIDNEY CANCER RISK SEEN WITH TYPE 2A AND TYPE 2B VHL MUTATIONS. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 27:5381-92. PubMed
  • Klose RJ, Yan Q, Tothova Z, Yamane K, Erdjument-Bromage H, Tempst P, Gilliland DG, Zhang Y, Kaelin WG. The retinoblastoma binding protein RBP2 is an H3K4 demethylase. Cell 2007; 128:889-900. PubMed
  • Yan Q, Bartz S, Mao M, Li L, Kaelin WG. The hypoxia-inducible factor 2alpha N-terminal and C-terminal transactivation domains cooperate to promote renal tumorigenesis in vivo. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 27:2092-102. PubMed
  • Atkins MB, Ernstoff MS, Figlin RA, Flaherty KT, George DJ, Kaelin WG, Kwon ED, Libermann TA, Linehan WM, McDermott DF, Ochoa AC, Pantuck AJ, Rini BI, Rosen MA, Sosman JA, Sukhatme VP, Vieweg JW, Wood CG, King L. Innovations and challenges in renal cell carcinoma: summary statement from the second cambridge conference. Clin Cancer Res 2007; 13:667s-70s. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. The von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein and clear cell renal carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 2007; 13:680s-684s. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. Von Hippel-Lindau disease. Annu Rev Pathol 2007; 2:145-73. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. The von hippel-lindau tumor suppressor protein: an update. Methods Enzymol 2007; 435:371-83. PubMed
  • Kim WY, Safran M, Buckley MR, Ebert BL, Glickman J, Bosenberg M, Regan M, Kaelin WG. Failure to prolyl hydroxylate hypoxia-inducible factor alpha phenocopies VHL inactivation in vivo. EMBO J 2006; 25:4650-62. PubMed
  • Kim WY, Kaelin WG. Molecular pathways in renal cell carcinoma--rationale for targeted treatment. Semin Oncol 2006; 33:588-95. PubMed
  • Safran M, Kim W, O'Connell F, Flippin L, Gunzler V, Horner J, Depinho R, Kaelin WG. A phase I/II trial of sorafenib (S) with bevacizumab (B) in metastatic renal cell cancer (mRCC) patients (Pts). ASCO Annual Meeting Proceedings 2006; 24:3031.
  • Nakamura E, Kaelin WG. Recent insights into the molecular pathogenesis of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma. Endocr Pathol 2006; 17:97-106. PubMed
  • Kaelin WG. Cell biology: divining cancer cell weaknesses. Nature 2006; 441:32-4. PubMed
  • Nakamura E, Abreu-e-Lima P, Awakura Y, Inoue T, Kamoto T, Ogawa O, Kotani H, Manabe T, Zhang GJ, Kondo K, Nose V, Kaelin WG Jr.. Clusterin is a secreted marker for a hypoxia-inducible factor-independent function of the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein. Am J Clin Pathol 2006; 168:574-84.
  • Kaelin WG. The von hippel-lindau tumor suppressor protein: roles in cancer and oxygen sensing. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 2005; 70:159-66. PubMed
  • Brugarolas J, Lei K, Hurley RL, Manning BD, Reiling JH, Hafen E, Witters LA, Ellisen LW, Kaelin WG. Regulation of mTOR function in response to hypoxia by REDD1 and the TSC1/TSC2 tumor suppressor complex. Genes Dev 2004; 18:2893-904. PubMed
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