Howard Y. Chang

Genome-Wide Analysis of KAP1 Binding Suggests Autoregulation of KRAB-ZNFs (2007)

Henriette O'Geen, Sharon L. Squazzo, Sushma Iyengar, Kim Blahnik, John L. Rinn, Howard Y. Chang, ...

We performed a genome-scale chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-chip comparison of two modifications (trimethylation of lysine 9 [H3me3K9] and trimethylation of lysine 27 [H3me3K27]) of histone H3...

A Transcriptional Program Mediating Entry into Cellular Quiescence (2007)

Helen Liu, Adam S. Adler, Eran Segal, Howard Y. Chang

The balance of quiescence and cell division is critical for tissue homeostasis and organismal health. Serum stimulation of fibroblasts is well studied as a classic model of entry into the cell...

Genome-Wide Analysis of KAP1 Binding Suggests Autoregulation of KRAB-ZNFs (2007)

Henriette O'Geen, Sharon L Squazzo, Sushma Iyengar, Kim Blahnik, John L. Rinn, Howard Y. Chang, ...

We performed a genome-scale chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-chip comparison of two modifications (trimethylation of lysine 9 [H3me3K9] and trimethylation of lysine 27 [H3me3K27]) of histone H3...

Predicting a local recurrence after breast-conserving therapy by gene expression profiling (2006)

Nuyten, Dimitry SA, Kreike, Bas, Hart, Augustinus AM, Chi, Jen-Tsan, Sneddon, Julie B, Wessels, Lodewyk FA, ...

Abstract Introduction To tailor local treatment in breast cancer patients there is a need for predicting ipsilateral recurrences after breast-conserving therapy. After adequate treatment (excision...

Anatomic Demarcation by Positional Variation in Fibroblast Gene Expression Programs (2006)

John L. Rinn, Chanda Bondre, Hayes B. Gladstone, Patrick O. Brown, Howard Y. Chang

Fibroblasts are ubiquitous mesenchymal cells with many vital functions during development, tissue repair, and disease. Fibroblasts from different anatomic sites have distinct and characteristic gene...

Gene Expression Signature of Fibroblast Serum Response Predicts Human Cancer Progression: Similarities between Tumors and Wounds (2004)

Howard Y. Chang, Julie B. Sneddon, Ash A. Alizadeh, Ruchira Sood, Rob B. West, Kelli Montgomery, ...

The transcriptional signature of the response of fibroblasts to serum provides a possible link between cancer progression and wound healing, as well as a predictor of the clinical course in several...

Gene Expression Signature of Fibroblast Serum Response Predicts Human Cancer Progression: Similarities between Tumors and Wounds (2004)

Howard Y. Chang, Julie B. Sneddon, Ash A. Alizadeh, Ruchira Sood, Rob B. West, Kelli Montgomery, ...

Cancer invasion and metastasis have been likened to wound healing gone awry. Despite parallels in cellular behavior between cancer progression and wound healing, the molecular relationships between...

Dissecting Fas signaling with an altered-specificity death-domain mutant: Requirement of FADD binding for apoptosis but not Jun N-terminal kinase activation (1999)

Chang, Howard Y., Yang, Xiaolu, Baltimore, David

Fas is a cell surface death receptor that regulates peripheral tolerance and lymphoid homeostasis. In many pathologic conditions, ectopic Fas activation mediates tissue destruction. Several proteins...

Dissecting Fas signaling with an altered-specificity death-domain mutant: Requirement of FADD binding for apoptosis but not Jun N-terminal kinase activation

Chang, Howard Y., Yang, Xiaolu, Baltimore, David

Fas is a cell surface death receptor that regulates peripheral tolerance and lymphoid homeostasis. In many pathologic conditions, ectopic Fas activation mediates tissue destruction. Several proteins...

Proteases for Cell Suicide: Functions and Regulation of Caspases

Chang, Howard Y., Yang, Xiaolu

Caspases are a large family of evolutionarily conserved proteases found from Caenorhabditis elegans to humans. Although the first caspase was identified as a processing enzyme for interleukin-1β,...

Diversity, topographic differentiation, and positional memory in human fibroblasts

Chang, Howard Y., Chi, Jen-Tsan, Dudoit, Sandrine, Bondre, Chanda, Van De Rijn, Matt, Botstein, David, ...

A fundamental feature of the architecture and functional design of vertebrate animals is a stroma, composed of extracellular matrix and mesenchymal cells, which provides a structural scaffold and...

Genomewide view of gene silencing by small interfering RNAs

Chi, Jen-Tsan, Chang, Howard Y., Wang, Nancy N., Chang, Dustin S., Dunphy, Nina, Brown, Patrick O.

RNA interference (RNAi) is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism in plant and animal cells that directs the degradation of messenger RNAs homologous to short double-stranded RNAs termed small...

Endothelial cell diversity revealed by global expression profiling

Chi, Jen-Tsan, Chang, Howard Y., Haraldsen, Guttorm, Jahnsen, Frode L., Troyanskaya, Olga G., Chang, Dustin S., ...

The vascular system is locally specialized to accommodate widely varying blood flow and pressure and the distinct needs of individual tissues. The endothelial cells (ECs) that line the lumens of...

Gene Expression Signature of Fibroblast Serum Response Predicts Human Cancer Progression: Similarities between Tumors and Wounds

Chang, Howard Y, Sneddon, Julie B, Alizadeh, Ash A, Sood, Ruchira, West, Rob B, Montgomery, Kelli, ...

Cancer invasion and metastasis have been likened to wound healing gone awry. Despite parallels in cellular behavior between cancer progression and wound healing, the molecular relationships between...

Anatomic Demarcation by Positional Variation in Fibroblast Gene Expression Programs

Rinn, John L, Bondre, Chanda, Gladstone, Hayes B, Brown, Patrick O, Chang, Howard Y

Fibroblasts are ubiquitous mesenchymal cells with many vital functions during development, tissue repair, and disease. Fibroblasts from different anatomic sites have distinct and characteristic gene...

Dissecting Fas signaling with an altered-specificity death-domain mutant: Requirement of FADD binding for apoptosis but not Jun N-terminal kinase activation

Chang, Howard Y., Yang, Xiaolu, Baltimore, David

Fas is a cell surface death receptor that regulates peripheral tolerance and lymphoid homeostasis. In many pathologic conditions, ectopic Fas activation mediates tissue destruction. Several proteins...

Proteases for Cell Suicide: Functions and Regulation of Caspases

Chang, Howard Y., Yang, Xiaolu

Caspases are a large family of evolutionarily conserved proteases found from Caenorhabditis elegans to humans. Although the first caspase was identified as a processing enzyme for interleukin-1β,...

Diversity, topographic differentiation, and positional memory in human fibroblasts

Chang, Howard Y., Chi, Jen-Tsan, Dudoit, Sandrine, Bondre, Chanda, Van De Rijn, Matt, Botstein, David, ...

A fundamental feature of the architecture and functional design of vertebrate animals is a stroma, composed of extracellular matrix and mesenchymal cells, which provides a structural scaffold and...

Genomewide view of gene silencing by small interfering RNAs

Chi, Jen-Tsan, Chang, Howard Y., Wang, Nancy N., Chang, Dustin S., Dunphy, Nina, Brown, Patrick O.

RNA interference (RNAi) is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism in plant and animal cells that directs the degradation of messenger RNAs homologous to short double-stranded RNAs termed small...

Endothelial cell diversity revealed by global expression profiling

Chi, Jen-Tsan, Chang, Howard Y., Haraldsen, Guttorm, Jahnsen, Frode L., Troyanskaya, Olga G., Chang, Dustin S., ...

The vascular system is locally specialized to accommodate widely varying blood flow and pressure and the distinct needs of individual tissues. The endothelial cells (ECs) that line the lumens of...

Gene Expression Signature of Fibroblast Serum Response Predicts Human Cancer Progression: Similarities between Tumors and Wounds

Chang, Howard Y, Sneddon, Julie B, Alizadeh, Ash A, Sood, Ruchira, West, Rob B, Montgomery, Kelli, ...

Cancer invasion and metastasis have been likened to wound healing gone awry. Despite parallels in cellular behavior between cancer progression and wound healing, the molecular relationships between...

Robustness, scalability, and integration of a wound-response gene expression signature in predicting breast cancer survival

Chang, Howard Y., Nuyten, Dimitry S. A., Sneddon, Julie B., Hastie, Trevor, Tibshirani, Robert, Sørlie, Therese, ...

Based on the hypothesis that features of the molecular program of normal wound healing might play an important role in cancer metastasis, we previously identified consistent features in the...

Anatomic Demarcation by Positional Variation in Fibroblast Gene Expression Programs

Rinn, John L, Bondre, Chanda, Gladstone, Hayes B, Brown, Patrick O, Chang, Howard Y

Fibroblasts are ubiquitous mesenchymal cells with many vital functions during development, tissue repair, and disease. Fibroblasts from different anatomic sites have distinct and characteristic gene...

Bone morphogenetic protein antagonist gremlin 1 is widely expressed by cancer-associated stromal cells and can promote tumor cell proliferation

Sneddon, Julie B., Zhen, Hanson H., Montgomery, Kelli, Van De Rijn, Matt, Tward, Aaron D., West, Robert, ...

Although tissue microenvironments play critical roles in epithelial development and tumorigenesis, the factors mediating these effects are poorly understood. In this work, we used a genomic approach...

Genome-Wide Analysis of KAP1 Binding Suggests Autoregulation of KRAB-ZNFs

O'Geen, Henriette, Squazzo, Sharon L, Iyengar, Sushma, Blahnik, Kim, Rinn, John L, Chang, Howard Y, ...

We performed a genome-scale chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-chip comparison of two modifications (trimethylation of lysine 9 [H3me3K9] and trimethylation of lysine 27 [H3me3K27]) of histone H3...

A Transcriptional Program Mediating Entry into Cellular Quiescence

Liu, Helen, Adler, Adam S, Segal, Eran, Chang, Howard Y

The balance of quiescence and cell division is critical for tissue homeostasis and organismal health. Serum stimulation of fibroblasts is well studied as a classic model of entry into the cell...

Mechanisms of an autoimmunity syndrome in mice caused by a dominant mutation in Aire

Su, Maureen A., Giang, Karen, Žumer, Kristina, Jiang, Huimin, Oven, Irena, Rinn, John L., ...

Homozygous loss-of-function mutations in AIRE cause autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1 (APS 1), which manifests in a classic triad of hypoparathyroidism, adrenal insufficiency, and candidiasis....

Motif module map reveals enforcement of aging by continual NF-κB activity

Adler, Adam S., Sinha, Saurabh, Kawahara, Tiara L.A., Zhang, Jennifer Y., Segal, Eran, Chang, Howard Y.

Aging is characterized by specific alterations in gene expression, but their underlying mechanisms and functional consequences are not well understood. Here we develop a systematic approach to...

A dermal HOX transcriptional program regulates site-specific epidermal fate

Rinn, John L., Wang, Jordon K., Allen, Nancy, Brugmann, Samantha A., Mikels, Amanda J., Liu, Helen, ...

Reciprocal epithelial–mesenchymal interactions shape site-specific development of skin. Here we show that site-specific HOX expression in fibroblasts is cell-autonomous and epigenetically...

Systematic functional characterization of cis-regulatory motifs in human core promoters

Sinha, Saurabh, Adler, Adam S., Field, Yair, Chang, Howard Y., Segal, Eran

A large number of cis-regulatory motifs involved in transcriptional control have been identified, but the regulatory context and biological processes in which many of them function are unknown. Here,...