Alfonso Bellacosa, MD, PhD

Member
Population Science Division


Alfonso.Bellacosa@fccc.edu
Phone: 215-728-4013
Fax: 215-214-1623


Recent Publications

In Press


Grille, S.J., Bellacosa, A., Larue, L. R?gulation de la E-cadh?rine par la prot?ine Akt. Compte-rendu de la soci?t? de Biologie (in press).

2004


Bellacosa, A., Testa, J.R., Moore, R., Larue, L. A portrait of AKT kinases: human cancer and animal models depict a family with strong individualities. Cancer Biol. Ther. 3:268-275, 2004.

Caluseriu, O., Di Gregorio, C., Lucci-Cordisco, E., Santarosa, M., Trojan, J., Brieger, A., Benatti, P., Pedroni, M., Colibazzi, T., Bellacosa, A., Neri, G., Ponz de Leon, M., Viel, A. Genuardi, M. A founder MLH1 mutation in families from the districts of Modena and Reggio-Emilia in northern Italy with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer associated with protein elongation and instability. J. Med. Genet. 41:e34, 2004.

Cortellino, S., Turner, D.P., Albino, D. Bellacosa, A. Induction of DNA damage by alkylating agents. In Cell Cycle Control and Dysregulation Protocols, edited by A. Giordano and G. Romano. Humana Press Inc., Clifton, NJ, pp. 121-125, 2004.

Cortellino, S., Turner, D.P. Bellacosa, A. Induction of DNA damage by gamma irradiation. In Cell Cycle Control and Dysregulation Protocols, edited by A. Giordano and G. Romano. Humana Press Inc., Clifton, NJ, pp. 127-132, 2004.

Grille, S.J., Bellacosa, A., Larue, L. MTA3, a MI-2/NuRD complex subunit, regulates an invasive growth pathway in breast cancer (Fujita et al. Cell 113:207-219, 2003). (Commentary). The Women's Oncol. Rev. 4:13-15, 2004.

Grille, S.J., Moore, R., Denat, L., Morali, O.G., Delmas, V., Bellacosa, A., Larue, L. The role of insulin-like growth factors in the epithelial to mesenchymal transition. In Rise and Fall of the Epithelial Phenotype, edited by P. Savagner. Landes Biosciences, Georgetown, TX, pp. 215-235, 2004.

Stoyanova, R., Clapper, M.L., Bellacosa, A., Henske, E.P., Testa, J.R., Ross, E.A., Yeung, A.T., Nicolas, E., Tsichlis, N., Li, Y.-S., Linehan, W.M., Howard, S., Campbell, K.S., Godwin, A.K., Boman, B.M., Crowell, J.A., Kopelovich, L., Knudson, A.G. Altered gene expression patterns in phenotypically normal renal cells from individuals heterozygous for mutations in tumor suppressor genes. Cancer Biol. Ther. 3:1313-1321, 2004.

Stoyanova, R., Upson, J.J., Patriotis, C., Ross, E.A., Henske, E.P., Datta, K., Boman, B., Clapper, M.L., Knudson, A.G., Bellacosa, A. Use of RNA amplification in the optimal characterization of global gene expression using cDNA microarrays. J. Cell. Physiol. 201:359-365, 2004.

Turner, D.P., Yeung, A.T. Bellacosa, A. Induction of DNA damage by UV irradiation. In Cell Cycle Control and Dysregulation Protocols, edited by A. Giordano and G. Romano. Humana Press Inc., Clifton, NJ, pp. 133-137, 2004.

Upson, J.J., Stoyanova, R., Cooper, H.S., Patriotis, C., Ross, E.A., Boman, B., Clapper, M.L., Knudson, A.G., Bellacosa, A. Optimized procedures for microarray analysis of histological specimens processed by laser capture microdissection. J. Cell. Physiol. 201:366-373, 2004.

2003


Bellacosa, A. Genetic hits and mutation rate in colorectal tumorigenesis: versatility of Knudson's theory and implications for cancer prevention. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 38:382-388, 2003.

Bellacosa, A., Moss, E.G. RNA repair: damage control. Curr. Biol. 13:R482-484, 2003.

Borgatti, P., Martelli, A.M., Tabellini, G., Bellacosa, A., Capitani, S., Neri, L.M. A threonine 308 phosphorylated form of Akt translocates to the nucleus of PC12 cells under nerve growth factor stimulation and associates with the nuclear matrix protein nucleolin. J. Cell. Physiol. 196:79-88, 2003.

Cortellino, S., Turner, D., Masciullo, V., Schepis, F., Albino, D., Daniel, R., Skalka, A.M., Meropol, N.J., Alberti, C., Larue, L., Bellacosa, A. The base excision repair enzyme MED1 mediates DNA damage response to antitumor drugs and is associated with mismatch repair system integrity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA 100:15071-15076, 2003.

Grille, S.J., Bellacosa, A., Upson, J.J., Klein-Szanto, A., van Roy, F., Donowitz, M., Tsichlis, P.N., Larue, L. The protein kinase Akt induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition and promotes enhanced motility and invasiveness of squamous cell carcinoma lines. Cancer Res. 63:2172-2178, 2003.

Neri, L.M., Borgatti, P., Tazzari, P.L., Bortul, R., Cappellini, A., Tabellini, G., Bellacosa, A., Capitani, S., Martelli, A.M. The Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase/Akt Pathway involvement in drug and all-trans-retinoic acid resistance of leukemia cells. Molecular Cancer Res. 1:234-246, 2003.

Turner, D.P., Bellacosa, A. Insights into DNA recombination from the structure of a RAD51-BRCA2 complex (Pellegrini, et al. Nature 420:287-293, 2002). (Commentary). The Women's Oncology Review. 3:43-45, 2003.

2002


Condorelli, G., Drusco, A., Stassi, G., Bellacosa, A., Roncarati, R., Iaccarino, G., Russo, M.A., Gu, Y., Dalton, N., Chung, C., Latronico, M.V., Napoli, C., Sadoshima, J., Croce, C.M., Ross, J., Jr. Akt induces enhanced myocardial contractility and cell size in vivo in transgenic mice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:12333-12338, 2002.

Viglietto, G., Motti, M.L., Bruni, P., Melillo, R.M., D'Alessio, A., Califano, D., Vinci, F., Chiappetta, G., Tsichlis, P.N., Bellacosa, A., Fusco, A., Santoro, M. Cytoplasmic relocalization and inhibition of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27Kip1 by Akt-mediated phosphorylation in breast cancer. Nat. Med. 8:1136-1144, 2002.

2001


Bellacosa, A. Functional interactions and signaling properties of mammalian DNA mismatch repair proteins. Cell Death Differ. 8:1076-92, 2001.

Bellacosa, A. Role of MED1 (MBD4) gene in DNA repair and human cancer. J. Cell. Physiol. 187:137-144, 2001.

Drummond, J.T., Bellacosa, A. Human DNA mismatch repair in vitro operates independently of methylation status at CpG sites. Nucl. Acids Res. 29:2234-43, 2001.

Fiumicino, S., Ercoli, A., Ferrandina, G., Hess, P., Raspaglio, G., Genuardi, M., Rovella, V., Bellacosa, A., Cicchillitti, L., Mancuso, S., Bignami, M., Scambia, G. Microsatellite instability is an independent indicator of recurrence in sporadic stage I-II endometrial adenocarcinoma. J. Clin. Oncol. 19:1008-1014, 2001.

Testa, J.R., Bellacosa, A. AKT plays a central role in tumorigenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98:10983-10985, 2001.

Xiao, G. H., Jeffers, M., Bellacosa, A., Mitsuuchi, Y., Vande Woude, G. F., Testa, J.R. Anti-apoptotic signaling by hepatocyte growth factor/Met via the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98:247-252, 2001.