Monica Buzzai

Monica Buzzai, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: buzzai@northwestern.edu

Publications

• Buzzai M, Licht JD. New Molecular Concepts and Targets in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Curr Opin Hem. 2007. In press.

• Buzzai M, Jones RG, Amaravadi RK, Lum JJ, DeBerardinis RJ, Zhao F, Viollet B, Thompson CB. Systemic treatment with the antidiabetic drug metformin selectively impairs p53-deficient tumor cell growth. Cancer Res. 2007, 67(14):6745-52

• Thompson CB, Bauer DE, Lum JJ, Hatzivassiliou G, Zong WX, Zhao F, Ditsworth D, Buzzai M, Lindsten T. How do cancer cells acquire the fuel needed to support cell growth? Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 2005, 70:357-62

• Jones RG, Plas DR, Kubek S, Buzzai M, Mu J, Xu Y, Birnbaum MJ, Thompson CB. AMP-activated protein kinase induces a p53-dependent metabolic checkpoint. Moll Cell. 2005, 18(3):283-93

• Buzzai M, Bauer DE, Elstrom RL, Jones RG, DeBerardinis RJ, Thompson CB. The glucose dependence of Akt-transformed cells can be reversed by pharmacologic activation of fatty acid beta-oxidation. Oncogene. 2005, 24(26):4165-73

• Fei P, Wang W, Kim S, Wang S, Burns TF, Sax JK, Buzzai M, Dicker DT, McKenna WG, Bernard EJ, El-Deiry WS. Bnip3L is induced by p53 under hypoxia, and its knockdown promotes tumor growth. Cancer Cell. 2004, 6(6):597-609

• Elstrom RL, Bauer DE, Buzzai M, Karnauskas R, Harris MH, Plas DR, Zhuang H, Cinalli RM, Alavi A, Rudin CM, Thompson CB. Akt stimulates aerobic glycolysis in cancer cells. Cancer Res. 2004, 64(11):3892-9

• Bottazzi, ME*, Buzzai M*, Brechot C, and Assoian RK. Cooperative effects of mitogens and cytoskeletal integrity on CRE- and E2F/CDE-dependent cyclin A promoter activity. Mol Cell Biol. 2001, 21(22):7607-16. *Co-first authors

• Davey G*, Buzzai M*, and Assoian RK. Reduced expression of *5*1 prevents spreading-dependent cell proliferation. Journal of Cell Science 1999, 112, 4663-4672. *Co-first authors

• Collavin L, Buzzai M, Saccone S, Bernard L, Federico C, DellaValle G, Brancolini C, Schneider C. cDNA characterization and chromosome mapping of the human GAS2 Gene. Genomics 1998, 48, 265-269

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