Ilona Berestjuk

ORCID: 0009-0006-8832-4377
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Research Areas
  • Melanoma and MAPK Pathways
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
  • Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
  • Cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders research
  • Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Synthesis of Tetrazole Derivatives
  • Skin and Cellular Biology Research
  • melanin and skin pigmentation
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research
  • bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
  • Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
  • Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Cancer Mechanisms and Therapy

Inserm
2019-2024

University of California, San Francisco
2022-2024

Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire
2022-2023

Université Côte d'Azur
2019-2023

La Ligue Contre le Cancer
2019-2023

Institut de Chimie de Nice
2019

Aberrant extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition and stiffening is a physical hallmark of several solid cancers associated with therapy failure. BRAF-mutant melanomas treated BRAF MEK inhibitors almost invariably develop resistance that frequently transcriptional reprogramming de-differentiated cell state. Melanoma cells secrete their own ECM proteins, an event promoted by oncogenic inhibition. Yet, the contribution cancer cell-derived tumor mechanics to drug adaptation remains poorly...

10.1158/0008-5472.can-19-2914 article EN Cancer Research 2020-03-16

Article14 February 2022Open Access Source DataTransparent process Blockade of the pro-fibrotic reaction mediated by miR-143/-145 cluster enhances responses to targeted therapy in melanoma Serena Diazzi Université Côte d'Azur, INSERM, C3M, Nice, France CNRS, Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IPMC), Sophia Antipolis, Equipe labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer, Contribution: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, ​Investigation, Methodology, Writing - original draft, review &...

10.15252/emmm.202115295 article EN cc-by EMBO Molecular Medicine 2022-02-14

Fibroblastic reticular cells (FRC) are immunologically specialized myofibroblasts that control the elasticity of lymph node, in part through their contractile properties. Swelling tumor-draining nodes is a hallmark lymphophilic cancers such as cutaneous melanoma. Melanoma displays high intratumoral heterogeneity with coexistence melanoma variable differentiation phenotypes from melanocytic to dedifferentiated states. Factors secreted by promote premetastatic node reprograming and tumor...

10.1158/0008-5472.can-21-0501 article EN Cancer Research 2022-02-22

Cladribine is an oral synthetic purine analog that depletes lymphocytes and induces a dose-dependent reduction of T B cells. It was approved for the therapy highly active relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Given cladribine's mechanism action, increased risk malignancies suspected from number cancers occurred in 3.5 mg/kg-treated arm (CLARITY study). We showed cladribine inhibits cell proliferation on three melanoma lines tested, irrespectively their mutational oncogenic status...

10.1007/s40120-020-00204-5 article EN cc-by-nc Neurology and Therapy 2020-07-25

Abstract Extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffening, resulting from increased collagen deposition and cross-linking, is a key biophysical factor of the tumor microenvironment. Cutaneous melanoma deadly metastatic cancer. Its aggressiveness stems high intratumoral heterogeneity, plasticity cells, which transit melanocytic state to dedifferentiated therapy-resistant invasive phenotypes, characterized by mesenchymal and/or neural crest stem cell-like features. Phenotypic regulated stroma-derived...

10.1101/2024.08.26.609700 preprint EN bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2024-08-27

<title>Abstract</title> Tumor progression is accompanied by fibrosis, which associated with diminished anti-tumor immune infiltrate. Here, we demonstrate that tumor infiltrating myeloid cells respond to the stiffened fibrotic microenvironment (TME) initiating a TGF-beta (TGFβ)-directed, collagen biosynthesis program. A collateral effect of this programming an untenable metabolic milieu for productive CD8 T cell responses, as collagen-synthesizing macrophages consume environmental arginine,...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1859289/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2022-09-07

Abstract Resistance to BRAF and MEK inhibitors in V600E mutant melanomas remains a major obstacle that limits patient benefit. Microenvironment components including the extracellular matrix (ECM) can support tumor cell adaptation tolerance targeted therapies, however underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated process of matrix-mediated drug resistance (MM-DR) response inhibition melanoma. We demonstrate physical structural cues from fibroblast-derived ECM abrogate...

10.1101/857896 preprint EN bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2019-11-28

&lt;div&gt;Abstract&lt;p&gt;Fibroblastic reticular cells (FRC) are immunologically specialized myofibroblasts that control the elasticity of lymph node, in part through their contractile properties. Swelling tumor-draining nodes is a hallmark lymphophilic cancers such as cutaneous melanoma. Melanoma displays high intratumoral heterogeneity with coexistence melanoma variable differentiation phenotypes from melanocytic to dedifferentiated states. Factors secreted by promote premetastatic node...

10.1158/0008-5472.c.6513435.v1 preprint EN 2023-03-31

&lt;div&gt;Abstract&lt;p&gt;Aberrant extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition and stiffening is a physical hallmark of several solid cancers associated with therapy failure. BRAF-mutant melanomas treated BRAF MEK inhibitors almost invariably develop resistance that frequently transcriptional reprogramming de-differentiated cell state. Melanoma cells secrete their own ECM proteins, an event promoted by oncogenic inhibition. Yet, the contribution cancer cell–derived tumor mechanics to drug...

10.1158/0008-5472.c.6511557 preprint EN 2023-03-31

&lt;div&gt;Abstract&lt;p&gt;Aberrant extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition and stiffening is a physical hallmark of several solid cancers associated with therapy failure. BRAF-mutant melanomas treated BRAF MEK inhibitors almost invariably develop resistance that frequently transcriptional reprogramming de-differentiated cell state. Melanoma cells secrete their own ECM proteins, an event promoted by oncogenic inhibition. Yet, the contribution cancer cell–derived tumor mechanics to drug...

10.1158/0008-5472.c.6511557.v1 preprint EN 2023-03-31
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