Laura Pasqualucci, MD

Profile Navigation

Overview
Research

Overview

Email: lp171@cumc.columbia.edu

Academic Appointments

Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics) at CUMC

Research

Laura Pasqualucci’s research interests focus on the molecular pathogenesis of B cell malignancies, with emphasis on its most common types, diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and follicular lymphoma (FL). The laboratory takes advantage of integrated multi-omics approaches, biochemical assays, and genetically-engineered mouse models to identify and functionally characterize the genetic alterations associated with these cancers, and to understand the role of the affected genes in the physiologic germinal center (GC) reaction, a specialized microenvironment from which most B cell lymphomas arise. A major area of investigation focuses on the methyltransferase KMT2D and the acetyltransferase CREBBP, two histone/chromatin modifiers that we discovered as highly recurrent mutational targets and early events in the evolutionary history of FL/DLBCL. These genes have emerged as central players in many different cancers, and we have documented they act as tumor suppressors genes, the loss of which contributes to lymphomagenesis by remodeling the epigenome of the GC. This information is currently being exploited for the development of novel biomarkers and rational treatment options in these diseases.

Selected Publications

Super-enhancer hypermutation alters oncogene expression in B cell lymphoma
Bal E, Kumar R, Hadigol M, Holmes AB, Hilton LK, Loh JW, Dreval K, Wong JCH, Vlasevska S, Corinaldesi C, Soni RK, Basso K, Morin RD, Khiabanian H, Pasqualucci L, Dalla-Favera R.
Nature 2022 PMID: 35794478, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04906-8.
Genetic mechanisms of HLA-I loss and immune escape in diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Fangazio M, Ladewig E, Gomez K, Garcia-Ibanez L, Kumar R, Teruya-Feldstein J, Rossi D, Filip I, Pan-Hammarstr?m Q, Inghirami G, Boldorini R, Ott G, Staiger AM, Chapuy B, Gaidano G, Bhagat G, Basso K, Rabadan R, Pasqualucci L, Dalla-Favera R.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 PMID: 34050029, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2104504118
Genomic characterization of HIV-associated plasmablastic lymphoma identifies pervasive mutations in the JAK-STAT pathway
Liu Z, Filip I, Gomez K, Engelbrecht D, Meer S, Lalloo PN, Patel P, Perner Y, Zhao J, Wang J, Pasqualucci L, Rabadan R, Willem P
Blood Cancer Discov. 2020.?PMID: 33225311, DOI: 10.1158/2643-3249.bcd-20-0051

Unique and Shared Epigenetic Programs of the CREBBP and EP300 Acetyltransferases in Germinal Center B Cells Reveal Targetable Dependencies in Lymphoma
Meyer SN, Scuoppo C, Vlasevska S, Bal E, Holmes AB, Holloman M, Garcia-Ibanez L, Nataraj S, Duval R, Vantrimpont T, Basso K, Brooks N, Dalla-Favera R, Pasqualucci L
Immunity. 2019.?PMID: 31519498, DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.08.006

Molecular pathogenesis of germinal center-derived B cell lymphomas
Pasqualucci L
Immunol Rev. 2019.?PMID: 30874347, DOI: 10.1111/imr.12745

The CREBBP Acetyltransferase Is a Haploinsufficient Tumor Suppressor in B-cell Lymphoma
Zhang J, Vlasevska S, Wells VA, Nataraj S, Holmes AB, Duval R, Meyer SN, Mo T, Basso K, Brindle PK, Hussein S, Dalla-Favera R, Pasqualucci L
Cancer Discov. 2017.?PMID: 28069569, DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-16-1417

Disruption of KMT2D perturbs germinal center B cell development and promotes lymphomagenesis
Zhang J, Dominguez-Sola D, Hussein S, Lee JE, Holmes AB, Bansal M, Vlasevska S, Mo T, Tang H, Basso K, Ge K, Dalla-Favera R, Pasqualucci L
Nat Med. 2015.?PMID: 26366712, DOI: 10.1038/nm.3940

Genetics of follicular lymphoma transformation
Pasqualucci L, Khiabanian H, Fangazio M, Vasishtha M, Messina M, Holmes AB, Ouillette P, Trifonov V, Rossi D, Tabbò F, Ponzoni M, Chadburn A, Murty VV, Bhagat G, Gaidano G, Inghirami G, Malek SN, Rabadan R, Dalla-Favera R
Cell Rep. 2014.?PMID: 24388756, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.12.027

Combined genetic inactivation of β2-Microglobulin and CD58 reveals frequent escape from immune recognition in diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Challa-Malladi M, Lieu YK, Califano O, Holmes AB, Bhagat G, Murty VV, Dominguez-Sola D, Pasqualucci L, Dalla-Favera R
Cancer Cell. 2011.?PMID: 22137796, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2011.11.006

Analysis of the coding genome of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Pasqualucci L, Trifonov V, Fabbri G, Ma J, Rossi D, Chiarenza A, Wells VA, Grunn A, Messina M, Elliot O, Chan J, Bhagat G, Chadburn A, Gaidano G, Mullighan CG, Rabadan R, Dalla-Favera R
Nat Genet. 2011.?PMID: 21804550, DOI: 10.1038/ng.892

Analysis of the chronic lymphocytic leukemia coding genome: role of NOTCH1 mutational activation
Fabbri G, Rasi S, Rossi D, Trifonov V, Khiabanian H, Ma J, Grunn A, Fangazio M, Capello D, Monti S, Cresta S, Gargiulo E, Forconi F, Guarini A, Arcaini L, Paulli M, Laurenti L, Larocca LM, Marasca R, Gattei V, Oscier D, Bertoni F, Mullighan CG, Fo?? R, Pasqualucci L, Rabadan R, Dalla-Favera R, Gaidano G
J Exp Med. 2011.?PMID: 21670202, DOI: 10.1084/jem.20110921

Inactivating mutations of acetyltransferase genes in B-cell lymphoma
Pasqualucci L, Dominguez-Sola D, Chiarenza A, Fabbri G, Grunn A, Trifonov V, Kasper LH, Lerach S, Tang H, Ma J, Rossi D, Chadburn A, Murty VV, Mullighan CG, Gaidano G, Rabadan R, Brindle PK, Dalla-Favera R
Nature. 2011.?PMID: 21390126, DOI: 10.1038/nature09730

BLIMP1 is a tumor suppressor gene frequently disrupted in activated B cell-like diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Mandelbaum J, Bhagat G, Tang H, Mo T, Brahmachary M, Shen Q, Chadburn A, Rajewsky K, Tarakhovsky A, Pasqualucci L, Dalla-Favera R
Cancer Cell. 2010.?PMID: 21156281, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.10.030

Mutations of multiple genes cause deregulation of NF-kappaB in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Compagno M, Lim WK, Grunn A, Nandula SV, Brahmachary M, Shen Q, Bertoni F, Ponzoni M, Scandurra M, Califano A, Bhagat G, Chadburn A, Dalla-Favera R, Pasqualucci L
Nature. 2009.?PMID: 19412164, DOI: 10.1038/nature07968

AID is required for germinal center-derived lymphomagenesis
Pasqualucci L, Bhagat G, Jankovic M, Compagno M, Smith P, Muramatsu M, Honjo T, Morse HC, Nussenzweig MC, Dalla-Favera R
Nat Genet. 2008.?PMID: 18066064, DOI: 10.1038/ng.2007.35

Deregulated BCL6 expression recapitulates the pathogenesis of human diffuse large B cell lymphomas in mice
Cattoretti G, Pasqualucci L, Ballon G, Tam W, Nandula SV, Shen Q, Mo T, Murty VV, Dalla-Favera R
Cancer Cell. 2005.?PMID: 15894265, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2005.03.037

Hypermutation of multiple proto-oncogenes in B-cell diffuse large-cell lymphomas
Pasqualucci L, Neumeister P, Goossens T, Nanjangud G, Chaganti RS, K??ppers R, Dalla-Favera R
Nature. 2001.?PMID: 11460166, DOI: 10.1038/35085588



For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov