Publications

Paloma Bragado, Maria Soledad Sosa, Patricia Keely, John Condeelis and Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso. Microenvironments dictating tumor cell dormancy. Minimal Residual Disease and Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer (Eds: K. Pantel, C. Sotiriou, M. Ignatiadis). Recent Results Cancer Res. (2012);195:25-39.

Kim RS, Avivar-Valderas A, Estrada Y, Bragado P, Sosa MS, Aguirre-Ghiso JA, Segall JE. “Dormancy signatures and metastasis in estrogen receptor positive and negative breast cancer”. PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e35569. Epub 2012 Apr 18.

Sosa MS., Avivar-Valderas A, Bragado P., Wen HC., Aguirre-Ghiso JA. “ERK1/2 and p38α/β signaling in tumor cell quiescence: opportunities to control dormant residual disease” Cancer Res., (2011) Sep 15;17(18):5850-7.

Wertheimer E, Gutierrez-Uzquiza A, Rosemblit C, Lopez-Haber C,Sosa MS, Kazanietz MG. “Rac signaling in breast cancer: A tale of GEFs and GAPs.” Cell Signal. (2011), August 27.

Wen HC, Avivar-Valderas A, Sosa MS, Girnius N, Farias EF, Davis RJ, Aguirre-Ghiso JA. “p38{alpha} Signaling Induces Anoikis and Lumen Formation During Mammary Morphogenesis.” Sci Signal., (2011), May 24;4(174):ra34.

Sosa* MS., Lopez-Haber* C, Yang C, Wang H, Lemmon MA, Busillo JM, Luo J, Benovic JL, Klein-Szanto A, Yagi H, Gutkind JS, Parsons RE, Kazanietz MG. “Identification of the Rac-GEF P-Rex1 as an essential mediator of ErbB signaling in breast cancer.” Molecular Cell, (2010), Dec 22; 40(6):877-92. This article was selected for the cover of the journal, a highly prestigious honor. In addition it was highlighted in Nat. Rev. Cancer (McCarthy N, 2011) and Mol. Cell (Hynes NE and Gattelli, A, 2011).