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Selected Recent Publications
Full publication link: PubMed
Research Articles:
1. Fabien Franco, Alessio Bevilacqua, Ruey-Mei Wu, Chun-Pu Lin, Lorene Rousseau, Fu-Ti Peng, Yu-Ming Chunag, Jhan-Jie Peng, Jaeoh Park, Yingxi Xu, Kung-Chi Kao, Antonion Cassotta, Yi-Ru Yu, Daniel E. Speiser, Federica Sallusto, Ping-Chih Ho (2023) Regulatory circuits of mitophagy restrict cell death for mounting memory CD8+ T cell formation. Sci. Immunol. 8; eadf7579.
2. Alison Jaccard, Tania Wyss, Noelia Maldonado-Perez, Jan A. Rath, Alessio Bevilacqua, Jhan-Jie Peng, Anouk Lepez, Fabien Franco, Kung-Chi Kao, Nicolas Camviel, Francisco Martin, Denis Migliorini, Caroline Arber, Pedro Romero*, Ping-Chih Ho*, Mathias Wenes* (2023) Reductive carboxylation epigenetically instructs effector T cell differentiation. Nature (In press) *is corresponding author.
3. Pu-Ste Liu, Yi-Ting Chen, Xiaoyun Li, Pei-Chun Hsueh, Sheue-Fen Tzeng, Hsi Chen, Pei-Zhu Shi, Xin Xie, Sweta Parik, Melanie Planque, Sarah-Maria Fendt, Ping-Chih Ho (2023) CD40 signal rewires fatty acid and glutamine metabolism for stimulating macrophage anti-tumorigenic functions. Nat. Immunol. 24; 452-462.
4. Chin-Hsien Tsai, Yu-Ming Chuang, Xiaoyun Li, Yi-Ru Yu, Sheue-Fen Tzeng, Shao Thing Teoh, Katherine E Lindblad, Mario Di Matteo, Wwan-Chen Cheng, Pei-Chun Hsueh, Kung-Chi Kao, Hana Imrichova, Likun Duan, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Pei-Wen Hsiao, Massimilano Mazzone, Julijana Ivanesevic, Xiaojing Liu, Karin E de Visser, Amaia Lujambio, Sophia lunt, Susan M Kaech, Ping-Chih Ho (2023) Immunoediting instructs tumor metabolic reprogramming to support immune evasion. Cell Metab. 35; 118-133.
5. Giusy Di Conza, Chin-Hsien Tsai, Hector Gallart-Ayla, Yi-Ru Yu, Fabien Franco, Lea Zaffalon, Xiaoyun Li, Zhengtao Xiao, Lydia N. Raines, Maryline Falquet, Antoine Jali, Jason W. Locasale, Piergiorgio Percipalle, David Masson, Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang, Fabio Martinon, Julijana Ivanisevic, Ping-Chih Ho (2021) Tumor-induced reshuffling of lipid composition on the ER membrane sustains macrophage survival and pro-tumorigenic activity. Nat. Immunol. 22; 1403-1415.
6. Yugang Guo, Yu-Qing Xie, Min Gao, Yang Zhao, Fabien Franco, Mathias Wenes, Imran Siddiqui, Alessio Bevilacqua, Haiping Wang, Hanshuo Yang, Bing Feng, Xin Xie, Catherine M. Sabatel, Benjamin Tschumi, Amphun Chaiboonchoe, Yuxi Wang, Weimin Li, Weihua Xiao, Werner Held, Pedro Romero, Ping-Chih Ho*, Li Tang* (2021) Metabolic reprogramming of terminally exhausted CD8+ T cells by IL-10 enhances anti-tumor immunity. Nat. Immunol. 22; 746-756. (Cover Story) *is corresponding author.
7. Yi-Ru Yu, Hana Imrichova, Haiping Wang, Tung Chao, Zhengtao Xiao, Min Gao, Marcela Rincon-Restrepo, Fabien Franco, Raphael Genolet, Wan-Chen Cheng, Camilla Jandus, George Coukos, Yi-Fan Jiang, Jason W. Locasale, Alfred Zippelius, Pu-Ste Liu, Li Tang, Christoph Bock, Nicola Vannini, Ping-Chih Ho (2020) Disturbed mitochondrial dynamics rewire the epigenetic program for CD8+ TIL exhaustion. Nat. Immunol. 21; 1540-1551. (Featured article)
8. Haiping Wang, Fabien Franco, Yao-Chen Tsui, Xin Xie, Marcel P. Trefny, Roberta Zappasodi, Syed Raza Mohmood, Juan Fernández-García, Chin-Hsien Tsai, Isabell Schulze, Florence Picard, Etienne Meylan, Roy Silverstein, Ira Goldberg, Sarah-Maria Fendt, Jedd D. Wolchok, Taha Merghoub, Camilla Jandus, Alfred Zippelius, Ping-Chih Ho (2020) CD36-mediated metabolic adaptation supports regulatory T cell survival and function in tumors. Nat. Immunol. 21; 298-308.
9. Wan-Chen Cheng, Yao-Chen Tsui, Simone Ragusa, Marco Mina, Viktor Koelzer, Fabien Franco, Heinz Laubli, Benjamin Tschumi, Alfred Zippellius, Daniel Speiser, Pedro Romero, Tatian Petrova, Kirsten Mertz, Giovanni Ciriello, Ping-Chih Ho (2019) Uncoupling protein 2 reprograms the tumor microenvironment supporting anti-tumor immune cycle. Nat. Immunol. 20; 206-217.
10. Pu-Ste Liu, Haiping Wang, Xiaoyun Li, Tung Chao, Stefan Christen, Giusy Di Conza, Wan-Chen Cheng, Chih-Hung Chou, Magdalena Vavakova, Charlotte Muret, Koen Debackere, Massimiliano Mazzone, Hsien-Da Hung, Sarah Maria-Fendt, Julijana Ivanisevic, Ping-Chih Ho (2017) α-Ketoglutarate orchestrates macrophage activation through metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming. Nat. Immunol. 18; 985-994.
11. *Ping-Chih Ho, Jessica Dauz Binhuniak, Andrew N. Macintyre, Matthew M. Staron, Xiaojing Liu, Robert Amezquita, Yao-Chen Tsui, Guoliang Cui, Goran Micevic, Jose C. Perales, Steven H. Klenstein, E. Dale Abel, Karl Insogna, Stefan Feske, Jason W. Locasale, Marcus W. Bosenberg, Jeffrey C. Rathmell, and *Susan M. Kaech (2015) Phosphoenolpyruvate is a metabolic checkpoint controlling Ca2+-NFAT signaling and anti-tumor T cell responses. Cell 162; 1217-1228. *is corresponding author. (Cover story)
12. Guoliang Cui, Matthew M. Staron, Simon M. Gray, Ping-Chih Ho, Robert Amezquita, Jingxia Wu, and Susan Kaech (2015) IL7 induces TAG synthesis through the glycerol channel aquaporin 9 to sustain memory CD8+ T cell homeostasis. Cell 161; 750-761.
Selected Review Articles:
1. Jhan-Jie Peng, Limei Wang, Zhiyu Li, Cheng-Lung Ku, Ping-Chih Ho (2023) Metabolic challenegs and modulations in CAR T-cell therapy. Sci. Immunol. (In press)
2. Giusy Di Conza, Ping-Chih Ho*, Juan R Cubillos-Ruiz*, Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang* (2023) Control of immune cell function by the unfolded protein response. Nat. Rev. Immunol. (In press) *is corresponding author.
3. Jaeoh Park, Pei-Chun Hsueh, Zhiyu Li, Ping-Chih Ho (2023) Microenvironment-driven metabolic adaptations guiding CD8+ T cell anti-tumor immunity. Immunity 56; 32-42.
4. Kung-Chi Kao, Stefania Vilbois, Chin-Hsien Tsai, Ping-Chih Ho (2022) Metabolic communication in the tumor-immune microenvironment. Nat. Cell Biol. 24; 32-42.
5. Sofie Hedlund Moller, Pei-Chun Hsueh, Yi-Ru Yu, Lianjun Zhang, Ping-Chih Ho (2022) Metabolic programs tailor T cell immunity in viral infection, cancer, and aging. Cell Metab. 34; 378-395.
6. Michelangelo Certo, Chin-Hsien Tsai, Valentina Pucino, Ping-Chih Ho*, Claudio Mauro* (2020) Lactate modulation of the immune response in the inflammatory versus tumour microenvironment. Nat. Rev. Immunol. (In press) *is corresponding author.
7. Fabien Franco, Alison Jaccard, Pedro Romero, Yi-Ru Yu, Ping-Chih Ho (2020) Metabolic impairment orchestrates formation of exhausted T cells. Nat. Metab. 2; 1001-1012.
8. Haiping Wang, Chun-Hao Lu, Ping-Chih Ho (2020) Metabolic adaptation orchestrates tissue context-dependent behavior in regulatory T cells. Immunol. Rev. 295; 126-139.
9. Xiaoyun Li, Mathias Wenes, Pedro Romero, Sarah-Maria Fendt, Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang, Ping-Chih Ho (2019) Targeting metabolic pathways to enhance anticancer immunity and immunotherapy. Nat. Rev. Clin. Oncol. 16; 425-441.
10. Haiping Wang, Fabien Franco, and Ping-Chih Ho (2017) Metabolic regulation of Tregs in cancer: Opportunities for Immunotherapy. Trends in Cancer 3; 583-592. (Featured article)
11. Daniel E. Speiser, Ping-Chih Ho and Gregory Verdeil (2016) Regulatory circuits of T cell function in cancer. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 16; 599-611.
12. Ping-Chih Ho*, Pu-Ste Liu (2016) Metabolic communication in tumors: a new layer of immunoregulatoion for immune evasion. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 4; 4-12. * is corresponding author.
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