Selected Publications (click for a complete list through PubMed)

Murphy, S.P., Holtz, R., Lewandowski, N., Tomasi, T.B., and Fuji, H. DNA alkylating agents alleviate silencing of Class II transactivator gene expression in L1210 lymphoma cells. J. Immunol. 169:3085-3093 2002.

Urbanyi, Z., Laszlo, L., Tomasi, T.B., Toth, E., Mekes, E., Sass, M., and Pazmany, T. Serum Amyloid P Component Induces Neuronal Apoptosis and b-amyloid Immunoreactivity. Brain Res. 988:69-77, 2003.

Altieri, S.L., Khan, A.N.H., and Tomasi, T.B. Exosomes from Plasmacytoma Cells as a Tumor Vaccine. J. Immunotherapy. 27:282-288, 2004.

Khan, A.N.H., Magner, W.J., and Tomasi, T.B. An Epigenetically Altered Tumor Cell Vaccine. Cancer Immunol. & Immunotherapy. 53:748-754, 2004.

Chou, S-D, A. Nazmul H. Khan, William J. Magner, and Thomas B. Tomasi. Histone Acetylation Regulates the Cell Type Specific CIITA Promoters, MHC Class II Expression and Antigen Presentation in Tumor Cells. Internatl. Immunol. 17:1483-94, 2005.

Limin Shang and Thomas B. Tomasi. The Hsp90/CDC37 Chaperone Complex is Required for Signaling by Type I and II Interferons. J. Biol. Chem. 281:1876-84, 2006.

Pazmany, T and Tomasi, T.B. The Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II Transactivator is Differentially Regulated by Interferon-g and Transforming Growth Factor-b in Microglial Cells. J. Neuroimmunol. 17 18-26, 2006.

Tomasi, Thomas B., A. Nazmul H. Khan, William J. Magner. Epigenetic regulation and immune escape in cancer. Invited review. Cancer Immunol. & Immunotherapy 55:1159-84, 2006.

Khan, ANH and Tomasi, T.B. Histone deacetylase inhibitors regulate antitumor immune responses. Invited review. Immunologic Research, Preprint (January 2007) pp 1-15.doi 10.1007/s12026-007-0085-0.

Khan ANH, Gregorie, C.J. and Tomasi, T.B. Histone deacetylase inhibitors induce TAP, LMP, Tapasin genes and MHC class I antigen presentation by melanoma cells. Cancer Immunol. & Immunotherapy. In press.

Asirvatham, A.J. Gregorie, C.J., Magner, W.J., Hu, Z., and Tomasi, T.B. MicroRNA Targets in Immune Genes and the Dicer/Argonaute and ARE Machinery Components. Molecular Immunology, In press.

Chou, S-D and Thomas B. Tomasi.  Spatial Distribution of Histone Methylation during MHC Class II Expression.  Mol. Immunology.  2008 Feb; 45(4): 971-980.  Epub. 2007 Sept. 11.  PMID=17850872.