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CHRISTINA VOELKEL-JOHNSON, Ph.D. Lab


LAB PERSONNEL
Christina Voelkel-Johnson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, MUSC

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS
Voelkel-Johnson C, Hannun YA, El-Zawahry A. Resistance to TRAIL is associated with defects in ceramide signaling that can be overcome by exogenous C6-ceramide without requiring down-regulation of cellular FLICE inhibitory protein. Mol Cancer Ther. 2005 Sep;4(9):1320-7.

El-Zawahry A, Lu P, White SJ, Voelkel-Johnson C. In vitro efficacy of AdTRAIL gene therapy of bladder cancer is enhanced by trichostatin A-mediated restoration of CAR expression and downregulation of cFLIP and Bcl-X(L). Cancer Gene Ther. 2005 Sep 16

El-Zawahry A, McKillop J, Voelkel-Johnson C. Doxorubicin increases the effectiveness of Apo2L/TRAIL for tumor growth inhibition of prostate cancer xenografts. BMC Cancer. 2005 Jan 7;5(1):2.

Sudarshan S, Holman DH, Hyer ML, Voelkel-Johnson C, Dong JY, Norris JS. In vitro efficacy of Fas ligand gene therapy for the treatment of bladder cancer. Cancer Gene Ther. 2005 Jan;12(1):12-8.

Rubinchik S, Yu H, Woraratanadharm J, Voelkel-Johnson C, Norris JS, Dong JY. Enhanced apoptosis of glioma cell lines is achieved by co-delivering FasL-GFP and TRAIL with a complex Ad5 vector. Cancer Gene Ther. 2003 Nov;10(11):814-22.

Voelkel-Johnson C. An antibody against DR4 (TRAIL-R1) in combination with doxorubicin selectively kills malignant but not normal prostate cells. Cancer Biol Ther. 2003 May-Jun;2(3):283-90.

Kelly MM, Hoel BD, Voelkel-Johnson C. Doxorubicin pretreatment sensitizes prostate cancer cell lines to TRAIL induced apoptosis which correlates with the loss of c-FLIP expression. Cancer Biol Ther. 2002 Sep-Oct;1(5):520-7.

Norris JS, Hyer ML, Voelkel-Johnson C, Lowe SL, Rubinchik S, Dong JY. The use of Fas Ligand, TRAIL and Bax in gene therapy of prostate cancer. Curr Gene Ther. 2001 May;1(1):123-36.

Voelkel-Johnson C, King DL, Norris JS. Resistance of prostate cancer cells to soluble TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL/Apo2L) can be overcome by doxorubicin or adenoviral delivery of full-length TRAIL. Cancer Gene Ther. 2002 Feb;9(2):164-72.

Hyer ML, Voelkel-Johnson C, Rubinchik S, Dong J, Norris JS. Intracellular Fas ligand expression causes Fas-mediated apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells resistant to monoclonal antibody-induced apoptosis. Mol Ther. 2000 Oct;2(4):348-58.

Voelkel-Johnson C, Voeks DJ, Greenberg NM, Barrios R, Maggouta F, Kurtz DT, Schwartz DA, Keller GM, Papenbrock T, Clawson GA, Norris JS. Genomic instability-based transgenic models of prostate cancer. Carcinogenesis. 2000 Aug;21(8):1623-7.

O'Brien JB, Piddington DL, Voelkel-Johnson C, Richards DJ, Hadley LA, Laster SM. Sustained phosphorylation of cytosolic phospholipase A2 accompanies cycloheximide- and adenovirus-induced susceptibility to TNF. J Immunol. 1998 Aug 1;161(3):1525-32.

Thorne TE, Voelkel-Johnson C, Casey WM, Parks LW, Laster SM. The activity of cytosolic phospholipase A2 is required for the lysis of adenovirus-infected cells by tumor necrosis factor. J Virol. 1996 Dec;70(12):8502-7.

Voelkel-Johnson C, Thorne TE, Laster SM. Susceptibility to TNF in the presence of inhibitors of transcription or translation is dependent on the activity of cytosolic phospholipase A2 in human melanoma tumor cells. J Immunol. 1996 Jan 1;156(1):201-7.

Voelkel-Johnson C, Entingh AJ, Wold WS, Gooding LR, Laster SM. Activation of intracellular proteases is an early event in TNF-induced apoptosis. J Immunol. 1995 Feb 15;154(4):1707-16.

Zilli D, Voelkel-Johnson C, Skinner T, Laster SM. The adenovirus E3 region 14.7 kDa protein, heat and sodium arsenite inhibit the TNF-induced release of arachidonic acid. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1992 Oct 15;188(1):177-83.

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