Jesse Ray Zamudio
Associate Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles
jesse.zamudio@ucla.edu
Interests
Gene regulation, Cancer, Epigenetics, RNA, Stem cells
Education and Training
MIT | Postdoctoral Fellow | 1/2016 | Cancer Genomics |
UCLA | Ph.D. | 12/2008 | Microbiology,Immunology & Molecular Genetics |
UCLA | B.S. | 06/2003 | Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Publications
- Martinez-Terroba E, Plasek-Hegde LM, Chiotakakos I, Li V, de Miguel FJ, Robles-Oteiza C, Tyagi A, Politi K, Zamudio JR, Dimitrova N. Overexpression of Malat1 drives metastasis through inflammatory reprogramming of the tumor microenvironment.. Science immunology, 2024.
- Sandoval R, Dilsavor CN, Grishanina NR, Patel V, Zamudio JR. Mammalian RNAi represses pericentromeric lncRNAs to maintain genome stability.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.
- Coulis G, Jaime D, Guerrero-Juarez C, Kastenschmidt JM, Farahat PK, Nguyen Q, Pervolarakis N, McLinden K, Thurlow L, Movahedi S, Hughes BS, Duarte J, Sorn A, Montoya E, Mozaffar I, Dragan M, Othy S, Joshi T, Hans CP, Kimonis V, MacLean AL, Nie Q, Wallace LM, Harper SQ, Mozaffar T, Hogarth MW, Bhattacharya S, Jaiswal JK, Golann DR, Su Q, Kessenbrock K, Stec M, Spencer MJ, Zamudio JR, Villalta SA. Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis.. Science advances, 2023.
- Coulis G, Jaime D, Guerrero-Juarez C, Kastenschmidt JM, Farahat PK, Nguyen Q, Pervolarakis N, McLinden K, Thurlow L, Movahedi S, Duarte J, Sorn A, Montoya E, Mozaffar I, Dragan M, Othy S, Joshi T, Hans CP, Kimonis V, MacLean AL, Nie Q, Wallace LM, Harper SQ, Mozaffar T, Hogarth MW, Bhattacharya S, Jaiswal JK, Golann DR, Su Q, Kessenbrock K, Stec M, Spencer MJ, Zamudio JR, Villalta SA. Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
- Mart Nez-Terroba E, de Miguel FJ, Li V, Robles-Oteiza C, Politi K, Zamudio JR, Dimitrova N. Overexpressed Malat1 Drives Metastasis through Inflammatory Reprogramming of Lung Adenocarcinoma Microenvironment.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
- Hancock GV, Liu W, Peretz L, Chen D, Gell JJ, Collier AJ, Zamudio JR, Plath K, Clark AT. Divergent roles for KLF4 and TFCP2L1 in naive ground state pluripotency and human primordial germ cell development.. Stem cell research, 2021.
- Tesfaye E, Martinez-Terroba E, Bendor J, Winkler L, Olivero C, Chen K, Feldser DM, Zamudio JR, Dimitrova N. The p53 transcriptional response across tumor types reveals core and senescence-specific signatures modulated by long noncoding RNAs.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021.
- Sánchez-Rivera FJ, Ryan J, Soto-Feliciano YM, Clare Beytagh M, Xuan L, Feldser DM, Hemann MT, Zamudio J, Dimitrova N, Letai A, Jacks T. Mitochondrial apoptotic priming is a key determinant of cell fate upon p53 restoration.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021.
- Olivero CE, Martínez-Terroba E, Zimmer J, Liao C, Tesfaye E, Hooshdaran N, Schofield JA, Bendor J, Fang D, Simon MD, Zamudio JR, Dimitrova N. p53 Activates the Long Noncoding RNA Pvt1b to Inhibit Myc and Suppress Tumorigenesis.. Molecular cell, 2020.
- Kelly TJ, Brümmer A, Hooshdaran N, Tariveranmoshabad M, Zamudio JR. Temporal Control of the TGF-β Signaling Network by Mouse ESC MicroRNA Targets of Different Affinities.. Cell reports, 2019.
- Kelly TJ, Suzuki HI, Zamudio JR, Suzuki M, Sharp PA. Sequestration of microRNA-mediated target repression by the Ago2-associated RNA-binding protein FAM120A.. RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2019.
- Bosson AD, Zamudio JR, Sharp PA. Endogenous miRNA and target concentrations determine susceptibility to potential ceRNA competition.. Molecular cell, 2014.
- Dimitrova N, Zamudio JR, Jong RM, Soukup D, Resnick R, Sarma K, Ward AJ, Raj A, Lee JT, Sharp PA, Jacks T. LincRNA-p21 activates p21 in cis to promote Polycomb target gene expression and to enforce the G1/S checkpoint.. Molecular cell, 2014.
- Zamudio JR, Kelly TJ, Sharp PA. Argonaute-bound small RNAs from promoter-proximal RNA polymerase II.. Cell, 2014.
- Flynn RA, Almada AE, Zamudio JR, Sharp PA. Antisense RNA polymerase II divergent transcripts are P-TEFb dependent and substrates for the RNA exosome.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011.
- Werner M, Purta E, Kaminska KH, Cymerman IA, Campbell DA, Mittra B, Zamudio JR, Sturm NR, Jaworski J, Bujnicki JM. 2'-O-ribose methylation of cap2 in human: function and evolution in a horizontally mobile family.. Nucleic acids research, 2011.
- Zamudio JR, Mittra B, Campbell DA, Sturm NR. Hypermethylated cap 4 maximizes Trypanosoma brucei translation.. Molecular microbiology, 2009.
- Zamudio JR, Mittra B, Chattopadhyay A, Wohlschlegel JA, Sturm NR, Campbell DA. Trypanosoma brucei spliced leader RNA maturation by the cap 1 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase and SLA1 H/ACA snoRNA pseudouridine synthase complex.. Molecular and cellular biology, 2008.
- Mittra B, Zamudio JR, Bujnicki JM, Stepinski J, Darzynkiewicz E, Campbell DA, Sturm NR. The TbMTr1 spliced leader RNA cap 1 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase from Trypanosoma brucei acts with substrate specificity.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 2007.
- Zamudio JR, Mittra B, Foldynová-Trantírková S, Zeiner GM, Lukes J, Bujnicki JM, Sturm NR, Campbell DA. The 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase for cap 1 of spliced leader RNA and U1 small nuclear RNA in Trypanosoma brucei.. Molecular and cellular biology, 2007.
- Zamudio JR, Mittra B, Zeiner GM, Feder M, Bujnicki JM, Sturm NR, Campbell DA. Complete cap 4 formation is not required for viability in Trypanosoma brucei.. Eukaryotic cell, 2006.