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Peter K. Sorger

Harvard Medical School
Verified email at hms.harvard.edu
Cited by 52440

Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq

…, AY Andreev, EM Van Allen, M Bertagnolli, PK Sorger… - Science, 2016 - science.org
To explore the distinct genotypic and phenotypic states of melanoma tumors, we applied
single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to 4645 single cells isolated from 19 patients, profiling …

Cells on chips

J El-Ali, PK Sorger, KF Jensen - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Microsystems create new opportunities for the spatial and temporal control of cell growth
and stimuli by combining surfaces that mimic complex biochemistries and geometries of the …

SARS-CoV-2 infection protects against rechallenge in rhesus macaques

…, J Liu, AJ Martinot, K McMahan, NB Mercado, L Peter… - Science, 2020 - science.org
An understanding of protective immunity to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) is critical for vaccine and public health strategies aimed at ending the global …

Non-genetic origins of cell-to-cell variability in TRAIL-induced apoptosis

…, S Gaudet, JG Albeck, JM Burke, PK Sorger - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
In microorganisms, noise in gene expression gives rise to cell-to-cell variability in protein
concentrations 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 . In mammalian cells, protein levels also vary 8 , 9 , 10 and …

[PDF][PDF] A cancer cell program promotes T cell exclusion and resistance to checkpoint blockade

…, AK Shalek, I Tirosh, PK Sorger, K Wucherpfennig… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) produce durable responses in some melanoma patients,
but many patients derive no clinical benefit, and the molecular underpinnings of such …

Yeast heat shock factor is an essential DNA-binding protein that exhibits temperature-dependent phosphorylation

PK Sorger, HRB Pelham - Cell, 1988 - cell.com
Heat shock promoters contain one or more binding sites for a specific heat shock factor (HSF).
We report the cloning and sequence of the gene encoding yeast HSF, and demonstrate …

MAD2 haplo-insufficiency causes premature anaphase and chromosome instability in mammalian cells

…, B Pasche, W Gerald, M Dobles, PK Sorger… - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
The mitotic checkpoint protein hsMad2 is required to arrest cells in mitosis when chromosomes
are unattached to the mitotic spindle 1 . The presence of a single, lagging chromosome is …

Single-sequence protein structure prediction using a language model and deep learning

…, G Ahdritz, J Zhang, GM Church, PK Sorger… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
AlphaFold2 and related computational systems predict protein structure using deep
learning and co-evolutionary relationships encoded in multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). …

[PDF][PDF] Obesity shapes metabolism in the tumor microenvironment to suppress anti-tumor immunity

…, CA Jacobson, Z Maliga, SP Gygi, PK Sorger… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Obesity is a major cancer risk factor, but how differences in systemic metabolism change the
tumor microenvironment (TME) and impact anti-tumor immunity is not understood. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Sequential application of anticancer drugs enhances cell death by rewiring apoptotic signaling networks

MJ Lee, SY Albert, AK Gardino, AM Heijink, PK Sorger… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Crosstalk and complexity within signaling pathways and their perturbation by oncogenes
limit component-by-component approaches to understanding human disease. Network …