Jill Bargonetti

Jill Bargonetti is an American scientist and advocate of public higher education. She graduated from Bronx Science and received her Bachelor of Science from Purchase College, SUNY. Following her years at Purchase, she went on to complete her M.S. and Ph.D. at New York University, followed by her Postdoc at Columbia University.^[1]

Bargonetti teaches Biological Sciences at Hunter College. She chose to teach there because she "wanted to be a role model to students in a public institution like Hunter, where black, Hispanic and Asian students are the majority."^[2]

Her research revolves around breast cancer treatment.^[3]

Bargonetti teaches an interdisciplinary 'Choreographing Genomics' class, which uses postmodern dance to model biological processes.

In 1997, Bargonetti received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.^[4]

Biography

Bargonetti grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a mixed race marriage. Her mother is African-American and her father Italian-American. She graduated from the science-focused magnet school Bronx High School of Science and attended the State University of New York at Purchase with the intention of cultivating a longstanding interest in dance as well as biology.^[5]

She studied at Alvin Ailey for two summers and danced with Sounds in Motion, a small troupe in Harlem (now disbanded), while she worked in a research laboratory at New York University and then as a technician at Rockefeller University.^[5]

Bargonetti was featured on a PBS series called "American Graduate Day" in 2015.^[6] Additionally, she spoke at a TedX "Borders and Belonging" event at City University of New York (CUNY) in 2016.^[7]

Publications

• Rosso M, Polotskaia A, Bargonetti J. Homozygous mdm2 SNP309 cancer cells with compromised transcriptional elongation at p53 target genes are sensitive to induction of p53-independent cell death. Oncotarget. 2015 Oct 27;6(33):34573-91. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.5312. PMID 26416444
• Pfister NT, Fomin V, Regunath K, Zhou JY, Zhou W, Silwal-Pandit L, Freed-Pastor WA, Laptenko O, Neo SP, Bargonetti J, Hoque M, Tian B, Gunaratne J, Engebraaten O, Manley JL, Børresen-Dale AL, Neilsen PM, Prives C. Mutant p53 cooperates with SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex to regulate VEGFR2 in breast cancer cells. Genes Dev. 2015 Jun 15;29(12):1298-315. doi: 10.1101/gad.263202.115. Epub 2015 Jun 16. PMID 26080815
• Polotskaia, A., Xiao, G., Reynoso, K., Hendrickson, R., Martin, C., Qui, W. and J. Bargonetti. Proteome-wide Analysis of Mutant p53 Targets in Breast Cancer Identifies New Levels of Gain-of-Function that Influence PARP, PCNA and MCM4. (2015) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.;112(11):E1220-9.
• Xiao, G., Kue, P., Bhosle and J. Bargonetti. Decarbamoyl Mitomycin C (DMC) Activates p53-independent Ataxia Telangiectasia and Rad3 Related Protein (ATR) Chromatin Eviction. (2015) Cell Cycle Epub ahead of print Jan 7. PMID 25565400
• Shi, M., Shtraizent, N., Polotskaia, A., Bargonetti, J. H. Matsui. Impedimetric Detection of Mutant p53 Biomarker-Driven Metastatic Breast Cancers under Hyposmotic Pressure. (2014) PloS One Jan 7;9(6):e99351
• Hoffman S., Martin, D., Melendez A. and J. Bargonetti C. elegans p53 and Beclin 1 are involved in DNA repair. (2014) PloS One Feb 20;9(2):e88828.
• Shi, M., Shtraizent, N., Polotskaia, A., Bargonetti, J. H. Matsui. Impedimetric Detection of Mutant p53 Biomarker-Driven Metastatic Breast Cancers under Hyposmotic Pressure. (2014) PloS One Jan 7;9(6):e99351
• Okoro D., Arva N., Gao, C., Polotskaia A., Puente, C., Rosso, M., and J. Bargonetti. Endogenous Human MDM2-C is Highly Expressed in Human Cancers and Functions as a p53-independent Growth Activator. (2013) PloS One Oct 11;8(10):e77643.
• Catalina-Rodriguez, O., Preet, A., Kolukula, V., Furth, P., Albanese, C, Bargonetti, J. and M.L. Avantaggiati. Dietary regulation of p53 mutant levels influences tumorigenesis. (2012) Cell Cycle. 2012 Nov 14;11(23)
• Polotskaia, A., Krett, N., Shanmugam, M., Gamss, S., Rosen, S., and Bargonetti J. 8-Aminoadenosine activates p53-independent cell death of metastatic breast cancers. (2012) Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
• Okoro D., Rosso M., and J. Bargonetti. Splicing up Mdm2 for Cancer Proteome Diversity. Genes & Cancer August 2012.
• Freed-Pastor, W. A., Mizuno, H., Zhao, X., Langerod, A., Moon, S.-H., Rodriguez-Barrueco, R., Barsotti, A., Chicas, A., Li, W., Polotskaia, A., Bissell, M. J., Osborne, T. F., Tian, B., Lowe, S. W., Silva, J. M., Borrensen-Dale, A.-L., J., L. A., Bargonetti, J., and Prives, C. (2012) Mutant p53 Disrupts Mammary Acinar Morphogenesis via the Mevalonate Pathway, Cell 148(1-2):244-58.
• Success in Molecular Genetics: The Pink Flower" in Voices of Black American Pioneers, edited by Vernon Farmer, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut (2012).
• Brekman, A., Singh K.E., Polotskaiai A., Kundu N. and Bargonetti J. A p53-independent role of Mdm2 in estrogen-mediated activation of breast cancer cell proliferation. (2011) Breast Cancer Res. 13 (1):R3
• Boamah, E.K., Brekman, A., Tomasz, M.., Myeku, N., Figueiredo-Pereira, M., Hunter, S., Meyer, J. Bhosle, R.C. and Bargonetti, J. DNA adducts of decarbamoyl mitomycin C efficiently kill cells without wild-type p53 resulting from proteasome-mediated degradation of Checkpoint Protein 1. (2010) Chem. Res. Toxicol. 19 (23): 1151-62
• Bargonetti, J., Champeil E. and Tomasz, M. Differential Toxicity of DNA Adducts of Mitomycin C. (2010) Invited Review Journal of Nucleic Acids. Jul 29;2010. pii: 698960
• Paz, M.M., Ladwa, S., Champell, E., Liu, Y., Rockwell, S. Boamah, E.K., Bargonetti, J., Callahan, J., Roach, J., and Tomasz, M. Mapping DNA Adducts of Mitomycin and Decarbamoyl Mitomycin C in cell Lines Using Liquid Chromatogrphy/ Electrospray Tandem Mass Spectrometry. (2008) Chem. Res. Toxicol., 21(12): 2370-2378.
• Arva, N., Talbott, K., Okoro, D., Brekman, A., Qiu, W., and Bargonetti, J. Disruption of the p53-Mdm2 Complex by Nutlin-3 Reveals Different Cancer Cell Phenotypes. (2008) Ethnicity and Disease, 18(2 Suppl 2):S2-1-8.
• Boamah EK, White DE, Talbott KE, Arva NC, Berman D, Tomasz M, Bargonetti J. Mitomycin-DNA adducts induce p53-dependent and p53-independent cell death pathways. ACS Chem Biol. 2007 Jun 15;2(6):399-407. Epub 2007 May 25.
• White DE, Talbott KE, Arva NC, Bargonetti J. Mouse double minute 2 associates with chromatin in the presence of p53 and is released to facilitate activation of transcription. Cancer Res. 2006 Apr 1;66(7):3463-70.
• Hui L, Zheng Y, Yan Y, Bargonetti J, Foster DA. Mutant p53 in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells is stabilized by elevated phospholipase D activity and contributes to survival signals generated by phospholipase D. Oncogene. 2006 Nov 23;25(55):7305-10. Epub 2006 Jun 19
• Arva, N.C., Gopen, T.R., Talbott, K.E., Campbell, L.E., Chicas, A., White, D.E., Bond, G., Levine, A. and J. Bargonetti (2005) A chromatin associated and transcriptionally inactive p53-mdm2 complex occurs in mdm2 SNP309 homozygous cells. J. Biol. Chem. 280(29):26776-87
• Bond, G.L., W. Hu, E.E. Bond, H. Robins, F. Bartel, H. Taubert, P. Wuerl, K. Onel, L. Yip, S. Hwang, L.C. Strong, N.C. Arva, J. Bargonetti, G. Lozano, and A.J. Levine (2004) A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the Mdm2 Promoter Attenuates the p53 Tumor Suppressor Pathway and Accelerates Tumor Formation in Humans. Cell 119:591-602.
• Abbas, T., D. White, L.Hui, .D.A., Foster and J. Bargonetti (2004) Inhibition of p53 transcription by down-regulation of protein kinase C delta. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279 (11):9970-9977
• Hui, L., Abbas, T., Bargonetti, J., and D.A. Foster. (2004). Phospholipase D Elevates the Level of MDM2 and Suppresses DNA Damage-Induced Increases in p53. Mol. Cell Biology (24): 5677-5686.
• Molina, M. P., C. Cain, and J. Bargonetti (2003) In Vivo footprinting and DNA Affinity Chromatography for Analysis of p53 DNA Binding Ability. Methods in Molecular Biology 234:151-70
• Abbas, T., M. Olivier, J. Lopez,, S. Houser, G. Xiao, G. S. Kumar, M. Tomasz, and J. Bargonetti (2002). Differential activation of p53 by the various adducts of Mitomycin C. Journal of Biological Chemistry 277(43):40513-9.
• Bargonetti, J. and J.J. Manfredi. (2002). Multiple roles of the tumor suppressor p53. Curr. Opin. Oncology. 14:86-91.
• Houser, S., S.Koshlatyi , T. Lu , T. Gopen, and J. Bargonetti (2001). Camptothecin and Zeocin Can Differentially Increase p53 Levels During all Cell Cycle Stages. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 289:998-1009.
• Chicas, A., P. Molina, and J. Bargonetti (2000). Mutant p53 forms a complex with Sp1 on HIV-LTR DNA. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 279:383-390.
• Xiao, G., A. Chicas, M. Olivier, Y. Taya, S. Tyagi, F.R. Kramer and J. Bargonetti, (2000). p53 requires a damage signal to activate gadd45. Cancer Research 60: 1711-1719.
• Boydston-White, S., T. Gopen, S. Houser, J. Bargonetti and M. Diem, (1999). Infrared spectroscopy of human tissue: V. Infrared Spectroscopic studies of myeloid leukemia (ML-1) cells at different phases of the cell cycle. Biospectroscopy 5: 219-227.
• Xiao, G., D. White, and J. Bargonetti (1998). p53 binds to a constitutively nucleosome free region of the mdm2 gene. Oncogene 16:1171-1181.
• Bargonetti, J., A. Chicas, D. White, and C. Prives (1997). p53 represses Sp1 DNA Binding and HIV-LTR directed transcription. Cellular & Molecular Biology 43:935-949.
• Chen, X., J. Bargonetti, and C. Prives, (1995). p53, through p 21 (WAF1/CIP1), induces cyclin D1 synthesis. Cancer Research 55:4257-4263.
• Prives, C., J. Bargonetti, G. Farmer, E. Ferrari, P. Friedlander, U. Hubsher, L. Jayaraman, N. Pavletich, and Y. Wang, (1994). The DNA binding properties of the p53 tumor suppressor protein. CSHS on Quan. Bio. LIX:207-213.
• Bargonetti, J., J.J. Manfredi, X. Chen, D.R. Marshak, and C. Prives, (1993). A proteolytic fragment from the central region of p53 has marked sequence-specific binding activity when generated from wild-type but not from oncogenic mutant p53 protein. Genes and Dev. 7:2565-2574.
• Bargonetti, J., P.Z. Wang, and R.P. Novick, (1993). Measurement of gene expression by translational coupling: effect of copy mutations on pT181 initiator synthesis. EMBO 12:3659-3667.
• Friedman, P.N., X. Chen, J. Bargonetti, and C. Prives, (1993). The p53 protein is an unusually shaped tetramer that binds directly to DNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 90:3319-3323.
• Bargonetti, J., I. Reynisdottir, P.N. Friedman, and C. Prives, (1992). Site-specific binding of wild-type p53 to cellular DNA is inhibited by SV40 T antigen and mutant p53. Genes and Dev. 6:1886-1898.
• Farmer, G., J. Bargonetti, H. Zhu, P. Friedman, R. Prywes, and C. Prives, (1992). Wild-type p53 activates transcription in vitro. Nature 358:83-86.
• Zambetti, G.P., J. Bargonetti, K. Walker, C. Prives, and A.J. Levine, (1992). Wild-type p53 mediates positive regulation of gene expression through a specific DNA sequence element. Genes and Dev. 6:1143-1152.
• Prives, C., J. Bargonetti, P.N. Friedman, J.J. Manfredi, and E.H. Wang, (1991). Functional consequences of the interactions of the p53 tumor suppressor protein and SV40 large tumor antigen. CSHS on Quan. Bio. LVL:227-235.
• Bargonetti, J., P.N. Friedman, S.E. Kern, B. Vogelstein, and C. Prives, (1991). Wild-type but not mutant p53 immunopurified proteins bind to sequences adjacent to the SV40 origin of replication. Cell 65:1083-1091

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