Publications
FGF21 acting on the noradrenergic nervous system protects against influenza virus infection. Fan W, Zhang Y, Gautron L, Thomas DG, Stout-Delgado HW, Schenck EJ, Gwatiringa T, Rajagopalan KN*, Mangelsdorf DJ, Kliewer SA*. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Sep 30;122(39):e2522045122. Epub 2025 Sep 25.
Leptin and melanocortin signalling in the response to infection. Nat Rev Endocrinol.
Fan RR, Beckham JD, Rajagopalan K.N. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2025 Sep 22. Online ahead of print.
Triglycerides are an important fuel reserve for synapse function in the brain.
Kumar M, Wu Y, Knapp J, Pontius CL, Park D, Witte RE, McAllister R, Gupta K, Rajagopalan KN, De Camilli P, Ryan TA. Nat Metab. 2025 Jul;7(7):1392-1403. Epub 2025 Jul 1.
Leptin signaling maintains autonomic stability during severe influenza infection in mice.
Muñoz-Rojas AR, Wang AC, Pomeranz LE, Reizis EL, Stout-Delgado HW, Miranda IC, Rajagopalan K, Gwatiringa T, Fan RR, Huda AA, Maskey N, Olumuyide RP, Patel AS, Friedman JM, Mathis D, Rajagopalan KN. J Clin Invest. 2024 Oct 31;135(1):e182550.
A randomized double-blind controlled trial of convalescent plasma in adults with severe COVID-19
O'Donnell MR, Grinsztejn B, Cummings MJ, Justman JE, Lamb MR, Eckhardt CM, Philip NM, Cheung YK, Gupta V, João E, Pilotto JH, Diniz MP, Cardoso SW, Abrams D, Rajagopalan KN, Borden SE, Wolf A, Sidi LC, Vizzoni A, Veloso VG, Bitan ZC, Scotto DE, Meyer BJ, Jacobson SD, Kantor A, Mishra N, Chauhan LV, Stone EF, Dei Zotti F, La Carpia F, Hudson KE, Ferrara SA, Schwartz J, Stotler BA, Lin WW, Wontakal SN, Shaz B, Briese T, Hod EA, Spitalnik SL, Eisenberger A, Lipkin WI. J Clin Invest. 2021 Jul 1;131(13):e150646.
Depletion of H3K36me2 recapitulates epigenomic and phenotypic changes induced by the H3.3K36M oncohistone mutation.
*Rajagopalan, KN, *Chen, X, *Weinberg, DN, Allis, CD, Lu, C.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Mar 2;118(9):e2021795118. (*denotes equal contribution)
Body mass index and risk of intubation or death in SARS-CoV-2 infection: a retrospective cohort study.
Anderson MR, Geleris J, Anderson DR, Zucker J, Nobel YR, Freedberg D, Small-Saunders J, Rajagopalan KN, Greendyk R, Chae SR, Natarajan K, Roh D, Edwin E, Gallagher D, Podolanczuk A, Barr RG, Ferrante AW, Baldwin MR. Body mass index and risk of intubation or death in SARS-CoV-2 infection: a retrospective cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Nov 17;173(10):782-790. Epub 2020 Jul 29.
Evaluating the efficacy and safety of human anti-SARS-CoV2 convalescent plasma in severely ill adults with COVID-19: A structured summary of a study protocol for a randomized control trial.
Eckhardt CM, Cummings MJ, Rajagopalan KN, Borden S, Bitan ZC, Wolf A, Kantor A, Briese T, Meyer BJ, Jacobson SD, Scotto D, Mishra N, Philip NM, Stotler BA, Schwartz J, Shaz B, Spitalnik SL, Eisenberger A, Hod EA, Justman J, Cheung K, Lipkin WI, O'Donnell MR. Trials. 2020 Jun 8;21(1):499.
The histone mark H3K36me2 recruits DNMT3A and shapes the intergenic DNA methylation landscape.
Weinberg DN, Papillon-Cavanagh S, Chen H, Yue Y, Chen X, Rajagopalan KN, Horth C, McGuire JT, Xu X, Nikbakht H, Lemiesz AE, Marchione DM, Marunde MR, Meiners MJ, Cheek MA, Keogh MC, Bareke E, Djedid A, Harutyunyan AS, Jabado N, Garcia BA, Li H, Allis CD, Majewski J, Lu C.Nature. 2019 Sep;573(7773):281-286. Epub 2019 Sep 4.
Metabolic plasticity maintains proliferation in pyruvate dehydrogenase deficient cells.
Rajagopalan KN, Egnatchik RA, Calvaruso MA, Wasti AT, Padanad MS, Boroughs LK, Ko B, Hensley CT, Acar M, Hu Z, Jiang L, Pascual JM, Scaglioni PP, DeBerardinis RJ. Cancer Metab. 2015 Jun 29:3:7. eCollection 2015.
Analysis of tumor metabolism reveals mitochondrial glucose oxidation in genetically diverse human glioblastomas in the mouse brain in vivo.
Marin-Valencia I, Yang C, Mashimo T, Cho S, Baek H, Yang XL, Rajagopalan KN, Maddie M, Vemireddy V, Zhao Z, Cai L, Good L, Tu BP, Hatanpaa KJ, Mickey BE, Matés JM, Pascual JM, Maher EA, Malloy CR, Deberardinis RJ, Bachoo RM. Cell Metab. 2012 Jun 6;15(6):827-37.
Role of glutamine in cancer: therapeutic and imaging implications.
Rajagopalan KN, and DeBerardinis RJ. J Nucl Med. 2011 Jul;52(7):1005-8. Epub 2011 Jun 16.
Haem oxygenase is synthetically lethal with the tumor suppressor fumarate hydratase.
Frezza C, Zheng L, Folger O, Rajagopalan KN, MacKenzie ED, Jerby L, Micaroni M, Chaneton B, Adam J, Hedley A, Kalna G, Tomlinson IP, Pollard PJ, Watson DG, Deberardinis RJ, Shlomi T, Ruppin E, Gottlieb E. Nature. 2011 Aug 17;477(7363):225-8.