Jessica Rios-Esteves, PhD

Project Manager MS&T at Novartis Morris Plains, NJ

Jessica Rios Estevez

Dissertation

Fatty Acylation of WNT Proteins by the Acyltranferase Porcupine (2014)

Mentor

Marilyn Resh, PhD

End Year

2014

Education

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

Publications

Rios-Esteves J, Haugen B, Res M. (2014) Identification of Key Residues and Regions Important for Porcupine-mediated Wnt Acylation. J Biol Chem, 289, 17009-17019. PMCID: PMC4059143.

Petrova E, Rios-Esteves J, Ouerfelli O, Glickman J, Resh M. (2013) Inhibitors of Hedgehog acyltransferase block Sonic Hedgehog signaling. Nat Chem Biol, 9, 247-249. PMCID: PMC3604071.

Rios-Esteves J, Resh M. (2013) Stearoyl CoA desaturase is required to produce active, lipid-modified Wnt proteins. Cell Rep, 4, 1072-1081. PMCID: PMC3845236.