Derek Wilson Cain, PhD

Assistant Professor in Medicine
Member of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute
Campus mail 2 Genome Ct - Rm 4083 MSRBII, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 681-8193

My research focuses on the interactions of T cells and B cells during infection or following vaccination. I am particularly interested in the inter- and intracellular events that take place within germinal centers, the anatomic site of antibody evolution during an immune response.

Education and Training

  • Ph.D., Duke University, 2010

Grants

Publications

Saunders, KO, Verkoczy, LK, Jiang, C, Zhang, J, Parks, R, Chen, H, Housman, M, Bouton-Verville, H, Shen, X, Trama, AM, Scearce, R, Sutherland, L, Santra, S, Newman, A, Eaton, A, Xu, K, Georgiev, IS, Joyce, MG, Tomaras, GD, Bonsignori, M, Reed, SG, Salazar, A, Mascola, JR, Moody, MA, Cain, DW, Centlivre, M, Zurawski, S, Zurawski, G, Erickson, HP, Kwong, PD, Alam, SM, Levy, Y, Montefiori, DC, and Haynes, BF. "Vaccine Induction of Heterologous Tier 2 HIV-1 Neutralizing Antibodies in Animal Models." Cell reports 21, no. 13 (December 2017): 3681-3690.

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Cain, DW, and Cidlowski, JA. "Immune regulation by glucocorticoids." Nature reviews. Immunology 17, no. 4 (April 2017): 233-247. (Review)

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Abbott, RK, Silva, M, Labuda, J, Thayer, M, Cain, DW, Philbrook, P, Sethumadhavan, S, Hatfield, S, Ohta, A, and Sitkovsky, M. "The GS Protein-coupled A2a Adenosine Receptor Controls T Cell Help in the Germinal Center." The Journal of biological chemistry 292, no. 4 (January 2017): 1211-1217.

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Abbott, RK, Thayer, M, Labuda, J, Silva, M, Philbrook, P, Cain, DW, Kojima, H, Hatfield, S, Sethumadhavan, S, Ohta, A, Reinherz, EL, Kelsoe, G, and Sitkovsky, M. "Germinal Center Hypoxia Potentiates Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination." Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 197, no. 10 (November 2016): 4014-4020.

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Bortner, CD, Scoltock, AB, Cain, DW, and Cidlowski, JA. "T-cell development of resistance to apoptosis is driven by a metabolic shift in carbon source and altered activation of death pathways." Cell death and differentiation 23, no. 5 (May 2016): 889-902.

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Cain, DW, and Cidlowski, JA. "Specificity and sensitivity of glucocorticoid signaling in health and disease." Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism 29, no. 4 (August 2015): 545-556. (Review)

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Cain, DW, O'Koren, EG, Kan, MJ, Womble, M, Sempowski, GD, Hopper, K, Gunn, MD, and Kelsoe, G. "Identification of a tissue-specific, C/EBPβ-dependent pathway of differentiation for murine peritoneal macrophages." J Immunol 191, no. 9 (November 1, 2013): 4665-4675.

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Yang, G, Holl, TM, Liu, Y, Li, Y, Lu, X, Nicely, NI, Kepler, TB, Alam, SM, Liao, H-X, Cain, DW, Spicer, L, VandeBerg, JL, Haynes, BF, and Kelsoe, G. "Identification of autoantigens recognized by the 2F5 and 4E10 broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibodies." J Exp Med 210, no. 2 (February 11, 2013): 241-256.

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Kim, M, Song, L, Moon, J, Sun, Z-YJ, Bershteyn, A, Hanson, M, Cain, D, Goka, S, Kelsoe, G, Wagner, G, and al, E. "Immunogenicity of membrane-bound HIV-1 gp41 membrane-proximal external region (MPER) segments is dominated by residue accessibility and modulated by stereochemistry." Journal of Biological Chemistry 288, no. 44 (2013): 31888-31901.

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Cain, DW, Sanders, SE, Cunningham, MM, and Kelsoe, G. "Disparate adjuvant properties among three formulations of "alum"." Vaccine (2012).

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