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Andrew Lew-Publications
Researcher:
Selected publications
- Zhan Y, Chow KV, Soo P, Xu Z, Brady JL, Lawlor KE, Masters SL, O'keeffe M, Shortman K, Zhang JG, Lew AM. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are short-lived: reappraising the influence of migration, genetic factors and activation on estimation of lifespan. Sci Rep. 2016 Apr 26;6:25060. doi: 10.1038/srep25060. PMID: 27112985
- Chow KV, Lew AM, Sutherland RM, Zhan Y. Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells Promote Th Polarization, whereas Conventional Dendritic Cells Promote Th Proliferation. J Immunol. 2016 Jan 15;196(2):624-36. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1501202. Epub 2015 Dec 9. PMID: 26663720
- Johanson TM, Keown AA, Cmero M, Yeo JH, Kumar A, Lew AM, Zhan Y, Chong MM. Drosha controls dendritic cell development by cleaving messenger RNAs encoding inhibitors of myelopoiesis. Nat Immunol. 2015 Nov;16(11):1134-41. doi: 10.1038/ni.3293. Epub 2015 Oct 5. PMID: 26437240
- Kim ML, Chae JJ, Park YH, De Nardo D, Stirzaker RA, Ko HJ, Tye H, Cengia L, DiRago L, Metcalf D, Roberts AW, Kastner DL, Lew AM, Lyras D, Kile BT, Croker BA, Masters SL. Aberrant actin depolymerization triggers the pyrin inflammasome and autoinflammatory disease that is dependent on IL-18, not IL-1β. J Exp Med. 2015 Jun 1;212(6):927-38. doi: 10.1084/jem.20142384. Epub 2015 May 25. PMID: 26008898
- Nachbur U, Stafford CA, Bankovacki A, Zhan Y, Lindqvist LM, Fiil BK, Khakham Y, Ko HJ, Sandow JJ, Falk H, Holien JK, Chau D, Hildebrand J, Vince JE, Sharp PP, Webb AI, Jackman KA, Mühlen S, Kennedy CL, Lowes KN, Murphy JM, Gyrd-Hansen M, Parker MW, Hartland EL, Lew AM, Huang DC, Lessene G, Silke J. A RIPK2 inhibitor delays NOD signalling events yet prevents inflammatory cytokine production. Nat Commun. 2015 Mar 17;6:6442. doi: 10.1038/ncomms7442. PMID: 25778803
- Carrington EM, Zhang JG, Sutherland RM, Vikstrom IB, Brady JL, Soo P, Vremec D, Allison C, Lee EF, Fairlie WD, Bouillet P, Grabow S, Ottina E, Herold MJ, Pellegrini M, Huang DC, Tarlinton DM, Strasser A, Lew AM, Zhan Y. Prosurvival Bcl-2 family members reveal a distinct apoptotic identity between conventional and plasmacytoid dendritic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 31;112(13):4044-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1417620112. Epub 2015 Mar 16. PMID: 25775525
- Brady JL, Harrison LC, Goodman DJ, Cowan PJ, Hawthorne WJ, O'Connell PJ, Sutherland RM, Lew AM. Preclinical screening for acute toxicity of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies in a hu-SCID model. Clin Transl Immunology. 2014 Dec 19;3(12):e29. doi: 10.1038/cti.2014.28. eCollection 2014 Dec PMID: 25587392
- Marchingo JM, Kan A, Sutherland RM, Duffy KR, Wellard CJ, Belz GT, Lew AM, Dowling MR, Heinzel S, Hodgkin PD. T cell signaling. Antigen affinity, costimulation, and cytokine inputs sum linearly to amplify T cell expansion. Science. 2014 Nov 28;346(6213):1123-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1260044. PMID: 25430770
- Zhan Y, Carrington EM, Ko HJ, Vikstrom IB, Oon S, Zhang JG, Vremec D, Brady JL, Bouillet P, Wu L, Huang DC, Wicks IP, Morand EF, Strasser A, Lew AM. Bcl-2 antagonists kill plasmacytoid dendritic cells from lupus-prone mice and dampen interferon-α production. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2015 Mar;67(3):797-808. doi: 10.1002/art.38966. PMID: 25418983
- Zhang Y, Kinkel S, Maksimovic J, Bandala-Sanchez E, Tanzer MC, Naselli G, Zhang JG, Zhan Y, Lew AM, Silke J, Oshlack A, Blewitt ME, Harrison LC. The polycomb repressive complex 2 governs life and death of peripheral T cells. Blood. 2014 Jul 31;124(5):737-49. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-12-544106. Epub 2014 Jun 20. PMID: 24951427