Frederick W. Alt

Frederick Alt, Ph.D.

Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Professor of Genetics, Boston Children's Hospital
Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, Harvard Medical School
617-919-2539
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The Alt laboratory studies mechanisms that maintain genomic stability in mammalian cells. The programmed recombination and hypermutation events in lymphocytes and the general DNA repair mechanisms involved in these processes are a focus. The laboratory also studies mechanisms that promote and prevent oncogenic translocations. Approaches range from molecular genetics and biochemistry to animal models.

The chromatin landscape of pathogenic transcriptional cell states in rheumatoid arthritis.
Authors: Authors: Weinand K, Sakaue S, Nathan A, Jonsson AH, Zhang F, Watts GFM, Al Suqri M, Zhu Z, Rao DA, Anolik JH, Brenner MB, Donlin LT, Wei K, Raychaudhuri S.
Nat Commun
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Granzyme K drives a newly-intentified pathway of complement activation.
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bioRxiv
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Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) receptor amplifies pathogenic activation of fibroblasts in lung fibrosis.
Authors: Authors: Nguyen HN, Jeong Y, Kim Y, Kim YH, Athar H, Castaldi PJ, Hersh CP, Padera RF, Sholl LM, Vivero M, Sharma NS, Yun J, Merriam LT, Yuan K, Kim EY, Brenner MB.
bioRxiv
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Heterologous prime-boost vaccination drives early maturation of HIV broadly neutralizing antibody precursors in humanized mice.
Authors: Authors: Cottrell CA, Hu X, Lee JH, Skog P, Luo S, Flynn CT, McKenney KR, Hurtado J, Kalyuzhniy O, Liguori A, Willis JR, Landais E, Raemisch S, Chen X, Baboo S, Himansu S, Diedrich JK, Duan H, Cheng C, Schiffner T, Bader DLV, Kulp DW, Tingle R, Georgeson E, Eskandarzadeh S, Alavi N, Lu D, Sincomb T, Kubitz M, Mullen TM, Yates JR, Paulson JC, Mascola JR, Alt FW, Briney B, Sok D, Schief WR.
Sci Transl Med
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Mutation-guided vaccine design: A process for developing boosting immunogens for HIV broadly neutralizing antibody induction.
Authors: Authors: Wiehe K, Saunders KO, Stalls V, Cain DW, Venkatayogi S, Martin Beem JS, Berry M, Evangelous T, Henderson R, Hora B, Xia SM, Jiang C, Newman A, Bowman C, Lu X, Bryan ME, Bal J, Sanzone A, Chen H, Eaton A, Tomai MA, Fox CB, Tam YK, Barbosa C, Bonsignori M, Muramatsu H, Alam SM, Montefiori DC, Williams WB, Pardi N, Tian M, Weissman D, Alt FW, Acharya P, Haynes BF.
Cell Host Microbe
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Tissue-specific enhancer-gene maps from multimodal single-cell data identify causal disease alleles.
Authors: Authors: Sakaue S, Weinand K, Isaac S, Dey KK, Jagadeesh K, Kanai M, Watts GFM, Zhu Z, Brenner MB, McDavid A, Donlin LT, Wei K, Price AL, Raychaudhuri S.
Nat Genet
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The lipid globotriaosylceramide promotes germinal center B cell responses and antiviral immunity.
Authors: Authors: Sharma P, Zhang X, Ly K, Zhang Y, Hu Y, Ye AY, Hu J, Kim JH, Lou M, Wang C, Celuzza Q, Kondo Y, Furukawa K, Bundle DR, Furukawa K, Alt FW, Winau F.
Science
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Corrigendum: Abnormalities of thymic stroma may contribute to immune dysregulation in murine models of leaky severe combined immunodeficiency.
Authors: Authors: Rucci F, Poliani PL, Caraffi S, Paganini T, Fontana E, Giliani S, Alt FW, Notarangelo LD.
Front Immunol
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Engineering immunogens that select for specific mutations in HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies.
Authors: Authors: Henderson R, Anasti K, Manne K, Stalls V, Saunders C, Bililign Y, Williams A, Bubphamala P, Montani M, Kachhap S, Li J, Jaing C, Newman A, Cain D, Lu X, Venkatayogi S, Berry M, Wagh K, Korber B, Saunders KO, Tian M, Alt F, Wiehe K, Acharya P, Alam SM, Haynes BF.
bioRxiv
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Mapping the dynamic genetic regulatory architecture of HLA genes at single-cell resolution.
Authors: Authors: Kang JB, Shen AZ, Gurajala S, Nathan A, Rumker L, Aguiar VRC, Valencia C, Lagattuta KA, Zhang F, Jonsson AH, Yazar S, Alquicira-Hernandez J, Khalili H, Ananthakrishnan AN, Jagadeesh K, Dey K, Daly MJ, Xavier RJ, Donlin LT, Anolik JH, Powell JE, Rao DA, Brenner MB, Gutierrez-Arcelus M, Luo Y, Sakaue S, Raychaudhuri S.
Nat Genet
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