Frederick 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

Research
Publications

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.

Adaptive immune response of Vgamma2Vdelta2+ T cells during mycobacterial infections.

Authors: Authors: Shen Y, Zhou D, Qiu L, Lai X, Simon M, Shen L, Kou Z, Wang Q, Jiang L, Estep J, Hunt R, Clagett M, Sehgal PK, Li Y, Zeng X, Morita CT, Brenner MB, Letvin NL, Chen ZW.
Science 2002-03-22
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Functionally distinct subsets of CD1d-restricted natural killer T cells revealed by CD1d tetramer staining.

Authors: Authors: Gumperz JE, Miyake S, Yamamura T, Brenner MB.
J Exp Med 2002-03-04
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Vav1 controls integrin clustering and MHC/peptide-specific cell adhesion to antigen-presenting cells.

Authors: Authors: Krawczyk C, Oliveira-dos-Santos A, Sasaki T, Griffiths E, Ohashi PS, Snapper S, Alt F, Penninger JM.
Immunity 2002-03-01
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Cdc42 facilitates invasion but not the actin-based motility of Shigella.

Authors: Authors: Shibata T, Takeshima F, Chen F, Alt FW, Snapper SB.
Curr Biol 2002-02-19
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Truncated immunoglobulin Dmu causes incomplete developmental progression of RAG-deficient pro-B cells.

Authors: Authors: Malynn BA, Shaw AC, Young F, Stewart V, Alt FW.
Mol Immunol 2002-01-01
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Mechanism and control of class-switch recombination.

Authors: Authors: Manis JP, Tian M, Alt FW.
Trends Immunol 2002-01-01
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Influence of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette Guérin on in vitro induction of CD1 molecules in human adherent mononuclear cells.

Authors: Authors: Giuliani A, Prete SP, Graziani G, Aquino A, Balduzzi A, Sugita M, Brenner MB, Iona E, Fattorini L, Orefici G, Porcelli SA, Bonmassar E.
Infect Immun 2001-12-01
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Impaired nonhomologous end-joining provokes soft tissue sarcomas harboring chromosomal translocations, amplifications, and deletions.

Authors: Authors: Sharpless NE, Ferguson DO, O'Hagan RC, Castrillon DH, Lee C, Farazi PA, Alson S, Fleming J, Morton CC, Frank K, Chin L, Alt FW, DePinho RA.
Mol Cell 2001-12-01
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Increased accumulation of hybrid V(D)J joins in cells expressing truncated versus full-length RAGs.

Authors: Authors: Sekiguchi JA, Whitlow S, Alt FW.
Mol Cell 2001-12-01
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TRAF1 is a negative regulator of TNF signaling. enhanced TNF signaling in TRAF1-deficient mice.

Authors: Authors: Tsitsikov EN, Laouini D, Dunn IF, Sannikova TY, Davidson L, Alt FW, Geha RS.
Immunity 2001-10-01
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