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

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 human myc gene family.
Authors: Authors: Alt FW, DePinho R, Zimmerman K, Legouy E, Hatton K, Ferrier P, Tesfaye A, Yancopoulos G, Nisen P.
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol
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Regulation of the assembly and expression of variable-region genes.
Authors: Authors: Yancopoulos GD, Alt FW.
Annu Rev Immunol
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N-myc can cooperate with ras to transform normal cells in culture.
Authors: Authors: Yancopoulos GD, Nisen PD, Tesfaye A, Kohl NE, Goldfarb MP, Alt FW.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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Clonal T lymphocyte recognition of the fine structure of the HLA-A2 molecule.
Authors: Authors: Brenner MB, McLean J, Yang SY, van der Poel JJ, Pious D, Strominger JL.
J Immunol
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VLA-1: a T cell surface antigen which defines a novel late stage of human T cell activation.
Authors: Authors: Hemler ME, Jacobson JG, Brenner MB, Mann D, Strominger JL.
Eur J Immunol
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Developmentally controlled and tissue-specific expression of unrearranged VH gene segments.
Authors: Authors: Yancopoulos GD, Alt FW.
Cell
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Cross-linking of human T cell receptor proteins: association between the T cell idiotype beta subunit and the T3 glycoprotein heavy subunit.
Authors: Authors: Brenner MB, Trowbridge IS, Strominger JL.
Cell
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Activated expression of the N-myc gene in human neuroblastomas and related tumors.
Authors: Authors: Kohl NE, Gee CE, Alt FW.
Science
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Exclusive immunoglobulin genes.
Authors: Authors: Alt FW.
Nature
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Molecular basis of heavy-chain class switching and switch region deletion in an Abelson virus-transformed cell line.
Authors: Authors: DePinho R, Kruger K, Andrews N, Lutzker S, Baltimore D, Alt FW.
Mol Cell Biol
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