Frederick W. Alt

Frederick W. Alt, Ph.D.

Director, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital
Principal Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at 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.

Plateletpheresis-associated lymphopenia in frequent platelet donors.
Authors: Authors: Gansner JM, Rahmani M, Jonsson AH, Fortin BM, Brimah I, Ellis M, Smeland-Wagman R, Li ZJ, Schenkel JM, Brenner MB, Yefidoff-Freedman R, Sloan SR, Berliner N, Issa NC, Baden LR, Longo DL, Wesemann DR, Neuberg D, Rao DA, Kaufman RM.
Blood
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Metabolic reprogramming of natural killer cells in obesity limits antitumor responses.
Authors: Authors: Michelet X, Dyck L, Hogan A, Loftus RM, Duquette D, Wei K, Beyaz S, Tavakkoli A, Foley C, Donnelly R, O'Farrelly C, Raverdeau M, Vernon A, Pettee W, O'Shea D, Nikolajczyk BS, Mills KHG, Brenner MB, Finlay D, Lynch L.
Nat Immunol
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Mixed-effects association of single cells identifies an expanded effector CD4+ T cell subset in rheumatoid arthritis.
Authors: Authors: Fonseka CY, Rao DA, Teslovich NC, Korsunsky I, Hannes SK, Slowikowski K, Gurish MF, Donlin LT, Lederer JA, Weinblatt ME, Massarotti EM, Coblyn JS, Helfgott SM, Todd DJ, Bykerk VP, Karlson EW, Ermann J, Lee YC, Brenner MB, Raychaudhuri S.
Sci Transl Med
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Innate T Cells Govern Adipose Tissue Biology.
Authors: Authors: LaMarche NM, Kohlgruber AC, Brenner MB.
J Immunol
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High-throughput identification of noncoding functional SNPs via type IIS enzyme restriction.
Authors: Authors: Li G, Martínez-Bonet M, Wu D, Yang Y, Cui J, Nguyen HN, Cunin P, Levescot A, Bai M, Westra HJ, Okada Y, Brenner MB, Raychaudhuri S, Hendrickson EA, Maas RL, Nigrovic PA.
Nat Genet
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?d T cells producing interleukin-17A regulate adipose regulatory T cell homeostasis and thermogenesis.
Authors: Authors: Kohlgruber AC, Gal-Oz ST, LaMarche NM, Shimazaki M, Duquette D, Koay HF, Nguyen HN, Mina AI, Paras T, Tavakkoli A, von Andrian U, Uldrich AP, Godfrey DI, Banks AS, Shay T, Brenner MB, Lynch L.
Nat Immunol
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Lysosome-Mediated Plasma Membrane Repair Is Dependent on the Small GTPase Arl8b and Determines Cell Death Type in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection.
Authors: Authors: Michelet X, Tuli A, Gan H, Geadas C, Sharma M, Remold HG, Brenner MB.
J Immunol
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Functionally distinct disease-associated fibroblast subsets in rheumatoid arthritis.
Authors: Authors: Mizoguchi F, Slowikowski K, Wei K, Marshall JL, Rao DA, Chang SK, Nguyen HN, Noss EH, Turner JD, Earp BE, Blazar PE, Wright J, Simmons BP, Donlin LT, Kalliolias GD, Goodman SM, Bykerk VP, Ivashkiv LB, Lederer JA, Hacohen N, Nigrovic PA, Filer A, Buckley CD, Raychaudhuri S, Brenner MB.
Nat Commun
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Functional genomics of stromal cells in chronic inflammatory diseases.
Authors: Authors: Slowikowski K, Wei K, Brenner MB, Raychaudhuri S.
Curr Opin Rheumatol
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Stromal cell cadherin-11 regulates adipose tissue inflammation and diabetes.
Authors: Authors: Chang SK, Kohlgruber AC, Mizoguchi F, Michelet X, Wolf BJ, Wei K, Lee PY, Lynch L, Duquette D, Ceperuelo-Mallafré V, Banks AS, Brenner MB.
J Clin Invest
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