Catriona McLean

INPP4B promotes PI3Kα-dependent late endosome formation and Wnt/β-catenin signaling in breast cancer.

Samuel J Rodgers, Lisa M Ooms, Viola MJ Oorschot, Ralf B Schittenhelm, Elizabeth V Nguyen, Sabryn A Hamila, Natalie Rynkiewicz, Rajendra Gurung, Matthew J Eramo, Absorn Sriratana, Clare G Fedele, Franco Caramia, Sherene Loi, Genevieve Kerr, Helen E Abud, Georg Ramm, Antonella Papa, Andrew M Ellisdon, Roger J Daly, Catriona A McLean, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  Nature Communications

INPP4B suppresses PI3K/AKT signaling by converting PI(3,4)P2 to PI(3)P and INPP4B inactivation is common in triple-negative breast..

Defective lysosome reformation during autophagy causes skeletal muscle disease.

Meagan J McGrath, Matthew J Eramo, Rajendra Gurung, Absorn Sriratana, Stefan M Gehrig, Gordon S Lynch, Sonia Raveena Lourdes, Frank Koentgen, Sandra J Feeney, Michael Lazarou, Catriona A McLean, Christina A Mitchell

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Clinical Investigation

The regulation of autophagy-dependent lysosome homeostasis in vivo is unclear. We showed that the inositol polyphosphate 5-phospha..

A homozygous UBA5 pathogenic variant causes a fatal congenital neuropathy

Macarena Cabrera-Serrano, David Joseph Coote, Dimitar Azmanov, Hayley Goullee, Erik Andersen, Catriona McLean, Mark Davis, Ryosuke Ishimura, Zornitza Stark, Jean-Michel Vallat, Masaaki Komatsu, Andrew Kornberg, Monique Ryan, Nigel G Laing, Gina Ravenscroft

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Medical Genetics

BACKGROUND: UBA5 is the activating enzyme of UFM1 in the ufmylation post-translational modification system. Different neurological..

The function and composition of brain tissue derived exosomes in human Alzheimer’s disease

Laura J Vella, Huaqi Su, Tiana Koukoulis, Lesley Cheng, Adityas Purnianto, Leah Beauchamp, Catriona McLean, Ashley I Bush, Colin L Masters, Gavin Reid, Andrew F Hill, Kevin J Barnham

Journal article  |  2020  |  Alzheimer's & Dementia

PtdIns(3,4,5)P-3-dependent Rac exchanger 1 (P-Rex1) promotes mammary tumor initiation and metastasis

Nuthasuda Srijakotre, Heng-jia Liu, Max Nobis, Joey Man, Hon Yan Kelvin Yip, Antonella Papa, Helen E Abud, Kurt I Anderson, Heidi CE Welch, Tony Tiganis, Paul Timpson, Catriona A McLean, Lisa M Ooms, Christina A Mitchell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

The Rac-GEF, P-Rex1, activates Rac1 signaling downstream of G protein-coupled receptors and PI3K. Increased P-Rex1 expression prom..

Control of Glucocorticoid Receptor Levels by PTEN Establishes a Failsafe Mechanism for Tumor Suppression

Hon Yan K Yip, Annabel Chee, Ching-Seng Ang, Sung-Young Shin, Lisa M Ooms, Zainab Mohammadi, Wayne A Phillips, Roger J Daly, Timothy J Cole, Roderick T Bronson, Lan K Nguyen, Tony Tiganis, Robin M Hobbs, Catriona A McLean, Christina A Mitchell, Antonella Papa

Journal article  |  2020  |  Molecular Cell

The PTEN tumor suppressor controls cell death and survival by regulating functions of various molecular targets. While the role of..

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to 31 December

Christiane Stehmann, Matteo Senesi, Shannon Sarros, Amelia McGlade, Marion Simpson, Genevieve Klug, Catriona McLean, Colin L Masters, Steven Collins

Journal article  |  2020  |  Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report

Nationwide surveillance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other human prion diseases is performed by the Australian National Creutz..

Revealing the Proteome of Motor Cortex Derived Extracellular Vesicles Isolated from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Human Postmortem Tissues

Natasha Vassileff, Laura J Vella, Harinda Rajapaksha, Mitch Shambrook, Amirmohammad Nasiri Kenari, Catriona McLean, Andrew F Hill, Lesley Cheng

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cells

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the deposition of misfolded proteins in the mo..

A missense mutation in the MLKL brace region promotes lethal neonatal inflammation and hematopoietic dysfunction

Joanne M Hildebrand, Maria Kauppi, Ian J Majewski, Zikou Liu, Allison J Cox, Sanae Miyake, Emma J Petrie, Michael A Silk, Zhixiu Li, Maria C Tanzer, Gabriela Brumatti, Samuel N Young, Cathrine Hall, Sarah E Garnish, Jason Corbin, Michael D Stutz, Ladina Di Rago, Pradnya Gangatirkar, Emma C Josefsson, Kristin Rigbye, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nature Communications

MLKL is the essential effector of necroptosis, a form of programmed lytic cell death. We have isolated a mouse strain with a singl..

Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

Haoyu Zhan, Thomas U Ahearn, Julie Lecarpentier, Daniel Barnes, Jonathan Beesley, Guanghao Qi, Xia Jiang, Tracy A O'Mara, Ni Zhao, Manjeet K Bolla, Alison M Dunning, Joe Dennis, Qin Wang, Zumuruda Abu Ful, Kristiina Aittomaki, Irene L Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Kristan J Aronson, Banu K Arun, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nature Genetics

Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor subtype1-3. To identify novel loci, w..