Christine Biben

Membrane budding is a major mechanism of in vivo platelet biogenesis

Kathryn S Potts, Alison Farley, Caleb A Dawson, Joel Rimes, Christine Biben, Carolyn de Graaf, Margaret A Potts, Olivia J Stonehouse, Amandine Carmagnac, Pradnya Gangatirkar, Emma C Josefsson, Casey Anttila, Daniela Amann-Zalcenstein, Shalin Naik, Warren S Alexander, Douglas J Hilton, Edwin D Hawkins, Samir Taoudi

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

How platelets are produced by megakaryocytes in vivo remains controversial despite more than a century of investigation. Megakaryo..

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..

Mutations that prevent caspase cleavage of RIPK1 cause autoinflammatory disease

Najoua Lalaoui, Steven E Boyden, Hirotsugu Oda, Geryl M Wood, Deborah L Stone, Diep Chau, Lin Liu, Monique Stoffels, Tobias Kratina, Kate E Lawlor, Kristien JM Zaal, Patrycja M Hoffmann, Nima Etemadi, Kristy Shield-Artin, Christine Biben, Wanxia Li Tsai, Mary D Blake, Hye Sun Kuehn, Dan Yang, Holly Anderton, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  NATURE

RIPK1 is a key regulator of innate immune signalling pathways. To ensure an optimal inflammatory response, RIPK1 is regulated post..

Haemopedia RNA-seq: a database of gene expression during haematopoiesis in mice and humans

Jarny Choi, Tracey M Baldwin, Mae Wong, Jessica E Bolden, Kirsten A Fairfax, Erin C Lucas, Rebecca Cole, Christine Biben, Clare Morgan, Kerry A Ramsay, Ashley P Ng, Maria Kauppi, Lynn M Corcoran, Wei Shi, Nick Wilson, Michael J Wilson, Warren S Alexander, Douglas J Hilton, Carolyn A de Graaf

Journal article  |  2019  |  NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

During haematopoiesis, haematopoietic stem cells differentiate into restricted potential progenitors before maturing into the many..

scPipe: A flexible R/Bioconductor preprocessing pipeline for single-cell RNA-sequencing data

Luyi Tian, Shian Su, Xueyi Dong, Daniela Amann-Zalcenstein, Christine Biben, Azadeh Seidi, Douglas J Hilton, Shalin H Naik, Matthew E Ritchie

Journal article  |  2018  |  PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology allows researchers to profile the transcriptomes of thousands of cells simultane..

Point mutations in murine Nkx2-5 phenocopy human congenital heart disease and induce pathogenic Wnt signaling

Milena B Furtado, Julia C Wilmanns, Anjana Chandran, Joelle Perera, Olivia Hon, Christine Biben, Taylor J Willow, Hieu T Nim, Gurpreet Kaur, Stephanie Simonds, Qizhu Wu, David Willians, Ekaterina Salimova, Nicolas Plachta, James M Denegre, Stephen A Murray, Diane Fatkin, Michael Cowley, James T Pearson, David Kaye, et al.

Journal article  |  2017  |  JCI INSIGHT

Mutations in the Nkx2-5 gene are a main cause of congenital heart disease. Several studies have addressed the phenotypic consequen..

Haemopedia: An Expression Atlas of Murine Hematopoietic Cells

Carolyn A De Graaf, Jarny Choi, Tracey M Baldwin, Jessica E Bolden, Kirsten A Fairfax, Aaron J Robinson, Christine Biben, Clare Morgan, Kerry Ramsay, Ashley P Ng, Maria Kauppi, Elizabeth A Kruse, Tobias J Sargeant, Nick Seidenman, Angela D'Amico, Marthe C D'Ombrain, Erin C Lucas, Sandra Koernig, Adriana Baz Morelli, Michael J Wilson, et al.

Journal article  |  2016  |  STEM CELL REPORTS

Hematopoiesis is a multistage process involving the differentiation of stem and progenitor cells into distinct mature cell lineage..

Setdb1-mediated H3K9 methylation is enriched on the inactive X and plays a role in its epigenetic silencing

Andrew Keniry, Linden J Gearing, Natasha Jansz, Joy Liu, Aliaksei Z Holik, Peter F Hickey, Sarah A Kinkel, Darcy L Moore, Kelsey Breslin, Kelan Chen, Ruijie Liu, Catherine Phillips, Miha Pakusch, Christine Biben, Julie M Sheridan, Benjamin T Kile, Catherine Carmichael, Matthew E Ritchie, Douglas J Hilton, Marnie E Blewitt

Journal article  |  2016  |  EPIGENETICS & CHROMATIN

BACKGROUND: The presence of histone 3 lysine 9 (H3K9) methylation on the mouse inactive X chromosome has been controversial over t..

A novel conditional mouse model for Nkx2-5 reveals transcriptional regulation of cardiac ion channels

Milena B Furtado, Julia C Wilmanns, Anjana Chandran, Mary Tonta, Christine Biben, Michael Eichenlaub, Harold A Coleman, Silke Berger, Romaric Bouveret, Reena Singh, Richard P Harvey, Mirana Ramialison, James T Pearson, Helena C Parkington, Nadia A Rosenthal, Mauro W Costa

Journal article  |  2016  |  DIFFERENTIATION

Nkx2-5 is one of the master regulators of cardiac development, homeostasis and disease. This transcription factor has been previou..

A lineage of diploid platelet-forming cells precedes polyploid megakaryocyte formation in the mouse embryo

Kathryn S Potts, Tobias J Sargeant, John F Markham, Wei Shi, Christine Biben, Emma C Josefsson, Lachlan W Whitehead, Kelly L Rogers, Anna Liakhovitskaia, Gordon K Smyth, Benjamin T Kile, Alexander Medvinsky, Warren S Alexander, Douglas J Hilton, Samir Taoudi

Journal article  |  2014  |  BLOOD

In this study, we test the assumption that the hematopoietic progenitor/colony-forming cells of the embryonic yolk sac (YS), which..