Laura Macpherson

Clinical MDR1 inhibitors enhance Smac-mimetic bioavailability to kill murine LSCs and improve survival in AML models

Emma Morrish, Anthony Copeland, Donia M Moujalled, Jason A Powell, Natasha Silke, Ann Lin, Kate E Jarman, Jarrod J Sandow, Gregor Ebert, Liana Mackiewicz, Jessica A Beach, Elizabeth L Christie, Alexander C Lewis, Giovanna Pomilio, Karla C Fischer, Laura MacPherson, David DL Bowtell, Andrew Webb, Marc Pellegrini, Mark A Dawson, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Blood Advances

The specific targeting of inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) proteins by Smac-mimetic (SM) drugs, such as birinapant, has been tested in..

HBO1 is required for the maintenance of leukaemia stem cells

Laura MacPherson, Juliana Anokye, Miriam M Yeung, Enid YN Lam, Yih-Chih Chan, Chen-Fang Weng, Paul Yeh, Kathy Knezevic, Miriam S Butler, Annabelle Hoegl, Kah-Lok Chan, Marian L Burr, Linden J Gearing, Tracy Willson, Joy Liu, Jarny Choi, Yuqing Yang, Rebecca A Bilardi, Hendrik Falk, Nguyen Nghi, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nature

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by transcriptional dysregulation that results in a block in..

Targeting enhancer switching overcomes non-genetic drug resistance in acute myeloid leukaemia

Charles C Bell, Katie A Fenne, Yih-Chih Chan, Florian Rambow, Miriam M Yeung, Dane Vassiliadis, Luis Lara, Paul Yeh, Luciano G Martelotto, Aljosja Rogiers, Brandon E Kremer, Olena Barbash, Helai P Mohammad, Timothy M Johanson, Marian L Burr, Arindam Dhar, Natalie Karpinich, Luyi Tian, Dean S Tyler, Laura MacPherson, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  Nature Communications

Characterization of TCDD-inducible poly-ADP-ribose polymerase (TIPARP/ARTD14) catalytic activity.

Alvin Gomez, Christian Bindesbøll, Somisetty V Satheesh, Giulia Grimaldi, David Hutin, Laura MacPherson, Shaimaa Ahmed, Laura Tamblyn, Tiffany Cho, Hilde Irene Nebb, Anders Moen, Jan Haug Anonsen, Denis M Grant, Jason Matthews

Journal article  |  2018  |  Biochemical Journal

Here, we report the biochemical characterization of the mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin poly-ADP-r..

Survival of the Fittest: Darwinian Selection Underpins Chemotherapy Resistance in AML

Laura MacPherson, Mark A Dawson

Journal article  |  2017  |  Cell Stem Cell

Click chemistry enables preclinical evaluation of targeted epigenetic therapies

Dean S Tyler, Johanna Vappiani, Tatiana Caneque, Enid YN Lam, Aoife Ward, Omer Gilan, Yih-Chih Chan, Antje Hienzsch, Anna Rutkowska, Thilo Werner, Anne J Wagner, Dave Lugo, Richard Gregory, Cesar Ramirez Molina, Neil Garton, Christopher R Wellaway, Susan Jackson, Laura MacPherson, Margarida Figueiredo, Sabine Stolzenburg, et al.

Journal article  |  2017  |  Science

Functional interdependence of BRD4 and DOT1L in MLL leukemia

Omer Gilan, Enid YN Lam, Isabelle Becher, Dave Lugo, Ester Cannizzaro, Gerard Joberty, Aoife Ward, Meike Wiese, Chun Yew Fong, Sarah Ftouni, Dean Tyler, Kym Stanley, Laura MacPherson, Chen-Fang Weng, Yih-Chih Chan, Margherita Ghisi, David Smil, Christopher Carpenter, Peter Brown, Neil Garton, et al.

Journal article  |  2016  |  Nature Structural & Molecular Biology