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Alexander J Cammack

University College London
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Chi3l1/YKL-40 is controlled by the astrocyte circadian clock and regulates neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

…, C Guo, AJ Cammack, JA Elias, J Zhang… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Regulation of glial activation and neuroinflammation are critical factors in the pathogenesis
of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). YKL-40, a primarily astrocytic protein encoded by the gene …

Poly-dipeptides encoded by the C9ORF72 repeats block global protein translation

…, T Yagi, AJ Cammack, J Mahadevan… - Human molecular …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The expansion of the GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat in the non-coding region of the
Chromosome 9 open-reading frame 72 (C9orf72) gene is the most common genetic cause of …

[PDF][PDF] Self-reporting transposons enable simultaneous readout of gene expression and transcription factor binding in single cells

A Moudgil, MN Wilkinson, X Chen, J He, AJ Cammack… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cellular heterogeneity confounds in situ assays of transcription factor (TF) binding. Single-cell
RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) deconvolves cell types from gene expression, but no …

Endogenous bone regeneration is dependent upon a dynamic oxygen event

…, J Simkin, D Fassler, AJ Cammack… - Journal of Bone and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Amputation of the digit tip within the terminal phalangeal bone of rodents, monkeys, and
humans results in near‐perfect regeneration of bone and surrounding tissues; however, …

[HTML][HTML] Hyperbaric oxygen promotes proximal bone regeneration and organized collagen composition during digit regeneration

MC Sammarco, J Simkin, AJ Cammack, D Fassler… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Oxygen is critical for optimal bone regeneration. While axolotls and salamanders have retained
the ability to regenerate whole limbs, mammalian regeneration is restricted to the distal …

Prospective natural history study of C9orf72 ALS clinical characteristics and biomarkers

AJ Cammack, N Atassi, T Hyman, LH Van Den Berg… - Neurology, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To define the natural history of the C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (C9ALS)
patient population, develop disease biomarkers, and characterize patient pathologies. …

A viral toolkit for recording transcription factor–DNA interactions in live mouse tissues

AJ Cammack, A Moudgil, J Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Transcription factors (TFs) enact precise regulation of gene expression through site-specific,
genome-wide binding. Common methods for TF-occupancy profiling, such as chromatin …

Calling Cards: A Customizable Platform to Longitudinally Record Protein‐DNA Interactions Over Time in Cells and Tissues

…, J Guo, X Chen, A Moudgil, AJ Cammack… - Current …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Calling Cards is a platform technology to record a cumulative history of transient protein‐DNA
interactions in the genome of genetically targeted cell types. The record of these …

Dual-targeting CRISPR-CasRx reduces C9orf72 ALS/FTD sense and antisense repeat RNAs in vitro and in vivo

L Kempthorne, D Vaizoglu, AJ Cammack, M Carcole… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The most common genetic cause of both frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a G4C2 repeat expansion in intron 1 of the C9orf72 gene. This repeat …

Neuronal polyunsaturated fatty acids are protective in FTD/ALS

A Giblin, AJ Cammack, N Blomberg, A Mikheenko… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
We report a conserved transcriptomic signature of reduced fatty acid and lipid metabolism
gene expression in human post-mortem ALS spinal cord and a Drosophila model of the most …