[HTML][HTML] A family of cytokine-inducible inhibitors of signalling

…, JR Rayner, BJ Jenkins, TJ Gonda, WS Alexander… - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
Cytokines are secreted proteins that regulate important cellular responses such as
proliferation and differentiation 1 . Key events in cytokine signal transduction are well defined: …

[HTML][HTML] The pseudokinase MLKL mediates necroptosis via a molecular switch mechanism

…, NA Nicola, A Strasser, J Silke, WS Alexander - Immunity, 2013 - cell.com
Mixed lineage kinase domain-like (MLKL) is a component of the "necrosome," the multiprotein
complex that triggers tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-induced cell death by necroptosis. To …

SOCS3 negatively regulates IL-6 signaling in vivo

…, D Metcalf, DJ Hilton, AW Roberts, WS Alexander - Nature …, 2003 - nature.com
Members of the suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) family are potentially key physiological
negative regulators of interleukin-6 (IL-6) signaling. To examine whether SOCS3 is …

[HTML][HTML] SOCS1 is a critical inhibitor of interferon γ signaling and prevents the potentially fatal neonatal actions of this cytokine

WS Alexander, R Starr, JE Fenner, CL Scott… - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
Mice lacking suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 (SOCS1) develop a complex fatal neonatal
disease. In this study, SOCS1 −/− mice were shown to exhibit excessive responses typical of …

Twenty proteins containing a C-terminal SOCS box form five structural classes

…, RT Richardson, WS Alexander… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
The four members of the recently identified suppressor of cytokines signaling family (SOCS-1,
SOCS-2, SOCS-3, and CIS, where CIS is cytokine-inducible SH2-containing protein) …

Leptin can induce proliferation, differentiation, and functional activation of hemopoietic cells

…, A Ng, NA Nicola, WS Alexander… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
Many cytokines exert their biological effect through members of the hemopoietin receptor
family. Using degenerate oligonucleotides to the common WSXWS motif, we have cloned from …

The role of suppressors of cytokine signaling (SOCS) proteins in regulation of the immune response

WS Alexander, DJ Hilton - Annu. Rev. Immunol., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Cytokines are an integral component of the adaptive and innate immune responses.
The signaling pathways triggered by the engagement of cytokines with their specific cell …

[HTML][HTML] Robust hyperparameter estimation protects against hypervariable genes and improves power to detect differential expression

…, S Lee, IJ Majewski, WS Alexander… - The annals of applied …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
One of the most common analysis tasks in genomic research is to identify genes that are
differentially expressed (DE) between experimental conditions. Empirical Bayes (EB) statistical …

Suppressors of cytokine signalling (SOCS) in the immune system

WS Alexander - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2002 - nature.com
The suppressors of cytokine signalling (SOCS) are a family of intracellular proteins, several
of which have emerged as key physiological regulators of cytokine responses, including …

Novel zinc finger gene implicated as myc collaborator by retrovirally accelerated lymphomagenesis in Eμ-myc transgenic mice

Y Haupt, WS Alexander, G Barri, SP Klinken… - Cell, 1991 - cell.com
To search for genes that can collaborate with myc in lymphomagenesis, we exploited
retroviral insertional mutagenesis in Ep-myc transgenic mice. Moloney murine leukemia virus …