Anne Fletcher

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Affiliation: Harvard Medical School

Publications

  1. ncbi Ablation and regeneration of tolerance-inducing medullary thymic epithelial cells after cyclosporine, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone treatment
    Anne L Fletcher
    Immune Regeneration Laboratory, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
    J Immunol 183:823-31. 2009
  2. ncbi Gene dosage--limiting role of Aire in thymic expression, clonal deletion, and organ-specific autoimmunity
    Adrian Liston
    John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian Phenomics Facility, The Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia
    J Exp Med 200:1015-26. 2004
  3. ncbi Regulated release of nitric oxide by nonhematopoietic stroma controls expansion of the activated T cell pool in lymph nodes
    Veronika Lukacs-Kornek
    Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Nat Immunol 12:1096-104. 2011
  4. ncbi Colony-stimulating factor-1 promotes kidney growth and repair via alteration of macrophage responses
    Maliha A Alikhan
    Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories MISCL, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    Am J Pathol 179:1243-56. 2011
  5. ncbi Impaired thymic tolerance to α-myosin directs autoimmunity to the heart in mice and humans
    Huijuan Lv
    Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    J Clin Invest 121:1561-73. 2011
  6. ncbi Lymph node stroma broaden the peripheral tolerance paradigm
    Anne L Fletcher
    Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
    Trends Immunol 32:12-8. 2011
  7. ncbi Intronic miR-211 assumes the tumor suppressive function of its host gene in melanoma
    Carmit Levy
    Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Mol Cell 40:841-9. 2010
  8. ncbi Aire controls mesenchymal stem cell-mediated suppression in chronic colitis
    Biju Parekkadan
    Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Mol Ther 20:178-86. 2012
  9. ncbi Lymph node fibroblastic reticular cells directly present peripheral tissue antigen under steady-state and inflammatory conditions
    Anne L Fletcher
    Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Exp Med 207:689-97. 2010
  10. ncbi AIRE in the thymus and beyond
    James M Gardner
    Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0540, USA
    Curr Opin Immunol 21:582-9. 2009

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Publications16

  1. ncbi Ablation and regeneration of tolerance-inducing medullary thymic epithelial cells after cyclosporine, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone treatment
    Anne L Fletcher
    Immune Regeneration Laboratory, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
    J Immunol 183:823-31. 2009
    ..Together, these data show that Aire(+) mTECs are highly sensitive to damage and that mTEC regeneration follows a conserved pattern regardless of the treatment regimen used...
  2. ncbi Gene dosage--limiting role of Aire in thymic expression, clonal deletion, and organ-specific autoimmunity
    Adrian Liston
    John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian Phenomics Facility, The Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia
    J Exp Med 200:1015-26. 2004
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  3. ncbi Regulated release of nitric oxide by nonhematopoietic stroma controls expansion of the activated T cell pool in lymph nodes
    Veronika Lukacs-Kornek
    Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Nat Immunol 12:1096-104. 2011
    ..Notably, in vivo expression of NOS2 by FRCs and LECs regulated the size of the activated T cell pool. Our study elucidates an as-yet-unrecognized role for the lymph node stromal niche in controlling T cell responses...
  4. ncbi Colony-stimulating factor-1 promotes kidney growth and repair via alteration of macrophage responses
    Maliha A Alikhan
    Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories MISCL, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    Am J Pathol 179:1243-56. 2011
    ..Taken together, these data suggest that CSF-1 is important in kidney growth and the promotion of endogenous repair and resolution of inflammatory injury...
  5. ncbi Impaired thymic tolerance to α-myosin directs autoimmunity to the heart in mice and humans
    Huijuan Lv
    Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    J Clin Invest 121:1561-73. 2011
    ..These results thus support a role for T cell-specific therapies for myocarditis...
  6. ncbi Lymph node stroma broaden the peripheral tolerance paradigm
    Anne L Fletcher
    Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
    Trends Immunol 32:12-8. 2011
    ..These findings, we suggest, necessitate a broadening of peripheral tolerance theory to include steady-state presentation of clinically relevant PTA to naïve CD8 T cells by lymph node-resident stroma...
  7. ncbi Intronic miR-211 assumes the tumor suppressive function of its host gene in melanoma
    Carmit Levy
    Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Mol Cell 40:841-9. 2010
    ..These data implicate miR-211 as a suppressor of melanoma invasion whose expression is silenced or selected against via suppression of the entire melastatin locus during human melanoma progression...
  8. ncbi Aire controls mesenchymal stem cell-mediated suppression in chronic colitis
    Biju Parekkadan
    Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Mol Ther 20:178-86. 2012
    ..We propose that Aire represents an early molecular switch imposing a suppressive MSC phenotype via regulation of Eta-1. Monitoring Aire expression in MSCs may thus be a critical parameter for clinical use...
  9. ncbi Lymph node fibroblastic reticular cells directly present peripheral tissue antigen under steady-state and inflammatory conditions
    Anne L Fletcher
    Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Exp Med 207:689-97. 2010
    ..Collectively, these data show that diverse stromal cell types have evolved to constitutively express PTAs, and that exposure to viral products alters the interaction between T cells and LNSCs...
  10. ncbi AIRE in the thymus and beyond
    James M Gardner
    Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0540, USA
    Curr Opin Immunol 21:582-9. 2009
    ..The detection of both Aire and TSA expression by cell populations outside of the thymus raises the possibility that such expression may play a relevant role in the maintenance of self-tolerance...
  11. ncbi Localization of Idd11 is not associated with thymus and nkt cell abnormalities in NOD mice
    Thomas C Brodnicki
    Genetics and Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3050 Australia
    Diabetes 54:3453-7. 2005
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  12. ncbi The stromal and haematopoietic antigen-presenting cells that reside in secondary lymphoid organs
    Shannon J Turley
    Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Nat Rev Immunol 10:813-25. 2010
    ..Recent studies have shown that SLO-resident stromal cells also have a crucial role in tolerance induction in the periphery. In this Review, we discuss the roles of SLO-resident DCs and stromal cells in shaping T cell responses...
  13. ncbi Reduced thymic Aire expression and abnormal NF-kappa B2 signaling in a model of systemic autoimmunity
    Anne L Fletcher
    Immune Regeneration Laboratory, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
    J Immunol 182:2690-9. 2009
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  14. ncbi The lymphotoxin pathway regulates Aire-independent expression of ectopic genes and chemokines in thymic stromal cells
    Natalie Seach
    Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
    J Immunol 180:5384-92. 2008
    ..Thus, we propose a broader role for LTalpha1beta2-LTbetaR signaling in the maintenance of the thymic microenvironments, specifically by regulating TRA and chemokine expression in mTEC(low) for efficient induction of central tolerance...
  15. ncbi The contribution of thymic stromal abnormalities to autoimmune disease
    Anne L Fletcher
    Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    Crit Rev Immunol 31:171-87. 2011
    ..Paradoxically, immunodeficiency and age-related immunosenescence are also linked with increased autoimmunity. Here we discuss the theoretical basis and the evidence gathered thus far to support these associations...
  16. ncbi Unbiased analysis, enrichment and purification of thymic stromal cells
    Daniel H D Gray
    Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Level 3, STRIP, Building 75, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
    J Immunol Methods 329:56-66. 2008
    ..This three-step procedure represents a rapid, reproducible method for the unbiased purification of the stromal cells that direct thymic T-cell differentiation...