Search or filter publications

Filter by type:

Filter by publication type

Filter by year:

to

Results

  • Showing results for:
  • Reset all filters

Search results

  • Journal article
    Daniels SE, Bhattacharrya S, James A, Leaves NI, Young A, Hill MR, Faux JA, Ryan GF, leSouef PN, Lathrop GM, Musk AW, Cookson WOCMet al., 1996,

    A genome-wide search for quantitative trait loci underlying asthma

    , NATURE, Vol: 383, Pages: 247-250, ISSN: 0028-0836
    • Cite
    • Citations: 631
  • Journal article
    Walley AJ, Cookson WO, 1996,

    Investigation of an interleukin-4 promoter polymorphism for associations with asthma and atopy.

    , J Med Genet, Vol: 33, Pages: 689-692, ISSN: 0022-2593

    The cytokine cluster located on chromosome 5 has been shown by linkage studies to play a role in the genetic determination of circulating immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels in atopic subjects. In the study presented here, the reported chromosome 5 linkage has been investigated in two sets of subjects. The first consisted of a general population sample of 230 nuclear families (n = 1004) from Busselton, a small West Australian country town. The second group consisted of 124 unrelated atopic asthmatics and 59 unrelated non-atopic, non-asthmatic controls, all resident in the Oxfordshire Regional Health Authority area in the United Kingdom. A previously reported interleukin-4 (II-4) promoter polymorphism (-590 C-->T) was analysed in these populations by a newly designed method of specific PCR amplification and BsmFI restriction endonuclease digestion. In the Busselton population the polymorphism was shown to be weakly associated with specific IgE to house dust mite (Mann-Whitney-U test, p = 0.013) and to wheeze (MWU test, p = 0.029), but not with specific IgE to grass pollen, total serum IgE, bronchial hyperresponsiveness, eosinophil count, or asthma. In the Oxfordshire subjects there were no statistically significant associations with any measure of asthma or atopy. These data show that the -590 C-->T II-4 promoter polymorphism is only weakly associated with certain measures of asthma and atopy in some subjects. It was specifically not associated with serum IgE concentration or asthma in either of the two groups in this study.
  • Journal article
    Hill MR, Cookson WO, 1996,

    A new variant of the beta subunit of the high-affinity receptor for immunoglobulin E (Fc epsilon RI-beta E237G): associations with measures of atopy and bronchial hyper-responsiveness.

    , Hum Mol Genet, Vol: 5, Pages: 959-962, ISSN: 0964-6906

    The high affinity receptor for IgE (Fc epsilon RI) has a central role in mast cell degranulation and IgE mediated allergy. A systematic search through the coding regions of the beta subunit of Fc epsilon RI (Fc epsilon RI-beta) has identified a novel coding polymorphism in exon seven. An adenine to guanine substitution changes amino acid residue 237 from glutamic acid to glycine (E237G), in the cytoplasmic tail of the protein. E237G is predicted to introduce a hydrophobicity change within the C-terminus of Fc epsilon RI-beta. It is adjacent to the immunoreceptor tyrosine activation motif (ITAM), and may affect the intracellular signalling capacity of Fc epsilon RI. E237G was detected in 53 subjects from an Australian general population sample of 1004 individuals (5.3%). E237G positive subjects had a significantly elevated skin test response to grass (p = 0.0004) and house dust mite (p = 0.04), RAST to grass (p = 0.002) and bronchial reactivity to methacholine (p = 0.0009). The relative risk of individuals with E237G having asthma compared to subjects without the variant was 2.3 (95% CI 1.26-4.19; p = 0.005).
  • Journal article
    Arst HN, Sheerins A, 1996,

    Erratum: Translational initiation competence, 'leaky scanning' and translational reinitiation in areA mRNA of Aspergillus nidulans (Molecular Microbiology (1996) 19 (5), 1019-1024)

    , Molecular Microbiology, Vol: 20, ISSN: 0950-382X
  • Journal article
    Moffatt M, Cookson W, 1996,

    Naked DNA: new shots for allergy?

    , Nat Med, Vol: 2, Pages: 515-516, ISSN: 1078-8956
  • Journal article
    Arst HN, Sheerins A, 1996,

    Translational initiation competence, 'leaky scanning' and translational reinitiation in areA mRNA of Aspergillus nidulans (vol 19, pg 1019, 1996)

    , MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY, Vol: 20, Pages: 901-901, ISSN: 0950-382X
  • Journal article
    Sarkar S, Caddick MX, Bignell E, Tilburn J, Arst HNet al., 1996,

    Regulation of gene expression by ambient pH in Aspergillus: Genes expressed at acid pH

    , BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS, Vol: 24, Pages: 360-363, ISSN: 0300-5127
  • Journal article
    Langdon T, Sheerins A, Ravagnani A, Gielkens M, Caddick MX, Arst HNet al., 1996,

    Erratum: Mutational analysis reveals dispensability of the N-terminal region of the Aspergillus transcription factor mediating nitrogen metabolite repression (Mol Microbiol. (1995), 17 (5), 877-888)

    , Molecular Microbiology, Vol: 20, ISSN: 0950-382X
  • Journal article
    Langdon T, Sheerins A, Ravagnani A, Gielkens M, Caddick MX, Arst HNet al., 1996,

    Mutational analysis reveals dispensability of the N-terminal region of the Aspergillus transcription factor mediating nitrogen metabolite repression (vol 17, pg 877, 1995)

    , MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY, Vol: 20, Pages: 239-239, ISSN: 0950-382X
  • Journal article
    Arst HN, Sheerins A, 1996,

    Translational initiation competence, 'leaky scanning' and translational reinitiation in areA mRNA of Aspergillus nidulans

    , MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY, Vol: 19, Pages: 1019-1024, ISSN: 0950-382X

This data is extracted from the Web of Science and reproduced under a licence from Thomson Reuters. You may not copy or re-distribute this data in whole or in part without the written consent of the Science business of Thomson Reuters.

Request URL: http://www.imperial.ac.uk:80/respub/WEB-INF/jsp/search-t4-html.jsp Request URI: /respub/WEB-INF/jsp/search-t4-html.jsp Query String: id=1255&limit=10&resgrpMemberPubs=true&resgrpMemberPubs=true&page=458&respub-action=search.html Current Millis: 1765745182197 Current Time: Sun Dec 14 20:46:22 GMT 2025

General enquiries

 For any enquiries about the Fungal Science Network at Imperial, please contact:

fungalnetwork@imperial.ac.uk