Selected publications

1. Davidson S, Yu CH, Steiner A, Ebstein F, Baker PJ, Jarur-Chamy V, Hrovat Schaale K, Laohamonthonkul P, Kong K, Calleja DJ, Harapas CR, Balka KR, Mitchell J, Jackson JT, Geoghegan ND, Moghaddas F, Rogers KL, Mayer-Barber KD, De Jesus AA, De Nardo D, Kile BT, Sadler AJ, Poli MC, Krüger E, Goldbach Mansky R, Masters SL. Protein kinase R is an innate immune sensor of proteotoxic stress via accumulation of cytoplasmic IL-24. Sci Immunol. 2022 Feb 11;7(68) PMID: 35148201
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2. Steiner A, Reygaerts T, Pontillo A, Ceccherini I, Moecking J, Moghaddas F, Davidson S, Caroli F, Grossi A, Castro FFM, Kalil J, Gohr FN, Schmidt FI, Bartok E, Zillinger T, Hartmann G, Geyer M, Gattorno M, Mendonça LO, Masters SL. Recessive NLRC4-Autoinflammatory Disease Reveals an Ulcerative Colitis Locus. J Clin Immunol. 2022 Feb;42(2):325-335. PMID: 34783940
3. Moecking J, Laohamonthonkul P, Chalker K, White MJ, Harapas CR, Yu CH, Davidson S, Hrovat-Schaale K, Hu D, Eng C, Huntsman S, Calleja DJ, Horvat JC, Hansbro PM, O'Donoghue RJJ, Ting JP, Burchard EG, Geyer M, Gerlic M, Masters SL. NLRP1 variant M1184V decreases inflammasome activation in the context of DPP9 inhibition and asthma severity. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021 Jun;147(6):2134-2145. PMID: 33378691
4. Yu CH, Davidson S, Harapas CR, Hilton JB, Mlodzianoski MJ, Laohamonthonkul P, Louis C, Low RRJ, Moecking J, De Nardo D, Balka KR, Calleja DJ, Moghaddas F, Ni E, McLean CA, Samson AL, Tyebji S, Tonkin CJ, Bye CR, Turner BJ, Pepin G, Gantier MP, Rogers KL, McArthur K, Crouch PJ, Masters SL. TDP-43 Triggers Mitochondrial DNA Release via mPTP to Activate cGAS/STING in ALS. Cell. 2020 Oct 29;183(3):636-649. PMID: 33031745
5. Tye H, Yu CH, Simms LA, de Zoete MR, Kim ML, Zakrzewski M, Penington JS, Harapas CR, Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes F, Wockner LF, Preaudet A, Mielke LA, Wilcox SA, Ogura Y, Corr SC, Kanojia K, Kouremenos KA, De Souza DP, McConville MJ, Flavell RA, Gerlic M, Kile BT, Papenfuss AT, Putoczki TL, Radford-Smith GL, Masters SL. NLRP1 restricts butyrate producing commensals to exacerbate inflammatory bowel disease. Nat Commun. 2018 Sep 13;9(1):3728. PMID: 30214011
6. Moghaddas F, Zeng P, Zhang Y, Schützle H, Brenner S, Hofmann SR, Berner R, Zhao Y, Lu B, Chen X, Zhang L, Cheng S, Winkler S, Lehmberg K, Canna SW, Czabotar PE, Wicks IP, De Nardo D, Hedrich CM, Zeng H, Masters SL. Autoinflammatory mutation in NLRC4 reveals a leucine-rich repeat (LRR)-LRR oligomerization interface. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018 Dec;142(6):1956-1967 PMID: 29778503
7. Murphy AJ, Kraakman MJ, Kammoun HL, Dragoljevic D, Lee MK, Lawlor KE, Wentworth JM, Vasanthakumar A, Gerlic M, Whitehead LW, DiRago L, Cengia L, Lane RM, Metcalf D, Vince JE, Harrison LC, Kallies A, Kile BT, Croker BA, Febbraio MA, Masters SL. IL-18 Production from the NLRP1 Inflammasome Prevents Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome. Cell Metab. 2016 Jan 12;23(1):155-64. PMID: 26603191
8. Masters SL, Lagou V, Jeru I, Baker PJ, Van Eyck L, Parry DA, Lawless D, De Nardo D, Garcia-Perez JE, Dagley LF, Holley CL, Dooley J, Moghaddas F, Pasciuto E, Jeandel PY, Sciot R, Lyras D, Webb AI, Nicholson SE, De Somer L, van Nieuwenhove E, Ruuth-Praz J, Copin B, Cochet E, Medlej-Hashim M, Megarbane A, Schroder K, Savic S, Goris A, Amselem S, Wouters C, Liston A. Familial autoinflammation with neutrophilic dermatosis reveals a regulatory mechanism of pyrin activation. Sci Transl Med. 2016 Mar 30;8(332):332ra45. PMID: 27030597
9. Kim ML, Chae JJ, Park YH, De Nardo D, Stirzaker RA, Ko HJ, Tye H, Cengia L, DiRago L, Metcalf D, Roberts AW, Kastner DL, Lew AM, Lyras D, Kile BT, Croker BA, Masters SL. Aberrant actin depolymerization triggers the pyrin inflammasome and autoinflammatory disease that is dependent on IL-18, not IL-1beta. J Exp Med. 2015 Jun 1;212(6):927-38. PMID: 26008898
10. Masters SL, Gerlic M, Metcalf D, Preston S, Pellegrini M, O'Donnell JA, McArthur K, Baldwin TM, Chevrier S, Nowell CJ, Cengia LH, Henley KJ, Collinge JE, Kastner DL, Feigenbaum L, Hilton DJ, Alexander WS, Kile BT, Croker BA. NLRP1 inflammasome activation induces pyroptosis of hematopoietic progenitor cells. Immunity. 2012 Dec 14;37(6):1009-23. PMID: 23219391

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