Publications

  1. Kiourtis C, Terradas-Terradas M, Gee LM, May S, Georgakopoulou A, Collins AL, O'Sullivan ED, Baird DP, Hassan M, Shaw R, Tan EH, Muller M, Engelmann C, Andreola F, Hsieh YC, Reed LH, Borthwick LA, Nixon C, Clark W, Hanson PS, Sumpton D, Mackay G, Suzuki T, Najumudeen AK, Inman GJ, Campbell A, Barry ST, Quaglia A, Morris CM, LeBeau FEN, Sansom OJ, Kirschner K, Jalan R, Oakley F, Bird TG. Hepatocellular senescence induces multi-organ senescence and dysfunction via TGFbeta. Nat Cell Biol. 2024 Nov 13 [Epub ahead of print]
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  2. Burt RJ, Dey A, Akarca A, Allen H, Amerikanou R, Atkinson S, Auty D, Chatzigerou J, Cutler E, Guerra-Assuncao JA, Kirschner K, Kumari R, Manji J, Marafioti T, Ward J, Fielding AK. Mitochondrial dsRNA from B-ALL cells stimulates mesenchymal stromal cells to become cancer-associated fibroblasts. Blood Adv. 2024 Nov 12; 8 (21):5696-5709
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  3. Lucy, Stephanie, Anastasia, Amy, Eoin, David, Mohsin, Robin, Ee, Miryam, Cornelius, Fausto, Lee, Lee, Colin, William, Peter, David, Gillian, Toshiyasu, Arafath, Gareth, Andrew, Simon, Alberto, Christopher, Fiona, Owen, Kristina, Rajiv, Fiona, Thomas. Inter-organ transmission of hepatocellular senescence induces multi-organ dysfunction via TGFß Nature Cell Biology. 2024.
  4. Dabrowski JK, Yang EJ, Crofts SJC, Hillary RF, Simpson DJ, McCartney DL, Marioni RE, Kirschner K, Chandra T. Probabilistic inference of epigenetic age acceleration from cellular dynamics. Nat Aging. 2024 Oct; 4 (10):1493-1507 Epub 2024 Sept 23
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  5. Ying K, Tyshkovskiy A, Chen Q, Latorre-Crespo E, Zhang B, Liu H, Matei-Dediu B, Poganik JR, Moqri M, Kirschne K, Kirschner K, Lasky-Su J, Gladyshev VN. High-dimensional Ageome Representations of Biological Aging across Functional Modules. bioRxiv. 2024 Sep 21 Epub 2024 Sept 21
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  6. Fetit R, McLaren AS, White M, Mills ML, Falconer J, Cortes-Lavaud X, Gilroy K, Lannagan TRM, Ridgway RA, Nixon C, Naiker V, Njunge R, Clarke CJ, Whyte D, Kirschner K, Jackstadt R, Norman J, Carlin LM, Campbell AD, Sansom OJ, Steele CW. Characterizing Neutrophil Subtypes in Cancer Using scRNA Sequencing Demonstrates the Importance of IL1beta/CXCR2 Axis in Generation of Metastasis-specific Neutrophils. Cancer Res Commun. 2024 Feb 29; 4 (2):588-606
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  7. Dawson A, Zarou MM, Prasad B, Bittencourt-Silvestre J, Zerbst D, Himonas E, van Loon I, Blanco GR, Ianniciello A, Kerekes Z, Krishnan V, Agarwal P, Almasoudi H, McCluskey L, Hopcroft LEM, Scott MT, Baquero P, Dunn K, Vetrie D, Copland M, Bhatia R, Coffelt SB, Tiong OS, Wheadon H, Zanivan S, Kirschner K, Helgason GV. Leukaemia exposure alters the transcriptional profile and function of BCR::ABL1 negative macrophages in the bone marrow niche. Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 5; 15 (1):1090 Epub 2024 Feb 05
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  8. Vande Voorde J, Steven RT, Najumudeen AK, Ford CA, Dexter A, Gonzalez-Fernandez A, Nikula CJ, Xiang Y, Ford L, Maneta Stavrakaki S, Gilroy K, Zeiger LB, Pennel K, Hatthakarnkul P, Elia EA, Nasif A, Murta T, Manoli E, Mason S, Gillespie M, Lannagan TRM, Vlahov N, Ridgway RA, Nixon C, Raven A, Mills M, Athineos D, Kanellos G, Nourse C, Gay DM, Hughes M, Burton A, Yan B, Sellers K, Wu V, De Ridder K, Shokry E, Huerta Uribe A, Clark W, Clark G, Kirschner K, Thienpont B, Li VSW, Maddocks ODK, Barry ST, Goodwin RJA, Kinross J, Edwards J, Yuneva MO, Sumpton D, Takats Z, Campbell AD, Bunch J, Sansom OJ. Metabolic profiling stratifies colorectal cancer and reveals adenosylhomocysteinase as a therapeutic target. Nat Metab. 2023 Aug; 5 (8):1303-1318 Epub 2023 Aug 14
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  9. Yang F, Nourse C, Helgason GV, Kirschner K. Unraveling Heterogeneity in the Aging Hematopoietic Stem Cell Compartment: An Insight From Single-cell Approaches. Hemasphere. 2023 Jun; 7 (6):e895 Epub 2023 May 26
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  10. O'Sullivan ED, Mylonas KJ, Xin C, Baird DP, Carvalho C, Docherty MH, Campbell R, Matchett KP, Waddell SH, Walker AD, Gallagher KM, Jia S, Leung S, Laird A, Wilflingseder J, Willi M, Reck M, Finnie S, Pisco A, Gordon-Keylock S, Medvinsky A, Boulter L, Henderson NC, Kirschner K, Chandra T, Conway BR, Hughes J, Denby L, Bonventre JV, Ferenbach DA. Indian Hedgehog release from TNF-activated renal epithelia drives local and remote organ fibrosis. Sci Transl Med. 2023 May 31; 15 (698):eabn0736
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  11. Edwards SC, Hedley A, Hoevenaar WHM, Wiesheu R, Glauner T, Kilbey A, Shaw R, Boufea K, Batada N, Hatano S, Yoshikai Y, Blyth K, Miller C, Kirschner K, Coffelt SB. PD-1 and TIM-3 differentially regulate subsets of mouse IL-17A-producing gammadelta T cells. J Exp Med. 2023 Feb 6; 220 (2) Epub 2022 Dec 07
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  12. Pearson S, Blance R, Yan F, Hsieh YC, Geary B, Amaral FMR, Somervaille TCP, Kirschner K, Whetton AD, Pierce A. Identification of curaxin as a potential new therapeutic for JAK2 V617F mutant patients. PLoS One. 2023; 18 (5):e0286412 Epub 2023 May 30
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  13. O'Sullivan ED, Mylonas KJ, Bell R, Carvalho C, Baird DP, Cairns C, Gallagher KM, Campbell R, Docherty M, Laird A, Henderson NC, Chandra T, Kirschner K, Conway B, Dihazi GH, Zeisberg M, Hughes J, Denby L, Dihazi H, Ferenbach DA. Single-cell analysis of senescent epithelia reveals targetable mechanisms promoting fibrosis. JCI Insight. 2022 Nov 22; 7 (22)
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  14. Kapeni C, Nitsche L, Kilpatrick AM, Wilson NK, Xia K, Mirshekar-Syahkal B, Chandrakanthan V, Malouf C, Pimanda JE, Gottgens B, Kirschner K, Tomlinson SR, Ottersbach K. p57Kip2 regulates embryonic blood stem cells by controlling sympathoadrenal progenitor expansion. Blood. 2022 Aug 4; 140 (5):464-477
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  15. Kay EJ, Paterson K, Riera-Domingo C, Sumpton D, Dabritz JHM, Tardito S, Boldrini C, Hernandez-Fernaud JR, Athineos D, Dhayade S, Stepanova E, Gjerga E, Neilson LJ, Lilla S, Hedley A, Koulouras G, McGregor G, Jamieson C, Johnson RM, Park M, Kirschner K, Miller C, Kamphorst JJ, Loayza-Puch F, Saez-Rodriguez J, Mazzone M, Blyth K, Zagnoni M, Zanivan S. Author Correction: Cancer-associated fibroblasts require proline synthesis by PYCR1 for the deposition of pro-tumorigenic extracellular matrix. Nat Metab. 2022 Aug; 4 (8):1084
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  16. Robertson NA, Latorre-Crespo E, Terradas-Terradas M, Lemos-Portela J, Purcell AC, Livesey BJ, Hillary RF, Murphy L, Fawkes A, MacGillivray L, Copland M, Marioni RE, Marsh JA, Harris SE, Cox SR, Deary IJ, Schumacher LJ, Kirschner K, Chandra T. Longitudinal dynamics of clonal hematopoiesis identifies gene-specific fitness effects. Nat Med. 2022 Jul; 28 (7):1439-1446 Epub 2022 July 04
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  17. Kay EJ, Paterson K, Riera-Domingo C, Sumpton D, Dabritz JHM, Tardito S, Boldrini C, Hernandez-Fernaud JR, Athineos D, Dhayade S, Stepanova E, Gjerga E, Neilson LJ, Lilla S, Hedley A, Koulouras G, McGregor G, Jamieson C, Johnson RM, Park M, Kirschner K, Miller C, Kamphorst JJ, Loayza-Puch F, Saez-Rodriguez J, Mazzone M, Blyth K, Zagnoni M, Zanivan S. Cancer-associated fibroblasts require proline synthesis by PYCR1 for the deposition of pro-tumorigenic extracellular matrix. Nat Metab. 2022 Jun; 4 (6):693-710 Epub 2022 June 27
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  18. Tomimatsu K, Bihary D, Olan I, Parry AJ, Schoenfelder S, Chan ASL, Slater GSC, Ito Y, Rugg-Gunn PJ, Kirschner K, Bermejo-Rodriguez C, Seko T, Kugoh H, Shiraishi K, Sayama K, Kimura H, Fraser P, Narita M, Samarajiwa SA, Narita M. Locus-specific induction of gene expression from heterochromatin loci during cellular senescence. Nat Aging. 2022 Jan; 2 (1):31-45 Epub 2021 Dec 23
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  19. Flanagan DJ, Pentinmikko N, Luopajarvi K, Willis NJ, Gilroy K, Raven AP, Mcgarry L, Englund JI, Webb AT, Scharaw S, Nasreddin N, Hodder MC, Ridgway RA, Minnee E, Sphyris N, Gilchrist E, Najumudeen AK, Romagnolo B, Perret C, Williams AC, Clevers H, Nummela P, Lahde M, Alitalo K, Hietakangas V, Hedley A, Clark W, Nixon C, Kirschner K, Jones EY, Ristimaki A, Leedham SJ, Fish PV, Vincent JP, Katajisto P, Sansom OJ. NOTUM from Apc-mutant cells biases clonal competition to initiate cancer. Nature. 2021 Jun; 594 (7863):430-435 Epub 2021 June 02
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  20. Hsieh YC, Kirschner K, Copland M. Improving outcomes in chronic myeloid leukemia through harnessing the immunological landscape. Leukemia. 2021 May; 35 (5):1229-1242 Epub 2021 Apr 08
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  21. Mooney L, Goodyear CS, Chandra T, Kirschner K, Copland M, Petrie MC, Lang NN. Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential: intersections between inflammation, vascular disease and heart failure. Clin Sci (Lond). 2021 Apr 16; 135 (7):991-1007
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  22. Rattanavirotkul N, Kirschner K, Chandra T. Induction and transmission of oncogene-induced senescence. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2021 Feb; 78 (3):843-852 Epub 2020 Sept 16
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  23. Latif AL, Newcombe A, Li S, Gilroy K, Robertson NA, Lei X, Stewart HJS, Cole J, Terradas MT, Rishi L, McGarry L, McKeeve C, Reid C, Clark W, Campos J, Kirschner K, Davis A, Lopez J, Sakamaki JI, Morton JP, Ryan KM, Tait SWG, Abraham SA, Holyoake T, Higgins B, Huang X, Blyth K, Copland M, Chevassut TJT, Keeshan K, Adams PD. BRD4-mediated repression of p53 is a target for combination therapy in AML. Nat Commun. 2021 Jan 11; 12 (1):241
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  24. Crosse EI, Gordon-Keylock S, Rybtsov S, Binagui-Casas A, Felchle H, Nnadi NC, Kirschner K, Chandra T, Tamagno S, Webb DJ, Rossi F, Anderson RA, Medvinsky A. Multi-layered Spatial Transcriptomics Identify Secretory Factors Promoting Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development. Cell Stem Cell. 2020 Nov 5; 27 (5):822-839.e8 Epub 2020 Sept 17
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  25. Alivernini S, MacDonald L, Elmesmari A, Finlay S, Tolusso B, Gigante MR, Petricca L, Di Mario C, Bui L, Perniola S, Attar M, Gessi M, Fedele AL, Chilaka S, Somma D, Sansom SN, Filer A, McSharry C, Millar NL, Kirschner K, Nerviani A, Lewis MJ, Pitzalis C, Clark AR, Ferraccioli G, Udalova I, Buckley CD, Gremese E, McInnes IB, Otto TD, Kurowska-Stolarska M. Distinct synovial tissue macrophage subsets regulate inflammation and remission in rheumatoid arthritis. Nat Med. 2020 Aug; 26 (8):1295-1306 Epub 2020 June 29
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  26. Terradas-Terradas M, Robertson NA, Chandra T, Kirschner K. Clonality in haematopoietic stem cell ageing. Mech Ageing Dev. 2020 Jul; 189:111279 Epub 2020 June 08
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  27. Kirschner K, Rattanavirotkul N, Quince MF, Chandra T. Functional heterogeneity in senescence. Biochem Soc Trans. 2020 Jun 30; 48 (3):765-773
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  28. Burt R, Dey A, Aref S, Aguiar M, Akarca A, Bailey K, Day W, Hooper S, Kirkwood A, Kirschner K, Lee SW, Lo Celso C, Manji J, Mansour MR, Marafioti T, Mitchell RJ, Muirhead RC, Cheuk Yan Ng K, Pospori C, Puccio I, Zuborne-Alapi K, Sahai E, Fielding AK. Activated stromal cells transfer mitochondria to rescue acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells from oxidative stress. Blood. 2019 Oct 24; 134 (17):1415-1429
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  29. Robertson NA, Hillary RF, McCartney DL, Terradas-Terradas M, Higham J, Sproul D, Deary IJ, Kirschner K, Marioni RE, Chandra T. Age-related clonal haemopoiesis is associated with increased epigenetic age. Curr Biol 2019 Aug 19; 29 (16):R786-R787
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  30. Teo YV, Rattanavirotkul N, Olova N, Salzano A, Quintanilla A, Tarrats N, Kiourtis C, Muller M, Green AR, Adams PD, Acosta JC, Bird TG, Kirschner K, Neretti N, Chandra T. Notch Signaling Mediates Secondary Senescence. Cell Rep. 2019 Apr 23; 27 (4):997-1007.e5
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  31. Baran-Gale J, Chandra T, Kirschner K. Experimental design for single-cell RNA sequencing. Brief Funct Genomics. 2018 Jul 1; 17 (4):233-239
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  32. Farah Jaber-Hijazi, Karthic Swaminathan, Neil Robertson , Kristina Kirschner, Neil Fullarton, Claire Brock, Jeff Pawlikowski, Karen Blyth, Laura M Machesky, Peter D Adams. Histone chaperone Hira in melanoblast development and melanocyte stem cell ageing. Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research. 2018; 31(6):743.
  33. Kirschner K, Chandra T, Kiselev V, Flores-Santa Cruz D, Macaulay IC, Park HJ, Li J, Kent DG, Kumar R, Pask DC, Hamilton TL, Hemberg M, Reik W, Green AR. Proliferation Drives Aging-Related Functional Decline in a Subpopulation of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Compartment. Cell Rep. 2017 May 23; 19 (8):1503-1511
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  34. Kiselev VY, Kirschner K, Schaub MT, Andrews T, Yiu A, Chandra T, Natarajan KN, Reik W, Barahona M, Green AR, Hemberg M. SC3: consensus clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data. Nat Methods. 2017 May; 14 (5):483-486 Epub 2017 Mar 27
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  35. Chandra T, Kirschner K. Chromosome organisation during ageing and senescence. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2016 Jun; 40:161-167 Epub 2016 Apr 19
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  36. Park HJ, Li J, Hannah R, Biddie S, Leal-Cervantes AI, Kirschner K, Flores Santa Cruz D, Sexl V, Gottgens B, Green AR. Cytokine-induced megakaryocytic differentiation is regulated by genome-wide loss of a uSTAT transcriptional program. EMBO J. 2016 Mar 15; 35 (6):580-94 Epub 2015 Dec 23
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  37. Kirschner K, Samarajiwa SA, Cairns JM, Menon S, Perez-Mancera PA, Tomimatsu K, Bermejo-Rodriguez C, Ito Y, Chandra T, Narita M, Lyons SK, Lynch AG, Kimura H, Ohbayashi T, Tavare S, Narita M. Phenotype specific analyses reveal distinct regulatory mechanism for chronically activated p53. PLoS Genet. 2015 Mar; 11 (3):e1005053 Epub 2015 Mar 19
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  38. Chandra T, Ewels PA, Schoenfelder S, Furlan-Magaril M, Wingett SW, Kirschner K, Thuret JY, Andrews S, Fraser P, Reik W. Global reorganization of the nuclear landscape in senescent cells. Cell Rep. 2015 Feb 3; 10 (4):471-83 Epub 2015 Jan 29
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  39. Ward MC, Wilson MD, Barbosa-Morais NL, Schmidt D, Stark R, Pan Q, Schwalie PC, Menon S, Lukk M, Watt S, Thybert D, Kutter C, Kirschner K, Flicek P, Blencowe BJ, Odom DT. Latent regulatory potential of human-specific repetitive elements. Mol Cell. 2013 Jan 24; 49 (2):262-72 Epub 2012 Dec 13
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  40. Kent DG, Li J, Tanna H, Fink J, Kirschner K, Pask DC, Silber Y, Hamilton TL, Sneade R, Simons BD, Green AR. Self-renewal of single mouse hematopoietic stem cells is reduced by JAK2V617F without compromising progenitor cell expansion. PLoS Biol. 2013; 11 (6):e1001576 Epub 2013 June 04
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  41. Chandra T, Kirschner K, Thuret JY, Pope BD, Ryba T, Newman S, Ahmed K, Samarajiwa SA, Salama R, Carroll T, Stark R, Janky R, Narita M, Xue L, Chicas A, Nunez S, Janknecht R, Hayashi-Takanaka Y, Wilson MD, Marshall A, Odom DT, Babu MM, Bazett-Jones DP, Tavare S, Edwards PA, Lowe SW, Kimura H, Gilbert DM, Narita M. Independence of repressive histone marks and chromatin compaction during senescent heterochromatic layer formation. Mol Cell. 2012 Jul 27; 47 (2):203-14 Epub 2012 July 12
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  42. Kirschner K, Melton DW. Multiple roles of the ERCC1-XPF endonuclease in DNA repair and resistance to anticancer drugs. Anticancer Res. 2010 Sep; 30 (9):3223-32
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  43. Young AR, Narita M, Ferreira M, Kirschner K, Sadaie M, Darot JF, Tavare S, Arakawa S, Shimizu S, Watt FM, Narita M. Autophagy mediates the mitotic senescence transition. Genes Dev. 2009 Apr 1; 23 (7):798-803 Epub 2009 Mar 11
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  44. Kirschner K, Singh R, Prost S, Melton DW. Characterisation of Ercc1 deficiency in the liver and in conditional Ercc1-deficient primary hepatocytes in vitro. DNA Repair (Amst). 2007 Mar 1; 6 (3):304-16 Epub 2006 Nov 27
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  45. Gunnarsson C, Ahnstrom M, Kirschner K, Olsson B, Nordenskjold B, Rutqvist LE, Skoog L, Stal O. Amplification of HSD17B1 and ERBB2 in primary breast cancer. Oncogene. 2003 Jan 9; 22 (1):34-40
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