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Leslie M. Thompson is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, located in the United States. Their research focuses on a range of topics within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on genetic neurodegenerative diseases, mitochondrial function and pathology, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research.

Their work is distributed across several key fields of study, including:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Subfields where they have made contributions include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Genetics
  • Physiology

The primary topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neurological disorders and treatments

Leslie M. Thompson has published frequently in several venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Huntington s Disease
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Neuron

Notable recent papers include:

  • "TDP-43 loss and ALS-risk SNPs drive mis-splicing and depletion of UNC13A", 2022, Nature
  • "Gene expression and functional deficits underlie TREM2-knockout microglia responses in human models of Alzheimer's disease", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Answer ALS, a large-scale resource for sporadic and familial ALS combining clinical and multi-omics data from induced pluripotent cell lines", 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • "An RNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas13d system alleviates disease-related phenotypes in Huntington's disease models", 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Large-scale differentiation of iPSC-derived motor neurons from ALS and control subjects", 2023, Neuron

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Ricardo Miramontes
  • Ernest Fraenkel
  • Ryan G. Lim
  • Jie Wu
  • Steven Finkbeiner

Best Publications

  • A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes

    Marcy E. MacDonald;Christine M. Ambrose;Mabel P. Duyao;Richard H. Myers

  • A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes. The Huntington's Disease Collaborative Research Group.

    M Shah;N Datson;L Srinidhi;VP Stanton

  • Mutations in the transmembrane domain of FGFR3 cause the most common genetic form of dwarfism, achondroplasia.

    Rita Shiang;Leslie M. Thompson;Ya-Zhen Zhu;Deanna M. Church

  • Histone deacetylase inhibitors arrest polyglutamine-dependent neurodegeneration in Drosophila

    Joan S. Steffan;Laszlo Bodai;Judit Pallos;Marnix Poelman

  • The Huntington's disease protein interacts with p53 and CREB-binding protein and represses transcription.

    Joan S. Steffan;Aleksey Kazantsev;Olivera Spasic-Boskovic;Marilee Greenwald

  • Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, ameliorates motor deficits in a mouse model of Huntington's disease

    E. Hockly;V.M. Richon;B. Woodman;D.L. Smith

  • Venezuelan kindreds reveal that genetic and environmental factors modulate Huntington's disease age of onset

    Nancy S. Wexler;Judith Lorimer;Julie Porter;Fidela Gomez

  • SUMO modification of Huntingtin and Huntington's disease pathology

    Joan S. Steffan;Namita Agrawal;Judit Pallos;Erica Rockabrand

  • Therapeutic application of histone deacetylase inhibitors for central nervous system disorders.

    Aleksey G. Kazantsev;Leslie M. Thompson

  • Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene.

    Aude Nicolas;Kevin P. Kenna;Alan E. Renton;Alan E. Renton;Nicola Ticozzi

  • Thanatophoric dysplasia (types I and II) caused by distinct mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptor 3

    Patricia L. Tavormina;Rita Shiang;Leslie M. Thompson;Ya-Zhen Zhu

  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Patients with Huntington’s Disease : Show CAG Repeat-Expansion-Associated Phenotypes

    Virginia B. Mattis;Soshana P. Svendsen;Allison Ebert;Clive N. Svendsen

  • Nicotinamide restores cognition in Alzheimer's disease transgenic mice via a mechanism involving sirtuin inhibition and selective reduction of Thr231-phosphotau.

    Kim N. Green;Joan S. Steffan;Hilda Martinez-Coria;Xuemin Sun

  • Green tea (−)-epigallocatechin-gallate modulates early events in huntingtin misfolding and reduces toxicity in Huntington's disease models

    Dagmar E. Ehrnhoefer;Martin Duennwald;Phoebe Markovic;Jennifer L. Wacker

  • The Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures NIH Program: System-Level Cataloging of Human Cells Response to Perturbations

    Alexandra B. Keenan;Sherry L. Jenkins;Kathleen M. Jagodnik;Simon Koplev

  • IKK phosphorylates Huntingtin and targets it for degradation by the proteasome and lysosome

    Leslie Michels Thompson;Charity T. Aiken;Linda S. Kaltenbach;Namita Agrawal

  • SIRT2 inhibition achieves neuroprotection by decreasing sterol biosynthesis

    Ruth Luthi-Carter;David M. Taylor;Judit Pallos;Emmanuel Lambert

  • Serines 13 and 16 Are Critical Determinants of Full-Length Human Mutant Huntingtin Induced Disease Pathogenesis in HD Mice

    Xiaofeng Gu;Xiaofeng Gu;Erin R. Greiner;Erin R. Greiner;Rakesh Mishra;Ravindra Kodali

  • Mutant Huntingtin Disrupts the Nuclear Pore Complex

    Jonathan C. Grima;J. Gavin Daigle;Nicolas Arbez;Kathleen C. Cunningham

  • Genome-Wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene

    Aude Nicolas;Kevin P. Kenna;Alan E. Renton;Nicola Ticozzi

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Lawrence Marsh
J. Lawrence Marsh University of California, Irvine
Clive N. Svendsen
Clive N. Svendsen Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Steven Finkbeiner
Steven Finkbeiner University of California, San Francisco
William R. Wilcox
William R. Wilcox Emory University
Gillian P. Bates
Gillian P. Bates University College London
James F. Gusella
James F. Gusella Harvard University
Paul J. Muchowski
Paul J. Muchowski University of California, San Francisco
Marcy E. MacDonald
Marcy E. MacDonald Harvard University

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