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Marion MacFarlane is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans key areas within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus on molecular biology and cancer-related studies.

The scientist's publication record includes numerous contributions to well-regarded journals and research platforms. Frequent publication venues for Marion MacFarlane include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Annals of Work Exposures and Health, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and Cell Death and Disease.

Marion MacFarlane's research primarily explores topics such as occupational and environmental lung diseases, cancer research and treatments, and cell death mechanisms and regulation. Additional areas of focus include cancer cells and metastasis, cancer-related molecular pathways, protein kinase regulation and GTPase signaling, and PARP inhibition in cancer therapy.

They have co-authored work with several researchers, including Anne E. Willis, Andrew Craxton, Ian Powley, Xiaoming Sun, and Gareth J. Miles, reflecting collaborations that have been sustained over multiple publications.

Key recent papers by Marion MacFarlane include the following:

  • "Patient-derived explants (PDEs) as a powerful preclinical platform for anti-cancer drug and biomarker discovery" (2020, British Journal of Cancer)
  • "Cryo-EM structural analysis of FADD:Caspase-8 complexes defines the catalytic dimer architecture for co-ordinated control of cell fate" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "A RIPK1-specific PROTAC degrader achieves potent antitumor activity by enhancing immunogenic cell death" (2024, Immunity)
  • "The pathogenesis of mesothelioma is driven by a dysregulated translatome" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Unbiased cell surface proteomics identifies SEMA4A as an effective immunotherapy target for myeloma" (2022, Blood)

Best Publications

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Distinct Caspase Cascades Are Initiated in Receptor-mediated and Chemical-induced Apoptosis

    Xiao-Ming Sun;Marion MacFarlane;Jianguo Zhuang;Beni B. Wolf

  • cIAPs Block Ripoptosome Formation, a RIP1/Caspase-8 Containing Intracellular Cell Death Complex Differentially Regulated by cFLIP Isoforms

    Maria Feoktistova;Maria Feoktistova;Peter Geserick;Peter Geserick;Beate Kellert;Diana Panayotova Dimitrova

  • The Ripoptosome, a Signaling Platform that Assembles in Response to Genotoxic Stress and Loss of IAPs

    Tencho Tenev;Katiuscia Bianchi;Maurice Darding;Meike Broemer

  • The role of mitochondrial factors in apoptosis: a Russian roulette with more than one bullet.

    G van Loo;X Saelens;M van Gurp;M MacFarlane

  • Identification and Molecular Cloning of Two Novel Receptors for the Cytotoxic Ligand TRAIL

    Marion MacFarlane;Manzoor Ahmad;Srinivasa M. Srinivasula;Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri

  • Benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp (OMe) fluoromethylketone (Z-VAD.FMK) inhibits apoptosis by blocking the processing of CPP32.

    Elizabeth A. Slee;Huijun Zhu;Sek C. Chow;Marion MacFARLANE

  • Protein complexes activate distinct caspase cascades in death receptor and stress-induced apoptosis.

    Shawn B. Bratton;Marion MacFarlane;Kelvin Cain;Gerald M. Cohen

  • Proteasome-mediated degradation of Smac during apoptosis: XIAP promotes Smac ubiquitination in vitro.

    Marion MacFarlane;Wendy Merrison;Shawn B. Bratton;Gerald M. Cohen

  • A Death Effector Domain Chain DISC Model Reveals a Crucial Role for Caspase-8 Chain Assembly in Mediating Apoptotic Cell Death

    Laura S. Dickens;Robert S. Boyd;Rebekah Jukes-Jones;Michelle A. Hughes

  • Pulmonary toxicity of carbon nanotubes and asbestos — Similarities and differences

    Ken Donaldson;Craig A. Poland;Fiona A. Murphy;Marion MacFarlane

  • Different Subcellular Distribution of Caspase-3 and Caspase-7 following Fas-induced Apoptosis in Mouse Liver *

    Julia M. Chandler;Gerald M. Cohen;Marion MacFarlane

  • TRAIL-induced signalling and apoptosis

    Marion MacFarlane

  • Formation of large molecular weight fragments of DNA is a key committed step of apoptosis in thymocytes.

    G. M. Cohen;Xiao-Ming Sun;H. Fearnhead;M. Macfarlane

  • c-Myc Protein Synthesis Is Initiated from the Internal Ribosome Entry Segment during Apoptosis

    Mark Stoneley;Stephen A. Chappell;Catherine L. Jopling;Martin Dickens

  • Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL Inhibit CD95-mediated Apoptosis by Preventing Mitochondrial Release of Smac/DIABLO and Subsequent Inactivation of X-linked Inhibitor-of-Apoptosis Protein

    Xiao Ming Sun;Shawn B. Bratton;Michael Butterworth;Marion MacFarlane

  • Fas-associated Death Domain Protein and Caspase-8 Are Not Recruited to the Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 Signaling Complex during Tumor Necrosis Factor-induced Apoptosis

    Nicholas Harper;Michelle Hughes;Marion MacFarlane;Gerald M. Cohen

  • Mechanisms of resistance to TRAIL-induced apoptosis in primary B cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

    Marion MacFarlane;Nicholas Harper;Roger T Snowden;Martin J S Dyer

  • Initiation of Apaf-1 translation by internal ribosome entry

    Mark J Coldwell;Sally A Mitchell;Mark Stoneley;Marion MacFarlane

  • Co-operative and Hierarchical Binding of c-FLIP and Caspase-8: A Unified Model Defines How c-FLIP Isoforms Differentially Control Cell Fate

    Michelle A. Hughes;Ian R. Powley;Rebekah Jukes-Jones;Sebastian Horn

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald M. Cohen
Gerald M. Cohen University of Liverpool
Anne E. Willis
Anne E. Willis University of Cambridge
David Dinsdale
David Dinsdale University of Leicester
Martin J. S. Dyer
Martin J. S. Dyer University of Leicester
Martin Bushell
Martin Bushell University of Glasgow
Seamus J. Martin
Seamus J. Martin Trinity College Dublin
Emad S. Alnemri
Emad S. Alnemri Thomas Jefferson University
Martin Leverkus
Martin Leverkus RWTH Aachen University
Pascal Meier
Pascal Meier Institute of Cancer Research
Simone Fulda
Simone Fulda Goethe University Frankfurt

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