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Overview

Sophie Roy is a researcher primarily affiliated with MSD in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, with significant contributions to Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research interests focus on various subfields including Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and Genetics.

The scientist has published extensively on topics such as T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, CAR-T cell therapy research, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research.

Recent publications by Sophie Roy include:

  • Sequential immunotherapy: towards cures for autoimmunity, 2024, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • The fatigue-induced alteration in postural control is larger in hypobaric than in normobaric hypoxia, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Calcium regulates acid-sensing ion channel 3 activation by competing with protons in the channel pore and at an allosteric binding site, 2022, Open Biology
  • Soluble guanylate cyclase stimulators for the treatment of hypertension: Discovery of MK-2947, 2020, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
  • Prenatal diagnosis of 2q13 duplications: The crucial role of the family survey in genetic counseling on novel copy number variations, 2020, European Journal of Medical Genetics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sophie Roy include:

  • Francisco Ramírez-Valle
  • Joseph Maranville
  • Robert M. Plenge
  • Céline Eiden
  • Marie-Christine Picot

The most common publication venues for this researcher are:

  • Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Therapies
  • Scientific Reports
  • Open Biology
  • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Best Publications

  • A Combinatorial Approach Defines Specificities of Members of the Caspase Family and Granzyme B FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS ESTABLISHED FOR KEY MEDIATORS OF APOPTOSIS

    Nancy A. Thornberry;Thomas A. Rano;Erin P. Peterson;Dita M. Rasper

  • Involvement of Caspases in Proteolytic Cleavage of Alzheimer’s Amyloid-β Precursor Protein and Amyloidogenic Aβ Peptide Formation

    François G. Gervais;Daigen Xu;George S. Robertson;John P. Vaillancourt

  • Cleavage at the caspase-6 site is required for neuronal dysfunction and degeneration due to mutant huntingtin.

    Rona K. Graham;Yu Deng;Elizabeth J. Slow;Brendan Haigh

  • Malignant transformation by a mutant of the IFN-inducible dsRNA-dependent protein kinase.

    Antonis E. Koromilas;Sophie Roy;Glen N. Barber;Michael G. Katze

  • Caspase inhibitors improve survival in sepsis: a critical role of the lymphocyte.

    R. S. Hotchkiss;K. C. Chang;P. E. Swanson;K. W. Tinsley

  • Apoptosis initiated by Bcl-2-regulated caspase activation independently of the cytochrome c/Apaf-1/caspase-9 apoptosome

    Vanessa S. Marsden;Liam O'Connor;Liam O'Connor;Lorraine A. O'Reilly;John Silke

  • Caspase Cleavage of Gene Products Associated with Triplet Expansion Disorders Generates Truncated Fragments Containing the Polyglutamine Tract

    Cheryl L. Wellington;Lisa M. Ellerby;Abigail S. Hackam;Russell L. Margolis

  • The Caspase-3 Precursor Has a Cytosolic and Mitochondrial Distribution: Implications for Apoptotic Signaling

    Marie Mancini;Donald W. Nicholson;Sophie Roy;Nancy A. Thornberry

  • A bulge structure in HIV-1 TAR RNA is required for Tat binding and Tat-mediated trans-activation.

    S. Roy;U. Delling;Chein-Hwa Chen;C. A. Rosen

  • Differential modulation of endotoxin responsiveness by human caspase-12 polymorphisms

    Maya Saleh;John P. Vaillancourt;Rona K. Graham;Matthew Huyck

  • Caspase-2 Is Localized at the Golgi Complex and Cleaves Golgin-160 during Apoptosis

    Marie Mancini;Carolyn E. Machamer;Sophie Roy;Donald W. Nicholson

  • Caspase Cleavage of Mutant Huntingtin Precedes Neurodegeneration in Huntington's Disease

    Cheryl L. Wellington;Lisa M. Ellerby;Claire-Anne Gutekunst;Danny Rogers

  • Granzyme B Directly and Efficiently Cleaves Several Downstream Caspase Substrates: Implications for CTL-Induced Apoptosis

    Felipe Andrade;Sophie Roy;Donald Nicholson;Nancy Thornberry

  • Inhibiting caspase cleavage of huntingtin reduces toxicity and aggregate formation in neuronal and nonneuronal cells.

    Cheryl L. Wellington;Roshni Singaraja;Lisa Ellerby;Jane Savill

  • Cell death attenuation by 'Usurpin', a mammalian DED-caspase homologue that precludes caspase-8 recruitment and activation by the CD-95 (Fas, APO-1) receptor complex.

    Dita M. Rasper;John P. Vaillancourt;Shinji Hadano;Shinji Hadano;Vicky M. Houtzager

  • Recruitment and activation of caspase-8 by the Huntingtin-interacting protein Hip-1 and a novel partner Hippi.

    François G. Gervais;Roshni Singaraja;Steven Xanthoudakis;Claire-Anne Gutekunst

  • Hsp60 accelerates the maturation of pro-caspase-3 by upstream activator proteases during apoptosis

    Steven Xanthoudakis;Sophie Roy;Dita Rasper;Trevor Hennessey

  • Cross-Talk in Cell Death Signaling

    Sophie Roy;Donald W. Nicholson

  • Caspases cleave focal adhesion kinase during apoptosis to generate a FRNK-like polypeptide.

    François G. Gervais;Nancy A. Thornberry;Salvatore C. Ruffolo;Donald W. Nicholson

  • Maintenance of caspase-3 proenzyme dormancy by an intrinsic “safety catch” regulatory tripeptide

    Sophie Roy;Christopher I. Bayly;Yves Gareau;Vicky M. Houtzager

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald W. Nicholson
Donald W. Nicholson MSD (United States)
Nancy A. Thornberry
Nancy A. Thornberry MSD (United States)
Robert Zamboni
Robert Zamboni MSD (United States)
Michael R. Hayden
Michael R. Hayden University of British Columbia
Gregory J. Kaczorowski
Gregory J. Kaczorowski MSD (United States)
Nahum Sonenberg
Nahum Sonenberg McGill University
Maria L. Garcia
Maria L. Garcia MSD (United States)
Blair R. Leavitt
Blair R. Leavitt University of British Columbia
Antony Rosen
Antony Rosen Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Roshni R. Singaraja
Roshni R. Singaraja Agency for Science, Technology and Research

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