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Overview

Thomas Wileman is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broader fields, they concentrate on epidemiology, physiology, molecular biology, immunology, and cell biology.

The core topics that Wileman investigates include autophagy in disease and therapy, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, influenza virus research studies, calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism, Toxoplasma gondii research studies, cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, and cellular transport and secretion.

Wileman has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • The Uptake, Trafficking, and Biodistribution of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Generated Outer Membrane Vesicles, 2020, published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Noncanonical function of an autophagy protein prevents spontaneous Alzheimer's disease, 2020, published in Science Advances
  • Non-canonical autophagy functions of ATG16L1 in epithelial cells limit lethal infection by influenza A virus, 2021, published in The EMBO Journal
  • Regulation of Enteroendocrine Cell Networks by the Major Human Gut Symbiont Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, 2020, published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Control of infection by LC3-associated phagocytosis, CASM, and detection of raised vacuolar pH by the V-ATPase-ATG16L1 axis, 2022, published in Science Advances

Frequent co-authors in Wileman's research include:

  • Simon R. Carding
  • Matthew Jefferson
  • Ulríke Mayer
  • Penny P. Powell
  • Yingxue Wang

Wileman's publications often appear in specific scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Autophagy Reports
  • Science Advances
  • The Journal of Cell Biology

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Aggresomes and Autophagy Generate Sites for Virus Replication

    Thomas Wileman

  • Coronavirus NSP6 restricts autophagosome expansion

    Eleanor M Cottam;Matthew C Whelband;Thomas Wileman

  • A guide to viral inclusions, membrane rearrangements, factories, and viroplasm produced during virus replication.

    Christopher Netherton;Katy Moffat;Elizabeth Brooks;Thomas Wileman

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Coronavirus nsp6 proteins generate autophagosomes from the endoplasmic reticulum via an omegasome intermediate

    Eleanor M. Cottam;Helena J. Maier;Maria Manifava;Laura C. Vaux

  • Aggresomes Resemble Sites Specialized for Virus Assembly

    Colin M. Heath;Miriam Windsor;Thomas Wileman

  • Aggresomes and Pericentriolar Sites of Virus Assembly: Cellular Defense or Viral Design?

    Thomas Wileman

  • The WD40 domain of ATG16L1 is required for its non‐canonical role in lipidation of LC3 at single membranes

    Katherine Fletcher;Rachel Ulferts;Elise Jacquin;Talitha Veith

  • Virus factories, double membrane vesicles and viroplasm generated in animal cells.

    Christopher L Netherton;Tom Wileman

  • Effects of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Nonstructural Proteins on the Structure and Function of the Early Secretory Pathway: 2BC but Not 3A Blocks Endoplasmic Reticulum-to-Golgi Transport

    Katy Moffat;Gareth Howell;Caroline Knox;Graham J. Belsham

  • Vimentin Rearrangement during African Swine Fever Virus Infection Involves Retrograde Transport along Microtubules and Phosphorylation of Vimentin by Calcium Calmodulin Kinase II

    Sandra Stefanovic;Miriam Windsor;Koh-ici Nagata;Masaki Inagaki

  • Rapid freeze-substitution preserves membranes in high-pressure frozen tissue culture cells.

    P Hawes;Christopher L Netherton;M Mueller;T Wileman

  • Perforin expression can define CD8 positive lymphocyte subsets in pigs allowing phenotypic and functional analysis of Natural Killer, Cytotoxic T, Natural Killer T and MHC un-restricted cytotoxic T-cells

    Michael S. Denyer;Thomas E. Wileman;Catrina M.A. Stirling;Bartek Zuber

  • Classical swine fever virus induces proinflammatory cytokines and tissue factor expression and inhibits apoptosis and interferon synthesis during the establishment of long-term infection of porcine vascular endothelial cells

    Emmanuelle Bensaude;Jane L. E. Turner;Philip R. Wakeley;David A. Sweetman

  • African Swine Fever Virus Is Wrapped by the Endoplasmic Reticulum

    Isabelle Rouiller;Sharon M. Brookes;Alex D. Hyatt;Miriam Windsor

  • Loss of Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 in Cells Infected with Classical Swine Fever Virus Involves the N-Terminal Protease, Npro

    S. Anna La Rocca;Rebecca J. Herbert;Helen Crooke;Trevor W. Drew

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon R. Carding
Simon R. Carding University of East Anglia
Ulrike Mayer
Ulrike Mayer University of East Anglia
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan University of Cambridge
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Robert A. Kingsley
Robert A. Kingsley University of East Anglia
James P. Stewart
James P. Stewart University of Liverpool
Noboru Mizushima
Noboru Mizushima University of Tokyo
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Anja Kipar
Anja Kipar University of Zurich

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