Complement system in neural synapse elimination in development and disease

J Presumey, AR Bialas, MC Carroll - Advances in immunology, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent discoveries implicate the classical complement cascade in normal brain development
and in disease. Complement proteins C1q, C3, and C4 participate in synapse elimination, …

[PDF][PDF] Highly parallel genome-wide expression profiling of individual cells using nanoliter droplets

…, J Nemesh, K Shekhar, M Goldman, I Tirosh, AR Bialas… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
… runs was performed at a particularly low cell concentration (15 cells/μl) and thus high
purity, to evaluate whether results were artifacts of cell-cell doublets or single-cell impurity. We …

Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4

A Sekar, AR Bialas, H De Rivera, A Davis… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a heritable brain illness with unknown pathogenic mechanisms.
Schizophrenia’s strongest genetic association at a population level involves variation in the major …

Retracted article: TGF-β signaling regulates neuronal C1q expression and developmental synaptic refinement

AR Bialas, B Stevens - Nature neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
Immune molecules, including complement proteins C1q and C3, have emerged as critical
mediators of synaptic refinement and plasticity. Complement localizes to synapses and refines …

Microglia-dependent synapse loss in type I interferon-mediated lupus

AR Bialas, J Presumey, A Das, CE van der Poel… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an incurable autoimmune disease characterized by
autoantibody deposition in tissues such as kidney, skin and lungs. Notably, up to 75% of …

[HTML][HTML] The adhesion G protein-coupled receptor GPR56 is a cell-autonomous regulator of oligodendrocyte development

…, Y Ying, SJ Jeong, M Makinodan, AR Bialas… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Mutations in GPR56, a member of the adhesion G protein-coupled receptor family, cause a
human brain malformation called bilateral frontoparietal polymicrogyria (BFPP). Magnetic …

Neutral lipid cacostasis contributes to disease pathogenesis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

…, EH Jensen, J Yu, SP Sardi, AR Bialas… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neuromuscular disease characterized by motor
neuron (MN) death. Lipid dysregulation manifests during disease; however, it is unclear …

[PDF][PDF] Glia: regulating synaptogenesis from multiple directions

AR Bialas, B Stevens - Current biology, 2012 - cell.com
Glia cells are uniquely positioned at synapses, contacting pre-and post-synaptic terminals.
At the Drosophila neuromuscular junction, a novel glia-derived TGF-β ligand has been …

[HTML][HTML] Author Correction: Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4

A Sekar, AR Bialas, H de Rivera, A Davis… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Figure 7d and Supplementary Fig. 10 of this Article reported experiments on synaptic refinement
in the mouse lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). We identified an error in the description …

Retraction Note: Microglia-dependent synapse loss in type I interferon-mediated lupus

AR Bialas, J Presumey, A Das, CE van der Poel… - 2020 - nature.com
In follow-up experiments to this Letter, we have been unable to replicate key aspects of the
original results. Most importantly, the findings from behaviour studies and sequencing of …