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Key References

Ravasi, T., Wells, C.A. & Hume, D.A. (2007) Systems biology of transcription control in macrophages. Bioessays 29:1215-1226

Bonifer, C. & Hume, D.A. (2008) The transcriptional regulation of the colony-stimulating factor 1 recptor (csf1r) gene during haematopoiesis. Front.Biosci. 13:549-560

Sandelin, A., Carninci, P., Ponjavic, J., Lenhard, B., Hayashizaki, Y. & Hume, D.A. (2007) Promoting mammalian transcription: Insights into RNA polymerase II core promoter architecture and function from genome-wide promoter identification. Nature Reviews Genetics. 8:424-436

Ovchinnikov, D.A., van Zuylen, W., de Bats, C.E., Alexander, K.A., Kellie, S., Hume, D.A. (2007) Expression of gal4-dependent transgenes in cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system labeled with enhancer cyan fluorescent protein using csf1r-gal4VP16/UAS-ECFP double-transgenic mice. J.Leukocyte Biol. 83:430-433

Meadows, N.A., Sharma, S.M., Faulkner, G.J., Ostrowski, M.C., Hume, D.A., Cassady, A.I. (2007). The expression of chloride channel 7 (CLCN7) and OstM1 in osteoclasts is co-regulated by microphthalmia transcription factor. J.Biol. Chem. 282:1891-1904

Ripoll, V.M., Ravasi, T., Irvine, K.M., Sweet, M.J., Hume, D.A. (2007) Gpnmb is induced in macrophages by IFN-gamma and lipopolysaccharide and acts as a feedback regulator of proinflammatory processes. J.Immunol. 178:6557-6666

Sester, D.P., Brion, K., Trieu, A., Goodridge, H.S., Roberts, T.L., Dunn, J., Hume, D.A., Stacey, K.J., Sweet, M.J. (2006) CpG DNA activates survival in murine macrophages through tlr9 and the phosphatidyl inositol 3-kinase-akt pathway. J.Immunol. 177:4473-4480

Aung, H.T., Schroder, K., Himes, S.R., Brion, K., van Zuylen, W., Trieu, A., Suzuki, H., Hayashizaki, Y., Hume, D.A., Sweet, M.J. & Ravasi, T. (2006) LPS regulates pro-inflammatory gene expression in macrophages by altering histone deacetylase expression. FASEB J. 20:1315-27

Hume, D.A., Sasmono, T., Constantin, M., Himes, S.R. & Ross, I.L. (2008) The Ewing sarcoma protein (EWS) binds directly to proximal promoter elements of the macrophage-specific promoter of the CSF-1 receptor (c-fms) gene. J.Immunol. 180:6733-6742

Suzuki, H. et al.  (FANTOM Consortium and RIKEN Genome Exploration Group)  Hume, D.A. named as Senior Author in the Consortium. (2009). The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line. Nature Genetics 41:553-562

Roberts, T.L., Idris, A., Dunn, J.A., Kelly, G.M., Burnton, C.M., Hodgson, S., Hardy, L.L., Garceau, V., Sweet, M.J., Ross, I.L., Hume, D.A. & Stacey, K.J. (2009)  HIN-200 proteins regulate caspase activation in  response to foreign cytoplasmic DNA. Science. 323:1057-1060.   (Editor’s Choice Editorial)

Macdonald, K.P.A., Palmer, J.S., Cronau, S., Seppanen, E., Olver, S., Raffelt, N.C., Kuns, R., Pettit, A.R., Clouston, A., Wainwright, B., Branstetter, D., Smith, J., Paxton, R.J., Cerretti, D.P., Bonham, L., Hill, G.R. & Hume, D.A. (2010) An antibody against the colony-stimulating factor receptor (CSF1R) depletes the resident subset of monocytes and tissue and tumour-associated macrophages but does not inhibit inflammation.  Blood 116:3955-3963