Biography and Research Interest

Evolution of the helical cytokines and their receptors during chordate and vertebrate radiation.

Immunology and development.

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

mouse cells. Cloning and expression of its cDNA. Cell 60, 225-243.

Legouis R., Hardelin J.P., Levilliers J., Claverie J.M., Compain S., Wunderle V., Milasseau P., Le Paslier D., Cohen D., Caterina D., Bougueleret L., Delemare-Van de Waal, H., Lutfalla G., Weissenbach J. and Petit C. (1991) The candidate gene for the X-linked Kallmann syndrome encodes a protein related to adhesion molecules. Cell, 67, 423-435.

del Castillo, I., Cohen-Salmon, M., Blanchard, S., Lutfalla, G., Weissenbach, J. and Petit, C. (1992) Structure of the gene responsible for the X-linked Kallmann syndrome and of its homologous pseudogene on Y chromosome. Nature Genetics, 2, 305-310.

Lutfalla, G., Holland, S.J., Cinato, E., Monneron, D., Reboul, J., Rogers, N.C., Smith, J.M., Stark, G.R., Gardiner, K., Mogensen, K.E., Kerr, I.M. and Uz�, G. (1995).Mutant U5A cells are complemented by an interferon alpha/beta receptor subunit generated by alternative processing of a new member of a cytokine receptor gene cluster.EMBO J. 14, 5100-5108.

Reboul, J., Gardiner, K., Monneron, D., Uz�, G. and Lutfalla, G. (1999) Comparative genomic analysis of the interferon/interleukin-10 receptor gene cluster. Genome Research, 9, 242-250.

Remoli ME, Giacomini E, Lutfalla G, Dondi E, Orefici G, Battistini A, Uze G, Pellegrini S, Coccia E (2002) Selective expression of type I IFN genes in human dendritic cells infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Immunol. 2002 Jul 1;169(1):366-74.


Weil, M., Lutfalla, G., Mogensen, E., Chandre, F., Berthomieu, A., Berticat, C., Pasteur, N., Philips, A., Fort, P. and Raymond, M. (2003) Comparative genomics: Insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors.Nature. 423:136-7