Chrysothemis Brown: Publications

Hoelting T, Park T, Brown C. (2025) Antigen presenting cells as arbiters of mucosal tolerance and immunity. Nature Immunology (in press)

Cabric V, Parisotto Y, Park T, Akagbosu B, Zhao Z, Lo Y, Fisher L, Shibu G, Paucar Iza Y, Leslie C, Brown C. (2025). A wave of Thetis cells imparts tolerance to food early in life Science. 389,268-274 doi:10.1126/science.adp0535

Cabric V, Brown C. (2025) Thetis cells: regulators of intestinal immune tolerance. Current Opinions Immunology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coi.2025.102570

Nguyen A†, Fisher L†, Maitre B, Ahn J, Dasoveanu D, Li C, Ward L, Tayyebi Z, Wang A, Yadav A, Park T, Rudensky A, Mendelsohn C, Brown C*, Gommerman J*. Sequential DC-intrinsic Lymphotoxin Beta Receptor and Retinoic Acid Receptor signals regulate cDC2 fates. ResearchSquare 2024 DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4784425/v1 *co-corresponding †equal contribution

Remsik, J., Tong, X., Kunes, R. Z., Li, M. J., Estrera, R., Snyder, J., Thomson, C., Osman, A. M., Chabot, K., Sener, U. T., Wilcox, J. A., Isakov, D., Wang, H., Bale, T. A., Chaligné, R., Sun, J. C., Brown, C., Pe’er, D., & Boire, A. Interferon-γ orchestrates leptomeningeal anti-tumour response. Nature. 2025 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09012-z

Paucar Iza Y, Brown C. (2024) Early life imprinting of intestinal tolerance and tissue homeostasis. Immunological Reviews 323:303-315

Brown C, Rudensky A. (2023) Spatiotemporal regulation of peripheral T cell tolerance. Science 380:472-478

Ramanan D, Pratama A, Zhu Y, Venezia O,  Sassone-Corsi M,  Chowdhary K, Galván-Peña S,  Sefik E,  Brown C,  Gélineau A ,  Mathis D ,  Benoist C. (2023) Regulatory T cells in the face of the intestinal microbiota. Nature Reviews Immunology23:749-762

Park, T., Leslie, C., Rudensky, A., Brown, C. Reconciling the spectrum of RORgt+ antigen-presenting cells. bioRxiv. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.01.565227

Persad S, Choo Z-N, Dien C, Sohail, N, Masilionis I, Chaligné R, Nawy T, Brown C, Sharma R, Pe’er I, Setty M, Pe’er D. SEACells infers transcriptional and epigenomic cellular states from single-cell genomics data. Nature Biotech. 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41587-023-01716-9

Cabric V, Brown C. (2023) Thymic mimicry: the art of imitation. J. Exp. Med. 220: e20231010

Akagbosu B,†, Tayyebi Z,†, Shibu G, Paucar Iza Y, Deep D, Parisotto Y, Fisher L, Pasolli HA, Thevin V, Elmentaite R, Knott M, Hemmers S, Jahn L, Friedrich C, Verter J, Wang Z-M, van den Brink M, Gasteiger G, Grünewald TGP, Marie JC, Leslie C, Rudensky AY*, Brown C*. Novel antigen-presenting cell imparts T-reg dependent tolerance to the gut microbiota. Nature. 2022. 610, 752–760 doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05309-5 *co-corresponding †equal contribution

Mendoza A, Yewdell W, Hoyos B, Schizas M, Bou-Puerto R, Michaels A, Brown C, Chaudhuri J, Rudensky A. (2021). Assembly of a spatial circuit of T-bet–expressing T and B lymphocytes is required for antiviral humoral immunity. Sci Immunol 6:4710.

Brown C, Gottschalk R. (2021) Volume control: turning the dial on regulatory T cells. Cell 184:3847-3849

Brown C, Rudensky A. (2021) Conceiving the inconceivable: the function of Aire in immune tolerance to peripheral tissue-restricted antigens in the thymus. J Immunol 206:245-247

Brown C, Wolchok J. (2020) PD-L1 Blockade Therapy: Location, Location, Location. Cancer Cell 38:615-617

Brown C, Rudensky A. (2020). Enforcing T cell innocence. Science 367:247-248

Thangavelu G, Wang C, Loschi M, Saha A, Osborn M, Furlan S, Aoyama K, Mcdonald-Hyman C, Aguilar E, Janesick A, Chandraratna R, Refaeli Y, Macdonald K, Hill G, Zeiser R, Maillard I, Serody J, Murphy W, Munn D, Blumberg B, Brown C, Kuchroo V, Kean L, Hippen K, Noelle R, Blazar B. (2020). Repurposing a novel anti-cancer RXR agonist to attenuate acute GVHD and maintain graft-versus-leukemia responses Blood 137:1090-1103

Penkava F, Velasco-Herrera M, Young M, Yager N, Nwosu L, Arthur Pratt, Alicia Lledo Lara, Charlotte Guzzo, Asher Maroof, Lira Mamanova, Suzanne Cole, Mirjana Efremova, Davide Simone, Andrew Filer, Brown C, Croxford A, Isaacs J Teichmann S, Bowness P, Behjati S, Al-Mossawi H. (2020). Single-cell sequencing reveals clonal expansions of pro-inflammatory synovial CD8 T cells expressing tissue-homing receptors in psoriatic arthritis. Nature Communications 11:4767

Brown C,* Gudjohnson H,* Pritykin Y, Deep D, Mendoza A, Leslie C, Pe’er D, Rudensky, A, (2019). Transcriptional basis of dendritic cell heterogeneity in mouse and humansCell 179:846-863 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.09.035 *co-authorco-corresponding author

Duurland C, Brown C, O’Shaughnessy R, Wedderburn L. (2017). CD161+ Tconv and CD161+ Treg Share a Transcriptional and Functional Phenotype despite Limited Overlap in TCRβ Repertoire. Front Immunol; 8: 103

Brown C,* Esterhazy, D, Sarde, A, London, M, Pullabhatla, V, Osma-Garcia, I, al-Bader, R, Ortiz, C, Elgueta, R, Arno, M, de Rinaldis, E, Mucida D, Lord G, Noelle, R. (2015). Retinoic acid is essential for Th1 cell lineage stability and prevents transition to a Th17 cell program. Immunity 42:499-511 *co-corresponding author

Brown C, Noelle R. (2015). Seeing through the dark: New insights into the immune regulatory functions of vitamin A. Eur J Immunol 45:1287–1295

Guo Y, Brown C, Ortiz C, Noelle R. (2015). Leukocyte Homing, Fate and Function are controlled by Retinoic Acid. Physiological Reviews 95125-148

Guo Y, Lee Y, Brown C, Zhang W, Usherwood E, Noelle R. (2014). Dissecting the Role of Retinoic Acid Receptor Isoforms in the CD8 Response to Infection. J Immunol 192:3336-3344

Brown C, Wedderburn L. (2014). Mapping autoimmune disease epigenetics: what’s on the horizon? Nat Rev Rheumatol 11:131-132

Brown C, Apps J, Winyard P. (2013). A new generation of academic paediatricians. The Lancet 382:28

Brown C, Apps J, Davies G, Ware N, Fisher J., Winyard P. (2013). Making your way as an academic paediatric trainee in the UK Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice.

Brown C, Haringman N, Davies C, Gore C, Hussain M, Mieli-Vergani G, Vergani D, Warner JO, Marks SD, Boyle RJ. (2012). High prevalence of food sensitisation in young children with liver disease: a clue to food allergy pathogenesis? Pediatr Allergy Immunol: 23: 770–777.

Pino-Lagos K, Guo Y, Brown C, Alexander M, Elgueta R, Bennett K, De Vries V, Nowak E, Blomhoff E, Sockanathan S, Chandraratna R, Dmitrovsky E, and Noelle R. (2011). A retinoic acid–dependent checkpoint in the development of CD4+ T cell–mediated immunity. J Exp Med; 208:1767-1775