Behmoaras Lab

Publications

The group’s main research focuses on understanding and targeting gene networks that control macrophage biology in metabolic disease, ageing and chronic kidney disease.

This system-level approach to target macrophage activation is expected to achieve timely and impactful translation and acceleration towards drug discovery.

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2025

The spatial and temporal activation of macrophages during fibrosis.
Jacques Behmoaras, Kevin Mulder, Florent Ginhoux, Enrico Petretto
Nature reviews. Immunology  ·  04 Jun 2025  ·  pubmed:40467841

2024

Fatty acid synthesis promotes inflammasome activation through NLRP3 palmitoylation.
Stuart Leishman, Najd M Aljadeed, Liyunhe Qian, Shamshad Cockcroft, Jacques Behmoaras, Paras K Anand
Cell reports  ·  17 Jul 2024  ·  pubmed:39024103
Multi-tissue profiling of oxylipins reveal a conserved up-regulation of epoxide:diol ratio that associates with white adipose tissue inflammation and liver steatosis in obesity.
Charlotte Hateley, Antoni Olona, Laura Halliday, Matthew L Edin, Jeong-Hun Ko, …, Guodong Zhang, Robert D Goldin, Darryl C Zeldin, Enrico Petretto, Jacques Behmoaras
EBioMedicine  ·  26 Apr 2024  ·  pubmed:38677183
Comparative Analysis of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Methods with and without Sample Multiplexing.
Yi Xie, Huimei Chen, Vasuki Ranjani Chellamuthu, Ahmad Bin Mohamed Lajam, Salvatore Albani, Andrea Hsiu Ling Low, Enrico Petretto, Jacques Behmoaras
International journal of molecular sciences  ·  29 Mar 2024  ·  pubmed:38612639
WWP2 Regulates Renal Fibrosis and the Metabolic Reprogramming of Profibrotic Myofibroblasts.
Huimei Chen, Ran You, Jing Guo, Wei Zhou, Gabriel Chew, …, Paola Pontrelli, Francesco Pesce, Jacques Behmoaras, Aihua Zhang, Enrico Petretto
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN  ·  19 Mar 2024  ·  pubmed:38502123

2023

Systems level identification of a matrisome-associated macrophage polarisation state in multi-organ fibrosis.
John F Ouyang, Kunal Mishra, Yi Xie, Harry Park, Kevin Y Huang, Enrico Petretto, Jacques Behmoaras
eLife  ·  14 Sep 2023  ·  pubmed:37706477
Multinucleation resets human macrophages for specialized functions at the expense of their identity.
Kourosh Ahmadzadeh, Marie Pereira, Margot Vanoppen, Eline Bernaerts, Jeong-Hun Ko, …, Stefaan Soenen, Carlos D Rose, Patrick Matthys, Carine Wouters, Jacques Behmoaras
EMBO reports  ·  05 Apr 2023  ·  pubmed:37016941
Multinucleation resets human macrophages for specialized functions at the expense of their identity.
Kourosh Ahmadzadeh, Marie Pereira, Margot Vanoppen, Eline Bernaerts, Jeong-Hun Ko, …, Stefaan Soenen, Carlos D Rose, Patrick Matthys, Carine Wouters, Jacques Behmoaras
EMBO reports  ·  04 Jan 2023  ·  pubmed:36597777

2022

The E3 ubiquitin ligase WWP2 regulates pro-fibrogenic monocyte infiltration and activity in heart fibrosis.
Huimei Chen, Gabriel Chew, Nithya Devapragash, Jui Zhi Loh, Kevin Y Huang, …, Masum M Mia, Manvendra K Singh, Aihua Zhang, Jacques Behmoaras, Enrico Petretto
Nature communications  ·  30 Nov 2022  ·  pubmed:36450710
Immunolipidomics Reveals a Globoside Network During the Resolution of Pro-Inflammatory Response in Human Macrophages.
Sneha Muralidharan, Federico Torta, Michelle K Lin, Antoni Olona, Marta Bagnati, …, Bo Burla, Markus R Wenk, Hosana G Rodrigues, Enrico Petretto, Jacques Behmoaras
Frontiers in immunology  ·  30 Jun 2022  ·  pubmed:35844525
Glomerulonephritis and autoimmune vasculitis are independent of P2RX7 but may depend on alternative inflammasome pathways.
Maria Prendecki, Stephen P McAdoo, Tabitha Turner-Stokes, Ana Garcia-Diaz, Isabel Orriss, …, H Terence Cook, Robert Unwin, Charles D Pusey, Timothy J Aitman, Frederick Wk Tam
The Journal of pathology  ·  02 May 2022  ·  pubmed:35239186

2021

Adipoclast: a multinucleated fat-eating macrophage.
Antoni Olona, Subhankar Mukhopadhyay, Charlotte Hateley, Fernando O Martinez, Siamon Gordon, Jacques Behmoaras
BMC biology  ·  19 Nov 2021  ·  pubmed:34794433
Sphingolipid metabolism during Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-mediated macrophage activation.
Antoni Olona, Charlotte Hateley, Sneha Muralidharan, Markus R Wenk, Federico Torta, Jacques Behmoaras
British journal of pharmacology  ·  02 Sep 2021  ·  pubmed:34363204
Cardiac glycosides cause cytotoxicity in human macrophages and ameliorate white adipose tissue homeostasis.
Antoni Olona, Charlotte Hateley, Ana Guerrero, Jeong-Hun Ko, Michael R Johnson, Paras K Anand, David Thomas, Jesus Gil, Jacques Behmoaras
British journal of pharmacology  ·  03 May 2021  ·  pubmed:33665823
Type I interferons affect the metabolic fitness of CD8
Norzawani Buang, Lunnathaya Tapeng, Victor Gray, Alessandro Sardini, Chad Whilding, …, Thomas D Cairns, Matthew C Pickering, Jacques Behmoaras, Guang Sheng Ling, Marina Botto
Nature communications  ·  31 Mar 2021  ·  pubmed:33790300
Longitudinal proteomic profiling of dialysis patients with COVID-19 reveals markers of severity and predictors of death.
Jack Gisby, Candice L Clarke, Nicholas Medjeral-Thomas, Talat H Malik, Artemis Papadaki, …, Matthew C Pickering, Marina Botto, Michelle Willicombe, David C Thomas, James E Peters
eLife  ·  11 Mar 2021  ·  pubmed:33704068
Similarities and interplay between senescent cells and macrophages.
Jacques Behmoaras, Jesús Gil
The Journal of cell biology  ·  01 Feb 2021  ·  pubmed:33355620
The versatile biochemistry of iron in macrophage effector functions.
Jacques Behmoaras
The FEBS journal  ·  12 Jan 2021  ·  pubmed:33354925

2020

BCAT1 affects mitochondrial metabolism independently of leucine transamination in activated human macrophages.
Jeong-Hun Ko, Antoni Olona, Adonia E Papathanassiu, Norzawani Buang, Kwon-Sik Park, Ana S H Costa, Claudio Mauro, Christian Frezza, Jacques Behmoaras
Journal of cell science  ·  27 Nov 2020  ·  pubmed:33148611
A trans-eQTL network regulates osteoclast multinucleation and bone mass.
Marie Pereira, Jeong-Hun Ko, John Logan, Hayley Protheroe, Kee-Beom Kim, …, Maxime Rotival, Enrico Petretto, Jh Duncan Bassett, Graham R Williams, Jacques Behmoaras
eLife  ·  19 Jun 2020  ·  pubmed:32553114

2019

Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics.
Ana Guerrero, Nicolás Herranz, Bin Sun, Verena Wagner, Suchira Gallage, …, Santiago Vernia, Juan Pedro Martínez-Barbera, Mathias Heikenwalder, Dominic J Withers, Jesús Gil
Nature metabolism  ·  21 Oct 2019  ·  pubmed:31799499
Acute Iron Deprivation Reprograms Human Macrophage Metabolism and Reduces Inflammation In Vivo.
Marie Pereira, Tai-Di Chen, Norzawani Buang, Antoni Olona, Jeong-Hun Ko, …, Charles D Pusey, H Terence Cook, Stephen P McAdoo, Christian Frezza, Jacques Behmoaras
Cell reports  ·  09 Jul 2019  ·  pubmed:31291584
Systems genetics identifies a macrophage cholesterol network associated with physiological wound healing.
Marta Bagnati, Aida Moreno-Moral, Jeong-Hun Ko, Jérôme Nicod, Nathan Harmston, Martha Imprialou, Laurence Game, Jesus Gil, Enrico Petretto, Jacques Behmoaras
JCI insight  ·  24 Jan 2019  ·  pubmed:30674726

2018

A systems-level framework for drug discovery identifies Csf1R as an anti-epileptic drug target.
Prashant K Srivastava, Jonathan van Eyll, Patrice Godard, Manuela Mazzuferi, Andree Delahaye-Duriez, …, Jacques Behmoaras, Irena Kadiu, Enrico Petretto, Rafal M Kaminski, Michael R Johnson
Nature communications  ·  03 Sep 2018  ·  pubmed:30177815
Common signalling pathways in macrophage and osteoclast multinucleation.
Marie Pereira, Enrico Petretto, Siamon Gordon, J H Duncan Bassett, Graham R Williams, Jacques Behmoaras
Journal of cell science  ·  05 Jun 2018  ·  pubmed:29871956
Response to: 'M-CSF and GM-CSF monocyte-derived macrophages in systemic sclerosis: the two sides of the same coin?' by Lescoat
Jacques Behmoaras, Enrico Petretto
Annals of the rheumatic diseases  ·  09 Mar 2018  ·  pubmed:29523522
Epoxygenase inactivation exacerbates diet and aging-associated metabolic dysfunction resulting from impaired adipogenesis.
Antoni Olona, Ximena Terra, Jeong-Hun Ko, Carme Grau-Bové, Montserrat Pinent, …, Darryl C Zeldin, Timothy J Aitman, Enrico Petretto, Mayte Blay, Jacques Behmoaras
Molecular metabolism  ·  09 Mar 2018  ·  pubmed:29656108
Changes in macrophage transcriptome associate with systemic sclerosis and mediate
Aida Moreno-Moral, Marta Bagnati, Surya Koturan, Jeong-Hun Ko, Carmen Fonseca, …, Voon Ong, David J Abraham, Christopher P Denton, Jacques Behmoaras, Enrico Petretto
Annals of the rheumatic diseases  ·  17 Jan 2018  ·  pubmed:29348297

2017

BCAT1 controls metabolic reprogramming in activated human macrophages and is associated with inflammatory diseases.
Adonia E Papathanassiu, Jeong-Hun Ko, Martha Imprialou, Marta Bagnati, Prashant K Srivastava, …, Danilo Cucchi, Stephen P McAdoo, Elitsa A Ananieva, Claudio Mauro, Jacques Behmoaras
Nature communications  ·  12 Jul 2017  ·  pubmed:28699638
Identification of Ceruloplasmin as a Gene that Affects Susceptibility to Glomerulonephritis Through Macrophage Function.
Tai-Di Chen, Maxime Rotival, Ling-Yin Chiu, Marta Bagnati, Jeong-Hun Ko, …, Charles D Pusey, Ping-Chin Lai, Timothy J Aitman, H Terence Cook, Jacques Behmoaras
Genetics  ·  26 Apr 2017  ·  pubmed:28450461
Genome-wide analysis of differential RNA editing in epilepsy.
Prashant Kumar Srivastava, Marta Bagnati, Andree Delahaye-Duriez, Jeong-Hun Ko, Maxime Rotival, …, Patrik Foerch, Jacques Behmoaras, Rafal M Kaminski, Enrico Petretto, Michael R Johnson
Genome research  ·  01 Mar 2017  ·  pubmed:28250018
A Bayesian Approach for Analysis of Whole-Genome Bisulfite Sequencing Data Identifies Disease-Associated Changes in DNA Methylation.
Owen J L Rackham, Sarah R Langley, Thomas Oates, Eleni Vradi, Nathan Harmston, Prashant K Srivastava, Jacques Behmoaras, Petros Dellaportas, Leonardo Bottolo, Enrico Petretto
Genetics  ·  17 Feb 2017  ·  pubmed:28213474
Systems Genetics as a Tool to Identify Master Genetic Regulators in Complex Disease.
Aida Moreno-Moral, Francesco Pesce, Jacques Behmoaras, Enrico Petretto
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)  ·  01 Jan 2017  ·  pubmed:27933533

2016

Identification of a nutrient-sensing transcriptional network in monocytes by using inbred rat models on a cafeteria diet.
Neus Martínez-Micaelo, Noemi González-Abuín, Ximena Terra, Ana Ardévol, Montserrat Pinent, Enrico Petretto, Jacques Behmoaras, Mayte Blay
Disease models & mechanisms  ·  13 Jul 2016  ·  pubmed:27483348
Human Chorionic Stem Cells: Podocyte Differentiation and Potential for the Treatment of Alport Syndrome.
Dafni Moschidou, Michelangelo Corcelli, Kwan-Leong Hau, Victoria J Ekwalla, Jacques V Behmoaras, …, George Bou-Gharios, H Terence Cook, Charles D Pusey, Nicholas M Fisk, Pascale V Guillot
Stem cells and development  ·  18 Feb 2016  ·  pubmed:26728561

2015

Leptin signal transduction underlies the differential metabolic response of LEW and WKY rats to cafeteria diet.
N Martínez-Micaelo, N González-Abuín, A Ardévol, M Pinent, E Petretto, J Behmoaras, M Blay
Journal of molecular endocrinology  ·  08 Oct 2015  ·  pubmed:26450996
Use of Quantitative Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction to Assess Gene Transcripts Associated With Antibody-Mediated Rejection of Kidney Transplants.
Katherine M Dominy, Candice Roufosse, Hanneke de Kort, Michelle Willicombe, Paul Brookes, …, Jack Galliford, Peter Choi, David Taube, H Terence Cook, Adam G Mclean
Transplantation  ·  01 Sep 2015  ·  pubmed:25675206
Macrophage epoxygenase determines a profibrotic transcriptome signature.
Jacques Behmoaras, Ana Garcia Diaz, Lara Venda, Jeong-Hun Ko, Prashant Srivastava, …, Charles D Pusey, David J Abraham, Enrico Petretto, Terence H Cook, Timothy J Aitman
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)  ·  03 Apr 2015  ·  pubmed:25840911
Systems genetics identifies Sestrin 3 as a regulator of a proconvulsant gene network in human epileptic hippocampus.
Michael R Johnson, Jacques Behmoaras, Leonardo Bottolo, Michelle L Krishnan, Katharina Pernhorst, …, Vincenzo De Paola, Rafal M Kaminski, Vincent T Cunliffe, Albert J Becker, Enrico Petretto
Nature communications  ·  23 Jan 2015  ·  pubmed:25615886

2014

Integrating phosphoproteome and transcriptome reveals new determinants of macrophage multinucleation.
Maxime Rotival, Jeong-Hun Ko, Prashant K Srivastava, Audrey Kerloc’h, Alex Montoya, Claudio Mauro, Peter Faull, Pedro R Cutillas, Enrico Petretto, Jacques Behmoaras
Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP  ·  22 Dec 2014  ·  pubmed:25532521
Unique regulatory properties of mesangial cells are genetically determined in the rat.
Ping-Chin Lai, Ling-Yin Chiu, Prashant Srivastava, Cristina Trento, Francesco Dazzi, Enrico Petretto, H Terence Cook, Jacques Behmoaras
PloS one  ·  24 Oct 2014  ·  pubmed:25343449
Kcnn4 is a regulator of macrophage multinucleation in bone homeostasis and inflammatory disease.
Heeseog Kang, Audrey Kerloc’h, Maxime Rotival, Xiaoqing Xu, Qing Zhang, …, Graham R Williams, Jun Li, Agnès Vignery, Enrico Petretto, Jacques Behmoaras
Cell reports  ·  14 Aug 2014  ·  pubmed:25131209

2013

JunD/AP1 regulatory network analysis during macrophage activation in a rat model of crescentic glomerulonephritis.
Prashant K Srivastava, Richard P Hull, Jacques Behmoaras, Enrico Petretto, Timothy J Aitman
BMC systems biology  ·  22 Sep 2013  ·  pubmed:24053712
Experimental crescentic glomerulonephritis: a new bicongenic rat model.
Zelpha D’Souza, Stephen P McAdoo, Jennifer Smith, Charles D Pusey, H Terence Cook, Jacques Behmoaras, Timothy J Aitman
Disease models & mechanisms  ·  15 Aug 2013  ·  pubmed:24046355
Potassium channel openers increase aortic elastic fiber formation and reverse the genetically determined elastin deficit in the BN rat.
Séverin Slove, Morgane Lannoy, Jacques Behmoaras, Mylène Pezet, Natacha Sloboda, Patrick Lacolley, Brigitte Escoubet, Julia Buján, Marie-Paule Jacob
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)  ·  05 Aug 2013  ·  pubmed:23918751
Combined ChIP-Seq and transcriptome analysis identifies AP-1/JunD as a primary regulator of oxidative stress and IL-1β synthesis in macrophages.
Richard P Hull, Prashant K Srivastava, Zelpha D’Souza, Santosh S Atanur, Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou, Laurence Game, Enrico Petretto, H Terence Cook, Timothy J Aitman, Jacques Behmoaras
BMC genomics  ·  11 Feb 2013  ·  pubmed:23398888

2012

P2X7 receptor-mediated Nlrp3-inflammasome activation is a genetic determinant of macrophage-dependent crescentic glomerulonephritis.
Simona Deplano, H Terence Cook, Ryan Russell, Luigi Franchi, Sabine Schneiter, Gurjeet Bhangal, Robert J Unwin, Charles D Pusey, Frederick W K Tam, Jacques Behmoaras
Journal of leukocyte biology  ·  22 Oct 2012  ·  pubmed:23089744
Genetic susceptibility to experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis in the Wistar Kyoto rat.
John Reynolds, Paul R Cook, Jacques Behmoaras, Jennifer Smith, Gurjeet Bhangal, …, Alan D Salama, David J Evans, Timothy J Aitman, H Terence Cook, Charles D Pusey
The American journal of pathology  ·  22 Mar 2012  ·  pubmed:22445570

2011

Role of novel rat-specific Fc receptor in macrophage activation associated with crescentic glomerulonephritis.
Theresa H Page, Zelpha D’Souza, Satoshi Nakanishi, Tadao Serikawa, Charles D Pusey, Timothy J Aitman, H Terence Cook, Jacques Behmoaras
The Journal of biological chemistry  ·  19 Dec 2011  ·  pubmed:22184119
AP-1 transcription factor JunD confers protection from accelerated nephrotoxic nephritis and control podocyte-specific Vegfa expression.
H Terence Cook, Ruth Tarzi, Zelpha D’Souza, Gaelle Laurent, Wei-Chou Lin, Timothy J Aitman, Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou, Jacques Behmoaras
The American journal of pathology  ·  03 May 2011  ·  pubmed:21640331

2010

Characterization of the macrophage transcriptome in glomerulonephritis-susceptible and -resistant rat strains.
K Maratou, J Behmoaras, C Fewings, P Srivastava, Z D’Souza, J Smith, L Game, T Cook, T Aitman
Genes and immunity  ·  23 Dec 2010  ·  pubmed:21179115
Genetic loci modulate macrophage activity and glomerular damage in experimental glomerulonephritis.
Jacques Behmoaras, Jennifer Smith, Zelpha D’Souza, Gurjeet Bhangal, Ratana Chawanasuntoropoj, Frederick W K Tam, Charles D Pusey, Timothy J Aitman, H Terence Cook
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN  ·  20 May 2010  ·  pubmed:20488952
The genome sequence of the spontaneously hypertensive rat: Analysis and functional significance.
Santosh S Atanur, Inanç Birol, Victor Guryev, Martin Hirst, Oliver Hummel, …, Michal Pravenec, Norbert Hubner, Steven J M Jones, Ewan Birney, Timothy J Aitman
Genome research  ·  29 Apr 2010  ·  pubmed:20430781
Genetic mapping and positional cloning.
Timothy J Aitman, Enrico Petretto, Jacques Behmoaras
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)  ·  01 Jan 2010  ·  pubmed:20013223

2009

Kallikreins: unravelling the genetics of autoimmune glomerulonephritis.
Jacques Behmoaras, H Terence Cook, Charles D Pusey
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association  ·  07 Aug 2009  ·  pubmed:19666659

2008

Differential expression of lysyl oxidases LOXL1 and LOX during growth and aging suggests specific roles in elastin and collagen fiber remodeling in rat aorta.
Jacques Behmoaras, Séverin Slove, Sophie Seve, Roger Vranckx, Pascal Sommer, Marie-Paule Jacob
Rejuvenation research  ·  01 Oct 2008  ·  pubmed:18803461
Jund is a determinant of macrophage activation and is associated with glomerulonephritis susceptibility.
Jacques Behmoaras, Gurjeet Bhangal, Jennifer Smith, Kylie McDonald, Brenda Mutch, …, Alan Salama, Brian M Foxwell, Charles D Pusey, H Terence Cook, Timothy J Aitman
Nature genetics  ·  01 May 2008  ·  pubmed:18443593

2007

Genes expressed by both mesangial cells and bone marrow-derived cells underlie genetic susceptibility to crescentic glomerulonephritis in the rat.
Jennifer Smith, Ping-Chin Lai, Jacques Behmoaras, Candice Roufosse, Gurjeet Bhangal, John P McDaid, Timothy Aitman, Frederick W K Tam, Charles D Pusey, H Terence Cook
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN  ·  02 May 2007  ·  pubmed:17475818
Quantitative genetic basis of arterial phenotypes in the Brown Norway rat.
Lalitha Kota, Mary Osborne-Pellegrin, Herbert Schulz, Jacques Behmoaras, Michèle Coutard, Maolian Gong, Norbert Hübner
Physiological genomics  ·  13 Mar 2007  ·  pubmed:17356016

2005

Chromosomal mapping of quantitative trait loci controlling elastin content in rat aorta.
Dominique Gauguier, Jacques Behmoaras, Karène Argoud, Steven P Wilder, Christelle Pradines, Marie Thérèse Bihoreau, Mary Osborne-Pellegrin, Marie Paule Jacob
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)  ·  24 Jan 2005  ·  pubmed:15668357

2004

Characteristics of the aortic elastic network and related phenotypes in seven inbred rat strains.
Jacques Behmoaras, Mary Osborne-Pellegrin, Dominique Gauguier, Marie-Paule Jacob
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology  ·  07 Oct 2004  ·  pubmed:15471977