Notable Recent Publications

These are some recent publications which give a flavour of the research from the Barclay lab. For a complete list of publications, please see below.


Jason S. Long, Efstathios S. Giotis, Olivier Moncorgé, Rebecca Frise, Bhakti Mistry, Joe James, Mireille Morisson, Munir Iqbal, Alain Vignal, Michael A. Skinner & Wendy S. Barclay

This paper identified a key factor that explained why the polymerases from avian influenza viruses are restricted in humans.  For more, please see the associated .

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Daniel H. GoldhillAartjan J. W. te VelthuisRobert A. FletcherPinky LangatMaria ZambonAngie Lackenby & Wendy S. Barclay

This paper showed how influenza could evolve resistance to favipiravir, an antiviral that may be used to treat influenza. The residue that mutated to give resistance was highly conserved suggesting that the mechanism of resistance may be applicable to other RNA viruses.


Hui Li*, Konrad C. Bradley*, Jason S. Long, Rebecca Frise, Jonathan W. Ashcroft, Lorian C. Hartgroves, Holly Shelton, Spyridon Makris, Cecilia Johansson, Bin Cao & Wendy S. Barclay

Why do avian influenza viruses like H5N1 cause such severe disease in humans? This paper demonstrated that H5N1 viruses replicate better than human viruses in myeloid cells from mice leading to a cytokine storm and more severe disease.


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  • Journal article
    Almond MH, Edwards MR, Barclay WS, Johnston SLet al., 2013,

    , THORAX, Vol: 68, Pages: 684-686, ISSN: 0040-6376
  • Journal article
    Shelton H, Roberts KL, Molesti E, Temperton N, Barclay WSet al., 2013,

    , JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY, Vol: 94, Pages: 1220-1229, ISSN: 0022-1317
  • Journal article
    Fouchier RAM, Garcia-Sastre A, Kawaoka Y, Barclay WS, Bouvier NM, Brown IH, Capua I, Chen H, Compans RW, Couch RB, Cox NJ, Doherty PC, Donis RO, Feldmann H, Guan Y, Katz JM, Kiselev OI, Klenk HD, Kobinger G, Liu J, Liu X, Lowen A, Mettenleiter TC, Osterhaus ADME, Palese P, Peiris JSM, Perez DR, Richt JA, Schultz-Cherry S, Steel J, Subbarao K, Swayne DE, Takimoto T, Tashiro M, Taubenberger JK, Thomas PG, Tripp RA, Tumpey TM, Webby RJ, Webster RGet al., 2013,

    , SCIENCE, Vol: 339, Pages: 520-521, ISSN: 0036-8075
  • Journal article
    Cauldwell AV, Moncorge O, Barclay WS, 2013,

    , JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, Vol: 87, Pages: 1278-1284, ISSN: 0022-538X
  • Journal article
    Moncorge O, Long JS, Cauldwell AV, Zhou H, Lycett SJ, Barclay WSet al., 2013,

    , JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, Vol: 87, Pages: 384-394, ISSN: 0022-538X
  • Journal article
    Ito K, Ashcroft J, Brookes D, Cocking R, Barclay WSet al., 2013,

    Inhibitory Effects Of Rv1088, A Narrow Spectrum Kinase Inhibitor, On Cytokine Production In Response To Pandemic Flu Infections Of Primary Respiratory Cell Cultures

    , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, Vol: 187, ISSN: 1073-449X
  • Journal article
    Sridhar S, Begom S, Bermingham A, Ziegler T, Roberts KL, Barclay WS, Openshaw P, Lalvani Aet al., 2012,

    , EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, Vol: 42, Pages: 2913-2924, ISSN: 0014-2980
  • Journal article
    Roberts KL, Shelton H, Stilwell P, Barclay WSet al., 2012,

    , PLOS ONE, Vol: 7, ISSN: 1932-6203
  • Journal article
    Shelton H, Smith M, Hartgroves L, Stilwell P, Roberts K, Johnson B, Barclay Wet al., 2012,

    , JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY, Vol: 93, Pages: 998-1006, ISSN: 0022-1317
  • Journal article
    Everitt AR, Clare S, Pertel T, John SP, Wash RS, Smith SE, Chin CR, Feeley EM, Sims JS, Adams DJ, Wise HM, Kane L, Goulding D, Digard P, Anttila V, Baillie JK, Walsh TS, Hume DA, Palotie A, Xue Y, Colonna V, Tyler-Smith C, Dunning J, Gordon SB, GenISIS Investigators, MOSAIC Investigators, Smyth RL, Openshaw PJ, Dougan G, Brass AL, Kellam Pet al., 2012,

    , Nature, Vol: 484, Pages: 519-523

    The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic showed the speed with which a novel respiratory virus can spread and the ability of a generally mild infection to induce severe morbidity and mortality in a subset of the population. Recent in vitro studies show that the interferon-inducible transmembrane (IFITM) protein family members potently restrict the replication of multiple pathogenic viruses1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Both the magnitude and breadth of the IFITM proteins’ in vitro effects suggest that they are critical for intrinsic resistance to such viruses, including influenza viruses. Using a knockout mouse model8, we now test this hypothesis directly and find that IFITM3 is essential for defending the host against influenza A virus in vivo. Mice lacking Ifitm3 display fulminant viral pneumonia when challenged with a normally low-pathogenicity influenza virus, mirroring the destruction inflicted by the highly pathogenic 1918 ‘Spanish’ influenza9, 10. Similar increased viral replication is seen in vitro, with protection rescued by the re-introduction of Ifitm3. To test the role of IFITM3 in human influenza virus infection, we assessed the IFITM3 alleles of individuals hospitalized with seasonal or pandemic influenza H1N1/09 viruses. We find that a statistically significant number of hospitalized subjects show enrichment for a minor IFITM3 allele (SNP rs12252-C) that alters a splice acceptor site, and functional assays show the minor CC genotype IFITM3 has reduced influenza virus restriction in vitro. Together these data reveal that the action of a single intrinsic immune effector, IFITM3, profoundly alters the course of influenza virus infection in mouse and humans.

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