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Dr Laura Leighton

Queensland Brain Institute
Westpac Scholar
l.leighton@uq.edu.au
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Publications

Journal Articles (16)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Marshall, Paul R., Davies, Joshua, Zhao, Qiongyi, Liau, Wei-Siang, Lee, Yujin, Basic, Dean, Periyakaruppiah, Ambika, Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Leighton, Laura J., Madugalle, Sachithrani U., Musgrove, Mason, Kielar, Marcin, Brueckner, Arie Maeve, Gong, Hao, Ren, Haobin, Walsh, Alexander, Kaczmarczyk, Lech, Jackson, Walker S., Chen, Alon, Spitale, Robert C. and Bredy, Timothy W. (2024). DNA G-quadruplex is a transcriptional control device that regulates memory. The Journal of Neuroscience, 44 (15) e0093232024, 1-20. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.0093-23.2024
Hoffmann, L. B., Li, B., Wei, W., Zhao, Q., Leighton, L. J., Bredy, T. W., Pang, T. Y. and Hannan, A. J. (2023). Chronically high stress hormone levels dysregulate sperm long noncoding RNAs and their embryonic microinjection alters development and affective behaviours. Molecular Psychiatry, 29 (3), 590-601. doi: 10.1038/s41380-023-02350-2
Liau, Wei-Siang, Zhao, Qiongyi, Bademosi, Adekunle, Gormal, Rachel S., Gong, Hao, Marshall, Paul R., Periyakaruppiah, Ambika, Madugalle, Sachithrani U., Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Leighton, Laura J., Ren, Haobin, Musgrove, Mason, Davies, Joshua, Rauch, Simone, He, Chuan, Dickinson, Bryan C., Li, Xiang, Wei, Wei, Meunier, Frédéric A., Fernández-Moya, Sandra M., Kiebler, Michael A., Srinivasan, Balakumar, Banerjee, Sourav, Clark, Michael, Spitale, Robert C. and Bredy, Timothy W. (2023). Fear extinction is regulated by the activity of long noncoding RNAs at the synapse. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 7616, 1-16. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43535-1
Madugalle, Sachithrani U., Liau, Wei-Siang, Zhao, Qiongyi, Li, Xiang, Gong, Hao, Marshall, Paul R., Periyakaruppiah, Ambika, Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Leighton, Laura J., Ren, Haobin, Musgrove, Mason R. B., Davies, Joshua W. A., Kim, Gwangmin, Rauch, Simone, He, Chuan, Dickinson, Bryan C., Fulopova, Barbora, Fletcher, Lee N., Williams, Stephen R., Spitale, Robert C. and Bredy, Timothy W. (2023). Synapse-enriched m6A-modified Malat1 interacts with the novel m6A reader, DPYSL2, and is required for fear-extinction memory. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43 (43), 7084-7100. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.0943-23.2023
Lau Zajaczkowski, Esmi, Zhao, Qiongyi, Liau, Wei-Siang, Gong, Hao, Madugalle, Sachithrani Umanda, Periyakaruppiah, Ambika, Leighton, Laura Jane, Musgrove, Mason, Ren, Haobin, Davies, Joshua, Marshall, Paul Robert and Bredy, Timothy William (2023). Localised Cdr1as activity is required for fear extinction memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 203 107777, 107777. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107777
Wei, Wei, Zhao, Qiongyi, Wang, Ziqi, Liau, Wei-Siang, Basic, Dean, Ren, Haobin, Marshall, Paul R., Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Leighton, Laura J., Madugalle, Sachithrani U., Musgrove, Mason, Periyakaruppiah, Ambika, Shi, Jichun, Zhang, Jianjian, Mattick, John S., Mercer, Timothy R., Spitale, Robert C., Li, Xiang and Bredy, Timothy W. (2022). ADRAM is an experience-dependent long noncoding RNA that drives fear extinction through a direct interaction with the chaperone protein 14-3-3. Cell Reports, 38 (12) 110546, 110546. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110546
Marshall, Paul R., Zhao, Qiongyi, Li, Xiang, Wei, Wei, Periyakaruppiah, Ambika, Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Leighton, Laura J., Madugalle, Sachithrani U., Basic, Dean, Wang, Ziqi, Yin, Jiayu, Liau, Wei-Siang, Gupte, Ankita, Walkley, Carl R. and Bredy, Timothy W. (2020). Publisher Correction: Dynamic regulation of Z-DNA in the mouse prefrontal cortex by the RNA-editing enzyme Adar1 is required for fear extinction. Nature Neuroscience, 23 (8), 1034-1034. doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-0669-8
Marshall, Paul R., Zhao, Qiongyi, Li, Xiang, Wei, Wei, Periyakaruppiah, Ambika, Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Leighton, Laura J., Madugalle, Sachithrani U., Basic, Dean, Wang, Ziqi, Yin, Jiayu, Liau, Wei-Siang, Gupte, Ankita, Walkley, Carl R. and Bredy, Timothy W. (2020). Dynamic regulation of Z-DNA in the mouse prefrontal cortex by the RNA-editing enzyme Adar1 is required for fear extinction. Nature Neuroscience, 23 (6), 718-729. doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-0627-5
Leighton, Laura J., Wei, Wei, Marshall, Paul R., Ratnu, Vikram Singh, Li, Xiang, Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Spadaro, Paola A., Khandelwal, Nitin, Kumar, Arvind and Bredy, Timothy W. (2019). Disrupting the hippocampal Piwi pathway enhances contextual fear memory in mice. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 161, 202-209. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2019.04.002
Li, Xiang, Zhao, Qiongyi, Wei, Wei, Lin, Quan, Magnan, Christophe, Emami, Michael R., Wearick-Silva, Luis E., Viola, Thiago W., Marshall, Paul R., Yin, Jiayu, Madugalle, Sachithrani U., Wang, Ziqi, Nainar, Sarah, Vågbø, Cathrine Broberg, Leighton, Laura J., Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Ke, Ke, Grassi-Oliveira, Rodrigo, Bjørås, Magnar, Baldi, Pierre F., Spitale, Robert C. and Bredy, Timothy W. (2019). The DNA modification N6-methyl-2’-deoxyadenosine (m6dA) drives activity-induced gene expression and is required for fear extinction. Nature Neuroscience, 22 (4), 534-544. doi: 10.1038/s41593-019-0339-x
Li, Xiang, Marshall, Paul R., Leighton, Laura J., Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Wang, Ziqi, Madugalle, Sachithrani U., Yin, Jiayu, Bredy, Timothy W. and Wei, Wei (2019). The DNA repair-associated protein gadd45γ regulates the temporal coding of immediate early gene expression within the prelimbic prefrontal cortex and is required for the consolidation of associative fear memory. The Journal of Neuroscience, 39 (6), 970-983. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2024-18.2018
Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Zhao, Qiong-Yi, Zhang, Zong Hong, Li, Xiang, Wei, Wei, Marshall, Paul R., Leighton, Laura J., Nainar, Sarah, Feng, Chao, Spitale, Robert C. and Bredy, Timothy W. (2018). Bioorthogonal metabolic labeling of nascent RNA in neurons improves the sensitivity of transcriptome-wide profiling. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 9 (7), 1858-1865. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00197
Leighton, Laura J. and Bredy, Timothy W. (2018). Functional interplay between small non-coding RNAs and RNA modification in the brain. Non-Coding RNA, 4 (2) 15, 15. doi: 10.3390/ncrna4020015
Leighton, Laura J., Zhao, Qiongyi, Li, Xiang, Dai, Chuanyang, Marshall, Paul R., Liu, Sha, Wang, Yi, Zajaczkowski, Esmi L., Khandelwal, Nitin, Kumar, Arvind, Bredy, Timothy W. and Wei, Wei (2017). A Functional Role for the Epigenetic Regulator ING1 in Activity-induced Gene Expression in Primary Cortical Neurons. Neuroscience, 369, 248-260. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.11.018
Leighton, L. J., Ke, K., Zajaczkowski, E. L., Edmunds, J., Spitale, R. C. and Bredy, T. W. (2017). Experience-dependent neural plasticity, learning, and memory in the era of epitranscriptomics. Genes, Brain, and Behavior, 17 (3) e12426, e12426. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12426
Widagdo, Jocelyn, Zhao, Qiong-Yi, Kempen, Marie-Jeanne, Tan, Men Chee, Ratnu, Vikram S., Wei, Wei, Leighton, Laura, Spadaro, Paola A., Edson, Janette, Anggono, Victor and Bredy, Timothy W. (2016). Experience-dependent accumulation of N6-methyladenosine in the prefrontal cortex is associated with memory processes in mice. Journal of Neuroscience, 36 (25), 6771-6777. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4053-15.2016

Thesis

Leighton, Laura Jane (2021). Characterising novel activity-dependent small noncoding RNAs and their role in fear-related learning and memory. PhD Thesis, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/4e90af3
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