Antony Fearns

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 902 citations indexed

About

Antony Fearns is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Antony Fearns has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 902 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Epidemiology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Antony Fearns's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (8 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (3 papers). Antony Fearns is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (8 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (3 papers). Antony Fearns collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and France. Antony Fearns's co-authors include Maximiliano G. Gutiérrez, Clare M. Isacke, Claudio Bussi, Qiong Gao, Pierre Santucci, Angela Rodgers, Marjan Iravani, Christophe J. Queval, Thomas R. Lerner and Beren Aylan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Antony Fearns

18 papers receiving 897 citations

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Lysosomes drive the piecemeal removal of mitochondrial inner membrane

2024 57 citations Akriti Prashar, Claudio Bussi et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Antony Fearns United Kingdom	16	462	237	172	172	153	20	902
Anne‐Pascale Bouin France	13	507 1.1×	183 0.8×	182 1.1×	275 1.6×	104 0.7×	20	999
Mhairi Skinner Canada	10	551 1.2×	129 0.5×	119 0.7×	126 0.7×	160 1.0×	28	888
Cynthia J. TenEyck United States	14	594 1.3×	242 1.0×	130 0.8×	80 0.5×	205 1.3×	16	1.0k
Hans‐Hermann Wessels United States	17	1.2k 2.6×	95 0.4×	228 1.3×	252 1.5×	112 0.7×	21	1.6k
Cari A. Sagum United States	18	836 1.8×	103 0.4×	60 0.3×	145 0.8×	124 0.8×	29	1.1k
Andreas Maiser Germany	19	1.2k 2.6×	87 0.4×	392 2.3×	101 0.6×	117 0.8×	24	1.5k
Richard T. Timms United Kingdom	23	1.5k 3.3×	229 1.0×	267 1.6×	80 0.5×	242 1.6×	36	1.9k
M.T. Ehebauer United Kingdom	12	559 1.2×	144 0.6×	70 0.4×	161 0.9×	71 0.5×	16	786
Andrew P. VanDemark United States	23	1.7k 3.6×	151 0.6×	101 0.6×	102 0.6×	188 1.2×	42	2.0k
Catherine Déon France	10	726 1.6×	132 0.6×	180 1.0×	92 0.5×	87 0.6×	15	1.0k

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Goh, Kim Jee, et al.. (2026). Autologous human iPSC–derived alveolus-on-chip reveals early pathological events of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Science Advances. 12(1). eaea9874–eaea9874.

Chen, Di, Antony Fearns, & Maximiliano G. Gutiérrez. (2025). Mycobacterium tuberculosis phagosome Ca ²⁺ leakage triggers multimembrane ATG8/LC3 lipidation to restrict damage in human macrophages. Science Advances. 11(13). eadt3311–eadt3311. 4 indexed citations

Gray, Robert M., David M. Hunt, Mariana Silva dos Santos, et al.. (2025). Mycobacterium tuberculosis overcomes phosphate starvation by extensively remodelling its lipidome with phosphorus-free lipids. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11317–11317.

Prashar, Akriti, Claudio Bussi, Antony Fearns, et al.. (2024). Lysosomes drive the piecemeal removal of mitochondrial inner membrane. Nature. 632(8027). 1110–1117. 57 indexed citations breakdown →

Pellegrino, Enrica, Beren Aylan, Claudio Bussi, et al.. (2023). Peroxisomal ROS control cytosolic Mycobacterium tuberculosis replication in human macrophages. The Journal of Cell Biology. 222(12). 15 indexed citations

Bussi, Claudio, Agustín Mangiarotti, Beren Aylan, et al.. (2023). Stress granules plug and stabilize damaged endolysosomal membranes. Nature. 623(7989). 1062–1069. 70 indexed citations

Aylan, Beren, Elliott M. Bernard, Enrica Pellegrino, et al.. (2023). ATG7 and ATG14 restrict cytosolic and phagosomal Mycobacterium tuberculosis replication in human macrophages. Nature Microbiology. 8(5). 803–818. 39 indexed citations

Bussi, Claudio, Tiaan Heunis, Enrica Pellegrino, et al.. (2022). Lysosomal damage drives mitochondrial proteome remodelling and reprograms macrophage immunometabolism. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7338–7338. 46 indexed citations

Santucci, Pierre, Daniel J. Greenwood, Antony Fearns, et al.. (2021). Intracellular localisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis affects efficacy of the antibiotic pyrazinamide. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3816–3816. 49 indexed citations

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Queval, Christophe J., Antony Fearns, Laure Botella, et al.. (2021). Macrophage-specific responses to human- and animal-adapted tubercle bacilli reveal pathogen and host factors driving multinucleated cell formation. PLoS Pathogens. 17(3). e1009410–e1009410. 13 indexed citations

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Fearns, Antony, Daniel J. Greenwood, Angela Rodgers, Haibo Jiang, & Maximiliano G. Gutiérrez. (2020). Correlative light electron ion microscopy reveals in vivo localisation of bedaquiline in Mycobacterium tuberculosis–infected lungs. PLoS Biology. 18(12). e3000879–e3000879. 19 indexed citations

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Lerner, Thomas R., Christophe J. Queval, Rachel Lai, et al.. (2020). Mycobacterium tuberculosis cords within lymphatic endothelial cells to evade host immunity. JCI Insight. 5(10). 31 indexed citations

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Bernard, Elliott M., Antony Fearns, Claudio Bussi, et al.. (2020). M. tuberculosisinfection of human iPSDM reveals complex membrane dynamics during xenophagy evasion. Journal of Cell Science. 134(5). 40 indexed citations

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Härtlová, Anetta, Susanne Herbst, Julien Peltier, et al.. (2018). LRRK2 is a negative regulator of Mycobacterium tuberculosis phagosome maturation in macrophages. The EMBO Journal. 37(12). 126 indexed citations

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Lerner, Thomas R., Christophe J. Queval, Antony Fearns, et al.. (2018). Phthiocerol dimycocerosates promote access to the cytosol and intracellular burden of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in lymphatic endothelial cells. BMC Biology. 16(1). 1–1. 69 indexed citations

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Ashenden, Matthew, Antoinette van Weverwijk, Nirupa Murugaesu, et al.. (2017). An In Vivo Functional Screen Identifies JNK Signaling As a Modulator of Chemotherapeutic Response in Breast Cancer. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 16(9). 1967–1978. 18 indexed citations

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Bacci, Marina, Elisa Giannoni, Antony Fearns, et al.. (2016). miR-155 Drives Metabolic Reprogramming of ER+ Breast Cancer Cells Following Long-Term Estrogen Deprivation and Predicts Clinical Response to Aromatase Inhibitors. Cancer Research. 76(6). 1615–1626. 81 indexed citations

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Avgustinova, Alexandra, Marjan Iravani, David Robertson, et al.. (2016). Tumour cell-derived Wnt7a recruits and activates fibroblasts to promote tumour aggressiveness. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10305–10305. 126 indexed citations

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Andreucci, Elena, Paola Francica, Antony Fearns, et al.. (2016). Targeting the receptor tyrosine kinase RET in combination with aromatase inhibitors in ER positive breast cancer xenografts. Oncotarget. 7(49). 80543–80553. 24 indexed citations

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Murugaesu, Nirupa, Marjan Iravani, Antoinette van Weverwijk, et al.. (2014). An In Vivo Functional Screen Identifies ST6GalNAc2 Sialyltransferase as a Breast Cancer Metastasis Suppressor. Cancer Discovery. 4(3). 304–317. 75 indexed citations

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