Recent Faculty Publications
Our research has been published in a variety of national and international peer-reviewed journals.
- Gaston JR, Andersen MJ, Johnson AO, Bair KL, Sullivan CM, Guterman LB, White AN, Brauer AL, Learman BS, Flores-Mireles AL, Armbruster CE. Enterococcus faecalis Polymicrobial Interactions Facilitate Biofilm Formation, Antibiotic Recalcitrance, and Persistent Colonization of the Catheterized Urinary Tract. Pathogens. 2020; 9(10)
- Bair KL, Shafirstein G, Campagnari AA. In vitro Photodynamic Therapy of Polymicrobial Biofilms Commonly Associated With Otitis Media. Front Microbiol. 2020; 11
- Timilsina U, Umthong S, Lynch B, Stablewski A, Stavrou S. SERINC5 Potently Restricts Retrovirus Infection In Vivo. mBio. 2020; 11(4)
- Umaer K, Bangs JD. Late ESCRT Machinery Mediates The Recycling And Rescue of Invariant Surface Glycoprotein 65 in Trypanosoma brucei. Cell Microbiol. 2020
- Tchalla EYI, Bhalla M, Wohlfert EA, Bou Ghanem EN. Neutrophils are required during immunization with the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for protective antibody responses and host defense against infection. J Infect Dis. 2020
- Brauer AL, Learman BS, Armbruster CE. Ynt is the primary nickel import system used by Proteus mirabilis and specifically contributes to fitness by supplying nickel for urease activity. Mol Microbiol. 2020
- Siwapornchai N, Lee JN, Tchalla EYI, Bhalla M, Yeoh JH, Roggensack SE, Leong JM, Bou Ghanem EN. Extracellular adenosine enhances the ability of PMNs to kill Streptococcus pneumoniae by inhibiting IL-10 production. J Leukoc Biol. 2020
- Koeller CM, Tiengwe C, Schwartz KJ, Bangs JD. Steric constraints control processing of glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors in Trypanosoma brucei. J Biol Chem. 2020; 295(8)
- Bair KL, Campagnari AA. Moraxella catarrhalis Promotes Stable Polymicrobial Biofilms With the Major Otopathogens. Front Microbiol. 2020; 10
- Johnson AO, Forsyth V, Smith SN, Learman BS, Brauer AL, White AN, Zhao L, Wu W, Mobley HLT, Armbruster CE. Transposon Insertion Site Sequencing of Providencia stuartii: Essential Genes, Fitness Factors for Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection, and the Impact of Polymicrobial Infection on Fitness Requirements. mSphere. 2020; 5(3)
- Luke-Marshall NR, Hansen LA, Shafirstein G, Campagnari AA. Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy with Chlorin e6 Is Bactericidal against Biofilms of the Primary Human Otopathogens. mSphere. 2020; 5(4)
- Hashimoto H, Kafková L, Raczkowski A, Jordan KD, Read LK, Debler EW. Structural Basis of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase Activation by a Catalytically Dead Homolog (Prozyme). J Mol Biol. 2020; 432(2)
- Learman BS, Brauer AL, Eaton KA, Armbruster CE. A Rare Opportunist, Morganella morganii, Decreases Severity of Polymicrobial Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection. Infect Immun. 2019; 88(1)
- Bhalla M, Hui Yeoh J, Lamneck C, Herring SE, Tchalla EYI, Heinzinger LR, Leong JM, Bou Ghanem EN. A1 adenosine receptor signaling reduces Streptococcus pneumoniae adherence to pulmonary epithelial cells by targeting expression of platelet-activating factor receptor. Cell Microbiol. 2019
- Leipheimer J, Bloom ALM, Campomizzi CS, Salei Y, Panepinto JC. Translational Regulation Promotes Oxidative Stress Resistance in the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. mBio. 2019; 10(6)
- Bloom ALM, Jin RM, Leipheimer J, Bard JE, Yergeau D, Wohlfert EA, Panepinto JC. Thermotolerance in the pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is linked to antigen masking via mRNA decay-dependent reprogramming. Nat Commun. 2019; 10(1)
- Leipheimer J, Bloom ALM, Panepinto JC. Protein Kinases at the Intersection of Translation and Virulence. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2019; 9
- Armbruster CE, Forsyth VS, Johnson AO, Smith SN, White AN, Brauer AL, Learman BS, Zhao L, Wu W, Anderson MT, Bachman MA, Mobley HLT. Twin arginine translocation, ammonia incorporation, and polyamine biosynthesis are crucial for Proteus mirabilis fitness during bloodstream infection. PLoS Pathog. 2019; 15(4)
- Lis A, Wiley M, Vaughan J, Gray PC, Blader IJ. The Activin Receptor, Activin-Like Kinase 4, Mediates Toxoplasma Gondii Activation of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2019; 9
- Brauer AL White AN Learman BS Johnson AO Armbruster CE. d-Serine Degradation by Proteus mirabilis Contributes to Fitness during Single-Species and Polymicrobial Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection.. mSphere. 2019; 4(1)
