Recent Faculty Publications
Our research has been published in a variety of national and international peer-reviewed journals.
- Bhalla M, Simmons SR, Tchalla EYI, Bou Ghanem EN. Testing Anti-Pneumococcal Antibody Function Using Bacteria and Primary Neutrophils. Methods Mol Biol. 2021; 2183
- Law EK, Levin-Klein R, Jarvis MC, Kim H, Argyris PP, Carpenter MA, Starrett GJ, Temiz NA, Larson LK, Durfee C, Burns MB, Vogel RI, Stavrou S, Aguilera AN, Wagner S, Largaespada DA, Starr TK, Ross SR, Harris RS. APOBEC3A catalyzes mutation and drives carcinogenesis in vivo. J Exp Med. 2020; 217(12)
- 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)
- Bhalla M, Simmons SR, Abamonte A, Herring SE, Roggensack SE, Bou Ghanem EN. Extracellular adenosine signaling reverses the age-driven decline in the ability of neutrophils to kill Streptococcus pneumoniae. Aging Cell. 2020; 19(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
- Nayerhoda R, Park D, Jones C, Bou Ghanem EN, Pfeifer BA. Extended Polysaccharide Analysis within the Liposomal Encapsulation of Polysaccharides System. Materials (Basel). 2020; 13(15)
- 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)
- Adams W, Bhowmick R, Bou Ghanem EN, Wade K, Shchepetov M, Weiser JN, McCormick BA, Tweten RK, Leong JM. Pneumolysin Induces 12-Lipoxygenase-Dependent Neutrophil Migration during Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection. J Immunol. 2020; 204(1)
- 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)
