Recent Faculty Publications
Our research has been published in a variety of national and international peer-reviewed journals.
- Timilsina U, Stavrou S. (2023) SERINC5: One antiviral factor to bind them all. PLoS pathogens (Jan), 19(1): e1011076.
- Sortino K, Tylec BL, Chen R, Sun Y, Read LK. (2022) Conserved and transcript-specific functions of the RESC factors, RESC13 and RESC14, in kinetoplastid RNA editing. RNA (New York, N.Y.) (Nov), 28(11): 1496-1508.
- Herring SE, Mao S, Bhalla M, Tchalla EYI, Kramer JM, Bou Ghanem EN. (2022) Mitochondrial ROS production by neutrophils is required for host antimicrobial function against Streptococcus pneumoniae and is controlled by A2B adenosine receptor signaling. PLoS pathogens (Nov), 18(11): e1010700.
- Brauer AL, Learman BS, Taddei SM, Deka N, Hunt BC, Armbruster CE. (2022) Preferential catabolism of l- vs d-serine by Proteus mirabilis contributes to pathogenesis and catheter-associated urinary tract infection. Molecular microbiology (Sep), 118(3): 125-144. doi:10.1111/mmi.14968
- Gopinathan Nair A, Rabas N, Lejon S, Homiski C, Osborne MJ, Cyr N, Sverzhinsky A, Melendy T, Pascal JM, Laue ED, Borden KLB, Omichinski JG, Verreault A. (2022) Unorthodox PCNA Binding by Chromatin Assembly Factor 1. International journal of molecular sciences (Sep), 23(19). doi:10.3390/ijms231911099
- Sharif M, Garrison P, Bush P, Bangs JD. (2022) Turnover of Variant Surface Glycoprotein in Trypanosoma brucei Is Not Altered in Response to Specific Silencing. mSphere (Aug), 7(4): e0012222. doi:10.1128/msphere.00122-22
- Sharif M, Bangs JD. (2022) Stage-Specific COPII-Mediated Cargo Selectivity in African Trypanosomes. mSphere (Aug), 7(4): e0018822. doi:10.1128/msphere.00188-22
- Timilsina U, Umthong S, Ivey EB, Waxman B, Stavrou S. (2022) SARS-CoV-2 ORF7a potently inhibits the antiviral effect of the host factor SERINC5. Nature communications (May), 13(1): 2935. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30609-9
- Martin JC, Sims JR, Gupta A, Hagoel TJ, Gao L, Lynch ML, Woloszynska A, Melendy T, Kane JF, Kuechle J, Ohm JE. (2022) CDC7 kinase (DDK) inhibition disrupts DNA replication leading to mitotic catastrophe in Ewing sarcoma. Cell death discovery (Feb), 8(1): 85. doi:10.1038/s41420-022-00877-x
- Kalem, M.C., Humby, M.S., Wohlfert, E.A., Jacobs, A., Panepinto, J.C. (2022) Cryptococcus neoformans Coinfection Dampens the TNF-alpha Response in HIV-1-Infected Human THP-1 Macrophages. mSphere (Jan), 2(6): e00213-21. doi:10.1128/mSphere.00213-21
- Kalem MC, Panepinto JC. (2022) Long Non-Coding RNAs in Cryptococcus neoformans: Insights Into Fungal Pathogenesis. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology (Jan), 12: 858317. doi:10.3389/fcimb.2022.858317
- Simmons SR, Tchalla EYI, Bhalla M, Bou Ghanem EN. (2022) The Age-Driven Decline in Neutrophil Function Contributes to the Reduced Efficacy of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Old Hosts. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology (Jan), 12: 849224. doi:10.3389/fcimb.2022.849224
- Vidal JE, Bou Ghanem EN, Wu X, Wu K, Bai G, Hammerschmidt S. (2022) Letter to the Editor. Editorial: Transmission, colonization, and molecular pathogenesis of pneumococcus. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology (Jan), 12: 1028047. doi:10.3389/fcimb.2022.1028047
- Dey-Rao R, Smith GR, Timilsina U, Falls Z, Samudrala R, Stavrou S, Melendy T. (2021) A fluorescence-based, gain-of-signal, live cell system to evaluate SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibition. Antiviral Research (Dec), 195 doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2021.105183
- Warunek J, Jin RM, Blair SJ, Garis M, Marzullo B, Wohlfert EA. (2021) Tbet Expression by Regulatory T Cells Is Needed to Protect against Th1-Mediated Immunopathology during Toxoplasma Infection in Mice. ImmunoHorizons (Dec), 5(12): 931-943.
- Dey-Rao R, Smith GR, Timilsina U, Falls Z, Samudrala R, Stavrou S, Melendy T. (2021) A fluorescence-based, gain-of-signal, live cell system to evaluate SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibition. Antiviral research (Nov), 195: 105183. doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2021.105183
- Mishra A, Kaur JN, McSkimming DI, Hegedusová E, Dubey AP, Ciganda M, Paris Z, Read LK. (2021) Selective nuclear export of mRNAs is promoted by DRBD18 in Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular microbiology (Sep), 116(3): 827-840. doi:10.1111/mmi.14773
- Garrison P, Umaer K, Bangs JD. (2021) The role of glycosylphosphatidylinositol phospholipase C in membrane trafficking in Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular and biochemical parasitology (Sep), 245: 111409.
- Armbruster CE, Brauer AL, Humby MS, Shao J, Chakraborty S. (2021) Prospective assessment of catheter-associated bacteriuria clinical presentation, epidemiology, and colonization dynamics in nursing home residents. JCI insight (Sep).
- Nguyen NH, Glassman FY, Dingman RK, Shenoy GN, Wohlfert EA, Kay JG, Bankert RB, Balu-Iyer SV. (2021) Rational design of a nanoparticle platform for oral prophylactic immunotherapy to prevent immunogenicity of therapeutic proteins. Scientific reports (Sep), 11(1): 17853. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-97333-0
