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2012

Cellular Adaptation to Anthrax Lethal Toxin-Induced Mitochondrial Cholesterol Enrichment, Hyperpolarization, and ROS Generation through Down-regulating MLN64 in Macrophages. Ha SD, Park S, Han CY, Nguyen ML, Kim SO. Mol Cell Biol. 2012 Oct 1. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23028046

Conserved region 3 of human papillomavirus 16 E7 contributes to deregulation of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor. Biljana Todorovic, Katherine Hung, Paola Massimi, Nikita Avvakumov, Frederick A. Dick, Gary S. Shaw, Lawrence Banks and Joe S. Mymryk. Published ahead of print 26 September 2012, doi: 10.1128/JVI.01637-12

Frequent Mutations in TP53 and CDKN2A Found by Next-Generation Sequencing of Head and Neck Cancer Cell Lines. Nichols AC, Yoo J, Palma DA, Fung K, Franklin JH, Koropatnick J, Mymryk JS, Batada NN, Barrett JW. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012 Aug 1;138(8):732-9.

Robust induction of the staphylococcal proteolytic cascade by unsaturated antimicrobial fatty acids in the USA300 strain of community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.  Arsic, B., Y. Zhu, D.E. Heinrichs and M.J. McGavin. 2012. PLOS One.  Epub Sept 24.

The multi-protein heme shuttle pathway in Staphylococcus aureus: Isd cog-wheel kinetics. Tiedemann, M.T., D.E. Heinrichs and M.J. Stillman. 2012. J. Am. Chem. Soc.  Epub Sept 17.

The staphylococci and staphylococcal pathogenesis. McGavin, M.J. and D.E. Heinrichs. 2012. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 2: 66

Peyer’s patch M cells derived from Lgr5+ stem cells require Spi-B and are induced by RankL in cultured ‘miniguts’. De Lau, W., Kujala, P., Schneeberger, K., Middendorp, S., Li, V. S. W., Barker, N., Martens, A., Hofhuis, F., DeKoter, R. P., Peter, P. J., Nieuwenhuis, E., Clevers, H. Molecular and Cellular Biology 18:3639-47, 2012.

Regulation of B cell linker protein transcription by PU.1 and Spi-B in murine B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Xu, L. S., Sokalski, K. M., Hotke, K., Christie, D. A., Zarnett, O., Piskorz, J., Thillainadesan, G., Torchia, J., and DeKoter, R. P. 2012. Journal of Immunology, in press.

Complete 6-deoxy-D-altro-heptose biosynthesis pathway from Campylobacter jejuni: more complex than anticipated. McCallum M, Shaw SD, Shaw GS, Creuzenet C. J Biol Chem. 2012 Jul 11. [Epub ahead of print]

Cellular GCN5 is a Novel Regulator of Human Aden October 3, 2012 Ablack, Michael Cohen, Gobi Thillainadesan, Gregory J. Fonseca, Peter Pelka, Joe Torchia, and Joe S. Mymryk. J. Virology, May 2012

Hattlmann, C.J., Kelly, J.N. and Barr, S.D. TRIM22: A diverse and dynamic antiviral protein. Molecular Biology International. Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 153415.

Noel G., DeKoter R., Wang Q., Hexley P., Ogle CK. Optimization and application of a flow cytometric PU.1 assay for murine immune cells. Journal of Immunological Methods 2012 May 11 [Epub ahead of print].

Kulkarni R, Villanueva AI, Elawadli I, Jayanth P, Read LR, Haeryfar SM, Sharif S: Costimulatory activation of murine invariant natural killer T cells by Toll-like receptor agonists. Cellular Immunology 2012 (in press)

Sheldon JR and Heinrichs DE (2012) The iron-regulated staphylococcal lipoproteins. Front. Cell. Inf. Microbio. 2:41. Published online: 04 April 2012.

Susan F. Koval, Sandra H. Hynes, Ronald S. Flannagan, Zohar Pasternak, Yaacov Davidov, and Edouard Jurkevitch Bdellovibrio exovorus sp. nov., a novel predator of Caulobacter crescentus Int J Syst Evol Microbiol ijs.0.039701-0; published ahead of print February 24, 2012, doi:10.1099/ijs.0.039701-0

G.J. Fonseca, G. Thillainadesan, A.F. Yousef, J.N. Ablack, K.L. Mossman, J. Torchia, J.S. Mymryk. Adenovirus Evasion of Interferon-Mediated Innate Immunity by Direct Antagonism of a Cellular Histone Posttranslational Modification.  Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 11, Issue 6, 597-606, 14 June 2012

TGF-β-Dependent Active Demethylation and Expression of the p15(ink4b) Tumor Suppressor Are Impaired by the ZNF217/CoREST Complex. Thillainadesan G, Chitilian JM, Isovic M, Ablack JN, Mymryk JS, Tini M, Torchia J. Mol Cell. 2012 May 2. [Epub ahead of print]

Ki-67 expression predicts radiotherapy failure in early glottic cancer. Nichols AC, Whelan F, Basmaji J, Dhaliwal S, Dowthwaite S, Chapeskie C, Read N, Palma DA, Fung K, Venkatesan V, Alex Hammond J, Franklin JH, Siddiqui I, Wehrli B, Kwan K, Koropatnick J, Mymryk JS, Barrett JW, Yoo J. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012 Apr 1;41(2):124-30.

Yousef AF,FonsecaGJ, Cohen MJ,MymrykJS. The C-terminal region of E1A: A molecular too for cellular cartography. Biochem Cell Biol. 2012 Jan 31. [Epub ahead of print]

Macklaim JM, Cohen CR, Donders G, Gloor GB, Hill JE, Parham GP, Ravel J, Spear G, van de Wijgert J, Reid G. Exploring a Road Map to Counter Misconceptions About the Cervicovaginal Microbiome and Disease. Reprod Sci. 2012 May 21.

Adhesion Forces and Coaggregation between Vaginal Staphylococci and Lactobacilli. Jessica A. Younes, Henny C. van der Mei, Edwin van den Heuvel, Henk J. Busscher, Gregor Reid. PLoS ONE.

Whaling, M., I. Luginaah, G. Reid, S. Hekmat, A. Thind, J. Mwanga, and J. Changalucha. 2011. Perceptions of probiotic yogurt for health and nutrition in the context of HIV/AIDS in Mwanza, Tanzania. J. Health Popul. Nutr. In press

Kiaii B, Fox S, Swinamer SA, Rayman R, Higgins J, Cleland A, Fernandes P, Macdonald J, Dobkowski WB, Stitt LW, Novick RJ, Singh B, Bureau Y, Summers K. The early inflammatory response in a mini-cardiopulmonary bypass system: a prospective randomized study. Innovations. 2012;7:23-32.

Summers KL and Bhagirath Singh.  Gut microbes and regulatory Th17 cells in Type 1 diabetes. Immunotherapy (2012) 4(4), 363–364.

Reduction of tumorigenicity by placental extracts. Marleau AM, McDonald G, Koropatnick J, Chen CS, Koos D. Anticancer Res. 2012 Apr;32(4):1153-61.

Xu SX and McCormick J (2012). Staphylococcal superantigens in colonization and disease. Front. Cell. Inf. Microbio. 2:52. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2012.00052

McGavin MJ, Arsic B and Nickerson NN (2012). Evolutionary blueprint for host- and niche-adaptation in Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex CC30. Front. Cell. Inf. Microbio. 2:48. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2012.00048

Non-genetic mechanisms communicating antibiotic resistance: rethinking strategies for antimicrobial drug design. El-Halfawy OM, Valvano MA. Expert Opin Drug Discov. 2012 Aug 4. [Epub ahead of print]

Burkholderia cenocepacia Type VI Secretion System Mediates Escape of Type II Secreted Proteins into the Cytoplasm of Infected Macrophages. Rosales-Reyes R, Aubert DF, Tolman JS, Amer AO, Valvano MA.
PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e41726. Epub 2012 Jul 25.

The Burkholderia cenocepacia sensor kinase hybrid AtsR is a global regulator modulating quorum-sensing signalling. Aubert DF, O'Grady EP, Hamad MA, Sokol PA, Valvano MA.
Environ Microbiol. 2012 Jul 3. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02828.x. [Epub ahead of print]

Characterization of the highly conserved VFMGD motif in a bacterial polyisoprenyl-phosphate N-acetylaminosugar-1-phosphate transferase. Furlong SE, Valvano MA. Protein Sci. 2012 Jul 18. doi: 10.1002/pro.2123. [Epub ahead of print]

High confidence prediction of essential genes in burkholderia cenocepacia. Juhas M, Stark M, von Mering C, Lumjiaktase P, Crook DW, Valvano MA, Eberl L. PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e40064.

Aminoarabinose is essential for lipopolysaccharide export and intrinsic antimicrobial peptide resistance in Burkholderia cenocepacia(†). Hamad MA, Di Lorenzo F, Molinaro A, Valvano MA. Mol Microbiol. 2012 Jun 28. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08154.x. [Epub ahead of print]

 

 

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