• 

  Carbonyl Reductase 1 Plays a Significant Role in Converting Doxorubicin to Cardiotoxic Doxorubicinol in Mouse Liver, but the Majority of the Doxorubicinol-Forming Activity Remains Unidentified 

  Breysse, Daniel H.; Boone, Ryan M.; Long, Cameron M.; Merrill, Miranda E.; Schaupp, Christopher M.; White, Colin C.; Kavanagh, Terrance J.; Schmidt, Edward E.; Merrill, Gary F. (2020-03)

  Doxorubicin is a widely used cancer therapeutic, but its effectiveness is limited by cardiotoxic side effects. Evidence suggests cardiotoxicity is due not to doxorubicin, but rather its metabolite, doxorubicinol. Identification ...
• 

  Tissue Tropism in Streptococcal Infection: Wild-Type M1T1 Group AStreptococcusIs Efficiently Cleared by Neutrophils Using an NADPH Oxidase-Dependent Mechanism in the Lung but Not in the Skin 

  Lei, Benfang; Minor, Dylan; Feng, Wenchao; Jerome, Maria; Quinn, Mark T.; Jutila, Mark A.; Liu, Mengyao (2019-09)

  Group A Streptococcus (GAS) commonly causes pharyngitis and skin infections. Little is known why streptococcal pharyngitis usually does not lead to pneumonia and why the skin is a favorite niche for GAS. To partially address ...
• 

  Phylogenomic analysis of novel Diaforarchaea is consistent with sulfite but not sulfate reduction in volcanic environments on early Earth 

  Colman, Daniel R.; Lindsay, Melody R.; Amenabar, Maximiliano J.; Fernandes-Martins, Maria C.; Roden, Eric R.; Boyd, Eric S. (2020-02)

  The origin(s) of dissimilatory sulfate and/or (bi)sulfite reducing organisms (SRO) remains enigmatic despite their importance in global carbon and sulfur cycling since at least 3.4 Ga. Here, we describe novel, deep-branching ...
• 

  Distal spinal nerve development and divergence of avian groups 

  Rashid, Dana J.; Bradley, Roger S.; Bailleul, Alida; Surya, Kevin; Woodward, Holly; Wu, Ping; Wu, Yun-Hsin; Menke, Douglas; Minchey, Sergio; Parrott, Ben; Bock, Samantha; Merzdorf, Christa; Narotzky, Emma; Burke, Nathan; Horner, John R.; Chapman, Susan (2020-04)

  The avian transition from long to short, distally fused tails during the Mesozoic ushered in the Pygostylian group, which includes modern birds. The avian tail embodies a bipartite anatomy, with the proximal separate caudal ...
• 

  Contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and cultural values amidst climate change 

  Smith, Erin; Ahmed, Selena; Running Crane, MaryAnn; Eggers, Margaret J.; Pierre, Mike; Flagg, Kenneth A.; Byker Shanks, Carmen (2019-11)

  Wild foods are recognized to contribute to diet and food security through enhancing the availability of local, diverse, and nonmarket food sources. We investigated the contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and ...
• 

  Janthinobacterium CG23_2: comparative genome analysis reveals enhanced environmental sensing and transcriptional regulation for adaptation to life in an Antarctic supraglacial stream 

  Dieser, Markus; Smith, Heidi J.; Ramaraj, Thiruvarangan; Foreman, Christine M. (2019-10)

  As many bacteria detected in Antarctic environments are neither true psychrophiles nor endemic species, their proliferation in spite of environmental extremes gives rise to genome adaptations. Janthinobacterium sp. CG23_2 ...
• 

  DropSOAC: Stabilizing Microfluidic Drops for Time-Lapse Quantification of Single-Cell Bacterial Physiology 

  Pratt, Shawna L.; Zath, Geoffrey K.; Williamson, Kelly S.; Franklin, Michael J.; Chang, Connie B. (2019-09)

  The physiological heterogeneity of cells within a microbial population imparts resilience to stresses such as antimicrobial treatments and nutrient limitation. This resilience is partially due to a subpopulation of cells ...
• 

  Long-Term Flow through Human Intestinal Organoids with the Gut Organoid Flow Chip (GOFlowChip) 

  Sidar, Barkan; Jenkins, Brittany R.; Huang, Sha; Spence, Jason R.; Walk, Seth T. (2019-09)

  Human intestinal organoids (HIOs) are millimeter-scale models of the human intestinal epithelium and hold tremendous potential for advancing fundamental and applied biomedical research. HIOs resemble the native gut in that ...
• 

  Efficacy and Safety of Immuno-Magnetically Sorted Smooth Muscle Progenitor Cells Derived from Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Restoring Urethral Sphincter Function 

  Li, Yanhui; Green, Morgaine; Wen, Yan; Wei, Yi; Wani, Prachi; Wang, Zhe; Reijo Pera, Renee A.; Chen, Bertha (2017-04)

  Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs)-based cell therapy holds promise for treating stress urinary incontinence (SUI). However, safety concerns, especially tumorgenic potential of residual undifferentiated cells ...
• 

  Prioritizing surveillance of Nipah virus in India 

  Plowright, Raina K.; Becker, Daniel J.; Crowley, Daniel E.; Washburne, Alex D.; Huang, Tao; Nameer, P. O.; Gurley, Emily S.; Han, Barbara A. (2019-06)

  The 2018 outbreak of Nipah virus in Kerala, India, highlights the need for global surveillance of henipaviruses in bats, which are the reservoir hosts for this and other viruses. Nipah virus, an emerging paramyxovirus in ...
• 

  Synthetic secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (LGM2605) inhibits Libby amphibole fiber-induced acute inflammation in mice 

  Christofidou-Solomidou, Melpo; Pietrofesa, Ralph A.; Park, Kyewon; Albelda, Steven M.; Serve, Kinta M.; Keil, Deborah E.; Pfau, Jean C. (2019-07)

  Background Exposure to the Libby amphibole (LA) asbestos-like fibers found in Libby, Montana, is associated with inflammatory responses in mice and humans, and an increased risk of developing mesothelioma, asbestosis, ...
• 

  Characterization of synovial fluid metabolomic phenotypes of cartilage morphological changes associated with osteoarthritis 

  Carlson, Alyssa K.; Rawle, Rachel A.; Wallace, Cameron W.; Brooks, Ellen G.; Adams, Erik; Greenwood, Mark C.; Olmer, Merissa; Lotz, Martin K.; Bothner, Brian; June, Ronald K. (2019-08)

  "Objective Osteoarthritis (OA) is a multifactorial disease with etiological heterogeneity. The objective of this study was to classify OA subgroups by generating metabolomic phenotypes from human synovial fluid. ...
• 

  Geobiological feedbacks, oxygen, and the evolution of nitrogenase 

  Mus, Florence; Colman, Daniel R.; Peters, John W.; Boyd, Eric S. (2019-02)

  Biological nitrogen fixation via the activity of nitrogenase is one of the most important biological innovations, allowing for an increase in global productivity that eventually permitted the emergence of higher forms of ...
• 

  TrxR1, Gsr, and oxidative stress determine hepatocellular carcinoma malignancy 

  McLoughlin, Michael R.; Orlicky, David J.; Prigge, Justin R.; Krishna, Pushya; Talago, Emily A.; Cavigli, Ian R.; Eriksson, Sofi; Miller, Colin G.; Kundert, Jean A.; Sayin, Volkan I.; Sabol, Rachel A.; Heinemann, Joshua; Brandenberger, Luke O.; Iverson, Sonya V.; Bothner, Brian; Papagiannakopoulos, Thales; Shearn, Colin T.; Arner, Elias S. J.; Schmidt, Edward E. (2019-06)

  Thioredoxin reductase-1 (TrxR1)-, glutathione reductase (Gsr)-, and Nrf2 transcription factor-driven antioxidant systems form an integrated network that combats potentially carcinogenic oxidative damage yet also protects ...
• 

  Physiological adaptations to serpentinization in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman 

  Fones, Elizabeth M.; Colman, Daniel R.; Kraus, Emily A.; Nothaft, Daniel B.; Poudel, Saroj; Rempfert, Kaitlin R.; Spear, John R.; Templeton, Alexis S.; Boyd, Eric S. (2019-03)

  Hydration of ultramafic rock during the geologic process of serpentinization can generate reduced substrates that microorganisms may use to fuel their carbon and energy metabolisms. However, serpentinizing environments ...
• 

  A Novel Gastric Spheroid Co-culture Model Reveals Chemokine-Dependent Recruitment of Human Dendritic Cells to the Gastric Epithelium 

  Sebrell, Thomas A.; Hashimi, Marziah; Sidar, Barkan; Wilkinson, Royce A.; Kirpotina, Liliya; Quinn, Mark T.; Malkoc, Zeynep; Taylor, Paul J.; Wilking, James N.; Bimczok, Diane (2019-03)

  Background & Aims Gastric dendritic cells (DCs) control the adaptive response to infection with Helicobacter pylori, a major risk factor for peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. We hypothesize that DC interactions ...
• 

  A review of the mechanisms of mineral-based metabolism in early Earth analog rock-hosted hydrothermal ecosystems 

  Amenabar, Maximiliano J.; Boyd, Eric S. (2019-02)

  Prior to the advent of oxygenic photosynthesis similar to 2.8-3.2Ga, life was dependent on chemical energy captured from oxidation-reduction reactions involving minerals or substrates generated through interaction of water ...
• 

  A novel multifunctional oligonucleotide microarray for Toxoplasma gondii 

  Bahl, Amit; Davis, Paul H.; Behnke, Michael S.; Dzierszinski, Florence; Jagalur, Manjunatha; Chen, Feng; Shanmugam, Dhanasekaran; White, Michael W.; Kulp, David; Roos, David S. (2010-10)

  Background Microarrays are invaluable tools for genome interrogation, SNP detection, and expression analysis, among other applications. Such broad capabilities would be of value to many pathogen research communities, ...
• 

  Epidemic Clostridioides difficile Ribotype 027 Lineages: Comparisons of Texas Versus Worldwide Strains 

  Endres, Bradley T.; Begum, Khurshida; Sun, Hua; Walk, Seth T.; Memariani, Ali; Lancaster, Chris; Gonzales-Luna, Anne J.; Dotson, Kierra M.; Bassères, Eugénie; Offiong, Charlene; Tupy, Shawn; Kuper, Kristi; Septimus, Edward; Arafat, Raouf; Alam, M. Jahangir; Zhao, Zhongming; Hurdle, Julian G.; Savidge, Tor C.; Garey, Kevin W. (2019-02)

  Background The epidemic Clostridioides difficile ribotype 027 strain resulted from the dissemination of 2 separate fluoroquinolone-resistant lineages: FQR1 and FQR2. Both lineages were reported to originate in North ...
• 

  Mixing of meteoric and geothermal fluids supports hyperdiverse chemosynthetic hydrothermal communities 

  Colman, Daniel R.; Lindsay, Melody R.; Boyd, Eric S. (2019-02)

  Little is known of how mixing of meteoric and geothermal fluids supports biodiversity in non-photosynthetic ecosystems. Here, we use metagenomic sequencing to investigate a chemosynthetic microbial community in a hot spring ...

View more