2020 Scientific Publications

Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center

Thomas L, Smith N, Saunders D, Zalles M, Gulej R, Lerner M, Fung KM, Carcaboso AM, Towner RA. OKlahoma Nitrone-007: novel treatment for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. J Transl Med 18:424, 2020 November, PMID: 33168005, PMCID: PMC7654606

Yabluchanskiy A, Nyul-Toth A, Csiszar A, Gulej R, Saunders D, Towner R, Turner M, Zhao Y, Abdelkari D, Rypma B, Tarantini S. Age-related alterations in the cerebrovasculature affect neurovascular coupling and BOLD fMRI responses: Insights from animal models of aging. Psychophysiology:e13718, 2020 November, PMID: 33141436

Smith N, Saunders D, Lerner M, Zalles M, Mamedova N, Cheong D, Mohammadi E, Yuan T, Luo Y, Hurst RE, Greenwood-Van Meerveld B, Towner RA. In vivo and ex vivo assessment of bladder hyper-permeability and using molecular targeted magnetic resonance imaging to detect claudin-2 in a mouse model for interstitial cystitis. PLoS One 15:e0239282, 2020 October, PMID: 33095778, PMCID: PMC7584247

Hudson LT, Jett SV, Kramer KE, Laurence DW, Ross CJ, Towner RA, Baumwart R, Lim KM, Mir A, Burkhart HM, Wu Y, Lee CH. A Pilot Study on Linking Tissue Mechanics with Load-Dependent Collagen Microstructures in Porcine Tricuspid Valve Leaflets. Bioengineering (Basel) 7, 2020 June, PMID: 32570939, PMCID: PMC7356733

Zalles M, Smith N, Saunders D, Saran T, Thomas L, Gulej R, Lerner M, Fung KM, Chung J, Hwang K, Jin J, Battiste J, Towner RA. Assessment of an scFv Antibody Fragment Against ELTD1 in a G55 Glioblastoma Xenograft Model. Transl Oncol 13:100737, 2020 March, PMID: 32208341, PMCID: PMC7090355

Piekarz KM, Bhaskaran S, Sataranatarajan K, Street K, Premkumar P, Saunders D, Zalles M, Gulej R, Khademi S, Laurin J, Peelor R, Miller BF, Towner R, Van Remmen H. Molecular changes associated with spinal cord aging. Geroscience, 2020 March, PMID: 32144690, PMCID: PMC7205981

Towner RA, Smith N, Saunders D, Lerner M, Greenwood-Van Meerveld B, Hurst RE. Assessing bladder hyper-permeability biomarkers in vivo using molecularly-targeted MRI. Am J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 10:57-65, 2020 February, PMID: 32211219, PMCID: PMC7076299

Aging & Metabolism Research Program

Qaisar R, Pharaoh G, Bhaskaran S, Xu H, Ranjit R, Bian J, Ahn B, Georgescu C, Wren JD, Van Remmen H. Restoration of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2 ATPase (SERCA) Activity Prevents Age-Related Muscle Atrophy and Weakness in Mice. Int J Mol Sci 22, 2020 December, PMID: 33375170, PMCID: PMC7792969

Figueiredo VC, D'Souza RF, Van Pelt DW, Lawrence MM, Zeng N, Markworth JF, Poppitt SD, Miller BF, Mitchell CJ, McCarthy JJ, Dupont-Versteegden EE, Cameron-Smith D. Ribosome biogenesis and degradation regulate translational capacity during muscle disuse and reloading. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle, 2020 November, PMID: 33231914, PMCID: PMC7890271

Chucair-Elliott AJ, Ocañas SR, Stanford DR, Ansere VA, Buettner KB, Porter H, Eliason NL, Reid JJ, Sharpe AL, Stout MB, Beckstead MJ, Miller BF, Richardson A, Freeman WM. Inducible cell-specific mouse models for paired epigenetic and transcriptomic studies of microglia and astroglia. Commun Biol 3:693, 2020 November, PMID: 33214681, PMCID: PMC7678837

Elayapillai S, Ramraj S, Benbrook DM, Bieniasz M, Wang L, Pathuri G, Isingizwe ZR, Kennedy AL, Zhao YD, Lightfoot S, Hunsucker LA, Gunderson CC. Potential and mechanism of mebendazole for treatment and maintenance of ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol, 2020 October, PMID: 33131904

Bergstrom K, Shan X, Casero D, Batushansky A, Lagishetty V, Jacobs JP, Hoover C, Kondo Y, Shao B, Gao L, Zandberg W, Noyovitz B, McDaniel JM, Gibson DL, Pakpour S, Kazemian N, McGee S, Houchen CW, Rao CV, Griffin TM, Sonnenburg JL, McEver RP, Braun J, Xia L. Proximal colon-derived O-glycosylated mucus encapsulates and modulates the microbiota. Science 370:467-472, 2020 October, PMID: 33093110

Brown JL, Lawrence MM, Ahn B, Kneis P, Piekarz KM, Qaisar R, Ranjit R, Bian J, Pharaoh G, Brown C, Peelor FF 3rd, Kinter MT, Miller BF, Richardson A, Van Remmen H. Cancer cachexia in a mouse model of oxidative stress. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle, 2020 September, PMID: 32918528, PMCID: PMC7749559

Bhaskaran S, Pollock N, C Macpherson P, Ahn B, Piekarz KM, Staunton CA, Brown JL, Qaisar R, Vasilaki A, Richardson A, McArdle A, Jackson MJ, Brooks SV, Van Remmen H. Neuron-specific deletion of CuZnSOD leads to an advanced sarcopenic phenotype in older mice. Aging Cell:e13225, 2020 September, PMID: 32886862, PMCID: PMC7576239

Miller BF, Thyfault JP. Exercise-Pharmacology Interactions: Metformin, Statins, and Healthspan. Physiology (Bethesda) 35:338-347, 2020 September, PMID: 32783612, PMCID: PMC7642846

Eyster CA, Matsuzaki S, Newhardt MF, Giorgione JR, Humphries KM. Diabetes induced decreases in PKA signaling in cardiomyocytes: The role of insulin. PLoS One 15:e0231806, 2020 August, PMID: 32817622, PMCID: PMC7444578

Pharaoh G, Brown JL, Sataranatarajan K, Kneis P, Bian J, Ranjit R, Hadad N, Georgescu C, Rabinovitch P, Ran Q, Wren JD, Freeman W, Kinter M, Richardson A, Van Remmen H. Targeting cPLA2 derived lipid hydroperoxides as a potential intervention for sarcopenia. Sci Rep 10:13968, 2020 August, PMID: 32811851, PMCID: PMC7435184

Wolff CA, Lawrence MM, Porter H, Zhang Q, Reid JJ, Laurin JL, Musci RV, Linden MA, Peelor FF 3rd, Wren JD, Creery JS, Cutler KJ, Carson RH, Price JC, Hamilton KL, Miller BF. Sex differences in changes of protein synthesis with rapamycin treatment are minimized when metformin is added to rapamycin. Geroscience, 2020 August, PMID: 32761290

Howell RD, Dominguez-Lopez S, Ocañas SR, Freeman WM, Beckstead MJ. Female mice are resilient to age-related decline of substantia nigra dopamine neuron firing parameters. Neurobiol Aging 95:195-204, 2020 August, PMID: 32846275, PMCID: PMC7606778

Hossen MN, Wang L, Chinthalapally HR, Robertson JD, Fung KM, Wilhelm S, Bieniasz M, Bhattacharya R, Mukherjee P. Switching the intracellular pathway and enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of small interfering RNA by auroliposome. Sci Adv 6:eaba5379, 2020 July, PMID: 32743073, PMCID: PMC7375829

Wang L, Wang L, Cybula M, Drumond-Bock AL, Moxley KM, Bieniasz M. Multi-kinase targeted therapy as a promising treatment strategy for ovarian tumors expressing sfRon receptor. Genes Cancer 11:106-121, 2020 July, PMID: 33488949, PMCID: PMC7805538

Chiao YA, Zhang H, Sweetwyne M, Whitson J, Ting YS, Basisty N, Pino LK, Quarles E, Nguyen NH, Campbell MD, Zhang T, Gaffrey MJ, Merrihew G, Wang L, Yue Y, Duan D, Granzier HL, Szeto HH, Qian WJ, Marcinek D, MacCoss MJ, Rabinovitch P. Late-life restoration of mitochondrial function reverses cardiac dysfunction in old mice. Elife 9, 2020 July, PMID: 32648542, PMCID: PMC7377906

Van Pelt DW, Vechetti IJ Jr, Lawrence MM, Van Pelt KL, Patel P, Miller BF, Butterfield TA, Dupont-Versteegden EE. Serum extracellular vesicle miR-203a-3p content is associated with skeletal muscle mass and protein turnover during disuse atrophy and regrowth. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 2020 July, PMID: 32639875, PMCID: PMC7500218

Lawrence MM, Van Pelt DW, Confides AL, Hettinger ZR, Hunt ER, Reid JJ, Laurin JL, Peelor FF 3rd, Butterfield TA, Miller BF, Dupont-Versteegden EE. Muscle from aged rats is resistant to mechanotherapy during atrophy and reloading. Geroscience, 2020 June, PMID: 32588343

Olson AL, Humphries K. Recent advances in understanding glucose transport and glucose disposal. F1000Res 9, 2020 June, PMID: 32595948, PMCID: PMC7315251

Zhao M, Kao CS, Arndt C, Tran DD, Cho WI, Maksimovic K, Chen XXL, Khan M, Zhu H, Qiao J, Peng K, Hong J, Xu J, Kim D, Kim JR, Lee J, van Bruggen R, Yoon WH, Park J. Knockdown of genes involved in axonal transport enhances the toxicity of human neuromuscular disease-linked MATR3 mutations in Drosophila. FEBS Lett, 2020 June, PMID: 32515490

Sataranatarajan K, Pharaoh G, Brown JL, Ranjit R, Piekarz KM, Street K, Wren JD, Georgescu C, Kinter C, Kinter M, Freeman WM, Richardson A, Van Remmen H. Molecular changes in transcription and metabolic pathways underlying muscle atrophy in the CuZnSOD null mouse model of sarcopenia. Geroscience, 2020 May, PMID: 32394347, PMCID: PMC7394980

Yap ZY, Strucinska K, Matsuzaki S, Lee S, Si Y, Humphries K, Tarnopolsky MA, Yoon WH. A biallelic pathogenic variant in the OGDH gene results in a neurological disorder with features of a mitochondrial disease. J Inherit Metab Dis, 2020 May, PMID: 32383294, PMCID: PMC7647956

Wolff CA, Reid JJ, Musci RV, Bruns DR, Linden MA, Konopka AR, Peelor FF, Miller BF, Hamilton KL. Corrigendum to: Differential Effects of Rapamycin and Metformin in Combination With Rapamycin on Mechanisms of Proteostasis in Cultured Skeletal Myotubes. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 75:892, 2020 April, PMID: 32302402, PMCID: PMC7164524

Griffin TM, Lories RJ. Cracking the code on the innate immune program in OA. Osteoarthritis Cartilage, 2020 April, PMID: 32278072

Groennebaek T, Nielsen J, Jespersen NR, Botker HE, de Paoli FV, Miller BF, Vissing K. Utilization of biomarkers as predictors of skeletal muscle mitochondrial content after physiological intervention and in clinical settings. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 2020 April, PMID: 32255679

Miller BF, Reid JJ, Price JC, Lin HL, Atherton PJ, Smith K. CORES OF REPRODUCIBILITY IN PHYSIOLOGY: THE USE OF DEUTERATED WATER FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS. J Appl Physiol (1985), 2020 March, PMID: 32213116

Sun C, Sakashita H, Kim J, Tang Z, Upchurch GM, Yao L, Berry WL, Griffin TM, Olson LE. Mosaic Mutant Analysis Identifies PDGFRα/PDGFRβ as Negative Regulators of Adipogenesis. Cell Stem Cell, 2020 March, PMID: 32229310, PMCID: PMC7214206

Lawrence MM, Van Pelt DW, Confides AL, Hunt ER, Hettinger ZR, Laurin JL, Reid JJ, Peelor FF 3rd, Butterfield TA, Dupont-Versteegden EE, Miller BF. Massage as a mechanotherapy promotes skeletal muscle protein and ribosomal turnover but does not mitigate muscle atrophy during disuse in adult rats. Acta Physiol (Oxf):e13460, 2020 March, PMID: 32125770, PMCID: PMC7293583

Griffin TM, Batushansky A, Hudson J, Lopes EBP. Correlation network analysis shows divergent effects of a long-term, high-fat diet and exercise on early stage osteoarthritis phenotypes in mice. J Sport Health Sci 9:119-131, 2020 March, PMID: 32099720, PMCID: PMC7031811

Ehrlicher SE, Stierwalt HD, Miller BF, Newsom SA, Robinson MM. Mitochondrial adaptations to exercise do not require Bcl2-mediated autophagy but occur with BNIP3/Parkin activation. FASEB J, 2020 February, PMID: 32030805

Quarles E, Basisty N, Chiao YA, Merrihew G, Gu H, Sweetwyne MT, Fredrickson J, Nguyen NH, Razumova M, Kooiker K, Moussavi-Harami F, Regnier M, Quarles C, MacCoss M, Rabinovitch PS. Rapamycin persistently improves cardiac function in aged, male and female mice, even following cessation of treatment. Aging Cell 19:e13086, 2020 February, PMID: 31823466, PMCID: PMC6996961

Cardoso AC, Lam NT, Savla JJ, Nakada Y, Pereira AHM, Elnwasany A, Menendez-Montes I, Ensley EL, Petric UB, Sharma G, Sherry AD, Malloy CR, Khemtong C, Kinter MT, Tan WLW, Anene-Nzelu CG, Foo RS, Nguyen NUN, Li S, Ahmed MS, Elhelaly WM, Abdisalaam S, Asaithamby A, Xing C, Kanchwala M, Vale G, Eckert KM, Mitsche MA, McDonald JG, Hill JA, Huang L, Shaul PW, Szweda LI, Sadek HA. Mitochondrial Substrate Utilization Regulates Cardiomyocyte Cell Cycle Progression. Nat Metab 2:167-178, 2020 February, PMID: 32617517, PMCID: PMC7331943

Gunning AC, Strucinska K, Muñoz Oreja M, Parrish A, Caswell R, Stals KL, Durigon R, Durlacher-Betzer K, Cunningham MH, Grochowski CM, Baptista J, Tysoe C, Baple E, Lahiri N, Homfray T, Scurr I, Armstrong C, Dean J, Fernandez Pelayo U, Jones AWE, Taylor RW, Misra VK, Yoon WH, Wright CF, Lupski JR, Spinazzola A, Harel T, Holt IJ, Ellard S. Recurrent De Novo NAHR Reciprocal Duplications in the ATAD3 Gene Cluster Cause a Neurogenetic Trait with Perturbed Cholesterol and Mitochondrial Metabolism. Am J Hum Genet, 2020 January, PMID: 32004445, PMCID: PMC7010973

Griffin TM, Friedman JE. How can parental obesity promote OA across generations? Nat Rev Rheumatol, 2020 January, PMID: 31949286

Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Research Program

Jørgensen TN, Kovats S, Lotter H. Editorial: Effects of Androgens on Immunity to Self and Foreign. Front Immunol 11:630066, 2020 December, PMID: 33408721, PMCID: PMC7779623

Bajana S, Thomas K, Georgescu C, Zhao Y, Wren JD, Kovats S, Sun XH. Augmenting E Protein Activity Impairs cDC2 Differentiation at the Pre-cDC Stage. Front Immunol 11:577718, 2020 December, PMID: 33391258, PMCID: PMC7775562

Tsaliki M, Koelsch KA, Chambers A, Talsania M, Scofield RH, Chakravarty EF. Ovarian antibodies among SLE women with premature menopause after cyclophosphamide. Int J Rheum Dis, 2020 December, PMID: 33300669

Garman L, Pelikan RC, Rasmussen A, Lareau CA, Savoy KA, Deshmukh US, Bagavant H, Levin AM, Daouk S, Drake WP, Montgomery CG. Single Cell Transcriptomics Implicate Novel Monocyte and T Cell Immune Dysregulation in Sarcoidosis. Front Immunol 11:567342, 2020 December, PMID: 33363531, PMCID: PMC7753017

Bagavant H, Deshmukh US. Protocols for Experimental Sjögren's Syndrome. Curr Protoc Immunol 131:e114, 2020 December, PMID: 33252847

Raj P, Song R, Zhu H, Riediger L, Jun DJ, Liang C, Arana C, Zhang B, Gao Y, Wakeland BE, Dozmorov I, Zhou J, Kelly JA, Lauwerys BR, Guthridge JM, Olsen NJ, Nath SK, Pasare C, van Oers N, Gilkeson G, Tsao BP, Gaffney PM, Gregersen PK, James JA, Zuo X, Karp DR, Li QZ, Wakeland EK. Deep sequencing reveals a DAP1 regulatory haplotype that potentiates autoimmunity in systemic lupus erythematosus. Genome Biol 21:281, 2020 November, PMID: 33213505, PMCID: PMC7677828

Izda V, Jeffries MA, Sawalha AH. COVID-19: A review of therapeutic strategies and vaccine candidates. Clin Immunol:108634, 2020 November, PMID: 33217545, PMCID: PMC7670907

Park EH, Ha YJ, Kang EH, Song YW, Scofield RH, Lee YJ. Baseline disease activity influences subsequent achievement of patient acceptable symptom state in Sjögren's syndrome. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2020 November, PMID: 33188390

Isenberg DA, Kao AH, Aydemir A, Merrill JT. Commentary: Systematic Review of Safety and Efficacy of Atacicept in Treating Immune-Mediated Disorders. Front Immunol 11:592639, 2020 November, PMID: 33262771, PMCID: PMC7687657

Legge A, Kirkland S, Rockwood K, Andreou P, Bae SC, Gordon C, Romero-Diaz J, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Wallace DJ, Bernatsky S, Clarke AE, Merrill JT, Ginzler EM, Fortin PR, Gladman DD, Urowitz MB, Bruce IN, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Alarcón GS, Petri M, Khamashta MA, Dooley MA, Ramsey-Goldman R, Manzi S, Zoma AA, Aranow C, Mackay M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim SS, Inanc M, van Vollenhoven RF, Jonsen A, Nived O, Ramos-Casals M, Kamen DL, Kalunian KC, Jacobsen S, Peschken CA, Askanase A, Hanly JG. Prediction of hospitalizations in systemic lupus erythematosus using the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Frailty Index (SLICC-FI). Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2020 November, PMID: 33152181

Mamyrova G, Kishi T, Shi M, Targoff IN, Huber AM, Curiel RV, Miller FW, Rider LG, Childhood Myositis Heterogeneity Collaborative Study Group.. Anti-MDA5 autoantibodies associated with juvenile dermatomyositis constitute a distinct phenotype in North America. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2020 November, PMID: 33140079

Farris AD, Guthridge JM. Overlapping B cell pathways in severe COVID-19 and lupus. Nat Immunol, 2020 November, PMID: 33139917

Tripathi A, Lin E, Xie W, Flaifel A, Steinharter JA, Stern Gatof EN, Bouchard G, Fleischer JH, Martinez-Chanza N, Gray C, Mantia C, Thompson L, Wei XX, Giannakis M, McGregor BA, Choueiri TK, Agarwal N, McDermott DF, Signoretti S, Harshman LC. Prognostic significance and immune correlates of CD73 expression in renal cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer 8, 2020 November, PMID: 33177176, PMCID: PMC7661372

Bagavant H, Michrowska A, Deshmukh US. The NZB/W F1 mouse model for Sjögren's syndrome: A historical perspective and lessons learned. Autoimmun Rev:102686, 2020 October, PMID: 33131691, PMCID: PMC7781068

Kishi T, Warren-Hicks W, Bayat N, Targoff IN, Huber AM, Ward MM, Rider LG, with the Childhood Myositis Heterogeneity Study Group .. Corticosteroid discontinuation, complete clinical response and remission in juvenile dermatomyositis. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2020 October, PMID: 33067611

Lee AS, Scofield RH, Hammitt KM, Gupta N, Thomas DE, Moua T, Ussavarungsi K, St Clair EW, Meehan R, Dunleavy K, Makara M, Carsons SE, Carteron NL. Consensus Guidelines for Evaluation and Management of Pulmonary Disease in Sjögren's. Chest, 2020 October, PMID: 33075377

Williams JN, Dall'Era M, Lim SS, Feldman CH, Arntsen KA, Blazer AD, Goode T, Merrill JT, Sheikh S, Stevens AM, Lipsky PE, Costenbader KH. Increasing Ancestral Diversity in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Clinical Studies. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2020 October, PMID: 33026693

Ugarte-Gil MF, Gamboa-Cardenas RV, Reátegui-Sokolova C, Pimentel-Quiroz VR, Zeña-Huancas P, Elera-Fitzcarrald C, Garcia-Hirsh S, Gil L, Pastor-Asurza CA, Rodriguez-Bellido Z, Merrill J, Askanase AD, Alarcon G, Perich-Campos RA. Evaluation of the LFA-REAL clinician-reported outcome (ClinRO) and patient-reported outcome (PRO): data from the Peruvian Almenara Lupus Cohort. Lupus Sci Med 7, 2020 October, PMID: 33046557, PMCID: PMC7552838

Rasmussen A, Scofield RH. Drs. Rasmussen and Scofield reply. J Rheumatol, 2020 September, PMID: 32934135

Rasmussen A, Scofield RH. Drs. Rasmussen and Scofield reply. J Rheumatol, 2020 September, PMID: 32934128

Ratliff ML, Garton J, James JA, Webb CF. ARID3a expression in human hematopoietic stem cells is associated with distinct gene patterns in aged individuals. Immun Ageing 17:24, 2020 September, PMID: 32905435, PMCID: PMC7469297

Bernatsky S, Ramsey-Goldman R, Urowitz MB, Hanly JG, Gordon C, Petri MA, Ginzler EM, Wallace DJ, Bae SC, Romero-Diaz J, Dooley MA, Peschken CA, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Manzi S, Jacobsen S, Lim SS, van Vollenhoven R, Nived O, Kamen DL, Aranow C, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Gladman DD, Fortin PR, Alarcón GS, Merrill JT, Kalunian KC, Ramos-Casals M, Steinsson K, Zoma A, Askanase A, Khamashta MA, Bruce I, Inanc M, Clarke AE. Cancer risk in a large inception SLE cohort: Effects of demographics, smoking, and medications. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2020 August, PMID: 32813314, PMCID: PMC7892637

Vollmer TL, Cohen JA, Alvarez E, Nair KV, Boster A, Katz J, Pardo G, Pei J, Raut P, Merchant S, MacLean E, Pradhan A, Moss B. Safety results of administering ocrelizumab per a shorter infusion protocol in patients with primary progressive and relapsing multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler Relat Disord 46:102454, 2020 August, PMID: 33045496

Igoe A, Merjanah S, Scofield RH. Sjögren Syndrome and Cancer. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 46:513-532, 2020 August, PMID: 32631601

Merrill JT, Erkan D, Winakur J, James JA. Emerging evidence of a COVID-19 thrombotic syndrome has treatment implications. Nat Rev Rheumatol, 2020 July, PMID: 32733003, PMCID: PMC7391481

Chitrakar A, Budda SA, Henderson JG, Axtell RC, Zenewicz LA. E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Von Hippel-Lindau Protein Promotes Th17 Differentiation. J Immunol, 2020 July, PMID: 32690659

Chakka S, Krain RL, Ahmed S, Concha JSS, Feng R, Merrill JT, Werth VP. Evaluating Change in Disease Activity Needed to Reflect Meaningful Improvement in Quality of Life for Clinical Trials in Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus. J Am Acad Dermatol, 2020 July, PMID: 32682879

Shah HB, Smith K, Scott Ii EJ, Larabee JL, James JA, Ballard JD, Lang ML. Human C. difficile toxin-specific memory B cell repertoires encode poorly-neutralizing antibodies. JCI Insight, 2020 July, PMID: 32663199, PMCID: PMC7455132

Popescu NI, Keshari RS, Cochran J, Coggeshall KM, Lupu F. C3 Opsonization of Anthrax Bacterium and Peptidoglycan Supports Recognition and Activation of Neutrophils. Microorganisms 8, 2020 July, PMID: 32668703, PMCID: PMC7409185

Joachims ML, Leehan KM, Dozmorov MG, Georgescu C, Pan Z, Lawrence C, Marlin MC, Macwana S, Rasmussen A, Radfar L, Lewis DM, Stone DU, Grundahl K, Scofield RH, Lessard CJ, Wren JD, Thompson LF, Guthridge JM, Sivils KL, Moore JS, Farris AD. Sjögren's Syndrome Minor Salivary Gland CD4 Memory T Cells Associate with Glandular Disease Features and have a Germinal Center T Follicular Helper Transcriptional Profile. J Clin Med 9, 2020 July, PMID: 32650575, PMCID: PMC7408878

Dunn CM, Velasco C, Rivas A, Andrews M, Garman C, Jacob PB, Jeffries MA. Identification of Cartilage Microbial DNA Signatures and Associations With Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis. Arthritis Rheumatol 72:1111-1122, 2020 July, PMID: 31961065, PMCID: PMC7336391

Papinska J, Bagavant H, Gmyrek GB, Deshmukh US. Pulmonary Involvement in a Mouse Model of Sjögren's Syndrome Induced by STING Activation. Int J Mol Sci 21, 2020 June, PMID: 32630417, PMCID: PMC7349948

Steingo B, Al Malik Y, Bass AD, Berkovich R, Carraro M, Fernández Ó, Ionete C, Massacesi L, Meuth SG, Mitsikostas DD, Pardo G, Simm RF, Traboulsee A, Choudhry Z, Daizadeh N, Compston DAS, CAMMS223, CAMMS03409, and TOPAZ Investigators.. Long-term efficacy and safety of alemtuzumab in patients with RRMS: 12-year follow-up of CAMMS223. J Neurol, 2020 June, PMID: 32583052, PMCID: PMC7578137

Guthridge CJ, Gross T, Quintero M, Kheir JM, Levin J, Bourn RL, Khan S, Peercy M, Saunkeah B, Guthridge JM, James JA. Expanded Autoantibody Profiles for Subsetting of Native American, African American, and European American Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. ACR Open Rheumatol, 2020 June, PMID: 32567819, PMCID: PMC7368137

Liu C, Yu S, Jin R, Long Y, Lu S, Song Y, Sun X, Sun XH, Zhang Y. Correlation of the levels of DNA-binding inhibitor Id3 and regulatory T cells with SLE disease severity. J Autoimmun:102498, 2020 June, PMID: 32536579

Urowitz MB, Gladman DD, Farewell V, Su J, Romero-Diaz J, Bae SC, Fortin PR, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Clarke AE, Bernatsky S, Gordon C, Hanly JG, Wallace DJ, Isenberg D, Rahman A, Merrill J, Ginzler E, Alarcón GS, Chatham WW, Petri M, Bruce IN, Khamashta M, Aranow C, Dooley M, Manzi S, Ramsey-Goldman R, Nived O, Jönsen A, Steinsson K, Zoma A, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim S, Kalunian KC, Ỉnanç M, van Vollenhoven R, Ramos-Casals M, Kamen DL, Jacobsen S, Peschken C, Askanase A, Stoll T. Accrual of atherosclerotic vascular events in a multicentre inception SLE cohort. Arthritis Rheumatol, 2020 June, PMID: 32515554

Hahn J, Leatherwood C, Malspeis S, Liu X, Lu B, Roberts AL, Sparks JA, Karlson EW, Feldman CH, Munroe ME, James JA, Kubzansky LD, Costenbader KH. Associations between daily alcohol consumption and systemic lupus erythematosus-related cytokines and chemokines among US female nurses without SLE. Lupus:961203320929427, 2020 June, PMID: 32507075, PMCID: PMC7497791

Agasing AM, Wu Q, Khatri B, Borisow N, Ruprecht K, Brandt AU, Gawde S, Kumar G, Quinn JL, Ko RM, Mao-Draayer Y, Lessard CJ, Paul F, Axtell RC. Transcriptomics and proteomics reveal a cooperation between interferon and T-helper 17 cells in neuromyelitis optica. Nat Commun 11:2856, 2020 June, PMID: 32503977, PMCID: PMC7275086

Slight-Webb S, Smith M, Bylinska A, Macwana S, Guthridge C, Lu R, Merrill JT, Chakravarty E, Arriens C, Munroe ME, Maecker HT, Utz PJ, Guthridge JM, James JA. Autoantibody-positive healthy individuals with lower lupus risk display a unique immune endotype. J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2020 May, PMID: 32446964, PMCID: PMC7680268

Petri M, Goldman DW, Alarcón GS, Gordon C, Merrill JT, Fortin PR, Bruce IN, Isenberg D, Wallace D, Nived O, Ramsey-Goldman R, Bae SC, Hanly JG, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Clarke AE, Aranow C, Manzi S, Urowitz M, Gladman DD, Kalunian K, Werth VP, Zoma A, Bernatsky S, Khamashta M, Jacobsen S, Buyon JP, Dooley MA, van Vollenhoven R, Ginzler E, Stoll T, Peschken C, Jorizzo JL, Callen JP, Lim S, Inanç M, Kamen DL, Rahman A, Steinsson K, Franks AG Jr, Magder LS. A Comparison of 2019 EULAR/ACR SLE Classification Criteria with Two Sets of Earlier SLE Classification Criteria. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2020 May, PMID: 32433832

Dumas EK, Demiraslan H, Ingram RJ, Sparks RM, Muns E, Zamora A, Larabee J, Garman L, Ballard JD, Boons GJ, James JA, Kayabas U, Doganay M, Farris AD. Toxin-neutralizing antibodies elicited by naturally acquired cutaneous anthrax are elevated following severe disease and appear to target conformational epitopes. PLoS One 15:e0230782, 2020 April, PMID: 32294093, PMCID: PMC7159215

Arriens C, Alexander RV, Narain S, Saxena A, Collins CE, Wallace DJ, Massarotti E, Conklin J, Kalunian KC, Putterman C, Ramsey-Goldman R, Buyon JP, Askanase A, Furie RA, James JA, Bello GA, Manzi S, Ahearn J, O'Malley T, Weinstein A, Dervieux T. Cell-bound complement activation products associate with lupus severity in SLE. Lupus Sci Med 7, 2020 April, PMID: 32371480, PMCID: PMC7228655

Arriens C, Aberle T, Carthen F, Kamp S, Thanou A, Chakravarty E, James JA, Merrill JT, Ogunsanya ME. Lupus patient decisions about clinical trial participation: a qualitative evaluation of perceptions, facilitators and barriers. Lupus Sci Med 7:e000360, 2020 March, PMID: 32201595, PMCID: PMC7073780

Guthridge JM, Lu R, Tran LT, Arriens C, Aberle T, Kamp S, Munroe ME, Dominguez N, Gross T, DeJager W, Macwana SR, Bourn RL, Apel S, Thanou A, Chen H, Chakravarty EF, Merrill JT, James JA. Adults with systemic lupus exhibit distinct molecular phenotypes in a cross-sectional study. EClinicalMedicine 20:100291, 2020 March, PMID: 32154507, PMCID: PMC7058913

Simões IT, Aranda F, Casadó-Llombart S, Velasco-de Andrés M, Català C, Álvarez P, Consuegra-Fernández M, Orta-Mascaró M, Merino R, Merino J, Alberola-Ila J, González-Aseguinolaza G, Carreras E, Martínez V, Lozano F. Multifaceted effects of soluble human CD6 in experimental cancer models. J Immunother Cancer 8, 2020 March, PMID: 32217757, PMCID: PMC7174071

Morand EF, Isenberg DA, Wallace DJ, Kao AH, Vazquez-Mateo C, Chang P, Pudota K, Aranow C, Merrill JT. Attainment of treat-to-target endpoints in SLE patients with high disease activity in the atacicept phase 2b ADDRESS II study. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2020 February, PMID: 32107560, PMCID: PMC7516108

Meyer A, Troyanov Y, Drouin J, Oligny-Longpré G, Landon-Cardinal O, Hoa S, Hervier B, Bourré-Tessier J, Mansour AM, Hussein S, Morin V, Rich E, Goulet JR, Chartrand S, Hudson M, Nehme J, Makhzoum JP, Zarka F, Villeneuve E, Raynauld JP, Landry M, O'Ferrall EK, Ferreira J, Ellezam B, Karamchandani J, Larue S, Massie R, Isabelle C, Deschênes I, Leclair V, Couture H, Targoff IN, Fritzler MJ, Senécal JL. Statin-induced anti-HMGCR myopathy: successful therapeutic strategies for corticosteroid-free remission in 55 patients. Arthritis Res Ther 22:5, 2020 January, PMID: 31915059, PMCID: PMC6950801

Hanly JG, Urowitz MB, Gordon C, Bae SC, Romero-Diaz J, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Bernatsky S, Clarke AE, Wallace DJ, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Merrill JT, Fortin PR, Gladman DD, Bruce IN, Petri M, Ginzler EM, Dooley MA, Ramsey-Goldman R, Manzi S, Jönsen A, Alarcón GS, van Vollenhoven RF, Aranow C, Mackay M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim S, Inanc M, Kalunian KC, Jacobsen S, Peschken CA, Kamen DL, Askanase A, Farewell V. Neuropsychiatric events in systemic lupus erythematosus: a longitudinal analysis of outcomes in an international inception cohort using a multistate model approach. Ann Rheum Dis, 2020 January, PMID: 31915121

Jeffries MA. The Development of Epigenetics in the Study of Disease Pathogenesis. Adv Exp Med Biol 1253:57-94, 2020 January, PMID: 32445091

Cardiovascular Biology Research Program

Keshari RS, Silasi R, Popescu NI, Regmi G, Chaaban H, Lambris JD, Lupu C, Mollnes TE, Lupu F. CD14 inhibition improves survival and attenuates thrombo-inflammation and cardiopulmonary dysfunction in a baboon model of Escherichia coli sepsis. J Thromb Haemost, 2020 November, PMID: 33174372

Chen D, Geng X, Lapinski PE, Davis MJ, Srinivasan RS, King PD. RASA1-driven cellular export of collagen IV is required for the development of lymphovenous and venous valves in mice. Development, 2020 November, PMID: 33144395, PMCID: PMC7746672

Cha B, Ho YC, Geng X, Mahamud MR, Chen L, Kim Y, Choi D, Kim TH, Randolph GJ, Cao X, Chen H, Srinivasan RS. YAP and TAZ maintain PROX1 expression in the developing lymphatic and lymphovenous valves in response to VEGF-C signaling. Development, 2020 October, PMID: 33060128, PMCID: PMC7758626

Schafer CM, Gurley JM, Kurylowicz K, Lin PK, Chen W, Elliott MH, Davis GE, Bhatti F, Griffin CT. An inhibitor of endothelial ETS transcription factors promotes physiologic and therapeutic vessel regression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 October, PMID: 33020273, PMCID: PMC7584886

Song K, Cai X, Dong Y, Wu H, Wei Y, Shankavaram U, Cui K, Lee Y, Zhu B, Bhattacharjee S, Wang B, Zhang K, Wen A, Wong S, Yu L, Xia L, Welm AL, Bielenberg DR, Camphausen K, Kang Y, Chen H. Epsins 1 and 2 promote NEMO linear ubiquitination via LUBAC to drive breast cancer development. J Clin Invest, 2020 September, PMID: 32960814, PMCID: PMC7773373

Lupu F, Kinasewitz G, Dormer K. The role of endothelial shear stress on haemodynamics, inflammation, coagulation and glycocalyx during sepsis. J Cell Mol Med, 2020 September, PMID: 32951280, PMCID: PMC7687012

Ahamed J. Severe aortic stenosis patient risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Open Heart 7, 2020 September, PMID: 32928913, PMCID: PMC7490908

Rezaie AR, Giri H. Anticoagulant and signaling functions of antithrombin. J Thromb Haemost, 2020 August, PMID: 32780936, PMCID: PMC7855051

Madhusudhan T, Ghosh S, Wang H, Dong W, Gupta D, Elwakiel A, Stoyanov S, Al-Dabet MM, Krishnan S, Biemann R, Nazir S, Zimmermann S, Mathew A, Gadi I, Rana R, Zeng-Brouwers J, Moeller MJ, Schaefer L, Esmon CT, Kohli S, Reiser J, Rezaie AR, Ruf W, Isermann B. Podocyte Integrin-β 3 and Activated Protein C Coordinately Restrict RhoA Signaling and Ameliorate Diabetic Nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephrol, 2020 July, PMID: 32709711, PMCID: PMC7460917

Elhadad S, Chapin J, Copertino D, Van Besien K, Ahamed J, Laurence J. MASP2 levels are elevated in thrombotic microangiopathies: Association with microvascular endothelial cell injury and suppression by anti-MASP2 antibody narsoplimab. Clin Exp Immunol, 2020 July, PMID: 32681658, PMCID: PMC7405159

Xie J, Gao S, Schafer C, Colijn S, Muthukumar V, Griffin CT. The chromatin-remodeling enzyme CHD3 plays a role in embryonic viability but is dispensable for early vascular development. PLoS One 15:e0235799, 2020 July, PMID: 32658897, PMCID: PMC7357745

Xie Z, Shao B, Hoover C, McDaniel M, Song J, Jiang M, Ma Z, Yang F, Han J, Bai X, Ruan C, Xia L. Monocyte upregulation of podoplanin during early sepsis induces complement inhibitor release to protect liver function. JCI Insight 5, 2020 July, PMID: 32641582, PMCID: PMC7406268

Avery EJ, Kenney SP, Byers BD, McIntosh JJ, Hoover C, Jiang Y, Xia L, Yu Z, George JN. Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Masquerading as Preeclampsia With Severe Features at 13 Weeks' Gestation. Am J Hematol, 2020 June, PMID: 32602158, PMCID: PMC7770040

Geng X, Yanagida K, Akwii RG, Choi D, Chen L, Ho Y, Cha B, Mahamud MR, Berman de Ruiz K, Ichise H, Chen H, Wythe J, Mikelis CM, Hla T, Srinivasan RS. S1PR1 regulates the quiescence of lymphatic vessels by inhibiting laminar shear stress-dependent VEGF-C signaling. JCI Insight, 2020 June, PMID: 32544090, PMCID: PMC7453895

Chaaban H, Burge K, Eckert J, Keshari RS, Silasi R, Lupu C, Warner B, Escobedo M, Caplan M, Lupu F. Neutrophil extracellular trap inhibition increases inflammation, bacteraemia and mortality in murine necrotizing enterocolitis. J Cell Mol Med, 2020 June, PMID: 32515131

Panicker SR, Biswas I, Giri H, Cai X, Rezaie AR. PKC (Protein Kinase C)-δ Modulates AT (Antithrombin) Signaling in Vascular Endothelial Cells. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol:ATVBAHA120314479, 2020 May, PMID: 32404004, PMCID: PMC7316612

Castorena-Gonzalez JA, Srinivasan RS, King PD, Simon AM, Davis MJ. Simplified method to quantify valve back-leak uncovers severe mesenteric lymphatic valve dysfunction in mice deficient in connexins 43 and 37. J Physiol, 2020 April, PMID: 32267537

Medley SC, Rathnakar BH, Georgescu C, Wren JD, Olson LE. Fibroblast-specific Stat1 deletion enhances the myofibroblast phenotype during tissue repair. Wound Repair Regen, 2020 March, PMID: 32175700, PMCID: PMC7321860

Laurence J, Elhadad S, Gostynska S, Yu Z, Terry H, Varshney R, Fung KM, Choi ME, Ahamed J. HIV protease inhibitor ritonavir induces renal fibrosis and dysfunction: role of platelet-derived TGF-β1 and intervention via anti-oxidant pathways. AIDS, 2020 March, PMID: 32167970, PMCID: PMC7210074

Rezaie AR, Giri H. Antithrombin: An anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial serpin. J Thromb Haemost 18:528-533, 2020 March, PMID: 32112532, PMCID: PMC7080319

Gyulkhandanyan A, Rezaie AR, Roumenina L, Lagarde N, Fremeaux-Bacchi V, Miteva MA, Villoutreix BO. Analysis of protein missense alterations by combining sequence- and structure-based methods. Mol Genet Genomic Med:e1166, 2020 February, PMID: 32096919, PMCID: PMC7196459

Lu Y, Giri H, Villoutreix BO, Ding Q, Wang X, Rezaie AR. Gly197Arg mutation in protein C causes recurrent thrombosis in a heterozygous carrier. J Thromb Haemost, 2020 February, PMID: 32078247, PMCID: PMC7192786

Ho YC, Srinivasan RS. Lymphatic Vasculature in Energy Homeostasis and Obesity. Front Physiol 11:3, 2020 January, PMID: 32038308, PMCID: PMC6987243

Colijn S, Muthukumar V, Xie J, Gao S, Griffin CT. Cell-specific and athero-protective roles for RIPK3 in a murine model of atherosclerosis. Dis Model Mech, 2020 January, PMID: 31953345, PMCID: PMC6994951

Buhl EM, Djudjaj S, Klinkhammer BM, Ermert K, Puelles VG, Lindenmeyer MT, Cohen CD, He C, Borkham-Kamphorst E, Weiskirchen R, Denecke B, Trairatphisan P, Saez-Rodriguez J, Huber TB, Olson LE, Floege J, Boor P. Dysregulated mesenchymal PDGFR-β drives kidney fibrosis. EMBO Mol Med:e11021, 2020 January, PMID: 31943786, PMCID: PMC7059015

Yan B, Wang Q, Du W, Zhai S, Gou C, Hu T, Xia L, Ruan C, Zhao Y. Elevated Plasma von Willebrand Factor Antigen and Activity Levels Are Associated With the Severity of Coronary Stenosis. Clin Appl Thromb Hemost 26:1076029619900552, 2020 January, PMID: 31964151, PMCID: PMC7098204

Cell Cycle & Cancer Biology Research Program

Lee CY, Bisig CG, Conrad MN, Ditamo Y, Previato de Almeida L, Dresser ME, Pezza RJ. Telomere-led meiotic chromosome movements: recent update in structure and function. Nucleus, 2020 May, PMID: 32412326, PMCID: PMC7781623

Sapkota H, Wren JD, Gorbsky GJ. Chondrosarcoma-associated gene 1 (CSAG1) maintains the integrity of the mitotic centrosome in cells with defective p53. J Cell Sci, 2020 April, PMID: 32295846, PMCID: PMC7272337

Lee CY, Bisig CG, Conrad MM, Ditamo Y, Previato de Almeida L, Dresser ME, Pezza RJ. Extranuclear Structural Components that Mediate Dynamic Chromosome Movements in Yeast Meiosis. Curr Biol, 2020 February, PMID: 32059771, PMCID: PMC7181386

Meyer RE, Dawson DS. Better safe than sorry-preventing mitotic segregation of meiotic chromosomes. Genes Dev 34:147-148, 2020 February, PMID: 32015052, PMCID: PMC7000914

Genes & Human Disease Research Program

Ansere VA, Ali-Mondal S, Sathiaseelan R, Garcia DN, Isola JVV, Henseb JD, Saccon TD, Ocañas SR, Tooley KB, Stout MB, Schneider A, Freeman WM. Cellular hallmarks of aging emerge in the ovary prior to primordial follicle depletion. Mech Ageing Dev 194:111425, 2020 December, PMID: 33383072

Nielsen JB, Rom O, Surakka I, Graham SE, Zhou W, Roychowdhury T, Fritsche LG, Gagliano Taliun SA, Sidore C, Liu Y, Gabrielsen ME, Skogholt AH, Wolford B, Overton W, Zhao Y, Chen J, Zhang H, Hornsby WE, Acheampong A, Grooms A, Schaefer A, Zajac GJM, Villacorta L, Zhang J, Brumpton B, Løset M, Rai V, Lundegaard PR, Olesen MS, Taylor KD, Palmer ND, Chen YD, Choi SH, Lubitz SA, Ellinor PT, Barnes KC, Daya M, Rafaels N, Weiss ST, Lasky-Su J, Tracy RP, Vasan RS, Cupples LA, Mathias RA, Yanek LR, Becker LC, Peyser PA, Bielak LF, Smith JA, Aslibekyan S, Hidalgo BA, Arnett DK, Irvin MR, Wilson JG, Musani SK, Correa A, Rich SS, Guo X, Rotter JI, Konkle BA, Johnsen JM, Ashley-Koch AE, Telen MJ, Sheehan VA, Blangero J, Curran JE, Peralta JM, Montgomery C, Sheu WH, Chung RH, Schwander K, Nouraie SM, Gordeuk VR, Zhang Y, Kooperberg C, Reiner AP, Jackson RD, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA, Li X, Das S, Yu K, LeFaive J, Smith A, Blackwell T, Taliun D, Zollner S, Forer L, Schoenherr S, Fuchsberger C, Pandit A, Zawistowski M, Kheterpal S, Brummett CM, Natarajan P, Schlessinger D, Lee S, Kang HM, Cucca F, Holmen OL, Åsvold BO, Boehnke M, Kathiresan S, Abecasis GR, Chen YE, Willer CJ, Hveem K. Loss-of-function genomic variants highlight potential therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease. Nat Commun 11:6417, 2020 December, PMID: 33339817, PMCID: PMC7749177

Mann SN, Hadad N, Nelson Holte M, Rothman AR, Sathiaseelan R, Ali Mondal S, Agbaga MP, Unnikrishnan A, Subramaniam M, Hawse J, Huffman DM, Freeman WM, Stout MB. Health benefits attributed to 17α-estradiol, a lifespan-extending compound, are mediated through estrogen receptor α. Elife 9, 2020 December, PMID: 33289482, PMCID: PMC7744101

Ortiz-Fernández L, Saruhan-Direskeneli G, Alibaz-Oner F, Kaymaz-Tahra S, Coit P, Kong X, Kiprianos AP, Maughan RT, Aydin SZ, Aksu K, Keser G, Kamali S, Inanc M, Springer J, Akar S, Onen F, Akkoc N, Khalidi NA, Koening C, Karadag O, Kiraz S, Forbess L, Langford CA, McAlear CA, Ozbalkan Z, Yavuz S, Çetin GY, Alpay-Kanitez N, Chung S, Ates A, Karaaslan Y, McKinnon-Maksimowicz K, Monach PA, Ozer HTE, Seyahi E, Fresko I, Cefle A, Seo P, Warrington KJ, Ozturk MA, Ytterberg SR, Cobankara V, Onat AM, Duzgun N, Bıcakcıgil M, Yentür SP, Lally L, Manfredi AA, Baldissera E, Erken E, Yazici A, Kısacık B, Kaşifoğlu T, Dalkilic E, Cuthbertson D, Pagnoux C, Sreih A, Reales G, Wallace C, Wren JD, Cunninghame-Graham DS, Vyse TJ, Sun Y, Chen H, Grayson PC, Tombetti E, Jiang L, Mason JC, Merkel PA, Direskeneli H, Sawalha AH. Identification of susceptibility loci for Takayasu arteritis through a large multi-ancestral genome-wide association study. Am J Hum Genet, 2020 December, PMID: 33308445, PMCID: PMC7820633

Chai G, Webb A, Li C, Antaki D, Lee S, Breuss MW, Lang N, Stanley V, Anzenberg P, Yang X, Marshall T, Gaffney P, Wierenga KJ, Chung BH, Tsang MH, Pais LS, Lovgren AK, VanNoy GE, Rehm HL, Mirzaa G, Leon E, Diaz J, Neumann A, Kalverda AP, Manfield IW, Parry DA, Logan CV, Johnson CA, Bonthron DT, Valleley EMA, Issa MY, Abdel-Ghafar SF, Abdel-Hamid MS, Jennings P, Zaki MS, Sheridan E, Gleeson JG. Mutations in Spliceosomal Genes PPIL1 and PRP17 Cause Neurodegenerative Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia with Microcephaly. Neuron, 2020 November, PMID: 33220177

Gurley JM, Gmyrek GB, McClellan ME, Hargis EA, Hauck SM, Dozmorov MG, Wren JD, Carr DJJ, Elliott MH. Neuroretinal-Derived Caveolin-1 Promotes Endotoxin-Induced Inflammation in the Murine Retina. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 61:19, 2020 October, PMID: 33079993, PMCID: PMC7585394

Wolfstetter G, Pfeifer K, Backman M, Masudi TA, Mendoza-García P, Chen S, Sonnenberg H, Sukumar SK, Uçkun E, Varshney GK, Uv A, Palmer RH. Identification of the Wallenda JNKKK as an Alk suppressor reveals increased competitiveness of Alk-expressing cells. Sci Rep 10:14954, 2020 September, PMID: 32917927, PMCID: PMC7486895

Rao G, Dwivedi SKD, Zhang Y, Dey A, Shameer K, Karthik R, Srikantan S, Hossen MN, Wren JD, Madesh M, Dudley JT, Bhattacharya R, Mukherjee P. MicroRNA-195 controls MICU1 expression and tumor growth in ovarian cancer. EMBO Rep:e48483, 2020 August, PMID: 32851774, PMCID: PMC7534609

Peng V, Georgescu C, Bakowska A, Pankow A, Qian L, Wren JD, Sun XH. E proteins orchestrate dynamic transcriptional cascades implicated in the suppression of the differentiation of group 2 innate lymphoid cells. J Biol Chem, 2020 August, PMID: 32817168, PMCID: PMC7606671

Ichino N, Serres MR, Urban RM, Urban MD, Treichel AJ, Schaefbauer KJ, Greif LE, Varshney GK, Skuster KJ, McNulty MS, Daby CL, Wang Y, Liao HK, El-Rass S, Ding Y, Liu W, Anderson JL, Wishman MD, Sabharwal A, Schimmenti LA, Sivasubbu S, Balciunas D, Hammerschmidt M, Farber SA, Wen XY, Xu X, McGrail M, Essner JJ, Burgess SM, Clark KJ, Ekker SC. Building the vertebrate codex using the gene breaking protein trap library. Elife 9, 2020 August, PMID: 32779569, PMCID: PMC7486118

Arabnejad M, Montgomery CG, Gaffney PM, McKinney BA. Nearest-Neighbor Projected Distance Regression for Epistasis Detection in GWAS With Population Structure Correction. Front Genet 11:784, 2020 July, PMID: 32774345, PMCID: PMC7387719

Garman L, Montgomery CG, Rivera NV. Recent advances in sarcoidosis genomics: epigenetics, gene expression, and gene by environment (G × E) interaction studies. Curr Opin Pulm Med, 2020 July, PMID: 32701681, PMCID: PMC7735660

Rodríguez-Morales R, Vélez-Negrón V, Torrado-Tapias A, Varshney G, Behra M. Expression patterns of activating transcription factor 5 (atf5a and atf5b) in zebrafish. Gene Expr Patterns:119126, 2020 July, PMID: 32663618

Ansere VA, Freeman WM. Exercising your mind. Science 369:144-145, 2020 July, PMID: 32646988

Wren JD, Bai Y, Qin ZS, Yan D, Homayouni R. Proceedings of the 2019 MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Conference. BMC Bioinformatics 21:254, 2020 July, PMID: 32631224, PMCID: PMC7336605

Banote RK, Chebli J, Şatır TM, Varshney GK, Camacho R, Ledin J, Burgess SM, Abramsson A, Zetterberg H. Amyloid precursor protein-b facilitates cell adhesion during early development in zebrafish. Sci Rep 10:10127, 2020 June, PMID: 32576936, PMCID: PMC7311384

Sui Y, Li X, Oh S, Zhang B, Freeman WM, Shin S, Janknecht R. Opposite Roles of the JMJD1A Interaction Partners MDFI and MDFIC in Colorectal Cancer. Sci Rep 10:8710, 2020 May, PMID: 32457453, PMCID: PMC7250871

Ray-Jones H, Duffus K, McGovern A, Martin P, Shi C, Hankinson J, Gough O, Yarwood A, Morris AP, Adamson A, Taylor C, Ding J, Gaddi VP, Fu Y, Gaffney P, Orozco G, Warren RB, Eyre S. Mapping DNA interaction landscapes in psoriasis susceptibility loci highlights KLF4 as a target gene in 9q31. BMC Biol 18:47, 2020 May, PMID: 32366252, PMCID: PMC7199343

Verstappen GM, Ice JA, Bootsma H, Pringle S, Haacke EA, de Lange K, van der Vries GB, Hickey P, Vissink A, Spijkervet FKL, Lessard CJ, Kroese FGM. Gene expression profiling of epithelium-associated FcRL4 B cells in primary Sjögren's syndrome reveals a pathogenic signature. J Autoimmun 109:102439, 2020 May, PMID: 32201227

Forsthoefel DJ, Cejda NI, Khan UW, Newmark PA. Cell-type diversity and regionalized gene expression in the planarian intestine. Elife 9, 2020 April, PMID: 32240093, PMCID: PMC7117911

Kiss T, Tarantini S, Csipo T, Balasubramanian P, Nyúl-Tóth Á, Yabluchanskiy A, Wren JD, Garman L, Huffman DM, Csiszar A, Ungvari Z. Circulating anti-geronic factors from heterochonic parabionts promote vascular rejuvenation in aged mice: transcriptional footprint of mitochondrial protection, attenuation of oxidative stress, and rescue of endothelial function by young blood. Geroscience, 2020 March, PMID: 32172434, PMCID: PMC7205954

Garman L, Pezant N, Pastori A, Savoy KA, Li C, Levin AM, Iannuzzi MC, Rybicki BA, Adrianto I, Montgomery CG. Genome-Wide Association Study of Ocular Sarcoidosis Confirms HLA Associations and Implicates Barrier Function and Autoimmunity in African Americans. Ocul Immunol Inflamm:1-6, 2020 March, PMID: 32141793, PMCID: PMC7483204

Petree C, Varshney GK. MultiFRAGing: Rapid and Simultaneous Genotyping of Multiple Alleles in a Single Reaction. Sci Rep 10:3172, 2020 February, PMID: 32081936, PMCID: PMC7035419

Kiss T, Nyúl-Tóth Á, Balasubramanian P, Tarantini S, Ahire C, Yabluchanskiy A, Csipo T, Farkas E, Wren JD, Garman L, Csiszar A, Ungvari Z. Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) supplementation promotes neurovascular rejuvenation in aged mice: transcriptional footprint of SIRT1 activation, mitochondrial protection, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic effects. Geroscience, 2020 February, PMID: 32056076, PMCID: PMC7206476

Vona B, Doll J, Hofrichter MAH, Haaf T, Varshney GK. Small fish, big prospects: using zebrafish to unravel the mechanisms of hereditary hearing loss. Hear Res:107906, 2020 February, PMID: 32063424, PMCID: PMC7415493