2021

Negi SS, Goldblum RM, Braun W, Midoro-Horiuti T. Design of peptides with high affinity binding to a monoclonal antibody as a basis for immunotherapy. Peptides. 2021 Nov;145:170628. doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2021.170628.
Braun BA, Schein CH, Braun W. DGraph Clusters Flaviviruses and β-Coronaviruses According to Their Hosts, Disease Type, and Human Cell Receptors. Bioinform Biol Insights. 2021 Jun 7;15:11779322211020316. doi:10.1177/11779322211020316.
Schein CH, Levine CB, McLellan SLF, Negi SS, Braun W, Dreskin SC, Anaya ES, Schmidt J. Synthetic proteins for COVID-19 diagnostics. Peptides. 2021 Sep;143:170583. doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2021.170583.
Read CM, Plante K, Rafael G, Rossi SL, Braun W, Weaver SC, Schein CH. Designing multivalent immunogens for alphavirus vaccine optimization. Virology. 2021 Feb 5:S0042-6822(20)30236-1. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2020.11.010.
Dreskin SC, Koppelman SJ, Andorf S, Nadeau KC, Kalra A, Braun W, Negi SS, Chen X, Schein CH. The importance of the 2S albumins for allergenicity and cross-reactivity of peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame seeds. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021 Apr;147(4):1154-1163. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2020.11.004.
Choi KH. The Role of the Stem-Loop A RNA Promoter in Flavivirus Replication. Viruses. 2021 Jun 9;13(6):1107. doi: 10.3390/v13061107.
Lee E, Bujalowski PJ, Teramoto T, Gottipati K, Scott SD, Padmanabhan R, Choi KH. Structures of flavivirus RNA promoters suggest two binding modes with NS5 polymerase. Nat Commun. 2021 May 5;12(1):2530. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22846-1.
Grim C, Noble R, Uribe G, Khanipov K, Johnson P, Koltun WA, Watts T, Fofanov Y, Yochum GS, Powell DW, Beswick EJ, Pinchuk IV. Impairment of tissue resident mesenchymal stem cells in chronic ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. J Crohns Colitis. 2021 Jan 28:jjab001. doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjab001.
Wang X, Greenblatt HM, Bigman LS, Yu B, Pletka CC, Levy Y, Iwahara J. Dynamic Autoinhibition of the HMGB1 Protein via Electrostatic Fuzzy Interactions of Intrinsically Disordered Regions. J Mol Biol. 2021 Sep 3;433(18):167122. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167122.
Yu B, Pletka CC, Pettitt BM, Iwahara J. De novo determination of near-surface electrostatic potentials by NMR. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Jun 22;118(25):e2104020118. doi: 10.1073/pnas104020118.
Yu B, Iwahara J. Experimental approaches for investigating ion atmospheres around nucleic acids and proteins. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2021 Apr 17;19:2279-2285. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.04.033.
Yu B, Pletka CC, Iwahara J. Quantifying and visualizing weak interactions between anions and proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Jan 12;118(2):e2015879118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2015879118.
Iwahara J, Kolomeisky AB. Discrete-state stochastic kinetic models for target DNA search by proteins: Theory and experimental applications. Biophys Chem. 2021 Feb;269:106521. doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2020.106521.
Jacob H, Geng H, Shetty D, Halow N, Kenney LJ, Nakano MM. Distinct Interaction Mechanism of RNAP and ResD and Distal Subsites for Transcription Activation of Nitrite Reductase in Bacillus subtilis^ψ. J Bacteriol. 2021 Dec 13:JB0043221. doi: 10.1128/JB.00432-21.
Kenney LJ. How Can a Histidine Kinase Respond to Mechanical Stress? Front Microbiol. 2021 Jul 15;12:655942. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.655942.
Singh MK, Zangoui P, Yamanaka Y, Kenney LJ. Genetic code expansion enables visualization of Salmonella type three secretion system components and secreted effectors. Elife. 2021 Jun 1;10:e67789. doi: 10.7554/eLife.67789.
Singh MK, Kenney LJ. Super-resolution imaging of bacterial pathogens and visualization of their secreted effectors. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2021 Mar 16;45(2):fuaa050. doi: 10.1093/femsre/fuaa050.
Fraser A, Prokhorov NS, Jiao F, Pettitt BM, Scheuring S, Leiman PG. Quantitative description of a contractile macromolecular machine. Sci Adv. 2021 Jun 11;7(24):eabf9601. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf9601.
Dunne M, Prokhorov NS, Loessner MJ, Leiman PG. Reprogramming bacteriophage host range: design principles and strategies for engineering receptor binding proteins. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2021 Mar 18;68:272-281. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.02.006.
Drobysheva AV, Panafidina SA, Kolesnik MV, Klimuk EI, Minakhin L, Yakunina MV, Borukhov S, Nilsson E, Holmfeldt K, Yutin N, Makarova KS, Koonin EV, Severinov KV, Leiman PG, Sokolova ML. Structure and function of virion RNA polymerase of a crAss-like phage. Nature. 2021 Jan;589(7841):306-309. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2921-5.
Sepuru KM, Rajarathnam K. Structural basis of a chemokine heterodimer binding to glycosaminoglycans. Biochem J. 2021 Mar 12;478(5):1009-1021. doi: 10.1042/BCJ20200927.
Sawant KV, Sepuru KM, Lowry E, Penaranda B, Frevert CW, Garofalo RP, Rajarathnam K. Neutrophil recruitment by chemokines Cxcl1/KC and Cxcl2/MIP2: Role of Cxcr2 activation and glycosaminoglycan interactions. J Leukoc Biol. 2021 Apr;109(4):777-791. doi: 10.1002/JLB.3A0820-207R.
Pajak J, Dill E, Reyes-Aldrete E, White MA, Kelch BA, Jardine PJ, Arya G, Morais MC. Atomistic basis of force generation, translocation, and coordination in a viral genome packaging motor. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jun 21;49(11):6474-6488. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab372.
Woodson M, Pajak J, Mahler BP, Zhao W, Zhang W, Arya G, White MA, Jardine PJ, Morais MC. A viral genome packaging motor transitions between cyclic and helical symmetry to translocate dsDNA. Sci Adv. 2021 May 7;7(19):eabc1955. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abc1955.
Pajak J, Atz R, Hilbert BJ, Morais MC, Kelch BA, Jardine PJ, Arya G. Viral packaging ATPases utilize a glutamate switch to couple ATPase activity and DNA translocation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Apr 27;118(17):e2024928118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2024928118.
Nussinov R, Jang H, Nir G, Tsai C-J, Cheng F. A new precision medicine initiative at the dawn of exascale computing, Sig. Transduct. Target Ther. 2021, 6, 3.
Qadota H, Oberhauser AF, Benian GM. Missense mutation of a conserved residue in UNC-112 (kindlin) eliminates binding to PAT-4 (ILK). MicroPubl Biol. 2021 Sep 14;2021:10.17912/micropub.biology.000454. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000454.
Moncrief T, Matheny CJ, Gaziova I, Miller JM, Qadota H, Benian GM, Oberhauser AF. Mutations in conserved residues of the myosin chaperone UNC-45 result in both reduced stability and chaperoning activity. Protein Sci. 2021 Nov;30(11):2221-2232. doi: 10.1002/pro.4180.
Yousefi R, Lynch GC, Galbraith M, Pettitt BM. Contributions of higher-order proximal distribution functions to solvent structure around proteins. J Chem Phys. 2021 Sep 14;155(10):104110. doi: 10.1063/5.0062580.
Workman RJ, Pettitt BM. Thermodynamic Compensation in Peptides Following Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation. J Phys Chem B. 2021 Jun 24;125(24):6431-6439. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c02093.
Langsjoen RM, Zhou Y, Holcomb RJ, Routh AL. Chikungunya Virus Infects the Heart and Induces Heart-Specific Transcriptional Changes in an Immunodeficient Mouse Model of Infection. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Nov 29:tpmd210719. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.21-0719.
Jaworski E, Langsjoen RM, Mitchell B, Judy B, Newman P, Plante JA, Plante KS, Miller AL, Zhou Y, Swetnam D, Sotcheff S, Morris V, Saada N, Machado RR, McConnell A, Widen SG, Thompson J, Dong J, Ren P, Pyles RB, Ksiazek TG, Menachery VD, Weaver SC, Routh AL. Tiled-ClickSeq for targeted sequencing of complete coronavirus genomes with simultaneous capture of RNA recombination and minority variants. Elife. 2021 Sep 28;10:e68479. doi: 10.7554/eLife.68479.
Cao J, Routh AL, Kuyumcu-Martinez MN. Nanopore sequencing reveals full-length Tropomyosin 1 isoforms and their regulation by RNA-binding proteins during rat heart development. J Cell Mol Med. 2021 Sep;25(17):8352-8362. doi:10.1111/jcmm.16795.
Gallardo CM, Wang S, Montiel-Garcia DJ, Little SJ, Smith DM, Routh AL, Torbett BE. MrHAMER yields highly accurate single molecule viral sequences enabling analysis of intra-host evolution. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jul 9;49(12):e70. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab231.
Johnson BA, Xie X, Bailey AL, Kalveram B, Lokugamage KG, Muruato A, Zou J, Zhang X, Juelich T, Smith JK, Zhang L, Bopp N, Schindewolf C, Vu M, Vanderheiden A, Winkler ES, Swetnam D, Plante JA, Aguilar P, Plante KS, Popov V, Lee B, Weaver SC, Suthar MS, Routh AL, Ren P, Ku Z, An Z, Debbink K, Diamond MS, Shi PY, Freiberg AN, Menachery VD. Loss of furin cleavage site attenuates SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis. Nature. 2021 Mar;591(7849):293-299. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03237-4.
Gribble J, Stevens LJ, Agostini ML, Anderson-Daniels J, Chappell JD, Lu X, Pruijssers AJ, Routh AL, Denison MR. The coronavirus proofreading exoribonuclease mediates extensive viral recombination. PLoS Pathog. 2021 Jan 19;17(1):e1009226. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009226.
Kozlova EV, Hegde S, Roundy CM, Golovko G, Saldaña MA, Hart CE, Anderson ER, Hornett EA, Khanipov K, Popov VL, Pimenova M, Zhou Y, Fovanov Y, Weaver SC, Routh AL, Heinz E, Hughes GL. Microbial interactions in the mosquito gut determine Serratia colonization and blood-feeding propensity. ISME J. 2021 Jan;15(1):93-108. doi: 10.1038/s41396-020-00763-3.
Fan S, Gangwar SP, Machius M, Rudenko G. Interplay between hevin, SPARC, and MDGAs: Modulators of neurexin-neuroligin transsynaptic bridges. Structure. 2021 Jul 1;29(7):664-678.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2021.01.003.
Monzo P, Crestani M, Chong YK, Ghisleni A, Hennig K, Li Q, Kakogiannos N, Giannotta M, Richichi C, Dini T, Dejana E, Maiuri P, Balland M, Sheetz MP, Pelicci G, Ang BT, Tang C, Gauthier NC. Adaptive mechanoproperties mediated by the formin FMN1 characterize glioblastoma fitness for invasion. Dev Cell. 2021 Oct 25;56(20):2841-2855.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.09.007.
Fang FF, Shi PY. Omicron: a drug developer's perspective. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2022 Dec;11(1):208-211. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2021.2023330.
Yu X, Shan C, Zhu Y, Ma E, Wang J, Wang P, Shi PY, Cheng G. A mutation-mediated evolutionary adaptation of Zika virus in mosquito and mammalian host. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Oct 19;118(42):e2113015118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2113015118.
Shi PY. An Interview with Pei-Yong Shi, PhD. J Interferon Cytokine Res. 2021 Jun;41(6):197-199. doi: 10.1089/jir.2021.29022.exp.
Liu J, Liu Y, Xia H, Zou J, Weaver SC, Swanson KA, Cai H, Cutler M, Cooper D,Muik A, Jansen KU, Sahin U, Xie X, Dormitzer PR, Shi PY. BNT162b2-elicited neutralization of B.1.617 and other SARS-CoV-2 variants. Nature. 2021 Aug;596(7871):273-275. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03693-y.
Liu Y, Liu J, Xia H, Zhang X, Zou J, Fontes-Garfias CR, Weaver SC, Swanson KA, Cai H, Sarkar R, Chen W, Cutler M, Cooper D, Muik A, Sahin U, Jansen KU, Xie X, Dormitzer PR, Shi PY. BNT162b2-Elicited Neutralization against New SARS-CoV-2 Spike Variants. N Engl J Med. 2021 Jul 29;385(5):472-474. doi:10.1056/NEJMc2106083.
Turner JS, O'Halloran JA, Kalaidina E, Kim W, Schmitz AJ, Zhou JQ, Lei T, Thapa M, Chen RE, Case JB, Amanat F, Rauseo AM, Haile A, Xie X, Klebert MK, Suessen T, Middleton WD, Shi PY, Krammer F, Teefey SA, Diamond MS, Presti RM, Ellebedy AH. SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines induce persistent human germinal centre responses. Nature. 2021 Aug;596(7870):109-113. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03738-2.
Vanderheiden A, Thomas J, Soung AL, Davis-Gardner ME, Floyd K, Jin F, Cowan DA, Pellegrini K, Shi PY, Grakoui A, Klein RS, Bosinger SE, Kohlmeier JE, Menachery VD, Suthar MS. CCR2 Signaling Restricts SARS-CoV-2 Infection. mBio. 2021 Dec 21;12(6):e0274921. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02749-21.
Zou J, Xie X, Fontes-Garfias CR, Swanson KA, Kanevsky I, Tompkins K, Cutler M, Cooper D, Dormitzer PR, Shi PY. The effect of SARS-CoV-2 D614G mutation on BNT162b2 vaccine-elicited neutralization. NPJ Vaccines. 2021 Mar 25;6(1):44. doi: 10.1038/s41541-021-00313-8.
Suryadevara N, Shrihari S, Gilchuk P, VanBlargan LA, Binshtein E, Zost SJ, Nargi RS, Sutton RE, Winkler ES, Chen EC, Fouch ME, Davidson E, Doranz BJ, Chen RE, Shi PY, Carnahan RH, Thackray LB, Diamond MS, Crowe JE Jr. Neutralizing and protective human monoclonal antibodies recognizing the N-terminal domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Cell. 2021 Mar 16:S0092-8674(21)00357-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.029.
Liu Y, Liu J, Xia H, Zhang X, Fontes-Garfias CR, Swanson KA, Cai H, Sarkar R, Chen W, Cutler M, Cooper D, Weaver SC, Muik A, Sahin U, Jansen KU, Xie X, Dormitzer PR, Shi PY. Neutralizing Activity of BNT162b2-Elicited Serum. N Engl J Med. 2021 Mar 8. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2102017.
Chen RE, Zhang X, Case JB, Winkler ES, Liu Y, VanBlargan LA, Liu J, Errico JM, Xie X, Suryadevara N, Gilchuk P, Zost SJ, Tahan S, Droit L, Turner JS, Kim W, Schmitz AJ, Thapa M, Wang D, Boon ACM, Presti RM, O'Halloran JA, Kim AHJ, Deepak P, Pinto D, Fremont DH, Crowe JE Jr, Corti D, Virgin HW, Ellebedy AH, Shi PY, Diamond MS. Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 variants to neutralization by monoclonal and serum-derived polyclonal antibodies. Nat Med. 2021 Mar 4. doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01294-w.
Xu P, Gao J, Shan C, Dunn TJ, Xie X, Xia H, Zou J, Thames BH, Sajja A, Yu Y, Freiberg AN, Vasilakis N, Shi PY, Weaver SC, Wu P. Inhibition of innate immune response ameliorates Zika virus-induced neurogenesis deficit in human neural stem cells. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 Mar 3;15(3):e0009183. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009183.
Bailey AL, Dmytrenko O, Greenberg L, Bredemeyer AL, Ma P, Liu J, Penna V, Winkler ES, Sviben S, Brooks E, Nair AP, Heck KA, Rali AS, Simpson L, Saririan M, Hobohm D, Stump WT, Fitzpatrick JA, Xie X, Zhang X, Shi PY, Hinson JT, Gi WT, Schmidt C, Leuschner F, Lin CY, Diamond MS, Greenberg MJ, Lavine KJ. SARS-CoV-2 Infects Human Engineered Heart Tissues and Models COVID-19 Myocarditis. JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2021 Feb 26. doi: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2021.01.002.
Zhang X, Liu Y, Liu J, Bailey AL, Plante KS, Plante JA, Zou J, Xia H, Bopp NE, Aguilar PV, Ren P, Menachery VD, Diamond MS, Weaver SC, Xie X, Shi PY. A trans-complementation system for SARS-CoV-2 recapitulates authentic viral replication without virulence. Cell. 2021 Feb 23:S0092-8674(21)00233-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.044.
Adam A, Fontes-Garfias CR, Sarathy VV, Liu Y, Luo H, Davis E, Li W, Muruato AE, Wang B, Ahatov R, Mahmoud Y, Shan C, Osman SR, Widen SG, Barrett ADT, Shi PY, Wang T. A genetically stable Zika virus vaccine candidate protects mice against virus infection and vertical transmission. NPJ Vaccines. 2021 Feb 17;6(1):27. doi: 10.1038/s41541-021-00288-6.
Liu Y, Liu J, Xia H, Zhang X, Fontes-Garfias CR, Swanson KA, Cai H, Sarkar R, Chen W, Cutler M, Cooper D, Weaver SC, Muik A, Sahin U, Jansen KU, Xie X, Dormitzer PR, Shi PY. Neutralizing Activity of BNT162b2-Elicited Serum - Preliminary Report. N Engl J Med. 2021 Feb 17. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2102017.
Diamond M, Chen R, Xie X, Case J, Zhang X, VanBlargan L, Liu Y, Liu J, Errico J, Winkler E, Suryadevara N, Tahan S, Turner J, Kim W, Schmitz A, Thapa M, Wang D, Boon A, Pinto D, Presti R, O'Halloran J, Kim A, Deepak P, Fremont D, Corti D, Virgin H, Crowe J, Droit L, Ellebedy A, Shi PY, Gilchuk P. SARS-CoV-2 variants show resistance to neutralization by many monoclonal and serum-derived polyclonal antibodies. Res Sq [Preprint]. 2021 Feb 10:rs.3.rs-228079. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-228079/v1. Update in: Nat Med. 2021 Mar 4.
Xie X, Liu Y, Liu J, Zhang X, Zou J, Fontes-Garfias CR, Xia H, Swanson KA, Cutler M, Cooper D, Menachery VD, Weaver SC, Dormitzer PR, Shi PY. Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 spike 69/70 deletion, E484K and N501Y variants by BNT162b2 vaccine-elicited sera. Nat Med. 2021 Feb 8. doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01270-4.
Xie X, Lokugamage KG, Zhang X, Vu MN, Muruato AE, Menachery VD, Shi PY. Engineering SARS-CoV-2 using a reverse genetic system. Nat Protoc. 2021 Mar;16(3):1761-1784. doi: 10.1038/s41596-021-00491-8.
Kotaki T, Xie X, Shi PY, Kameoka M. A PCR amplicon-based SARS-CoV-2 replicon for antiviral evaluation. Sci Rep. 2021 Jan 26;11(1):2229. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-82055-0.
Sherman MB, Williams AN, Smith HQ, Pettitt BM, Wobus CE, Smith TJ. Structural Studies on the Shapeshifting Murine Norovirus. Viruses. 2021 Oct 26;13(11):2162. doi: 10.3390/v13112162.
Ng JCK, Peng JHC, Chen AYS, Tian T, Zhou JS, Smith TJ. Plasticity of the lettuce infectious yellows virus minor coat protein (CPm) in mediating the foregut retention and transmission of a chimeric CPm mutant by whitefly vectors. J Gen Virol. 2021 Sep;102(9):001652. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001652.
Williams AN, Sherman MB, Smith HQ, Taube S, Pettitt BM, Wobus CE, Smith TJ. Multiple Signals in the Gut Contract the Mouse Norovirus Capsid To Block Antibody Binding While Enhancing Receptor Affinity. J Virol. 2021 Oct 27;95(22):e0147121. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01471-21.
Williams AN, Sherman MB, Smith HQ, Taube S, Pettitt BM, Wobus CE, Smith TJ. A Norovirus Uses Bile Salts To Escape Antibody Recognition While Enhancing Receptor Binding. J Virol. 2021 Jun 10;95(13):e0017621. doi:10.1128/JVI.00176-21.
Cao J, Verma SK, Jaworski E, Mohan S, Nagasawa CK, Rayavara K, Sooter A, Miller SN, Holcomb RJ, Powell MJ, Ji P, Elrod ND, Yildirim E, Wagner EJ, Popov V, Garg NJ, Routh AL, Kuyumcu-Martinez MN. RBFOX2 is critical for maintaining alternative polyadenylation patterns and mitochondrial health in rat myoblasts. Cell Rep. 2021 Nov 2;37(5):109910. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109910.
Enwerem III, Elrod ND, Chang CT, Lin A, Ji P, Bohn JA, Levdansky Y, Wagner EJ, Valkov E, Goldstrohm AC. Human Pumilio proteins directly bind the CCR4-NOT deadenylase complex to regulate the transcriptome. RNA. 2021 Apr;27(4):445-464. doi: 10.1261/rna.078436.120.
Li L, Huang KL, Gao Y, Cui Y, Wang G, Elrod ND, Li Y, Chen YE, Ji P, Peng F, Russell WK, Wagner EJ, Li W. An atlas of alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci contributing to complex trait and disease heritability. Nat Genet. 2021 Jul;53(7):994-1005. doi: 10.1038/s41588-021-00864-5.
Murach KA, Dimet-Wiley AL, Wen Y, Brightwell CR, Latham CM, Dungan CM, Fry CS, Watowich SJ. Late-life exercise mitigates skeletal muscle epigenetic aging. Aging Cell. 2021 Dec 21:e13527. doi: 10.1111/acel.13527.
Sampson CM, Dimet AL, Neelakantan H, Ogunseye KO, Stevenson HL, Hommel JD, Watowich SJ. Combined nicotinamide N-methyltransferase inhibition and reduced- calorie diet normalizes body composition and enhances metabolic benefits in obese mice. Sci Rep. 2021 Mar 11;11(1):5637. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-85051-6.
Clark LE, Clark SA, Lin C, Liu J, Coscia A, Nabel KG, Yang P, Neel DV, Lee H, Brusic V, Stryapunina I, Plante KS, Ahmed AA, Catteruccia F, Young-Pearse TL, Chiu IM, Llopis PM, Weaver SC, Abraham J. VLDLR and ApoER2 are receptors for multiple alphaviruses. Nature. 2021 Dec 20. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04326-0.
Liu Y, Liu J, Plante KS, Plante JA, Xie X, Zhang X, Ku Z, An Z, Scharton D, Schindewolf C, Widen SG, Menachery VD, Shi PY, Weaver SC. The N501Y spike substitution enhances SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission. Nature. 2021 Nov 24. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04245-0.
Chaudhary S, Jain J, Kumar R, Shrinet J, Weaver SC, Auguste AJ, Sunil S. Chikungunya virus molecular evolution in India since its re-emergence in 2005. Virus Evol. 2021 Aug 25;7(2):veab074. doi: 10.1093/ve/veab074.
Chen R, Plante JA, Plante KS, Yun R, Shinde D, Liu J, Haller S, Mukhopadhyay S, Weaver SC. Lineage Divergence and Vector-Specific Adaptation Have Driven Chikungunya Virus onto Multiple Adaptive Landscapes. mBio. 2021 Dec 21;12(6):e0273821. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02738-21.
Porier DL, Wilson SN, Auguste DI, Leber A, Coutermarsh-Ott S, Allen IC, Caswell CC, Budnick JA, Bassaganya-Riera J, Hontecillas R, Weger-Lucarelli J, Weaver SC, Auguste AJ. Enemy of My Enemy: A Novel Insect-Specific Flavivirus Offers a Promising Platform for a Zika Virus Vaccine. Vaccines (Basel). 2021 Oct 7;9(10):1142. doi: 10.3390/vaccines9101142.
Ahmed A, Mahmoud I, Eldigail M, Elhassan RM, Weaver SC. The Emergence of Rift Valley Fever in Gedaref State Urges the Need for a Cross-Border One Health Strategy and Enforcement of the International Health Regulations. Pathogens. 2021 Jul 13;10(7):885. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10070885.
Auguste AJ, Langsjoen RM, Porier DL, Erasmus JH, Bergren NA, Bolling BG, Luo H, Singh A, Guzman H, Popov VL, Travassos da Rosa APA, Wang T, Kang L, Allen IC, Carrington CVF, Tesh RB, Weaver SC. Isolation of a novel insect-specific flavivirus with immunomodulatory effects in vertebrate systems. Virology. 2021 Oct;562:50-62. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2021.07.004.
Ahmed A, Eldigail M, Elduma A, Breima T, Dietrich I, Ali Y, Weaver SC. First report of epidemic dengue fever and malaria co-infections among internally displaced persons in humanitarian camps of North Darfur, Sudan. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Jul;108:513-516. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.05.052.
Plante JA, Mitchell BM, Plante KS, Debbink K, Weaver SC, Menachery VD. The variant gambit: COVID-19's next move. Cell Host Microbe. 2021 Apr 14;29(4):508-515. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.02.020.
Adam A, Luo H, Osman SR, Wang B, Roundy CM, Auguste AJ, Plante KS, Peng BH, Thangamani S, Frolova EI, Frolov I, Weaver SC, Wang T. Optimized production and immunogenicity of an insect virus-based chikungunya virus candidate vaccine in cell culture and animal models. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2021 Dec;10(1):305-316. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2021.1886598.
McDougal AN, Elhassani D, DeMaet MA, Shores S, Plante KS, Plante JA, Pyles R, Weaver SC, Williams-Bouyer N, Tyler BJ, Davis HR, Patel J. Outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among operating room staff of a tertiary referral center: An epidemiologic and environmental investigation. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Mar 19:1-7. doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.116.
Plante KS, Dwivedi V, Plante JA, Fernandez D, Mirchandani D, Bopp N, Aguilar PV, Park JG, Tamayo PP, Delgado J, Shivanna V, Torrelles JB, Martinez-Sobrido L, Matos R, Weaver SC, Sastry KJ, Newman RA. Antiviral activity of oleandrin and a defined extract of Nerium oleander against SARS-CoV-2. Biomed Pharmacother. 2021 Mar 3;138:111457. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2021.111457.
Plante JA, Mitchell BM, Plante KS, Debbink K, Weaver SC, Menachery VD. The variant gambit: COVID-19's next move. Cell Host Microbe. 2021 Mar 1:S1931-3128(21)00099-8. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.02.020.
Campos RK, Mirchandani D, Rafael G, Saada N, McMahon R, Weaver SC. SARS-CoV-2 decontamination of skin with disinfectants active during and after application. J Hosp Infect. 2021 Feb 10:S0195-6701(21)00050-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2021.02.004.
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