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2024

Qin Y, Cui Q, Sun G, Chao J, Wang C, Chen X, Ye P, Zhou T, Jeyachandran AV, Sun O, Liu W, Yao S, Palmer C, Liu X, Arumugaswami V, Chan WC, Wang X, Shi Y. Developing enhanced immunotherapy using NKG2A knockout human pluripotent stem cell-derived NK cells. Cell Rep. 2024 Nov 26;43(11):114867. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114867. Epub 2024 Oct 23. PMID: 39447568.

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Abt ER, Lam AK, Noguchi M, Rashid K, McLaughlin J, Teng PL, Tran W, Cheng D, Nesterenko PA, Mao Z, Creech AL, Burton Sojo G, Jeyachandran AV, Tam YK, Henley JE, Comai L, Pardi N, Arumugaswami V, Witte ON, Radu CG, Wu TT. Staggered immunization with mRNA vaccines encoding SARS-CoV-2 polymerase or spike antigens broadens the T cell epitope repertoire. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Dec 3;121(49):e2406332121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2406332121. Epub 2024 Nov 26. PMID: 39589869; PMCID: PMC11626164.

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Singh S, Wright RE 3rd, Giri S, Arumugaswami V, Kumar A. Targeting ABCG1 and SREBP-2 mediated cholesterol homeostasis ameliorates Zika virus-induced ocular pathology. iScience. 2024 Feb 2;27(3):109088. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109088. PMID: 38405605; PMCID: PMC10884761.

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Takano KA, Wong AAL, Brown R, Situ K, Chua BA, Abu AE, Pham TT, Reyes GC, Ramachandran S, Kamata M, Li MMH, Wu TT, Rao DS, Arumugaswami V, Dorshkind K, Cole S, Morizono K. Envelope protein-specific B cell receptors direct lentiviral vector tropism in vivo. Mol Ther. 2024 May 1;32(5):1311-1327. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2024.03.002. Epub 2024 Mar 6. PMID: 38449314; PMCID: PMC11081870.

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Chakravarty N, Hemani D, Paravastu R, Ahmad Z, Palani SN, Arumugaswami V, Kumar A. Mpox Virus and its ocular surface manifestations. Ocul Surf. 2024 Oct;34:108-121. doi: 10.1016/j.jtos.2024.07.001. Epub 2024 Jul 5. PMID: 38972544; PMCID: PMC11625629.

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2023

Tayeb-Fligelman E, Bowler JT, Tai CE, Sawaya MR, Jiang YX, Garcia G Jr, Griner SL, Cheng X, Salwinski L, Lutter L, Seidler PM, Lu J, Rosenberg GM, Hou K, Abskharon R, Pan H, Zee CT, Boyer DR, Li Y, Anderson DH, Murray KA, Falcon G, Cascio D, Saelices L, Damoiseaux R, Arumugaswami V, Guo F, Eisenberg DS. Low complexity domains of the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2 form amyloid fibrils. Nat Commun. 2023 Apr 25;14(1):2379. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37865-3. PMID: 37185252; PMCID: PMC10127185.

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Garcia G Jr, Irudayam JI, Jeyachandran AV, Dubey S, Chang C, Castillo Cario S, Price N, Arumugam S, Marquez AL, Shah A, Fanaei A, Chakravarty N, Joshi S, Sinha S, French SW, Parcells MS, Ramaiah A, Arumugaswami V. Innate immune pathway modulator screen identifies STING pathway activation as a strategy to inhibit multiple families of arbo and respiratory viruses. Cell Rep Med. 2023 May 16;4(5):101024. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101024. Epub 2023 Apr 28. PMID: 37119814; PMCID: PMC10213809.

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Garcia G Jr, Chakravarty N, Paiola S, Urena E, Gyani P, Tse C, French SW, Danielpour M, Breunig JJ, Nathanson DA, Arumugaswami V. Differential Susceptibility of Ex Vivo Primary Glioblastoma Tumors to Oncolytic Effect of Modified Zika Virus. Cells. 2023 Sep 29;12(19):2384. doi: 10.3390/cells12192384. PMID: 37830597; PMCID: PMC10572118.

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Palermo A, Li S, Ten Hoeve J, Chellappa A, Morris A, Dillon B, Ma F, Wang Y, Cao E, Shabane B, Acín-Perez R, Petcherski A, Lusis AJ, Hazen S, Shirihai OS, Pellegrini M, Arumugaswami V, Graeber TG, Deb A. A ketogenic diet can mitigate SARS-CoV-2 induced systemic reprogramming and inflammation. Commun Biol. 2023 Nov 3;6(1):1115. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05478-7. PMID: 37923961; PMCID: PMC10624922.

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Contreras D, Garcia G Jr, Jones MK, Martinez LE, Jayakarunakaran A, Gangalapudi V, Tang J, Wu Y, Zhao JJ, Chen Z, Ramaiah A, Tsui I, Kumar A, Nielsen-Saines K, Wang S, Arumugaswami V. Differential Susceptibility of Fetal Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells, hiPSC- Retinal Stem Cells, and Retinal Organoids to Zika Virus Infection. Viruses. 2023 Jan 1;15(1):142. doi: 10.3390/v15010142. PMID: 36680182; PMCID: PMC9864143.

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2022

Garcia G Jr, Chakravarty N, Abu AE, Jeyachandran AV, Takano KA, Brown R, Morizono K, Arumugaswami V. Replication-Deficient Zika Vector-Based Vaccine Provides Maternal and Fetal Protection in Mouse Model. Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Oct 26;10(5):e0113722. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01137-22. Epub 2022 Sep 28. PMID: 36169338; PMCID: PMC9602260.

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Li YR, Dunn ZS, Garcia G Jr, Carmona C, Zhou Y, Lee D, Yu J, Huang J, Kim JT, Arumugaswami V, Wang P, Yang L. Development of off-the-shelf hematopoietic stem cell-engineered invariant natural killer T cells for COVID-19 therapeutic intervention. Stem Cell Res Ther. 2022 Mar 21;13(1):112. doi: 10.1186/s13287-022-02787-2. PMID: 35313965; PMCID: PMC8935266.

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Garcia G Jr, Jeyachandran AV, Wang Y, Irudayam JI, Cario SC, Sen C, Li S, Li Y, Kumar A, Nielsen-Saines K, French SW, Shah PS, Morizono K, Gomperts BN, Deb A, Ramaiah A, Arumugaswami V. Hippo signaling pathway activation during SARS-CoV-2 infection contributes to host antiviral response. PLoS Biol. 2022 Nov 8;20(11):e3001851. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001851. PMID: 36346780; PMCID: PMC9642871.

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Cui Q, Garcia G Jr, Zhang M, Wang C, Li H, Zhou T, Sun G, Arumugaswami V, Shi Y. Compound screen identifies the small molecule Q34 as an inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 infection. iScience. 2022 Jan 21;25(1):103684. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103684. Epub 2021 Dec 24. PMID: 34977495; PMCID: PMC8704726.

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Cambou MC, Liu CM, Mok T, Fajardo-Martinez V, Paiola SG, Ibarrondo FJ, Kerin T, Fuller T, Tobin NH, Garcia G, Bhattacharya D, Aldrovandi GM, Arumugaswami V, Foo SS, Jung JU, Vasconcelos Z, Brasil P, Brendolin M, Yang OO, Rao R, Nielsen-Saines K. Longitudinal Evaluation of Antibody Persistence in Mother-Infant Dyads After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection in Pregnancy. J Infect Dis. 2023 Jan 11;227(2):236-245. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac366. PMID: 36082433; PMCID: PMC9494415.

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Luu AP, Yao Z, Ramachandran S, Azzopardi SA, Miles LA, Schneider WM, Hoffmann HH, Bozzacco L, Garcia G Jr, Gong D, Damoiseaux R, Tang H, Morizono K, Rudin CM, Sun R, Arumugaswami V, Poirier JT, MacDonald MR, Rice CM, Li MMH. A CRISPR Activation Screen Identifies an Atypical Rho GTPase That Enhances Zika Viral Entry. Viruses. 2021 Oct 20;13(11):2113. doi: 10.3390/v13112113. PMID: 34834920; PMCID: PMC8623001.

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Wu B, Ramaiah A, Garcia G Jr, Hasiakos S, Arumugaswami V, Srikanth S. ORAI1 Limits SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Regulating Tonic Type I IFN Signaling. J Immunol. 2022 Jan 1;208(1):74-84. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100742. Epub 2021 Nov 24. PMID: 34819389; PMCID: PMC8702473.​ 

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Foo SS, Cambou MC, Mok T, Fajardo VM, Jung KL, Fuller T, Chen W, Kerin T, Mei J, Bhattacharya D, Choi Y, Wu X, Xia T, Shin WJ, Cranston J, Aldrovandi G, Tobin N, Contreras D, Ibarrondo FJ, Yang O, Yang S, Garner O, Cortado R, Bryson Y, Janzen C, Ghosh S, Devaskar S, Asilnejad B, Moreira ME, Vasconcelos Z, Soni PR, Gibson LC, Brasil P, Comhair SAA, Arumugaswami V, Erzurum SC, Rao R, Jung JU, Nielsen-Saines K. The systemic inflammatory landscape of COVID-19 in pregnancy: Extensive serum proteomic profiling of mother-infant dyads with in utero SARS-CoV-2. Cell Rep Med. 2021 Nov 16;2(11):100453. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100453. Epub 2021 Oct 27. PMID: 34723226; PMCID: PMC8549189.

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Singh S, Garcia G Jr, Shah R, Kramerov AA, Wright RE 3rd, Spektor TM, Ljubimov AV, Arumugaswami V, Kumar A. SARS-CoV-2 and its beta variant of concern infect human conjunctival epithelial cells and induce differential antiviral innate immune response. Ocul Surf. 2022 Jan;23:184-194. doi: 10.1016/j.jtos.2021.09.007. Epub 2021 Sep 25. PMID: 34583089; PMCID: PMC8464027.

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2021

Chen F, Shi Q, Pei F, Vogt A, Porritt RA, Garcia G Jr, Gomez AC, Cheng MH, Schurdak ME, Liu B, Chan SY, Arumugaswami V, Stern AM, Taylor DL, Arditi M, Bahar I. A systems-level study reveals host-targeted repurposable drugs against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Mol Syst Biol. 2021 Aug;17(8):e10239. doi: 10.15252/msb.202110239. PMID: 34339582; PMCID: PMC8328275.

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Shaharuddin SH, Wang V, Santos RS, Gross A, Wang Y, Jawanda H, Zhang Y, Hasan W, Garcia G Jr, Arumugaswami V, Sareen D. Deleterious Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Human Pancreatic Cells. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2021 Jun 23;11:678482. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.678482. PMID: 34282405; PMCID: PMC8285288.

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Mulay A, Konda B, Garcia G Jr, Yao C, Beil S, Villalba JM, Koziol C, Sen C, Purkayastha A, Kolls JK, Pociask DA, Pessina P, de Aja JS, Garcia-de-Alba C, Kim CF, Gomperts B, Arumugaswami V, Stripp BR. SARS-CoV-2 infection of primary human lung epithelium for COVID-19 modeling and drug discovery. Cell Rep. 2021 May 4;35(5):109055. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109055. Epub 2021 Apr 13. PMID: 33905739; PMCID: PMC8043574.

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Garcia G Jr, Sharma A, Ramaiah A, Sen C, Purkayastha A, Kohn DB, Parcells MS, Beck S, Kim H, Bakowski MA, Kirkpatrick MG, Riva L, Wolff KC, Han B, Yuen C, Ulmert D, Purbey PK, Scumpia P, Beutler N, Rogers TF, Chatterjee AK, Gabriel G, Bartenschlager R, Gomperts B, Svendsen CN, Betz UAK, Damoiseaux RD, Arumugaswami V. Antiviral drug screen identifies DNA-damage response inhibitor as potent blocker of SARS-CoV-2 replication. Cell Rep. 2021 Apr 6;35(1):108940. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108940. Epub 2021 Mar 18. PMID: 33784499; PMCID: PMC7969873.

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Mullen PJ, Garcia G Jr, Purkayastha A, Matulionis N, Schmid EW, Momcilovic M, Sen C, Langerman J, Ramaiah A, Shackelford DB, Damoiseaux R, French SW, Plath K, Gomperts BN, Arumugaswami V, Christofk HR. SARS-CoV-2 infection rewires host cell metabolism and is potentially susceptible to mTORC1 inhibition. Nat Commun. 2021 Mar 25;12(1):1876. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22166-4. PMID: 33767183; PMCID: PMC7994801.

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Wang C, Zhang M, Garcia G Jr, Tian E, Cui Q, Chen X, Sun G, Wang J, Arumugaswami V, Shi Y. ApoE-Isoform-Dependent SARS-CoV-2 Neurotropism and Cellular Response. Cell Stem Cell. 2021 Feb 4;28(2):331-342.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2020.12.018. Epub 2021 Jan 4. PMID: 33450186; PMCID: PMC7832490.

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2020

Garcia G Jr, Paul S, Beshara S, Ramanujan VK, Ramaiah A, Nielsen-Saines K, Li MMH, French SW, Morizono K, Kumar A, Arumugaswami V. Hippo Signaling Pathway Has a Critical Role in Zika Virus Replication and in the Pathogenesis of Neuroinflammation. Am J Pathol. 2020 Apr;190(4):844-861. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2019.12.005. Epub 2020 Feb 5. PMID: 32035058; PMCID: PMC7163250.

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Martínez LE, Garcia G Jr, Contreras D, Gong D, Sun R, Arumugaswami V. Zika Virus Mucosal Infection Provides Protective Immunity. J Virol. 2020 Apr 16;94(9):e00067-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00067-20. PMID: 32051274; PMCID: PMC7163142.

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