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Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Recent Publications
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Zhao, W., Modak, A. and Ross, S.R. (2025) DHX15 inhibits mouse APOBEC3 deamination. PLOS Pathogens 21(4):e1013045.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1013045.
Enya, T. and Ross, S.R. (2025) Innate sensing of viral nucleic acids and their use in anti-viral vaccine development. Vaccines 13(2):193. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines13020193 (invited review).
Iyer, K., Yan, Z. and Ross, S.R. (2024) Entry inhibitors as arenavirus antivirals. Frontiers in Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1382953 (invited review).
Ma, J. and Ross, S.R. (2024) Multifunctional role of DEAD-box helicase 41 in innate immunity, hematopoiesis and disease. Frontiers in Immunology, doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1451705.
Liu, W., Newhall, K.P., Khani, F., Barlow, L., Nguyen, D., Gu, L., Eng, K., Bhinder, B., Uppal, M., Récapet, C., Sboner, S., Ross, S.R., Elemento, O., Chelico, L., Faltas, B.M. (2023) The cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G contributes to cancer mutagenesis and clonal evolution in bladder cancer. Cancer Research CAN-22-2912. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-2912.
Ma J, Mahmud N, Bosland MC, Ross SR. DDX41 is needed for pre- and postnatal hematopoietic stem cell differentiation in mice. Stem Cell Reports. 2022 Mar 5;. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2022.02.010. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35303436.
Wörmann SM, Zhang A, Thege FI, Cowan RW, Rupani DN, Wang R, Manning SL, Gates C, Wu W, Levin-Klein R, Rajapakshe KI, Yu M, Multani AS, Kang Y, Taniguchi CM, Schlacher K, Bellin MD, Katz MHG, Kim MP, Fleming JB, Gallinger S, Maddipati R, Harris RS, Notta F, Ross SR, Maitra A, Rhim AD. APOBEC3A drives deaminase domain-independent chromosomal instability to promote pancreatic cancer metastasis. Nat Cancer. 2021 Dec;2(12):1338-1356. doi: 10.1038/s43018-021-00268-8. Epub 2021 Nov 18. PubMed PMID: 35121902.
Salas-Briceno K, Ross SR. Repair of APOBEC3G-Mutated Retroviral DNA In Vivo Is Facilitated by the Host Enzyme Uracil DNA Glycosylase 2. J Virol. 2021 Oct 27;95(22):e0124421. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01244-21. Epub 2021 Sep 1. PubMed PMID: 34468176; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8549519.
Sarute N, Ross SR. The board is set, the pieces are moving: Modulation of New World arenavirus entry by host proteins. PLoS Pathog. 2021 Jun;17(6):e1009605. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009605. eCollection 2021 Jun. Review. PubMed PMID: 34111222; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8191888.
Emily K. Law, Rena Levin-Klein, Matthew C. Jarvis, Hyoung Kim, Prokopios P. Argyris, Michael A. Carpenter, Gabriel J. Starrett, Nuri A. Temiz, Lindsay K. Larson, Cameron Durfee, Michael B. Burns, Rachel I. Vogel, Spyridon Stavrou, Alexya N. Aguilera, Sandra Wagner, David A. Largaespada, Timothy K. Starr, Susan R. Ross, Reuben S. Harris; APOBEC3A catalyzes mutation and drives carcinogenesis in vivo. J Exp Med 7 December 2020; 217 (12): e20200261. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20200261
Moran EA, Ross SR. Insights into Sensing of Murine Retroviruses. Viruses. 2020; 12(8):836. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12080836
Li, J. J., Sarute, N., Lancaster, E., Otkiran-Clare, G., Fagla, B. M., Ross, S. R., & Scherer, S. S. (2020). A recessive Trim2 mutation causes an axonal neuropathy in mice. Neurobiology of Disease, 140,104845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2020.104845
Treger, R. S., Tokuyama, M., Dong, H., Salas-Briceno, K., Ross, S. R., Kong, Y., & Iwasaki, A. (2019). Human APOBEC3G Prevents Emergence of Infectious Endogenous Retrovirus in Mice. Journal of virology, 93(20), e00728-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00728-19
Sarute N, Ibrahim N, Medegan Fagla B, Lavanya M, Cuevas C, Stavrou S, et al. (2019) TRIM2, a novel member of the antiviral family, limits New World arenavirus entry. PLoS Biol 17(2): e3000137. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000137
Stavrou, S., Aguilera, A. N., Blouch, K., & Ross, S. R. (2018). DDX41 Recognizes RNA/DNA Retroviral Reverse Transcripts and Is Critical for In VivoControl of Murine Leukemia Virus Infection. mBio, 9(3), e00923–18. http://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00923-18