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Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Illinois at Chicago
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Garyn, C.M., Bover, O., Murray, J.W., Ma, J., Salas-Briceno, K.J., Ross, S.R. and Snoeck, H.-W. DNA damage primes hematopoietic stem cells for direct megakaryopoiesis. bioRxiv 2023.05.13.540665; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.13.540665
Moran, E.A., Salas-Briceno, K., Aguilera, A., Keane, T., Adams, D., Lilue, J.* and Ross, S.R.* (2023) Ifi207, a young and fast-evolving antiviral factor, stabilizes STING. *Co-corresponding authors. BioRxiv https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.01.19.524411v1
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. (2022) 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
Ross, S. R. (2018). The best laid plans of mice and women. PLoS Pathogens, 14(4), e1006873. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006873
Stavrou S, Zhao W, Blouch K, Ross SR. 2018. Deaminase-dead mouse APOBEC3 is an in vivo retroviral restriction factor. J Virol 92:e00168-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00168-18.
Nakaya, Y., Lilue, J., Stavrou, S., Moran, E. and Ross, S.R. (2017) AIM2-like receptors positively and negatively regulate the interferon response induced by cytosolic DNA. MBio 8:4 doi:10.1128/mBio.00944-17
Sarute, N. and Ross, S.R. (2017) New World arenavirus biology. Annual Review of Virology 4. 4:141-158.
Ross, S.R. (2017) Cellular immune responses to retrovirus. In “Retrovirus Cell Interactions”, L. Parent, ed. Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in press.
Nakaya, Y., Stavrou, S., Blouch, K., Tatersall, P. and Ross, S.R. (2016) In vivo examination of mouse APOBEC3- and human APOBEC3A- and APOBEC3G-mediated restriction of parvovirus and herpesvirus infection in mouse models. J. Virol. 90:8005-8012.
Cadena, C., Stavrou, S., Manzoni, T., Ayer, S.S., Bibollet-Ruche, F., Zhang, W., Hahn, B.H., Brown, E.P. and Ross, S.R. (2016) Mouse models for studying the effect of HIV-1 Vif polymorphisms on A3G anti-viral activity. Retrovirology 13:45; DOI: 10.1186/s12977-016-0280-y.
Chou, Y., Cuevas, C., Carocci, M., Stubbs, S.H., Ma, M., Cureton, D.K., Chao, L., Evesson, F., He, K., Yang, P., Whelan, S.P., Ross, S.R., Kirchhausen, T., Gaudin, R. (2016) Identification and characterization of a novel broad spectrum virus entry inhibitor. J. Virol. 90:4494-4910.
Stavrou, S., Blouch, K., Kotla, S., Bass, A. and Ross, S.R. (2015) Nucleic acid recognition orchestrates the anti-viral response to retroviruses. Cell Host and Microbe 17:478-88. Featured article and Preview Piece: Harris, R.S., Perrino, F.W. and Shaban, N.M. (2015) The Multidimensional Nature of Antiviral Innate Immunity. Cell Host and Microbe 17:423-425.
Cuevas, C. and Ross, S.R. (2014) TLR2-mediated innate immune responses against Junín Virus in mice lead to anti-viral adapt MacMillan, A.L., Kohli, R. and Ross, S.R. (2013) APOBEC3 inhibition of MMTV infection: the role of cytidine deamination versus inhibition of reverse transcription. J. Virol.87:4808-4817 (J.Virol. Spotlight in this issue).
Stavrou, S., Nitta, T., Kotla, S., Ha, D.P., Nagashima, K., Rein, A. Fan, H. and Ross, S.R. (2013) Murine leukemia virus glycosylated Gag blocks access of apolipoprotein B editing complex 3 and cytosolic sensors to the reverse transcription complex. PNAS USA 110:9078-9083.
Lavanya, M., Cuevas, C., Thomas, M., Cherry, S. and Ross, S.R. (2013) siRNA screen for genes that affect Junín virus entry uncovers voltage-gated calcium channels as a therapeutic target. Science Translational Med 5:204ra131; DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3006827. Recommended by Faculty of 1000 Prime (http://f1000.com/prime/718120920?subscriptioncode=fe452552-2003-44f2-946c-4f741b34db29); The Latest Science (www.thelatestscience.com); SciBX 6(42); doi:10.1038/scibx.2013.1193.ive immune responses during systemic infection and do not affect viral replication in the brain. J. Virol. 88:7703-7714. Recommended by Faculty of 1000 Prime (http://f1000.com/prime/718361091?ref=ypp).
Stavrou, S., Crawford, D., Blouch, K., Browne, E.P., Kohli, R.M. and Ross, S.R. (2014) Different modes of retrovirus restriction by human APOBEC3A and APOBEC3G in vivo. PLoS Pathogens 10(5):e1004145. (Nature Immunology Research Highlight 15:601)