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Research Publications (Food Safety)

This page tracks research articles published in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Recent articles are available ahead of print and searchable by Journal, Article Title, and Category. Research publications are tracked across six categories: Bacterial Pathogens, Chemical Contaminants, Natural Toxins, Parasites, Produce Safety, and Viruses. Articles produced by USDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) and FDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) are also tracked in Scopus.

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  1. Listeria motility increases the efficiency of epithelial invasion during intestinal infection

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Inge M. N. Wortel, Seonyoung Kim, Annie Y. Liu, Enid C. Ibarra, Mark J. Miller Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a food-borne pathogen that causes severe bacterial gastroenteritis, with high rates of hospitalization and mortality. Lm is ubiquitous in soil, water and livestock, and can survive and proliferate at low temperatures.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes
  2. MurA escape mutations uncouple peptidoglycan biosynthesis from PrkA signaling

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Sabrina Wamp, Patricia Rothe, Daniel Stern, Gudrun Holland, Janina Döhling, Sven Halbedel Gram-positive bacteria are protected by a thick mesh of peptidoglycan (PG) completely engulfing their cells. This PG network is the main component of the bacterial cell wall, it provides rigidity and acts as foundation for the attachment of other surface molecules.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes
  3. Acid stress signals are integrated into the σB-dependent general stress response pathway via the stressosome in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Duarte N. Guerreiro, M. Graciela Pucciarelli, Teresa Tiensuu, Diana Gudynaite, Aoife Boyd, Jörgen Johansson, Francisco García-del Portillo, Conor P. O’Byrne The general stress response (GSR) in Listeria monocytogenes plays a critical role in the survival of this pathogen in the host gastrointestinal tract. The GSR is regulated by the alternative sigma factor B (σB), whose role in protection against acid stress is well established.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes
  4. Inhibition of the master regulator of Listeria monocytogenes virulence enables bacterial clearance from spacious replication vacuoles in infected macrophages

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Thao Thanh Tran, Carmen D. Mathmann, Marcela Gatica-Andrades, Rachel F. Rollo, Melanie Oelker, Johanna K. Ljungberg, Tam T. K. Nguyen, Alina Zamoshnikova, Lalith K. Kummari, Orry J. K. Wyer, Katharine M. Irvine, Javier Melo-Bolívar, Annette Gross, Darren Brown, Jeffrey Y. W. Mak, David P. Fairlie, Karl A. Hansford, Matthew A. Cooper, Rabina Giri, Veronika Schreiber, Shannon R. Joseph, Fiona Simpson, Timothy C. Barnett, Jörgen Johansson, Wendy Dankers, James Harris, Timothy J.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  5. Histone H3 deacetylation promotes host cell viability for efficient infection by Listeria monocytogenes

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Matthew J. G. Eldridge, Mélanie A. Hamon

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  6. PASTA kinase-dependent control of peptidoglycan synthesis via ReoM is required for cell wall stress responses, cytosolic survival, and virulence in Listeria monocytogenes

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Jessica L. Kelliher, Caroline M. Grunenwald, Rhiannon R. Abrahams, McKenzie E. Daanen, Cassandra I. Lew, Warren E. Rose, John-Demian Sauer

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens
  7. Phagocytes produce prostaglandin E2 in response to cytosolic Listeria monocytogenes

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Courtney E. McDougal, Zachary T. Morrow, Tighe Christopher, Seonyoung Kim, Drake Carter, David M. Stevenson, Daniel Amador-Noguez, Mark J. Miller, John-Demian Sauer

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  8. Detoxification of methylglyoxal by the glyoxalase system is required for glutathione availability and virulence activation in Listeria monocytogenes

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Andrea Anaya-Sanchez, Ying Feng, John C. Berude, Daniel A. Portnoy

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  9. The redox-responsive transcriptional regulator Rex represses fermentative metabolism and is required for Listeria monocytogenes pathogenesis

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Cortney R. Halsey, Rochelle C. Glover, Maureen K. Thomason, Michelle L. Reniere

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  10. Listeria monocytogenes infection rewires host metabolism with regulatory input from type I interferons

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Duygu Demiroz, Ekaterini Platanitis, Michael Bryant, Philipp Fischer, Michaela Prchal-Murphy, Alexander Lercher, Caroline Lassnig, Manuela Baccarini, Mathias Müller, Andreas Bergthaler, Veronika Sexl, Marlies Dolezal, Thomas Decker

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  11. Pulmonary insults exacerbate susceptibility to oral Listeria monocytogenes infection through the production of IL-10 by NK cells

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Nikki Bortell, Elizabeth R. Aguilera, Laurel L. Lenz

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  12. Fluorescent secreted bacterial effectors reveal active intravacuolar proliferation of Listeria monocytogenes in epithelial cells

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Caroline Peron-Cane, José-Carlos Fernandez, Julien Leblanc, Laure Wingertsmann, Arnaud Gautier, Nicolas Desprat, Alice Lebreton

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  13. TLR2 and endosomal TLR-mediated secretion of IL-10 and immune suppression in response to phagosome-confined Listeria monocytogenes

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Brittney N. Nguyen, Alfredo Chávez-Arroyo, Mandy I. Cheng, Maria Krasilnikov, Alexander Louie, Daniel A. Portnoy

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  14. Host syndecan-1 promotes listeriosis by inhibiting intravascular neutrophil extracellular traps

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Rafael S. Aquino, Atsuko Hayashida, Pyong Woo Park

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes
  15. Transcytosis subversion by M cell-to-enterocyte spread promotes Shigella flexneri and Listeria monocytogenes  intracellular bacterial dissemination

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Camille Rey, Yuen-Yan Chang, Patricia Latour-Lambert, Hugo Varet, Caroline Proux, Rachel Legendre, Jean-Yves Coppée, Jost Enninga

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Shigella
  16. Phage resistance at the cost of virulence: Listeria monocytogenes serovar 4b requires galactosylated teichoic acids for InlB-mediated invasion

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Eric T. Sumrall, Yang Shen, Anja P. Keller, Jeanine Rismondo, Maria Pavlou, Marcel R. Eugster, Samy Boulos, Olivier Disson, Pierre Thouvenot, Samuel Kilcher, Bernd Wollscheid, Didier Cabanes, Marc Lecuit, Angelika Gründling, Martin J. Loessner

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  17. Fas-associated factor 1 Mediates NADPH Oxidase-Induced Reactive Oxygen Species Production and Proinflammatory Responses in Macrophages against Listeria Infection

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • Tae-Hwan Kim, Hyun-Cheol Lee, Jae-Hoon Kim, C. Y. Hewawaduge, Kiramage Chathuranga, W. A. Gayan Chathuranga, Pathum Ekanayaka, H. M. S. M. Wijerathne, Chul-Joong Kim, Eunhee Kim, Jong-Soo Lee

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  18. The RNA helicase DDX3X is an essential mediator of innate antimicrobial immunity

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • Daniel Szappanos, Roland Tschismarov, Thomas Perlot, Sandra Westermayer, Katrin Fischer, Ekaterini Platanitis, Fabian Kallinger, Maria Novatchkova, Caroline Lassnig, Mathias Müller, Veronika Sexl, Keiryn L. Bennett, Michelle Foong-Sobis, Josef M. Penninger, Thomas Decker

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  19. Listeria monocytogenes InlP interacts with afadin and facilitates basement membrane crossing

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • Cristina Faralla, Effie E. Bastounis, Fabian E. Ortega, Samuel H. Light, Gabrielle Rizzuto, Salvatorre Nocadello, Wayne F. Anderson, Jennifer R. Robbins, Julie A. Theriot, Anna I. Bakardjiev

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  20. Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells differ in their capacity to recognize infected macrophages

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • Jason D. Yang, Daniel Mott, Rujapak Sutiwisesak, Yu-Jung Lu, Fiona Raso, Britni Stowell, Greg Hunter Babunovic, Jinhee Lee, Steve M. Carpenter, Sing Sing Way, Sarah M. Fortune, Samuel M. Behar

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  21. Extracellular adenosine modulates host-pathogen interactions through regulation of systemic metabolism during immune response in Drosophila

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • Adam Bajgar, Tomas Dolezal

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  22. HDAC6 controls innate immune and autophagy responses to TLR-mediated signalling by the intracellular bacteria Listeria monocytogenes

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • Olga Moreno-Gonzalo, Marta Ramírez-Huesca, Noelia Blas-Rus, Danay Cibrián, María Laura Saíz, Inmaculada Jorge, Emilio Camafeita, Jesús Vázquez, Francisco Sánchez-Madrid

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  23. Listeria monocytogenes switches from dissemination to persistence by adopting a vacuolar lifestyle in epithelial cells

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • Mounia Kortebi, Eliane Milohanic, Gabriel Mitchell, Christine Péchoux, Marie-Christine Prevost, Pascale Cossart, Hélène Bierne

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  24. Progesterone impairs antigen-non-specific immune protection by CD8 T memory cells via interferon-γ gene hypermethylation

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • Yushi Yao, Hui Li, Jie Ding, Yixin Xia, Lei Wang

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  25. Down regulation of macrophage IFNGR1 exacerbates systemic L. monocytogenes infection

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • Emily M. Eshleman, Christine Delgado, Staci J. Kearney, Rachel S. Friedman, Laurel L. Lenz

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens