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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. Pyrrole-based inhibitors of RND-type efflux pumps reverse antibiotic resistance and display anti-virulence potential

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Nisha Mahey, Rushikesh Tambat, Ritu Kalia, Rajnita Ingavale, Akriti Kodesia, Nishtha Chandal, Srajan Kapoor, Dipesh Kumar Verma, Krishan Gopal Thakur, Sanjay Jachak, Hemraj Nandanwar

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  2. A new family of glutamate-gated chloride channels in parasitic sea louse Caligus rogercresseyi: A subunit refractory to activation by ivermectin is dominant in heteromeric assemblies

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Felipe Tribiños, Patricio Cuevas, Isabel Cornejo, Francisco V. Sepúlveda, L. Pablo Cid Sea louse ectoparasitosis is a major threat to fish aquaculture. Avermectins such as ivermectin and emamectin have been effectively used against sea louse infestation, but the emergence of resistance has limited their use. A better understanding of the molecular targets of avermectins is essential to the development of novel treatment strategies or new, more effective drugs.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues

  3. Molecular evidence of widespread benzimidazole drug resistance in Ancylostoma caninum from domestic dogs throughout the USA and discovery of a novel β-tubulin benzimidazole resistance mutation

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Abhinaya Venkatesan, Pablo D. Jimenez Castro, Arianna Morosetti, Hannah Horvath, Rebecca Chen, Elizabeth Redman, Kayla Dunn, James Bryant Collins, James S. Fraser, Erik C. Anderson, Ray M. Kaplan, John S. Gilleard Ancylostoma caninum is an important zoonotic gastrointestinal nematode of dogs worldwide and a close relative of human hookworms. We recently reported that racing greyhound dogs in the USA are infected with A.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues

  4. ZccE is a Novel P-type ATPase That Protects Streptococcus mutans Against Zinc Intoxication

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Tridib Ganguly, Alexandra M. Peterson, Marissa Burkholder, Jessica K. Kajfasz, Jacqueline Abranches, José A. Lemos Zinc is a trace metal that is essential to all forms of life, but that becomes toxic at high concentrations. Because it has both antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties and low toxicity to mammalian cells, zinc has been used as a therapeutic agent for centuries to treat a variety of infectious and non-infectious conditions.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  5. Efficacy of epetraborole against Mycobacterium abscessus is increased with norvaline

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Jaryd R. Sullivan, Andréanne Lupien, Elias Kalthoff, Claire Hamela, Lorne Taylor, Kim A. Munro, T. Martin Schmeing, Laurent Kremer, Marcel A. Behr

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  6. In vitro selection of Remdesivir resistance suggests evolutionary predictability of SARS-CoV-2

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Agnieszka M. Szemiel, Andres Merits, Richard J. Orton, Oscar A. MacLean, Rute Maria Pinto, Arthur Wickenhagen, Gauthier Lieber, Matthew L. Turnbull, Sainan Wang, Wilhelm Furnon, Nicolas M. Suarez, Daniel Mair, Ana da Silva Filipe, Brian J. Willett, Sam J. Wilson, Arvind H. Patel, Emma C. Thomson, Massimo Palmarini, Alain Kohl, Meredith E. Stewart

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  7. The regulation landscape of MAPK signaling cascade for thwarting Bacillus thuringiensis infection in an insect host

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Zhaojiang Guo, Shi Kang, Qingjun Wu, Shaoli Wang, Neil Crickmore, Xuguo Zhou, Alejandra Bravo, Mario Soberón, Youjun Zhang

      • Heavy Metals
      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  8. Evolution of the interactions between GII.4 noroviruses and histo-blood group antigens: Insights from experimental and computational studies

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Yu Liang, Wei Bu Wang, Jing Zhang, Jun Wei Hou, Fang Tang, Xue Feng Zhang, Li Fang Du, Ji Guo Su, Qi Ming Li

      • Norovirus
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Viruses

  9. Interactions of SARS-CoV-2 envelope protein with amilorides correlate with antiviral activity

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Sang Ho Park, Haley Siddiqi, Daniela V. Castro, Anna A. De Angelis, Aaron L. Oom, Charlotte A. Stoneham, Mary K. Lewinski, Alex E. Clark, Ben A. Croker, Aaron F. Carlin, John Guatelli, Stanley J. Opella

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  10. Nep1-like proteins as a target for plant pathogen control

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Katja Pirc, Vesna Hodnik, Tina Snoj, Tea Lenarčič, Simon Caserman, Marjetka Podobnik, Hannah Böhm, Isabell Albert, Anita Kotar, Janez Plavec, Jure Borišek, Martina Damuzzo, Alessandra Magistrato, Boris Brus, Izidor Sosič, Stanislav Gobec, Thorsten Nürnberger, Gregor Anderluh

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  11. AHR is a tunable knob that controls HTLV-1 latency-reactivation switching

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Establishing latent infection but retaining the capability to reactivate in certain circumstance is an ingenious tactic for retroviruses to persist in vivo while evading host immune surveillance. Many evidences indicate that Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is not completely silent in vivo. However, signals that trigger HTLV-1 latency-reactivation switching remain poorly understood.

      • Dioxins
      • Chemical contaminants

  12. A symbiotic bacterium of shipworms produces a compound with broad spectrum anti-apicomplexan activity

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Roberta M. O’Connor, Felix J. Nepveux V, Jaypee Abenoja, Gregory Bowden, Patricia Reis, Josiah Beaushaw, Rachel M. Bone Relat, Iwona Driskell, Fernanda Gimenez, Michael W. Riggs, Deborah A. Schaefer, Eric W. Schmidt, Zhenjian Lin, Daniel L. Distel, Jon Clardy, Timothy R. Ramadhar, David R. Allred, Heather M. Fritz, Pradipsinh Rathod, Laura Chery, John White

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Parasites
      • Heavy Metals
      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Cryptosporidium parvum

  13. Identification of binding residues between periplasmic adapter protein (PAP) and RND efflux pumps explains PAP-pump promiscuity and roles in antimicrobial resistance

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Helen E. McNeil, Ilyas Alav, Ricardo Corona Torres, Amanda E. Rossiter, Eve Laycock, Simon Legood, Inderpreet Kaur, Matthew Davies, Matthew Wand, Mark A. Webber, Vassiliy N. Bavro, Jessica M. A. Blair

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Salmonella

  14. Viral engagement with host (co-)receptors blocked by a novel class of tryptophan dendrimers that targets the 5-fold-axis of the enterovirus-A71 capsid

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Liang Sun, Hyunwook Lee, Hendrik Jan Thibaut, Kristina Lanko, Eva Rivero-Buceta, Carol Bator, Belen Martinez-Gualda, Kai Dallmeier, Leen Delang, Pieter Leyssen, Federico Gago, Ana San-Félix, Susan Hafenstein, Carmen Mirabelli, Johan Neyts

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  15. Structural basis of Zn(II) induced metal detoxification and antibiotic resistance by histidine kinase CzcS in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Dan Wang, Weizhong Chen, Shanqing Huang, Yafeng He, Xichun Liu, Qingyuan Hu, Tianbiao Wei, Hong Shang, Jianhua Gan, Hao Chen

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  16. HTLV-1 Tax Induces Formation of the Active Macromolecular IKK Complex by Generating Lys63- and Met1-Linked Hybrid Polyubiquitin Chains

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Yuri Shibata, Fuminori Tokunaga, Eiji Goto, Ginga Komatsu, Jin Gohda, Yasushi Saeki, Keiji Tanaka, Hirotaka Takahashi, Tatsuya Sawasaki, Satoshi Inoue, Hiroyuki Oshiumi, Tsukasa Seya, Hiroyasu Nakano, Yuetsu Tanaka, Kazuhiro Iwai, Jun-ichiro Inoue

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  17. Collapse of Cytolytic Potential in SIV-Specific CD8+ T Cells Following Acute SIV Infection in Rhesus Macaques

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Emily R. Roberts, Diane G. Carnathan, Hui Li, George M. Shaw, Guido Silvestri, Michael R. Betts

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  18. When Parasites Are Good for Health: Cestode Parasitism Increases Resistance to Arsenic in Brine Shrimps

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Marta I. Sánchez, Inès Pons, Mónica Martínez-Haro, Mark A. Taggart, Thomas Lenormand, Andy J. Green

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  19. Antibiotic and Antiinflammatory Therapy Transiently Reduces Inflammation and Hypercoagulation in Acutely SIV-Infected Pigtailed Macaques

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Ivona Pandrea, Cuiling Xu, Jennifer L. Stock, Daniel N. Frank, Dongzhu Ma, Benjamin B. Policicchio, Tianyu He, Jan Kristoff, Elaine Cornell, George S. Haret-Richter, Anita Trichel, Ruy M. Ribeiro, Russell Tracy, Cara Wilson, Alan L. Landay, Cristian Apetrei

      • Chemical contaminants

  20. A Novel Antiviral Target Structure Involved in the RNA Binding, Dimerization, and Nuclear Export Functions of the Influenza A Virus Nucleoprotein

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Michinori Kakisaka, Yutaka Sasaki, Kazunori Yamada, Yasumitsu Kondoh, Hirokazu Hikono, Hiroyuki Osada, Kentaro Tomii, Takehiko Saito, Yoko Aida

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Viruses