Selected Publications

2024

Kshitiz Walia, Abhishek Sharma, Sankalita Paul, Priya Chouhan, Gaurav Kumar, Rajesh Ringe, Mahak Sharma & Amit Tuli. SARS-CoV-2 virulence factor ORF3a blocks lysosome function by modulating TBC1D5-dependent Rab7 GTPase cycle. Nature Communications. March 6 2024.

Silke Nuber, Xiaoqun Zhang, Thomas D. McCaffery, Tim E. Moors, Marie-Alexandre Adom, Wolf N. Hahn, Dylan Martin, Maria Ericsson, Arathi Tripathi, Ulf Dettmer, Per Svenningsson, Dennis J. Selkoe. Generation of G51D and 3D mice reveals decreased α-synuclein tetramer-monomer ratios promote Parkinson’s disease phenotypes. npj Parkinson's Disease. .

Karakaya E, Oleinik N, Edwards J, Tomberlin J, Barker RB, Berber B, Ericsson M, Alsudani H, Ergul A, Beyaz S, Lemasters JJ, Ogretmen B, Albayram O. p17/C18-ceramide-mediated mitophagy is an endogenous neuroprotective response in preclinical and clinical brain injury.  PNAS Nexus. 2024 Feb 7;3(2):pgae018. PMID: 38328780.

2023

Chiaramida A, Obwar SG, Nordstrom AEH, Ericsson M, Saldanha A, Ivanova EV, Griffin GK, Khan DH, Belizaire R. Sensitivity to targeted UBA1 inhibition in a myeloid cell line model of VEXAS syndrome. Blood Adv. 2023 12 26; 7(24):7445-7456. PMID: 38091008; PMCID: PMC10758730.

Moors TE, Li S, McCaffery TD, Ho GPH, Bechade PA, Pham LN, Ericsson M, Nuber S. Increased palmitoylation improves estrogen receptor alpha-dependent hippocampal synaptic deficits in a mouse model of synucleinopathy. Sci Adv. 2023 11 15; 9(46):eadj1454. PMID: 37976363.

Barone I, Gilette, NM, Hawks-Mayer H, Handy J, Zhang KJ, Chifamba FF, Mostafa E, Johnson-Venkatesh EM, Sun Y, Gibson JM, Rotenberg A, Umemori H, Tsai PT, Lipton JO. Synaptic BMAL1 Phosphorylation Controls Circadian Hippocampal Plasticity. Science Advances 2023 Oct 27;9(43):eadj1010. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj1010. Epub 2023 Oct 25.

You Y, Zhang Z, Sultana N, Ericsson M, Martens YA, Sun M, Kanekiyo T, Ikezu S, Shaffer SA, Ikezu T. ATP1A3 as a target for isolating neuron-specific extracellular vesicles from human brain and biofluids. Sci Adv. 2023 09 15; 9(37):eadi3647. PMID: 37713494.

Xu C, Xu J, Tang HW, Ericsson M, Weng JH, DiRusso J, Hu Y, Ma W, Asara JM, Perrimon N. A phosphate-sensing organelle regulates phosphate and tissue homeostasis. Nature. 2023 May; 617(7962):798-806. PMID: 37138087; PMCID: PMC10443203.

Dylan V Neel, Himanish Basu, Georgia Gunner, Matthew D. Bergstresser, Richard M. Giadone, Haeji Chung, Rui Miao, Vicky Chou, Eliza Brody, Xin Jang, Edward Lee, Michelle E. Watts, Christine Marques, Aaron Held, Brian Wainger, Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, Yong-Jie Zhang, Leonard Petrucelli, Tracey Young-Pearse, Alice S. Chen-Plotkin, Lee L. Rubin, Judy Lieberman, Isaac M. Chiu. Gasdermin-E mediates mitochondrial damage in axons and neurodegeneration. Cell Press Neuron 2023 Apr 19;111(8):1222-1240.e9.doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.019. Epub 2023 Mar 13

Kang, G., Allard, C.A.H., Valencia-Montoya, W.A., van Giesen, L., Kim, J.J., Kilian, P.B., Bai, X., Bellono, N.W., Hibbs, R.E. 2023. Sensory specializations drive octopus and squid behavior. Nature, volume 616(7956), pp. 373-377

Ter-Ovanesyan D, Gilboa T, Budnik B, Nikitina A, Whiteman S, Lazarovits R, Trieu W, Kalish D, Church GM, Walt DR. Improved Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles by Removal of Both Free Proteins and Lipoproteins. ELife. 2023 May 30:12:e86394.doi: 10.7554/eLife.86394

C.L. Dulberger, C.A. Guerrero-Bustamante, S.V. Owen, S. Wilson, M.G. Wuo, R.A. Garlena, L.A. Serpa, D.A. Russell, J. Zhu, B.J. Braunecker, G.R. Squyres, M. Baym, L. Kiessling, E.C. Garner, E.J. Rubin, G.F. Hatfull. Mycobacterial nucleoid-associated protein Lsr2 is required for productive mycobacteriophage infection. Nature Microbiology 8, 695–710 (2023)

Jiawei Zhao, Yuemeng Jia, Dilnar Mahmut, Amy A Deik, Sarah Jeanfavre, Clary B Clish, Vijay G SankaranHuman hematopoietic stem cell vulnerability to ferroptosis.  Cell. 2023 Feb 16;186(4):732-747. PMID: 36803603 PMCID: PMC997893. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.01.020

2022

Chao Tan, Giovanni de Nola, Claire Qiao, Cordelia Imig, Richard T Born, Nils Brose, Pascal S KaeserMunc13 supports fusogenicity of non-docked vesicles at synapses with disrupted active zones. ELife. 2022 Nov 18;11:e79077. doi: 10.7554/eLife.79077. (also bioRxiv 2022.04.01.486686)

Boland S, Swarup S, Ambaw YA, Malia PC, Richards RC, Fischer AW, Singh S, Aggarwal G, Spina S, Nana AL, Grinberg LT, Seeley WW, Surma MA, Klose C, Paulo JA, Nguyen AD, Harper JW, Walther TC, Farese RV Jr. Deficiency of the frontotemporal dementia gene GRN results in gangliosidosis. Nat Commun. 2022 Oct 7;13(1):5924. 

Gregory A. Wyant, Wenyu Yu, IIias P. Doulamis, Rio S. Nomoto, Mossab Y. Saeed, Thomas Duignan, James D McCully, William G. Kaelin, Jr. Mitochondrial Remodeling and Ischemic Protection by G-protein coupled receptor 35 Agonists. Science. 2022 Aug 5;377(6606):621-629

Stern AM, Liu L, Jin S, Liu W, Meunier AL, Ericsson M, Miller MB, Batson M, Sun T, Kathuria S, Reczek D, Pradier L, Selkoe DJ. A calcium-sensitive antibody isolates soluble amyloid-ß aggregates and fibrils from Alzheimer's disease brainBrain. 2022 07 29; 145(7):2528-2540.

Ayloo S, Gallego Lazo C, Sun S., Zhang W, Cui B, Gu C. Pericyte-to-endothelial cell signaling via vitronectin-integrin regulates blood-CNS barrierNeuron. 2022 May 18; 110(10):1641-1655.e6.

Hume AJ, Heiden B, Olejnik J, Suder EL, Ross S, Scoon WA, Bullitt E, Ericsson M, White MR, Turcinovic J, Thao TTN, Hekman RM, Kaserman JE, Huang J, Alysandratos KD, Toth GE, Jakab F, Kotton DN, Wilson AA, Emili A, Thiel V, Connor JH, Kemenesi G, Cifuentes D, Mühlberger E. Recombinant Lloviu virus as a tool to study viral replication and host responsesPLoS Pathog. 2022 Jun; 18(6): e1010659.

Ruan Z, Takamatsu-Yukawa K, Wang Y, Ushman ML, Labadorf AT, Ericsson M, Ikezu S, Ikezu T. Functional genome-wide short hairpin RNA library screening identifies key molecules for extracellular vesicle secretion from microgliaCell Rep. 2022 05 10; 39(6):110791.

Bondeson DP, Paolella BR, Asfaw A, Rothberg MV, Skipper TA, Langan C, Mesa G, Gonzalez A, Surface LE, Ito K, Kazachkova M, Colgan WN, Warren A, Dempster JM, Krill-Burger JM, Ericsson M, Tang AA, Fung I, Chambers ES, Abdusamad M, Dumont N, Doench JG, Piccioni F, Root DE, Boehm J, Hahn WC, Mannstadt M, McFarland JM, Vazquez F, Golub TR. Phosphate dysregulation via the XPR1-KIDINS220 protein complex is a therapeutic vulnerability in ovarian cancerNat Cancer. 2022 06; 3(6):681-695.

Kenney DJ, O'Connell AK, Turcinovic J, Montanaro P, Hekman RM, Tamura T, Berneshawi AR, Cafiero TR, Al Abdullatif S, Blum B, Goldstein SI, Heller BL, Gertje HP, Bullitt E, Trachtenberg AJ, Chavez E, Nono ET, Morrison C, Tseng AE, Sheikh A, Kurnick S, Grosz K, Bosmann M, Ericsson M, Huber BR, Saeed M, Balazs AB, Francis KP, Klose A, Paragas N, Campbell JD, Connor JH, Emili A, Crossland NA, Ploss A, Douam F. Humanized mice reveal a macrophage-enriched gene signature defining human lung tissue protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection. Cell Rep. 2022 04 19; 39(3):110714.

Kumar, G., Chawla, P., Dhiman, N. et al. RUFY3 links Arl8b and JIP4-Dynein complex to regulate lysosome size and positioningNat Commun 13, 1540 (2022).

Carossino M, Kenney D, O'Connell AK, Montanaro P, Tseng AE, Gertje HP, Grosz KA, Ericsson M, Huber BR, Kurnick SA, Subramaniam S, Kirkland TA, Walker JR, Francis KP, Klose AD, Paragas N, Bosmann M, Saeed M, Balasuriya UBR, Douam F, Crossland NA. Fatal Neurodissemination and SARS-CoV-2 Tropism in K18-hACE2 Mice Is Only Partially Dependent on hACE2 Expression. Viruses. 2022 03 05; 14(3).

Wilkie AR, Sharma M, Coughlin M, Pesola JM, Ericsson M, Lawler JL, Fernandez R, Coen DM. Human Cytomegalovirus Nuclear Egress Complex Subunit, UL53, Associates with Capsids and Myosin Va, but Is Not Important for Capsid Localization towards the Nuclear Periphery. Viruses. 2022 02 26; 14(3).

Moncaster JA, Moir RD, Burton MA, Chadwick O, Minaeva O, Alvarez VE, Ericsson M, Clark JI, McKee AC, Tanzi RE, Goldstein LE. Alzheimer's disease amyloid-ß pathology in the lens of the eyeExp Eye Res. 2022 Aug; 221:108974.

D'Cruz AA, Ericsson M, Croker BA. Non-apoptotic Cell Death Control of Neutrophil Extracellular Trap FormationMethods Mol Biol. 2022; 2523:253-263.

Parlakgül G, Arruda AP, Pang S, Cagampan E, Min N, Güney E, Lee GY, Inouye K, Hess HF, Xu CS, Hotamisligil GS. Regulation of liver subcellular architecture controls metabolic homeostasis. Nature. 2022 03; 603(7902):736-742.

Rossana C. N. Melo, Ann M. Dvorak, and Peter F. Weller. Eosinophil Ultrastructure: Atlas of Eosinophil Cell Biology and Pathology. Elsevier, 2022. 

2021

Ivanchenko MV, Indzhykulian AA, Corey DP. Electron Microscopy Techniques for Investigating Structure and Composition of Hair-Cell Stereociliary Bundles. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021; 9:744248.

Wang N, Clark LD, Gao Y, Kozlov MM, Shemesh T, Rapoport TA. Mechanism of membrane-curvature generation by ER-tubule shaping proteins. Nat Commun. 2021 01 25; 12(1):568.

Sever N, Milicic G, Bodnar NO, Wu X, Rapoport TA. Mechanism of Lamellar Body Formation by Lung Surfactant Protein BMol Cell. 2021 01 07; 81(1):49-66.e8.

Willis GR, Reis M, Gheinani AH, Fernandez-Gonzalez A, Taglauer ES, Yeung V, Liu X, Ericsson M, Haas E, Mitsialis SA, Kourembanas S. Extracellular Vesicles Protect the Neonatal Lung from Hyperoxic Injury through the Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Reprogramming of Myeloid Cells. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 12 15; 204(12):1418-1432.

Fonseca-Ornelas L, Viennet T, Rovere M, Jiang H, Liu L, Nuber S, Ericsson M, Arthanari H, Selkoe DJ. Altered conformation of a-synuclein drives dysfunction of synaptic vesicles in a synaptosomal model of Parkinson's disease. Cell Rep. 2021 07 06; 36(1):109333.

Emperador-Melero J, Wong MY, Wang SSH, De Nola G, Kirchhausen T, and Kaeser PS. PKC-phosphorylation of Liprin-α3 triggers phase separation and controls presynaptic active zone structure. Nature Communications. 2021 May 24. (also bioRxiv 2020.10.28.357574)

Sun Y, Rahbani JF, Jedrychowski MP, Riley CL, Vidoni S, Bogoslavski D, Hu B, Dumesic PA, Zeng X, Wang AB, Knudsen NH, Kim CR, Marasciullo A, Millán JL, Chouchani ET, Kazak L, Spiegelman BM. Mitochondrial TNAP controls thermogenesis by hydrolysis of phosphocreatine. Nature. 2021 05; 593(7860):580-585.

Frank Gyngard, Louise Trakimas , Matthew L SteinhauserHigh-Fidelity Quantification of Cell Cycle Activity with Multi-Isotope Imaging Mass Spectrometry. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2158:257-268.

Clayton K, Delpech JC, Herron S, Iwahara N, Ericsson M, Saito T, Saido TC, Ikezu S, Ikezu T. Plaque associated microglia hyper-secrete extracellular vesicles and accelerate tau propagation in a humanized APP mouse modelMol Neurodegener. 2021 Apr 14; 16(1):24.

Ruan Z, Pathak D, Venkatesan Kalavai S, Yoshii-Kitahara A, Muraoka S, Bhatt N, Takamatsu-Yukawa K, Hu J, Wang Y, Hersh S, Ericsson M, Gorantla S, Gendelman HE, Kayed R, Ikezu S, Luebke JI, Ikezu T. Alzheimer's disease brain-derived extracellular vesicles spread tau pathology in interneurons. Brain. 2021 02 12; 144(1):288-309.

Ericsson M, von Saucken V, Newman AJ, Doehr L, Hoesch C, Kim TE, Dettmer U. Crowded organelles, lipid accumulation, and abnormal membrane tubulation in cellular models of enhanced a-synuclein membrane interactionBrain Res. 2021 05 01; 1758:147349.

Hollingsworth, L.R, Sharif, H, Griswold, A.R, Fontana P, Mintseris J, Dagbay K.B, Paulo J.A, Gygi S.P, Bachovchin D.A, Wu H.  DPP9 sequesters the C terminus of NLRP1 to repress inflammasome activation. Nature. 592, 778–783 (2021)

Latorre-Muro P, O'Malley KE, Bennett C, Perry EA, Balsa E, Tavares CDJ, Jedrychowski M, Gygi SP, Puigserver P. A cold-stress-inducible PERK/OGT axis control TOM70-assisted mitochondrial protein import and cristae formation. Cell Metabolism. 2021 Feb 9;S1550-4131(21)00013-9

Sharif H, Hollingsworth LR, Griswold AR, Hsiao JC, Wang Q, Bachovchin DA, Wu H. Dipeptidyl peptidase 9 sets a threshold for CARD8 inflammasome formation by sequestering its active C-terminal fragment. Immunity 54: 1-13 (2021). 

Guo Y, Cao Y, Jardin BD, Sethi I, Ma Q, Moghadaszadeh B, Troiano EC, Mazumdar N, Trembley MA, Small EM, Yuan GC, Beggs AH, Pu WT. Sarcomeres regulate murine cardiomyocyte maturation through MRTF-SRF signaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118(2).

2020

Lai NY, Musser MA, Pinho-Ribeiro FA, Baral P, Jacobson A, Ma P, Potts DE, Chen Z, Paik D, Soualhi S, Yan Y, Misra A, Goldstein K, Lagomarsino VN, Nordstrom A, Sivanathan KN, Wallrapp A, Kuchroo VK, Nowarski R, Starnbach MN, Shi H, Surana NK, An D, Wu C, Huh JR, Rao M, Chiu IM. Gut-Innervating Nociceptor Neurons Regulate Peyer's Patch Microfold Cells and SFB Levels to Mediate Salmonella Host Defense. Cell. 2020 01 09; 180(1):33-49.e22.

Minaeva O, Sarangi S, Ledoux DM, Moncaster JA, Parsons DS, Washicosky KJ, Black CA, Weng FJ, Ericsson M, Moir RD, Tripodis Y, Clark JI, Tanzi RE, Hunter DG, Goldstein LE. In Vivo Quasi-Elastic Light Scattering Eye Scanner Detects Molecular Aging in Humans. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2020 09 16; 75(9):e53-e62.

Drokhlyansky E, Smillie CS, Van Wittenberghe N, Ericsson M, Griffin GK, Eraslan G, Dionne D, Cuoco MS, Goder-Reiser MN, Sharova T, Kuksenko O, Aguirre AJ, Boland GM, Graham D, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Xavier RJ, Regev A. The Human and Mouse Enteric Nervous System at Single-Cell Resolution. Cell. 2020 09 17; 182(6):1606-1622.e23.

Wu AY, Sung YC, Chen YJ, Chou ST, Guo V, Chien JC, Ko JJ, Yang AL, Huang HC, Chuang JC, Wu S, Ho MR, Ericsson M, Lin WW, Cheung CHY, Juan HF, Ueda K, Chen Y, Lai CP. Multiresolution Imaging Using Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer Identifies Distinct Biodistribution Profiles of Extracellular Vesicles and Exomeres with Redirected Tropism. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2020 Oct; 7(19):2001467.

Willis GR, Fernandez-Gonzalez A, Reis M, Yeung V, Liu X, Ericsson M, Andrews NA, Mitsialis SA, Kourembanas S. Mesenchymal stromal cell-derived small extracellular vesicles restore lung architecture and improve exercise capacity in a model of neonatal hyperoxia-induced lung injury. J Extracell Vesicles. 2020 Jul 13; 9(1):1790874.

Fassl A, Brain C, Abu-Remaileh M, Stukan I, Butter D, Stepien P, Feit AS, Bergholz J, Michowski W, Otto T, Sheng Q, Loo A, Michael W, Tiedt R, DeAngelis C, Schiff R, Jiang B, Jovanovic B, Nowak K, Ericsson M, Cameron M, Gray N, Dillon D, Zhao JJ, Sabatini DM, Jeselsohn R, Brown M, Polyak K, Sicinski P. Increased lysosomal biomass is responsible for the resistance of triple-negative breast cancers to CDK4/6 inhibition. Sci Adv. 2020 06; 6(25):eabb2210.

Nyitrai H, Wang SSH, Kaeser PS. ELKS1 Captures Rab6-Marked Vesicular Cargo in Presynaptic Nerve Terminals. Cell Rep 2020 Jun 9;31(10):107712.

Chow, B.W, Nuñez, V, Kaplan, L, Granger, A.J, Bistrong, K, Zucker, H.L, Kumar, P, Sabatini, B.L, Gu C. (2020) Caveolae in CNS arterioles mediate neurovascular coupling. Nature, 579(7797):106-110.

2019

Heo JM, Harper NJ, Paulo JA, Li M, Xu Q, Coughlin M, Elledge SJ, Harper JW. Integrated proteogenetic analysis reveals the landscape of a mitochondrial-autophagosome synapse during PARK2-dependent mitophagy. Sci Adv. 2019 11; 5(11):eaay4624.

Fame RM, Shannon ML, Chau KF, Head JP, Lehtinen MK. A concerted metabolic shift in early forebrain alters the CSF proteome and depends on MYC downregulation for mitochondrial maturation. Development. 2019 10 24; 146(20). 

Li H, Ericsson M, Rabasha B, Budnik B, Chan SH, Freinkman E, Lewis CA, Doench JG, Wagner BK, Garraway LA, Schreiber SL. 6-Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase Links Cytosolic Carbohydrate Metabolism to Protein Secretion via Modulation of Glutathione Levels. Cell Chem Biol. 2019 09 19; 26(9):1306-1314.e5.

Rajsombath MM, Nam AY, Ericsson M, Nuber S. Female Sex and Brain-Selective Estrogen Benefit a-Synuclein Tetramerization and the PD-like Motor Syndrome in 3K Transgenic MiceJ Neurosci. 2019 09 18; 39(38):7628-7640.

Park SY, Yang JS, Li Z, Deng P, Zhu X, Young D, Ericsson M, Andringa RLH, Minnaard AJ, Zhu C, Sun F, Moody DB, Morris AJ, Fan J, Hsu VW. The late stage of COPI vesicle fission requires shorter forms of phosphatidic acid and diacylglycerol. Nat Commun. 2019 07 30; 10(1):3409.

Kodani A, Moyer T, Chen A, Holland A, Walsh CA, Reiter JF. SFI1 promotes centriole duplication by recruiting USP9X to stabilize the microcephaly protein STIL. J Cell Biol. 2019 07 01; 218(7):2185-2197.

Tilman Jobst-Schwan, Charlotte A. Hoogstraten, Caroline M. Kolvenbach, Johanna Magdalena Schmidt, Amy Kolb, Kaitlyn Eddy, Ronen Schneider, Shazia Ashraf, Eugen Widmeier, Amar J. Majmundar, and Friedhelm Hildebrandt. Corticosteroid treatment exacerbates nephrotic syndrome in a zebrafish model of magi2a knockout. Kidney Int. 2019 May; 95(5): 1079–1090.

Pamela Magistrado-Coxen, Yousuf Aqeel, Angelo Lopez, John R. HaserickID, Breeanna R. Urbanowicz, Catherine E. Costello, John Samuelson. The most abundant cyst wall proteins of Acanthamoeba castellanii are lectins that bind cellulose and localize to distinct structures in developing and mature cyst walls. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.