New Publications
MSTPublications: December 2021
Dec. 20, 2021—MTG16 (CBFA2T3) regulates colonic epithelial differentiation, colitis, and tumorigenesis by repressing E protein transcription factors Rachel E. Brown, Justin Jacobse, Shruti A. Anant, Koral M. Blunt, Bob Chen, Paige N. Vega, Chase T. Jones, Jennifer M. Pilat, Frank Revetta, Aidan H. Gorby, Kristy R. Stengel, Yash A. Choksi, Kimmo Palin, M. Blanca Piazuelo, M. Kay...
MSTPublications: November 2021
Nov. 30, 2021— Leptin Augments Antitumor Immunity in Obesity by Repolarizing Tumor-Associated Macrophages. Dudzinski SO, Bader JE, Beckermann KE, Young KL, Hongo R, Madden MZ, Abraham A, Reinfeld BE, Ye X, MacIver NJ, Giorgio TD, Rathmell JC. J Immunol. 2021 Nov 12:ji2001152. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2001152. Online ahead of print. Although obesity can promote cancer, it may also...
MSTPubs: September 2021
Sep. 30, 2021—Amelioration of post-traumatic osteoarthritis via nanoparticle depots delivering small interfering RNA to damaged cartilage. Bedingfield, SK, Colazo, JM, Yu, F. et al. Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 Aug 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00780-3 The progression of osteoarthritis is associated with inflammation triggered by the enzymatic degradation of extracellular matrix in injured cartilage. Here we show that a locally injected...
MSTPublications: August 2021
Aug. 30, 2021—Machine Learning Prediction of Kidney Stone Composition Using Electronic Health Record-Derived Features. Abraham A, Kavoussi N, Sui W, Bejan C, Capra JA, Hsi R. J Endourol. 2021 Jul 27. doi: 10.1089/end.2021.0211. Online ahead of print. Aims: Noninvasive prediction of kidney stone composition could direct dietary and pharmacologic preventative treatment without stone analysis. We aimed to assess the...
MSTPublications: July 2021
Jul. 28, 2021—Elizabeth Moore’s recent first-author paper was featured here in the VUMC Reporter! MASiVar: Multisite, multiscanner, and multisubject acquisitions for studying variability in diffusion weighted MRI. Cai LY, Yang Q, Kanakaraj P, Nath V, Newton AT, Edmonson HA, Luci J, Conrad BN, Price GR, Hansen CB, Kerley CI, Ramadass K, Yeh FC, Kang H, Garyfallidis E, Descoteaux M, Rheault F, Schilling...
MSTPublications: June 2021
Jun. 25, 2021—Western-style diet consumption impairs maternal insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism during pregnancy in a Japanese macaque model. Elsakr JM, Zhao SK, Ricciardi V, Dean TA, Takahashi DL, Sullivan E, Wesolowski SR, McCurdy CE, Kievit P, Friedman JE, Aagaard KM, Edwards DRV, Gannon M. Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 21;11(1):12977. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92464-w. The prevalence of maternal obesity...
MSTPublications: May 2021
May. 24, 2021—Safety and efficacy of genetic MECP2 supplementation in the R294X mouse model of Rett syndrome. Collins BE, Merritt JK, Erickson KR, Neul JL. Genes Brain Behav. 2021 May 3:e12739. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12739. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33942492 Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused predominantly by loss-of-function mutations in MECP2, encoding transcriptional modulator methyl-CpG-binding protein...
MSTPublications: April 2021
Apr. 30, 2021—Cytochrome bd promotes Escherichia coli biofilm antibiotic tolerance by regulating accumulation of noxious chemicals. Beebout CJ, Sominsky LA, Eberly AR, Van Horn GT, Hadjifrangiskou M. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2021 Apr 16;7(1):35. doi: 10.1038/s41522-021-00210-x. Nutrient gradients in biofilms cause bacteria to organize into metabolically versatile communities capable of withstanding threats from external agents including bacteriophages, phagocytes,...
MSTPublications: March 2021
Mar. 30, 2021—Structure-function analysis of oncogenic EGFR Kinase Domain Duplication reveals insights into activation and a potential approach for therapeutic targeting. Du Z*, Brown BP*, Kim S, Ferguson D, Pavlick DC, Jayakumaran G, Benayed R, Gallant JN, Zhang YK, Yan Y, Red-Brewer M, Ali SM, Schrock AB, Zehir A, Ladanyi M, Smith AW, Meiler J, Lovly CM....
MSTPublications: February 2021
Feb. 24, 2021—General Purpose Structure-Based Drug Discovery Neural Network Score Functions with Human-Interpretable Pharmacophore Maps. Brown BP, Mendenhall J, Geanes AR, Meiler J. J Chem Inf Model. 2021 Jan 26. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c01001. Online ahead of print. The BioChemical Library (BCL) is an academic open-source cheminformatics toolkit comprising ligand-based virtual high-throughput screening (vHTS) tools such as quantitative structure-activity/property...