Postdoc Carissa Chan has received a prestigious 4-year Damon Runyon Fellowship! Congratulations to her!
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Andrea, co-mentored by Sarah Stanley and Dan Portnoy, has posted a manuscript on BioRxiv; this achievement marks a significant collaboration between the Portnoy and Stanley labs https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39554200/.
Listeria monocytogenes requires cellular respiration for NAD+ regeneration and pathogenesis. Rivera-Lugo R, Deng D, Anaya-Sanchez A, Tejedor-Sanz S, Tang E, Reyes Ruiz VM, Smith HB, Titov DV, Sauer JD, Skaar EP, Ajo-Franklin CM, Portnoy DA, Light SH. Elife. 2022 Apr 5;11:e75424.
RibU is an essential determinant of Listeria pathogenesis that mediates acquisition of FMN and FAD during intracellular growth. Rivera-Lugo R, Light, SH, Garelis NE, Portnoy DA. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2022 Mar 29;119(13).
Detoxification of methylglyoxal by the glyoxalase system is required for glutathione availability and virulence activation in Listeria monocytogenes. Anaya-Sanchez A, Feng Y, Berude JC, Portnoy DA.
Secretion of c-di-AMP by Listeria monocytogenes leads to a STING-dependent antibacterial response during enterocolitis. Louie A, Bhandula V, Portnoy DA. Infect Immun. 2020 Oct 5;IAI.00407-20. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00407-20. PMID: 33020211. (2020).