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Lau Lab

Drewes JL, Chen J, Markham NO, Knippel RJ, Domingue JC, Tam AJ, Chan JL, Kim L, McMann M, Stevens C, Dejea CM, Tomkovich S, Michel J, White JR, Mohammad F, Campodonico VL, Heiser CN, Wu X, Wu S, Ding H, Simner P, Carroll K, Shrubsole MJ, Anders RA, Walk ST, Jobin C, Wan F, Coffey RJ, Housseau F*, Lau KS*, Sears CL*. Human colon cancer-derived Clostridioides difficile strains drive colonic tumorigenesis in mice. Cancer Discovery, 12(8):1873-1885, 2022. *Corresponding Authors

Chen B, Scurrah CR, McKinley ET, Simmons AJ, Ramirez-Solano MA, Zhu X, Markham NO Heiser CN, Vega PN, Rolong A, Kim H, Sheng Q, Drewes JL, Zhou Y, Southard-Smith AN, Xu Y, Ro J, Jones AL, Revetta F, Berry LD, Niitsu H, Islam M, Pelka K, Hofree M, Chen JH, Sarkizova S, Ng K, Giannakis M, Boland GM, Aguirre AJ, Anderson AC, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A, Hacohen N, Kawasaki K, Sato T, Goettel JA, Grady WM, Zheng W, Washington MK, Cai Q, Sears CL, Goldenring JR, Franklin JL, Su T, Huh WJ, Vandekar S, Roland JT, Liu Q, Coffey RJ*, Shrubsole MJ*, Lau KS*. Differential pre-malignant programs and microenvironment chart distinct paths to malignancy in human colorectal polyps. Cell, 184(26):6262-6280, 2021. *Corresponding Authors

Banerjee A, Herring CA, Chen B, Kim H, Simmons AJ, Southard-Smith AN, Allaman MM, White JR, Macedonia MC, McKinley ET, Ramirez Solano MA, Scoville EA, Liu Q, Wilson KT, Coffey RJ, Washington MK, Goettel JA, Lau KS. Succinate produced by intestinal microbes promotes specification of tuft cells to suppress ileal inflammation. Gastroenterology, 159(6):2101-2115, 2020.

Goldenring Lab

Meyer AR, Engevik AC, Madorsky T, Belmont E, Stier MT, Norlander AE, Pilkinton MA, McDonnell WJ, Weis JA, Jang B, Mallal SA, Peebles RS Jr, Goldenring JR. Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells Coordinate Damage Response in the Stomach. Gastroenterology, 159(6):2077-2091, 2020.

Kaji I, Roland JT, Watanabe M, Engevik AC, Goldstein AE, Hodges CA, Goldenring JR. Lysophosphatidic Acid Increases Maturation of Brush Borders and SGLT1 activity in MYO5B-deficient Mice, a Model of Microvillus Inclusion Disease. Gastroenterology, 159(4):1390-1405, 2020.

Engevik AC, Coutts AW, Kaji I, Rodriguez P, Ongaratto F, Saqui-Salces M, Medida RL, Meyer AR, Kolobova E, Engevik MA, Williams JA, Shub MD, Carlson DF, Melkamu T, Goldenring JR. Editing Myosin VB Gene to Create Porcine Model of Microvillus Inclusion Disease, With Microvillus-Lined Inclusions and Alterations in Sodium Transporters. Gastroenterology, 158(8):2236-2249, 2020.

Engevik AC, Kaji I, Engevik MA, Meyer AR, Weis VG, Goldstein A, Hess MW, Müller T, Koepsell H, Dudeja PK, Tyska M, Huber LA, Shub MD, Ameen N, Goldenring JR. Loss of MYO5B Leads to Reductions in Na+ Absorption with Maintenance of CFTR-dependent Cl− Secretion in Enterocytes. Gastroenterology, 155(6):1883-1897, 2018.

Choi E, Hendley AM, Bailey JM, Leach SD, Goldenring JR. Expression of Activated Ras in Gastric Chief Cells of Mice Leads to the Full Spectrum of Metaplastic Lineage Transitions. Gastroenterology, 150(4):918-30, 2016.

Coffey Lab

Zhang Q, Jeppesen DK, Higginbotham JN, Graves-Deal R, Trinh VQ, Ramirez MA, Sohn Y, Neininger AC, Taneja N, McKinley ET, Niitsu H, Cao Z, Evans R, Glass SE, Ray KC, Fissell WH, Hill S, Rose KL, Huh WJ, Washington MK, Ayers GD, Burnette DT, Sharma S, Rome LH, Franklin JL, Lee YA, Liu Q, Coffey RJ. Supermeres are functional extracellular nanoparticles replete with disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets. Nature Cell Biology, 23(12):1240-1254, 2021.

Jeppesen DK, Fenix AM, Franklin JL, Higginbotham JN, Zhang Q, Zimmerman LJ, Liebler DC, Ping J, Liu Q, Evans R, Fissell WH, Patton JG, Rome LH, Burnette DT, Coffey RJ. Reassessment of Exosome Composition. Cell, 177(2):428-445, 2019.

Lu Y, Zhao X, Liu Q, Li C, Graves-Deal R, Cao Z, Singh B, Franklin JL, Wang J, Hu H, Wei T, Yang M, Yeatman TJ, Lee E, Saito-Diaz K, Hinger S, Patton JG, Chung CH, Emmrich S, Klusmann JH, Fan D, Coffey RJ. lncRNA MIR100HG-derived miR-100 and miR-125b mediate cetuximab resistance via Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Nature Medicine, 23(11):1331-1341, 2017.

Kondo J, Powell AE, Wang Y, Musser MA, Southard-Smith EM, Franklin JL, Coffey RJ. LRIG1 Regulates Ontogeny of Smooth Muscle-Derived Subsets of Interstitial Cells of Cajal in Mice. Gastroenterology, 149(2):407-19, 2015.

Powell AE, Wang Y, Li Y, Poulin EJ, Means AL, Washington MK, Higginbotham JN, Juchheim A, Prasad N, Levy SE, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Aronow BJ, Haigis KM, Franklin JL, Coffey RJ. The pan-ErbB negative regulator, Lrig1, is an intestinal stem cell marker that functions as a tumor suppressor. Cell, 149(1):146-58, 2012.

Choi Lab

Min J, Zhang C, Bliton RJ, Caldwell B, Caplan L, Presentation KS, Park DJ, Kong SH, Lee HS, Washington MK, Kim WH, Lau KS, Magness ST, Lee HJ, Yang HK, Goldenring JR, Choi E. Dysplastic stem cell plasticity functions as a driving force for neoplastic transformation of pre-cancerous gastric mucosa. Gastroenterology, 163(4):875-890, 2022.

Caldwell B, Meyer AR, Weis JA, Engevik AC, Choi E. Chief cell plasticity is the origin of metaplasia following acute injury in the stomach mucosa. Gut, 71(6): 1068–1077, 2022.