Recent Publications
- Movert E, Bolarin JS, Valfridsson C, Velarde J, Skrede S, Nekludov M, Hyldegaard O, Arnell P, Svensson M, Norrby-Teglund A, Cho KH, Elhaik E, Wessels MR, Råberg L, Carlsson F. Interplay between human STING genotype and bacterial NADase activity regulates interindividual disease variability. Nat. Commun. 2023 July 6; 14:4008
- Lee H, Edgar RJ, Lichtenstein IJ, Velarde JJ, Korotkova N, Wessels MR. Streptococcus pyogenes can support or inhibit growth of Haemophilus influenzae by supplying or restricting extracellular NAD+. PLoS ONE 2022; 17(9):e0270697.
- Velarde JJ, Piai A, Lichtenstein IJ, Lynskey NN, Chou JJ, Wessels MR. Structure of the Streptococcus pyogenes NADase translocation domain and its essential role in toxin binding to oropharyngeal keratinocytes. J. Bacteriol. 2022; 204: e00366-21.
- Finn MB, Ramsey KM, Dove SL, Wessels MR. Identification of group A Streptococcus genes directly regulated by CsrRS and novel intermediate regulators. mBio 2021 Jul 13: e0164221.
- Finn MB, Ramsey KM, Tolliver HJ, Dove SL, Wessels MR. Improved transformation efficiency of group A Streptococcus by inactivation of a type I restriction modification system. PLoS ONE 2021; 16(4): e0248201.
- Hancz D, Westerlund E, Valfridsson C, Aemero GM, Bastiat-Sempe B, Orning P, Lien E, Wessels MR, Persson JJ. Streptolysin O induces the ubiquitination and degradation of Pro-IL-1b. J Innate Immun. 2019; 19:1-12.
- Lynskey NN, Velarde JJ, Finn MB, Dove SL, Wessels MR. RocA binds CsrS to modulate CsrRS-mediated gene regulation in group A Streptococcus. mBio 2019; 10(4): e01495-19.
- Pinho-Ribeiro FA, Baddal B, Haarsma R, O’Seaghdha M, Yang NJ, Blake KJ, Portley M, Verri WA, Dale JB, Wessels MR, and Chiu IM. Blocking neuronal signaling to immune cells treats streptococcal invasive infection. Cell 2018; 173:1083-97.