Publications
Sipprell SE, Johnson MB, Leach W, Suptela SR, Marriott I. Staphylococcus aureus Infection Induces the Production of the Neutrophil Chemoattractants CXCL1, CXCL2, CXCL3, CXCL5, CCL3, and CCL7 by Murine Osteoblasts. Infect Immun. 2023 Apr 18;91(4):e0001423. doi: 10.1128/iai.00014-23
Smirnov A, Daily KP, Gray MC, Ragland SA, Werner LM, Johnson MB, Eby JC, Hewlett EL, Taylor RP, Criss AK. Phagocytosis via complement receptor 3 enables microbes to evade killing by neutrophils. J Leukoc Biol. 2023 Mar 7:qiad028. doi: 10.1093/jleuko/qiad028
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Panigaj M, Skelly E, Beasock D, Marriott I, Johnson MB, Salotti J, Afonin KA. Therapeutic immunomodulation by rationally designed nucleic acids and nucleic acid nanoparticles. Front Immunol. 2023 Jan 31;14:1053550. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1053550
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Johnson, MB, Suptela, SR, Sipprell, SE, Marriott I. Substance P Exacerbates the Inflammatory and Pro-osteoclastogenic Responses of Murine Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts to Staphylococcus aureus. Inflammation. 2023. doi: 10.1007/s10753-022-01731-z
Chandler M, Minevich B, Roark B, Viard M, Johnson MB, Rizvi MH, Deaton TA, Kozlov S, Panigaj M, Tracy JB, Yingling YG, Gang O, Afonin KA. Controlled Organization of Inorganic Materials Using Biological Molecules for Activating Therapeutic Functionalities. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2021 Aug 25;13(33):39030-39041. doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c09230
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Johnson MB, Chandler M, Afonin KA. Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) as molecular tools to direct desirable and avoid undesirable immunological effects. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2021 Jun;173:427-438. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2021.04.011
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Johnson MB, Halman JR, Miller DK, Cooper JS, Khisamutdinov EF, Marriott I, Afonin KA. The immunorecognition, subcellular compartmentalization, and physicochemical properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles can be controlled by composition modification. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Nov 18;48(20):11785-11798. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa908
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El-Ghannam A, Greenier M, Johnson MB, Marriott I. Synthesis and characterization of porous bioactive SiC tissue engineering scaffold. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2020 Nov 1;108(11):2162-2174. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.36973
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Chandler M, Johnson MB, Panigaj M, Afonin KA. Innate immune responses triggered by nucleic acids inspire the design of immunomodulatory nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs). Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2020 Jun;63:8-15. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2019.10.011.
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Johnson MB, Halman JR, Burmeister AR, Currin S, Khisamutdinov EF, Afonin KA, Marriott I. Retinoic acid inducible gene-I mediated detection of bacterial nucleic acids in human microglial cells. J Neuroinflammation. 2020 May 1;17(1):139. doi: 10.1186/s12974-020-01817-1
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Halman JR, Kim KT, Gwak SJ, Pace R, Johnson MB, Chandler MR, Rackley L, Viard M, Marriott I, Lee JS, Afonin KA. A cationic amphiphilic co-polymer as a carrier of nucleic acid nanoparticles (Nanps) for controlled gene silencing, immunostimulation, and biodistribution. Nanomedicine. 2020 Jan;23:102094. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2019.102094
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Panigaj M, Johnson MB, Ke W, McMillan J, Goncharova EA, Chandler M, Afonin KA. Aptamers as Modular Components of Therapeutic Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology. ACS Nano. 2019 Nov 26;13(11):12301-12321. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b06522
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Burmeister AR, Johnson MB, Marriott I. Murine astrocytes are responsive to the pro-inflammatory effects of IL-20. Neurosci Lett. 2019 Aug 24;708:134334. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134334
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Burmeister AR, Johnson MB, Yaemmongkol JJ, Marriott I. Murine astrocytes produce IL-24 and are susceptible to the immunosuppressive effects of this cytokine. J Neuroinflammation. 2019 Mar 2;16(1):55. doi: 10.1186/s12974-019-1444-1
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Burmeister AR, Johnson MB, Chauhan VS, Moerdyk-Schauwecker MJ, Young AD, Cooley ID, Martinez AN, Ramesh G, Philipp MT, Marriott I. Human microglia and astrocytes constitutively express the neurokinin-1 receptor and functionally respond to substance P. J Neuroinflammation. 2017 Dec 13;14(1):245. doi: 10.1186/s12974-017-1012-5
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Johnson MB, Halman JR, Satterwhite E, Zakharov AV, Bui MN, Benkato K, Goldsworthy V, Kim T, Hong E, Dobrovolskaia MA, Khisamutdinov EF, Marriott I, Afonin KA. Programmable Nucleic Acid Based Polygons with Controlled Neuroimmunomodulatory Properties for Predictive QSAR Modeling. Small. 2017 Nov;13(42). doi: 10.1002/smll.201701255
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Bui MN, Brittany Johnson M, Viard M, Satterwhite E, Martins AN, Li Z, Marriott I, Afonin KA, Khisamutdinov EF. Versatile RNA tetra-U helix linking motif as a toolkit for nucleic acid nanotechnology. Nanomedicine. 2017 Apr;13(3):1137-1146. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2016.12.018
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Johnson MB, Young AD, Marriott I. The Therapeutic Potential of Targeting Substance P/NK-1R Interactions in Inflammatory CNS Disorders. Front Cell Neurosci. 2016;10:296. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2016.00296
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Johnson MB, Ball LM, Daily KP, Martin JN, Columbus L, Criss AK. Opa+ Neisseria gonorrhoeae exhibits reduced survival in human neutrophils via Src family kinase-mediated bacterial trafficking into mature phagolysosomes. Cell Microbiol. 2015 May;17(5):648-65. doi: 10.1111/cmi.12389
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Johnson MB, Criss AK. Fluorescence microscopy methods for determining the viability of bacteria in association with mammalian cells. J Vis Exp. 2013 Sep 5;(79). doi: 10.3791/50729
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Johnson MB, Criss AK. Neisseria gonorrhoeae phagosomes delay fusion with primary granules to enhance bacterial survival inside human neutrophils. Cell Microbiol. 2013 Aug;15(8):1323-40. doi: 10.1111/cmi.12117
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Johnson MB, Criss AK. Resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to neutrophils. Front Microbiol. 2011;2:77. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00077
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Lewis BB, Wester MR, Miller LE, Nagarkar MD, Johnson MB, Saha MS. Cloning and characterization of voltage-gated calcium channel alpha1 subunits in Xenopus laevis during development. Dev Dyn. 2009 Nov;238(11):2891-902. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.22102