Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for August 2025 included papers appearing in Nature Reviews Microbiology, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and The Lancet Digital Health. Check out the full list below:
- Wang C, Bei C, Fan Y, Liu Q, Ding Y, Takiff HE, Gao Q. Conserved mycobacterial sRNA B11 regulates lipooligosaccharide synthesis at posttranscriptional level in Mycobacterium marinum. mLife. 2025 Aug 25;4(4):447-460. doi: 10.1002/mlf2.70025. PMID: 40893975; PMCID: PMC12395582.
- Battaglia DM, Post CE, Yao W, Wahl A, Gralinski LE, Liu H, Dang H, Madden VJ, White KK, Leist SR, Dinnion KH 3rd, De la Cruz G, Midkiff BR, Froggatt HM, Gully K, Zweigart M, Reader JR, Olstad KJ, Everitt JI, Van Rompay KKA, De Paris K, Sajti E, Pickles RJ, Browne EP, Jones CD, Boucher RC Jr, Baric RS, Garcia JV. SARS-CoV-2 infection induces pro-fibrotic and pro-thrombotic foam cell formation. Nat Microbiol. 2025 Aug 22. doi: 10.1038/s41564-025-02090-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40846999.
- Parsons JB, Mourad A, Conlon BP, Kielian T, Fowler VG Jr. Methicillin-resistant and susceptible Staphylococcus aureus: tolerance, immune evasion and treatment. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2025 Aug 20. doi: 10.1038/s41579-025-01226-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40835978.
- Gross JE, Fullmer J, McCleland G, Caceres SM, Poch KR, Hasan NA, Jia F, Epperson LE, Lipner EM, Vang CK, Honda JR, Strand MJ, de Moura VCN, Daley CL, Strong M, Nick JA. Genomic and epidemiologic investigation of Mycobacterium abscessus isolates in a cystic fibrosis center to determine potential routes of transmission. J Cyst Fibros. 2025 Aug 8:S1569-1993(25)01526-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jcf.2025.07.003. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40783340. PMCID: PMC12392799.
- Baumlin N, Gunewardena S, Randell SH, Horrigan F, Salathe M. Differential BK channel potentiation by vanzacaftor enantiomers enables therapy for modulator-ineligible people with cystic fibrosis. J Clin Invest. 2025 Aug 7:e191824. doi: 10.1172/JCI191824. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40773289.
- Nguyen-Tran H, Park SW, Vogt MR, Permaul P, Spaulding AB, Hernandez ML, Bohl JA, Godbole S, Ruckwardt TJ, Krug PW, Moss DL, Derrien-Colemyn A, Chowdhury A, Dziubla G, Wang L, Castro M, Narpala SR, Longtine ER, Henry AR, Ngo TB, Dzantiev L, Sigal GB, Metcalf CJ, Kimberlin DW, Dominguez SR, Mittelman A, McDermott AB, Serebryannyy LA, Grenfell B, Messacar K, Douek DC. Dynamics of endemic virus re-emergence in children in the USA following the COVID-19 pandemic (2022-23): a prospective, multicentre, longitudinal, immunoepidemiological surveillance study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2025 Aug 6:S1473-3099(25)00349-4. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(25)00349-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40782819.
- Sundar KM, Collins BF, Gross JE, Carlos WG, Jamil SM. The Growing Health Burden of Heat Waves with Focus on Respiratory Effects. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Aug 6. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202508-1858ST. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40769138.
- Sines BJ, Jakharia KK, Lu CH, Appleton L, Rice C, Fischer WA, Wallet SM, DeCherney GS, Mock JR, Drummond MB. Validation of the age, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, C reactive protein score on 28 day mortality in the National COVID cohort collaborative. Sci Rep. 2025 Aug 2;15(1):28254. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-08822-5. PMID: 40753103; PMCID: PMC12318015.
- Bain W, Sarma A, Morales-Nebreda L, Rizzo AN, Herron M, Wright SW, Hagan RS, Vigeland CL, Mwizerwa E, Pickens C, Toth S, Nonoyama M, Cao B, Luna CM, Rubin E, Torres A, Bos LD, McVerry BJ, Restrepo MI, Baron RM, Ware LB, Kulkarni HS, Calfee CS, Rogers AJ, Wunderink RG, Varisco BM, Dela Cruz CS, Kitsios GD, Mock JR, Morrell ED, McElvaney NG, Bastarache JA. Research Priorities for Noninvasive Sampling of the Lower Respiratory Tract during Acute Respiratory Failure: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Aug;22(8):1101-1114. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202505-543ST. PMID: 40748053; PMCID: PMC12329329.
- Crosskey M, McIntee T, Preiss S, Brannock D, Baratta JM, Yoo YJ, Hadley E, Blanceró F, Chew R, Loomba J, Bhatia A, Chute CG, Haendel M, Moffitt R, Pfaff ER; N3C Consortium and the RECOVER EHR cohort. Re-engineering a machine learning phenotype to adapt to the changing COVID-19 landscape: a machine learning modelling study from the N3C and RECOVER consortia. Lancet Digit Health. 2025 Aug;7(8):100887. doi: 10.1016/j.landig.2025.100887. PMID: 40858480.
- Ishimori T, Saito M, Yuki M, Hattori M, Shuzui M, Nagoshi S, Kono S, Isago H, Tamiya H, Miyashita N, Ishii T, Mikami Y, Nagase T, Terasaki Y, Shinozaki Y, Mitani A. Sirtuin 3 deficiency exacerbates emphysema and lung inflammation in a murine model of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2025 Aug 1;329(2):L200-L213. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00212.2024. PMID: 40560598.
- Samarasinghe AE, Randell SH, Kulkarni HS, Weiser JN, Quinton LJ, Dickson RP, Mizgerd JP, Orihuela CJ, Parker D, Robinson KM, Prince AS, Evans SE, Kolls JK, Lee JS, Jeyaseelan S, Torres A, Miller LA, Hamilton DJ, Gómez MI, Moore BB, Walker RL, Barkal LJ, Hook JL, Lau GW, Sharma J, Witzenrath M, Dela Cruz CS. Best Practices in the Development and Use of Experimental Models of Bacterial Pneumonia: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2025 Aug;73(2):178-199. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2025-0322ST. PMID: 40748059; PMCID: PMC12334885.
- Thornton ME, Mannino DM, Ohar JA, Putcha N, Simonelli PF, Dransfield MT, Drummond MB. Improving Research for COPD in Rural Areas: A Statement from the COPD Foundation Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2025 Aug 1. doi: 10.15326/jcopdf.2025.0618. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40774282.