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Research Publications / Microbiology

A New Dimension in Modeling Infectious Disease
Nickerson CA, Ott CM
ASM News 2004; 70:169-175
A Novel Quantitative Biosystem to Model Physiological Fluid Shear Stress on Cells
Nauman EA, Ott CM, Sander E, Tucker DL, Pierson D, Wilson JW, Nickerson CA
Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 73:699-705
A Potential Cause for Kidney Stone Formation During Space Flights: Enhanced Growth of Nanobacteria in Microgravity
Ciftcioglu N, Haddad RS, Golden DC, Morrison DR, McKay DS
Kidney Int 2005; 67:483-491
A three-dimensional culture system recapitulates placental syncytiotrophoblast development and microbial resistance
McConkey CA, Delorme-Axford E, Nickerson CA, Kim KS, Sadovsky Y, Boyle JP, Coyne CB
Sci Adv 2016 Mar 4; 2(3)
A three-dimensional tissue culture model for the study of attach and efface lesion formation by enteropathic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli
Carvalho HM, Teel LD, Goping G, O’Brien AD
Cell Microbiol 2005; 7:1771-1781
A549 Lung Epithelial Cells Grown as Three-Dimensional Aggregates: Alternative Tissue Culture Model for Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Pathogenesis
Carterson AJ, Honer zu Bentrup K, Ott CM, Clarke MS, Pierson DL, Vanderburg CR, Buchanan KL, Nickerson CA, Schurr MJ
Infect Immun 2005; 73:1129-1140
Alveolar epithelium protects macrophages from quorum sensing-induced cytotoxicity in a three-dimensional co-culture model
Crabbé A, Sarker SF, Van Houdt R, Ott CM, Leys N, Cornelis P, Nickerson CA
Cell Microbiol 2011 Mar; 13(3):469-81
Analysis of Interactions of Salmonella type three secretion mutants with 3-D intestinal epithelial cells
Radtke AL, Wilson JW, Sarker S, Nickerson CA
PLoS One 2010; 5
Antimicrobial efficacy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation in a three-dimensional lungepithelial model and the influence of fetal bovine serum
Crabbé A, Liu Y, Matthijs N, Rigole P, De La Fuente-Núñez C, Davis R, Ledesma MA, Sarker S, Van Houdt R, Hancock RE, Coenye T, Nickerson CA
Sci Rep 2017 Mar 3; 7:43321
Bacillus thuringiensis conjugation in simulated microgravity
Beuls E, Van Houdt R, Leys Y, Dijkstra CL, Larkin O, Mahillon J
Astrobiology 2009; 9:797-805
Bacteria in the vaginal microbiome alter the innate immune response and barrier properties of the human vaginal epithelia in a species-specific manner
Doerflinger SY, Throop AL, Herbst-Kralovetz MM
J Infect Dis 2014 Jun 15; 209(12):1989-99
Characterization of Escherichia coli MG1655 grown in a low shear modeled microgravity environment
Tucker DL, Ott CM, Huff S, Fofanov V, Willson RC, Fox GE
BMC Microbiology 2007; 7:15
Conservation of the Low-shear Modeled Microgravity Response in Enterobacteriaceae and Analysis of the trp Genes in this Response
Soni A, O'Sullivan L, Quick LN, Ott C, Nickerson CA, Wilson JW
Open Microbiol J 2014 Jun 13; 8:51-8
Detection of epithelial-cell injury, and quantification of infection, in the HCT-8 organoid model of Cryptosporidiosis
Warren CA, Destura RV, Sevilleja JEAD, Barroso LF, Carvalho H, Barrett LJ, O’Brien AD, Guerrant RL
J Infect Dis 2008; 198:143-149
Effect of Microgravity on Fungistatic Activity of an α-Aminophosphonate Chitosan Derivative against Aspergillus niger
Kesavan Devarayan, Yesupatham Sathishkumar, Yang Soo Lee, Byoung-Suhk Kim
PLoS One 2015 Oct 15
Effect of Shear Stress on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from the Cystic Fibrosis Lung
Dingemans J, Monsieurs P, Yu SH, Crabbé A, Förstner KU, Malfroot A, Cornelis P, Van Houdt R
MBio 2016 Aug 2; 7(4). pii: e00813-16
Effect of Simulated Microgravity and Shear Stress on Microcin B17 Production by Escherichia coli and on its Excretion into the Medium
Fang A, Pierson DL, Koenig DW, Mishra SK, Demain AL
Appl Environ Microbiol 1997; 63:4090-4092
Effect of modeled reduced gravity conditions on bacterial morphology and physiology
Vukanti R, Model MA, Leff LG
BMC Microbiol 2012 Jan 12; 12:4
Effects of Simulated Microgravity on the Physiology of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Multiomic Analysis
Su X, Guo Y, Fang T, Jiang X, Wang D, Li D, Bai P, Zhang B, Wang J, Liu C
Front Microbiol 2021; 12:701265
Effects of low-shear modeled microgravity on a microbial community filtered through a 0.2-µm filter and its potential application in screening for novel microorganisms
Aoyagi H, Kuroda A
J Biosci Bioeng 2012 Jul; 114(1):73-9
Effects of low-shear modeled microgravity on the characterization of recombinant β-D-glucuronidase expressed in Pichia pastoris
Qi F, Dai D, Liu Y, Kaleem I, Li C
Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2011; 163(1):162-7
Emergence of two distinct subpopulations from Klebsiella pneumoniae grown in the stimulated microgravity environment
Wang H, Li W, Gu L, Gao, Ni B, Deng H, Yang R, Han Y
Future Microbiol 2017; 12:939-951
Escherichia coli biofilms formed under low-shear modeled microgravity in a ground-based system
Lynch SV, Mukundakrishnan K, Benoit MR, Ayyaswamy PS, Matin A
Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 72:7701-7710
Expression of Multiple Stress Response Genes by Escherichia Coli Under Modeled Reduced Gravity
Vukanti R, Leff LG
J Microgravity Science and Technology 2012 Sept 1; 24(4):267-79
From Single Cells to Engineered and Explanted Tissues: New Perspectives in Bacterial Infection Biology
Bergmann S, Steinert M
Int Rev Cell Mol Biol 2015; 319:1-44
Gramicidin S Production by Bacillus brevis in Simulated Microgravity
Fang A, Pierson DL, Mishra SK, Koenig DW, Demain AL
Curr Microbiol 1997; 34:199-204
Growth and Membrane Polarization in Pseudomonas aeruginosa UG2 Grown in Randomized Microgravity in a High Aspect Ratio Vessel
England LS, Gorzelak M, Trevors JT
Biochim Biophys Acta 2003; 1624:76-81
Growth of Lactobacillus reuteri DSM17938 Under Two Simulated Microgravity Systems
Senatore G, Mastroleo F, Leys N, Mauriello G
Astrobiology 2020; 20(1):1-14
Growth of Staphylococcus aureus Using a Rotary Cell Culture System
Hauserman MR, Rice KC
Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2341:79-88
High throughput de novo RNA sequencing elucidates novel responses in Penicillium chrysogenum under microgravity
Sathishkumar Y, Krishnaraj C, Rajagopal K, Sen D, Lee YS
Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2015 Nov 24
Human norovirus infection of Caco-2 cells grown as a three-dimensional tissue structure
Straub TM, Bartholomew RA, Valdez CO, Valentine NB, Dohnalkova A, Ozanich RM, Bruckner-Lea CJ, Call DR
J Water Health 2011 Jun; 9(2):225-40
Human three-dimensional endometrial epithelial cell model to study host interactions with vaginal bacteria and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Łaniewski P, Gomez A, Hire G, So M, Herbst-Kralovetz MM
Infect Immun 2017 Jan 4. pii: IAI.01049-16
IL-36γ Augments Host Defense and Immune Responses in Human Female Reproductive Tract Epithelial Cells
Winkle SM, Throop AL, Herbst-Kralovetz MM
Front Microbiol, 17 June 2016
Impact of Pristine Graphene on Intestinal Microbiota Assessed Using a Bioreactor-Rotary Cell Culture System
Lahiani MH, Gokulan K, Williams K, Khare S
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2019; 11(29):25708-25719
Impact of simulated microgravity on the normal developmental time line of an animal-bacteria symbiosis
Foster JS, Khodadad CL, Ahrendt SR, Parrish ML
Sci Rep 2013 Feb 26; 3:1340
In vitro cell culture infectivity assay for human noroviruses
Straub TM, Honer zu Bentrup K, Orosz-Coghlan P, Dohnalkova A, Mayer BK, Bartholomew RA, Valdez CO, Bruckner-Lea C, Gerba CP, Abbaszadegan M, Nickerson CA
Emerging Infect Dis 2007; 13:396-403
Increased biofilm formation ability in Klebsiella pneumoniae after short-term exposure to a simulated microgravity environment
Wang H, Yan Y, Rong D, Wang J, Liu Z, Wang J, Yang R, Han Y
Microbiologyopen 2016 May 16
Induction of attachment-independent biofilm formation and repression of Hfq expression by low-fluid-shear culture of Staphylococcus aureus
Castro SL, Nelman-Gonzalez M, Nickerson CA, Ott CM
Appl Environ Microbiol 2011 Sep; 77(18):6368-78
Influence of Low-Shear Modeled Microgravity on Heat Resistance, Membrane Fatty Acid Composition, and Heat Stress-Related Gene Expression in Escherichia coli O157
Kim HW, Rhee MS
Appl Environ Microbiol 2016 Mar 4
Invasion of Human Tissue Ex Vivo by Borrelia
Duray P, Yin S, Ito Y, Bezrukov L, Cox C, Cho M, Fitzgerald W
J Infect Dis 2005; 191:1747-1754
Involvement of nitric oxide in the mechanism of biochemical alterations induced by simulated microgravity in Microcystis aeruginosa
Xiao Y, Liu Y, Wang G
Adv Space Res 2012 Mar 1; 49(5):850-8
Low-Shear Modeled Microgravity Alters the Salmonella Enterica Serovar Typhimurium Stress Response in an RpoS-independent Manner
Wilson JW, Ott CM, Ramamurthy R, Porwollik S, McClelland M, Pierson DL, Nickerson CA
Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:5408-5416
Low-Shear Modeled Microgravity Enhances Salmonella Enterica Resistance to Hydrogen Peroxide Through a Mechanism Involving KatG and KatN
Pacello F, Rotilio G, Battistoni A
Open Microbiol J 2012; 6:53-64
Low-Shear Modeled Microgravity: A Global Environmental Regulatory Signal Affecting Bacterial Gene Expression
Nickerson CA, Ott CM, Wilson JW, Ramamurthy R, LeBlanc CL, et al.
J Microbiol Methods 2003; 54:1-11
Maintenance of antimicrobial susceptibility of Acinetobacter baumannii in modeled microgravity
Hensley DM
Clin Lab Sci 2010; 23(2):84-8
Media Ion Composition Controls Regulatory and Virulence Response of Salmonella in Spaceflight
Wilson JW, Ott CM, Quick L, Davis R, Zu Bentrup KH, Crabbé A, Richter E, Sarker S, Barrila J, Porwollik S, Cheng P, McClelland M, Tsaprailis G, Radabaugh T, Hunt A, Shah M, Nelman-Gonzalez M, Hing S, Parra M, Dumars P, Norwood K, Bober R, Devich J, Ruggles A, deBaca AC, Narayan S, Benjamin J, Goulart C, Rupert M, Catella L, Schurr MJ, Buchanan K, Morici L, McCracken J, Porter MD, Pierson DL, Smith SM, Mergeay M, Leys N, Stefanyshyn-Piper HM, Gorie D, Nickerson CA
PLoS ONE 2008; 3
Microarray Analysis Identifies Salmonella Genes Belonging to the Low-Shear Modeled Microgravity Regulon
Wilson JW, Ramamurthy R, Porwollik S, McClelland M, Hammond T, Allen P, Ott CM, Pierson DL, Nickerson CA
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002; 99:13807-13812
Microbial Responses to Microgravity and Other Low-Shear Environments
Nickerson CA, Ott CM, Wilson JW, Ramamurthy R, Pierson DL
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2004; 68:345-361
Microbial products alter the expression of membrane-associated mucin and antimicrobial peptides in a three-dimensional human endocervical epithelial cell model
Radtke AL, Quayle AJ, Herbst-Kralovetz MM
Biol Reprod 2012 Dec 6; 87(6):132
Microgravity as a Novel Environmental Signal Affecting Microbial Virulence
Nickerson CA, Ott M, Mister SJ, Morrow BJ, Burns-Keliher L, Pierson DL
Infect Immun 2000; 68:3147-3150
Microgravity as a biological tool to examine host-pathogen interactions and to guide development of therapeutics and preventatives that target pathogenic bacteria
Higginson EE, Galen JE, Levine MM, Tennant SM
Pathog Dis 2016 Sep 13. pii: ftw095
Modeled microgravity cultivation modulates N-acylhomoserine lactone production in Rhodospirillum rubrum S1H independently of cell density
Mastroleo F, Van Houdt R, Atkinson S, Mergeay M, Hendrickx L, Wattiez R, Leys N
Microbiology 2013 Dec; 159(Pt 12):2456-66
Modeling Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Context of the Microenvironment: Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Comes of Age
Barrila J, Crabbé A, Yang J, Franco K, Nydam SD, Forsyth RJ, Davis RR, Gangaraju S, Ott M, Coyne, CB, Bissell MJ, Nickerson CA
Infection and Immunity 2018; 86(11): e00282-18
Mycoplasma genitalium infection activates cellular host defense and inflammation pathways in a 3-dimensional human endocervical epithelial cell model
McGowin CL, Radtke AL, Abraham K, Martin DH, Herbst-Kralovetz M
J Infect Dis 2013 Jun 15; 207(12):1857-68
New insights into the bacterial fitness-associated mechanisms revealed by the characterization of large plasmids of an avian pathogenic E. coli
Mellata M, Maddux JT, Nam T, Thomson N, Hauser H, Stevens MP, Mukhopadhyay S, Sarker S, Crabbé A, Nickerson CA, Santander J, Curtiss R 3rd
PLoS One 2012; 7(1)
Novel Antibiotic Testing Approaches Reveal Reduced Antibiotic Efficacy Against Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O157 Under Simulated Microgravity
Kim HW, Rhee MS
Front Microbiol 2018; 9:3214
Novel three-dimensional organoid model for evaluation of the interaction of uropathogenic Escherichia coli with terminally differentiated human urothelial cells
Smith YC, Grande KK, Rasmussen SB, O’Brien AD
Infect Immun 2006; 74:750-757
Organotypic 3D cell culture models: using the rotating wall vessel to study host-pathogen interactions
Barrila J, Radtke AL, Crabbé A, Sarker SF, Herbst-Kralovetz MM, Ott CM, Nickerson CA
Nat Rev Microbiol 2010 Nov; 8(11):791-801
Physiological fluid shear alters the virulence potential of invasive multidrug-resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella Typhimurium D23580
Yang J, Barrila J, Roland KL, Ott CM, Nickerson CA
npj Microgravity 2, Article number: 16021 (2016)
Relief from Glucose Interference in Microcin B17 Biosynthesis by Growth in a Rotating-Wall Bioreactor
Fang A, Pierson DL, Mishra SK, Demain AL
Lett Appl Microbiol 2000; 31:39-41
Response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 to low shear modeled microgravity involves AlgU regulation
Crabbé A, Pycke B, Van Houdt R, Monsieurs P, Nickerson C, Leys N, Cornelis P
Environ Microbiol 2010; 12:1545-1564
Responses of haloarchaea to simulated microgravity
Dornmayr-Pfaffenhuemer M, Legat A, Schwimbersky K, Fendrihan S, Stan-Lotter H
Astrobiology 2011; 11(3):199-205
Role and Regulation of Sigma S in General Resistance Conferred by Low-shear Simulated Microgravity in Escherichia coli
Lynch SV, Brodie EL, Matin A
J Bacteriol 2004; 186:8207-8212
Rotating wall vessel exposure alters protein secretion and global gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus
Rosado H, O’Neill AJ, Blake KL, Walther M, Long PF, Hinds J, Taylor PW
Int J Astrobiol 2012 Apr; 11(2):71-81
Secondary Metabolism in Simulated Microgravity
Demain AL, Fang A
Chem Rec 2001; 1:333-346
Secondary Metabolism in Simulated Microgravity: B-Lactam Production by Streptomyces clavuligerus
Fang A, Pierson DL, Mishra SK, Koenig DW, Demain AL
J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 1997; 18:22-25
Shear Stress Enhances Microcin B17 Production in a Rotating Wall Bioreactor, But Ethanol Does Not
Gao Q, Fang A, Pierson DL, Mishra SK, Demain AL
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2001; 56:384-387
Simulated microgravity affects ciprofloxacin susceptibility and expression of acrAB-tolC genes in E. coli ATCC25922
Xu B, Li C, Zheng Y, Si S, Shi Y, Huang Y, Zhang J, Cui Y, Cui Y
Int J Clin Exp Pathol 2015 Jul 1; 8(7):7945-52
Space flight alters bacterial gene expression and virulence and reveals a role for global regulator Hfq
Wilson JW, Ott CM, Zu Bentrup KH, Ramamurthy R, Quick L, Porwollik S, Cheng P, McClelland M, Tsaprailis G, Radabaugh T, Hunt A, Fernandez D, Richter E, Shah WM, Kilcoyne M, Joshi L, Nelman-Gonzalez M, Hing S, Parra M, Dumars P, Norwood K, Bober R, Devich J, Ruggles A, Goulart C, Stodieck L, Stafford P, Catella L, Schurr MJ, Buchanan K, Morici L, McCracken J, Allen P, Baker-Colman C, Hammond T, Vogel J, Nelson R, Pierson DL, Stefanyshyn-Piper HM, Nickerson CA
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2007; 104:16299-16304
Spaceflight and modeled microgravity effects on microbial growth and virulence
Rosenzweig JA, Abogunde O, Thomas K, Lawal A, Nguyen YU, Sodipe A, Jejelowo O
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 85:885-891
Studying host-pathogen interactions in 3-D: organotypic models for infectious disease and drug development
Nickerson CA, Richter EG, Ott CM
J Neuroimmune Pharmacol 2007; 2:26-31
The Effects of Modeled Microgravity on Growth Kinetics, Antibiotic Susceptibility, Cold Growth, and the Virulence Potential of a Yersinia pestis ymoA-Deficient Mutant and Its Isogenic Parental Strain
Lawal A, Kirtley ML, van Lier CJ, Erova TE, Kozlova EV, Sha J, Chopra AK, Rosenzweig JA
Astrobiology 2013 Sep; 13(9):821-32
The International Space Station: an Extreme Environment for Key Host-Microbe Discoveries
Ott CM, Marshburn T, Nickerson CA
Microbe—Volume 11, Number 6, 2016, Pages 253-261
The effect of low shear force on the virulence potential of Yersinia pestis: new aspects that space-like growth conditions and the final frontier can teach us about a formidable pathogen
Rosenzweig JA, Chopra AK
Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2012 Aug 9; 2:107
The influence of spaceflight and simulated microgravity on bacterial motility and chemotaxis
Acres JM, Youngapelian MJ, and Nadeau J
npj Microgravity (2021) 7:7
The use of a three-dimensional cell culture model to investigate host-pathogen interactions of Francisella tularensis in human lung epithelial cells
David J, Sayer NM, Sarkar-Tyson M
Microbes Infect 2014 May 4
Three-Dimensional Growth of Extravillous Cytotrophoblasts Promotes Differentiation and Invasion
LaMarca HL, Ott CM, Honer zu Bentrup K, LeBlanc CL, Pierson DL, Nelson AB, Scandurro AB, Whitley GSJ, Nickerson CA, Morris CA
Placenta 2005; 26:709-720
Three-Dimensional Tissue Assemblies: Novel Models for the Study of Salmonella Enterica Serovar Typhimurium Pathogenesis
Nickerson CA, Goodwin TJ, Terlonge J, Ott CM, Buchanan KL, Uicker WC, Emami K, LeBlanc C, Ramamurthy R, Clarke MS, Vanderburg CR, Hammond T, Pierson DL
Infect Immun 2001; 69:7106-7120
Three-dimensional low shear culture of Mycobacterium bovis BCG induces biofilm formation and antimicrobial drug tolerance
Cantillon D, Wroblewska J, Cooper I, Newport MJ, Waddell SJ
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes (2021) 7:12
Three-dimensional organotypic co-culture model of intestinal epithelial cells and macrophages to study Salmonella enterica colonization patterns
Barrila J, Yang J, Crabbé A, Sarker SF, Liu Y, Ott CM, Nelman-Gonzalez MA, Clemett S, Nydam SD, Forsyth RJ, Davis RR, Crucian BE, Quiriarte H, Roland KL, Brenneman K, Sams C, Loscher CA, Nickerson CA
npj Microgravity 2017 Feb 28; 3(1):10
Three-dimensional organotypic models of human colonic epithelium to study the early stages of enteric salmonellosis
Honer Zu Bentrup K, Ramamurthy R, Ott CM, Emami K, Nelman-Gonzalez M, Wilson JW, Richter EG, Goodwin TJ, Alexander JS, Pierson DL, Pellis N, Buchanan KL, Nickerson CA
Microbes Infect 2006; 8:1813-182
Transcriptional and proteomic responses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 to spaceflight conditions involve Hfq regulation and reveal a role for oxygen
Crabbé A, Schurr MJ, Monsieurs P, Morici L, Schurr J, Wilson JW, Ott CM, Tsaprailis G, Pierson DL, Stefanyshyn-Piper H, Nickerson CA
Appl Environ Microbiol 2011 Feb; 77(4):1221-30
Use of the rotating wall vessel technology to study the effect of shear stress on growth behaviour of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01
Crabbé A, De Boever P, Van Houdt R, Moors H, Mergeay M, Cornelis P
Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:2098-2110
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