Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) executes a plethora of immune-evasive mechanisms,
which contribute to its pathogenesis, limited efficacy of current therapy, and the emergence of …

Different from other epithelia, the intestinal epithelium has the complex task of providing a
barrier impeding the entry of toxins, food antigens, and microbes, while at the same time …

Host cell chromatin changes are thought to play an important role in the pathogenesis of
infectious diseases. Here we describe a histone acetylome-wide association study (HAWAS) of …

Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis has co-evolved with the human host, adapting to
exploit the immune system for persistence and transmission. While immunity to tuberculosis (…

A wealth of scientific and clinical evidence during the past few years has lent credence to the
idea that key components of the host immune effector mechanisms can be targeted to boost …

This paper was originally published under a standard Springer Nature license (© The Author
(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.). It is now available as an …

Mammalian colonic epithelia consist of cells that are capable of both absorbing and secreting
Cl - . The present studies employing Ussing chamber technique identified two opposing …

… Cheng Catherine Y. Cheng 1 Xiangrong Sun Xiangrong Sun 1 Alexandra J. Pedicone
Alexandra J. Pedicone 1 Mansour Mohamadzadeh Mansour Mohamadzadeh 2 Sam X …

Host-cell chromatin changes are thought to play an important role in the pathogenesis of
infectious diseases. Here, we describe the first histone acetylome-wide association study (…

After yet another hiatus from writing, I thought I would enter my second year of “blogging” by
sharing a piece of academic writing from my first year—one that I was (dare I say it) even …