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  1. Yang W, Qiu C, Biswas N, Jin J, Watkins SC, Montelaro RC, Coyne CB, Wang T. Correlation of the tight junction-like distribution of claudin-1 to the cellular tropism of HCV. J Biol Chem. 2008 Jan 22 (Epub ahead of print);
  2. Goldstein M, Watkins S. Immunohistochemistry.Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 2008 Jan;Chapter 14:Unit 14.6.
  3.  Anand SP, Akhtar P, Tinsley E, Watkins SC,Khan SA. GTP-dependent polymerization of the tubulin-like RepX replication protein encoded by the pXO1 plasmid of Bacillus anthracis. Mol Microbiol. 2008 Feb;67(4):881-90. Epub 2008 Jan 2.
  4.  Montecalvo A, Shufesky WJ, Stolz DB, Sullivan MG, Wang Z, Divito SJ, Papworth GD, Watkins SC, Robbins PD, Larregina AT, Morelli AE. Exosomes As a Short-Range Mechanism to Spread Alloantigen between Dendritic Cells during T Cell Allorecognition. J Immunol. 2008 Mar 1;180(5):3081-90.
  5.  Thirunavukkarasu C, Wang LF, Harvey SA, Watkins SC, Chaillet JR, Prelich J,Starzl TE, Gandhi CR.  Augmenter of liver regeneration: An important intracellular survival factor for hepatocytes.J Hepatol. 2008 Jan 28.
  6. Dolinay T, Wu W, Kaminski N, Ifedigbo E, Kaynar AM, Szilasi M, Watkins SC, Ryter SW, Hoetzel A, Choi AM. Mitogen-activated protein kinases regulate susceptibility to ventilator-induced lung injury. PLoS ONE. 2008 Feb 13;3(2):e1601.
  7. Watchmaker PB, Urban JA, Berk E, Nakamura Y, Mailliard RB, Watkins SC, van Ham SM, Kalinski P.  Memory CD8+ T Cells Protect Dendritic Cells from CTL Killing. J Immunol. 2008 Mar 15;180(6):3857-65
  8. Qin S, Sui Y, Soloff AC, Fallert Junecko BA, Kirschner DE, Murphey-Corb MA, Watkins SC, Tarwater PM, Pease JE, Barratt-Boyes SM, Reinhart TA. Chemokine and Cytokine Mediated Loss of Regulatory T Cells in Lymph Nodes during  Pathogenic Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. J Immunol. 2008 Apr 15;180(8):5530-6.
  9. Helmick L, Antúnez de Mayolo A, Zhang Y, Cheng CM, Watkins SC, Wu C, Leduc PR. Spatiotemporal Response of Living Cell Structures in Dictyostelium discoideum with Semiconductor Quantum Dots. Nano Lett. 2008 Apr 4
  10. Park JW, Kim HP, Lee SJ, Wang X, Wang Y, Ifedigbo E, Watkins SC, Ohba M, Ryter SW, Vyas YM, Choi AM.  Protein Kinase C{alpha} and {zeta} Differentially Regulate Death-Inducing Signaling Complex Formation in Cigarette Smoke Extract-Induced Apoptosis. J Immunol. 2008 Apr 1;180(7):4668-78.
  11. Mitala CM, Wang Y, Borland LM, Jung M, Shand S, Watkins S, Weber SG, Michael AC. Impact of microdialysis probes on vasculature and dopamine in the rat striatum: A combined fluorescence and voltammetric study. J Neurosci Methods. 2008 Jul 15.
  12. Lin L, Zhou Z, Zheng L, Alber S, Watkins S, Ray P, Kaminski N, Zhang Y, Morse  D. Cross talk between Id1 and its interactive protein Dril1 mediate fibroblast responses to transforming growth factor-beta in pulmonary fibrosis. Am J Pathol. 2008 Aug;173(2):337-46. Epub 2008 Jun 26.
  13. Bernal PJ, Leelavanichkul K, Bauer E, Cao R, Wilson A, Wasserloos KJ, Watkins SC, Pitt BR, St Croix CM.  Nitric-oxide-mediated zinc release contributes to hypoxic regulation of pulmonary vascular tone. Circ Res. 2008 Jun 20;102(12):1575-83. Epub 2008 May 15.
  14. Qin S, Sui Y, Soloff AC, Junecko BA, Kirschner DE, Murphey-Corb MA, Watkins SC, Tarwater PM, Pease JE, Barratt-Boyes SM, Reinhart TA. Chemokine and cytokine mediated loss of regulatory T cells in lymph nodes during  pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus infection J Immunol. 2008 Apr 15;180(8):5530-6.
  15. Komita H, Zhao X, Taylor JL, Sparvero LJ, Amoscato AA, Alber S, Watkins SC,Pardee AD, Wesa AK, Storkus WJ.CD8+ T-cell responses against hemoglobin-beta prevent solid tumor growth.Cancer Res. 2008 Oct 1;68(19):8076-84.PMID: 18829566
  16. Zheng L, Zhou Z, Lin L, Alber S, Watkins S, Kaminski N, Choi AM, Morse D. Carbon Monoxide Modulates {alpha}-smooth Muscle Actin and Small Proline Rich-1a
    Expression in Fibrosis.Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2008 Dec 18. PMID: 19097987
  17.  Watkins S. Live cell imaging: building the perfect system for the core imaging facility. Microsc Microanal. 2008 Aug;14 Suppl 2:714-5. PMID: 18673940
  18.  Srinivasan R, Wolfe D, Goss J, Watkins S, de Groat WC, Sculptoreanu A,Glorioso JC. Protein kinase C epsilon contributes to basal and sensitizing responses of TRPV1 to capsaicin in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons.  Eur J Neurosci. 2008 Oct;28(7):1241-54. PMID: 18973552
  19. Yang W, Hood BL, Chadwick SL, Liu S, Watkins SC, Luo G, Conrads TP, Wang T. Fatty acid synthase is up-regulated during hepatitis C virus infection and regulates hepatitis C virus entry and production. Hepatology. 2008 Nov;48(5):1396-403.
  20. Du L, Hickey RW, Bayir H, Watkins SC, Tyurin VA, Guo F, Kochanek PM, Jenkins LW, Ren J, Gibson G, Chu CT, Kagan VE, Clark RS. Starving neurons show sex difference in autophagy. J Biol Chem. 2009 Jan 23;284(4):2383-96. Epub 2008 Nov 25. PubMed PMID: 19036730
  21. Keyel PA, Thieman JR, Roth R, Erkan E, Everett ET, Watkins SC, Heuser JE,Traub LM. The AP-2 adaptor beta2 appendage scaffolds alternate cargo endocytosis. Mol Biol Cell. 2008 Dec;19(12):5309-26. Epub 2008 Oct 8. PubMed PMID: 18843039;
  22.  McComb JG, Ranganathan M, Liu XH, Pilewski JM, Ray P, Watkins SC, Choi AM, Lee JS. CX3CL1 up-regulation is associated with recruitment of CX3CR1+ mononuclear phagocytes and T lymphocytes in the lungs during cigarette smoke-inducedemphysema. Am J Pathol. 2008 Oct;173(4):949-61. Epub 2008 Sep 4. PubMed PMID: 18772344;
  23. Yang W, Hood BL, Chadwick SL, Liu S, Watkins SC, Luo G, Conrads TP, Wang T. Fatty acid synthase is up-regulated during hepatitis C virus infection and regulates hepatitis C virus entry and production. Hepatology. 2008 Nov;48(5):1396-403. PubMed PMID: 18830996;
  24. Akhtar P, Anand SP, Watkins SC,Khan SA. The tubulin-like RepX protein encoded by the pXO1 plasmid forms polymers in vivo in Bacillus anthracis. J Bacteriol. 2009 Apr;191(8):2493-500. Epub 2009 Feb 20. PubMed PMID: 19233922;
  25. Tumne A, Prasad VS, Chen Y, Stolz DB, Saha K, Ratner DM, Ding M, Watkins SC,Gupta P. Noncytotoxic suppression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 transcription by exosomes secreted from CD8+ T cells. J Virol. 2009 May;83(9):4354-64. Epub 2009 Feb 4. PubMed PMID: 19193788; PubMed Central PMCID:
  26.  Fujita M, Zhu X, Ueda R, Sasaki K, Kohanbash G, Kastenhuber ER, McDonald HA, Gibson GA, Watkins SC, Muthuswamy R, Kalinski P, Okada H. Effective immunotherapy against murine gliomas using type 1 polarizing dendritic cells--significant roles of CXCL10. Cancer Res. 2009 Feb 15;69(4):1587-95. Epub 2009 Feb 3. PubMed PMID: 19190335.
  27.  Mathers AR, Janelsins BM, Rubin JP, Tkacheva OA, Shufesky WJ, Watkins SC,Morelli AE, Larregina AT. Differential capability of human cutaneous dendritic cell subsets to initiate Th17 responses. J Immunol. 2009 Jan 15;182(2):921-33. PubMed PMID: 19124735.
  28. Jameel NM, Thirunavukkarasu C, Wu T, Watkins SC, Friedman SL, Gandhi CR. p38-MAPK and caspase-3-mediated superoxide-induced apoptosis of rat hepatic stellate cells: reversal by retinoic acid. J Cell Physiol. 2009 Jan;218(1):157-66. PubMed PMID: 18792915.
  29. Salter RD, Watkins SC,. Dendritic cell altered states: what role for calcium? Immunol Rev. 2009 Sep;231(1):278-88. PubMed PMID: 19754904.
  30. Webb RL, Rozov O, Watkins SC, McCartney BM. Using total internal reflection  fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy to visualize cortical actin and microtubules in the Drosophila syncytial embryo. Dev Dyn. 2009 Aug 28. PubMed PMID: 19718762.
  31. Chu J, Thomas LM, Watkins SC, Franchi L, Núñez G, Salter RD. Cholesterol-dependent cytolysins induce rapid release of mature IL-1{beta} from murine macrophages in a NLRP3 inflammasome and cathepsin B-dependent manner. J Leukoc Biol. 2009 Aug 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 19675207.
  32. Myerburg MM, King Jr JD, Oyster NM, Fitch AC, Magill A, Baty CJ, Watkins SC,Kolls JK, Pilewski JM, Hallows KR. AMPK Agonists Ameliorate Sodium and Fluid Transport and Inflammation in CF Airway Epithelial Cells. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2009 Jul 17. PMID: 19617399.
  33. Steitz J, Soloff AC, Barratt-Boyes SM, Alber SM, Watkins SC, Okada H, Gambotto A. Balb/c EGFP mice are tolerant against immunization utilizing recombinant adenoviral-based vectors encoding EGFP: A novel model for the study of tolerance  mechanisms and vaccine efficacy. Mol Immunol. 2009 Dec 17. [Epub ahead of print]  PubMed PMID: 20022379.
  34.  Edeling MA, Sanker S, Shima T, Umasankar PK, Höning S, Kim HY, Davidson LA, Watkins SC, Tsang M, Owen DJ, Traub LM. Structural requirements for PACSIN/Syndapin operation during zebrafish embryonic notochord development. PLoS  One. 2009 Dec 3;4(12):e8150. PubMed PMID: 19997509; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2780292.
  35.  Lipscomb MW, Taylor JL, Goldbach CJ, Watkins SC, Wesa AK, Storkus WJ. DC expressing transgene Foxp3 are regulatory APC. Eur J Immunol. 2009 Nov 25. [Epub  ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 19941313.
  36. Lipscomb MW, Chen L, Taylor JL, Goldbach C, Watkins SC, Kalinski P, Butterfield LH, Wesa AK, Storkus WJ. Ectopic T-bet expression licenses dendritic  cells for IL-12-independent priming of type 1 T cells in vitro. J Immunol. 2009 Dec 1;183(11):7250-8. Epub 2009 Nov 13. PubMed PMID: 19915058.
  37. Gao W, Kang JH, Liao Y, Ding WX, Gambotto AA, Watkins SC, Liu YJ, Stolz DB, Yin XM. Biochemical isolation and characterization of the tubulovesicular LC3-positive autophagosomal compartment. J Biol Chem. 2010 Jan 8;285(2):1371-83.  Epub 2009 Nov 12. PubMed PMID: 19910472.
  38. Kimmel JD, Gibson GA, Watkins SC, Kellum JA, Federspiel WJ. IL-6 adsorption dynamics in hemoadsorption beads studied using confocal laser scanning microscopy. J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater. 2009 Nov 10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 19904819.
  39. Venkatachari NJ, Alber S, Watkins SC, Ayyavoo V. HIV-1 infection of DC: evidence for the acquisition of virus particles from infected T cells by antigen  uptake mechanism. PLoS One. 2009 Oct 15;4(10):e7470. PubMed PMID: 19829715; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2759578.
  40. Hong CS, Fellows W, Niranjan A, Alber S, Watkins SC,Cohen JB, Glorioso JC, Grandi P. Ectopic matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression in human brain tumor cells enhances oncolytic HSV vector infection. Gene Ther. 2010 May 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20463757.
  41.  Knickelbein JE, Watkins SC, McMenamin PG, Hendricks RL. Stratification of Antigen-presenting Cells within the Normal Cornea. Ophthalmol Eye Dis. 2009 Nov 25;1:45-54. PubMed PMID: 20431695; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2860608.
  42. Vujanovic L, Szymkowski DE, Alber S, Watkins SC, Vujanovic NL, Butterfield LH. Virally-infected and matured human dendritic cells activate natural killer cells  via cooperative activity of plasma membrane-bound TNF and IL-15. Blood. 2010 Apr 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20430958.
  43. Tyurina YY, Tyurin VA, Kaynar AM, Kapralova VI, Wasserloos KJ, Li J, Mosher M, Wright L, Wipf P, Watkins S, Pitt BR, Kagan VE. Oxidative lipidomics of hyperoxic acute lung injury: Mass spectrometric characterization of cardiolipin and phosphatidylserine peroxidation. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2010 Apr 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20418384.
  44. Pandit KV, Corcoran D, Yousef H, Yarlagadda M, Tzouvelekis A, Gibson KF,Konishi K, Yousem SA, Singh M, Handley D, Richards T, Selman M, Watkins SC, Pardo A, Ben-Yehudah A, Bouros D, Eickelberg O, Ray P, Benos PV, Kaminski N. Inhibition and Role of Let-7d in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med.2010 Apr 15. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20395557.
  45. Han J, Goldstein LA, Hou W, Froelich CJ, Watkins SC, Rabinowich H. Deregulation of mitochondrial membrane potential by mitochondrial insertion of granzyme B and direct Hax-1 cleavage. J Biol Chem. 2010 Apr 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20388708.
  46. Swanhart LM, Takahashi N, Jackson RL, Gibson GA, Watkins SC, Dawid IB, Hukriede NA. Characterization of an lhx1a transgenic reporter in zebrafish. Int J Dev Biol. 2010;54(4):731-6. PubMed PMID: 20209443; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2880469.
  47. Hidvegi T, Ewing M, Hale P, Dippold C, Kemp CB, Maurice N, Mukherjee A, Goldbach C, Watkins S, Michalopoulos G, Perlmutter DH. An Autophagy-Enhancing Drug Promotes Degradation of Mutant {alpha}1-Antitrypsin Z and Reduces Hepatic Fibrosis. Science. 2010 Jun 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20522742
  48. Long KR, Yamamoto Y, Baker AL, Watkins SC, Coyne CB, Conway JF, Aridor M. Sar1 assembly regulates membrane constriction and ER export. J Cell Biol. 2010 Jul12;190(1):115-28. PubMed PMID: 20624903; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2911667.
  49. Zahid M, Phillips BE, Albers SM, Giannoukakis N, Watkins SC, Robbins PD. Identification of a cardiac specific protein transduction domain by in vivo biopanning using a m13 phage Peptide display library in mice. PLoS One. 2010 Aug  17;5(8). pii: e12252. PubMed PMID: 20808875.
  50.  Zhao X, Bose A, Komita H, Taylor JL, Kawabe M, Chi N, Spokas L, Lowe DB,Goldbach C, Alber S, Watkins SC, Butterfield LH, Kalinski P, Kirkwood JM, Storkus WJ. Intratumoral IL-12 Gene Therapy Results in the Crosspriming of Tc1 Cells Reactive Against Tumor-associated Stromal Antigens. Mol Ther. 2010 Dec 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21189473
  51.  Bose A, Taylor JL, Alber S, Watkins SC, Garcia JA, Rini BI, Ko JS, Cohen PA,Finke JH, Storkus WJ. Sunitinib facilitates the activation and recruitment of therapeutic anti-tumor immunity in concert with specific vaccination. Int J Cancer. 2010 Dec 17. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21170961.
  52. Vo N, Seo HY, Robinson A, Sowa G, Bentley D, Taylor L, Studer R, Usas A, HuardJ, Alber S, Watkins SC, Lee J, Coehlo P, Wang D, Loppini M, Robbins PD,Niedernhofer LJ, Kang J. Accelerated aging of intervertebral discs in a mousemodel of progeria. J Orthop Res. 2010 Dec;28(12):1600-7. PubMed PMID: 20973062.
  53.  Liu S, Kuo W, Yang W, Liu W, Gibson GA, Dorko K, Watkins SC, Strom SC, Wang T.The second extracellular loop dictates Occludin-mediated HCV entry. Virology.2010 Nov 10;407(1):160-70. Epub 2010 Sep 6. PubMed PMID: 20822789; PubMed CentralPMCID: PMC2946412.
  54.  Geng X, Lou H, Wang J, Li L, Swanson AL, Sun M, Beers-Stolz D, Watkins S,Perez RG, Drain P. {alpha}-Synuclein binds the KATP channel at insulin-secretory granules and inhibits insulin secretion. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2011Feb;300(2):E276-E286. Epub 2010 Sep 21. PubMed PMID: 20858756.
  55.  Baker AC, de Mattos A, Watkins S, German JB, Troppmann C, Perez R.Pretransplant free fatty acids (FFA) and allograft survival in renaltransplantation. J Surg Res. 2010 Dec;164(2):182-7. Epub 2010 Aug 17. PubMed PMID: 20855086.
  56. Bernal PJ, Bauer EM, Cao R, Maniar S, Mosher M, Chen J, Wang QJ, Glorioso JC,  Pitt BR, Watkins SC, St Croix CM. A Role for Zinc in Regulating Hypoxia-Induced Contractile Events in Pulmonary Endothelium. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol.  2011 Mar 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21378023.
  57. O'Reilly LP, Watkins SC, Smithgall TE. An unexpected role for the clock protein timeless in developmental apoptosis. PLoS One. 2011 Feb 17;6(2):e17157. PubMed PMID: 21359199; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3040764.
  58. Zhao X, Bose A, Komita H, Taylor JL, Kawabe M, Chi N, Spokas L, Lowe DB, Goldbach C, Alber S, Watkins SC, Butterfield LH, Kalinski P, Kirkwood JM, Storkus WJ. Intratumoral IL-12 Gene Therapy Results in the Crosspriming of Tc1 Cells Reactive Against Tumor-associated Stromal Antigens. Mol Ther. 2010 Dec 28. [Epub  ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21189473.
 
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