Mills EL, Avila YI, Beasock D, Radwan Y, Suptela SR, Marriott I, Afonin KA, Johnson MB. Immunostimulatory nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) augment protective osteoblast and osteoclast type I interferon responses to Staphylococcus aureus. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine. 2024 Jun 10;10:60:102762. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2024.102762
Rebolledo LP, Ke W, Cedrone E, Wang J, Majithia K, Johnson MB, Dokholyan NV, Dobrovolskaia MA, Afonin KA. Immunostimulation of Fibrous Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles Can be Modulated through Aptamer-Based Functional Moieties: Unveiling the Structure-Activity Relationship and Mechanistic Insights. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2024 Feb 21;16(7):8430-8441. doi: 10.1021/acsami.3c17779
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Johnson MB, Criss AK. Resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to neutrophils. Front Microbiol. 2011;2:77. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00077
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