Publications

Recent Publications (from >145)

Stasic, A.J., Moreno, S.N.J., Carruthers, V.B., Dou, Z. (2022) The Toxoplasma plant-like vacuolar compartment. Euk Microbiol). 69(6):e12951. 10.1111/jeu.12951

Huynh, M.-H., Carruthers, V.B. Toxoplasma excretion glycolytic products is associated with acidification the parasitophorous vacuole during parasite egress. (2022). PLOS Pathog. May 5;18(5):e1010139.doi: 10:1371/journal.ppat.1010139. (PMC9113570)

Bahwal S.A., Chen J.J., E L., Hao T., Chen J., Carruthers V.B., Lai J., Zhou X. (2022) Attenuated Toxoplasma gondiienhances the antitumor efficacy of anti-PD1 antibody by altering the tumor microenvironment in a pancreatic cancer mouse model. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. May 12. doi: 10.1007/s00432-022-04036-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35556163. (PMC in process).

Mayoral, J.*, Guevara, R.B.*, Rivera-Cuevas, Y., Tu, V., Tomita, T. Romano, J., Gunther-Cummins, L. Sidoli, S., Coppens, I., Carruthers, V.B., Weiss, L.M. (2022) A novel dense granule protein, GRA64, interacts with host cell ESCRT proteins during Toxoplasma gondii infection. *Co-first authors. mBio e0144222. (PMC9426488).

Smith, D.*, Lunghi, M., Olafsson, E.B., Hatton, O., Di Cristina, M., Carruthers, V.B.* (2022) A high throughput amenable dual luciferase system for measuring Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoite viability after drug treatment. *Co-corresponding authors. Anal Chem. 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02174

Kannan, G., Thaprawat, P., Schultz, T.L., Carruthers, V.B. (2021) Acquisition of host cytosolic protein by Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites. mSphere. (PMC7885318)

McGovern, O.L., Rivera-Cuevas, Y., Carruthers, V.B. (2021) Emerging mechanisms of endocytosis in Toxoplasma gondii. Life. (PMC7911406)

Steinberg, H., Bowman, N., Diestra, A., Ferradas, C., Russo, P., Clark, D.E., Zhu, D., Magni, R., Malaga, E., Diaz, M., Pinedo, V., Ramal, C., Calderón, M., Carruthers, V.B., Liotta, L., Gilman, R.H., and the Toxoplasmosis working group in Peru and Bolivia. (2021) Detection of Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in HIV Positive Patients in Urine with Hydrogel Nanoparticles. PLOS Neg Trop Dis. (PMC7954332)

Smith, D., Kannan, G., Wang, F., Coppens, I., Nguyen, H.M., Cerutti, A., Schultz, T.L., Rimple, P.A., Di Cristina, M., Besteiro, S., Carruthers, V.B. (2021). Toxoplasma TgATG9 is critical for autophagy and long-term persistence in tissue cysts. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.59384

Huynh, M.-H., Roiko, M.S., Schultz, A.J., Schinke, E.N., LaFavers, K., Agrawal, S., Beauchamp, J.M., Gomes, A.O., Hersh, L.B., Laliberte, J., McGowen, S., Oellig, C.A., Arrizabalaba, G., Sexton, T.R., Sivaraman, K.K., Carruthers, V.B. (2021) Toxoplasma gondii Toxolysin 4 contributes to Toxoplasma efficient egress from host cells. mSphere. Jun 30;6(3)e0044421. (PMC8265663).

Rivera-Cuevas, Y., Mayoral, J., Di Cristina, M., Lawrence, A.-L., Olafson, E.B., Patel, R., Thornhill, D., Waldman, B.S., Ono, A., Sexton, J.Z., Lourido, S., Weiss, L.M., Carruthers, V.B. Toxoplasma gondii exploits the host ESCRT machinery for parasite uptake of host cytosolic proteins. PLOS Pathog. 17:e1010138 (PMC8700025)