Publications

Dos Reis TF, de Castro PA, Bastos RW, Pinzan CF, Souza PFN, Ackloo S, Hossain MA, Drewry DH, Alkhazraji S, Ibrahim AS, Jo H, Lightfoot JD, Adams EM, Fuller KK, deGrado WF, Goldman GH. A host defense peptide mimetic, brilacidin, potentiates caspofungin antifungal activity against human pathogenic fungi. Nat Commun. 2023 Apr 12;14(1):2052. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37573-y. PMID: 37045836; PMCID: PMC10090755.
Gihaz S, Gareiss P, Choi JY, Renard I, Pal AC, Surovsteva Y, Chiu JE, Thekkiniath J, Plummer M, Hungerford W, Montgomery ML, Hosford A, Adams EM, Lightfoot JD, Fox D 3rd, Ojo KK, Staker BL, Fuller K, Ben Mamoun C. High-resolution crystal structure and chemical screening reveal pantothenate kinase as a new target for antifungal development. Structure. 2022 Nov 3;30(11):1494-1507.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2022.09.001. Epub 2022 Sep 26.PMID: 36167065; PMCID: PMC10042587.
Brown ME, Montgomery ML, Kamath MM, Nicholas S, Liu Y, Karamichos D, Fuller KK. A novel 3D culture model of fungal keratitis to explore host-pathogen interactions within the stromal environment. Exp Eye Res. 2021 Jun;207:108581. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2021.108581. Epub 2021 Apr 15. PMID: 33865843; PMCID: PMC9220295.
Geiser DM, Al-Hatmi AMS, Aoki T, Arie T, Balmas V, Barnes I, Bergstrom GC, Bhattacharyya MK, Blomquist CL, Bowden RL, Brankovics B, Brown DW, Burgess LW, Bushley K, Busman M, Cano-Lira JF, Carrillo JD, Chang HX, Chen CY, Chen W, Chilvers M, Chulze S, Coleman JJ, Cuomo CA, de Beer ZW, de Hoog GS, Del Castillo-Múnera J, Del Ponte EM, Diéguez-Uribeondo J, Di Pietro A, Edel-Hermann V, Elmer WH, Epstein L, Eskalen A, Esposto MC, Everts KL, Fernández-Pavía SP, da Silva GF, Foroud NA, Fourie G, Frandsen RJN, Freeman S, Freitag M, Frenkel O, Fuller KK, Gagkaeva T, Gardiner DM, Glenn AE, Gold SE, Gordon TR, Gregory NF, Gryzenhout M, Guarro J, Gugino BK, Gutierrez S, Hammond-Kosack KE, Harris LJ, Homa M, Hong CF, Hornok L, Huang JW, Ilkit M, Jacobs A, Jacobs K, Jiang C, Jiménez-Gasco MDM, Kang S, Kasson MT, Kazan K, Kennell JC, Kim HS, Kistler HC, Kuldau GA, Kulik T, Kurzai O, Laraba I, Laurence MH, Lee T, Lee YW, Lee YH, Leslie JF, Liew ECY, Lofton LW, Logrieco AF, López-Berges MS, Luque AG, Lysøe E, Ma LJ, Marra RE, Martin FN, May SR, McCormick SP, McGee C, Meis JF, Migheli Q, Mohamed Nor NMI, Monod M, Moretti A, Mostert D, Mulè G, Munaut F, Munkvold GP, Nicholson P, Nucci M, O'Donnell K, Pasquali M, Pfenning LH, Prigitano A, Proctor RH, Ranque S, Rehner SA, Rep M, Rodríguez-Alvarado G, Rose LJ, Roth MG, Ruiz-Roldán C, Saleh AA, Salleh B, Sang H, Scandiani MM, Scauflaire J, Schmale DG 3rd, Short DPG, Šišić A, Smith JA, Smyth CW, Son H, Spahr E, Stajich JE, Steenkamp E, Steinberg C, Subramaniam R, Suga H, Summerell BA, Susca A, Swett CL, Toomajian C, Torres-Cruz TJ, Tortorano AM, Urban M, Vaillancourt LJ, Vallad GE, van der Lee TAJ, Vanderpool D, van Diepeningen AD, Vaughan MM, Venter E, Vermeulen M, Verweij PE, Viljoen A, Waalwijk C, Wallace EC, Walther G, Wang J, Ward TJ, Wickes BL, Wiederhold NP, Wingfield MJ, Wood AKM, Xu JR, Yang XB, Yli-Mattila T, Yun SH, Zakaria L, Zhang H, Zhang N, Zhang SX, Zhang X. Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex. Phytopathology. 2021 Jul;111(7):1064-1079. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-08-20-0330-LE. Epub 2021 Sep 9. PMID: 33200960.
Montgomery ML, Fuller KK. Experimental Models for Fungal Keratitis: An Overview of Principles and Protocols. Cells. 2020 Jul 16;9(7):1713. doi: 10.3390/cells9071713. PMID: 32708830; PMCID: PMC7408389.
Lightfoot JD, Fuller KK. CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Replacement in the Fungal Keratitis Pathogen Fusarium solani var. petroliphilum. Microorganisms. 2019 Oct 16;7(10):457. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms7100457. PMID: 31623147; PMCID: PMC6843433.
Hendricson A, Umlauf S, Choi JY, Thekkiniath J, Surovtseva YV, Fuller KK, Reynolds TB, Voelker DR, Ben Mamoun C. High-throughput screening for phosphatidylserine decarboxylase inhibitors using a distyrylbenzene-bis-aldehyde (DSB-3)-based fluorescence assay. J Biol Chem. 2019 Aug 9;294(32):12146-12156. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007766. Epub 2019 Jun 21. PMID: 31227523; PMCID: PMC6690695.
Montgomery ML, Callegan MC, Fuller KK, Carr DJJ. Ocular Glands Become Infected Secondarily to Infectious Keratitis and Play a Role in Corneal Resistance to Infection. J Virol. 2019 Jul 30;93(16):e00314-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00314-19. PMID: 31167909; PMCID: PMC6675880