Publications

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2023

Arnold, E. A., Kaai, R. J., Leung, K., Brinkley, M. R., Kelnhofer-Millevolte, L. E., Guo, M. S. & Avgousti, D. C. Adenovirus protein VII binds the A-box of HMGB1 to repress interferon responses. (2023). Biorxiv doi:10.1101/2023.04.17.537247

Lewis HC, Kelnhofer-Millevolte LE, Brinkley MR, Arbach HE, Arnold EA, Ramachandran S, and Avgousti DC. HSV-1 exploits host heterochromatin for nuclear egress (2023). Journal of Cell Biology. 222(9):e202304106. doi:10.1083/jcb.202304106. PMCID: PMC10373338

2021

Lynch KL, Dillon MR, Bat-Erdene M, Lewis HC, Kaai RJ, Arnold EA, Avgousti DC.  A viral histone-like protein exploits antagonism between linker histones and HMGB proteins to obstruct the cell cycle. (2021) Current Biology. Dec; 31 23: 5227-5237.e7.

2020

Paris AJ, Hayer KE, Oved JH, Avgousti DC, Toulmin SA, Zepp JA, Zacharia WJ, Katzen JB, Basil MC, Kremp MM, Slamowitz AR. Jayachandran S, Sivakumar A, Dai N, Wang P, Frank DB, Eisenlohr LC, Beers MF, Weitzman MD, Morrisey EE, and Worthen SG. The STAT3-BDNF-TrkB axis promotes alveolar epithelial regeneration. (2020) Nature Cell Biology. 10.1038/s41556-020-0569-x. PMID 23989251. 

2019

Lynch KL, Gooding LR, Garnett-Benson C, Ornelles DA, Avgousti DC. Epigenetics and the dynamics of chromatin during adenovirus infections (2019) FEBS Lett. 10.1002/1873-3468.13697. PMID 31769503. 

2017

Reyes ED, Kulej K, Akhtar LN, Avgousti DC, Pancholi NJ, Kim ET, Bricker D, Koniski S, Issacs S, Seeholzer SH, Garcia BA, and Weitzman MD. Identifying host factors associated with nascent DNA during virus infection (2017) Mol Cell Proteomics. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M117.067116. PMID 28972080.

Avgousti DC, Della Fera AN, Otter CJ, Herrmann C, Pancholi NJ, and Weitzman MD. Adenovirus core protein VII down-regulates the DNA damage response on the host genome (2017) J. Virol. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01089-17. PMID 28794020.
Featured in the same issue of J. Virol as a ‘Spotlight’ for articles of significant interest.

Herrmann C, Avgousti DC, and Weitzman MD. Differential salt fractionation of nuclei to analyze chromatin-associated proteins from cultured mammalian cells (2017) Bio-protocols. 7(6): e2175 doi:10.21769/BioProtoc.2175. PMID 28845440.

Kulej K, Avgousti DC, Sidoli S, Herrmann C, Della Fera AN, Garcia BA, and Weitzman MD. Time-resolved global and chromatin proteomics during Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) infection (2017) Mol Cell Proteomics. doi:10.1074/mcp.M116.065987. PMID 28179408.

2016

Avgousti DC, Herrmann C, Kulej K, Pancholi NJ, Sekulic N, Petrescu J, Molden RC, Blumenthal, D, Paris AJ, Reyes ED, Ostapchuk P, Hearing P, Seeholzer, SH, Worthen GS, Black BE, Garcia BA, and Weitzman MD. A core viral protein binds host nucleosomes to sequester immune danger signals (2016) Nature. doi:10.1038/nature/18317. PMID 27362237.
Featured in Trends in Microbiology (2016) 24, 774–776.

Green AM, Landry S, Budagyan K, Avgousti DC, Shalhout S, Bhagwat A, and Weitzman MD. APOBEC3A damages the cellular genome during DNA replication (2016) Cell Cycle 15(7):998-1008. PMID 26918916.

2015

Avgousti DC and Weitzman MD. Stress flips a chromatin switch to wake up latent virus (2015) Cell Host Microbe. 18(6):639-41. PMID 26651937.

Kulej K*, Avgousti DC*, Weitzman MD, and Garcia BA. Characterization of histone post-translational modifications during virus infection using mass spectrometry-based proteomics (2015) Methods. S1046-2023(15)00249-2. PMID 26093074, Authors contributed equally.

2012

Avgousti DC, Cecere G, and Grishok A.  The conserved PHD1-PHD2 domain of ZFP-1/AF10 is a discrete functional module essential for viability in Caenorhabditis elegans (2012) Mol Cell Biol. 33(5):999-1015. PMID 23263989.

Avgousti DC, Palani S, Sherman Y, and Grishok A. CSR-1 RNAi pathway positively regulates histone expression in C. elegans (2012) EMBO J., 31(19):3821-32. PMID 22863779. 
Featured in the same issue of EMBO J (2012) 31, 3790–3791. 

2010

Yoon V, Fridkis-Hareli M, Munisamy S, Lee J, Anastasiades D, and Stevceva L. The GP120 Molecule of HIV-1 and its Interaction with T Cells (2010) Curr. Med. Chem., 17(8):741-9. PMID 20088758.

2007

Stevceva L, Yoon V, Anastasiades D and Poznansky M. Immune Responses to HIV GP120 That Facilitate Viral Escape (2007) Curr. HIV. Res. 5(1): 47-54. PMID 17266556.

2006

Wong C, Patwardhan SV, Belton D, Kitchel B, Anastasiades D, Huang J, Naik RR, Perry C and Kaplan DL. Novel Nanocomponents from Spider Silk-Silica Fusion (Chimeric) Proteins (2006) Prot. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 103(25):9428-33. PMID 16769898.