Section: Publications

John Leong, Ph.D.,M.D.

Academic Role: Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Other Affiliation(s):
   Bacterial Genetics and Pathogenesis
   Cell Dynamics Group
   Center for AIDS Research
   Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
   Program in Immunology and Virology

Recent Publications

Campellone, K. G., Robbins, D., and Leong, J. M. (2004).  EspF_U, a translocated effector that interacts with Tir and N-WASP and promotes Nck-independent actin pedestal formation by enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7.  Dev. Cell 7:217-28.

Alugupalli, K.R., Akira, S., Lien, E., and Leong, J.M. (2007). MyD88- and Btk-mediated signals are essential for T cell-independent pathogen-specific IgM responses. J Immunol. 178: 3740-49.

Brady, M.J., Campellone, K.G., Ghildiyal, M., and Leong, J.M.  (2007). Enterohemorrhagic and enteropathogenic E. coli Tir proteins trigger a common Nck-independent actin assembly pathway. Cellular Microbiol., 9:2242-53.

Ritchie, J.M., Brady, M.J., Riley, K.N., Ho, T.D., Campellone, K.G., Herman, I.M., Donohue-Rolfe, A., Tzipori, S., Waldor M.K., and Leong, J.M. (2007). EspF_U, a type III-translocated effector of actin assembly, fosters epithelial association and late-stage intestinal colonization by E. coli O157:H7. Cellular Microbiol., in press.

Office: S6-214
Phone: 508-856-4059
E-mail: John.Leong@umassmed.edu
Keywords: Microbial Pathogenesis, Organisms - vertebrate/human cell lines, Cytoskeleton, Infectious Disease, Organisms - microbes

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