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Frank Urena

Research Scientist

Publications

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for specific and rapid detection of Dickeya fangzhongdai targeting a unique genomic region. Scientific Reports, November 2022.
Anuhea DeLude*, Riley Wells*, Sherine Boomla*, Shu-Cheng Chuang*, Frank Urena*, Aaron Shipman*, Noelle Rubas*, Donna Lee Kuehu*, Buster Bickerton*, Taylor Peterson*, Shefali Dobhal, Dario Arizala, Diksha Klair, Francisco Ochoa-Corona, Md Emran Ali, Jenee Odani, Jon-Paul Bingham, Daniel M. Jenkins, Jacqueline Fletcher, James P. Stack, Anne M. Alvarez & Mohammad Arif.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22023-4

T-cell activation decreases miRNA-15a/16 levels to promote MEK1–ERK1/2–Elk1 signaling and proliferative capacity—Journal of Biological Chemistry, March 2022.
Frank Urena*, Chi Ma*, FuKun W. Hoffmann, Lance G. A. Nunes, Johann Urschitz, Stefan Moisyadi, Vedbar S. Khadka, Youping Deng, and Peter R. Hoffmann.
https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(22)00074-6/fulltext

Biomaterial vaccines capturing pathogen-associated molecular patterns protect against bacterial infections and septic shock. Nature Biomedical Engineering, January 2022.
Michael Super*, Edward J. Doherty*, Mark J. Cartwright, Benjamin T. Seiler, Fernanda Langellotto, Nikolaos Dimitrakakis, Des A. White, Alexander G. Stafford, Mohan Karkada, Amanda R. Graveline, Caitlin L. Horgan, Kayla R. Lightbown, Frank R. Urena, Chyenne D. Yeager, Sami A. Rifai, Maxence O. Dellacherie, Aileen W. Li, Collin Leese-Thompson, Hamza Ijaz, Amanda R. Jiang, Vasanth Chandrasekhar, Justin M. Scott, Shanda L. Lightbown, Donald E. Ingber & David J. Mooney.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-021-00756-3

Selenoprotein I deficiency in T cells promotes differentiation into tolerant phenotypes while decreasing Th17 pathology—Journal of Leukocyte Biology, August 2022.
Chi Ma*, FuKun W. Hoffmann, Lance G. Nunes, Frank Urena, Anastasia Andrukhiv, Mariana Gerschenson, Matthew W. Pitts, Peter R. Hoffmann.
https://jlb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/JLB.1A0122-080R

*indicates first author/s