Selected Publications
Functional dissection of the dominant role of CD55 in protecting vesicular stomatitis virus against complement-mediated neutralization.
Kumar NA, Suma SM, Kunnakkadan U, Nag J, Mukesh RK, Lyles DS and Johnson J B(2021)
Viruses 13(3), 373;https://doi.org/10.3390/v13030373.
In the Crosshairs: RNA Viruses OR Complement?
Kumar NA, Kunnakkadan U, Thomas S and Johnson J B (2020)
Front. Immunol. 11:573583. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.573583
A factor I-like activity associated with chikungunya virus contributes to its resistance to the human complement system.
Nag J, Mukesh RK, Suma SM, Kunnakkadan U, Kumar NA, Johnson J B(2020)
J Virol. pii: JVI.02062-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02062-19. PMID: 31941783.
Complement-Mediated Neutralization of a Potent Neurotropic Human Pathogen, Chandipura Virus, Is Dependent on C1q.
Kunnakkadan U, Nag J, Kumar NA, Mukesh RK, Suma SM, Johnson JB(2019)
J Virol. 93(19). pii: e00994-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00994-19. PMID: 31315998.
Parainfluenza virus 5 upregulates CD55 expression to producevirions with enhanced resistance to complement-mediated neutralization.
Li Y, Johnson JB*, Parks GD. (2016)
Virology 497:305-13.
The multiple stress responsive transcriptional regulator Rv3334 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an autorepressor and a positive regulator of kstR.
Gomez RL, Jose L, Ramachandran R, Raghunandanan S, Muralikrishnan B, Johnson J B, Sivakumar KC, Mundayoor S and Kumar RA. (2016)
FEBS J 283(16):3056-71.
A novel Factor I activity in Nipah virus inhibits human complement pathways through cleavage of C3b.
Johnson J B, Borisevich V, Rockx B, Parks GD.( 2015)
J Virol. 15;89(2):989-98.
The neutralizing capacity of antibodies elicited by parainfluenza virus infection of African Green Monkeys is dependent on complement.
Mayer AE,Johnson J B, Parks GD(2014)
Virology 460-461:23-33
The Bordetella pertussis Bps polysaccharide enhances lung colonization by conferring protection from complement-mediated killing.
Ganguly T, Johnson J B*, Kock ND, Parks GD, Deora R.
Cell Microbiol. 16(7):1105-18.