Featured Publications
2025
- Peek JL, Rosales A, Qi J, Feleke L, Menshikh A, Welch RC, Woodard LE, Asokan A, Wilson MH. Efficient kidney gene transfer and proximal tubule transduction using self-complementary AAV.cc47 vectors. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2025 Oct 6;33(4):101606. doi: 10.1016/j.omtm.2025.101606. PMID: 41146875; PMCID: PMC12554119.
- Woodard LE, Welch RC, Menshikh A, Luo W, Williams FM, Peek JL, Sha F, Veach RA, Kaja A, Beckerman TM, Ikizler TA, Wilson MH. Partial correction of cystinuria type A in mice via kidney-targeted transposon delivery. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2025 Jul 21;36(3):102639. doi: 10.1016/j.omtn.2025.102639. PMID: 40791872; PMCID: PMC12337122.
- Bejoy J, Welch RC, Qian ES, Williams FM, Gibson-Corley KN, Wilson MH, Paragas N, Woodard LE. Urine-derived stem cells display homing, incorporation, and regeneration in human organoid and mouse models of acute kidney injury. Mol Ther. 2025 Jul 2;33(7):3307-3320. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2025.03.044. Epub 2025 Mar 28. PMID: 40158205; PMCID: PMC12266040.
- Rosales A, Blondel LO, Hull J, Gao Q, Aykun N, Peek JL, Vargas A, Fergione S, Song M, Wilson MH, Barbas AS, Asokan A. Evolving adeno-associated viruses for gene transfer to the kidney via cross-species cycling of capsid libraries. Nat Biomed Eng. 2025 Jul;9(7):1086-1100. doi: 10.1038/s41551-024-01341-0. Epub 2025 Feb 5. PMID: 39910375; PMCID: PMC12261118.
- Asokan A, Wilson MH. Filtering through AAV Capsid Libraries for Effective Kidney Gene Transfer. Kidney Int. 2025 Jan 13:S0085-2538(25)00014-6. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2024.12.012. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39814263.
- Hickman AB, Lannes L, Furman CM, Hong C, Franklin L, Ghirlando R, Ghosh A, Luo W, Konstantinidou P, Lorenzi HA, Grove A, Haase AD, Wilson MH, Dyda F. Activity of the mammalian DNA transposon piggyBat from Myotis lucifugus is restricted by its own transposon ends. Nat Commun. 2025 Jan 7;16(1):458. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55784-9. PMID: 39774116; PMCID: PMC11707139.
2020-2024
- Cao S, Pan Y, Terker AS, Arroyo Ornelas JP, Wang Y, Tang J, Niu A, Kar SA, Jiang M, Luo W, Dong X, Fan X, Wang S, Wilson MH, Fogo A, Zhang MZ, Harris RC. Epidermal growth factor receptor activation is essential for kidney fibrosis development. Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 14;14(1):7357. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43226-x. PMID: 37963889.
- Kenigsberg Z, Welch RC, Bejoy J, Williams FM, Veach RA, Jarrett I, Thompson TK, Wilson MH, Woodard LE. Genome engineering of human urine-derived stem cells to express lactoferrin and deoxyribonuclease. Tissue Eng Part A. 2023 May 2. doi: 10.1089/ten.TEA.2023.0003. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37130035.
- Peek JL, Wilson MH. Cell and gene therapy for kidney disease. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2023 Mar 27. doi: 10.1038/s41581-023-00702-3. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36973494. Luo W, Hickman AB, Genzor P, Ghirlando R, Furman CM, Menshikh A, Haase A, Dyda F, Wilson MH. Transposase N-terminal phosphorylation and asymmetric transposon ends inhibit piggyBac transposition in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Dec 9;50(22):13128-13142. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac1191. PMID: 36537219; PMCID: PMC9825180.
- Wentian Luo, Alison B. Hickman, Pavol Genzor, Rodolfo Ghirlando, Christopher M. Furman, Anna Menshikh, Astrid Haase, Fred Dyda, Matthew H. Wilson. Transposase N-terminal phosphorylation and asymmetric transposon ends inhibit piggyBac transposition in mammalian cells. bioRxiv 2022.09.26.509586; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.26.509586
- Arroyo JP, Terker AS, Zuchowski Y, Watts JA, Bock F, Meyer C, Luo W, Kapp ME, Gould ER, Miranda AX, Carty J, Jiang M, Vanacore RM, Hammock E, Wilson MH, Zent R, Zhang M, Bhave G, Harris RC. Kidney collecting duct cells make vasopressin in response to NaCl induced hypertonicity. JCI Insight. 2022 Nov 3;. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.161765. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36326835.
- Hunter K, Larsen JA, Love HD, Evans RC, Roy S, Zent R, Harris R, Wilson MH, Fissell WH. Inhibition of TGF-β improves primary renal tubule cell differentiation in long-term culture. Tissue Eng Part A. 2022 Oct 23;. doi: 10.1089/ten.TEA.2022.0147. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36274231.
- Haake SM, Plosa EJ, Kropski JA, Venton LA, Reddy A, Bock F, Chang BT, Luna AJ, Nabukhotna K, Xu ZQ, Prather RA, Lee S, Tanjore H, Polosukhin VV, Viquez OM, Jones A, Luo W, Wilson MH, Rathmell WK, Massion PP, Pozzi A, Blackwell TS, Zent R. Ligand-independent integrin β1 signaling supports lung adenocarcinoma development. JCI Insight. 2022 Aug 8;7(15). doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.154098. PubMed PMID: 35763345; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9462485.
- Peek JL, Wilson MH. Gene therapy for kidney disease: targeting cystinuria. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2021 Dec 15. doi: 10.1097/MNH.0000000000000768. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34982522.
- Pan Y, Cao S, Terker AS, Tang J, Sasaki K, Wang Y, Niu A, Luo W, Fan X, Wang S, Wilson MH, Zhang MZ, Harris RC. Myeloid cyclooxygenase-2/prostaglandin E2/E-type prostanoid receptor 4 promotes transcription factor MafB-dependent inflammatory resolution in acute kidney injury. Kidney Int. 2022 Jan;101(1):79-91. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2021.09.033. Epub 2021 Nov 11. PMID: 34774558; PMCID: PMC8741730.
- Wilson MH, Gottschalk S. Expect the unexpected: piggyBac and lymphoma. Blood. 2021 Oct 21;138(16):1379-1380. doi: 10.1182/blood.2021012349. PMID: 34673949.
- Beckermann TM, Luo W, Wilson CM, Veach RA, Wilson MH. Cognate restriction of transposition by piggyBac-like proteins. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jul 7:gkab578. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab578. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34232995.
- Reinfeld BI, Madden MZ, Wolf MM, Chytil A, Bader JE, Patterson AR, Sugiura A, Cohen AS, Ali A, Do BT, Muir A, Lewis CA, Hongo RA, Young KL, Brown RE, Todd VM, Huffstater T, Abraham A, O'Neil RT, Wilson MH, Xin F, Tantawy MN, Merryman WD, Johnson RW, Williams CS, Mason EF, Mason FM, Beckermann KE, Vander Heiden MG, Manning HC, Rathmell JC, Rathmell WK. Cell-programmed nutrient partitioning in the tumour microenvironment. Nature. 2021 Apr 7. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03442-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33828302.
- Woodard LE, Williams FM, Jarrett IC, Wilson MH. Functional analysis of the catalytic triad of the hAT-family transposase TcBuster. Plasmid. 2021 Mar;114:102554. doi: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2021.102554. Epub 2021 Jan 18. PMID: 33476638; PMCID: PMC7946762.
- Reinfeld BI, Madden MZ, Wolf MM, Chytil A, Bader JE, Patterson AR, Cohen AS, Ali A, Do BT, Muir A, Lewis CA, Hongo RA, Young KL, Brown RE, Todd VM, Huffstater T, Abraham A, O’Neil RT, Wilson MH, Xin F, Tantawy MN, Merryman WD, Johnson RW, Williams CS, Mason EF, Mason FM, Beckermann KE, Vander Heiden MG, Manning HC, Rathmell JC, Rathmell WK. Cell Programmed Nutrient Partitioning in the Tumor Microenvironment. bioRxiv 2020.08.10.238428.
- Chiusa M, Hu W, Zienkiewicz J, Chen X, Zhang MZ, Harris RC, Vanacore RM, Bentz JA, Remuzzi G, Benigni A, Fogo AB, Luo W, Mili S, Wilson MH, Zent R, Hawiger J, Pozzi A. EGF receptor-mediated FUS phosphorylation promotes its nuclear translocation and fibrotic signaling. Journal of Cell Biology. 2020, 219(9):e202001120.
- Chen Q, Luo W, Veach RA, Hickman AB, Wilson MH, Dyda F. Structural basis of seamless excision and specific targeting by piggyBac transposase. Nat Commun. 2020;11(1):3446. Published 2020 Jul 10. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17128-1
- Love HD, Evans RC, Humes HD, Roy S, Zent R, Harris R, Wilson MH, Fissell WH. Metformin and Inhibition of TGF-β Stimulate In Vitro Transport in Primary Renal Tubule Cells. Tissue Eng Part A. 2020 Apr 20;. doi: 10.1089/ten.TEA.2019.0294. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32312181.
- Beckermann TM, Welch RC, Williams FM, Mortlock DP, Sha F, Ikizler TA, Woodard LE, Wilson MH. CRISPR/Cas9 engineering of albino cystinuria Type A mice. Genesis. 2020 Feb 20:e23357. doi: 10.1002/dvg.23357. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32078250
- Wilson MH, Veach RA, Luo W, Welch RC, Roy S, Fissell WH. Genome Engineering Renal Epithelial Cells for Enhanced Volume Transport Function. Cell Mol Bioeng. 2019 Sep 25;13(1):17-26. doi: 10.1007/s12195-019-00601-3. eCollection 2020 Feb. PMID: 32030105
- Woodard LE, Welch RC, Veach RA, Beckermann TM, Sha F, Weinman EJ, Ikizler TA, Tischfield JA, Sahota A, Wilson MH. Metabolic consequences of cystinuria. BMC Nephrol. 2019 Jun 20;20(1):227. doi: 10.1186/s12882-019-1417-8. PubMed PMID: 31221135; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6585015.