Featured Publications

Reshaping of bacterial molecular hydrogen metabolism contributes to the outgrowth of commensal E. coli during gut inflammation.

Hughes ER, Winter MG, Alves da Silva L, Muramatsu MK, Jimenez AG, Gillis CC, Spiga L, Chanin RB, Santos RL, Zhu W, Winter SE, Elife 2021 Jun 10

Epithelial-Derived Reactive Oxygen Species Enable AppBCX-Mediated Aerobic Respiration of Escherichia coli during Intestinal Inflammation.

Chanin RB, Winter MG, Spiga L, Hughes ER, Zhu W, Taylor SJ, Arenales A, Gillis CC, Büttner L, Jimenez AG, Smoot MP, Santos RL, Winter SE, Cell Host Microbe 2020 Sep

Xenosiderophore Utilization Promotes Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Resilience during Colitis.

Zhu W, Winter MG, Spiga L, Hughes ER, Chanin R, Mulgaonkar A, Pennington J, Maas M, Behrendt CL, Kim J, Sun X, Beiting DP, Hooper LV, Winter SE, Cell Host Microbe 2020 Feb

Editing of the gut microbiota reduces carcinogenesis in mouse models of colitis-associated colorectal cancer.

Zhu W, Miyata N, Winter MG, Arenales A, Hughes ER, Spiga L, Kim J, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Starokadomskyy P, Gopal P, Byndloss MX, Santos RL, Burstein E, Winter SE, J. Exp. Med. 2019 Jul

Dysbiosis-Associated Change in Host Metabolism Generates Lactate to Support Salmonella Growth.

Gillis CC, Hughes ER, Spiga L, Winter MG, Zhu W, Furtado de Carvalho T, Chanin RB, Behrendt CL, Hooper LV, Santos RL, Winter SE Cell Host Microbe 2018 Apr 23 4 570

Precision editing of the gut microbiota ameliorates colitis.

Zhu W, Winter MG, Byndloss MX, Spiga L, Duerkop BA, Hughes ER, Büttner L, de Lima Romão E, Behrendt CL, Lopez CA, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Huff-Hardy K, Wilson RP, Gillis CC, Tükel Ç, Koh AY, Burstein E, Hooper LV, Bäumler AJ, Winter SE Nature 2018 Jan 553 7687 208-211

An Oxidative Central Metabolism Enables Salmonella to Utilize Microbiota-Derived Succinate.

Spiga L, Winter MG, Furtado de Carvalho T, Zhu W, Hughes ER, Gillis CC, Behrendt CL, Kim J, Chessa D, Andrews-Polymenis HL, Beiting DP, Santos RL, Hooper LV, Winter SE Cell Host Microbe 2017 Aug

Microbial Respiration and Formate Oxidation as Metabolic Signatures of Inflammation-Associated Dysbiosis.

Hughes ER, Winter MG, Duerkop BA, Spiga L, Furtado de Carvalho T, Zhu W, Gillis CC, Büttner L, Smoot MP, Behrendt CL, Cherry S, Santos RL, Hooper LV, Winter SE Cell Host Microbe 2017 Feb 21 2 208-219

C4-dicarboxylates and l-aspartate utilization by Escherichia coli K-12 in the mouse intestine: l-aspartate as a major substrate for fumarate respiration and as a nitrogen source.

Schubert C, Winter M, Ebert-Jung A, Kierszniowska S, Nagel-Wolfrum K, Schramm T, Link H, Winter S, Unden G, Environ Microbiol 2021 May 23 5 2564-2577

Endocannabinoids Inhibit the Induction of Virulence in Enteric Pathogens.

Ellermann M, Pacheco AR, Jimenez AG, Russell RM, Cuesta S, Kumar A, Zhu W, Vale G, Martin SA, Raj P, McDonald JG, Winter SE, Sperandio V, Cell 2020 Sep