Publications

* Equal contribution

1. The protozoan commensal Tritrichomonas musculis is a natural adjuvant for mucosal IgA. [PDF]

   Cao EY*, Burrows K*, Chiaranunt P, Popovic A, Zhou X, Xie C, Thakur A, Britton G, Spindler M, Ngai L, Tai SL, Dasoveanu DC, Nguyen A, Faith JJ, Parkinson J, Gommerman JL, and Mortha A.
   Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2024.

2. Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior. [PDF]

   Barron JJ, Mroz NM, Taloma SE, Dahlgreen MW, Ortiz-Carpena JF, Keefe MG, Escoubas CE, Dorman LC, Vainchtein ID, Chiaranunt P, Kotas ME, Nowakowski TJ, Bender KJ, Molofsky AB, and Molofsky AV.
   Science 2024.

3. Microbial energy metabolism fuels an intestinal macrophage niche in solitary isolated lymphoid tissues through purinergic signaling. [PDF]

   Chiaranunt P, Burrows K, Ngai L, Tai SL, Cao EY, Liang H, Hamidzada H, Wong A, Gschwend J, Flüchter P, Kuypers M, Despot T, Momen A, Lim SM, Kim D, Malleavey T, Schneider C, Conway T, Imamura H, Epelman S, and Mortha A.
   Science Immunology 2023.

4. Excess dietary sugar alters colonocyte metabolism and impairs the proliferative response to damage. [PDF]

   Burr A, Ji J, Ozler K, Eskiocak O, Yueh B, Menk AV, Costa ASH, Rittenhouse N, Marshall CW, Chiaranunt P, Mullinax L, Overacre-Delgoffe A, Cooper VS, Poholek AC, Delgoffe GM, Beyaz S, and Hand TW.
   Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2023.

5. A gut commensal protozoa remotely shapes a lung niche for asthma-promoting eosinophils. [PDF]

   Burrows K, Ngai L, Chiaranunt P, Cao EY, Streutker CJ, Forde B, O’Mahoney L, and Mortha A.
   bioRxiv, 2022.

6. NLRP1B and NLRP3 control the host response following colonization with the commensal protist Tritrichomonas musculis. [PDF]

   Chiaranunt P, Burrows K, Ngai L, Cao EY, Liang H, Tai SL, Streutker CJ, Girardin SE, and Mortha A.
   Journal of Immunology, 2022.

7. Beyond immunity: Underappreciated functions of intestinal macrophages. [PDF]

   Chiaranunt P, Tai SL, Ngai L, and Mortha A.
   Frontiers in Immunology, 2021.

8. Deletion of AMPK minimizes graft-versus-host disease through an early impact on effector donor T cells. [PDF]

   Monlish DA*, Beezhold KJ*, Chiaranunt P*, Paz K, Moore NJ, Dobbs AK, Brown RA, Ozolek JA, Blazar BR, and Byersdorfer CA.
   JCI Insight, 2021.

9. Isolation of mononuclear phagocytes from the mouse gut. [PDF]

   Chiaranunt P, Burrows K, Ngai L, and Mortha A.
   Methods in Enzymology, 2020. 

10. Rapid isolation of mouse ILCs from murine intestinal tissues. [PDF]

    Burrows K, Chiaranunt P, Ngai L, and Mortha A.
    Methods in Enzymology, 2020. 

11. Recirculating intestinal IgA-producing cells regulate neuroinflammation via IL-10. [PDF]

    Rojas OL, Pröbstel AK, Porfilio EA, Wang AA, Charabati M, Sun T, Lee DSW, Galicia G, Ramaglia V, Ward LA, Leung LYT, Najafi G, Khaleghi K, Garcillán B, Li A, Besla R, Naouar I, Cao EY, Chiaranunt P, Burrows K, Robinson HG, Allanach JR, Yam J, Luck H, Campbell DJ, Allman D, Brooks DG, Tomura M, Baumann R, Zamvil SS, Bar-Or A, Horwitz MS, Winer DA, Mortha A, Mackay F, Prat A, Osborne LC, Robbins C, Baranzini SE, and Gommerman J.
    Cell, 2019.

12. T cell proliferation and colitis are initiated by defined intestinal microbes. [PDF]

    Chiaranunt P, Tometich JT, Ji J, and Hand TW.
    Journal of Immunology, 2018.

13. Rethinking the paradigm: How comparative studies on fatty acid oxidation inform our understanding of T cell metabolism. [PDF]

    Chiaranunt P, Ferrara JL, and Byersdorfer CA.
    Molecular Immunology, 2015.