Jessie Turnbaugh, PhD

Director, Gnotobiotic Core
Microbiology & Immunology
Publications: 

A diet-dependent host metabolite shapes the gut microbiota to protect from autoimmunity.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Alexander M, Upadhyay V, Rock R, Ramirez L, Puchalska P, Orellana D, Ang QY, Turnbaugh JA, Tian Y, Dumlao D, Nayak R, Patterson A, Newman JC, Crawford PA, Turnbaugh PJ

Microbial signals, MyD88, and lymphotoxin drive TNF-independent intestinal epithelial tissue damage.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Rusu I, Mennillo E, Bain JL, Li Z, Sun X, Ly KM, Rosli YY, Naser M, Wang Z, Advincula R, Achacoso P, Shao L, Razani B, Klein OD, Marson A, Turnbaugh JA, Turnbaugh PJ, Malynn BA, Ma A, Kattah MG

Caloric restriction disrupts the microbiota and colonization resistance.

Nature

von Schwartzenberg RJ, Bisanz JE, Lyalina S, Spanogiannopoulos P, Ang QY, Cai J, Dickmann S, Friedrich M, Liu SY, Collins SL, Ingebrigtsen D, Miller S, Turnbaugh JA, Patterson AD, Pollard KS, Mai K, Spranger J, Turnbaugh PJ

Ketogenic Diets Alter the Gut Microbiome Resulting in Decreased Intestinal Th17 Cells.

Cell

Ang QY, Alexander M, Newman JC, Tian Y, Cai J, Upadhyay V, Turnbaugh JA, Verdin E, Hall KD, Leibel RL, Ravussin E, Rosenbaum M, Patterson AD, Turnbaugh PJ

Non-catalytic ubiquitin binding by A20 prevents psoriatic arthritis-like disease and inflammation.

Nature immunology

Razani B, Whang MI, Kim FS, Nakamura MC, Sun X, Advincula R, Turnbaugh JA, Pendse M, Tanbun P, Achacoso P, Turnbaugh PJ, Malynn BA, Ma A

Meta-Analysis Reveals Reproducible Gut Microbiome Alterations in Response to a High-Fat Diet.

Cell host & microbe

Bisanz JE, Upadhyay V, Turnbaugh JA, Ly K, Turnbaugh PJ

The N-terminal, polybasic region of PrP(C) dictates the efficiency of prion propagation by binding to PrP(Sc).

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Turnbaugh JA, Unterberger U, Saá P, Massignan T, Fluharty BR, Bowman FP, Miller MB, Supattapone S, Biasini E, Harris DA

The toxicity of a mutant prion protein is cell-autonomous, and can be suppressed by wild-type prion protein on adjacent cells.

PloS one

Biasini E, Turnbaugh JA, Massignan T, Veglianese P, Forloni G, Bonetto V, Chiesa R, Harris DA

Prion protein at the crossroads of physiology and disease.

Trends in neurosciences

Biasini E, Turnbaugh JA, Unterberger U, Harris DA

The N-terminal, polybasic region is critical for prion protein neuroprotective activity.

PloS one

Turnbaugh JA, Westergard L, Unterberger U, Biasini E, Harris DA

A nine amino acid domain is essential for mutant prion protein toxicity.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Westergard L, Turnbaugh JA, Harris DA