Publications by authors named "Brenda Werner"

The contribution and regulation of various CD4+ T cell lineages that occur with remitting vs progressive courses in sarcoidosis are poorly understood. We developed a multiparameter flow cytometry panel to sort these CD4+ T cell lineages followed by measurement of their functional potential using RNA-sequencing analysis at six-month intervals across multiple study sites. To obtain good quality RNA for sequencing, we relied on chemokine receptor expression to identify and sort lineages.

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The current state-of-the-art in bacteriophage (phage) immobilization onto magnetic particles is limited to techniques that are less expensive and/or facile but nonspecific or those that are more expensive and/or complicated but ensure capsid-down orientation of the phages, as necessary to preserve infectivity and performance in subsequent applications (e.g., therapeutics, detection).

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Phages have demonstrated significant potential as therapeutics in bacterial disease control and as diagnostics due to their targeted bacterial host range. Host range has typically been defined by plaque assays; an important technique for therapeutic development that relies on the ability of a phage to form a plaque upon a lawn of monoculture bacteria. Plaque assays cannot be used to evaluate a phage's ability to recognize and adsorb to a bacterial strain of interest if the infection process is thwarted post-adsorption or is temporally delayed, and it cannot highlight which phages have the strongest adsorption characteristics.

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Introduction: Sarcoidosis is a multiorgan granulomatous disorder thought to be triggered and influenced by gene-environment interactions. Sarcoidosis affects 45-300/100 000 individuals in the USA and has an increasing mortality rate. The greatest gap in knowledge about sarcoidosis pathobiology is a lack of understanding about the underlying immunological mechanisms driving progressive pulmonary disease.

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is recognized as an emerging causative pathogen of canine infectious respiratory disease (CIRD) worldwide. We developed a new open-source real-time PCR (rtPCR) assay for that performs well under standard rtPCR conditions. Primers and probes were designed to target the gene.

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Food wasted due to food spoilage remains a global challenge to the environmental sustainability and security of food supply. In food manufacturing, post-processing contamination of food can occur due to persistent bacterial biofilms, which can be resistant to conventional cleaning and sanitization. The objective was to characterize the efficacy of a polymeric coating in reducing biofilm establishment and facilitating its removal.

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Background: Streptococcus canis is an important opportunistic pathogen of dogs and cats that can also infect a wide range of additional mammals including cows where it can cause mastitis. It is also an emerging human pathogen.

Results: Here we provide characterization of the first genome sequence for this species, strain FSL S3-227 (milk isolate from a cow with an intra-mammary infection).

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Mammalian orthoreoviruses induce apoptosis in vivo and in vitro; however, the specific mechanism by which apoptosis is induced is not fully understood. Recent studies have indicated that the reovirus outer capsid protein μ1 is the primary determinant of reovirus-induced apoptosis. Ectopically expressed μ1 induces apoptosis and localizes to intracellular membranes.

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Two-dimensional protein electrophoresis (2-DE) has undergone many technical improvements in the past 30 years, resulting in an analytical method that is unparalleled in the resolution of complex protein mixtures and capable of quantifying changes in protein expression from a wide variety of tissues and samples. The technique has been applied in many studies of neurologic disease to identify changes in spot patterns that correlate with disease. The true power of the technique emerges when it is coupled to state-of-the-art methods in mass spectrometry, which enable identification of the protein or proteins contained within a spot of interest on a 2-DE map.

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