Chronic stress unleashes an intratumor phage-fibroblast-B cell circuit to promote tumor growth

Bashir H, Sanidad K, Ravisankar P ...

Cancer Cell, 2026; 44, 1458-1476.e13

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Microbiota regulation of gut-brain neuroimmune crosstalk in early life

Purnima Ravisankar, Daniel S H Wong, Melody Y Zeng.

International Immunology, Volume 38, Issue 5, May 2026, Pages 282–295.

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The Gut–Liver Axis in Pediatric Liver Health and Disease

Rager SL, Zeng MY. Microorganisms. 2023. in press. READ ARTICLE

SARS CoV-2 detected in neonatal stool remote from maternal COVID-19 during pregnancy

Jin JC, Ananthanarayanan A, Brown JA, Rager SL, Bram Y, Sanidad KZ, Amir M, Baergen RN, Stuhlmann H, Schwartz RE, Perlman JM, Zeng MY. Pediatr Res. 2022 Aug 19:1-8. doi: 10.1038/s41390-022-02266-7. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35986143 READ ARTICLE

Gut microbiota-derived metabolites confer protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection

Brown JA, Sanidad KZ, Lucotti S, Lieber CM, Cox RM, Ananthanarayanan A, Basu S, Chen J, Shan M, Amir M, Schmidt F, Weisblum Y, Cioffi M, Li T, Rowdo FM, Martin ML, Guo CJ, Lyssiotis C, Layden BT, Dannenberg AJ, Bieniasz PD, Lee B, Inohara N, Matei I, Plemper RK, Zeng MY. Gut Microbes. 2022 Jan-Dec;14(1):2105609. doi: 10.1080/19490976.2022.2105609. PMID: 35915556; PMCID: PMC9348133. READ ARTICLE

Maternal Microbiome and Infections in Pregnancy

Amir M, Brown JA, Rager SL, Sanidad KZ, Ananthanarayanan A, Zeng MY. Microorganisms. 2020 Dec 15;8(12):1996. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8121996. PMID: 33333813; PMCID: PMC7765218. READ ARTICLE

Immune imprinting in utero

Amir M, Zeng MY. Science. 2021 Aug 27;373(6558):967-968. doi: 10.1126/science.abl3631. PMID: 34446596; PMCID: PMC8740897. READ ARTICLE

Maternal gut microbiome-induced IgG regulates neonatal gut microbiome and immunity

Sanidad KZ, Amir M, Ananthanarayanan A, Singaraju A, Shiland NB, Hong HS, Kamada N, Inohara N, Núñez G, Zeng MY. Sci Immunol. 2022 Jun 10;7(72):eabh3816. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abh3816. Epub 2022 Jun 10. PMID: 35687695. READ ARTICLE

LOS in The Dysbiotic Gut

Sanidad KZ, Zeng MY. Cell Host &Microbe. 2020 Jan 8;27(1):11-13. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.12.009. PMID: 31951821; PMCID: PMC7050193. READ ARTICLE

Neonatal gut microbiome and immunity

Sanidad KZ, Zeng MY. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2020 Aug;56:30-37. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2020.05.011. Epub 2020 Jul 4. PMID: 32634598; PMCID: PMC8729197. READ ARTICLE

Maternal Immunization Confers Protection to the Offspring against an Attaching and Effacing Pathogen through Delivery of IgG in Breast Milk

Caballero-Flores G, Sakamoto K, Zeng MY, Wang Y, Hakim J, Matus-Acuña V, Inohara N, Núñez G. Cell Host Microbe. 2019 Feb 13;25(2):313-323.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.12.015. Epub 2019 Jan 24. PubMed PMID: 30686564; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6375740. READ ARTICLE

Intestinal non-canonical NFκB signaling shapes the local and systemic immune response

Ramakrishnan SK, Zhang H, Ma X, Jung I, Schwartz AJ, Triner D, Devenport SN, Das NK, Xue X, Zeng MY, Hu Y, Mortensen RM, Greenson JK, Cascalho M, Wobus CE, Colacino JA, Nunez G, Rui L, Shah YM. Nat Commun. 2019 Feb 8;10(1):660. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08581-8. PubMed PMID: 30737385; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6368617. READ ARTICLE

The roles of NADPH oxidase in modulating neutrophil effector responses

Zeng MY, Miralda I, Armstrong CL, Uriarte SM, Bagaitkar J. Mol Oral Microbiol. 2019 Apr;34(2):27-38. doi: 10.1111/omi.12252. Epub 2019 Feb 7. Review. PubMed PMID: 30632295. READ ARTICLE

NADPH oxidase activation regulates apoptotic neutrophil clearance by murine macrophages

Bagaitkar J*, Huang J*, Zeng MY*, Pech NK, Monlish DA, Perez-Zapata LJ, Miralda I, Schuettpelz LG, Dinauer MC. Blood. 2018 May 24;131(21):2367-2378. doi: 10.1182/blood-2017-09-809004. Epub 2018 Apr 4. PubMed PMID: 29618478; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5969376. *co-first authors READ ARTICLE

The interplay between host immune cells and gut microbiota in chronic inflammatory diseases

Kim D, Zeng MY, Núñez G. Exp Mol Med. 2017 May 26;49(5):e339. doi: 10.1038/emm.2017.24. Review. PubMed PMID: 28546562; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5454439. READ ARTICLE

Mesenchymal Cell-Specific MyD88 Signaling Promotes Systemic Dissemination of Salmonella Typhimurium via Inflammatory Monocytes

Kim D, Seo SU, Zeng MY, Kim WU, Kamada N, Inohara N, Núñez G. J Immunol. 2017 Aug 15;199(4):1362-1371. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601527. Epub 2017 Jul 3. PubMed PMID: 28674182; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5548622. READ ARTICLE

Gut microbiota: Role in pathogen colonization, immune responses, and inflammatory disease

Pickard JM*, Zeng MY*, Caruso R*, Núñez G. Immunol Rev. 2017 Sep;279(1):70-89. doi: 10.1111/imr.12567. Review. PubMed PMID: 28856738; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5657496. *co-first authors READ ARTICLE

Mechanisms of inflammation-driven bacterial dysbiosis in the gut

Zeng MY, Inohara N, Nunez G. Mucosal Immunology. 2017 Jan;10(1):18-26. PMID: 27554295.PMCID: PMC5788567 READ ARTICLE

NEK7 is an essential mediator of NLRP3 activation downstream of potassium efflux

He Y, Zeng MY, Yang D, Motro B, Núñez G. Nature. 2016 Feb 18;530(7590):354-7. doi: 10.1038/nature16959. Epub 2016 Jan 27. PubMed PMID: 26814970; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4810788. READ ARTICLE

Gut Microbiota-Induced Immunoglobulin G Controls Systemic Infection by Symbiotic Bacteria and Pathogens

Zeng MY, Cisalpino D, Varadarajan S, Hellman J, Warren HS, Cascalho M, Inohara N, Núñez G. Immunity. 2016 Mar 15;44(3):647-658. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.02.006. Epub 2016 Mar 2. PubMed PMID: 26944199; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4794373. READ ARTICLE