Publications

Roach SN, Fiege JK, Shepherd FK, Wiggen TD, Hunter RC, Langlois RA. (2022). Respiratory influenza virus infection causes dynamic tuft vell and innate lymphoid cell changes in the small intestine. Journal of Virology. DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00352-22

Fletcher JR, Villarreal AR, Penningroth MR, Hunter RC. (2022). Staphylococcus aureus overcomes anaerobe-derived short-chain fatty acid stress via FadX and the CodY regulon. Journal of Bacteriology. DOI: 10.1128/jb.00064-22

Villarreal AR, Campbell DE, Webster SS, Hunter RC. (2021). Draft genome sequence of Scheffersomyces spartinae ARV011, a marine yeast isolate. Microbial Resour Announc. 10(45):e0065221. DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00652-21


Lucas SK, Villarreal AR, Ahmad MM, Itabiyi A, Feddema E, Boyer HC, Hunter RC. (2021) Anaerobic microbiota derived from the upper airways impact Staphylococcus aureus physiology. Infection and Immunity. DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00153-21

Moore PJ, Wiggen TD, Kent LA, Arif SJ, Lucas SK, O’Grady SM, Hunter RC. (2021). Anaerobic microbiota facilitate P. aeruginosa access to the airway epithelium in a novel co-culture model of colonization. bioRxiv .DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.05.433759


Fiege JK, Thiede JM, Nanda HA, Matchett WE, Moore PJ, Montanari NR, Thielen BK, Daniel J, Stanley E, Hunter RC, Menachery VD. (2021). Single cell resolution of SARS-CoV-2 tropism, antiviral responses, and susceptibility to therapies in primary human airway epithelium. PLoS pathogens, 17(1), p.e1009292. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009292

Hunter RC. (2021). Host–Microbe Interactions: Wallowing in Mucus Mire. Current Biology 31.2:R85-R88. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.034

Cho, DY, Skinner D, Hunter RC, Weeks C, Lim DJ, Thompson H, Walz CR et al. (2020). Contribution of Short Chain Fatty Acids to the Growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Rhinosinusitis. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 10:41. DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00412

Valentini TD, Lucas SK, Binder KA, Cameron LC, Motl JA, Dunitz JM, Hunter RC (2020). Bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging reveals translationally active subpopulations of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiota. Nat Commun 11:2287. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16163-2.

Flynn JM, Cameron LC, Wiggen TD, Dunitz JM, Harcombe WR, Hunter RC (2020). Disruption of cross-feeding inhibits pathogen growth in the sputa of patients with cystic fibrosis. mSphere 5:e00343-20. DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00343-20.

Cho DY, Hunter RC, Ramakrishnan VR (2020). The microbiome and chronic rhinosinusitis. Immunol Allergy Clin 40(2): 251-263. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iac.2019.12.009

Hirsch EB, Brigman HV, Zucchi PC, Chen A, Anderson JC, Eliopoulos GM, Cheung N, Gilbertsen A, Hunter RC, Emery CL, Bias TE (2020). Ceftolozane-tazobactam and ceftazidime-avibactam activity against β-lactam-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales clinical isolates from U.S. medical centers. J Glob Antimicrob Resist S2213-7165(20)30109-0. DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2020.04.017.

Cho DY, Skinner D, Lim DJ, Mclemore JG, Koch CG, Zhang S, Swords WE, Hunter R, Crossman DK, Crowley MR, Grayson JW, Rowe SM, Woodworth BA (2020). The impact of Lactococcus lactis (probiotic nasal rinse) co-culture on growth of patient-derived strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol 10: 444-449. DOI: 10.1002/alr.22521.

Karemelis P, Karp E, Rubin N, Hunter RC, Dunitz J, Boyer H (2019) Risk factors for neo-osteogenesis in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis chronic rhinosinusitis. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. DOI: 10.1002/alr.22507

Glasser NR, Hunter RC, Liou TG, Newman DK (2019). Refinement of metabolite detection in cystic fibrosis sputum reveals heme correlates with lung function decline. PLoS One 14(12). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226578.

Cameron LC, Bonis B, Phan CQ, Kent LA, Lee AK, Hunter RC (2019) A putative enoyl-CoA hydratase contributes to biofilm formation and the antibiotic tolerance of Achromobacter xylosoxidans. npj Biofilms Microbiomes 5, (20). DOI: 10.1038/s41522-019-0093-6.

Evert C, Loesekann T, Bhat G, Shajahan A, Sonon R, Asadi P, Hunter RC (2019) Generation of 13C-Labeled MUC5AC Mucin Oligosaccharides for Stable Isotope Probing of Host-Associated Microbial Communities. ACS Infectious Diseases 5 (3), pp 385-393. DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.8b00296

McCurtain JL, Gilbertsen AJ, Evert C, Williams BJ, Hunter RC (2018) Agmatine accumulation by  Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates confers antibiotic tolerance and dampens host inflammation. Journal of Medical Microbiology 68: 446-455. DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.000928.

Kondeti VSSK, Phan CQ, Wende K, Jablonowski H, Gangal U, Granick JL, Hunter RC, Bruggerman PJ (2018) Long-lived and short-lived reactive species produced by a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet for the inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. Vol. 124 pp 275-287.

Lucas SK, Yang R, Dunitz JM, Boyer HC, Hunter RC (2017) 16S rRNA gene sequencing reveals site-specific signatures of the upper and lower airways of cystic fibrosis patients. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf/2017.08.007.

Flynn JM, Phan C, Hunter RC (2017) Genome-wide survey of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 reveals a role for the glyoxylate pathway and extracellular proteases in the utilization of mucin. Infection and Immunity. IAI-00182.

Flynn JM, Niccum D, Dunitz JM, Hunter RC (2016) Evidence and Role for Bacterial Mucin Degradation in Cystic Fibrosis Airway Disease. PLoS Pathogens 12(8): e1005846.

Gohl DM, P Vangay, J Garbe, A MacLean, A Hauge, A Becker, T Gould, J Clayton, RC Hunter, D Knights, KB Beckman. 2016. Minimizing methodological bias in amplicon-based microbiome studies. Nat. Biotechnol. 34:942-949.  

Badalamenti J, RC Hunter. 2015. Complete genome sequence of Achromobacter xylosoxidans MN001, a cystic fibrosis airway isolate. Genome Announcements 3:e00947-15.

He X, JS McLean, A Edlund, S Yooseph, AP Hall, SY Liu, P Dorrestein, E Esquenazi, RC Hunter et al. 2015. Domestication of a human-associated TM7 reveals a reduced genome and parasitic lifestyle. Proc. Nat Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112:244-249.

Whiteson K, M.Bergkessel, D Conrad, RC Hunter et al. 2013. The upper respiratory tract as a microbial source for pulmonary infections. Parallels from Island Biogeography. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 189:1309-1315.

Hunter, RC, F Asfour, J Dingemans, B Osuna, T Samad, P Cornelis, DK Newman. 2013. Ferrous iron is abundant in cystic fibrosis sputum: implications for therapy.  mBio 4(4):e00557-13.

Dietrich, LEP, C Okegbe, A Price-Whelan, H. Sakhtah, RC Hunter, DK Newman. 2013. Bacterial community morphogenesis is intimately linked to the intracellular redox state. J. Bacteriol. 195:1371-1380

Guelon, T, RC Hunter, JD Mathias, G Deffuant. 2013. Homogenization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 biofilms visualized by freeze-substitution electron microscopy. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 110(5):1405-18.

Hunter, RC, V Klepac-Ceraj, MM Lorenzi, HM Grotzinger, TR Martin, DK Newman. 2012. Phenazine content in CF sputum correlates with poor lung function and microbial community complexity. Am. J. Resp. Cell. Mol. Biol. 47:738-745.

Doughty, DM, ML Coleman, RC Hunter, AL Sessions, RE Summons, DK Newman. 2011. The RND-family transporter, HpnN, is required for hopanoid localization to the outer membrane of Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108:E1045-1051.

Reddy, KC, RC Hunter, DK Newman, DH Kim. 2011. Exopolysaccharide biosynthesis by mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa impairs Caenorhabditis elegans behaviour mediated by NPR-1. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 108:12887-12892

Flores, G, RC Hunter, Y Liu, A Mets, S Schouten, AL Reysenbach. 2011. Hippea jasoniae sp. nov. and Hippea alviniae sp. nov., thermoacidophilic Deltaproteobacteria isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent deposits. Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol. 62:1252-1258

Hunter, RC, DK Newman. 2010.  A putative ABC-transporter, HatABCDE, is among molecular determinants of melanin production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Bacteriol. 192:5962-5971.

Hunter, RC, VR Phoenix, A Saxena, TJ Beveridge. 2010. Impact of growth environment and physiological state on metal immobilization by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Can. J. Microbiol. 56:527-538

Doughty, DM, RC Hunter, RE Summons, DK Newman. 2009. 2-Methylhopanoids are maximally produced in akinetes of Nostoc punctiforme: Geobiological implications. Geobiology. 7:524-532.

Welander, PV, RC Hunter, L Zhang, AL Sessions, RE Summons, DK Newman. 2009. Hopanoids play a role in membrane integrity and pH homeostasis in Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1. J. Bacteriol. 191:6145-6156.

Hunter, RC, AP Hitchcock, JJ Dynes, M Obst, TJ Beveridge. 2008. Mapping the speciation of iron in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy.  Environ. Sci. Technol. 42:8766-8772.

Hunter, RC, and TJ Beveridge.  2005.  High resolution visualization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 biofilms by freeze-substitution transmission electron microscopy.  J. Bacteriol.  187:7619-7630.

Hunter, R.C., T.J. Beveridge. 2005.  Application of a pH-sensitive fluoroprobe (C-SNARF-4) for pH microenvironment analysis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:2501-2510.

Yao, X., J.Walter, S. Burke, S. Stewart, M.H. Jericho, D. Pink, R. Hunter, and T.J. Beveridge.  2002.  Atomic force microscopy and theoretical considerations on the surface properties of bacteria. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. 23:213-230.