Publications

2021

Strash, Nicholas, Sophia DeLuca, Geovanni L. Janer Carattini, Soon Chul Heo, Ryne Gorsuch, and Nenad Bursac. “Human Erbb2-induced Erk activity robustly stimulates cycling and functional remodeling of rat and human cardiomyocytes.” ELife 10 (October 2021): e65512. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.65512.

Ransey, Elizabeth, Kirill Chesnov, Nenad Bursac, and Kafui Dzirasa. “FETCH: A platform for high-throughput quantification of gap junction hemichannel docking.” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, June 7, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.07.447352.

Wang, Jason, Chris J. Zhou, Alastair Khodabukus, Sabrina Tran, Sang-Oh Han, Aaron L. Carlson, Lauran Madden, Priya S. Kishnani, Dwight D. Koeberl, and Nenad Bursac. “Three-dimensional tissue-engineered human skeletal muscle model of Pompe disease.” Commun Biol 4, no. 1 (May 5, 2021): 524. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02059-4.

Zhan, Ren-Zhi, Lingjun Rao, Zhaowei Chen, Nicholas Strash, and Nenad Bursac. “Loss of sarcomeric proteins via upregulation of JAK/STAT signaling underlies interferon-γ-induced contractile deficit in engineered human myocardium.” Acta Biomaterialia 126 (May 2021): 144–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2021.03.007.

Saha, Krishanu, Erik J. Sontheimer, P. J. Brooks, Melinda R. Dwinell, Charles A. Gersbach, David R. Liu, Stephen A. Murray, et al. “The NIH Somatic Cell Genome Editing program.” Nature 592, no. 7853 (April 2021): 195–204. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03191-1.

Fralish, Zachary, Ethan M. Lotz, Taylor Chavez, Alastair Khodabukus, and Nenad Bursac. “Neuromuscular Development and Disease: Learning From in vitro and in vivo Models.” Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 9 (January 2021): 764732. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.764732.

Arnson, Benjamin, Jason Wang, David Courtney, Sang-oh Han, Songtao Li, Bryan R. Cullen, Nenad Bursac, and Dwight Koeberl. “Single Vector AAV Approach to Genome Editing in Pompe Disease.” In MOLECULAR THERAPY, 29:291–291, 2021.

Wu, Tianyu, Hung X. Nguyen, and Nenad Bursac. “In vitro discovery of novel prokaryotic ion channel candidates for antiarrhythmic gene therapy.,” 654:407–34, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2021.03.008.

Chen, Zhaowei, Binjie Li, Ren-Zhi Zhan, Lingjun Rao, and Nenad Bursac. “Exercise mimetics and JAK inhibition attenuate IFN-γ-induced wasting in engineered human skeletal muscle.” Science Advances 7, no. 4 (January 2021): eabd9502. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd9502.

Vekstein, Andrew M., David C. Wendell, Dawn E. Bowles, Sophia DeLuca, Ruorong Yan, Muath Bishawi, Garth Devlin, et al. “Targeted Intra-Coronary Delivery versus Intra-Myocardial Injection of Therapeutics for Myocardial Recovery: A Nanoparticle Image Guided Porcine Study.” In CIRCULATION, Vol. 144, 2021.

Helfer, Abbigail, and Nenad Bursac. “Frame-Hydrogel Methodology for Engineering Highly Functional Cardiac Tissue Constructs.” Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2158 (January 2021): 171–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0668-1_13.

2020

Kondash, Megan E., Anandita Ananthakumar, Alastair Khodabukus, Nenad Bursac, and George A. Truskey. “Glucose Uptake and Insulin Response in Tissue-engineered Human Skeletal Muscle.” Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 17, no. 6 (December 2020): 801–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13770-020-00242-y.

Khodabukus, Alastair, Amulya Kaza, Jason Wang, Neel Prabhu, Richard Goldstein, Vishal S. Vaidya, and Nenad Bursac. “Tissue-Engineered Human Myobundle System as a Platform for Evaluation of Skeletal Muscle Injury Biomarkers.” Toxicological Sciences : An Official Journal of the Society of Toxicology 176, no. 1 (July 2020): 124–36. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfaa049.

Broer, Torie, Alastair Khodabukus, and Nenad Bursac. “Can we mimic skeletal muscles for novel drug discovery?” Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery 15, no. 6 (June 2020): 643–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460441.2020.1736031.

Li, Yanzhen, Daniel Song, Lan Mao, Dennis M. Abraham, and Nenad Bursac. “Lack of Thy1 defines a pathogenic fraction of cardiac fibroblasts in heart failure.” Biomaterials 236 (April 2020): 119824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2020.119824.

Strash, Nicholas, Sophia DeLuca, Geovanni Janer Carattini, Soon Chul Heo, Ryne Gorsuch, and Nenad Bursac. “Human Erbb2-induced Erk Activity Robustly Stimulates Cycling and Functional Remodeling of Rat and Human Cardiomyocytes.” BioRxiv, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.15.422603.

Pomeroy, Jordan E., Abbigail Helfer, and Nenad Bursac. “Biomaterializing the promise of cardiac tissue engineering.” Biotechnol Adv 42 (2020): 107353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2019.02.009.

Sklivas, Alexander Byron, Dante I. I. Goss, Nenad Bursac, Alastair Khodahukus, Tim Koves, Deborah Muoio, Lauran Madden, George A. Truskey, William E. Kraus, and Monica J. Hubal. “Gene Expression Differences In Three-dimensional Myobundles Compared To Two-dimensional Myocultures.” In MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS & EXERCISE, 52:781–82, 2020.

2019

Wang, Jason, Alastair Khodabukus, Lingjun Rao, Keith Vandusen, Nadia Abutaleb, and Nenad Bursac. “Engineered skeletal muscles for disease modeling and drug discovery.” Biomaterials 221 (November 2019): 119416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.119416.

Yifa, Oren, Karen Weisinger, Elad Bassat, Hanjun Li, David Kain, Haim Barr, Noga Kozer, et al. “The small molecule Chicago Sky Blue promotes heart repair following myocardial infarction in mice.” JCI Insight 4, no. 22 (November 2019): 128025. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.128025.

Sengupta, Swarnali, Katheryn E. Rothenberg, Hanjun Li, Brenton D. Hoffman, and Nenad Bursac. “Altering integrin engagement regulates membrane localization of Kir2.1 channels.” Journal of Cell Science 132, no. 17 (September 2019): jcs225383. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.225383.

Nguyen, Hung X., and Nenad Bursac. “Ion channel engineering for modulation and de novo generation of electrical excitability.” Current Opinion in Biotechnology 58 (August 2019): 100–107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2019.01.004.

Khodabukus, Alastair, Lauran Madden, Neel K. Prabhu, Timothy R. Koves, Christopher P. Jackman, Deborah M. Muoio, and Nenad Bursac. “Electrical stimulation increases hypertrophy and metabolic flux in tissue-engineered human skeletal muscle.” Biomaterials 198 (April 2019): 259–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2018.08.058.

Berry, Joel L., Wuqiang Zhu, Yao Liang Tang, Prasanna Krishnamurthy, Ying Ge, John P. Cooke, Yabing Chen, et al. “Convergences of Life Sciences and Engineering in Understanding and Treating Heart Failure.” Circ Res 124, no. 1 (January 4, 2019): 161–69. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.314216.

2018

Juhas, Mark, Nadia Abutaleb, Jason T. Wang, Jean Ye, Zohaib Shaikh, Chaichontat Sriworarat, Ying Qian, and Nenad Bursac. “Incorporation of macrophages into engineered skeletal muscle enables enhanced muscle regeneration.” Nature Biomedical Engineering 2, no. 12 (December 2018): 942–54. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0290-2.