Selected Publications

  1. Nelson AM, Reddy SK, Ratliff TS, Hossain MZ, Katseff AS, Zhu AS, et al. dsRNA Released by Tissue Damage Activates TLR3 to Drive Skin Regeneration. Cell Stem Cell. 2015;17(2):139-51. Epub 2015/08/09. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2015.07.008. PubMed PMID: 26253200; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC4529957.
  2. Vandiver AR, Irizarry RA, Hansen KD, Garza LA, Runarsson A, Li X, et al. Age and sun exposure-related widespread genomic blocks of hypomethylation in nonmalignant skin. Genome Biol. 2015;16:80. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0644-y. PubMed PMID: 25886480; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4423110.
  3. Kim D, Hossain MZ, Nieves A, Gu L, Ratliff TS, Mi Oh S, et al. To Control Site-Specific Skin Gene Expression, Autocrine Mimics Paracrine Canonical Wnt Signaling and Is Activated Ectopically in Skin Disease. Am J Pathol. 2016;186(5):1140-50. Epub 2016/04/24. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2015.12.030. PubMed PMID: 27105735.
  4. Zhu AS, Li A, Ratliff TS, Melsom M, Garza LA. After Skin Wounding, Noncoding dsRNA Coordinates Prostaglandins and Wnts to Promote Regeneration. J Invest Dermatol. 2017;137(7):1562-8. Epub 2017/04/11. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2017.03.023. PubMed PMID: 28392344; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC5483387.
  5. Zhou R, Wang G, Kim D, Kim S, Islam N, Chen R, et al. dsRNA sensing induces loss of cell identity. J Invest Dermatol. 2018. Epub 2018/08/19. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2018.07.021. PubMed PMID: 30120933.
  6. Kim D, Chen R, Sheu M, Kim N, Kim S, Islam N, et al. Noncoding dsRNA induces retinoic acid synthesis to stimulate hair follicle regeneration via TLR3. Nature Communications. 2019;10(1):2811. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-10811-y. PubMed PMID: 31243280; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6594970.
  7. Zhou R, Wang G, Kim D, Kim S, Islam N, Chen R, et al. dsRNA Sensing Induces Loss of Cell Identity. J Invest Dermatol. 2019;139(1):91-9. Epub 2018/08/19. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2018.07.021. PubMed PMID: 30120933.
  8. Wang G, Sweren E, Liu H, Wier E, Alphonse MP, Chen R, et al. Bacteria induce skin regeneration via IL-1β signaling. Cell Host & Microbe. 2021. Epub 2021/04/03. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.03.003. PubMed PMID: 33798492.
  9. Lee SS, Sweren E, Dare E, Derr P, Derr K, Wang CC, et al. The use of ectopic volar fibroblasts to modify skin identity. Science. 2024 Sep 6;385(6713):eadi1650. doi: 10.1126/science.adi1650. Epub 2024 Sep 6. PMID: 39236183.