Nina Agabian, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Cell and Tissue Biology
School of Dentistry

Grants and Projects

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• Contact-Dependent Expression of Met3 in Candida Biofilms, NIH, 2007-2013
• Sulfur Assimilation Pathway: New Antifungal Targets, NIH, 2009-2012
• The Oral Mucosa in HIV Disease: Innate Immunity, NIH, 2005-2009
• Molecular Characterization Of Fungal Biofilm Formation, NIH, 2003-2006
• In Vivo Genmoe Profiling of Candidiasis, NIH, 2003-2005
• Genomic Approaches to Candida Virulence, NIH, 1999-2003
• Aids Related Candidiasis--Role of Aspartyl Proteinases, NIH, 1992-2002
• Regulation of Gene Expression in African Trypanosomes, NIH, 1984-2001
• Regulation of Cell Surface Development in Caulobacter, NIH, 1984-1987
• Molecular Cloning of Schistosome Antigens, NIH, 1984-1986

Publications (16)

Top publication keywords:
Candida albicansEicosapentaenoic AcidVirulenceAntigens, FungalGene Expression Regulation, FungalCalgranulin APhospholipases AIronGenome, FungalLysophospholipaseBiofilmsFungal ProteinsGene Expression ProfilingGenomeAntifungal Agents

• Global screening of potential Candida albicans biofilm-related transcription factors via network comparison.
  BMC bioinformatics 2010 Wang YC, Lan CY, Hsieh WP, Murillo LA, Agabian N, Chen BS
• Substitution of methionine 63 or 83 in S100A9 and cysteine 42 in S100A8 abrogate the antifungal activities of S100A8/A9: potential role for oxidative regulation.
  FEMS immunology and medical microbiology 2008 Sroussi HY, Köhler GA, Agabian N, Villines D, Palefsky JM
• Think globally, act locally, and collaborate internationally: global health sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2008 Macfarlane SB, Agabian N, Novotny TE, Rutherford GW, Stewart CC, Debas HT
• Candida albicans modulates host defense by biosynthesizing the pro-resolving mediator resolvin E1.
  PloS one 2007 Haas-Stapleton EJ, Lu Y, Hong S, Arita M, Favoreto S, Nigam S, Serhan CN, Agabian N
• Fungicidal activity of a phospholipase-A2-derived synthetic peptide variant against Candida albicans.
  Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia 2007 Murillo LA, Lan CY, Agabian NM, Larios S, Lomonte B

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• Phospholipase A2 and phospholipase B activities in fungi.
  Biochimica et biophysica acta 2006 Köhler GA, Brenot A, Haas-Stapleton E, Agabian N, Deva R, Nigam S
• Role of calcineurin in stress resistance, morphogenesis, and virulence of a Candida albicans wild-type strain.
  Infection and immunity 2006 Bader T, Schröppel K, Bentink S, Agabian N, Köhler G, Morschhäuser J
• Inactivation of the phospholipase B gene PLB5 in wild-type Candida albicans reduces cell-associated phospholipase A2 activity and attenuates virulence.
  International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM 2006 Theiss S, Ishdorj G, Brenot A, Kretschmar M, Lan CY, Nichterlein T, Hacker J, Nigam S, Agabian N, Köhler GA
• Genome-wide transcription profiling of the early phase of biofilm formation by Candida albicans.
  Eukaryotic cell 2005 Murillo LA, Newport G, Lan CY, Habelitz S, Dungan J, Agabian NM
• A human-curated annotation of the Candida albicans genome.
  PLoS genetics 2005 Braun BR, van Het Hoog M, d'Enfert C, Martchenko M, Dungan J, Kuo A, Inglis DO, Uhl MA, Hogues H, Berriman M, Lorenz M, Levitin A, Oberholzer U, Bachewich C, Harcus D, Marcil A, Dignard D, Iouk T, …
• Toward defining the human parotid gland salivary proteome and peptidome: identification and characterization using 2D SDS-PAGE, ultrafiltration, HPLC, and mass spectrometry.
  Biochemistry 2005 Hardt M, Thomas LR, Dixon SE, Newport G, Agabian N, Prakobphol A, Hall SC, Witkowska HE, Fisher SJ
• The functional basis of mycophenolic acid resistance in Candida albicans IMP dehydrogenase.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2005 Köhler GA, Gong X, Bentink S, Theiss S, Pagani GM, Agabian N, Hedstrom L
• Regulatory networks affected by iron availability in Candida albicans.
  Molecular microbiology 2004 Lan CY, Rodarte G, Murillo LA, Jones T, Davis RW, Dungan J, Newport G, Agabian N
• The diploid genome sequence of Candida albicans.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004 Jones T, Federspiel NA, Chibana H, Dungan J, Kalman S, Magee BB, Newport G, Thorstenson YR, Agabian N, Magee PT, Davis RW, Scherer S
• Differential expression of Candida albicans secreted aspartyl proteinase and phospholipase B genes in humans correlates with active oral and vaginal infections.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2003 Naglik JR, Rodgers CA, Shirlaw PJ, Dobbie JL, Fernandes-Naglik LL, Greenspan D, Agabian N, Challacombe SJ
• Functional analysis of a vacuolar ABC transporter in wild-type Candida albicans reveals its involvement in virulence.
  Molecular microbiology 2002 Theiss S, Kretschmar M, Nichterlein T, Hof H, Agabian N, Hacker J, Köhler GA