2025
Wen H, Chandrasekaran P, Jin A, Pankin J, Lu M, Liberti DC, Zepp JA, Jain R, Morrisey EE, Michki SN, Frank DB. A spatiotemporal cell atlas of cardiopulmonary progenitor cell allocation during development. Cell Reports. 2025 Apr 2;44(4):115513. PMID: 40178979.
Spurgin S, Nguimtsop AM, Chaudhry FN, Michki SN, Salvador J, Iruela-Arispe ML, Zepp JA, Mukhopadhyay S, Cleaver O. Dynamics of primary cilia in endothelial and mesenchymal cells throughout mouse lung development. Dev Dyn. 2025 Mar 8. PMID: 40055935.
Banaschewski BJH, Michki SN, Sitaraman S, Pan R, Wang JY, Stewart D, Goldy MK, Lin SM, Cantu E, Katzen JB, Basil MC, Emtiazjoo AM, Todd JL, Gokey JJ, Kropski JA, Frank DB, Zepp JA, Young LR. Emergence of inflammatory fibroblasts with aging in Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome associated pulmonary fibrosis. Commun Biol. 2025 Feb 22;8(1)284. PMCID: PMC11846979
2024
Wang JY, Michki SN, Sitaraman S, Banaschewski BJ, Jamal R, Gokey JJ, Lin SM, Katzen JB, Basil MC, Cantu E, Kropski JA, Zepp JA, Frank DB, Young LR. Dysregulated alveolar epithelial cell progenitor function and identity in Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. JCI Insight. 2024 Dec 19:e183483. PMID: 39699958.
Chaudhry FN, Michki NS, Shrimer DL, McGrath-Morrow S, Young LR, Frank DB, Zepp JA. Dynamic Hippo pathway activity underlies mesenchymal differentiation during lung alveolar maturation. Development. 2024 Apr 15,151(8). PMID: 38602485.
2023
Snitow MA, Chaudhry FN, Zepp JA. Engineering and Modeling the Lung Mesenchyme. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2023 May 18. PMID: 37195530
2022
Sun X, Perl AK, Li R, Bell SM, Sajti E, Kalinichenko VV, Kalin TV, Misra RS, Deshmukh H, Clair G, Kyle J, Crotty Alexander LE, Masso-Silva JA, Kitzmiller JA, Wikenheiser-Brokamp KA, Deutsch G, Guo M, Du Y, Morley MP, Valdez MJ, Yu HV, Jin K, Bardes EE, Zepp JA, Neithamer T, Basil MC, Zacharias WJ, Verheyden J, Young R, Bandyopadhyay G, Lin S, Ansong C, Adkins J, Salomonis N, Aronow BJ, Xu Y, Pryhuber G, Whitsett J, Morrisey EE; NHLBI LungMAP Consortium. A census of the lung: CellCards from LungMAP. Developmental Cell. 2022 Jan 10;57(1):112-145. PMID: 34936882 CellCards from LungMAP
2021
Zepp JA, Morley MP, Loebel C, Kremp MM, Chaudhry FN, Basil MC, Leach JP, Liberti DC, Niethamer TK, Ying Y, Jayachandran S, Babu A, Zhou S, Frank DB, Burdick JA, Morrisey EE. Genomic, epigenomic, and biophysical cues controlling the emergence of the lung alveolus. Science. 2021 Mar 12:371:aebc3172. PMID: 33707239 Blog post
2020
Chao CM, Bellusci S, Zepp JA. P16INK4a and the Alveolar Niche Take Center Stage in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 Jul 15. PMID:32668168
Zepp JA, Alvira CM. Nanoparticle delivery of Angiogenic Gene Therapy: Save the Vessels, Save the Lung! Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 Apr 27. PMID:32338996
Niethamer TK, Stabler CT, Leach JP, Zepp JA, Morley MP, Babu A, Zhou S, Morrisey EE. Defining the Role of Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Heterogeneity in the Response to Acute Lung Injury. Elife. 2020 Feb 24;9:e53072. PMID: 32091393
2019
Liberti DC, Zepp JA, Bartoni CA, Liberti KH, Zhou S, Liu M, Morley MP, Morrisey EE. Dnmt1 is required for proximal-distal patterning of the lung endoderm and for restraining alveolar type 2 cell fate. Dev Biol. 2019 Jun 23. PMID:31242446.
Zepp JA and Morrisey EE. Cellular crosstalk in the development and regeneration of the respiratory system. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2019 Jun 19. PMID:31217577.
Frank DB, Penkala IJ, Zepp JA, Sivakumar A, Linares-Saldana R, Zacharias WJ, Stolz KG, Pankin J, Lu M, Wang Q, Babu A, Li L, Zhou S, Morley MP, Jain R, Morrisey EE. Early lineage specification defines alveolar epithelial ontogeny in the murine lung. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Feb 19. PMID:30782824
Bulek K, Chen X, Parron V, Sundaram A, Herjan T, Ouyang S, Liu C, Majors A, Zepp J, Gao J, Dongre A, Bodaszewska-Lubas M, Echard A, Aronica M, Carman J, Garantziotis S, Sheppard D, Li X. IL-17A Recruits Rab35 to IL-17R to Mediate PKCα-Dependent Stress Fiber Formation and Airway Smooth Muscle Contractility. J Immunol. 2019 Mar 1;202(5):1540-1548. PMID: 306833702.
2018
Zacharias WJ, Frank DB, Zepp JA, Morley MP, Alkhaleel F, Kong J, Zhou S, Cantu E, Morrisey EE. 2018. Regeneration of the lung alveolus by an evolutionarily conserved epithelial progenitor. Nature. Feb 28. PMID:29489752.
2017
Zepp JA, Frank DB, Zacharias WJ, Cavanaugh C, Morley MM, Morrisey EE. Distinct mesenchymal lineages and niches promote epithelial self-renewal and myofibrogenesis in the lung. Cell. Sep 7;170(6):1134-1148. PMID:28886382.
2016
Frank DB, Peng T, Zepp JA, Snitow M, Vincent T, Penkala IJ, Herriges MJ, Morley MP, Zhou S, Lu MM, Morrisey EE. Emergence of a wave of Wnt signaling that regulates lung alveologenesis through controlling epithelial self-renewal and differentiation. Cell Reports. Nov 22;17(9):2312-2325. PMID:27880906.
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