Ramy Aziz, Ph.D.'s Publications

Rita G Kansal, Vivekanand Datta, Ramy K Aziz, Nourtan F Abdeltawab, Sarah Rowe, Malak Kotb (2010) Dissection of the molecular basis for Hypervirulence of an in vivo-selected phenotype of the widely disseminated M1T1 strain of group A Streptococcus bacteria., 855-65. In The Journal of infectious diseases 201 (6).

Mohammed Mahdy Khalifa, Radwa Sharaf, Ramy Aziz (2010) Helicobacter pylori: a poor man's gut pathogen?, 2. In Gut Pathogens 2 (1).

Ramy K. Aziz, Rita Kansal, Bruce J. Aronow, William L. Taylor, Sarah L. Rowe, Michael Kubal, Gursharan S. Chhatwal, Mark J. Walker, Malak Kotb (2010) Microevolution of Group A Streptococci In Vivo: Capturing Regulatory Networks Engaged in Sociomicrobiology, Niche Adaptation, and Hypervirulence, e9798. In PLoS ONE 5 (4).

Vural Ozdemir, Jean Armengaud, Laurette Dubé, Ramy Karam Aziz, Bartha M Knoppers (2010) Nutriproteomics and Proteogenomics: Cultivating Two Novel Hybrid Fields of Personalized Medicine with Added Societal Value., 240-244. In Current pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine 8 (4).

Peter G Maamary, Martina L Sanderson-Smith, Ramy K Aziz, Andrew Hollands, Jason N Cole, Fiona C McKay, Jason D McArthur, Joshua K Kirk, Amanda J Cork, Rachael J Keefe, Rita G Kansal, Hongmin Sun, William L Taylor, Gursharan S Chhatwal, David Ginsburg, Victor Nizet, Malak Kotb, Mark J Walker (2010) Parameters Governing Invasive Disease Propensity of Non-M1 Serotype Group A Streptococci.. In Journal of innate immunity.

RK Aziz, V Nizet (2010) Pathogen Microevolution in High Resolution. In Science Translational Medicine.

Mariam R. Rizkallah, Rama Saad, Ramy K. Aziz (2010) The Human Microbiome Project, Personalized Medicine and the Birth of Pharmacomicrobiomics, 12. In Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine (Formerly Current Pharmacog) 8 (3).

Carlo J E Milani, Ramy K Aziz, Jeffrey B Locke, Samira Dahesh, Victor Nizet, John T Buchanan (2010) The novel polysaccharide deacetylase homologue Pdi contributes to virulence of the aquatic pathogen Streptococcus iniae., 543-54. In Microbiology (Reading, England) 156 (Pt 2).

Ramy K Aziz, Mya Breitbart, Robert A Edwards (2010) Transposases are the most abundant, most ubiquitous genes in nature.. In Nucleic acids research.

Rami N Khouzam, Ramy K Aziz (2009) A case report: can altitude change blood pressure that much?, 498-9. In Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 11 (9).

Ramy Karam Aziz (2009) A hundred-year-old insight into the gut microbiome!, 21. In Gut pathogens 1 (1).

Kathleen H Cox, Eduardo Ruiz-Bustos, Harry S Courtney, James B Dale, Morgan A Pence, Victor Nizet, Ramy K Aziz, Ivan Gerling, Susan M Price, David L Hasty (2009) Inactivation of DltA modulates virulence factor expression in Streptococcus pyogenes., e5366. In PloS one 4 (4).

Ramy Karam Aziz (2009) The case for biocentric microbiology., 16. In Gut pathogens 1 (1).

Andrew Hollands, Ramy K Aziz, Rita Kansal, Malak Kotb, Victor Nizet, Mark J Walker (2008) A naturally occurring mutation in ropB suppresses SpeB expression and reduces M1T1 group A streptococcal systemic virulence., e4102. In PloS one 3 (12).

Nourtan F Abdeltawab, Ramy K Aziz, Rita Kansal, Sarah L Rowe, Yin Su, Lidia Gardner, Charity Brannen, Mohammed M Nooh, Ramy R Attia, Hossam A Abdelsamed, William L Taylor, Lu Lu, Robert W Williams, Malak Kotb (2008) An unbiased systems genetics approach to mapping genetic loci modulating susceptibility to severe streptococcal sepsis., e1000042. In PLoS pathogens 4 (4).

Ramy K Aziz, Malak Kotb (2008) Rise and persistence of global M1T1 clone of Streptococcus pyogenes., 1511-7. In Emerging infectious diseases 14 (10).

Jeffrey B Locke, Ramy K Aziz, Mike R Vicknair, Victor Nizet, John T Buchanan (2008) Streptococcus iniae M-like protein contributes to virulence in fish and is a target for live attenuated vaccine development., e2824. In PloS one 3 (7).

Ramy K Aziz, Daniela Bartels, Aaron A Best, Matthew DeJongh, Terrence Disz, Robert A Edwards, Kevin Formsma, Svetlana Gerdes, Elizabeth M Glass, Michael Kubal, Folker Meyer, Gary J Olsen, Robert Olson, Andrei L Osterman, Ross A Overbeek, Leslie K McNeil, Daniel Paarmann, Tobias Paczian, Bruce Parrello, Gordon D Pusch, Claudia Reich, Rick Stevens, Olga Vassieva, Veronika Vonstein, Andreas Wilke, Olga Zagnitko (2008) The RAST Server: rapid annotations using subsystems technology., 75. In BMC genomics.

Mark J Walker, Andrew Hollands, Martina L Sanderson-Smith, Jason N Cole, Joshua K Kirk, Anna Henningham, Jason D McArthur, Katrin Dinkla, Ramy K Aziz, Rita G Kansal, Amelia J Simpson, John T Buchanan, Gursharan S Chhatwal, Malak Kotb, Victor Nizet (2007) DNase Sda1 provides selection pressure for a switch to invasive group A streptococcal infection., 981-5. In Nature medicine 13 (8).

Laura A Kwinn, Arya Khosravi, Ramy K Aziz, Anjuli M Timmer, Kelly S Doran, Malak Kotb, Victor Nizet (2007) Genetic characterization and virulence role of the RALP3/LSA locus upstream of the streptolysin s operon in invasive M1T1 Group A Streptococcus., 1322-9. In Journal of bacteriology 189 (4).

Janelle C Arthur, John D Lich, Ramy K Aziz, Malak Kotb, Jenny P-Y Ting (2007) Heat shock protein 90 associates with monarch-1 and regulates its ability to promote degradation of NF-kappaB-inducing kinase., 6291-6. In Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 179 (9).

R K Aziz, R Kansal, N F Abdeltawab, S L Rowe, Y Su, D Carrigan, M M Nooh, R R Attia, C Brannen, L A Gardner, L Lu, R W Williams, M Kotb (2007) Susceptibility to severe Streptococcal sepsis: use of a large set of isogenic mouse lines to study genetic and environmental factors., 404-15. In Genes and immunity 8 (5).

Leslie Klis McNeil, Claudia Reich, Ramy K Aziz, Daniela Bartels, Matthew Cohoon, Terry Disz, Robert A Edwards, Svetlana Gerdes, Kaitlyn Hwang, Michael Kubal, Gohar Rem Margaryan, Folker Meyer, William Mihalo, Gary J Olsen, Robert Olson, Andrei Osterman, Daniel Paarmann, Tobias Paczian, Bruce Parrello, Gordon D Pusch, Dmitry A Rodionov, Xinghua Shi, Olga Vassieva, Veronika Vonstein, Olga Zagnitko, Fangfang Xia, Jenifer Zinner, Ross Overbeek, Rick Stevens (2007) The National Microbial Pathogen Database Resource (NMPDR): a genomics platform based on subsystem annotation., D347-53. In Nucleic acids research 35 (Database issue).

John T Buchanan, Amelia J Simpson, Ramy K Aziz, George Y Liu, Sascha A Kristian, Malak Kotb, James Feramisco, Victor Nizet (2006) DNase expression allows the pathogen group A Streptococcus to escape killing in neutrophil extracellular traps., 396-400. In Current biology : CB 16 (4).

R K Aziz, M Kotb (2006) Integrating proteomics, genomics, and bioinformatics tools to define unique features of the clonal M1T1 strain of Streptococcus pyogenes, 175-179. In International Congress Series.

Mohammed M Nooh, Ramy K Aziz, Malak Kotb, Alexey Eroshkin, Woei-Jer Chuang, Thomas Proft, Rita Kansal (2006) Streptococcal mitogenic exotoxin, SmeZ, is the most susceptible M1T1 streptococcal superantigen to degradation by the streptococcal cysteine protease, SpeB., 35281-8. In The Journal of biological chemistry 281 (46).

Rita G Kansal, Ramy K Aziz, Malak Kotb (2005) Modulation of expression of superantigens by human transferrin and lactoferrin: a novel mechanism in host-Streptococcus interactions., 2121-9. In The Journal of infectious diseases 191 (12).

Ramy K Aziz, Robert A Edwards, William W Taylor, Donald E Low, Allison McGeer, Malak Kotb (2005) Mosaic prophages with horizontally acquired genes account for the emergence and diversification of the globally disseminated M1T1 clone of Streptococcus pyogenes., 3311-8. In Journal of bacteriology 187 (10).

Ramy K Aziz, Michael J Pabst, Arthur Jeng, Rita Kansal, Donald E Low, Victor Nizet, Malak Kotb (2004) Invasive M1T1 group A Streptococcus undergoes a phase-shift in vivo to prevent proteolytic degradation of multiple virulence factors by SpeB., 123-34. In Molecular microbiology 51 (1).

Ramy K Aziz, Shehab A Ismail, Hee-Won Park, Malak Kotb (2004) Post-proteomic identification of a novel phage-encoded streptodornase, Sda1, in invasive M1T1 Streptococcus pyogenes., 184-97. In Molecular microbiology 54 (1).

S U Kazmi, R Kansal, R K Aziz, M Hooshdaran, A Norrby-Teglund, D E Low, A B Halim, M Kotb (2001) Reciprocal, temporal expression of SpeA and SpeB by invasive M1T1 group a streptococcal isolates in vivo., 4988-95. In Infection and immunity 69 (8).