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Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a notable focus on Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including interferon and immune responses, herpesvirus infections and treatments, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, mosquito-borne diseases and control, immune response and inflammation, and RNA regulation and disease.

Frequently involved publication venues for their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Reports, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Viruses, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

  • Astrocyte- and Neuron-Derived CXCL1 Drives Neutrophil Transmigration and Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability in Viral Encephalitis, 2020, Cell Reports
  • The IRAK4 scaffold integrates TLR4-driven TRIF and MYD88 signaling pathways, 2022, Cell Reports
  • A Newly Engineered A549 Cell Line Expressing ACE2 and TMPRSS2 Is Highly Permissive to SARS-CoV-2, Including the Delta and Omicron Variants, 2022, Viruses
  • Lymphocyte crosstalk is required for monocyte-intrinsic trained immunity to Plasmodium falciparum, 2022, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • ADAM9 promotes type I interferon-mediated innate immunity during encephalomyocarditis virus infection, 2024, Nature Communications

Kurt-Jones has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Douglas T. Golenbock, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Benedict Michael, Andrew D. Luster, and Juliet Crabtree.

Best Publications

  • Isolation of a Common Receptor for Coxsackie B Viruses and Adenoviruses 2 and 5

    Jeffrey M. Bergelson;Jennifer A. Cunningham;Gustavo Droguett;Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones

  • Pattern recognition receptors TLR4 and CD14 mediate response to respiratory syncytial virus.

    Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones;Lana Popova;Laura Kwinn;Lia M. Haynes

  • HSP70 stimulates cytokine production through a CD14-dependant pathway, demonstrating its dual role as a chaperone and cytokine.

    Alexzander Asea;Stine-Kathrein Kraeft;Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones;Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones;Mary Ann Stevenson

  • Pattern recognition receptors and the innate immune response to viral infection

    Mikayla R. Thompson;John J. Kaminski;Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones;Katherine A. Fitzgerald

  • Overexpression of Interleukin-1β Induces Gastric Inflammation and Cancer and Mobilizes Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in Mice

    Shuiping Tu;Govind Bhagat;Guanglin Cui;Shigeo Takaishi

  • Human Cytomegalovirus Activates Inflammatory Cytokine Responses via CD14 and Toll-Like Receptor 2

    Teresa Compton;Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones;Karl W. Boehme;John Belko

  • Recognition of pneumolysin by Toll-like receptor 4 confers resistance to pneumococcal infection.

    Richard Malley;Philipp Henneke;Sarah C. Morse;Michael J. Cieslewicz

  • Cutting Edge: Heat Shock Protein (HSP) 60 Activates the Innate Immune Response: CD14 Is an Essential Receptor for HSP60 Activation of Mononuclear Cells

    Amir Kol;Andrew H. Lichtman;Robert W. Finberg;Peter Libby

  • IL-1 receptor antagonist ameliorates inflammasome-dependent alcoholic steatohepatitis in mice

    Jan Petrasek;Shashi Bala;Timea Csak;Dora Lippai

  • Herpes simplex virus 1 interaction with Toll-like receptor 2 contributes to lethal encephalitis.

    Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones;Melvin Chan;Shenghua Zhou;Jennifer P. Wang

  • A novel host-parasite lipid cross-talk. Schistosomal lyso-phosphatidylserine activates toll-like receptor 2 and affects immune polarization.

    Desiree van der Kleij;Desiree van der Kleij;Eicke Latz;Jos F.H.M. Brouwers;Yvonne C.M. Kruize

  • Lipopolysaccharide rapidly traffics to and from the Golgi apparatus with the toll-like receptor 4-MD-2-CD14 complex in a process that is distinct from the initiation of signal transduction.

    Eicke Latz;Alberto Visintin;Egil Lien;Egil Lien;Katherine A. Fitzgerald

  • Identification of a membrane-associated interleukin 1 in macrophages.

    Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones;David I. Beller;Steven B. Mizel;Emil R. Unanue

  • Involvement of Toll-Like Receptor 4 in Innate Immunity to Respiratory Syncytial Virus

    Lia M. Haynes;Deborah D. Moore;Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones;Robert W. Finberg

  • ENDOTHELIAL CELL ACTIVATION AND HIGH INTERLEUKIN-1 SECRETION IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF ACUTE KAWASAKI DISEASE

    DonaldY.M. Leung;Evelyn Kurt-Jones;JaneW. Newburger;RamziS. Cotran

  • The critical role of toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 in alcoholic liver disease is independent of the common TLR adapter MyD88

    Istvan Hritz;Pranoti Mandrekar;Arumugam Velayudham;Donna Catalano

  • Interleukin-10 prevents diet-induced insulin resistance by attenuating macrophage and cytokine response in skeletal muscle.

    Eun-Gyoung Hong;Hwi Jin Ko;Hwi Jin Ko;You-Ree Cho;You-Ree Cho;Hyo-Jeong Kim;Hyo-Jeong Kim

  • Negative regulation of Toll-like receptor 4 signaling by the Toll-like receptor homolog RP105

    Senad Divanovic;Aurelien Trompette;Sowsan F Atabani;Rajat Madan

  • STING-IRF3 pathway links endoplasmic reticulum stress with hepatocyte apoptosis in early alcoholic liver disease

    Jan Petrasek;Arvin Iracheta-Vellve;Timea Csak;Abhishek Satishchandran

  • Hepatitis C core and nonstructural 3 proteins trigger toll-like receptor 2-mediated pathways and inflammatory activation

    Angela Dolganiuc;Shilpa Oak;Karen Kodys;Douglas T. Golenbock

  • Role of toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) in neutrophil activation: GM-CSF enhances TLR2 expression and TLR2-mediated interleukin 8 responses in neutrophils.

    Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones;Leisa Mandell;Constance Whitney;Alison Padgett

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Finberg
Robert W. Finberg University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Katherine A. Fitzgerald
Katherine A. Fitzgerald University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Douglas T. Golenbock
Douglas T. Golenbock University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Gyongyi Szabo
Gyongyi Szabo Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jan Petrasek
Jan Petrasek Czech Academy of Sciences
David M. Knipe
David M. Knipe Harvard University
Timothy C. Wang
Timothy C. Wang Columbia University
Eicke Latz
Eicke Latz German Rheumatism Research Centre
Emil R. Unanue
Emil R. Unanue Washington University in St. Louis

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