N. J. Ferraro

The paper designs a bifunctional agent using pHLIP to selectively display a chemoattractant agonist on cancer cells, activating formyl peptide receptors on immune cells to initiate an immune response.

The paper uses a transposon screen to identify genes affecting peptidoglycan accessibility in S. aureus, revealing genes that modulate sensitivity to lysostaphin.

SaccuFlow is a high-throughput flow cytometry assay that evaluates bacterial peptidoglycan interactions, demonstrating compatibility with Gram-positive, Gram-negative, and mycobacterial sacculi.

The paper introduces a live cell fluorescence assay to study molecular permeability through Staphylococcus aureus cell walls and finds that molecular flexibility and teichoic acids affect permeability.

This study develops pH-dependent conjugates that graft antigenic epitopes onto cancer cells to enhance antibody-mediated cytotoxicity.