Mercedes Rincon, PhD

Professor, Immunology and Microbiology


Publications

  • Secinaro MA, Fortner KA, Collins C, Rincón M, Budd RC. Glycolysis Induces MCJ Expression That Links T Cell Proliferation With Caspase-3 Activity and Death. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2019;7:28. PubMed PMID: 30915331
  • Fernández-Tussy P, Fernández-Ramos D, Lopitz-Otsoa F, Simón J, Barbier-Torres L, Gomez-Santos B, Nuñez-Garcia M, Azkargorta M, Gutiérrez-de Juan V, Serrano-Macia M, Rodríguez-Agudo R, Iruzubieta P, Anguita J, Castro RE, Champagne D, Rincón M, Elortza F, Arslanow A, Krawczyk M, Lammert F, Kirchmeyer M, Behrmann I, Crespo J, Lu SC, Mato JM, Varela-Rey M, Aspichueta P, Delgado TC, Martínez-Chantar ML. miR-873-5p targets mitochondrial GNMT-Complex II interface contributing to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Mol Metab. 2019 Nov;29:40-54. PubMed PMID: 31668391
  • Karki A, Giddings E, Carreras A, Champagne D, Fortner K, Rincon M, Wu J. Sonoporation as an Approach for siRNA delivery into T cells. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2019 Dec;45(12):3222-3231. PubMed PMID: 31540758
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33990571/
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34510498/
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33997750/
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34507993/
  • Stancil, I.T., Michalski, J.E., Hennessy, C.E., Hatakka, K.L., Yang, I.V., Kurche, J.S., Rincon, M., and Schwartz, D.A. (2022) "IL-6-dependent epithelial fluidization initiates fibrotic lung remodeling" . Sci. Transl. Med. 14(654): eabo5254 doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abo5254
  • 136. Juarez-Fernandez, M., Goikoetxea-Usandizaga, N., Porras, D., Garcia-Mediavilla, M.V., Bravo, M., Serrano-Macia, M., Simon, J., Delgado, T.C., Lachiondo-Ortega, S., Martinez-Florez, S., Lorenzo, O., Rincon, M., Varela-Rey, M., Abecia, L., Rodriguez, H., Anguita, J., Nistal, El, Martinez-Chantar, M.L., Sanchez-Campos, S., (2022) "Enhanced mitochondria activity reshapes a gut microbiota profile that delays NASH progression", Hepatogy, In press.
  • 138. Choudhary, S., LaCasse, M., Choudhary, RK., Rincon, M., Beitz, D.C., Testroet, E.D. (2023) "In vivo and in vitro expression of iC1, a Methylation-controlled J protein (MCJ) in bovine liver, and response to in vitro bovine fatty liver disease model. Animals. 3(6):1101. doi: 10.3390/ani1306110
  • Mangalhara KC, Varanasi SK, Johnson MA, Burns MJ, Rojas GR, Esparza Moltó PB, Sainz AG, Tadepalle N, Abbott KL, Mendiratta G, Chen D, Farsakoglu Y, Kunchok T, Hoffmann FA, Parisi B, Rincon M, Vander Heiden MG, Bosenberg M, Hargreaves DC, Kaech SM, Shadel GS. Manipulating mitochondrial electron flow enhances tumor immunogenicity. Science. 2023 Sep 22;381(6664):1316-1323. PubMed PMID: 37733872
  • Wu MH, Valenca-Pereira F, Cendali F, Giddings EL, Pham-Danis C, Yarnell MC, Novak AJ, Brunetti TM, Thompson SB, Henao-Mejia J, Flavell RA, D'Alessandro A, Kohler ME, Rincon M. Deleting the mitochondrial respiration negative regulator MCJ enhances the efficacy of CD8( ) T cell adoptive therapies in pre-clinical studies. Nat Commun. 2024 May 24;15(1):4444. PubMed PMID: 38789421

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