Lee JS, Kao DJ, Worledge CS, Villamaria ZF, Wang RX, Welch NM, Kostelecky RE, Colgan SP. E. coli genetically modified for purine nucleobase release promotes butyrate generation and colonic wound healing during DSS insult. Gut Microbes. 2025 Dec;17(1):2490211. PubMed PMID: 40247632
Bhagavatula G, Worledge CS, Schaepe C, Murphy EM, Neuhart RM, Lee JS, Cartwright I, Colgan SP, Hall CHT. Phosphocreatine Rescues Intestinal Epithelial Metabolic Dysfunction Related to Creatine Kinase Loss and Is Protective in Murine Colitis. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2025;19(11):101557. PubMed PMID: 40562094
Worledge CS, Kostelecky RE, Zhou L, Bhagavatula G, Colgan SP, Lee JS. Allopurinol Disrupts Purine Metabolism to Increase Damage in Experimental Colitis. Cells. 2024 Feb 21;13(5). PubMed PMID: 38474337
Colgan SP, Wang RX, Hall CHT, Bhagavatula G, Lee JS. Revisiting the "starved gut" hypothesis in inflammatory bowel disease. Immunometabolism (Cobham). 2023 Jan;5(1):e0016. PubMed PMID: 36644501
Alula KM, Dowdell AS, LeBere B, Lee JS, Levens CL, Kuhn KA, Kaipparettu BA, Thompson WE, Blumberg RS, Colgan SP, Theiss AL. Interplay of gut microbiota and host epithelial mitochondrial dysfunction is necessary for the development of spontaneous intestinal inflammation in mice. Microbiome. 2023 Nov 17;11(1):256. PubMed PMID: 37978573
Kitzenberg DA, Lee JS, Mills KB, Kim JS, Liu L, Vázquez-Torres A, Colgan SP, Kao DJ. Adenosine Awakens Metabolism to Enhance Growth-Independent Killing of Tolerant and Persister Bacteria across Multiple Classes of Antibiotics. mBio. 2022 Jun 28;13(3):e0048022. PubMed PMID: 35575513
de Graaf DM, Wang RX, Amo-Aparicio J, Lee JS, Dowdell AS, Tengesdal IW, Marchetti C, Colgan SP, Joosten LAB, Dinarello CA. IL-38 Gene Deletion Worsens Murine Colitis. Front Immunol. 2022;13:840719. PubMed PMID: 35693797
Ornelas A, Dowdell AS, Lee JS, Colgan SP. Microbial Metabolite Regulation of Epithelial Cell-Cell Interactions and Barrier Function. Cells. 2022 Mar 10;11(6). PubMed PMID: 35326394