Sunita Gulati DSC
Title Research Associate Professor
Institution University of Massachusetts Medical School
Department Medicine
Division Infectious Diseases And Immunology
Address University of Massachusetts Medical School
364 Plantation Street, LRB
Worcester MA 01605
Telephone 508-856-3168
Email
Publications
1. Gulati S, Agarwal S, Vasudhev S, Rice PA, Ram S. Properdin Is Critical for Antibody-Dependent Bactericidal Activity against Neisseria gonorrhoeae That Recruit C4b-Binding Protein. J Immunol. 2012 Apr 1; 188(7):3416-3425.
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2. van Blitterswijk M, Gulati S, Smoot E, Jaffa M, Maher N, Hyman BT, Ivinson AJ, Scherzer CR, Schoenfeld DA, Cudkowicz ME, Brown RH, Bosco DA. Anti-superoxide dismutase antibodies are associated with survival in patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotroph Lateral Scler. 2011 Nov; 12(6):430-8.
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3. Dutta Ray T, Lewis LA, Gulati S, Rice PA, Ram S. Novel Blocking Human IgG Directed against the Pentapeptide Repeat Motifs of Neisseria meningitidis Lip/H.8 and Laz Lipoproteins. J Immunol. 2011 Apr 15; 186(8):4881-94.
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4. Agarwal S, Ram S, Ngampasutadol J, Gulati S, Zipfel PF, Rice PA. Factor H facilitates adherence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to complement receptor 3 on eukaryotic cells. J Immunol. 2010 Oct 1; 185(7):4344-53.
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5. Ngampasutadol J, Tran C, Gulati S, Blom AM, Jerse EA, Ram S, Rice PA. Species-specificity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection: do human complement regulators contribute? Vaccine. 2008 Dec 30; 26 Suppl 8:I62-6.
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6. Ngampasutadol J, Ram S, Gulati S, Agarwal S, Li C, Visintin A, Monks B, Madico G, Rice PA. Human factor H interacts selectively with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and results in species-specific complement evasion. J Immunol. 2008 Mar 1; 180(5):3426-35.
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7. Lewis LA, Ram S, Prasad A, Gulati S, Getzlaff S, Blom AM, Vogel U, Rice PA. Defining targets for complement components C4b and C3b on the pathogenic neisseriae. Infect Immun. 2008 Jan; 76(1):339-50.
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8. Lu Z, Roche MI, Hui JH, Unal B, Felgner PL, Gulati S, Madico G, Sharon J. Generation and characterization of hybridoma antibodies for immunotherapy of tularemia. Immunol Lett. 2007 Oct 15; 112(2):92-103.
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9. Ram S, Ngampasutadol J, Cox AD, Blom AM, Lewis LA, St Michael F, Stupak J, Gulati S, Rice PA. Heptose I glycan substitutions on Neisseria gonorrhoeae lipooligosaccharide influence C4b-binding protein binding and serum resistance. Infect Immun. 2007 Aug; 75(8):4071-81.
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10. Madico G, Ngampasutadol J, Gulati S, Vogel U, Rice PA, Ram S. Factor H binding and function in sialylated pathogenic neisseriae is influenced by gonococcal, but not meningococcal, porin. J Immunol. 2007 Apr 1; 178(7):4489-97.
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11. Ngampasutadol J, Ram S, Blom AM, Jarva H, Jerse AE, Lien E, Goguen J, Gulati S, Rice PA. Human C4b-binding protein selectively interacts with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and results in species-specific infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Nov 22; 102(47):17142-7.
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12. Gulati S, Cox A, Lewis LA, Michael FS, Li J, Boden R, Ram S, Rice PA. Enhanced factor H binding to sialylated Gonococci is restricted to the sialylated lacto-N-neotetraose lipooligosaccharide species: implications for serum resistance and evidence for a bifunctional lipooligosaccharide sialyltransferase in Gonococci. Infect Immun. 2005 Nov; 73(11):7390-7.
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13. Ngampasutadol J, Rice PA, Walsh MT, Gulati S. Characterization of a peptide vaccine candidate mimicking an oligosaccharide epitope of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and resultant immune responses and function. Vaccine. 2006 Jan 12; 24(2):157-70.
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14. Porter E, Yang H, Yavagal S, Preza GC, Murillo O, Lima H, Greene S, Mahoozi L, Klein-Patel M, Diamond G, Gulati S, Ganz T, Rice PA, Quayle AJ. Distinct defensin profiles in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis urethritis reveal novel epithelial cell-neutrophil interactions. Infect Immun. 2005 Aug; 73(8):4823-33.
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15. Bash MC, Zhu P, Gulati S, McKnew D, Rice PA, Lynn F. por Variable-region typing by DNA probe hybridization is broadly applicable to epidemiologic studies of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Apr; 43(4):1522-30.
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16. Ram S, Cox AD, Wright JC, Vogel U, Getzlaff S, Boden R, Li J, Plested JS, Meri S, Gulati S, Stein DC, Richards JC, Moxon ER, Rice PA. Neisserial lipooligosaccharide is a target for complement component C4b. Inner core phosphoethanolamine residues define C4b linkage specificity. J Biol Chem. 2003 Dec 19; 278(51):50853-62.
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17. Banerjee A, Wang R, Supernavage SL, Ghosh SK, Parker J, Ganesh NF, Wang PG, Gulati S, Rice PA. Implications of phase variation of a gene (pgtA) encoding a pilin galactosyl transferase in gonococcal pathogenesis. J Exp Med. 2002 Jul 15; 196(2):147-62.
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18. Gulati S, Sastry K, Jensenius JC, Rice PA, Ram S. Regulation of the mannan-binding lectin pathway of complement on Neisseria gonorrhoeae by C1-inhibitor and alpha 2-macroglobulin. J Immunol. 2002 Apr 15; 168(8):4078-86.
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19. Gulati S, McQuillen DP, Mandrell RE, Jani DB, Rice PA. Immunogenicity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae lipooligosaccharide epitope 2C7, widely expressed in vivo with no immunochemical similarity to human glycosphingolipids. J Infect Dis. 1996 Dec; 174(6):1223-37.
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20. Rice PA, McQuillen DP, Gulati S, Jani DB, Wetzler LM, Blake MS, Gotschlich EC. Serum resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Does it thwart the inflammatory response and facilitate the transmission of infection? Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1994 Aug 15; 730:7-14.
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21. McQuillen DP, Gulati S, Rice PA. Complement-mediated bacterial killing assays. Methods Enzymol. 1994; 236:137-47.
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22. Dale PA, McQuillen DP, Gulati S, Rice PA. Human vaccination with Escherichia coli J5 mutant induces cross-reactive bactericidal antibody against Neisseria gonorrhoeae lipooligosaccharide. J Infect Dis. 1992 Aug; 166(2):316-25.
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Keywords   
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Oligosaccharides
Complement Factor H
Lipopolysaccharides
Gonorrhea
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Agarwal, Sarika
Goguen, Jon
Lewis, Lisa
Ram, Sanjay
Rice, Peter
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Huang, Haibin
Chen, Jason
Wang, Jennifer
Meng, Jianmin
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