Publications

( * equal contribution; † corresponding author )

Sialylated glycoproteins suppress immune cell killing by binding to Siglec-7 and Siglec-9 in prostate cancer

Wen, R. M., Stark, J. C., Marti, G. E. W., Fan, Z., Lyu, A., Garcia Marques, F. J., Zhang, X., Riley, N. M., Totten, S. M., Bermudez, A., Nolley, R., Zhao, H., Fong, L., Engleman, E. G., Pitteri, S. J., Bertozzi, C. R., & Brooks, J. D. †

Journal of Clinical Investigation (2024) doi.org/10.1172/JCI180282

The glyco-immune checkpoint receptor Siglec-7 interacts with T-cell ligands and regulates T-cell activation

Stewart, N., Daly, J., Drummond-Guy, O., Krishnamoorthy, V., Stark, J. C., Riley, N. M., Williams, K., Bertozzi, C. R., & Wisnovsky, S. †

Journal of Biological Chemistry (2024) doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105579

Rapid biosynthesis of glycoprotein therapeutics and vaccines from freeze-dried bacterial cell lysates

Stark, J. C. †, Jaroentomeechai, T., Warfel, K. F., Hershewe, J. M., DeLisa, M. P. †, & Jewett, M. C. †

Nature Protocols (2023) doi.org/10.1038/s41596-022-00799-z

MYC driven synthesis of Siglec ligands is a novel glyco-immune checkpoint

Smith, B. A. H. *, Deutzmann, A. *, Correa, K. M., Delaveris, C. S., Dhanasekaran, R., Dove, C. G., Sullivan, D. K., Wisnovsky, S., Stark, J. C., Pluvinage, J. V., Swaminathan, S., Riley, N. M., Rajan, A., Majeti, R., Felsher, D. W. †, & Bertozzi, C. R. †

PNAS (2023) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215376120

Antibody-lectin chimeras for glyco-immune checkpoint blockade

Stark, J. C. *, Gray, M. A. *, Wisnovsky, S., Ibarlucea-Benitez, I., Lustig, M., Riley, N. M., Ribi, M. K., Errington, W. J., Bruncsics, B., Sarkar, C. A., Valerius, T., Ravetch, J. V., & Bertozzi, C. R. †

bioRxiv (2022) doi: 10.1101/2022.10.26.513931

Genome-wide, bidirectional CRISPR screens identify mucins as critical host factors modulating SARS-CoV-2 infection

Biering, S. B. *, Sarnik, S. A. *, Wang, E., Zengel, J. R., Leist, S. R., Schäfer, A., Sathyan, V., Hawkins, P., Okuda, K., Tau, C., Jangid, A. R., Duffy, C. R., Wei, J., Gilmore, R. C., Alfajaro, M. M., Strine, M. S., Nguyenla, X., Van Dis, E., Catamura, C., Yamashiro, L. H., Belk, J. A., Begeman, A., Stark, J. C., Shon, D. J., Fox, D. M., Ezzatpour, S., Huang, E., Olegario, N., Rustagi, A., Volmer, A. S., Livraghi-Butrico, A., Wehri, E., Behringer, R. B., Cheon, D., Schaletzky, J., Aguilar, H. C., Puschnik, A. S., Button, B., Pinsky, B. A., Blish, C. A., Baric, R. S., O’Neal, W. K., Bertozzi, C. R., Wilen, C. B., Boucher, R. C., Carette, J. E., Stanley, S. A., Harris, E. †, Konermann, S. †, & Hsu, P. D. †

Nature Genetics (2022) doi: 10.1038/s41588-022-01131-x

Targeting hypersialylation in multiple myeloma represents a novel therapeutic strategy to enhance NK cell-mediated tumor responses

Daly, J., Sarkar, S., Natoni, A., Stark, J. C., Riley N. M., Bertozzi, C. R., Carlsten, M. †, O’Dwyer, M. †

Blood Advances (2022) doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021006805

Implementing hands-on molecular and synthetic biology education using cell-free technology

Huang, A. †, Bryan, B., Kraves, S., Alvarez-Saavedra, E., Stark, J. C. †

Methods in Molecular Biology (2022) doi: 10.1007/978-1-1998-8_25

Synthetic Siglec-9 agonists inhibit neutrophil activation associated with COVID-19

Delaveris, C. S., Wilk, A. J., Riley, N. M., Stark, J. C., Yang, S. S., Rogers, A. J., Ranganath, T., Nadeau, K. C., The Stanford COVID-19 Biobank, Blish, C. A., & Bertozzi, C. R. †

ACS Central Science (2021) doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c01669

On-demand biomanufacturing of protective conjugate vaccines

Stark, J. C. *, Jaroentomeechai, T. *, Moeller, T. D., Hershewe, J. M., Warfel, K. F., Moricz, B. S., Martini, A. M., Dubner, R. S., Hsu, K. J., Stevenson, T. C., Jones, B. D., DeLisa, M. P. †, & Jewett, M. C. †

Science Advances (2021) doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe9444

Featured in Nature, PNAS, preLights, Vice, Northwestern University News, Cornell University News

A cell-free biosynthesis platform for modular construction of protein glycosylation pathways

Kightlinger, W., Duncker, K. E., Ramesh, A., Thames, A. H., Natarajan, A., Stark, J. C., Yang, A., Lin, L., Mrksich, M., DeLisa, M. P., & Jewett, M. C. †

Nature Communications (2019) doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12024-9

Featured in Northwestern Engineering News

BioBits™ Health: Classroom activities exploring engineering, biology, and human health with fluorescent readouts

Stark, J. C., Huang, A., Hsu, K. J., Dubner, R. S., Forbrook, J., Marshalla, S., Rodriguez, F., Washington, M., Rybnicky, G. A., Nguyen, P. Q., Hasselbacher, B., Jabri, R., Kamran, R., Koralewski, V., Wightkin, W., Martinez, T., & Jewett, M. C. †

ACS Synthetic Biology (2019) doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00381

Featured in Northwestern University News, National Science Foundation News & Blog

BioBits™ Bright: A fluorescent synthetic biology education kit

Stark, J. C. *, Huang, A. *, Nguyen, P. Q. *, Dubner, R. S., Hsu, K. J., Ferrante, T. C., Anderson, M. A., Kanapskyte, A., Mucha, Q., Packett, J. S., Patel, P., Patel, R., Qaq, D., Zondor, T., Burke, J., Martinez, T., Miller-Berry, A., Puppala, A., Reichert, K., Schmid, M., Brand, L., Chellaswamy, J. F., Faheem, N., Fetherling, S., Gong, E., Gonzalzles, E. M., Granito, T., Koritsaris, J., Nguyen, B., Ottman, S., Palffy, C., Patel, A., Skweres, S., Slaton, A., Woods, T., Donghia, N., Pardee, K., Collins, J. J. †, & Jewett, M. C. †

Science Advances (2018) doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat5107

Featured in Science, NPR, Northwestern Engineering Magazine, Northwestern University News, MIT News, Wyss Institute News, Addgene, The Science Breaker, Army Research News, National Science Foundation News

BioBits™ Explorer: A modular synthetic biology education kit

Huang, A. *, Nguyen, P. Q. *, Stark, J. C. *, Donghia, N., Ferrante, T. C., Dy, A. J., Hsu, K. J., Dubner, R. S., Pardee, K., Jewett, M. C. †, & Collins, J. J. †

Science Advances (2018) doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat5105

Featured in Science, NPR, Northwestern Engineering Magazine, Northwestern University News, MIT News, Wyss Institute News, Addgene, The Science Breaker, Army Research News, National Science Foundation News

Single-pot glycoprotein biosynthesis using a cell-free transcription-translation system enriched with glycosylation machinery

Jaroentomeechai, T. *, Stark, J. C. *, Natarajan, A., Glasscock, C., Mrksich, M., Jewett, M. C. †, & DeLisa, M. P. †

Nature Communications (2018) doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05110-x

Featured in Chemical & Engineering News (July 2018 & Nov 2018), Northwestern University News & Newsletter, Cornell University News

A cell-free platform for rapid synthesis and testing of active oligosaccharyltransferases

Schoborg, J. A. *, Hershewe, J. M. *, Stark, J. C., Kightlinger, W. K., Kath, J. E., Jaroentomeechai, T., Natarajan, A., DeLisa, M. P., & Jewett, M. C. †

Biotechnology & Bioengineering (2018) doi: 10.1002/bit.26502

A pipeline for studying and engineering single-subunit oligosaccharyltransferases

Jaroentomeechai, T., Zheng, X., Hershewe, J. M., Stark, J. C., Jewett, M. C., & DeLisa, M. P. †

Methods in Enzymology (2017) doi:10.1016/bs.mie.2017.07.011

Cell-free synthetic biology: Engineering beyond the cell

Perez, J. G. *, Stark, J. C. *, & Jewett, M. C. †

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology (2016) doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a023853

Energizing eukaryotic cell-free protein synthesis with glucose metabolism

Anderson, M. J. *, Stark, J. C. *, Hodgman, C. E., & Jewett, M. C. †

FEBS Letters (2015) doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.05.045

Repurposing a bacterial quality control mechanism to enhance enzyme production in living cells

Boock, J. T., King, B. C., Taw, M., Conrado, R. J., Siu, K.-H., Stark, J. C., Walker, L. P., Gibson, D. M., & DeLisa, M. P. †

Journal of Molecular Biology (2015) doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.01.003