Oliver H. Voss, PhD

• Lise-Meitner School (Germany); BS in Chemistry and Chemical-Technical Assistant (CTA), 1997
• University of Applied Sciences (Germany); Graduate Engineer (Dipl.-Ing.), Biotechnology, 2002
• The Ohio State University (Ohio); PhD, Molecular Genetics, 2010
• The Ohio State University (Ohio); Post-Doctoral Fellow, Molecular Genetics, 2013
• National Institutes of Health, Visiting Fellow, Receptor Cell Biology, LIG, NIAID, 2017

Monocytes, Macrophages, Inflammasome, Apoptosis, Autophagy, Caspases, TLR signaling, Rickettsia infection and other infectious diseases

Voss, O.H., Cobb, J., Gaytan, H., Rivera Diaz, N., Sanchez, R., De Tolla, L., Rahman, M.S., Azad, A.F. (2022). Pathogenic, but not non-pathogenic, Rickettsia evade inflammasome-dependent IL-1 responses to establish an intracytosolic replication niche. mBio. 13: e0291821, doi: 1128/mBio.02918-21, PMCID: PMC8822360.

Ghosh, S., Kumar, M., Santiana, M., Mishra, A., Zhang, M., Labayo, H., Chibly, A.M., Nakamura, H., Tanaka, T., Henderson, W., Lewis, E., Voss, O.H., Su, Y., Belkaid, Y., Chiorini, J.A., Hoffman, M.P., Altan-Bonnet, N. (2022). Enteric viruses replicate in salivary glands and infect through saliva. Nature. 29:1-6. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04895-8. PMID: 35768512; PMCID: PMC9243862.

Voss, O.H.*, Rahman, M.S.*. (2021). Rickettsia-Host interaction: Strategies of intracytosolic host colonization. FEMS Pathogens and Disease. 79: 1-11, PMCID: PMC8023194.

Voss, O.H.*, Arango, D.*, Tossey, C., Villalona CaleroM.A., and Doseff, A.I. (2021). Splicing reprogramming of TRAIL/DISC-components by dietary apigenin sensitizes lung cancer cells to TRAIL-mediated apoptosis. Cell Death and Disease. 12: 1-12, doi: 10.1038/s41419-021-03567-1, PMCID: PMC7969956.

Voss, O.H., Gillespie, J.J., Lehman, S.S., Rennoll, S.A., Beier-Sexton, M., Rahman, M.S., Azad, A.F. (2020). Risk1, a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase effector, promotes Rickettsia typhi intracellular survival. mBio. 11: 1-22, doi: 10.1128/mBio.00820-20, PMCID: PMC7298712.

Voss, O.H., Murakami, Y., Pena, M.Y., Lee, H.N., Tian, L., Margulies, D.H., Street, J.M., Yuen, P., Qi, C.F., Krzewski, K. and Coligan, J.E. (2016). Lipopolysaccharide-induced binding of CD300b to Toll-like receptor 4 alters signaling to drive lethal cytokine responses that enhance septic shock. Immunity. 44: 1365–1378, doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.05.005, PMCID: PMC4917413.

Malavez Y.*, Voss, O.H.*, González-Mejia, E.M., Parihar, A., and Doseff, A.I. Distinct contribution of protein kinase Cδ and protein kinase Cε in the lifespan and immune response of human blood monocyte subpopulations. Immunology. 2015 144:611-20.

Voss, O.H., Tian, L., Murakami, Y., Coligan, J.E., and Krzewski, K. Emerging role of CD300 receptors in regulating myeloid cell efferocytosis. Molecular & Cellular Oncology. 2015 2:4, e964625.

Murakami, Y., Tian, L., Voss, O.H., Margulies, D.H., Krzewski, K., and Coligan, J.E. CD300b regulates the phagocytosis of apoptotic cells via phosphatidylserine recognition. Cell Death and Differentiation. 2014doi: 10.1038/cdd.2014.86.

Akhter, A., Caution, K., Abu Khweek, A., Tazi, M., Abdulrahman, B.A., Abdelaziz, D.H., Voss, O.H., Doseff, A.I., Hassan, H., Azad, A.K., Schlesinger, L.S., Wewers, M.D., Gavrilin, M.A., and Amer, A.O. Caspase-11 promotes the fusion of phagosomes harboring pathogenic bacteria with lysosomes by modulating actin polymerization. Immunity. 2012 37: 35-47.

González-Mejia, E.M.*, Voss, O.H.*, Murnan, E.J. and Doseff, A.I. Apigenin-induced apoptosis of leukemia cells is mediated by a bimodal and differentially regulated residue-specific phosphorylation of heat-shock protein-27. Cell Death and Disease.2010 1, e64, doi:10.1038/cddis.2010.41.

Wood, K.*, Voss, O.H.*, Huang, Q., Parihar, A., Metha, N., Batra S. and Doseff, A.I. The small heat shock protein 27 is a key regulator of CD8⁺CD57⁺-lymphocyte survival. J. Immunol. 2010 184: 5582–5588. Selected for “In this issue” special editor’s commentary.

Voss, O.H.*, Batra S.*, Kolattukudy S.J., Gonzalez-Mejia M.E., Smith J.B. and Doseff A.I. Binding of caspase-3 prodomain to heat shock protein 27 regulates monocyte apoptosis by inhibiting caspase-3 proteolytic activation.  J. Biol. Chem. 2007 282: 25088-99.

Vargo, M.A., Voss, O.H., Cardounel, A.J., Grotewold, E. and Doseff, A.I. Apigenin-induced-apoptosis is mediated by the activation of PKCδ and caspases in leukemia cells.  Biochem. Pharmacol. 2006 72: 681-692.

Voss, O.H.*, Kim, S.*, Wewers, M.D. and Doseff, A.I. Caspase-3 is a phosphoprotein and associates with PKCδ during spontaneous monocyte apoptosis. J. Biol. Chem. 2005 280: 17371-17379.

*Shared equal first authorship