Kevin Brulois Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University Southern California, USA

Kevin Brulois

Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California, USA

Research fields

Immunology

Personal information

Education

Ph.D. in Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Southern California, 2014

Current position

Research Associate, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California

Publications (since 2010)

Brulois, K., Toth, Z., Wong, L. Y., Feng, P., Gao, S. J., Ensser, A. and Jung, J. U. (2014). KSHV K3 and K5 ubiquitin E3 ligases have stage-specific immune evasion roles during lytic replication. J Virol. (Epub ahead of print)
Kronstad, L. M., Brulois, K. F., Jung, J. U. and Glaunsinger, B. A. (2014). Reinitiation after translation of two upstream open reading frames (ORF) governs expression of the ORF35-37 Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus polycistronic mRNA. J Virol 88(11): 6512-6518.
Full, F., Jungnickl, D., Reuter, N., Bogner, E., Brulois, K., Scholz, B., Sturzl, M., Myoung, J., Jung, J. U., Stamminger, T. and Ensser, A. (2014). Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus tegument protein ORF75 is essential for viral lytic replication and plays a critical role in the antagonization of ND10-instituted intrinsic immunity. PLoS Pathog 10(1): e1003863.
Lee, H. R., Doganay, S., Chung, B., Toth, Z., Brulois, K., Lee, S., Kanketayeva, Z., Feng, P., Ha, T. and Jung, J. U. (2014). Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus viral interferon regulatory factor 4 (vIRF4) targets expression of cellular IRF4 and the Myc gene to facilitate lytic replication. J Virol 88(4): 2183-2194.
Toth, Z., Brulois, K., Lee, H. R., Izumiya, Y., Tepper, C., Kung, H. J. and Jung, J. U. (2013). Biphasic euchromatin-to-heterochromatin transition on the KSHV genome following de novo infection. PLoS Pathog 9(12): e1003813.
Liang, Q., Chang, B., Brulois, K. F., Castro, K., Min, C. K., Rodgers, M. A., Shi, M., Ge, J., Feng, P., Oh, B. H. and Jung, J. U. (2013). Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus K7 modulates Rubicon-mediated inhibition of autophagosome maturation. J Virol 87(22): 12499-12503.
Wong, L. Y., Brulois, K., Toth, Z., Inn, K. S., Lee, S. H., O'Brien, K., Lee, H., Gao, S. J., Cesarman, E., Ensser, A. and Jung, J. U. (2013). The product of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus immediate early gene K4.2 regulates immunoglobulin secretion and calcium homeostasis by interacting with and inhibiting pERP1. J Virol 87(22): 12069-12079.
Toth, Z., Brulois, K. and Jung, J. U. (2013). The chromatin landscape of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Viruses 5(5): 1346-1373.
Wong, L. Y., Toth, Z., Brulois, K., Inn, K. S., Lee, S. H. and Jung, J. U. (2013). Pathogen mimicry of host cell signaling: how γ-2 herpesviruses modulate primate immune pathways. In: Primates, Pathogens and Evolution. Springer.
Kronstad, L. M., Brulois, K. F., Jung, J. U. and Glaunsinger, B. A. (2013). Dual short upstream open reading frames control translation of a herpesviral polycistronic mRNA. PLoS Pathog 9(1): e1003156.
Lee, S. H., Toth, Z., Wong, L. Y., Brulois, K., Nguyen, J., Lee, J. Y., Zandi, E. and Jung, J. U. (2012). Novel Phosphorylations of IKKgamma/NEMO. MBio 3(6): e00411-00412.
Toth, Z., Brulois, K. F., Wong, L. Y., Lee, H. R., Chung, B. and Jung, J. U. (2012). Negative elongation factor-mediated suppression of RNA polymerase II elongation of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus lytic gene expression. J Virol 86(18): 9696-9707.
Brulois, K. F., Chang, H., Lee, A. S., Ensser, A., Wong, L. Y., Toth, Z., Lee, S. H., Lee, H. R., Myoung, J., Ganem, D., Oh, T. K., Kim, J. F., Gao, S. J. and Jung, J. U. (2012). Construction and manipulation of a new Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus bacterial artificial chromosome clone. J Virol 86(18): 9708-9720.
Lee, H. R., Brulois, K., Wong, L. and Jung, J. U. (2012). Modulation of Immune System by Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus: Lessons from Viral Evasion Strategies. Front Microbiol 3: 44.
Toth, Z., Maglinte, D. T., Lee, S. H., Lee, H. R., Wong, L. Y., Brulois, K. F., Lee, S., Buckley, J. D., Laird, P. W., Marquez, V. E. and Jung, J. U. (2010). Epigenetic analysis of KSHV latent and lytic genomes. PLoS Pathog 6(7): e1001013.