Laboratory of Molecular Mycology

Rosana Puccia

ropuccia@gmail.com

Department of Microbiology/ Immunology and Parasitology

UNIFESP Federal University of Sao Paulo

EVs research

EVs in host and infectious agents (viruses, parasites, fungi, and bacteria).

Recent publications

1- Zamith-Miranda D, Peres da Silva R, Couvillion SP, Bredeweg EL, Burnet MC, Coelho C, Camacho E, Nimrichter L, Puccia R, Almeida IC, Casadevall A, Rodrigues ML, Alves LR, Nosanchuk JD, Nakayasu ES. Omics Approaches for Understanding Biogenesis, Composition and Functions of Fungal Extracellular Vesicles. Front Genet. 2021 May 3;12:648524. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.648524. PMID: 34012462; PMCID: PMC8126698.

2- Longo LVG, Breyer CA, Novaes GM, Gegembauer G, Leitão NP Jr, Octaviano CE, Toyama MH, de Oliveira MA, Puccia R. The Human Pathogen Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Has a Unique 1-Cys Peroxiredoxin That Localizes Both Intracellularly and at the Cell Surface. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2020 Aug 4;10:394. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00394. PMID: 32850492; PMCID: PMC7417364.

3- Gardizani TP, Della Coletta AM, Romagnoli GG, Puccia R, Serezani APM, de Campos Soares ÂMV, Dias-Melicio LA. 43 kDa Glycoprotein (gp43) from Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Induced IL-17A and PGE2 Production by Human Polymorphonuclear Neutrophils: Involvement of TLR2 and TLR4. J Immunol Res. 2019 Nov 26;2019:1790908. doi: 10.1155/2019/1790908. PMID: 31886295; PMCID: PMC6899308.

4- Peres da Silva R, Longo LGV, Cunha JPCD, Sobreira TJP, Rodrigues ML, Faoro H, Goldenberg S, Alves LR, Puccia R. Comparison of the RNA Content of Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and Paracoccidioides lutzii. Cells. 2019 Jul 23;8(7):765. doi: 10.3390/cells8070765. PMID: 31340551; PMCID: PMC6678485.

5- Alves LR, Peres da Silva R, Sanchez DA, Zamith-Miranda D, Rodrigues ML, Goldenberg S, Puccia R, Nosanchuk JD. Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated RNA Release in Histoplasma capsulatum. mSphere. 2019 Mar 27;4(2):e00176-19. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00176-19. PMID: 30918062; PMCID: PMC6437275.