Research by the Popov Lab


Find a list of selected research publications by the Popov Lab below:

  1. Delorey TM, Ziegler CGK, Heimberg G, Normand R, Yang Y, Segerstolpe Å, Abbondanza D, Fleming SJ, Subramanian A, Montoro DT, Jagadeesh KA, Dey KK, Sen P, Slyper M, Pita-Juárez YH, Phillips D, Biermann J, Bloom-Ackermann Z, Barkas N, Ganna A, Gomez J, Melms JC, Katsyv I, Normandin E, Naderi P, Popov YV, Raju SS, Niezen S, Tsai LT, Siddle KJ, Sud M, Tran VM, Vellarikkal SK, Wang Y, Amir-Zilberstein L, Atri DS, Beechem J, Brook OR, Chen J, Divakar P, Dorceus P, Engreitz JM, Essene A, Fitzgerald DM, Fropf R, Gazal S, Gould J, Grzyb J, Harvey T, Hecht J, Hether T, Jané-Valbuena J, Leney-Greene M, Ma H, McCabe C, McLoughlin DE, Miller EM, Muus C, Niemi M, Padera R, Pan L, Pant D, Pe'er C, Pfiffner-Borges J, Pinto CJ, Plaisted J, Reeves J, Ross M, Rudy M, Rueckert EH, Siciliano M, Sturm A, Todres E, Waghray A, Warren S, Zhang S, Zollinger DR, Cosimi L, Gupta RM, Hacohen N, Hibshoosh H, Hide W, Price AL, Rajagopal J, Tata PR, Riedel S, Szabo G, Tickle TL, Ellinor PT, Hung D, Sabeti PC, Novak R, Rogers R, Ingber DE, Jiang ZG, Juric D, Babadi M, Farhi SL, Izar B, Stone JR, Vlachos IS, Solomon IH, Ashenberg O, Porter CBM, Li B, Shalek AK, Villani AC, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A. COVID-19 tissue atlases reveal SARS-CoV-2 pathology and cellular targets. Nature. 2021 Jul;595(7865):107-113. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03570-8. Epub 2021 Apr 29.

  2. Wei G, Cao J, Huang P, An P, Badlani D, Vaid KA, Zhao S, Wang DQ, Zhuo J, Yin L, Frassetto A, Markel A, Presnyak V, Gandham S, Hua S, Lukacs C, Finn PF, Giangrande PH, Martini PGV, Popov YV. Synthetic human ABCB4 mRNA therapy rescues severe liver disease phenotype in a BALB/c.Abcb4-/- mouse model of PFIC3. J Hepatol. 2021 Jun;74(6):1416-1428.

  3. An P, Wei L, Zhao S, Sverdlov DY, Vaid K, Miyamoto M, Kuramitsu K, Lai M, Popov YV. Hepatocyte mitochondria-derived danger signals directly activate hepatic stellate cells and drive progression of liver fibrosis. Nat Commun. 11, 2362 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16092-0

  4. Ikenaga N, Peng ZW, Vaid KA, Liu SB, Yoshida S, Sverdlov DY, Mikels-Vigdal A, Smith V, Schuppan D, Popov YV. Selective targeting of lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2) suppresses hepatic fibrosis progression and accelerates its reversal. Gut. 2017 Sep;66(9):1697-1708

  5. Liu SB, Peng ZW, Ikenaga N, Sverdlov DY, Greenstein A, Smith V., Schuppan D, Popov YV. Lysyl oxidase activity contributes to collagen stabilization during liver fibrosis progression and limits spontaneous fibrosis reversal in mice. FASEB J. 2016 Apr;30(4):1599-609.

  6. Peng ZW, Ikenaga N, Liu SB, Sverdlov DY, Vaid KA, Dixit R, Weinreb PH, Violette S, Sheppard D, Schuppan D, Popov YV. Integrin αvβ6 critically regulates hepatic progenitor cell function and promotes ductular reaction, fibrosis and tumorigenesis. Hepatology. 2016 Jan(1);63:217–232

  7. Ikenaga N, Liu SB, Sverdlov DY, Yoshida S, Nasser IA, Ke Q, Kang PM, Popov YV. A new Mdr2-/- mouse model of sclerosing cholangitis with rapid fibrosis progression, early onset portal hypertension and liver cancer. Am J Pathol. 2015 Feb;185(2):325-34.