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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Toth, Z., Brulois, K. and Jung, J. U. (2013). The chromatin landscape of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Viruses 5(5): 1346-1373.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.