Dr Luke Green
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
Research Fellow
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Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
Room LU105, L Floor
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
Sheffield
S10 2RX
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For enquiries, please contact – ClinMed-Operational@sheffield.ac.uk
- 2021-Present: The Humane Research Trust Research Fellow; University of Sheffield, UK.
- 2018-2021: Postdoctoral Associate; Prof. Pete Monk, University of Sheffield, UK.
- 2015-2018: Postdoctoral Researcher; Dr. Chris Bayliss, University of Leicester, UK.
- 2011-2015: Research Associate; Dr. Ingrid Scully Group, Pfizer Inc., USA.
- 2006-2010: PhD; Prof. Rob Read Group, University of Sheffield, UK.
- Research interests
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Infectious disease is a huge health burden globally and antibiotic resistance is an ever growing problem, currently attributable to ~700,000 deaths per year with projected figures rising to 10 million by the year 2050. For this reason, new therapies to replace antibiotics are crucial. Due to their rapid doubling time, bacteria have the ability to quickly evolve mechanisms to overcome drugs targeted to them, for this reason, I believe the future for anti-infectives is to target infection at the human cell level. Bacteria enter our cells by "hijacking" parts of our own cell machinery (proteins).
Our cells are encased in a membrane consisting of water-repelling fatty acids and proteins. Bacteria have to attach to and breach this membrane in order to get inside our cells. They do this by "hijacking" the proteins within the membrane. Whilst there has been extensive research into how bacteria bind our cells, no universal mechanisms (used by all bacteria) are known. Different bacterial species have been shown to hijack different proteins, which causes problems with therapeutic design. I have discovered that a family of human cell membrane proteins, the tetraspanins, are extremely important in the binding of multiple bacterial species to our cells. Targeting tetraspanins using drugs reduces bacterial binding to multiple types of human cells by greater than 50%. The tetraspanins form part of our cell membranes and act as "organisers", bringing together lots of other proteins to form large protein "islands" in the cell membrane. Bacteria do not directly attach to the tetraspanins but I hypothesise that the tetraspanins organize the proteins required for bacterial binding and it is therefore the loss of this organization which results in reduced bacterial adhesion to our cells when the tetraspanins are blocked.
My lab is interested in investigating the role of these proteins and their interactors in bacterial infection.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- CD9 co-operation with syndecan-1 is required for a major staphylococcal adhesion pathway. mBio, e0148223.
- Meningococcal core and accessory phasomes vary by clonal complex. Microbial Genomics, 6(5). View this article in WRRO
- Localized Hypermutation is the Major Driver of Meningococcal Genetic Variability during Persistent Asymptomatic Carriage. mBio, 11(2).
- Potentiation of Phase Variation in Multiple Outer-Membrane Proteins During Spread of the Hyperinvasive Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W ST-11 Lineage. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 220(7), 1109-1117.
- Phase Variation of NadA in Invasive Neisseria meningitidis Isolates Impacts on Coverage Estimates for 4C-MenB, a MenB Vaccine. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 56(9).
- Limited Impact of Adolescent Meningococcal ACWY Vaccination on Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W Carriage in University Students. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 217(4), 608-616.
- Cooperative role for tetraspanins in adhesin-mediated attachment of bacterial species to human epithelial cells.. Infect Immun, 79(6), 2241-2249. View this article in WRRO
All publications
Journal articles
- CD9 co-operation with syndecan-1 is required for a major staphylococcal adhesion pathway. mBio, e0148223.
- Tetraspanin CD9-derived peptides inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginosa corneal infection and aid in wound healing of corneal epithelial cells. The Ocular Surface.
- Variable disruption of epithelial monolayers by Neisseria meningitidis carriage isolates of the hypervirulent MenW cc11 and MenY cc23 lineages. Microbiology, 169(2), micro001305.
- Altered subgenomic RNA abundance provides unique insight into SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7/Alpha variant infections. Communications Biology, 5. View this article in WRRO
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae physiology and pathogenesis. Advances in microbial physiology, 80, 35-83. View this article in WRRO
- Publisher Correction: Characterising within-hospital SARS-CoV-2 transmission events using epidemiological and viral genomic data across two pandemic waves.. Nat Commun, 13(1), 1013.
- Characterising within-hospital SARS-CoV-2 transmission events using epidemiological and viral genomic data across two pandemic waves. Nature Communications, 13(1). View this article in WRRO
- ACE2-independent interaction of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein with human epithelial cells is inhibited by unfractionated heparin. Cells, 10(6). View this article in WRRO
- Subgenomic RNA identification in SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing data. Genome Research. View this article in WRRO
- Cryptic prophages within a Streptococcus pyogenes genotype emm4 lineage. Microbial Genomics, 7(1). View this article in WRRO
- Corneal infection models : tools to investigate the role of biofilms in bacterial keratitis. Cells, 9(11). View this article in WRRO
- Tracking Changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: Evidence that D614G Increases Infectivity of the COVID-19 Virus. Cell, 182(4), 812-827.e19. View this article in WRRO
- An integrated national scale SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance network. The Lancet Microbe, 1(3), e99-e100. View this article in WRRO
- Meningococcal core and accessory phasomes vary by clonal complex. Microbial Genomics, 6(5). View this article in WRRO
- Localized Hypermutation is the Major Driver of Meningococcal Genetic Variability during Persistent Asymptomatic Carriage. mBio, 11(2).
- Potentiation of Phase Variation in Multiple Outer-Membrane Proteins During Spread of the Hyperinvasive Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W ST-11 Lineage. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 220(7), 1109-1117.
- Draft Whole-Genome Sequences of 10 Aeromonas Strains from Clinical and Environmental Sources. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 8(30). View this article in WRRO
- Phase variation of Opa proteins in hypervirulent serogroup W meningococcal isolates. Access Microbiology, 1(1A).
- PhasomeIt: an ‘omics’ approach to cataloguing the potential breadth of phase variation in the genus Campylobacter. Microbial Genomics, 4(11).
- Phase Variation of NadA in Invasive Neisseria meningitidis Isolates Impacts on Coverage Estimates for 4C-MenB, a MenB Vaccine. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 56(9).
- Limited Impact of Adolescent Meningococcal ACWY Vaccination on Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W Carriage in University Students. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 217(4), 608-616.
- Rise in Group W Meningococcal Carriage in University Students, United Kingdom. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 23(6), 1009-1011.
- Anti-infective vaccination in the 21st century—new horizons for personal and public health. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 27, 96-102.
- Cooperative role for tetraspanins in adhesin-mediated attachment of bacterial species to human epithelial cells.. Infect Immun, 79(6), 2241-2249. View this article in WRRO
- Rapid Transmission of a Hyper-Virulent Meningococcal Clone Due to High Effective Contact Numbers and Super Spreaders. Frontiers in Genetics, 11.
- Phasome analysis of pathogenic and commensal Neisseria species expands the known repertoire of phase variable genes, and highlights common adaptive strategies. PLOS ONE, 13(5), e0196675-e0196675.
- Clustered intergenic region sequences as predictors of factor H Binding Protein expression patterns and for assessing Neisseria meningitidis strain coverage by meningococcal vaccines. PLOS ONE, 13(5), e0197186-e0197186.
- periscope: sub-genomic RNA identification in SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Sequencing Data. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Determination of Repeat Number and Expression States of Phase-Variable Loci Through Next Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Analysis, Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 83-92). Springer New York
- Approach to the Discovery, Development, and Evaluation of a Novel Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Vaccine, Vaccine Design (pp. 445-469). Springer New York
Preprints
- CD9 co-operation with syndecan-1 is required for a major staphylococcal adhesion pathway, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Altered Subgenomic RNA Expression in SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Infections, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- ACE2-independent interaction of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to human epithelial cells can be inhibited by unfractionated heparin.
- CD9 co-operation with syndecan-1 is required for a major staphylococcal adhesion pathway. mBio, e0148223.
- Grants
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- The Humane Research Trust Research Fellowship.
- THRT PhD Scholarship.