Host-pathogen interactions
The Ohio State University

Publications
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2025
Peritore-Galve FC, Kroh HK, Shupe JA, Ehni AG, Cano Rodríguez R, Kordus SL, Washington MK, Knippel RJ, Stanley AM, Gamson A, Tkaczyk C, Lacy DB. 2025. The monoclonal antibody AZD5148 confers broad protection against TcdB-diverse Clostridioides difficile strains in mice. PLoS Pathogens 21(11): e1013651. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013651.
Masalanka JR, Londregan JA, Denny JE, Hulit EN, Mdluli NV, Peritore-Galve FC, Alam MZ, Alameh M-G, Lacy DB, Zackular JP, Abt MC. 2025. Clostridioides difficile toxin A and toxin B inhibit toxin-specific adaptive immune responses through glucosyltransferase-dependent activity. Mucosal Immunology 16:S1933-0219(25)00087-X. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.mucimm.2025.08.004.
Glover RC*, Peritore-Galve FC*, Lacy DB**, Zackular JP**. 2025. Immune aspects of Clostridioides difficile infection and vaccine development. Infectious Diseases Clinics of North America. 39(4):801-820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2025.07.008.
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**Co-corresponding authors
2023
Peritore-Galve FC, Kaji I, Smith A, Walker LM, Shupe JA, Washington MK, Algood HMS, Dudeja PK, Goldenring JR, Lacy DB. 2023. Increased intestinal permeability and downregulation of absorptive ion transporters Nhe3, Dra, and Sglt1 contribute to diarrhea during Clostridioides difficile infection. Gut Microbes. 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2023.2225841
Kordus SL*, Kroh HK*, Cano Rodríguez R, Shrem RA, Peritore-Galve FC, Shupe JA, Wadzinski BE, Lacy DB, Spiller BW. Nanobodies against C. difficile TcdA and TcdB reveal unexpected neutralizing epitopes and provide a toolkit for toxin quantitation in vivo. 2023. PLoS Pathogens 19(10): e1011496. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011496.
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2022
Henkhaus NA, Busch W, Chen A, Colón-Carmona, A, Cothran M, Diaz N, Dundore-Arias JP, Gonzales M, Hadziabdic D, Hayes RA, MacIntosh GC, Na A, Nyamasoka-Magonziwa B, Pater D, Peritore-Galve FC, Phelps-Durr T, Rouhier K, Sickler DB, Starnes JH, Tyler QR, Valdez-Ward E, Vega-Sánchez, ME, Walcott RR, Ward JK, Wyatt SE, Zapata F, Zemenick AT, Stern DB. 2022. Removing systemic barriers to equity, diversity, and inclusion: report of the 2019 Plant Science Research Network workshop "Inclusivity in the Plant Sciences." Plant Direct 24;6(8):e432. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.432.
Peritore-Galve FC, Shupe JA, Cave RJ, Childress KO, Washington MK, Kuehne SA, Lacy DB. 2022. Glucosyltransferase-dependent and independent effects of Clostridioides difficile toxins during infection. PLoS Pathogens 18(2): e1010323. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010323
2021
Peritore-Galve FC, Tancos MA, Smart CD. 2021. Bacterial canker of tomato: revisiting a global and economically damaging seedborne pathogen. Plant Disease 105(6):1581-1595. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-08-20-1732-FE.
Markham NO, Bloch SC, Shupe JA, Laubacher EN, Thomas AK, Kroh HK, Childress KO, Peritore-Galve, FC, Washington MK, Coffey RJ, Lacy DB. 2021. Murine intrarectal instillation of purified recombinant Clostridioides difficile toxins enables mechanistic studies of pathogenesis. Infection & Immunity 89:10.1128/iai.00543-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.00543-20.
2020
Peritore-Galve FC, Miller C, Smart CD. 2020. Characterizing colonization patterns of Clavibacter michiganensis during infection of tolerant wild Solanum species. Phytopathology 110(3):574-581. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-09-19-0329-R.
2019
Peritore-Galve FC, Schneider DJ, Yang Y, Thannhauser TW, Smart CD, Stodghill P. 2019. Proteome profile and genome refinement of the tomato-pathogenic bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis. Proteomics 19(7):e1800224. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201800224.
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2018
Tancos MA, Lowe-Power TM, Peritore-Galve FC, Tran TM, Allen C, Smart CD. 2018. Plant-like bacterial expansins play contrasting roles in two tomato vascular pathogens. Molecular Plant Pathology 19(5):1210-1221. https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12611.