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Preprints under peer review
Masson H.*, Tat J.*, Di Giusto P.*, Antonakoudis A., Shamie I., Baghdassarian H., Samoudi M., Robinson C. M., Kuo C.C., Koga N., Singh S., Gezalyan A., Li Z., Movsessian A., Richelle A., Lewis N.E.‡ A reconstruction of the mammalian secretory pathway identifies mechanisms regulating antibody production, bioRxiv (2024). doi: 10.1101/2024.11.14.623668
Lin W.J., Chiang A.W.T., Zhou E.H., Liang C., Liu C.H., Ma W.L., Cheng W.C., Lewis N.E. iLipidome: enhancing statistical power and interpretability using hidden biosynthetic interdependencies in the lipidome, bioRxiv (2024).
Kellman B., Sandoval D., Zaytseva O., Brock K., Baboo S., Nachmanson D., Irvine E., Armingol E., Mih N., Zhang Y., Jeffris M., Bartels P., Nguyen T., Tam A., Gasman S., Ilan S., Shamie I., Diedrich J., Wang X., van Woudenbergh E., Altman M., Aylward A., Bao B., Castro A., Sorrentino J., Chiang A., Campbell M., Bartsch Y., Aguilar-Calvo P., Sigurdson C., Alter G., Lauc G., Yates J. III, Marks D., Lisacek F., Lewis N.E. Protein structure, a genetic encoding for glycosylation, bioRxiv (2024).
Kellman B., Mariethoz J., Zhang Y., Shaul S., Jeffris M., Sandoval D., Jeffris M., Armingol E., Bao B., Lisacek F., Bojar D., Lewis N.E. Decoding glycosylation potential from protein structure across human glycoproteins with a multi-view recurrent neural network, bioRxiv (2024).
Masson H.O., Kuo C.C., Malm M., Lundqvist M., Sievertsson Å, Berling A., Tegel H., Hober S., Uhlén M., Grassi L., Hatton D., Rockberg J.‡, Lewis N.E.‡ Deciphering the determinants of recombinant protein yield across the human secretome, bioRxiv (2022).
Armingol E., Larsen R.O., Cequeira M, Baghdassarian H., Lewis N.E. Unraveling the coordinated dynamics of protein- and metabolite-mediated cell-cell communication. bioRxiv (2022)
2025
180. Hefzi H.‡, Martínez-Monge I., Marin de Mas I., Cowie N.L., Gomez Toledo A., Noh S.M., la Cour Karottki K.J., Decker M., Arnsdorf J., Camacho-Zaragoza J.M., Kol S., Schoffelen S., Pristovšek N., Holmgaard A. H., Miguez A.A., Bjorn S.P., Brøndum K.K., Javidi E.M., Jensen K.L., Stangl L., Kreidl E., Kallehauge T.B., Ley D., Ménard P., Petersen H.M., Sukhova Z., Bauer A., Casanova E., Barron N., Malmström J., Nielsen L.K., Lee G.M., Kildegaard H.F., Voldborg B.G., Lewis N.E.‡ Multiplex genome editing eliminates lactate production without impacting growth rate in mammalian cells, Nature Metabolism, accepted (2025). bioRxiv preprint
179. Baek M., Kim C.L., Kim S.H., Karottki K.J.L.C., Hefzi H., Grav L.M., Pedersen L.E., Lewis N.E., Lee J.S., Lee G.M. Unraveling productivity-enhancing genes in Chinese hamster ovary cells via CRISPR activation screening using recombinase-mediated cassette exchange system. Metabolic Engineering, 87:11-20 (2025).
178. Kavoni H., Savizi I.S.P., Lewis N.E., Shojaosadati S.A. Recent advances in culture medium design for enhanced production of monoclonal antibodies in CHO cells: A comparative study of machine learning and systems biology approaches. Biotechnology Advances, 78:108480 (2025).
2024
176. Jumabay M., Abud E.M., Okamoto K., Dutta P., Chiang A.W.T., Li H., Manresa M., Zhu Y.P., Frederick D., Kurten R., Croker B., Lewis N.E., Kennedy J.L., Dohil R., Croft M., Ay F., Wechsler J.B., Aceves S.S. Eosinophilic Esophagitis Drives Tissue Fibroblast Regenerative Programs Towards Pathologic Dysfunction. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, S0091-6749(24)01280-6 (2024).
175. Scapin G., Çagdas E., Grav L.M., Lewis N.E., Goletz S., Hafkenscheid L. Implications of glycosylation for the development of selected cytokines and their derivatives for medical use. Biotechnology Advances, 77:108467 (2024).
174. Pessentheiner A.R., Spann N.J., Autran C.A., Ramms B., Chiang A.W.T., Grunddal K.V., Wang Y., Quach A., Booshehri L.M., Hammond A., Tognaccini C., Latasiewicz J., Witztum J.L., Hoffman H.M., Lewis N.E., Glass C.K., Bode L., Gordts P.L.S.M. The Human Milk Oligosaccharide 3-Sialyllactose Promotes Inflammation Resolution and Reduces Atherosclerosis Development in Mice. JCI Insight, 9:e181329 (2024).
173. Gopalakrishnan S., Johnson W., Valderrama-Gomez M.A., Icten E., Tat J., Lay F., Diep J., Gomez N., Stevens J., Schlegel F., Rolandi P., Kontoravdi C., Lewis N.E.‡ Multi-omic characterization of antibody-producing CHO cell lines elucidates metabolic reprogramming and nutrient uptake bottlenecks. Metabolic Engineering, 85:94-104 (2024). bioRxiv preprint.
170. Gopalakrishnan S., Johnson W., Valderrama-Gomez M.A., Icten E., Tat J., Ingram M., Shek C.F., Chan P.K., Schlegel F., Rolandi P., Kontoravdi C., Lewis N.E. COSMIC-dFBA: A novel multi-scale hybrid framework for bioprocess modeling. Metabolic Engineering, 82:183-192 (2024).
166. Armingol E.‡, Baghdassarian H., Lewis N.E.‡ The diversification of methods for studying cell–cell interactions and communication. Nature Reviews Genetics, 25:381-400 (2024).
165. Pong A., Mah C.K., Yeo G.W., Lewis N.E. Computational cell-cell interaction technologies drive mechanistic and biomarker discovery in the tumor microenvironment. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 85:103048 (2024).
164. Masson H.O., Samoudi M., Robinson C.M., Kuo C.C., Weiss L., Shams-Ud-Doha K., Campos A.R., Tejwani V., Dahodwala H., Menard P., Voldborg B.G., Sharfstein S.T., Lewis N.E. Inferring secretory and metabolic pathway activity from omic data with secCellFie. Metabolic Engineering, 81, 273-285 (2024). bioRxiv preprint
2023
161. Toledo A.G., Bratanis E., Velásquez E., Chowdhury S., Sorrentino J.T., Karlsson C., Lewis N.E., Esko J.D., Collin M., Shannon O., Malmström J. Pathogen-driven degradation of endogenous and therapeutic antibodies in vivo during streptococcal infections. Nature Communications, 14(1):6693 (2023). doi:10.1038/s41467-023-42572-0
160. Kim S.H., Shin S.H., Baek M, Xiong K., Karottki K.J.L.C., Hefzi H., Grav L.M., Pedersen L.E., Kildegaard H.F., Lewis N.E., Lee J.S., Lee G.M. Identification of hyperosmotic stress-responsive genes in Chinese hamster ovary cells via genome-wide virus-free CRISPR/Cas9 screening. Metabolic Engineering, 80:66-77 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.ymben.2023.09.006
159. Aamodt CM, Lewis, NE. Single-cell A/B testing for cell-cell communication, Cell Systems, 14, 428-429 (2023).
158. Rocamora F., Peralta A.G., Shin S., Sorrentino J., Wu M., Toth E.A., Fuerst T.A., Lewis N.E. Glycosylation Shapes the Efficacy and Safety of Diverse Protein, Gene and Cell Therapies, Biotechnology Advances, 67, 108206 (2023). preprint
156. Ghaddar A., Armingol E., Huynh C., Gevirtzman L., Lewis N.E., Waterston R., O’Rourke E. Whole-body gene expression atlas of an adult metazoan, Science Advances, 9:eadg0506. (2023).
154. Azadiana S., Doustmohammadi A., Naseri M., Khodarahmi M., Arab S.S., Yazdanifar M., Zahiri J.*, Lewis N.E.* Reconstructing the Cell-Cell Interaction Network Among Mouse Immune Cells. Biotechnology & Bioengineering, 120(9), 2756-2764 (2023). doi: 10.1002/bit.28431
152. Masson H.O., Karottki K.J.L.C., Tat J., Hefzi H.‡, Lewis N.E.‡ From Observational to Actionable: rethinking Omics in Biologics Production, Trends in Biotechnology, 41(9), 1127-1138 (2023). preprint doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2023.03.009
2022
146. Armingol E., Ghaddar A., Joshi C.J., Baghdassarian H.M., Shamie I., Chan J., Her H.L., Berhanu S., Dar A., Rodriguez-Armstrong F., Yang O., O’Rourke E.J.‡, Lewis N.E.‡ Inferring the spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(11): e1010715 (2022). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010715 (see https://lewislab.ucsd.edu/cell2cell/ for cell2cell code)
138. Armingol E.*, Baghdassarian H.*, Martino C., Perez-Lopez A., Aamodt C., Knight R., Lewis N.E. Context-aware deconvolution of cell-cell communication with Tensor-cell2cell. Nature Communications, 13, 3665 (2022). doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31369-2 , Nature Portfolio Bioengineering (see https://lewislab.ucsd.edu/cell2cell/ for more info)
136. Malm M.*, Kuo C.C.*, Barzadd M.M., Mebrahtu A., Wistbacka N., Razavi R., Volk A.L., Lundqvist M., Kotol D., Edfors F., Gräslund T., Chotteau V., Field R., Varley P.G., Roth R.G., Lewis N.E.‡, Hatton D., Rockberg J.‡ Harnessing secretory pathway differences between HEK293 and CHO to rescue production of difficult to express proteins. Metabolic Engineering, 72, 171-187 (2022). bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2021.08.16.455786, DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2022.03.009, PMCID: PMC9189052
135. Thacker B.E., Thorne K.J., Cartwright C., Park J., Glass K., Chea A., Kellman B.P., Lewis N.E., Wang Z., Di Nardo A., Sharfstein S.T., Jeske W., Walenga J., Hogwood J., Gray E., Mulloy B., Esko J.D., Glass C.A. Multiplex genome editing of mammalian cells for producing recombinant heparin. Metabolic Engineering, 70, 155-165 (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.ymben.2022.01.002
133. Spahn, P.N.*, Zhang, X.*, Hu, Q., Hamaker, N., Hefzi, H., Li, S., Kuo, C.C., Huang, Y., Lee, J.C., Ly, P. , Lee, K.H.,‡ Lewis, N.E.‡ Restoration of deficient DNA Repair Genes Mitigates Genome Instability and Increases Productivity of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells. Biotechnology & Bioengineering, 119, 963-982 (2022). doi: 10.1002/bit.28016, bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2021.01.07.425558
2021
128. Zhu, Y.P., Shamie, I., Lee, J.C., Nowell, C.J., Peng, W., Angulo, S., Le, L.N.N., Liu, Y., Miao, H., Xiong, H., Pena, C.J., Moreno, E., Griffis, E., Labou, S.G., Franco, A., Broderick, L., Hoffman, H.M. Shimizu, C. Lewis, N.E. Kanegaye, J.T., Tremoulet, A.H., Burns, J.C., Croker, B.A. Immune response to intravenous immunoglobulin in patients with Kawasaki disease and MIS-C. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 131(20):e147076 (2021). PMCID: PMC8516453
123. Xiong, K., Karottki, K.J.L.C., Hefzi, H., Li, S., Grav, L.M., Li, S., Spahn, P., Lee, J.S., Lee, G.M., Lewis, N.E., Kildegaard, H.F.,Pedersen, L.E. An optimized genome-wide, virus-free CRISPR screen for mammalian cells. Cell Reports Methods, 1:100062 (2021). bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.05.19.103648
121. Kuo, C.C., Chiang, A.W.T., Baghdassarian H.M., Lewis, N.E. Dysregulation of the secretory pathway connects Alzheimer’s disease genetics to aggregate formation. Cell Systems, 12: P873-884.E4, (2021). doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2021.06.001 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.08.10.243634, PMCID: PMC8505362. Highlighted by ScienceNews.dk
119. Samoudi M, Masson H, Kuo CC, Robinson C, Lewis NE. From omics to cellular mechanisms in mammalian cell factory development, Curr Opin in Chem Eng, 32: 100688 (2021). doi: 10.1016/j.coche.2021.100688
118. Chiang A.W.T.‡, Baghdassarian H.M., Kellman B.P., Bao B., Sorrentino J.T., Liang C., Kuo C.C., Masson H.O., Lewis N.E. Systems glycobiology for discovering drug targets, biomarkers, and rational designs for glyco-immunotherapy. Journal of Biomedical Science, 28:50 (2021). doi: 10.1186/s12929-021-00746-2, PMCID: PMC8218521
117. Savizi I.S.P., Motamedian E., Maghsoudi N., Lewis N.E., Jimenez del Val I., Shojaosadati S.A. An integrated modular framework for modeling the effect of ammonium on the sialylation process of monoclonal antibodies produced by CHO cells. Biotechnology Journal, 16:2100019 (2021). doi: 10.1002/biot.202100019
107. Armingol, E.*, Officer, A.*, Harismendy, O.‡, Lewis, N.E.‡ Deciphering cell-cell interactions and communication from gene expression. Nature Reviews Genetics, 22:71–88 (2021). doi: 10.1038/s41576-020-00292-x
105. Samoudi, M.*, Kuo, C.C.*, Robinson, C.M.*, Shams-Ud-Doha, K., Schinn, S.M., Kol, S., Weiss, L., Bjorn, S.P., Voldborg, B.G., Campos, A.R., Lewis, N.E. In situ detection of protein interactions for recombinant therapeutic enzymes. Biotechnology & Bioengineering, 118 (2):890-904 (2021). doi: 10.1002/bit.27621, PMCID: PMC7855575
2020
96. Kol, S., Ley, D., Wulff, T., Decker, M., Arnsdorf, J., Schoffelen, S., Hansen, A.H., Gutierrez, J.M., Chiang, A.W.T., Masson, H.O., Palsson, B.O., Voldborg, B.G., Pedersen, L.E., Kildegaard, H.F., Lee, G.M., Lewis, N.E. Multiplex secretome engineering enhances recombinant protein production and purity. Nature Communications, 11:1908 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15866-w. News coverage: Nature Bioengineering, UCSD Jacobs, Phys.org, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, ScienceNews.dk
90. Fouladiha, H., Marashi, S.A., Torkashvand, F., Mahboudi, F., Lewis, N.E., Vaziri, B. A metabolic network-based approach for developing feeding strategies for CHO cells to increase monoclonal antibody production. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 43, 1381–1389 (2020). doi: 10.1007/s00449-020-02332-6
88. Gutierrez, J.M.*, Feizi, A.*, Li, S., Kallehauge, T.B., Grav, L.M., Hefzi, H., Ley, D., Baycin Hizal, D., Betenbaugh, M.J., Voldborg, B., Kildegaard, H.F., Lee, G.M., Palsson, B.O., Nielsen, J., Lewis, N.E. Genome-scale reconstructions of the mammalian secretory pathway predict metabolic costs and limitations of protein secretion. Nature Communications, 11:68 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13867-y News coverage: ScienceNews.dk
2019
82. Dahodwala, H., Kaushik, P., Tejwani, V., Kuo, C.C., Menard, P., Henry, M., Voldborg, B.G., Lewis, N.E., Meleady, P., Sharfstein, S.T. Increased mAb titers from amplification are associated with increased interaction of CREB1 with transgene promoter. Current Research in Biotechnology, 1:49-57 (2019). doi: 10.1016/j.crbiot.2019.09.001
73. Pristovsek, N., Nallapareddy, S., Grav, L.M., Hefzi, H., Lewis, N.E., Rugbjerg, P., Hansen, H.G., Lee, G.M., Andersen, M.R., Kildegaard, H.F. Systematic Evaluation of Site-Specific Recombinant Gene Expression for Programmable Mammalian Cell Engineering. ACS Synthetic Biology, 8:758–774 (2019). doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00453
69. LaMonte, G., Orjuela-Sanchez, P., Wang, L., Li, S., Swann, J., Cowell, A., Zou, B.Y., Abdel-Haleem, A.M., Villa-Galarce, Z., Moreno, M., Tong-Rios, C., Vinetz, J., Lewis, N.E., Winzeler, E.A. Dual RNAseq shows the human mucosal immunity protein, MUC13, is a hallmark of Plasmodium exoerythrocytic infection. Nature Communications, 10:488 (2019). doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08349-0
2018
66. Lee, J.S., Park, J.H., Ha, T.K., Samoudi, M., Lewis, N.E., Palsson, B.O., Kildegaard, H.F., Lee, G.M. Revealing key determinants of clonal variation in transgene expression in recombinant CHO cells using targeted genome editing, ACS Synthetic Biology, 7 (12):2867-2878 (2018). doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00290
59. Kuo, C.C., Chiang, A.W.T., Shamie, I., Samoudi, M., Gutierrez, J.M., Lewis, N.E.‡ The emerging role of systems biology for engineering protein production in CHO cells. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 51:64–69 (2018). doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.11.015
57. Uhlen, M, Tegel, H, Sivertsson, Å, Kuo, C C, Gutierrez, J M, Lewis, N E, Forsström, B, Dannemeyer, M, Fagerberg, L, Rockberg, J, Malm, M, Vunk, H, Edfors, F, Hober, A, Sjöstedt, E, Mulder, J, Mardinoglu, A, Schwenk, J, Nilsson, P, Zwahlen, M, von Feilitzen, K, Lindskog, C, Ponten, F, Nielsen, J, Voldborg, B G, Palsson, B O, Volk, A L R, Lundqvist, M, Berling, A, Svensson, A S, Kanje, A, Enstedt, H, Afshari, D, Ekblad, S, Scheffel, J, Xu, L L, Mihai, R, Bremer, L, Westin, M, Muse, M, Mayr, L, Knight, S, Göpel, S, Davies, R, Varley, P, Hatton, D, Takanen, J O, Schiavone, L H, Hober, S. The human secretome – the proteins secreted from human cells. bioRxiv (2018). doi: 10.1101/465815
2017
54. Richelle, A., Lewis, N.E.. Improvements in protein production in mammalian cells from targeted metabolic engineering. Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 6:1-6 (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.coisb.2017.05.019
50. Kallehauge, T.B., Li, S., Pedersen, L.E., Ha, T.K., Ley, D., Andersen, M.R., Kildegaard, H.F., Lee, G.M.‡, Lewis, N.E.‡ Ribosome profiling-guided depletion of an mRNA increases cell growth rate and protein secretion. Scientific Reports, 7:40388 (2017). DOI:10.1038/srep40388
2016
45. Hefzi, H.*, Ang, K.S.*, Hanscho, M.*, Bordbar, A., Ruckerbauer, D., Lakshmanan, M., Orellana, C.A., Baycin-Hizal, D., Huang, H., Ley, D., Martínez, V.S., Kyriakopoulos, S., Jiménez, N.E., Zielinski, D.C., Quek, L.E., Wulff, T., Arnsdorf, J., Li, S., Lee, J.S., Paglia, G., Loira, N., Spahn, P.N., Pedersen, L.E., Gutierrez, J.M., King, Z.A., Lund, A.M., Nagarajan, H., Thomas, A., Abdel-Haleem, A.M., Zanghellini, J., Kildegaard, H.F., Voldborg, B.G., Gerdtzen, Z.P., Betenbaugh, M.J., Palsson, B.O., Andersen, M.R., Nielsen, L.K., Borth, N.‡, Lee, D.Y.‡, Lewis, N.E.‡ A consensus genome-scale reconstruction of Chinese hamster ovary cell metabolism. Cell Systems, 3, 434-443 (2016). DOI:10.1016/j.cels.2016.10.020, News coverage: phys.org, UCSD Health Sciences, Nordic Life Science News, Novo Nordisk Fonden
2015
33. Gutierrez, J.M., Lewis, N.E.‡ Optimizing eukaryotic cell hosts for protein production through systems biotechnology and genome-scale modeling. Biotechnology Journal, 10:939–949 (2015). DOI: 10.1002/biot.201400647
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Patents and applications
10. Fuerst, T.R., Toth, E.A., Lewis, N.E., Voldborg, B.G., Chiang, W.T. Compositions and methods for producing glyco-modified viral antigens. Patent PCT/US2022/014338.
6. Lewis, N.E., Spahn, P., Li, S., Hefzi, H., Shamie, I. Methods to Stabilize Mammalian Cells. Patent PCT/EP2020/078435.
3. Hefzi, H., Lewis, N.E. Mammalian cells devoid of lactate dehydrogenase activity Patent US11242510B2.
