Publications
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2001. Effects of mutations involving cell division, recombination, and chromosome dimer resolution on a priA2::kan mutant.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 98(15):8203-10.
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2001. PriA mutations that affect PriA-PriC function during replication restart.. Mol Microbiol. 41(3):697-704.
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2002. A comprehensive alanine scanning mutagenesis of the Escherichia coli transcriptional activator SoxS: identifying amino acids important for DNA binding and transcription activation.. J Mol Biol. 322(2):237-57.
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2002. Evidence for "pre-recruitment" as a new mechanism of transcription activation in Escherichia coli: the large excess of SoxS binding sites per cell relative to the number of SoxS molecules per cell.. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 291(4):979-86.
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2002. Measuring beta-galactosidase activity in bacteria: cell growth, permeabilization, and enzyme assays in 96-well arrays.. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 290(1):397-402.
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2002. Production and characterization of protective human antibodies against Shiga toxin 1.. Infect Immun. 70(10):5896-9.
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2004. Genetic evidence for pre-recruitment as the mechanism of transcription activation by SoxS of Escherichia coli: the dominance of DNA binding mutations of SoxS.. J Mol Biol. 344(1):1-10.
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2004. Poly(hydroxyalkanoic acid) Biosynthesis in Ectothiorhodospirashaposhnikovii: Characterization and Reactivity of a Type III PHA Synthase.. Biomacromolecules. 5(1):40-8.
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2004. Proteolytic degradation of Escherichia coli transcription activators SoxS and MarA as the mechanism for reversing the induction of the superoxide (SoxRS) and multiple antibiotic resistance (Mar) regulons.. Mol Microbiol. 51(6):1801-16.
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2004. Quorum sensing in Staphylococci is regulated via phosphorylation of three conserved histidine residues.. J Biol Chem. 279(15):14665-72.
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2004. Tuning the hemolytic and antibacterial activities of amphiphilic polynorbornene derivatives.. J Am Chem Soc. 126(48):15870-5.
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2005. Characterization of TetD as a transcriptional activator of a subset of genes of the Escherichia coli SoxS/MarA/Rob regulon.. Mol Microbiol. 56(4):1103-17.
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2005. Localization of RecA in Escherichia coli K-12 using RecA-GFP.. Mol Microbiol. 57(4):1074-85.
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2005. Requirements for replication restart proteins during constitutive stable DNA replication in Escherichia coli K-12.. Genetics. 169(4):1799-806.
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2006. Characterization of metabolism in the Fe(III)-reducing organism Geobacter sulfurreducens by constraint-based modeling.. Appl Environ Microbiol. 72(2):1558-68.
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2006. Computational prediction of RpoS and RpoD regulatory sites in Geobacter sulfurreducens using sequence and gene expression information.. Gene. 384:73-95.
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2006. A novel dnaC mutation that suppresses priB rep mutant phenotypes in Escherichia coli K-12.. Mol Microbiol. 60(4):973-83.
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2006. Simian virus 40 late proteins possess lytic properties that render them capable of permeabilizing cellular membranes.. J Virol. 80(13):6575-87.
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2007. DinI and RecX modulate RecA-DNA structures in Escherichia coli K-12.. Mol Microbiol. 63(1):103-15.
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2007. A hand-off mechanism for primosome assembly in replication restart.. Mol Cell. 26(6):781-93.
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2008. Antimicrobial polymers prepared by ROMP with unprecedented selectivity: a molecular construction kit approach.. J Am Chem Soc. 130(30):9836-43.
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2008. Comparative genomics of Geobacter chemotaxis genes reveals diverse signaling function.. BMC Genomics. 9:471.
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2008. Highly conserved genes in Geobacter species with expression patterns indicative of acetate limitation.. Microbiology. 154(Pt 9):2589-99.
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2008. Inducible protein degradation in Bacillus subtilis using heterologous peptide tags and adaptor proteins to target substrates to the protease ClpXP.. Mol Microbiol. 70(4):1012-25.

Department of Microbiology