Publications
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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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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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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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2000. Enzymatic hydrolysis of oligomeric models of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate.. Biomacromolecules. 1(4):577-83.
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2000. The importance of repairing stalled replication forks.. Nature. 404(6773):37-41.
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2000. In vitro polymerization and copolymerization of 3-hydroxypropionyl-CoA with the PHB synthase from Ralstonia eutropha.. Biomacromolecules. 1(3):433-9.
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2000. Multiple genetic pathways for restarting DNA replication forks in Escherichia coli K-12.. Genetics. 155(2):487-97.
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2000. Role of PriA in replication fork reactivation in Escherichia coli.. J Bacteriol. 182(1):9-13.
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1999. dnaC mutations suppress defects in DNA replication- and recombination-associated functions in priB and priC double mutants in Escherichia coli K-12.. Mol Microbiol. 34(1):91-101.
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1999. Interdependence of the position and orientation of SoxS binding sites in the transcriptional activation of the class I subset of Escherichia coli superoxide-inducible promoters.. Mol Microbiol. 34(3):414-30.
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1999. Replication fork assembly at recombination intermediates is required for bacterial growth.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 96(7):3552-5.
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1998. RadA protein is an archaeal RecA protein homolog that catalyzes DNA strand exchange.. Genes Dev. 12(9):1248-53.
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1996. Differential suppression of priA2::kan phenotypes in Escherichia coli K-12 by mutations in priA, lexA, and dnaC.. Genetics. 143(1):5-13.
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1996. Mosaic structure of plasmids from natural populations of Escherichia coli.. Genetics. 143(3):1091-100.
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1996. Overlapping functions for recF and priA in cell viability and UV-inducible SOS expression are distinguished by dnaC809 in Escherichia coli K-12.. Mol Microbiol. 19(4):871-80.
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1996. recA-like genes from three archaean species with putative protein products similar to Rad51 and Dmc1 proteins of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.. Nucleic Acids Res. 24(11):2125-32.
Department of Microbiology