The University of Chicago

Biological Sciences Division

 

 

Papers Recently Published
by Microbiology Students and Faculty

Kelly E. Riordan and Olaf Schneewind. 2008. YscU cleavage and the assembly of Yersinia type III secretion machine complexes. Molecular Microbiology. 68: 1485-1501.

Monica L. Burts, Andrea C. DeDent, and Dominique M. Missiakas. 2008. EsaC substrate for the ESAT-6 Secretion Pathway and its role in persistent infections of S. aureus.  Molecular Microbiology.   doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06324.x.

Hyung H. Choi, Jennifer McPartland, Irene Kaganman, Valerie D. Bowman, Lucia B. Rothman-Denes and Michael G. Rossmann. 2008. Insight into DNA and Protein Transport in Double-Stranded DNA Viruses:  The Structure of Bacteriophage N4. Journal of Molecular Biology. 378: 726-736.

Gleb Baida, Brian Popko, Robert L. Wollmann, Spryidon Stavrou, Wensheng Lin, Maria Tretiakova, Thomas N. Krausz, and Raymond P. Roos. 2008. A Subgenomic Segment of Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus RNA Causes Demyelination. Journal of Virology. 82: 5879-5886.

Maresso, Anthony and Olaf Schneewind. 2008. Sortase as a Target of Anti-Infective Therapy. Pharmacological Reviews. 60: 128-141.

Li Lang and Bernard Roizman. 2008. Expression of Gamma Interferon-Dependent Genes Is Blocked Independently by Virion Host Shutoff RNase and by US3 Protein Kinase. Journal of Virology.  82: 4688-4696.

Laure K. Case, Lydia Petell, Leonid Yurkovetskiy, Alexandra Purdy, Katherine, J. Savage, and Tatyana V. Golovkina. 2008. Replication of Beta- and Gammaretroviruses Is Restricted in I/LnJ Mice via the Same Genetic Mechanism. Journal Virology. 82: 1438-1447

Lee MW, Lu H, Jung HW, Greenberg JT. 2007. A key role for the Arabidopsis WIN3 protein in disease resistance triggered by Pseudomonas syringae that secrete AvrRpt2. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 20: 1192-1200. (This article was the "editors choice" in the APS newsletter).

Randall, G., M. Panis, T.L. Tellinghuisen, J.D. Cooper, K.E. Soukhodolets, S. Pfeffer, M. Landthaler, P. Landgraf, S. Kan, B.D. Lindenbach, M. Chien,  D.B. Weir, J.J. Russo, J. Ju,  M.J. Brownstein, R. Sheridan, C. Sander, M. Zavolan, T. Tuschl, & C.M. Rice. 2007.
Cellular cofactors affecting hepatitis C virus infection and replication. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104: 12884-89
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Tan, Z., G. Randall, J. Fan, J. Blasco, B. Camoretti-Mercado, R. Brockman-Schneider , L. Pan, J. Solway, J. Gern , R. Lemanske, D. Nicolae & C. Ober. 2007. Allele-specific targeting of microRNA to HLA-G and risk for asthma. Amer. J. Hum. Gen. 81:829-35.

Te, H.S., G. Randall & D. Jensen. 2007. Mechanism of action of ribavirin in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C. Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 3: 218-225.

J. Jelenska, N. Yao, B. Vinatzer, C. Wright, J. Brodsky, J.T. Greenberg.  2007.  A J Domain Virulence Effector of Pseudomonas syringae Remodels Host Chloroplasts and Suppresses Defenses. Current Biology.  17: 499-508.

Castillo JA, Greenberg JT.  2006.  Evolutionary dynamics of Ralstonia solanacearum. Appl Environ Microbiol. 73:1225-38. 

Bubeck Wardenburg, J., W.A. Williams and D. Missiakas. Host defenses against Staphylococcus aureus infection require recognition of bacterial lipoproteins. 2006 Sep 12;. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103(37):13831-6. Epub 2006 Sep 5.

MacDearmid C, Starling CL, Case LK, Golovkina TV. Gradual elimination of a retrovirus by YBR/Ei mice.  2006, J Virol 80 (5), p 2206-2215. 

Marraffini LA, Schneewind O. (2006) Targeting proteins to the cell wall of sporulating Bacillus anthracis. Mol Microbiol. 62(5):1402-17.

Poon, A.P.W., Benetti, L., and Roizman, B. US3 and US3.5 protein kinases of herpes simplex virus 1 differ with respect to their functions in blocking apoptosis and in virion maturation and egress. J. Virol. 80:3752-3764, 2006.

Stranger-Jones YK, Bae T, Schneewind O. (2006) Vaccine assembly from surface proteins of Staphylococcus aureus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 103(45):16942-7.

Swanson I, Jude B, Zhang AR, Smith ZE, Pucker A and Golovkina TV. 2006. Sequences within the gag gene of mouse mammary tumor virus needed for mammary gland cell transformation.  J Virol  80 (7),  p. 3215-3224.

Tam C., E.M. Glass, D.M. Anderson, and D. Missiakas. Transposon mutagenesis of Bacillus anthracis strain Sterne using Bursa aurealis. Plasmid 56, 74-77.

Zhou, G. and Roizman, B. Construction and properties of a herpes simplex virus 1 designed to enter cells solely via the IL13a2 receptor. Proc. Nat.Acad. Sci. 103:5508-5513, 2006.