Student Publications

2012


Li X, Marinkovic M, Russo C, McKnight CJ, Coetzer TL, Chishti AH. 2012. Identification of a specific region of Plasmodium falciparum EBL-1 that binds to host receptor glycophorin B and inhibits merozoite invasion in human red blood cells. Mol Biochem Parasitol. Epub ahead of print. books 

Meehan BM, Malamy MH. 2012.  Fumarate reductase is a major contributor to the generation of reactive oxygen species in the anaerobe Bacteroides fragilis. Microbiology. 158: 539-546. books

2011


Antonara S, Ristow L, Coburn J. 2011. Adhesion mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi. Adv Exp Med Biol. 715: 35-49. books

Bhattacharya D, Bensaci M, Luker KE, Luker G, Wisdom S, Telford SR, Hu LT. 2011. Development of a baited oral vaccine for use in reservoir-targeted strategies against Lyme disease. Vaccine 29: 7818-7825. books

Bradley E, Bodi K, Ismail AM, Camilli A. 2011. A genome-wide approach to discovery of small RNAs involved in regulation of virulence in Vibrio cholerae. PLoS Pathog. 7: e1002126. books

Hira KG, Mackay MR, Hempstead AD, Ahmed S, Karim MM, O'Connor RM, Hibberd PL, Calderwood SB, Ryan ET, Khan WA, Ward HD. 2011. Genetic diversity of Cryptosporidium spp. from Bangladeshi children. J Clin Microbiol. 49: 2307-2310. books 

Huang L, Boyd D, Amyot WM, Hempstead AD, Luo ZQ, O'Connor TJ, Chen C, Machner M, Montminy T, Isberg RR. 2011. The E Block motif is associated with Legionella pneumophila translocated substrates. Cell Micobiol. 13: 227-245.  books

Kumamoto CA, Pierce JV. 2011. Immunosensing during colonization by Candida albicans: does it take a village to colonize the intestine? Trends Microbiol. 19: 263-267. books

LaFrance ME, Pierce JV, Antonara S, Coburn J. 2011. The Borrelia burgdorferi integrin ligand P66 affects gene expression by human cells in culture. Infect Immun. 79: 3249-3261. books

Tenorio EL, Klein BA, Cheung WS, Hu LT. 2011. Identification of interspecies interactions affecting Porphyromonas gingivalis virulence phenotypes. J Oral Microbiol. Epub ahead of print. books

Walsh RL, Camilli A. 2011. Streptococcus pneumoniae is dessication tolerant and infectious upon rehydration. MBio. 2: e00092-11. books

2010


Antonara S, Ristow L, McCarthy J, Coburn J. 2010. Effect of Borrelia burgdorferi OspC at the site of inoculation in mouse skin. Infect Immun. 78: 4723-4733. books

Bhattacharya D, Mecsas J, Hu LT. 2010. Development of a vaccinia virus based reservoir-targeted vaccine against Yersinia pestis. Vaccine 28: 7683-7689. books

Bishop AL, Schild S, Patimalla B, Klein B, Camilli A. 2010. Mucosal immunization with Vibrio cholerae outer membrane vesicles provides maternal protection mediated by antilipopolysaccharide antibodies that inhibit bacterial motility. Infect Immun. 78: 4402-4420. books

Durand EA, Maldonado-Arocho FJ, Castillo C, Walsh RL, Mecsas J. 2010. The presence of professional phagocytes dictates the number of host cells targeted for Yop translocation during infection. Cell Microbiol. 12: 1064-1082. books

Garrity-Ryan LK, Kim OK, Balada-Llasat JM, Bartlett VJ, Verma AK, Fisher ML, Castillo C, Songsungthong W, Tanaka SK, Levy SB, Mecsas J, Alekshun MN. 2010. Small molecule inhibitors of LcrF, a Yersinia pseudotuberculosis transcription factor, attenuate virulence and limit infection in a murine pneumonia model. Infect Immun. 78: 4683-4690. books

Harmon DE, Davis AJ, Castillo C, Mecsas J. 2010. Identification and characterization of small molecule inhibitors of Yop translocation in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 54: 3241-3254. books

Hui MP, Galkin VE, Yu X, Stasiak AZ, Stasiak A, Waldor MK, Egelman EH. 2010. ParA2, a Vibrio cholerae chromosome partitioning protein, forms left-handed helical filaments on DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107: 4590-4595. books

Losick VP, Haenssler E, Moy MY, Isberg RR. 2010. LnaB: a Legionella pneumophila activator of NF-κB. Cell Microbiol. 12: 1083-1097. books

Majerczyk CD, Dunman PM, Luong TT, Lee CY, Sadykov MR, Somerville GA, Bodi K, Sonenshein AL. 2010. Direct targets of CodY in Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol. 192: 2861-2877. books

McCoy MW, Marré ML, Lesser CF, Mecsas J. 2010. The C-terminal tail of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis YopM is critical for interacting with RSK1 and for virulence. Infect Immun. 76: 2584-2598. books

Pratt JT, Ismail AM, Camilli A. 2010. PhoB regulates both environmental and virulence gene expression in Vibrio cholerae. Mol Microbiol. 77: 1595-15605. books

Rajagopal S, Ji Y, Xu K, Li Y, Wicks K, Liu J, Wong KW, Herman IM, Isberg RR, Buchsbaum RJ. 2010. Scaffold proteins IRSp53 and spinophilin regulate localized Rac activation by T-lymphocyte invasion and metastasis protein 1 (TIAM1). J Biol Chem. 285: 18060-18071. books

Rosenbach A, Dignard D, Pierce JV, Whiteway M, Kumamoto CA. 2010. Adaptations of Candida albicans for growth in the mammalian intestinal tract. Eukaryot Cell.  9: 1075-1086. books

Silverman JL, Sharma S, Cairns TM, Heldwein EE. 2010. Fusion-deficient insertion mutants of herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoprotein B adopt the trimeric postfusion conformation. J Virol. 84: 2001-2012. books

Songsungthong W, Higgins MC, Rolán HG, Murphy JL, Mecsas J. 2010. ROS-inhibitory activity of YopE is required for full virulence of Yersinia in mice. Cell Microbiol. 12: 988-1001. books

Zucchi PC, Davis TR, Kumamoto CA. 2010. A Candida albicans cell wall-linked protein promotes invasive filamentation into semi-solid medium. Mol Microbiol. 76: 733-748. books

2009


Bourassa L, Camilli A. 2009. Glycogen contributes to the environmental persistence and transmission of Vibrio cholerae. Mol Microbiol. 72: 124-138. books

Brigham C, Caughlan R, Gallegos R, Dallas MB, Godoy VG, Malamy MH. 2009. Sialic acid (N-acetyl neuraminic acid) utilization by Bacteroides fragilis requires a novel N-acetyl mannosamine epimerase. J Bacteriol. 191: 3629-2638. books

Losick VP, Stephan K, Smirnova II, Isberg RR, Poltorak A. 2009. A hemidominant Naip5 allele in mouse strain MOLF/Ei-derived macrophages restricts Legionella pneumophila intracellular growth. Infect Immun. 77: 196-204. books

Mittal M, Picossi S, Sonenshein AL 2009. CcpC-dependent regulation of citrate synthase gene expression in Listeria monocytogenes. 2009. J Bacteriol. 191: 862-872. Abstract in PubMed

Mohammadi S, Isberg RR. 2009. Yersinia pseudotuberculosis virulence determinants invasin, YopE, and YopT modulate RhoG activity and localization. Infect Immun. 77: 4771-4782. books

Nelson EJ, Harris JB, Morris JG Jr, Calderwood SB, Camilli A. 2009. Cholera transmission: the host, pathogen and bacteriophage dynamic. Nat Rev Microbiol. 7:693-702. books

Nelson EJ, Tanudra A, Chowdhury A, Kane AV, Qadri F, Calderwood SB, Coburn J, Camilli A. 2009. High prevalence of spirochetosis in cholera patients, Bangladesh. Emerg Infect Dis. 15: 571-573. books

Pratt JT, McDonough E, Camilli A. 2009. PhoB regulates motility, biofilms, and cyclic di-GMP in Vibrio cholerae. J Bacteriol 191: 6632-6642. books

Price KE, Camilli A. 2009. Pneumolysin localizes to the cell wall of Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Bacteriol. 191: 2163-2168. books

Raychaudhury S, Farelli JD, Montminy TP, Matthews M, Ménétret JF, Duménil G, Roy CR, Head JF, Isberg RR, Akey CW. 2009. Structure and function of interacting IcmR-IcmQ domains from a type IVb secretion system in Legionella pneumophila. Structure 15: 590-601. books

Ren Z, Gay R, Thomas A, Pae M, Wu D, Logsdon L, Mecsas J, Meydani SN. 2009. Effect of age on susceptibility to Salmonella typhimurium infection in C57BL/6 Mice. J Med Micro. 58: 1559-1567. books

Schild S, Nelson EJ, Bishop AL, Camilli A. 2009. Characterization of Vibrio cholerae outer membrane vesicles as a candidate vaccine for cholera. Infect Immun. 77: 472-484. books

Villapakkam AC, Handke LD, Belitsky BR, Levdikov VM, Wilkinson AJ, Sonenshein AL. 2009. Genetic and biochemical analysis of the interaction of Bacillus subtilis CodY with branched-chain amino acids. J Bacteriol. 191: 6865-6876. books

2008


Conover GM, Martinez-Morales F, Heidtman MI, Luo ZQ, Tang M, Chen C, Geiger O, Isberg RR. 2008. Phosphatidylcholine synthesis is required for optimal function of Legionella pneumophila virulence determinants. Cell Microbiol. 10: 514-512. books

Handke LD, Shivers RP, Sonenshein AL. 2008. Interaction of Bacillus subtilis CodY with GTP. J Bacteriol. 190: 798-806. Abstract in PubMed

Liu M, Conover GM, Isberg RR. 2008. Legionella pneumophila EnhC is required for efficient replication in tumour necrosis factor alpha-stimulated macrophages. Infect Immun. 76: 1906-1923. books

LeMieux J, Woody S, Camilli A. 2008. Roles of the sortases of Streptococcus pneumoniae in assembly of the RlrA pilus. J. Bacteriol. 190: 6002-6013. books

Majerczyk CD, Sadykov MR, Luong TT, Lee C, Somerville GA, Sonenshein AL. 2008. Staphylococcus aureus CodY negatively regulates virulence gene expression.J Bacteriol. 190: 2257-2265. Abstract in PubMed

Martinez-Wilson HF, Tamayo R, Tischler AD, Lazinski DW, Camilli A. 2008. The Vibrio cholerae hybrid sensor kinase VieS contributes to motility and biofilm regulation by altering the cyclic diguanylate level. J. Bacteriol. 190: 6439-6447. books

Nelson EJ, Chowdhury A, Flynn J, Schild S, Bourassa L, Shao Y, LaRocque RC, Calderwood SB, Qadri F, Camilli A. 2008. Transmission of Vibrio cholerae is antagonized by lytic phage and entry into the aquatic environment. PLoS Pathog 4: e1000187. books

Nordman J, Wright A. 2008. The relationship between dNTP pool levels and mutagenesis in an Escherichia coli NDP kinase mutant. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105: 10197-10202. books

Schild S, Nelson EJ, Camilli A. 2008. Immunization with Vibrio cholerae outer membrane vesicles induces protective immunity in mice. Infect Immun. 76: 4554-4563. books

Tamayo R, Schild S, Pratt JT, Camilli A. 2008. Role of cyclic Di-GMP during el tor biotype Vibrio cholerae infection: characterization of the in vivo-induced cyclic Di-GMP phosphodiesterase CdpA. Infect Immun. 76: 1617-1627. books

Wong KW, Mohammadi S, Isberg RR. 2008. The polybasic region of Rac1 modulates bacterial uptake independently of self-association and membrane targeting. J Biol Chem. 283: 35954-35965. books

Yi CR, Rosenberg N. 2008. Mutations affecting the MA portion of the v-Abl protein reveal a conserved role of Gag in Abelson murine leukemia virus (MLV) and Moloney MLV. J Virol. 82: 5307-5315. books

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