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Selected Publications
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2018. Stress-Induced Reorganization of the Mycobacterial Membrane Domain. {mBio}. 9
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2012. Factors Limiting SOS Expression in Log-Phase Cells of Escherichia coli.. J Bacteriol. 194(19):5325-33.
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2012. Mu insertions are repaired by the double-strand break repair pathway of Escherichia coli.. PLoS Genet. 8(4):e1002642.
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2011. Structure of the SSB-DNA polymerase III interface and its role in DNA replication.. EMBO J. 30(20):4236-47.
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2010. Clinical applications of biomarkers in pediatric traumatic brain injury.. Childs Nerv Syst. 26(2):205-13.
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2010. RecA4142 causes SOS constitutive expression by loading onto reversed replication forks in Escherichia coli K-12.. J Bacteriol. 192(10):2575-82.
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2009. Suppression of constitutive SOS expression by recA4162 (I298V) and recA4164 (L126V) requires UvrD and RecX in Escherichia coli K-12.. Mol Microbiol. 73(2):226-39.
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2009. UvrD303, a hyperhelicase mutant that antagonizes RecA-dependent SOS expression by a mechanism that depends on its C terminus.. J Bacteriol. 191(5):1429-38.
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2008. Differential requirements of two recA mutants for constitutive SOS expression in Escherichia coli K-12.. PLoS One. 3(12):e4100.
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2008. RecA-mediated SOS induction requires an extended filament conformation but no ATP hydrolysis.. Mol Microbiol. 69(5):1165-79.
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2008. Requirements for ATP binding and hydrolysis in RecA function in Escherichia coli.. Mol Microbiol. 67(6):1347-59.
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2008. XthA (Exonuclease III) regulates loading of RecA onto DNA substrates in log phase Escherichia coli cells.. Mol Microbiol. 67(1):88-101.
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2007. Intracranial pressure and cerebral oxygenation changes after decompressive craniectomy in a child with traumatic brain swelling.. Childs Nerv Syst. 23(11):1331-5.
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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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2007. UvrD limits the number and intensities of RecA-green fluorescent protein structures in Escherichia coli K-12.. J Bacteriol. 189(7):2915-20.
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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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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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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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2005. Localization of RecA in Escherichia coli K-12 using RecA-GFP.. Mol Microbiol. 57(4):1074-85.
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2004. Measurement of SOS expression in individual Escherichia coli K-12 cells using fluorescence microscopy.. Mol Microbiol. 53(5):1343-57.
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2004. Measurement of SOS expression in individual Escherichia coli K-12 cells using fluorescence microscopy.. Mol Microbiol. 53(5):1343-57.
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2004. A dnaT mutant with phenotypes similar to those of a priA2::kan mutant in Escherichia coli K-12.. Genetics. 167(2):569-78.
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2003. Biochemical and genetic characterization of PpcA, a periplasmic c-type cytochrome in Geobacter sulfurreducens.. Biochem J. 369(Pt 1):153-61.
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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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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. Development of a genetic system for Geobacter sulfurreducens.. Appl Environ Microbiol. 67(7):3180-7.
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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. The importance of repairing stalled replication forks.. Nature. 404(6773):37-41.
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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. 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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1999. Diversity of radA genes from cultured and uncultured archaea: comparative analysis of putative RadA proteins and their use as a phylogenetic marker.. J Bacteriol. 181(3):907-15.
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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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1997. Evolutionary comparisons of RecA-like proteins across all major kingdoms of living organisms.. J Mol Evol. 44(5):528-41.
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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. 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.
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1995. recO and recR mutations delay induction of the SOS response in Escherichia coli.. Mol Gen Genet. 246(2):254-8.
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1994. Studies on the mechanism of reduction of UV-inducible sulAp expression by recF overexpression in Escherichia coli K-12.. Mol Gen Genet. 245(6):741-9.
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1994. Mutational analysis of sequences in the recF gene of Escherichia coli K-12 that affect expression.. J Bacteriol. 176(13):4011-6.
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1994. RecOR suppression of recF mutant phenotypes in Escherichia coli K-12.. J Bacteriol. 176(12):3661-72.
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1994. Homologous genetic recombination: the pieces begin to fall into place.. Crit Rev Microbiol. 20(2):125-42.
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1993. Use of high and low level overexpression plasmids to test mutant alleles of the recF gene of Escherichia coli K-12 for partial activity.. Genetics. 135(3):643-54.
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1990. Factors affecting expression of the recF gene of Escherichia coli K-12.. Gene. 86(1):35-43.
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1984. Molecular analysis of the recF gene of Escherichia coli.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 81(15):4622-6.
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1984. Genes of the RecE and RecF pathways of conjugational recombination in Escherichia coli.. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 49:453-62.
Department of Microbiology