Ellison C, Fei C, Dalia T, Wingreen N, Dalia A, Shaevitz J, Gitai Z. Subcellular localization of type IV pili regulates bacterial multicellular development. Nat Commun. 2022;13(1):6334. PMCID: PMC9596432

Zhang D, Li S, King C, Wingreen N, Gitai Z, Li Z. Global and gene-specific translational regulation in Escherichia coli across different conditions. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022;18(10):e1010641. PMCID: PMC9624429

Scheffler R, Bratton B, Gitai Z. Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical blood isolates display significant phenotypic variability. PLoS One. 2022;17(7):e0270576. PMCID: PMC9258867

Koch M, Black M, Han E, Shaevitz J, Gitai Z. distinguishes surfaces by stiffness using retraction of type IV pili. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022;119(20):e2119434119. PMCID: PMC9171759

Nofal M, Wang T, Yang L, Jankowski C, Li S, Han S, Parsons L, Frese A, Gitai Z, Anthony T, Wühr M, Sabatini D, Rabinowitz J. GCN2 adapts protein synthesis to scavenging-dependent growth. Cell Syst. 2022;13(2):158–172.e9. PMCID: PMC8961722

Yang J, Sanfilippo J, Abbasi N, Gitai Z, Bassler B, Stone H. Evidence for biosurfactant-induced flow in corners and bacterial spreading in unsaturated porous media. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(38). PMCID: PMC8463848

Moore R, Kaletsky R, Lesnik C, Cota V, Blackman E, Parsons L, Gitai Z, Murphy C. The role of the Cer1 transposon in horizontal transfer of transgenerational memory. Cell. 2021;184(18):4697–4712.e18. PMCID: PMC8812995

Wang R, Gallant Étienne, Wilson M, Wu Y, Li A, Gitai Z, Seyedsayamdost M. Algal p-coumaric acid induces oxidative stress and siderophore biosynthesis in the bacterial symbiont Phaeobacter inhibens. Cell Chem Biol. 2022;29(4):670–679.e5. PMCID: PMC8866538

Martin N, Blackman E, Bratton B, Chase K, Bartlett T, Gitai Z. CrvA and CrvB form a curvature-inducing module sufficient to induce cell-shape complexity in Gram-negative bacteria. Nat Microbiol. 2021;6(7):910–920. PMCID: PMC8764749

Ellison C, Dalia T, Klancher C, Shaevitz J, Gitai Z, Dalia A. Acinetobacter baylyi regulates type IV pilus synthesis by employing two extension motors and a motor protein inhibitor. Nat Commun. 2021;12(1):3744. PMCID: PMC8213720

Li S, Nofal M, Parsons L, Rabinowitz J, Gitai Z. Monitoring mammalian mitochondrial translation with MitoRiboSeq. Nat Protoc. 2021;16(6):2802–2825. PMCID: PMC8610098

Koch M, Fei C, Wingreen N, Shaevitz J, Gitai Z. Competitive binding of independent extension and retraction motors explains the quantitative dynamics of type IV pili. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(8). PMCID: PMC7923367

Scheffler R, Sugimoto Y, Bratton B, Ellison C, Koch M, Donia M, Gitai Z. Pseudomonas aeruginosa detachment from surfaces via a self-made small molecule. J Biol Chem. 2021;296:100279. PMCID: PMC7949062

Vrla G, Esposito M, Zhang C, Kang Y, Seyedsayamdost M, Gitai Z. Cytotoxic alkyl-quinolones mediate surface-induced virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLoS Pathog. 2020;16(9):e1008867. PMCID: PMC7515202

Kaletsky R, Moore R, Vrla G, Parsons L, Gitai Z, Murphy C. C. elegans interprets bacterial non-coding RNAs to learn pathogenic avoidance. Nature. 2020;586(7829):445–451. PMCID: PMC8547118

Li Z, Liu B, Li S, King C, Gitai Z, Wingreen N. Modeling microbial metabolic trade-offs in a chemostat. PLoS Comput Biol. 2020;16(8):e1008156. PMCID: PMC7482850

Martin J, Sheehan J, Bratton B, Moore G, Mateus A, Li S, Kim H, Rabinowitz J, Typas A, Savitski M, Wilson M, Gitai Z. A Dual-Mechanism Antibiotic Kills Gram-Negative Bacteria and Avoids Drug Resistance. Cell. 2020;181(7):1518–1532.e14. PMCID: PMC7780349

Werner J, Shi H, Hsin J, Huang K, Gitai Z, Klein E. AimB Is a Small Protein Regulator of Cell Size and MreB Assembly. Biophys J. 2020;119(3):593–604. PMCID: PMC7399478

Moore G, Gitai Z. Both clinical and environmental Caulobacter species are virulent in the Galleria mellonella infection model. PLoS One. 2020;15(3):e0230006. PMCID: PMC7067423

Chuang S, Vrla G, Fröhlich K, Gitai Z. Surface association sensitizes Pseudomonas aeruginosa to quorum sensing. Nat Commun. 2019;10(1):4118. PMCID: PMC6739362

Sanfilippo J, Lorestani A, Koch M, Bratton B, Siryaporn A, Stone H, Gitai Z. Microfluidic-based transcriptomics reveal force-independent bacterial rheosensing. Nat Microbiol. 2019;4(8):1274–1281. PMCID: PMC6656604

Zhao E, Suek N, Wilson M, Dine E, Pannucci N, Gitai Z, Avalos J, Toettcher J. Light-based control of metabolic flux through assembly of synthetic organelles. Nat Chem Biol. 2019;15(6):589–597. PMCID: PMC6755918

Fröhlich K, Förstner K, Gitai Z. Post-transcriptional gene regulation by an Hfq-independent small RNA in Caulobacter crescentus. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018;46(20):10969–10982. PMCID: PMC6237742

Trivedi R, Crooks J, Auer G, Pendry J, Foik I, Siryaporn A, Abbott N, Gitai Z, Weibel D. Mechanical Genomic Studies Reveal the Role of d-Alanine Metabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Cell Stiffness. mBio. 2018;9(5). PMCID: PMC6134093

Bratton B, Shaevitz J, Gitai Z, Morgenstein R. MreB polymers and curvature localization are enhanced by RodZ and predict E. coli’s cylindrical uniformity. Nat Commun. 2018;9(1):2797. PMCID: PMC6052060

Li S, Li Z, Park J, King C, Rabinowitz J, Wingreen N, Gitai Z. Escherichia coli translation strategies differ across carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus limitation conditions. Nat Microbiol. 2018;3(8):939–947. PMCID: PMC6278830

Shi H, Bratton B, Gitai Z, Huang K. How to Build a Bacterial Cell: MreB as the Foreman of E. coli Construction. Cell. 2018;172(6):1294–1305. PMCID: PMC5846203

Morscher R, Ducker G, Li S, Mayer J, Gitai Z, Sperl W, Rabinowitz J. Mitochondrial translation requires folate-dependent tRNA methylation. Nature. 2018;554(7690):128–132. PMCID: PMC6020024

Ducker G, Ghergurovich J, Mainolfi N, Suri V, Jeong S, Li S, Friedman A, Manfredi M, Gitai Z, Kim H, Rabinowitz J. Human SHMT inhibitors reveal defective glycine import as a targetable metabolic vulnerability of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017;114(43):11404–11409. PMCID: PMC5664509

Liu G, Bratton B, Gitai Z, Shaevitz J. The effect of antibiotics on protein diffusion in the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane. PLoS One. 2017;12(10):e0185810. PMCID: PMC5627921

Lynch E, Hicks D, Shepherd M, Endrizzi J, Maker A, Hansen J, Barry R, Gitai Z, Baldwin E, Kollman J. Human CTP synthase filament structure reveals the active enzyme conformation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2017;24(6):507–514. PMCID: PMC5472220

Habrian C, Chandrasekhara A, Shahrvini B, Hua B, Lee J, Jesinghaus R, Barry R, Gitai Z, Kollman J, Baldwin E. Inhibition of Escherichia coli CTP Synthetase by NADH and Other Nicotinamides and Their Mutual Interactions with CTP and GTP. Biochemistry. 2016;55(39):5554–5565. PMCID: PMC5584805

Bartlett T, Bratton B, Duvshani A, Miguel A, Sheng Y, Martin N, Nguyen J, Persat A, Desmarais S, VanNieuwenhze M, Huang K, Zhu J, Shaevitz J, Gitai Z. A Periplasmic Polymer Curves Vibrio cholerae and Promotes Pathogenesis. Cell. 2017;168(1-2):172–185.e15. PMCID: PMC5287421

Inclan Y, Persat A, Greninger A, Von Dollen J, Johnson J, Krogan N, Gitai Z, Engel J. A scaffold protein connects type IV pili with the Chp chemosensory system to mediate activation of virulence signaling in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol Microbiol. 2016;101(4):590–605. PMCID: PMC4980298

Ouzounov N, Nguyen J, Bratton B, Jacobowitz D, Gitai Z, Shaevitz J. MreB Orientation Correlates with Cell Diameter in Escherichia coli. Biophys J. 2016;111(5):1035–43. PMCID: PMC5018124

Siryaporn A, Kim M, Shen Y, Stone H, Gitai Z. Colonization, competition, and dispersal of pathogens in fluid flow networks. Curr Biol. 2015;25(9):1201–7. PMCID: PMC4422760

Persat A, Inclan Y, Engel J, Stone H, Gitai Z. Type IV pili mechanochemically regulate virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112(24):7563–8. PMCID: PMC4475988

Morgenstein R, Bratton B, Nguyen J, Ouzounov N, Shaevitz J, Gitai Z. RodZ links MreB to cell wall synthesis to mediate MreB rotation and robust morphogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112(40):12510–5. PMCID: PMC4603514

Wilson M, Wang R, Gitai Z, Seyedsayamdost M. Mode of action and resistance studies unveil new roles for tropodithietic acid as an anticancer agent and the γ-glutamyl cycle as a proton sink. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016;113(6):1630–5. PMCID: PMC4760781

Persat A, Nadell C, Kim M, Ingremeau F, Siryaporn A, Drescher K, Wingreen N, Bassler B, Gitai Z, Stone H. The mechanical world of bacteria. Cell. 2015;161(5):988–997. PMCID: PMC4451180