Hart E, Silhavy T. Functions of the BamBCDE Lipoproteins Revealed by Bypass Mutations in BamA. J Bacteriol. 2020;202(21). PMCID: PMC7549358

Hart E, Gupta M, Wühr M, Silhavy T. The gain-of-function allele bypasses the essential requirement for BamD in β-barrel outer membrane protein assembly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(31):18737–18743. PMCID: PMC7414184

Hart E, Mitchell A, Konovalova A, Grabowicz M, Sheng J, Han X, Rodriguez-Rivera F, Schwaid A, Malinverni J, Balibar C, Bodea S, Si Q, Wang H, Homsher M, Painter R, Ogawa A, Sutterlin H, Roemer T, Black T, Rothman D, Walker S, Silhavy T. A small-molecule inhibitor of BamA impervious to efflux and the outer membrane permeability barrier. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019;116(43):21748–21757. PMCID: PMC6815139

Hart E, Gupta M, Wühr M, Silhavy T. The Synthetic Phenotype of Δ Δ Double Mutants Results from a Lethal Jamming of the Bam Complex by the Lipoprotein RcsF. mBio. 2019;10(3). PMCID: PMC6529638

Hart E, O’Connell A, Tang K, Wzorek J, Grabowicz M, Kahne D, Silhavy T. Fine-Tuning of σ Activation Suppresses Multiple Assembly-Defective Mutations in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 2019;201(11). PMCID: PMC6509652

Lee J, Sutterlin H, Wzorek J, Mandler M, Hagan C, Grabowicz M, Tomasek D, May M, Hart E, Silhavy T, Kahne D. Substrate binding to BamD triggers a conformational change in BamA to control membrane insertion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018;115(10):2359–2364. PMCID: PMC5877925