Publications
Working together at the interface of physics and biology. Phys Biol. 2014 ;11(5):053010.
. The intragenus and interspecies quorum-sensing autoinducers exert distinct control over Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation and dispersal. PLoS Biol. 2019 ;17(11):e3000429.
. Charting an Unexplored Streptococcal Biosynthetic Landscape Reveals a Unique Peptide Cyclization Motif. J Am Chem Soc. 2018 ;140(50):17674-17684.
. A strategy for antagonizing quorum sensing. Mol Cell. 2011 ;42(2):199-209.
. Surface association sensitizes Pseudomonas aeruginosa to quorum sensing. Nat Commun. 2019 ;10(1):4118.
. Mechanism underlying the DNA-binding preferences of the Vibrio cholerae and vibriophage VP882 VqmA quorum-sensing receptors. PLoS Genet. 2021 ;17(7):e1009550.
. Quorum sensing across bacterial and viral domains. PLoS Pathog. 2021 ;17(1):e1009074.
. SnapShot: Bacterial Quorum Sensing. Cell. 2018 ;174(5):1328-1328.e1.
. LuxT controls specific quorum-sensing-regulated behaviors in Vibrionaceae spp. via repression of qrr1, encoding a small regulatory RNA. PLoS Genet. 2021 ;17(4):e1009336.
. Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing. PLoS Biol. 2016 ;14(2):e1002386.
. A qrr noncoding RNA deploys four different regulatory mechanisms to optimize quorum-sensing dynamics. Cell. 2015 ;160(1-2):228-40.
. Regulatory small RNAs circumvent the conventional quorum sensing pathway in pandemic Vibrio cholerae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 ;104(27):11145-9.
. Distinct sensory pathways in Vibrio cholerae El Tor and classical biotypes modulate cyclic dimeric GMP levels to control biofilm formation. J Bacteriol. 2009 ;191(1):169-77.
. Mechanism underlying autoinducer recognition in the DPO-VqmA quorum-sensing pathway. J Biol Chem. 2020 ;295(10):2916-2931.
. Asymmetric regulation of quorum-sensing receptors drives autoinducer-specific gene expression programs in Vibrio cholerae. PLoS Genet. 2017 ;13(5):e1006826.
. Quorum sensing controls the Pseudomonas aeruginosa CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 ;114(1):131-135.
. Phage Infection Restores PQS Signaling and Enhances Growth of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum-Sensing Mutant. J Bacteriol. 2022 ;204(5):e0055721.
. A Host-Produced Autoinducer-2 Mimic Activates Bacterial Quorum Sensing. Cell Host Microbe. 2016 ;19(4):470-80.
. Quorum sensing controls multicellular aggregate formation. Elife. 2018 ;7.
. Secreted Proteases Control the Timing of Aggregative Community Formation in Vibrio cholerae. mBio. 2021 ;12(6):e0151821.
. CqsA-CqsS quorum-sensing signal-receptor specificity in Photobacterium angustum. Mol Microbiol. 2014 ;91(4):821-33.
. Determinants governing ligand specificity of the Vibrio harveyi LuxN quorum-sensing receptor. Mol Microbiol. 2015 ;95(1):127-42.
. The Vibrio cholerae quorum-sensing autoinducer CAI-1: analysis of the biosynthetic enzyme CqsA. Nat Chem Biol. 2009 ;5(12):891-5.
. Local and global consequences of flow on bacterial quorum sensing. Nat Microbiol. 2016 ;1:15005.
. Surface-attached molecules control Staphylococcus aureus quorum sensing and biofilm development. Nat Microbiol. 2017 ;2:17080.
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