MCB Publications

Leavitt JC, Woodbury BM, Gilcrease EB, Bridges CM, Teschke CM, Casjens SR. Bacteriophage P22 SieA-mediated superinfection exclusion. mBio. 2024 Feb 14;15(2):e0216923. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02169-23. Epub 2024 Jan 18. PMID: 38236051.

Burdick, L. N., DelVichio, A. H., Hanson, L. R., Griffith, B. B., Bouchard, K. R., Hunter, J. W., and Goldhamer, D. J. (2024). Sex as a critical variable in basic and pre-clinical studies of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Biomolecules 14, 177. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom1402017

Golla, V.K., Boyd, K.J. & May, E.R. Curvature sensing lipid dynamics in a mitochondrial inner membrane model. Commun Biol 7, 29 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05657-6

Devarakonda PM, Sarmiento V, Heaslip AT. F-actin and myosin F control apicoplast elongation dynamics which drive apicoplast-centrosome association in Toxoplasma gondii. mBio. 2023 Oct 31;14(5):e0164023. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01640-23. Epub 2023 Sep 21. PMID: 37732764; PMCID: PMC10653800. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37732764/

Lee IPA, Eldakar OT, Gogarten JP, Andam CP. Protocol for an agent-based model of recombination in bacteria playing a public goods game. STAR Protoc. 2023 Nov 18;4(4):102733. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102733. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37980566. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37980566/

Jeffrey D. Tamucci, Nathan N. Alder, and Eric R. May, Peptide Power: Mechanistic Insights into the Effect of Mitochondria-Targeted Tetrapeptides on Membrane Electrostatics from Molecular Simulations, Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2023 Oct 30, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.3c00480

Pavlopoulos GA, Baltoumas FA, Liu S, Selvitopi O, Camargo AP, Nayfach S, Azad A, Roux S, Call L, Ivanova NN, Chen IM, Paez-Espino D, Karatzas E, Novel Metagenome Protein Families Consortium*, Iliopoulos I, Konstantinidis K, Tiedje JM, Pett-Ridge J, Baker D, Visel A, Ouzounis CA, Ovchinnikov S, Buluç A & Kyrpides NC *Klassen JL is a member of the Novel Metagenome Protein Families Consortium. 2023. Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics Nature 622:594-602 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06583-7

Seo, D., Kammerer, R.A., & Alexandrescu, A.T. (2023) “Solution NMR assignments and structure for the dimeric kinesin neck domain”, Biomol NMR Assign, online ahead of print https://doi.org/10.1007/s12104-023-10159-x

Devarakonda PM, Sarmiento V, Heaslip AT. F-actin and myosin F control apicoplast elongation dynamics which drive apicoplast-centrosome association in Toxoplasma gondii. mBio. 2023 Sep 21:e0164023. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01640-23. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37732764.

Klassen JL. 2023. Resistance waxes for mutualists protected by wasp secretions PNAS 120(36):e2311815120 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311815120

Rua, A.J., Whitehead, R. 3rd,  & Alexandrescu, A.T (2023) “NMR structure verifies the eponymous zinc finger domain of transcription factor ZNF750”, J Struct Biol X 8, article 100093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjsbx.2023.100093

Devisscher L, Van Campenhout S, Lefere S, Raevens S, Tilleman L, Van Nieuwerburgh F, Van Eeckhoutte HP, Hoorens A, Lynes MA, Geerts A, Laukens D, Van Vlierberghe H. (2022) Metallothioneins alter macrophage phenotype and represent novel therapeutic targets for acetaminophen-induced liver injury. J Leukoc Biol. 111(1):123-133. https://doi.org/10.1002/JLB.3A0820-527R

Maltz-Matyschsyk M, Melchiorre CK, Herbst KW, Hogan AH, Dibble K, O'Sullivan B, Graf J, Jadhav A, Lawrence DA, Lee WT, Carson KJ, Radolf JD, Salazar JC, Lynes MA; Connecticut Children’s COVID Collaborative. Development of a biomarker signature using grating-coupled fluorescence plasmonic microarray for diagnosis of MIS-C. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2023 Mar 31;11:1066391. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1066391. PMID: 37064248; PMCID: PMC10102909. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1066391/full

Lee, I.P.A., Eldakar, O.T., Gogarten, J.P., and Andam, C.P. (2023): Recombination as an enforcement mechanism of prosocial behavior in cooperating bacteria. 
iScience 26.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107344 

Koga A, Nishihara H, Tanabe H, Tanaka R, Kayano R, Matsumoto S, Endo T, Srikulnath K, O'Neill RJ. Kangaroo endogenous retrovirus (KERV) forms megasatellite DNA with a simple repetition pattern in which the provirus structure is retained. Virology. 2023 Jul 19;586:56-66. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2023.07.005. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37487326.

Lisa Rouressol, John Briseno, Nidhi Vijayan, Grischa Y. Chen, Elena A. Ritschard, Gustavo Sanchez, Spencer V. Nyholm, Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, Oleg Simakov, Emergence of novel genomic regulatory regions associated with light-organ development in the bobtail squid, iScience, Volume 26, Issue 7, 2023, 107091, ISSN 2589-0042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107091.

Ng EL, Reed AL, O'Connell CB, Alder NN. Using Live Cell STED Imaging to Visualize Mitochondrial Inner Membrane Ultrastructure in Neuronal Cell Models. J Vis Exp. 2023 Jun 30;(196). doi: 10.3791/65561. PMID: 37458423.

Feregrino-Mondragón RD, Santiago-Martínez MG, Silva-Flores M, Encalada R, Reyes-Prieto A, Rodríguez-Zavala JS, Peña-Ocaña BA, Moreno-Sánchez R, Saavedra E, Jasso-Chávez R. Lactate oxidation is linked to energy conservation and to oxygen detoxification via a putative terminal cytochrome oxidase in Methanosarcina acetivorans. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2023 Jul 15;743:109667. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2023.109667. Epub 2023 Jun 14. PMID: 37327962.

Asis K. Jana, Mahmoud Sharawy, Eric R. May, Non-equilibrium virus particle dynamics: Microsecond MD simulations of the complete Flock House virus capsid under different conditions, Journal of Structural Biology, Volume 215, Issue 2, 2023, 107964, ISSN 1047-8477, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2023.107964.

Hosseini M, Palmer A, Manka W, Grady PGS, Patchigolla V, Bi J, O'Neill RJ, Chi Z, Aguiar D. Deep statistical modelling of nanopore sequencing translocation times reveals latent non-B DNA structures. Bioinformatics. 2023 Jun 30;39(39 Suppl 1):i242-i251. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad220. PMID: 37387144; PMCID: PMC10311326.

Kyle KE*, Puckett SP*, Caraballo-Rodríguez AM, Rivera-Chávez J, Samples RM, Earp CE, Rajad HA, Pearce CJ, Ernst M, van der Hooft JJJ, Adams ME, Oberlies NH, Dorrestein PC, Klassen JL#, and Balunas MJ#. 2023. Trachymyrmex septentrionalis ants promote fungus garden hygiene using Trichoderma-derived metabolite cues PNAS 120(25):e2219373120 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219373120

Hanlon S. L., and R. S. Hawley, 2023 B chromosomes reveal a female meiotic drive suppression system in Drosophila melanogaster. Curr Biol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.028

Alexandrescu, A.T., Dregni, A.J. & Teschke, C.M. NMR detection and conformational dependence of two, three, and four-bond isotope shifts due to deuteration of backbone amides. J Biomol NMR (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-023-00414-7

Herder EA, Skeen HR, Lutz HL, Hird SM. Body Size Poorly Predicts Host-Associated Microbial Diversity in Wild Birds. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 Apr 11:e0374922. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.03749-22. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37039681.

Santiago-Martínez MG, Ferry JG. Methods for Culturing Anaerobic Microorganisms. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2648:231-238. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3080-8_14. PMID: 37039994.

King VL and Campellone KG.  2023.  F-actin-rich territories coordinate apoptosome assembly and caspase activation during DNA damage-induced intrinsic apoptosis.  Mol Biol Cell.  34(5):ar41.  doi: 10.1091/mbc.E22-04-0119. Cover

Escalona M, VanCampen J, Maurer NW, Haukness M, Okhovat M, Harris RS, Watwood A, Hartley GA, O'Neill RJ, Medvedev P, Makova KD, Vollmers C, Carbone L, Green RE. Whole-genome sequence and assembly of the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch). J Hered. 2023 Mar 16;114(1):35-43. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esac043. PMID: 36146896; PMCID: PMC10019027.

Sladewski TE, Campbell PC, Billington N, D'Ordine A, Cole JL, de Graffenried CL. Cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei relies on an orphan kinesin that dynamically crosslinks microtubules. Curr Biol. 2023 Mar 13;33(5):899-911.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.035. Epub 2023 Feb 13. PMID: 36787745; PMCID: PMC10023446.

King VL, Campellone KG. F-actin-rich territories coordinate apoptosome assembly and caspase activation during DNA damage-induced intrinsic apoptosis. Mol Biol Cell. 2023 Mar 15:mbcE22040119. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E22-04-0119. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36920061.

Markert J, Luger K, Lee H, Hu H, Taylor NMI, Fernandez-Martinez J, Rout M, Alder N. Depicting protein structures as schematics. Trends Biochem Sci. 2023 Apr;48(4):307-310. doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2023.01.006. PMID: 36931235.

Truchon, A. N., Dalsing, B. L., Khokhani, D., MacIntyre, A., McDonald, B. R., Ailloud, F., Klassen, J., Gonzalez-Orta, E. T., Currie, C., Prior, P., Power, T. M., Allen, C. 2023. Plant pathogenic Ralstonia phylotypes evolved divergent respiratory strategies and behaviors to thrive in xylem. mBio 14:e03188-22 https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03188-22

Kenneth G. Campellone, Nadine M. Lebek, Virginia L. King, Branching out in different directions: Emerging cellular functions for the Arp2/3 complex and WASP-family actin nucleation factors, European Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 102, Issue 2, 2023, 151301, ISSN 0171-9335, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcb.2023.151301.

Podgorski JM, Freeman K, Gosselin S, Huet A, Conway JF, Bird M, Grecco J, Patel S, Jacobs-Sera D, Hatfull G, Gogarten JP, Ravantti J, White SJ. A structural dendrogram of the actinobacteriophage major capsid proteins provides important structural insights into the evolution of capsid stability. Structure. 2023 Mar 2;31(3):282-294.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2022.12.012. Epub 2023 Jan 16. PMID: 36649709.

Christopher J. Hawxhurst, Jamie L. Micciulla, Charles M. Bridges, Mikhael Shor, Daniel J. Gage, Leslie M. Shor and Irina S. Druzhinina. Soil Protists Can Actively Redistribute Beneficial Bacteria along Medicago truncatula Roots. Environmental Microbiology. 6 March 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01819-22

Gosselin SP, Arsenault DR, Jennings CA, Gogarten JP. The Evolutionary History of a DNA Methylase Reveals Frequent Horizontal Transfer and Within-Gene Recombination. Genes (Basel). 2023 Jan 21;14(2):288. doi: 10.3390/genes14020288. PMID: 36833214; PMCID: PMC9957025.

Griffith, M.B.Pearce, C.S. & Heaslip, A.T. (2022Dense granule biogenesis, secretion, and function in Toxoplasma gondiiJournal of Eukaryotic Microbiology69, e12904. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12904

Sladewski TE, Campbell PC, Billington N, D'Ordine A, Cole JL, de Graffenried CL. Cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei relies on an orphan kinesin that dynamically crosslinks microtubules. Curr Biol. 2023 Feb 10:S0960-9822(23)00069-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.035. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36787745.

Grond K, Louyakis AS, Hird SM. Functional and Compositional Changes in the Fecal Microbiome of a Shorebird during Migratory Stopover. mSystems. 2023 Feb 14:e0112822. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01128-22. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36786579.

Genomic instability caused by Arp2/3 complex inactivation results in micronucleus biogenesis and cellular senescence. Haarer EL, Theodore CJ, Guo S, Frier RB, and Campellone KG. PLoS Genetics 2023. 19(1):e1010045. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010045.

McAnulty SJ, Kerwin AH, Koch E, Nuttall B, Suria AM, Collins AJ, Schleicher TR, Rader BA, Nyholm SV. "Failure To Launch": Development of a Reproductive Organ Linked to Symbiotic Bacteria. mBio. 2023 Jan 19:e0213122. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02131-22. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36656023.

Bleiler M, Cyr A, Wright DL, Giardina C. Incorporation of 53BP1 into phase-separated bodies in cancer cells during aberrant mitosis. J Cell Sci. 2023 Jan 1;136(1):jcs260027. doi: 10.1242/jcs.260027. Epub 2023 Jan 6. PMID: 36606487.

Gil JC, Hird SM. Multiomics Characterization of the Canada Goose Fecal Microbiome Reveals Selective Efficacy of Simulated Metagenomes. Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Dec 21;10(6):e0238422. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02384-22. Epub 2022 Nov 1. PMID: 36318011; PMCID: PMC9769641.

Hanlon, S.L., Larracuente, A.M. When it comes to genetics, cheaters do prosper. Chromosome Res 30, 137–139 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10577-022-09705-5 Part of the Special Issue on "Non-Mendelian Inheritance and Meiotic Drive" co-edited by S.L. Hanlon and A.M. Larracuente.

Casale A, Maldonado CA, Taropawala O, O'Sullivan B, Graf J. Draft Genome Sequence of Plesiomonas shigelloides MD22D9, Isolated from the Digestive Tract of Macrobdella decora. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Dec 14:e0093922. doi: 10.1128/mra.00939-22. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36515507.

Li F, Hou CD, Yang R, Whitehead R 3rd, Teschke CM, Cingolani G. High-resolution cryo-EM structure of the Shigella virus Sf6 genome delivery tail machine. Sci Adv. 2022 Dec 9;8(49):eadc9641. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adc9641

Milligan-McClellan KC, Dundore-Arias JP, Klassen JL, Shade A, Kinkel LL, and Wolfe BE. Deciphering the Microbiome: Integrating Theory, New Technologies, and Inclusive Science. 2022 mSystems https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00583-22

Green EA and Klassen JL. Trachymyrmex septentrionalis Ant Microbiome Assembly Is Unique to Individual Colonies and Castes. mSphere 7:00989-21 https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00989

Zhao T, Alder N, N, Starkweather A, R, Chen M, -H, Matson A, P, Xu W, Balsbaugh J, L, Cong X: Associations of Mitochondrial Function, Stress, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Early Life: A systematic review. Dev Neurosci 2022. doi: 10.1159/000526491

Fleck K, Raj R and Erceg J (2022), The 3D genome landscape: Diverse chromosomal interactions and their functional implications. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 10:968145. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.968145

Wayne Mitchell, Jeffrey D Tamucci, Emery L Ng, Shaoyi Liu, Alexander V Birk, Hazel H Szeto, Eric R May, Andrei T Alexandrescu, Nathan N Alder (2022) Structure-activity relationships of mitochondria-targeted tetrapeptide pharmacological compounds eLife 11:e75531 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.75531

Yamamoto, M., Stoessel, S. J., Yamamoto, S., and Goldhamer, D. J. (2022). Over-expression of wild-type ACVR1 in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva mice rescues perinatal lethality and inhibits heterotopic ossification. J. Bone Miner. Res. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbmr.4617.

Venkata S.P. Patchigolla, Barbara G. Mellone, Enrichment of Non-B-Form DNA at D. melanogaster Centromeres, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2022, evac054, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac054

Fremin BJ, Bhatt AS, Kyrpides NC, Global Phage Small Open Reading Frame (GP-SmORF) Consortium* (*JL Klassen is a member of the GP-SmORF Consortium). 2022. Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes Cell Reports 39:110984

Yagi, M., Ji, F., Charlton J., Cristea S., Messemer, K., Horwitz, N., Di Stefano, B., Tsopoulidis N., Hoetker, M., Huebner, A., Almada A., Yamamoto, M., Patelunas A., Goldhamer, D. J., Wagers, A., Michor, F., Meissner, A., Sadreyev, R., and Hochedlinger, K. (2021). Dissecting dual roles of MyoD during lineage conversion to mature myocytes and myogenic stem cells. Genes & Development 35, 1-20.

Harris A. Lewin, Stephen Richards and The Earth Biogenome Project Working Group (alphabetical): Erez Lieberman Aiden, Miguel L. Allende, John M. Archibald, Miklós Bálint, Katharine B. Barker, Bridget Baumgartner, Katherine Belov, Giorgio Bertorelle, Mark L. Blaxter, Jing Cai, Nicolette D. Caperello, Keith Carlson, Juan Carlos Castilla‐Rubio, Shu‐Miaw Chaw, Lei Chen, Anna K. Childers, Jonathan A. Coddington, Dalia A. Conde, Montserrat Corominas, Keith A. Crandall, Andrew J. Crawford, Federica DiPalma, Richard Durbin, ThankGod E. Ebenezer, Scott V. Edwards, Olivier Federigo, Paul Flicek, Guilio Formenti, Richard A. Gibbs, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Melissa M. Goldstein, Jennifer A.M. Graves, Henry T. Greely, Igor V. Grigoriev, Kevin J. Hackett, Neil Hall, David Haussler, Kristofer M. Helgen, Carolyn Hogg, Sachiko Isobe, Kjetill Sigurd Jakobsen, Axel Janke, Erich D. Jarvis, Warren E. Johnson, Steven J.M. Jones, Elinor K. Karlsson, Paul Kersey, Jin‐Hyoung Kim, W. John Kress, Shigehiro Kuraku, Mara K.N. Lawniczak, James Leebens‐Mack, Xueyan Li, Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh, Xin Liu, Jose Lopez, Tomas Marques‐Bonet, Sophie Mazard, Jonna A.K. Mazet, Camila J. Mazzoni, Gene Myers, Rachel J. O’Neill, Sadye Paez, Hyun Park, Gene E. Robinson, Cristina Roquet, Oliver A. Ryder, Jamal S.M. Sabir, H. Bradley, Shaffer, Timothy M. Shank, Jacob S. Sherkow, Pamela S. Soltis, Boping Tang, Leho Tedersoo, Marcela Uliano‐Silva, Kun Wang, Xiaofeng Wei, Regina Wetzer, Julia L. Wilson, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Anne D. Yoder, and Guojie Zhang. The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the Clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2022119 (4) e2115635118; DOI:10.1073/pnas.2115635118.COVER

Lees-Shepard, J. B*., Stoessel, S. J.*, Chandler, J., Bouchard, K., Bento, P., Apuzzo, L. N., Devarakonda, P. M., Hunter, J. W., Goldhamer, D. J. (2022). An anti-ACVR1 antibody exacerbates heterotopic ossification by fibro-adipogenic progenitors in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva mice. J. Clin. Invest. 132(12):e153795. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI153795.  *co-first authors

Whitehead, R. D. III, Teschke, C.M.,Alexandrescu, A.T (2022) “Pulse-field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance of protein translational diffusion from native to non-native states”, Protein Sci, in press.
https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4321

Michael E. Stephens, Jacquelynn Benjamino, Joerg Graf, Daniel J. Gage (2022). Simultaneous Single-Cell Genome and Transcriptome Sequencing of Termite Hindgut Protists Reveals Metabolic and Evolutionary Traits of Their Endosymbionts. mSphere: https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00021-22

Abdellatif Gueddou, Indrani Sarker, Arnab Sen, Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari, David R. Benson, Jean Armengaud, Maher Gtari.  2022.  Effect of actinorhizal root exudates on the proteomes of Frankia soli NRRL B-16219, a strain colonizing the root tissues of its actinorhizal host via intercellular pathway. Research in Microbiology 173:103900 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resmic.2021.103900

Sharawy, MPigni, NBMay, ERGascón, JAA favorable path to domain separation in the orange carotenoid proteinProtein Science20221– 14https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4273

Stephen J. Taerum, Jamie Micciulla, Gabrielle Corso, Blaire Steven, Daniel J. Gage and Lindsay R. Triplett (2021). 18S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing combined with culture-based surveys of maize rhizosphere protists reveal dominant, plant-enriched and culturable community members. Environmental Microbiology Reports. doi:10.1111/1758-2229.13038 

Erlandsen, H., Jecrois, A.M., Nichols, J.C., Cole, J.L. and Royer, W.E., Jr (2022), NADH/NAD+ binding and linked tetrameric assembly of the oncogenic transcription factors CtBP1 and CtBP2. FEBS Letters. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.14276

Lee IPA, Eldakar OT, Gogarten JP, Andam CP (2021): Bacterial cooperation through horizontal gene transfer.  Trends in Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.006

Presley, SJ, J Graf, AF Hassan, AR Sjodin,  and MR Willig. 2021. Effects of host species identity and diet on biodiversity of oral and rectal microbiomes of Puerto Rican bats. Curr. Microbio. 78:3526-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-021-02607-5

Testerman, T., S. Reichley, S. King, J. Graf. 2021. Draft Genome of Aeromonas popoffii ID682, isolated from a natural water source in Idaho. Microbiology Resource Announcements 10 (29) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8297452/

Allison H. KerwinSarah J. McAnulty, and Spencer V. Nyholm Development of the Accessory Nidamental Gland and Associated Bacterial Community in the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, Euprymna scolopes. The Biological Bulletin Volume 240, Number 3, 2021, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/713965

Nyholm, S.V., McFall-Ngai, M.J. A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner. Nat Rev Microbiol 19, 666–679 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-021-00567-y

Rangel LT, Soucy SM, Setubal JC, Gogarten JP, Fournier GP (2021): An efficient, non-phylogenetic method for detecting genes sharing evolutionary signals in phylogenomic datasets. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2021, evab187, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab187

Gosselin S.   Fullmer MS,   Feng Y,   Gogarten JP (2021) Improving Phylogenies Based on Average Nucleotide Identity, Incorporating Saturation Correction and Non-Parametric Bootstrap Support Systematic Biology, syab060, Currently being typeset but available as submitted version at  https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab060

Feng Y, Neri U, Gosselin S, Louyakis AS, Papke RT, Gophna U, Gogarten JP (2021): The Evolutionary Origins of Extreme Halophilic Archaeal Lineages. Genome Biology and Evolution 13 (8) https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab166

Caraballo-Rodríguez AM, Pucket SP, Kyle KE, Petras D, da Silva RR, Nothias L-F, Ernst M, van der Hooft JJJ, Tripathi A, Wang M, Balunas MJ, Klassen JL, Dorrestein PC. 2021. Chemical Gradients of Plant Substrates in an Atta texana Fungus Garden mSystems 6(4):e00601-21

Shamilov, R.; Robinson, V.L.; Aneskievich, B.J. Seeing Keratinocyte Proteins through the Looking Glass of Intrinsic Disorder. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 7912. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22157912

Harris A. Lewin, Stephen Richards and The Earth Biogenome Project Working Group (R. O’Neill, Member): 2021. The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the Clock. Cell Genomics in press

Joseph C. Iovine, Steven M. Claypool, Nathan N. Alder. (2021) Mitochondrial compartmentalization: emerging themes in structure and function, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, ISSN 0968-0004,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2021.06.003.

Peterson, S. C.**; K. B. Samuelson**, and S.L. Hanlon*. (2021) Multi-Scale Organization of the Drosophila melanogaster Genome. Special issue on "Chromosome-Centric View of the Genome Organization and Evolution" in Genes 12, no. 6: 817. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12060817
* corresponding author  ** equal contribution

EA McClure, EA, MC Nelson, A Lin, J Graf. Macrobdella decora: Old World Leech Gut Microbial Community Structure Conserved in a New World Leech. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 87:e02082-20. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8117757/

King VL, Leclair NK, Coulter AM, Campellone KG (2021) The actin nucleation factors JMY and WHAMM enable a rapid Arp2/3 complex-mediated intrinsic pathway of apoptosis. PLoS Genet 17(4): e1009512. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009512

Stephen Hesler, Matthew Angeliadis, Bushra Husain, and James L. Cole. 2021. Contribution of dsRBD2 to PKR Activation. ACS Omega DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00343

Asis K. Jana, Eric May. 2021. Atomistic dynamics of a viral infection process: Release of membrane lytic peptides from a non-enveloped virus. Science Advances. Vol. 7, no. 16, eabe1761 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe1761

Goldman, A., Fournier, G., Gogarten, J. P., Petrov, A. S., Rothschild, L., Segrè, D., Smith, E., Williams, L. (2021). Understanding the Early Major Transitions in Evolutionary History Part 1: Stages in the Emergence of Complex Life. Bulletin of the AAS, 53(4). https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.cb78fd8a

Fournier, G., Gogarten, J. P., Goldman, A. D., Petrov, A. S., Rothschild, L., Segrè, D., Smith, E., Williams, L. (2021). Understanding the Early Major Transitions in Evolutionary History Part 2: Ancient Evolution of Biological Systems and the Biosphere. Bulletin of the AAS, 53(4). https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.2e749fbd

Kaplan, A.R., Olson, R. & Alexandrescu, A.T (2021) “Protein yoga: conformational versatility of the hemolysin II C-terminal domain detailed by NMR structures for multiple states”, Protein Sci, in press. https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4066

Green EA, Smedley SR, and Klassen JL. 2021. North American fireflies host low bacterial diversity Microb Ecol https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00248-021-01718-7.

Graf, J., N. Ledala, M.J. Caimano, E. Jackson, D. Gratalo, D. Fasulo, M.D. Driscoll, S. Coleman, A. Matson. 2021. High-Resolution Differentiation of Enteric Bacteria in Premature Infant Fecal Microbiomes Using a Novel rRNA Amplicon. mBio 12:e03656-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03656-20

Klub, L., Gosselin, S., Fullmer, M., Graf, J. Gogarten, J.P. and M. Bansal. 2021. Systematic Detection of Large-Scale Multi-Gene Horizontal Transfer in Prokaryotes. Mol. Biol. Evol. in press. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33593974/https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab043

Graf, J., M.C. Nelson, and S.M. Colston. 2020. Closed Genome Sequence of Aeromonas veronii Strain Hm21, an Isolate from the Medicinal Leech Hirudo verbana. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9 (42). https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00922-20

Makkay AM, Louyakis AS, Ram‐Mohan N, Gophna U, Gogarten JP, Papke T (2020) Insights into gene expression changes under conditions that facilitate horizontal gene transfer (mating) of a model archaeon. 
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Melnik TN, Papke RT, Gogarten JP, Kireev II, Surin AK, Beznosov SN, Galeva AV, Fedorov OV (2020) Interaction of two strongly divergent archaellins stabilizes the structure of the Halorubrum archaellum.
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Kravetz, A.M., T. Testerman, B. Galuppo, J. Graf, B. Pierpont, S. Siebel, R. Feinn, N. Santoro. 2020. Effect of Gut Microbiota and PNPLA3 rs738409 Variant on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in Obese Youth. J. Clin Endocrinol Metabol. 105:dgaa382 https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa382

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Lee, Juneyoung, John d'Aigle, Louise Atadja, Victoria Quaicoe, Pedram Honarpisheh, Bhanu P Ganesh, Ahmad Hassan, Joerg Graf, Joseph F Petrosino, Nagireddy Putluri, Liang Zhu, David J Durgan, Robert M Bryan, Jr, Louise D McCullough, Venugopal Reddy Venna. 2020. Gut Microbiota-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids Promote Post-Stroke Recovery in Aged Mice. Circulation Research.127:453. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.316448

Pirhanov, A.; Bridges, CM; Goodwin, RA; Gao, Y; Furrer, J; Shor, LM; Gage, DJ and Cho, YK. (2021) Optogenetics in Sinorhizobium melilotienables spatial control of exopolysaccharide production and biofilm structure. ACS Synthetic Biology: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acssynbio.0c00498

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Bridges, C.M. and Daniel. J. Gage (2021). Development and application of aerobic, chemically defined media for Dysgonomonas. Anaerobe 67:102302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2020.102302

Stephen J. Taerum, Blaire Steven, Daniel J. Gage, and Lindsay R. Triplett (2020). Validation of a PNA clamping method for Reducing host DNA amplification and increasing eukaryotic diversity in rhizosphere microbiome studies. https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PBIOMES-05-20-0040-TA

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Jasmin Portelinha, Searle S. Duay, Seung I. Yu, Kara Heilemann, M. Daben J. Libardo, Samuel A. Juliano, Jonathan L. Klassen*, and Alfredo M. Angeles-Boza* Antimicrobial Peptides and Copper(II) Ions: Novel Therapeutic Opportunities Chem. Rev. 2021 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00921

Sujit Basak, Nabanita Sakia, Laura Dougherty, Zhuojun Guo, Fang Wu, Frank Mindlin, Jeffrey W. Lary, James L. Cole, Feng Ding, Mark E. Bowen, Probing Interdomain Linkers and Protein Supertertiary Structure In Vitro and in Live Cells with Fluorescent Protein Resonance Energy Transfer, Journal of Molecular Biology, Volume 433, Issue 5, 2021, 166793, ISSN 0022-2836, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2020.166793.

Goldstein SL and Klassen JL. 2020. Pseudonocardia symbionts of fungus-growing ants and the evolution of defensive secondary metabolism Front. Microbiol. 11:621041 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.621041/full

Huiliang Zhang Nathan N Alder Wang Wang Hazel Szeto David J Marcinek Peter S Rabinovitch, Reduction of elevated proton leak rejuvenates mitochondria in the aged cardiomyocyte.  eLife 2020;9:e60827 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.60827

Donal Sheets, Jamie Shaw, Michael Baldwin, David Daggett, Ibrahim Elali, Erin B. Curry, Ilya Sochnikov, Jason N. Hancock, An apparatus for rapid and nondestructive comparison of masks and respirators. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 91, 114101 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0015983

Tomizawa Y, Dixit K, Daggett D, Hoshino K. Biocompatible Cantilevers for Mechanical Characterization of Zebrafish Embryos using Image Analysis. Sensors (Basel). 2019 Mar 28;19(7):1506. doi: 10.3390/s19071506. PMID: 30925721; PMCID: PMC6479902. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30925721/

Green EA and Klassen JL. 2020. Draft Genome Sequence of Spiroplasma platyhelix ATCC 51748,isolated from a Dragonfly. Microbiology Resource Announcments 9(47):e00422-20 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7679083/

Nayfach S, Roux S, Seshadri R, Udwary D, Varghese N, Schulz F, Wu D, Paez-Espino D, Chen I-M, Huntemann M, Palaniappan K, Ladau J, Mukherjee S, Reddy TBK, Nielsen T, Kirton E, Faria JP, Edirisinghe JN, Henry CS, Jungbluth SP, Chivian D, Dehal P, Wood-Charlson EM, Arkin AP, Tringe S, Visel A, IMG/M Data Consortium*, Woyke T, Mouncey NJ, Ivanova NN, Kyrpides NC, Eloe-Fadrosh EM (*JL Klassen is a member of the IGM/M Data Consortium). 2020. A Genomic Catalog of Earth’s Microbiomes Nature Biotechnology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0718-6

Wood, W. M., Otis, C., Etemad, S., and Goldhamer, D. J. (2020). Development and patterning of rib primordia are dependent on associated musculature. Dev. Biol. 468, 133-145

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Dedeo, C.L., Teschke, C.M., & Alexandrescu, A.T (2020) “Keeping it together: structures, functions, and applications of viral decoration proteins”, Viruses 12, 1163. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12101163

Michael R.Fulcher, Marian L.Bolton, Michael D.Millican, José PabloDundore-Arias, JoHandelsman, Jonathan L.Klassen, Kathryn C.Milligan-Myhre, Benjamin E.Wolfe, Linda L.Kinkel, Broadening Participation in Scientific Conferences during the Era of Social Distancing, Trends in Microbiology, September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.08.004

Grubbs KJ, Surup F, Biedermann PHW, McDonald BR, Klassen JL, Carlson CM, Clardy J and Currie CR (2020) Cycloheximide-Producing Streptomyces Associated With Xyleborinus saxesenii and Xyleborus affinis Fungus-Farming Ambrosia Beetles. Front. Microbiol. 11:562140. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.562140

Fortin, J., Tian, R., Zarrabi, I., Hill, G., Williams, E., Sanchez-Duffhues, G., Thorikay, M., Ramachandran, P., Siddaway, R., Wong, J. F., Wu,  A., Apuzzo, L. N., Haight, J., You-Ten, A., Snow, B., Wakeham, A., Goldhamer, D. J., Schramek, D., Bullock, A. N., Dijke, P. T., Hawkins, C., and Mak, T. W.(2020). Mutant ACVR1 arrests glial cell differentiation to drive tumorigenesis in pediatric gliomas. Cancer Cell 37, 308-323. e12

Nadine M. Lebek, Kenneth G. Campellone; Adding SNX to the mix: SNX9 drives filopodia biogenesis. J Cell Biol 6 April 2020; 219 (4): e202002086. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202002086

Asis K Jana, Eric R May. Structural and dynamic asymmetry in icosahedrally symmetric virus capsids. Current Opinion in Virology, Volume 45, December 2020, Pages 8-16 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coviro.2020.06.002

Trumbo, S., and Klassen, J. 2020. Editorial overview: Hidden players: microbes reshape the insect niche. Curr. Opin. Insect Sci. 39: vi-viii

Jason G. Pattis and Eric R. May, Markov State Model of Lassa Virus Nucleoprotein Reveals Large Structural Changes during the Trimer to Monomer Transition, Structure (2020),  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2020.03.002

Kabrawala S, Zimmer MD, Campellone KG (2020) WHIMP links the actin nucleation machinery to Src-family kinase signaling during protrusion and motility. PLoS Genet 16(3): e1008694. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008694

Zerbe, Cassie M, and Cole, James L. "Regulation of PKR by Epstein-Barr Virus EBER1 RNA." Biochemistry.Ja (2020): Biochemistry. , 2020, (ja). Web. DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00088

Capunitan D, Johnson O, Terrill RS, Hird SM. Evolutionary signal in the gut microbiomes of 74 bird species from Equatorial Guinea. Molecular Ecology, 29(4):829-847. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mec.15354

Jason Palladino, Ankita Chavan, Anthony Sposato, Timothy D. Mason, Barbara G. Mellone, Targeted De Novo Centromere Formation in Drosophila Reveals Plasticity and Maintenance Potential of CENP-A Chromatin, Developmental Cell, Volume 52, Issue 3, 10 February 2020, Pages 379-394.e7, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2020.01.005

Kirsten Grond, Kayce C Bell, John R Demboski, Malia Santos, Jack M Sullivan, Sarah M Hird, No evidence for phylosymbiosis in western chipmunk species, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 96, Issue 1, February 2020, fiz182, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz182

Grond Kirsten, Guilani Hannah and Hird Sarah M. Spatial heterogeneity of the shorebird gastrointestinal microbiome7 Soc. open sci.http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191609

Wang M, Jarmusch AK, Vargas F, Aksenov AA, Gauglitz JM, Weldon K, Petras D, da Silva R, Quinn R, Melnik AV, van der Hooft JJJ, Caraballo-Rodríguez AM, Nothias LF, Aceves CM, Panitchpakdi M, Brown E, Di Ottavio F, Sikora N, Elijah EO, Labarta-Bajo L, Gentry EC, Shalapour S, Kyle KE, Puckett SP, Watrous JD, Carpenter CS, Bouslimani A, Ernst M, Swafford AD, Zúñiga EI, Balunas MJ, Klassen JL, Loomba R, Knight R, Bandeira N and Dorrestein PC. 2020. Mass spectrometry searches using MASST Nature Biotechnology 38(1):23-26 PMID(31894142) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31894142

Klassen, J.L. Ecology helps bound causal explanations in microbiology. Biol Philos (2020) 35: 3. doi.org/10.1007/s10539-019-9728-5 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-019-9728-5

Jolanta Krucinska, Michael N. Lombardo, Heidi Erlandsen, Akram Hazeen, Searle S. Duay, Jason G. Pattis, Victoria L. Robinson, Eric R. May & Dennis L. Wright. Functional and structural basis of E. coli enolase inhibition by SF2312: a mimic of the carbanion intermediate. Sci Rep 9, 17106 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53301-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53301-3

Shivangi Nangia, Kevin J. Boyd, Eric R. May, Molecular dynamics study of membrane permeabilization by wild-type and mutant lytic peptides from the non-enveloped Flock House virus, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 2019,183102, ISSN 0005-2736, doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2019.183102 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005273619302482

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Joseph, G. A., Hung, M., Goel, A. J., Hong, M., Rieder, M-K., Beckmann, N. D., Serasinghe, M. N., Chipuk, J. E., Devarakonda, P. M., Goldhamer, D. J., Aldana-Hernandez, P., Curtis, J., Jacobs, R. L., Krauss, R. S. (2019). Late-onset megaconial myopathy in mice lacking group I Paks. Skeletal Muscle 9, 5.

Goldhamer, D. J. and Lees-Shepard, J. B. (2019). Response to comment on 'Palovarotene reduces heterotopic ossification in juvenile FOP mice but exhibits pronounced skeletal toxicity.” eLife 8. doi:10.7554/eLife.43928

Baker LJ, Freed LL, Easson CG, Lopez JV, Fenolio D, Sutton TT, Nyholm SV, Hendry TA (2019) Diverse deep-sea anglerfishes share a genetically reduced luminous symbiont that is acquired from the environment. Elife Oct 1;8. pii: e47606. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47606 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31571583

Lynch JB, Schwartzman JA, Bennett BD, McAnulty SJ, Knop M, Nyholm SV, Ruby EG (2019) Ambient pH alters the protein content of outer membrane vesicles, driving host development in a beneficial symbiosis. J. Bacteriol. 201 (20) pii:e00319-19. doi: 10.1128/JB.00319-19 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31331976

Rader BA, McAnulty SJ, Nyholm SV (2019) Persistent symbiont colonization leads to a maturation of hemocyte response in the Euprymna scolopes/Vibrio fischeri symbiosis. Microbiology Open Jun 13:e858. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.858 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31197972

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Whitehead, R. D. III, Teschke, C.M., & Alexandrescu, A.T (2019) “NMR mapping of disordered segments for a viral scaffolding protein enclosed in a 23 MDa procapsid”, Biophysical J. 117: 1387-1392. DOI: 1016/j.bpj.2019.08.038

Minkyung Bae, Yoojin Lee, Young-Ki Park, Dong-Guk Shin, Pujan Joshi, Seung-Hyun Hong, Nathan Alder, Sung I. Koo, Ji-Young Lee (2019) Astaxanthin attenuates the increase in mitochondrial respiration during the activation of hepatic stellate cells. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 71 (2019) 82-89 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnutbio.2019.06.001

JL Klassen, SR Lee, M Thomas-Poulsen, C Beemelmanns, KH Kim. (2019) Efomycins K and L from a Termite-associated Streptomyces sp. M56 and Their Putative Biosynthetic Origin. Frontiers in Microbiology 10:1739 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01739/abstract

Wizeman, J.W., Guo, Q., Wilion, E.M., Li, J.Y.H. (2019). Specification of diverse cell types during early neurogenesis of the mouse cerebellum. eLife 8. doi: 10.7554/eLife.42388

Christopher B. Mayo, Heidi Erlandsen, David J. Mouser, Aaron G. Feinstein, Victoria L. Robinson, Eric R. May, James L. Cole (2019)  Structural Basis of Protein Kinase R Autophosphorylation. Biochemistry, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00161 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00161

Klassen JL. 2019. Keeping it fresh eLife 8:e48268 https://elifesciences.org/articles/48268.

Asija K, Teschke CM (2019): Of capsid structure and stability: The partnership between charged residues of E-loop and P-domain of the bacteriophage P22 coat protein.
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Rangel LT, Marden J, Colston S, Setubal JC, Graf J, Gogarten JP (2019): Identification and characterization of putative Aeromonas spp. T3SS effectors
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Chang C-H, Chavan A, Palladino J, Wei X, Martins NMC, Santinello B, et al. (2019) Islands of retroelements are major components of Drosophila centromeres. PLoS Biol 17(5): e3000241. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000241

Newcomer, R.L., Schrad, J.R., Gilcrease, E.B., Casjens, S.R., Feig, M., Teschke, C.M., Alexandrescu, A.T, & Parent K.N. (2019) “The phage L capsid decoration protein has a novel OB-fold and an unusual capsid binding strategy”, eLife 8, e45345. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.45345

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Feng Y, Louyakis AS, Makkay AM, Guerrero RO, Papke RT, Gogarten JP (2019) Complete Genome Sequence of Halorubrum ezzemoulense Strain Fb21
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Fullmer MS, Ouellette M, Louyakis AS, Papke RT, Gogarten JP (2019) The Patchy Distribution of Restriction–Modification System Genes and the Conservation of Orphan Methyltransferases in Halobacteria. Genes (Special Issue on Genetics of Halophilic Microorganisms) 10(3), 233 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes10030233

Brian Maniaci, Colin H. Lipper, Lalitha Deepthi Anipindi, Heidi Erlandsen, James L. Cole, Boguslaw Stec, Tom Huxford, and John J. Love (2019) Design of High-Affinity Metal-Controlled Protein Dimers. Biochemistry DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00055 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00055

Motwani, T., and Teschke, CM. “The Architect of Virus Assembly: Portal Protein Nucleates Procapsid Assembly in Bacteriophage P22.” Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 20 Feb. 2019, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30787152.

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Mahdi Belcaid, Giorgio Casaburi, Sarah J. McAnulty, Hannah Schmidbaur, Andrea M. Suria, Silvia Moriano-Gutierrez, M. Sabrina Pankey, Todd H. Oakley, Natacha Kremer, Eric J. Koch, Andrew J. Collins, Hoan Nguyen, Sai Lek, Irina Goncharenko-Foster, Patrick Minx, Erica Sodergren, George Weinstock, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Oleg Simakov, Jamie S. Foster, and Spencer V. Nyholm. 2018. Symbiotic Organs Shaped by Distinct Modes of Genome Evolution in Cephalopods. PNAS https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817322116

Sarah Goldstein, Lidia Bekah, Joerg Graf and Jonathan L. Klassen. 2018. Evaluation of Strategies for the Assembly of Diverse Bacterial Genomes Using MinION Long-Read Sequencing. BMC Genomics bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-018-5381-7

Kevin J. Boyd and Eric R. May (2018). BUMPy: A Model-Independent Tool for Constructing Lipid Bilayers of Varying Curvature and Composition. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00765.

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Lees-Shepard, J.B., Nicholas, S.-A.E., Stoessel, S.J., Devarakonda, P.M., Schneider, M.J., Yamamoto, M., Goldhamer, D.J., 2018. Palovarotene reduces heterotopic ossification in juvenile FOP mice but exhibits pronounced skeletal toxicity. eLife 7, 305. doi:10.7554/eLife.40814

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Beka, L., MS Fullmer, SM Colston, MC Nelson, E Talagrand-Reboul, P Walker, B Ford, IS Whitaker, B. Lamy, JP Gogarten, J Graf. 2018. Low-Level Antimicrobials in the Medicinal Leech Select for Resistant Pathogens That Spread to Patients. mBio https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mBio.01328-18

Adami,AJ, SJ Bracken, LA Guernsey, E Rafti, KR Maas, J Graf, AP Matson, RS Thrall and CM Schramm. 2018. Early-life antibiotics attenuate regulatory T cell generation and increase the severity of murine house dust mite-induced asthma. Pediatric research https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-018-0031-y

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Klassen JL (2018) Defining microbiome function Nature Microbiology volume 3, pages 864–869.

Lees-Shepard, J. B*., Yamamoto, M*., Biswas, A. A., Stoessel, S. J., Nicholas, S-A. E., Cogswell, C. A., Devarakonda, P. M., Schneider Jr., M. J., Cummins, S. M., Legendre, N. P., Yamamoto, S., Kaartinen, V., Hunter, J. W., and Goldhamer, D. J.  (2018). Activin-dependent signaling in fibro/adipogenic progenitors causes fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, Nature Communications, 9, 471. *co-first authors

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Ouellette M, Gogarten JP, Lajoie J, Makkay AM, Papke RT (2018) Characterizing the DNA Methyltransferases of Haloferax volcanii via Bioinformatics, Gene Deletion, and SMRT Sequencing. Gene- Section: Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Genetic and Genomics Extremophiles 9(3), 129; doi: 10.3390/genes9030129.

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Andam CP, Harlow TJ, Papke RT, Gogarten JP (2012) Ancient origin of the divergent forms of leucyl-tRNA synthetases in the halobacteriales Journal: BMC Evolutionary Biology 12:85 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-85

Swithers KS, Soucy SM, Gogarten JP (2012) The Role of Reticulate Evolution in Creating Innovation and Complexity. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2012, ID 418964, 10 pages, doi:10.1155/2012/418964

Mao F, Williams D, Zhaxybayeva O, Poptsova M, Lapierre P, Gogarten JP, Xu Y (2012) Quartet decomposition server: a platform for analyzing phylogenetic trees BMC Bioinformatics 13:123 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-123

Petrus AK, Swithers KS, Ranjit C, Wu S, Brewer HM, Gogarten JP, Pasa-Tolic L, Noll KM (2012) Genes for the Major Structural Components of Thermotogales Species' Togas Revealed by Proteomic and Evolutionary Analyses of OmpA and OmpB Homologs. PLoS One 7(6):e40236 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040236

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Collins AJ, LaBarre BA, Wong Won BS, Shah MV, Heng S, Choudhury MH, Haydar SA, Santiago J, Nyholm SV (2012) Diversity and partitioning of bacterial populations within the accessory nidamental gland of the squid Euprymna scolopes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78: 4200-4208

Fidopiastis P, Rader BA, Gerling D, Gutierrez N, Watkins K, Frey M, Nyholm SV, Whistler CA. (2012) Characterization of a Vibrio fischeri aminopeptidase and evidence for its influence on an early state of squid colonization. J. Bacteriol. (Epub ahead of print)

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Schwall, C.T., Greenwood, V.L., and Alder, N.N. (2012) The stability and activity of respiratory Complex II is cardiolipin-dependent. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Bioenergetics. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.04.015

Wosczyna, M. N., Biswas, A., Cogswell, C., and Goldhamer, D. J. (2012). Multipotent progenitors resident in the skeletal muscle interstitium exhibit robust BMP-dependent osteogenic activity and mediate heterotopic ossification. J. Bone Miner. Res. 27, 1004-1017

Nelson, M. and J. Graf. 2012. Bacterial Symbioses of Hirudo verbana. Gut Microbes 3:1-10

B. R. Menzies, M. B. Renfree, T. Heider, F. Mayer, T. B. Hildebrandt and A. J. Pask. 2012. Limited genetic diversity preceded extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger. PlosOne 7(4): e35433. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035433

Laufer H, Baclaski B, Koehn U (2012) Alkylphenols affect lobster (Homarus americanus) larval survival, molting and metamorphosis. Invertebrate Reproduction & Development, March 2012

Papke RT, Gogarten JP (2012) How Bacterial Lineages Emerge. Science 336: 45-46 10.1126/science.1219241

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Rice, J.M., Stern, L.J., Guignon, E.F., Lawrence, D.A., and Lynes, M.A. (2012) T cell phenotyping microarrays using Grating Coupled Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging and Surface Plasmon Coupled Emission. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 31(1) 264-269

Kuratnik A, Senapati VE, Verma R, Mellone BG, Vella AT, Giardina C. 2012. Acute sensitization of colon cancer cells to inflammatory cytokines by prophase arrest. Biochem Pharmacol. 2012 Jan 25. [Epub ahead of print]

Rohit Ghai, Lejla Pašić, Ana Beatriz Fernández, Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, Carolina Megumi Mizuno , Katherine D. McMahon, R. Thane Papke, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Beltran Rodriguez-Brito, Forest Rohwer, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, Antonio Ventosa, & Francisco Rodríguez-Valera (2011) New Abundant Microbial Groups in Aquatic Hypersaline Environments. Scientific Reports. 1:135

Marusov, G. P., A J Sweatt, K Pietrosimone, D R Benson, S J Geary, L K Silbart, S Challa, J Lagoy, D A Lawrence, and M Lynes. 2011. A Microarray Biosensor for Multiplexed Detection of Microbes Using Grating-Coupled Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging. Environmental Science and Technology DOI: 10.1021/es201239

Williams D, Fournier GP, Lapierre P, Swithers KS, Green AG, Andam CP and Gogarten JP (2011) A Rooted Net of Life Biology Direct 6:45 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-6-45

Schleicher TS, Nyholm SV (2011) Characterizing the host and symbiont proteomes in the association between the bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes and the bacterium Vibrio fischeri. PLoS ONE 6(10) e25649

Andam CP, Gogarten JP (2011) Biased gene transfer and its implications for the concept of lineage. (Research) Biology Direct 6:47 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-6-47

Eric Anderson, Willythssa S. Pierre-Louis, C. Jason Wong, Jeffrey W. Lary and James L. Cole (2011) Heparin Activates PKR by Inducing Dimerization J. Mol. Biol., doi:0.1016/j.jmb.2011.09.025

Deshmukh L, Meller N, Alder NN, Byzova T, and Vinogradova O (2011) Tyrosine Phosphorylation as a Conformational Switch: A Case Study of Integrin Beta3 Cytoplasmic Tail. J. Biol. Chem. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.231951

Ranaghan MJ, Schwall CT, Alder NN and Birge RR (2011) Green Proteorhodopsin Reconstituted into Nanoscale Phospholipid Bilayers (Nanodiscs) as Photoactive Monomers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. DOI: 10.1021/ja2070957

Swithers KS, Dipippo JL, Bruce DC, Detter C, Tapia R, Han S, Goodwin LA, Han J, Woyke T, Pitluck S, Pennacchio L, Nolan M, Mikhailova N, Land ML, Nesbø CL, Gogarten JP, Noll KM (2011) Genome Sequence of Kosmotoga olearia Strain TBF 19.5.1, a Thermophilic Bacterium with a Wide Growth Temperature Range, Isolated from the Troll B Oil Platform in the North Sea. J Bacteriol 193(19):5566-7 pubmed

Bansal MS, Banay G, Gogarten JP, Shamir R (2011) Detecting highways of horizontal gene transfer. J Comput Biol 18(9): 1087-1114. pubmed

Sarion R Bowers and Barbara G Mellone: Starting from scratch: de novo kinetochore assembly in vertebrates. The EMBO Journal 6 September 2011; doi:10.1038/emboj.2011.329

Swithers KS, Fournier GP, Green AG, Gogarten JP, Lapierre P: Reassessment of the lineage fusion hypothesis for the origin of double membrane bacteria. PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23774. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023774

Derek M. Bickhart and David R. Benson. 2011. Transcriptomes of Frankia sp. strain CcI3 in growth transitions. BMC Microbiology 11:192 [doi:10.1186/1471-2180-11-192]

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Ying Huang and D. R. Benson. 2011. Growth and development of Frankia sp. strain CcI3 at the single-hypha level in liquid culture. Archives of Microbiology DOI: 10.1007/s00203-011-0734-5

Rafael Ruiz de la Haba, M. del Carmen Marquez, R. Thane Papke and Antonio Ventosa (2011) Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of the family Halomonadaceae. Structure. 2010 Mar 10;18(3):390-401

Cheryl P. Andam, David Williams, and J. Peter Gogarten (2010) Biased gene transfer mimics patterns created through shared ancestry. PNAS published ahead of print May 21, doi:10.1073/pnas.1001418107

Cole, James L. (2010) Analysis of PKR activation using analytical ultracentrifugation. Macromol. Biosci. DOI: 10.1002/mabi.20100006

Fournier GP, Gogarten JP (2010) Rooting the Ribosomal Tree of Life. Molecular Biology and Evolution [Epub ahead of print]

Poptsova MS, Gogarten JP. Using comparative genome analysis to identify problems in annotated microbial genomes. Microbiology. 2010 Apr 29;. [Epub ahead of print]

Teschke CM, Parent KN.'Let the phage do the work': Using the phage P22 coat protein structures as a framework to understand its folding and assembly mutants. Virology. 2010 Mar 15. [Epub ahead of print]

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Fournier GP, Neumann JE, Gogarten JP (2010) Inferring the Ancient History of the Translation Machinery and Genetic Code via Recapitulation of Ribosomal Subunit Assembly Orders. PLoS ONE 5(3): e9437. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009437

Messina G, Biressi S, Monteverde S, Magli A, Pistocchi A, Gargioli C, Campbell CE, Tagliafico E, Grossi M, Cotelli F, Goldhamer DJ, Gronostajski RM, Cossu G (2010). NFIX regulates fetal specific transcription in developing skeletal muscle. Cell 140, 554-566.

Williams D, Gogarten JP, Lapierre P (2010) Filling the gaps in the genomic landscape. Genome Biology 11:103

McFall-Ngai, MJ, Nyholm SV, Castillo MG (2009) The role of the immune system in the initiation and persistence of the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri symbiosis. Semin. Immunol. (in press) published online Dec. 2009

Wier AM, Nyholm SV, Mandel MJ, Massengo-Tiassé RP, Schaefer AL, Koroleva I, Splinter-Bondurant S, Brown B, Manzella L, Snir E, Almabrazi H, Scheetz TE, Bonaldo Mde F, Casavant TL, Soares MB, Cronan JE, Reed JL, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ. (2010) Transcriptional patterns in both host and bacterium underlie a daily rhythm of anatomical and metabolic change in a beneficial symbiosis. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA, 107, 2259-64

Collins AJ, Nyholm SV (2010). Obtaining Hemocytes from the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Euprymna scolopes and Observing their Adherence to Symbiotic and Non-Symbiotic Bacteria. JoVE. 36.

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Anderson, E., Quartararo, C., Brown, R.S., Shi, Y., Yao, X. and Cole, J.L (2010) Analysis of monomeric and dimeric phosphorylated forms of protein kinase R. Biochemistry 10.1021/bi901873p

P. M. Herron, D. J. Gage, and Z. G. Cardon (2010) Microscale water potential gradients visualized in soil around plant root tips using microbiosensors. Plant, Cell and Environment 33:199-210

Auclair SM, Moses JP, Musial-Siwek M, Kendall DA, Oliver DB, Mukerji I. Mapping of the Signal Peptide-Binding Domain of Escherichia coli SecA Using Forster Resonance Energy Transfer. Biochemistry. 2010 Jan 8. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20025247

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Arango-Pinedo and D. J. Gage. (2009) Plasmids that insert into the rhamnose utilization locus, rha: a versatile tool for genetic studies in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 17:201-21

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Kaba SA, Brando C, Guo Q, Mittelholzer C, Raman SK, Tropel D, Aebi U, Burkhard P, Lanar DE. (2009). A non-adjuvanted polypeptide nanoparticle vaccine confers long-lasting protection against rodent malaria. J Immunol. 183(11):7268-77

Rio, R.V.M., M. Maltz, B. McCormick, A. Reiss and J. Graf. 2009. Symbiont Succession during the Embryonic Development of the European Medicinal Leech, Hirudo verbana. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:6890-6895

Zhaxybayeva O, Doolittle WF, Papke RT, Gogarten JP (2009) Intertwined Evolutionary Histories of Marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus marinus. Genome Biology and Evolution 2009: doi:10.1093/gbe/evp032

Swithers KS, Senejani AG, Fournier GP, Gogarten JP (2009) Conservation of intron and intein insertion sites: Implications for life histories of parasitic genetic elements. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:303 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-303

Mastronunzio, J. E & D. R. Benson. 2010. Wild nodules can be broken: proteomics of Frankia in field-collected root nodules. Symbiosis 49:10.1007/s13199-009-0030-1.

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Bickhart DM, Gogarten JP, Lapierre P, Tisa LS, Normand P, Benson DR (2009) Insertion sequence content reflects genome plasticity in strains of the root nodule actinobacterium Frankia. BMC Genomics. 2009 Oct 12;10(1):468

Bapteste E, O'Malley MA, Beiko RG, Ereshefsky M, Gogarten JP, Franklin-Hall L, Lapointe FJ, Dupre J, Dagan T, Boucher Y, Martin W (2009) Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things. Biol Direct. 2009 Sep 29;4:34.

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Pores-Fernando, A. T., S. Gaur, M. J. Grybko, and A Zweifach. 2008. ERK activation is only one role of PKC in TCR-independent cytotoxic T cell granule exocytosis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 371: 630–634.

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R.T. Emeny, G. Marusov, D.A. Lawrence, J. Pederson-Lane, X. Yin, M.A. Lynes, Manipulations of metallothionein gene dose accelerate the response to Listeria monocytogenes, Chemico-Biological Interactions (2009), doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2009.06.01

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