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2011

Involvement of protein acetylation in glucose-induced transcription of a stress-responsive promoter.

Lima BP, Antelmann H, Gronau K, Chi BK, Becher D, Brinsmade SR, Wolfe AJ.
Mol Microbiol. 2011 Jun 23.

2010

Wolfe, A. J. and Visick, K. L. eds. 2010. The second messenger cyclic di-GMP. ASM Press. Washington, D.C.

Hu, L. I., Lima, B. P., and Wolfe, A. J. 2010. Bacterial protein acetylation: the dawning of a new age. Molecular Microbiology. 2010 May 12. [Epub ahead of print]

Wolfe, A. J. 2010. Physiologically relevant small phosphodonors link metabolism to signal transduction. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 13:204-9.

Prüß, B. M.,  Verma, K., Kumar, S., Wu, J., Sule, P. Samanta, P., Horne, S. M., Christianson, D., Stafslien, S. J., Wolfe, A. J., and Denton, A. 2010. Environmental and genetic factors that contribute to Escherichia coli K-12 biofilm formation. Arch. Microbiol. In Press.

Constitutive expression of the maltoporin LamB in the absence of OmpR damages the cell envelope. Reimann SA, Wolfe AJ. J Bacteriol. 2011 Feb;193(4):842-53. Epub 2010 Dec 3.

Sighting the alien within: a new look at Bdellovibrio.
Wolfe AJ. J Bacteriol. 2010 Dec;192(24):6327-8. Epub 2010 Oct 15.

Role of acetyl-phosphate in activation of the Rrp2-RpoN-RpoS pathway in Borrelia burgdorferi. Xu H, Caimano MJ, Lin T, He M, Radolf JD, Norris SJ, Gherardini F, Wolfe AJ, Yang XF. PLoS Pathog. 2010 Sep 16;6(9).

2009

Wolfe, A. J. 2009. Transcribing Metabolism Genes: Lessons from a Feral Promoter. Metabolic Pathway Engineering Handbook. C. Smolke, ed. CRC Press.

Reimann, S. A. and Wolfe, A. J. 2009. A critical process controlled by MalT and OmpR is revealed through synthetic lethality. Journal of Bacteriology 191:5320-24. PMID: 19502392
 
Pruess, B., Sule, P., Wadhawan, T., Carr, N., Horne, S., and Wolfe, A. J. 2009. A combination of assays reveals biomass differences in biofilms formed by Escherichia coli mutants Letters in Applied Microbiol. 49:299-304 PMID: 19552773

2008

Wolfe, A. J. 2008. Quorum sensing “flips” the acetate switch. J. Bacteriol. 190: 5735-5737. PMID: 18586946

Wolfe, A. J. and Visick, K. L. 2008. Get the message out:cyclic-di-GMP regulates multiple levels of flagellar-based motility. J. Bacteriol. 190:463-475. PMID: 17993515

Sule, P., Wadhawan, T., Wolfe, A. J. and Prüß, B. M. 2008. Use of the BacTiter-GloTM microbial cell viability assay to study bacterial attachment. Promega Notes. 99:19-21.

Wolfe, A. J., Parikh, N., Lima, B. P., and Zemaitaitis, B. 2008. Signal integration by the two-component signal transduction response regulator CpxR. J. Bacteriol. 190: 2314-22. PMID: 18223085

Keating, D. H., Shulla, A., Klein, A. H. and Wolfe, A. J. 2008. Optimized two-dimensional thin layer chromatography to monitor the intracellular concentration of acetyl phosphate and other small phosphorylated molecules. Biological Procedures On-line. 10:36-46. PMID: 18385806

Sule, P., Wadhawan, T., Wolfe, A. J. and Prüß, B. M. 2008. Use of the BacTiter-Glo^TM microbial cell viability assasy to study bacterial attachment. Promega Notes. 99:19-21.

Wolfe, A. J., Parikh, N., Lima, B. P., and Zemaitaitis, B. 2008. Signal integration by the two-component signal transduction response regulator CpxR. J. Bacteriol. 190: 2314-22. PMID: 18223085

Keating, D. H., Shulla, A., Klein, A. H. and Wolfe, A. J. 2008. Optimized two-dimensional thin layer chromatography to monitor the intracellular concentration of acetyl phosphate and other small phosphorylated molecules. Biological Procedures On-line. 10:36-46. PMID: 18385806

 Wolfe, A. J. 2008. Quorum sensing "flips" the acetate switch. J. Bacteriol. 190: 5735-5737. PMID: 18586946

Wolfe, A. J. and Visick, K. L. 2008. Get the message out:cyclic-di-GMP regulates multiple levels of flagellar-based motility. J. Bacteriol. 190:463-475. PMID: 17993515

2007

Schwan, W. R., Shibata, S., Aizawa, S.-I. and Wolfe, A. J. 2007. The two-component response regulator RcsB regulates Type 1 piliation in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 189:7159-7163. PMID: 2045220

Klein, A. H., Shulla, A., Reimann, S. A., Keating, D. H. and Wolfe, A. J. 2007. The intracellular concentration of acetyl phosphate in Escherichia coli is sufficient for direct phosphorylation of two-component response regulators. J Bacteriol. 189:5574-5581. PMID: 1951799

Sclavi, B. Beatty, C. M., Thach, D. S., Fredericks, C. E., Buckle, M. and Wolfe, A. J. 2007. The multiple roles of CRP at the complex acs promoter depend on activation region 2 and IHF. Mol Microbiol. 65:425-440. PMID: 17630973

 Visick, K. L., O'Shea, T. M., Klein, A. H., Geszvain, K. and Wolfe, A. J. 2007. The sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) of Vibrio fischeri inhibits both magnesium-dependent motility and bioluminescence. J Bacteriol. 189:2571-2574.

Wolfe, A. J. 2007. Transcribing Metabolism Genes: Lessons from a Feral Promoter. Metabolic Pathway Engineering Handbook. C. Smolke, ed. CRC Press.

2006

O'Shea, T. M., Klein, A., Geszvain, K., Wolfe, A. J., and Visick, K. L. 2006. Diguanylate cyclases control magnesium-dependent motility of Vibrio fischeri. J Bacteriol. 188:8196-8205.

Browning, D. F., Lee, D. J., Wolfe, A. J., Cole, J. A., and Busby, S. J. W. 2006. The Escherichia coli K-12 NarL and NarP proteins insulate the nrf promoter from the effects of IHF. J Bacteriol. 188:7449-56.

 Fredericks, C. E., Shibata, S., Aizawa, S.-I., and Wolfe, A. J. 2006. Acetyl phosphate_sensitive regulation of flagellar biogenesis and capsular biosynthesis depends on the Rcs phosphorelay. Mol. Microbiol. 61:734-747.

Prüß, B. M., Besemann, C., Denton, A., Wolfe, A. J. 2006. A transcription network controls the early stages of biofilm development in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 188:3731-3739.

2005

Browning, D. F., Grainger, D. C., Beatty, C. M., Wolfe, A. J., Cole, J. A. and Busby, S. J. W. 2005. Integration of three signals at the Escherichia coli nrf promoter: a role for  Fis protein in catabolite repression. Mol. Microbiol. 52:496-510.

Phue, J.-N., Noronha, S. B., Hattacharyya, R., Wolfe, A. J. and Shiloach, J. 2005. Glucose metabolism at high density growth of E.coli B and E.coli K: differences in metabolic pathways are responsible for efficient glucose utilization in E.coli B as determined by microarrays and Northern blot analyses. Biotechnol Bioeng. 90:805_820.

 O'Shea, T. M., DeLoney-Marino, C. R., Shibata, S., Aizawa, S.-I., Wolfe, A. J., and Visick, K. L. 2005. Magnesium promotes flagellation of Vibrio fischeri. J. Bacteriol. 187(6):2058-65

 Barak, R., Prasad, K., Shainskaya, A., Wolfe, A. J., and Eisenbach, M. 2005. Acetylation of the Chemotaxis Response Regulator CheY by Acetyl-CoA Synthetase Purified from Escherichia coli. J. Mol. Biol. Sep 10;342(2):383-401.

Wolfe, A. J. 2005. Acetyl phosphate is a global signal. In Global Regulatory Networks in Enteric Bacteria, Prüß, B. M. (ed) Research Signpost, Kerala, India, pp. 31-44.

 Prüß, B. M., Kim, D.-J., Forst, S. Fleming, R. T., Visick, K. L. and Wolfe, A. J. 2005. Genomics of flagella.  In Global Regulatory Networks in Enteric Bacteria, Birgit Prüß, B. M. (ed) Research Signpost, Kerala, India, pp. 1-12.

Wolfe, A. J. 2005. The acetate switch. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 69:12-50.

2004

Barnard, A. Wolfe, A., and Busby, S. 2004. Regulation at complex bacterial promoters: how bacteria use different promoter organizations to produce different regulatory outcomes. Curr Op Microbiol. 7:102-108.

 Wolfe, A. J., Millikan, D. S., Campbell, J. M., and Visick, K. L. 2004. Vibrio fischeri sigma 54 controls motility, biofilm formation, luminescence and colonization. AEM. 70:2520-2524.

Browning, D. F., Beatty, C. M., Busby, S. J. W., Gunn, K. E., Sanstad, E. A. and Wolfe, A. J. 2004. Modulation of CRP-dependent transcription at the Eschericheria coli acsP2 promoter by nucleoprotein complexes: anti-activation by the nucleoid proteins FIS and IHF. Mol Microbiol. 51:241-54.

2003

DeLoney-Marino, C. R., Wolfe, A. J. and Visick, K. L. 2003. Chemoattraction of Vibrio fischeri to Serine, Nucleosides, and N-Acetylneuraminic Acid, a Component of Squid Light-Organ Mucus. Appl Envir Microbiol 69:7527-30.

Beatty, C. M., Browning, D. F., Busby, S. J. W., and Wolfe, A. J. 2003. Cyclic AMP receptor protein-dependent activation of the Escherichia coli acsP2 promoter by a synergistic class III mechanism. A synthetase gene acs. J. Bacteriol. 185:5148-57.

Wolfe, A. J., Chang, D.-E., Walker, J. D., Seitz-Partridge, J. E., Vidaurri, M. D., Prüß, B. M., Henk, M. C., Larkin, J. C., and Conway, T. 2003  Evidence that acetyl phosphate functions as a global signal during biofilm development. Mol. Microbiol. 48:977-88.

2002

Browning, D. F., Beatty, C. M., Wolfe, A. J., Cole, J. A. and Busby, S. J. W. 2002. Independent regulation of the divergent Escherichia coli nrfA and acsP1 promoters by a nucleo-protein assembly at a shared  regulatory region. Mol. Microbiol. 43:687-701.

2001

Hirschman, A., Boukhvalova, M. VanBruggen, R., Ellefson, D., Wolfe, A. J., and Stewart, R. C. 2001. Active site mutations in CheA, the signal-transducing protein kinase of the chemotaxis system in Escherichia coli. Biochemistry. 40:13876-87.

2000

Contiero, J., Beatty, C. M., Kumari, S., DeSanti, C., Strohl, W., and Wolfe, A. J. 2000. Effects of mutations in acetate metabolism on high_cell density growth of Escherichia coli. J. Industrial Microbiol. Biotechnol. 24:421-430.

Kumari, S., Beatty, C. M., Browning, D. F., Busby, S. J. W., Simel, E. J.,.Hovel-Miner, G. and Wolfe, A. J. 2000. Regulation of acetyl-CoA synthetase in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 182:4173-4179.

Wei, B., Shin, S., LaPorte, D., Wolfe, A. J., and Romeo, T. 2000. The global regulatory mutations in csrA and rpoS cause severe central carbon stress in Escherichia coli in the presence of acetate. J. Bacteriol. 182:1632-1640.

Skidmore, J., Ellefson, D. D., McNamara, B. P., Wolfe, A. J., and Maddock, J. 2000. The relationship between CheA and the polar localization of the chemoreceptor complex. J. Bacteriol.  182:967-973.

 Kumari, S., Simel, E. J. and Wolfe, A. J. 2000.  ⁷⁰ is the principal sigma factor responsible for the transcription of acs, which encodes acetyl-CoA synthetase in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol.  182:551-554.

1998

Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. and Wolfe, A. J. 1998. Genetic analysis of the nuo locus that encodes the respiratory chain NADH dehydrogenase in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 180:1174-84.

Stewart, R. C., VanBruggen, R., Ellefson, D. D., and Wolfe, A. J. 1998. TNP-ATP and TNP-ADP as probes of the nucleotide binding site of CheA, the histidine protein kinase in the chemotaxis signal transduction pathway of Escherichia coli. Biochemistry 37:12269-79.

1997

Ellefson, D. D., U. Weber, and Wolfe, A. J. 1997. Genetic analysis of the catalytic domain of the chemotaxis-associated histidine kinase CheA. J. Bacteriol. 179:825-830.

McNamara, B. P., and Wolfe, A. J. 1997. Co-expression of the long and short forms of CheA, the chemotaxis histidine kinase, by members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. J. Bacteriol. 179:1813-1818.

1995

Rowsell, E. H., Smith J. M., Wolfe, A. J., and Taylor, B. L. 1995. CheA, CheW and CheY are required for chemotaxis of oxygen and sugars of the phosphotransferase system in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 177:6011-6014.

Kumari, S., Tishel, R., Eisenbach, M., and Wolfe, A. J. 1995. Cloning, characterization, and functional expression of acs, the gene that encodes Acetyl-CoA Synthetase in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. Vol. 177:2878-2886.

1994

Prüß, B. M., Nelms, J. M., Park, C., and Wolfe, A. J. 1994. Mutations in NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase of Escherichia coli affect growth on mixed amino acids. J. Bacteriol. 176:2143-2150.

Prüß, B. M. and Wolfe, A. J. 1994. Regulation of acetyl phosphate synthesis and degradation and the control of flagellar expression in Escherichia coli. Mol. Microbiol. 12:973-984.

Conley, M. P., Berg, H. C., Tawa, P., Stewart, R. C., Ellefson, D. D., and Wolfe A. J. 1994. pH dependence of CheA autophosphorylation in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 176:3870-3877.

 Wolfe, A. J., McNamara, B.P., and Stewart, R.C. 1994. The short form of CheA couples chemoreception to CheA phosphorylation. J. Bacteriol. 176:4483-4491.

1993

Wolfe, A. J. and Stewart, R.C. 1993. The short form of the CheA protein restores kinase activity and chemotactic ability to kinase-deficient mutants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:1518-1522

1989

Wolfe, A. J. and Berg, H. C. 1989. Migration of bacteria in semisolid agar. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:6973-6977.

Conley, M. P., Wolfe, A. J., Blair, D. F., and Berg, H. C. 1989. Both CheA and CheW are required for reconstititution of chemotactic signaling in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 171:5190-5193.

1988

Wolfe, A. J., and Mendelson, N. H. 1988. Twist state phenotypes of Bacillus subtilis macrofiber mutants. Microbios 53:47-61.

Surana, U., Wolfe, A. J., and Mendelson, N. H. 1988. Regulation of Bacillus subtilis macrofiber twist development by D-alanine. J. Bacteriol. 170:2328-2335.

Wolfe, A. J., Conley, M. P., and Berg, H. C. 1988. Acetyladenylate plays a role in controlling the direction of flagellar rotation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:6711-6715.

1987

Wolfe, A. J., Conley, M. P., Kramer, T. J., and Berg, H. C. 1987. Reconstitution of signaling in bacterial chemotaxis. J. Bacteriol. 169:1878-1855.

 Berg, H. C., Block, S. M., Conley, M. P., Nathan, A. R., Power, J. N., and Wolfe, A. J. 1987. Computerized video analysis of tethered bacteria. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 58:418-423.

1985

Wolfe, A. J., and Mendelson, N. H. 1987. Characterization of nutrition-induced helix hand inversion in Bacillus subtilis macrofibers.  J. Bacteriol. 169:4068-4075.

Mendelson, N. H., Thwaites, J. J., Favre, D., Surana, U., Briehl, M., and Wolfe, A. J. 1985. Factors contributing to helical shape determination and maintenance in Bacillus subtilis macrofibres. Ann. Inst. Pasteur/Microbiol. 136A:99-103.

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