Select Publications
Journal articles
2006, 'Terrestrial models for extra terrestrial life: methanogens and halophiles at Martian temperatures', International Journal of Astrobiology, 5, pp. 89 - 97
,2005, 'Cold adaptation of the Antarctic archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii assessed by proteomics using ICAT', Journal of Proteome Research, 4, pp. 473 - 480
,2005, 'Improved thermal stability and activity in the cold-adapted lipase B from Candida antarctica following chemical modification with oxidized polysaccharides', Extremophiles, 9, pp. 471 - 476
,2005, 'Predicted roles for hypothetical proteins in the low-temperature expressed proteome of the Antarctic archaeon Methanococcoides burtonii', Journal of Proteome Research, 4, pp. 464 - 472
,2005, 'Role of disulfide bridges in the activity and stability of a cold-active alpha-amylase', Journal of Bacteriology, 187, pp. 6206 - 6212
,2005, 'The active site is the least stable structure in the unfolding pathway of a multidomain cold-adapted alpha-amylase', Journal of Bacteriology, 187, pp. 6197 - 6205
,2004, 'A proteomic determination of cold adaptation in the Antarctic archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii', Molecular Microbiology, 53, pp. 309 - 321
,2004, 'An online database for the detection of novel archaeal sequences inhuman ESTs', Bioinformatics, 20, pp. 2361 - 2362
,2004, 'Biology of the cold adapted archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii determined by proteomics using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry', Journal of Proteome Research, 3, pp. 1164 - 1176
,2004, 'Cold adaptation in the Antarctic archaeon Methanococcoides burtonii involves membrane lipid unsaturation', Journal of Bacteriology, 186, pp. 8508 - 8515
,2004, 'Cross-species identification of proteins from proteome profiles of the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium, Sphingopyxis alaskensis', Proteomics, 4, pp. 1779 - 1788
,2004, 'Improved activity and stability of alkaline phosphatases from psychrophilic and mesophilic organisms by chemically modifying aliphatic or amino groups using tetracarboxy-benzophenone derivatives', Cellular and Molecular Biology, 50, pp. 657 - 667
,2004, 'Response to William Martin`s letter: Pathogenic archaebacteria: do they not exist because archaebacteria usedifferent vitamins? Response to William Martin`s letter', BioEssays, 26, pp. 593 - 593
,2004, 'Serpins in unicellular Eukarya, Archaea, and Bacteria: Sequence analysis and evolution', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 59, pp. 437 - 447
,2003, 'Influence of Temperature on tRNA Modification in Archaea: Methanococcoides burtonii (Optimum Growth Temperature [Topt], 23oC) and Stetteria hydrogenophila (Topt,95oC)', Journal of Bacteriology, 185, pp. 5483 - 5490
,2003, 'Life under Nitrient Limitation in Oligotrophic Marine Environments: An Eco/Physiological Perspective of Sphingopyxis alaskensis (Formerly Sphingomonas alaskensis)', Microbial Ecology, 45, pp. 203 - 217
,2003, 'Mechanisms of Thermal Adaptation Revealed from the Genomes of the Antarctic Archaea Methanogenium frigidum and Methanococcoides burtonii', Genome Research, 13, pp. 1580 - 1588
,2003, 'Pathogenic archaea: do they exist?', BioEssays, 25, pp. 1119 - 1128
,2002, 'Cold adaptation of archaeal Elongation Factor 2 (EF-2) proteins', Current Protein and Peptide Science, 3, pp. 223 - 230
,2002, 'Extremophiles and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life', Astrobiology, 2, pp. 281 - 292
,2002, 'Low-temperature extremophiles and their applications', Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 13, pp. 253 - 261
,2002, 'Thermodynamic activation properties of elongation factor 2 (EF-2) proteins from psychrotolerant and thermophilic Archaea', Extremophiles, 6, pp. 143 - 150
,2001, 'Effects of ribosomes and intracellular solutes on activities and stabilities of elongation factor 2 proteins from psychrotolerant and thermophilic methanogens', Journal of Bacteriology, 183, pp. 1974 - 1982
,2001, 'Specific growth rate plays a critical role in hydrogen peroxide resistance ofr the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas alaskensis Strain RB2256', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 67, pp. 1292 - 1299
,2001, 'Sphingomonas alaskensis Strain AFO1, an abundant oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium from the North Pacific', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 67, pp. 4945 - 4954
,2000, 'Cold stress response in Archaea', Extremophiles, 4, pp. 321 - 331
,2000, 'Effect of temperature on the stability and activity of the elongation factor 2 proteins from low-temperature adapted and thermophilic methanogens', Journal of Bacteriology, 182, pp. 1328 - 1332
,2000, 'Low temperature regulated DEAD-box RNA Helicase from the Antarctic Archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii', Journal of Molecular Biology, 297, pp. 553 - 567
,2000, 'Physiological responses to starvation in the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas sp. Strain RB2256', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66, pp. 2037 - 2044
,2000, 'Structural analysis of the elongation factor G protein from the low-temperature-adapted bacterium Arthrobacter globiformis S155', Extremophiles, 4, pp. 123 - 130
,1999, 'An assessment of protein profiles from the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium, Sphingomonas sp. strain RB2256', Electrophoresis, 20, pp. 2094 - 2098
,1999, 'Sphingomonads from marine environments', Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 23, pp. 268 - 272
,1998, 'Archaeal cold-adapted proteins: structural and evolutionary analysis of the elongation factor 2 proteins from psychrophilic, mesophilic and thermophilic proteins', FEBS Letters, 439, pp. 281 - 286
,1998, 'Implications of rRNA operon copy number and ribosome content in the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas sp., strain RB2256', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 64, pp. 4433 - 4438
,1997, '`Locked-on` and `locked-off` signal transduction mutants of Escherichia coli NarQ and NarX sensors for nitrate and nitrite: role of the P-box element', Molecular Microbiology, 24, pp. 1049 - 1060
,1996, 'Characterization of the aegA locus of Escherichia coli: control of gene expression in response to anaerobiosis and nitrate', Journal of Bacteriology, 178, pp. 6968 - 6974
,1996, 'Responses to stress and nutrient availability by the marine ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas sp strain RB2256', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 62, pp. 1287 - 1294
,1996, 'Role of the periplasmic domain of the Escherichia coli NarX sensor-transmitter protein in nitrate-dependent signal transduction and gene regulation', Molecular Microbiology, 21, pp. 901 - 911
,1995, 'The NarX and NarQ sensor-transmitter proteins of Escherichia coli each require two conserved histidines for nitrate-dependent signal transduction to NarL', Journal of Bacteriology, 177, pp. 2416 - 2424
,1994, 'Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of the NarQ, NarX and NarL proteins of the nitrate-dependent two-component regulatory system of Escherichia coli', Journal of Bacteriology, 176, pp. 4985 - 4992
,1992, 'Identification and characterisation of narQ, a second nitrate sensor for nitrate-dependent gene regulation in Escherichia coli', Molecular Microbiology, 6, pp. 1913 - 1923
,1992, 'Physical map location of the narQ gene of Escherichia coli', Journal of Bacteriology, 174, pp. 7882 - 7882
,1991, 'FSendA, a novel family E endoglucanase gene from Fibrobacter succinogenes AR1', Journal of Bacteriology, 175, pp. 3265 - 3268
,1991, 'Molecular cloning, expression and characterisation of endoglucanase genes from Fibrobacter succinogenes AR1', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 57, pp. 359 - 365
,1991, 'The involvement of transcriptional read through from internal promoters in the expression of a novel endoglucanase gene FSendA, from Fibrobacter succinogenes AR1', Nucleic Acids Research, 19, pp. 1661 - 1669
,1986, 'Loss of heat shock acquisition of thermotolerance in yeast is not correlated with the loss of heat shock proteins', FEBS Letters, 207, pp. 149 - 152
,1984, 'Mitochondrial and cytoplasmic protein syntheses are not required for heat shock acquisition of ethanol and thermotolerance in yeast', FEBS Letters, 172, pp. 299 - 302
,1983, 'Acquisition of ethanol tolerance in yeast cells by heat shock', Biotechnology Letters, 5, pp. 683 - 688
,Working Papers
2020, Ecology and molecular targets of hypermutation in the global microbiome, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, http://dx.doi.org10.1101/2020.04.01.020958
,Preprints
2023, The parasitic lifestyle of an archaeal symbiont, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.24.529834
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