Recent Publications

Quaye A, Pickett BE, Griffitts JS, Berges BK, Poole BD. 2025. Turkey B Cell Transcriptome Profile During Turkey Hemorrhagic Enteritis Virus (THEV) Infection Highlights Upregulated Apoptosis and Breakdown Pathways That May Mediate Immunosuppression. Viruses 17:299.

Church BM, Geary B, Griffitts J, Drake CL, Ruebelmann K, Nelson SV, Madsen MD. 2024. Development of a Rhizobium Seed Coating to Establish Lupine Species on Degraded Rangelands. Plants (Basel) 13:2101.

Quaye A, Pickett BE, Griffitts JS, Berges BK, Poole BD. 2024. Characterizing the splice map of Turkey Hemorrhagic Enteritis Virus. Virol J 21:175.

Free TJ, Talley JP, Hyer CD, Miller CJ, Griffitts JS, Bundy BC. 2024. Engineering the Signal Resolution of a Paper-Based Cell-Free Glutamine Biosensor with Genetic Engineering, Metabolic Engineering, and Process Optimization. Sensors (Basel) 24:3073.

Calvopina-Chavez DG, Bursey DM, Tseng Y-J, Patil LM, Bewley KD, Bennallack PR, McPhie JM, Wagstaff KB, Daley A, Miller SM, Moody JD, Price JC, Griffitts JS. 2024. Micrococcin cysteine-to-thiazole conversion through transient interactions between the scaffolding protein TclI and the modification enzymes TclJ and TclN. Appl Environ Microbiol 90:e0024424.

Kehlet-Delgado H, Montoya AP, Jensen KT, Wendlandt CE, Dexheimer C, Roberts M, Torres Martínez L, Friesen ML, Griffitts JS, Porter SS. 2024. The evolutionary genomics of adaptation to stress in wild rhizobium bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 121:e2311127121.

Calvopina-Chavez DG, Bursey DM, Tseng Y-J, Patil LM, Bewley KD, Bennallack PR, McPhie JM, Wagstaff KB, Daley A, Miller SM, Moody JD, Price JC, Griffitts JS. 2023. Micrococcin cysteine-to-thiazole conversion through transient interactions between a scaffolding protein and two modification enzymes. bioRxiv 2023.10.23.563616.

Howarth RE, Pattillo CM, Griffitts JS, Calvopina-Chavez DG. 2023. Three genes controlling streptomycin susceptibility in Agrobacterium fabrum. J Bacteriol 205:e0016523.

Calvopina-Chavez DG, Howarth RE, Memmott AK, Pech Gonzalez OH, Hafen CB, Jensen KT, Benedict AB, Altman JD, Burnside BS, Childs JS, Dallon SW, DeMarco AC, Flindt KC, Grover SA, Heninger E, Iverson CS, Johnson AK, Lopez JB, Meinzer MA, Moulder BA, Moulton RI, Russell HS, Scott TM, Shiobara Y, Taylor MD, Tippets KE, Vainerere KM, Von Wallwitz IC, Wagley M, Wiley MS, Young NJ, Griffitts JS. 2023. A large-scale genetic screen identifies genes essential for motility in Agrobacterium fabrum. PLoS One 18:e0279936.

Montoya AP, Wendlandt CE, Benedict AB, Roberts M, Piovia-Scott J, Griffitts JS, Porter SS. 2023. Hosts winnow symbionts with multiple layers of absolute and conditional discrimination mechanisms. Proc Biol Sci 290:20222153.

Liu J, Wang T, Qin Q, Yu X, Yang S, Dinkins RD, Kuczmog A, Putnoky P, Muszyński A, Griffitts JS, Kereszt A, Zhu H. 2022. Paired Medicago receptors mediate broad-spectrum resistance to nodulation by Sinorhizobium meliloti carrying a species-specific gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 119:e2214703119.

Wendlandt CE, Roberts M, Nguyen KT, Graham ML, Lopez Z, Helliwell EE, Friesen ML, Griffitts JS, Price P, Porter SS. 2022. Negotiating mutualism: A locus for exploitation by rhizobia has a broad effect size distribution and context-dependent effects on legume hosts. J Evol Biol 35:844–854.

Calvopina-Chavez DG, Gardner MA, Griffitts JS. 2022. Engineering efficient termination of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase transcription. G3 (Bethesda) 12:jkac070.

Benedict AB, Chamberlain JD, Calvopina DG, Griffitts JS. 2022. Translation initiation from sequence variants of the bacteriophage T7 g10RBS in Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium fabrum. Mol Biol Rep 49:833–838.

Hunt JP, Zhao EL, Free TJ, Soltani M, Warr CA, Benedict AB, Takahashi MK, Griffitts JS, Pitt WG, Bundy BC. 2022. Towards detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in human saliva: A paper-based cell-free toehold switch biosensor with a visual bioluminescent output. N Biotechnol 66:53–60.

Benedict AB, Ghosh P, Scott SM, Griffitts JS. 2021. A conserved rhizobial peptidase that interacts with host-derived symbiotic peptides. Sci Rep 11:11779.

Wendlandt CE, Helliwell E, Roberts M, Nguyen KT, Friesen ML, von Wettberg E, Price P, Griffitts JS, Porter SS. 2021. Decreased coevolutionary potential and increased symbiont fecundity during the biological invasion of a legume-rhizobium mutualism. Evolution 75:731–747.

do Amaral FP, Tuleski TR, Pankievicz VCS, Melnyk RA, Arkin AP, Griffitts J, Tadra-Sfeir MZ, Maltempi de Souza E, Deutschbauer A, Monteiro RA, Stacey G. 2020. Diverse Bacterial Genes Modulate Plant Root Association by Beneficial Bacteria. mBio 11:e03078-20.

diCenzo GC, Zamani M, Checcucci A, Fondi M, Griffitts JS, Finan TM, Mengoni A. 2019. Multidisciplinary approaches for studying rhizobium-legume symbioses. Can J Microbiol 65:1–33.

diCenzo GC, Benedict AB, Fondi M, Walker GC, Finan TM, Mengoni A, Griffitts JS. 2018. Robustness encoded across essential and accessory replicons of the ecologically versatile bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. PLoS Genet 14:e1007357.

White KM, Matthews MK, Hughes RC, Sommer AJ, Griffitts JS, Newell PD, Chaston JM. 2018. A Metagenome-Wide Association Study and Arrayed Mutant Library Confirm Acetobacter Lipopolysaccharide Genes Are Necessary for Association with Drosophila melanogaster. G3 (Bethesda) 8:1119–1127.

Olson MA, Siebach TW, Griffitts JS, Wilson E, Erickson DL. 2018. Genome-Wide Identification of Fitness Factors in Mastitis-Associated Escherichia coli. Appl Environ Microbiol 84:e02190-17.

Arnold MFF, Shabab M, Penterman J, Boehme KL, Griffitts JS, Walker GC. 2017. Genome-Wide Sensitivity Analysis of the Microsymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti to Symbiotically Important, Defensin-Like Host Peptides. mBio 8:e01060-17.

Yang S, Wang Q, Fedorova E, Liu J, Qin Q, Zheng Q, Price PA, Pan H, Wang D, Griffitts JS, Bisseling T, Zhu H. 2017. Microsymbiont discrimination mediated by a host-secreted peptide in Medicago truncatula. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114:6848–6853.

Bennallack PR, Griffitts JS. 2017. Elucidating and engineering thiopeptide biosynthesis. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 33:119.

Bewley KD, Bennallack PR, Burlingame MA, Robison RA, Griffitts JS, Miller SM. 2016. Capture of micrococcin biosynthetic intermediates reveals C-terminal processing as an obligatory step for in vivo maturation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113:12450–12455.

Shabab M, Arnold MFF, Penterman J, Wommack AJ, Bocker HT, Price PA, Griffitts JS, Nolan EM, Walker GC. 2016. Disulfide cross-linking influences symbiotic activities of nodule peptide NCR247. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113:10157–10162.

Bennallack PR, Bewley KD, Burlingame MA, Robison RA, Miller SM, Griffitts JS. 2016. Reconstitution and Minimization of a Micrococcin Biosynthetic Pathway in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 198:2431–2438.

Price PA, Tanner HR, Dillon BA, Shabab M, Walker GC, Griffitts JS. 2015. Rhizobial peptidase HrrP cleaves host-encoded signaling peptides and mediates symbiotic compatibility. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112:15244–15249.