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Publications

2019

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): 1–33. PMID 30205015

2018

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 (2): e02190–17. PMID 29101196

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 (4): 1119–1127. PMID 29487183

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 (4): e1007357. PMID 29672509

2017

Bennallack PR, Griffitts JS. (2017) "Elucidating and engineering thiopeptide biosynthesis." World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 33 (6): 119. PMID 28497389

2016

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 (18): 2431–2438. PMID 27381911

2015

VanYperen RD, Orton TS, Griffitts JS. (2015) "Genetic analysis of signal integration by the Sinorhizobium meliloti sensor kinase FeuQ." Microbiology, 161 (Pt 2): 244–253. PMID 25479839

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. USA, 112 (49): 15244–15249. PMID 26401024

2014

Bennallack PR, Burt SR, Heder MJ, Robison RA, Griffitts JS. (2014) "Characterization of a novel plasmid-borne thiopeptide gene cluster in Staphylococcus epidermidis strain 115." J. Bacteriol., 196 (24): 4344–4350. PMID 25313391

2013

Crook MB, Draper AL, Guillory RJ, Griffitts JS. (2013) "The Sinorhizobium meliloti Essential Porin RopA1 Is a Target for Numerous Bacteriophages." J. Bacteriol.195 (16): 3663–3671. PMID 23749981

2012

Crook MB, Lindsay DP, Biggs MB, Bentley JS, Price JC, Clement SC, Clement MJ, Long SR, Griffitts JS. (2012) "Rhizobial Plasmids That Cause Impaired Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and Enhanced Host Invasion." Mol. Plant–Microbe Interact.25 (8): 1026–33. PMID 22746823

2011

Harrison CL, Crook MB, Peco G, Long SR, Griffitts JS. (2011) "Employing Site-specific Recombination for Conditional Genetics in Sinorhizobium meliloti." Appl. Environ. Microbiol.77 (12): 3916–3922. PMID 21515717

2010

Carlyon RE, Ryther JL, VanYperen RD, Griffitts JS. (2010) "FeuN, a novel modulator of two-component signalling identified in Sinorhizobium meliloti." Mol. Microbiol.77 (1): 170–82. PMID 20487268

Wang D, Griffitts JS, Starker C, Fedorova E, Limpens E, Ivanov S, Bisseling T, Long SR. (2010) "A nodule-specific protein secretory pathway required for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis." Science327 (5969): 1126–9. PMID 20185723

2008

Steele TT, Fowler CW, Griffitts JS. (2008) "Control of gluconate utilization in Sinorhizobium meliloti." J. Bacteriol.191 (4): 1355–8. PMID 19060150

Griffitts JS, Carlyon RE, Erickson JH, Moulton JL, Barnett MJ, Toman CJ, Long SR. (2008) "A Sinorhizobium meliloti osmosensory two-component system required for cyclic glucan export and symbiosis." Mol. Microbiol.69 (2): 479–90. PMID 18630344

Griffitts JS, Long SR. (2008) "A symbiotic mutant of Sinorhizobium meliloti reveals a novel genetic pathway involving succinoglycan biosynthetic functions." Mol. Microbiol.67 (6): 1292–306. PMID 18284576

2007

Barrows BD, Griffitts JS, Aroian RV. (2007) "Resistance is non-futile: resistance to Cry5B in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans." J. Invertebr. Pathol.95 (3): 198–200. PMID 17482642

2006

Barrows BD, Griffitts JS, Aroian RV. (2006) "Caenorhabditis elegans carbohydrates in bacterial toxin resistance." Methods Enzymol.417: 340–58. PMID 17132513

Cappello M, Bungiro RD, Harrison LM, Bischof LJ, Griffitts JS, Barrows BD, Aroian RV. (2006) "A purified Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein with therapeutic activity against the hookworm parasite Ancylostoma ceylanicum." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA103 (41): 15154–9. PMID 17005719

2005

Griffitts JS, Aroian RV. (2005) "Many roads to resistance: how invertebrates adapt to Bt toxins." Bioessays27 (6): 614–24. PMID 15892110

Griffitts JS, Haslam SM, Yang T, Garczynski SF, Mulloy B, Morris H, Cremer PS, Dell A, Adang MJ, Aroian RV. (2005) "Glycolipids as receptors for Bacillus thuringiensis crystal toxin." Science307 (5711): 922–5. PMID 15705852

2004

Huffman DL, Bischof LJ, Griffitts JS, Aroian RV. (2004) "Pore worms: using Caenorhabditis elegans to study how bacterial toxins interact with their target host." Int. J. Med. Microbiol.293 (7–8): 599–607. PMID 15149037

2003

Griffitts JS, Huffman DL, Whitacre JL, Barrows BD, Marroquin LD, Müller R, Brown JR, Hennet T, Esko JD, Aroian RV. (2003) "Resistance to a bacterial toxin is mediated by removal of a conserved glycosylation pathway required for toxin–host interactions." J. Biol. Chem.278 (46): 45594–602. PMID 129944392

Griffitts JS, Whitacre JL, Stevens DE, Aroian RV. (2001) "Bt toxin resistance from loss of a putative carbohydrate-modifying enzyme." Science293 (5531): 860–4. PMID 11486087

Marroquin LD, Elyassnia D, Griffitts JS, Feitelson JS, Aroian RV. (2000) "Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin susceptibility and isolation of resistance mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans." Genetics155 (4): 1693–9. PMID 10924467

Cutler SR, Ehrhardt DW, Griffitts JS, Somerville CR. (2000) "Random GFP::cDNA fusions enable visualization of subcellular structures in cells of Arabidopsis at a high frequency." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA97 (7): 3718–23. PMID 10737809