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Stuart J. Austin, Ph.D.

Selected Publications
1)  Sawitzke JA, Youngren B, Thomason LC, Baker T, Sengupta M, Court D, Austin S.
The segregation of Escherichia coli minichromosomes constructed in vivo by recombineering.
Plasmid. 67: 148-54, 2012. [Journal]
2)  Sengupta M, Austin S.
Prevalence and significance of plasmid maintenance functions in the virulence plasmids of pathogenic bacteria.
Infect. Immun. 79: 2502-9, 2011. [Journal]
3)  Sengupta M, Nielsen HJ, Youngren B, Austin S.
P1 plasmid segregation: accurate redistribution by dynamic plasmid pairing and separation.
J. Bacteriol. 192: 1175-83, 2010. [Journal]
4)  Chung YS, Brendler T, Austin S, Guarné A.
Structural insights into the cooperative binding of SeqA to a tandem GATC repeat.
Nucleic Acids Res. 37: 3143-52, 2009. [Journal]
5)  Dabrazhynetskaya A, Brendler T, Ji X, Austin S.
Switching protein-DNA recognition specificity by single-amino-acid substitutions in the P1 par family of plasmid partition elements.
J. Bacteriol. 191: 1126-31, 2009. [Journal]
6)  Nielsen HJ, Youngren B, Hansen FG, Austin S.
Dynamics of Escherichia coli chromosome segregation during multifork replication.
J. Bacteriol. 189: 8660-6, 2007. [Journal]
7)  Nielsen HJ, Li Y, Youngren B, Hansen FG, Austin S.
Progressive segregation of the Escherichia coli chromosome.
Mol. Microbiol. 61: 383-93, 2006. [Journal]
8)  Nielsen HJ, Ottesen JR, Youngren B, Austin SJ, Hansen FG.
The Escherichia coli chromosome is organized with the left and right chromosome arms in separate cell halves.
Mol. Microbiol. 62: 331-8, 2006. [Journal]
9)  Guarné A, Brendler T, Zhao Q, Ghirlando R, Austin S, Yang W.
Crystal structure of a SeqA-N filament: implications for DNA replication and chromosome organization.
EMBO J. 24: 1502-11, 2005. [Journal]
10)  Camara JE, Breier AM, Brendler T, Austin S, Cozzarelli NR, Crooke E.
Hda inactivation of DnaA is the predominant mechanism preventing hyperinitiation of Escherichia coli DNA replication.
EMBO Rep. 6: 736-41, 2005. [Journal]
11)  Sergueev K, Dabrazhynetskaya A, Austin S.
Plasmid partition system of the P1par family from the pWR100 virulence plasmid of Shigella flexneri.
J Bacteriol. 187: 3369-73, 2005. [Journal]
12)  Dabrazhynetskaya A, Sergueev K, Austin S.
Species and Incompatibility Determination within the P1par Family of Plasmid Partition Elements.
J Bacteriol. 187: 5977-83, 2005. [Journal]
13)  Sayeed S, Brendler T, Davis M, Reaves L, Austin S.
Surprising dependence on postsegregational killing of host cells for maintenance of the large virulence plasmid of Shigella flexneri.
J Bacteriol. 187: 2768-73, 2005. [Journal]
14)  Brendler T, Reaves L, Austin S.
Interplay between plasmid partition and postsegregational killing systems.
J Bacteriol. 186: 2504-7, 2004. [Journal]
15)  Li Y, Dabrazhynetskaya A, Youngren B, Austin S.
The role of Par proteins in the active segregation of the P1 plasmid.
Mol Microbiol. 53: 93-102, 2004. [Journal]
16)  Li Y, Youngren B, Sergueev K, Austin S.
Segregation of the Escherichia coli chromosome terminus.
Mol Microbiol. 50: 825-34, 2003. [Journal]
17)  Sergueev K, Court D, Reaves L, Austin S.
E.coli cell-cycle regulation by bacteriophage lambda.
J Mol Biol. 324: 297-307, 2002. [Journal]
18)  Li Y, Austin S.
The P1 plasmid in action: time-lapse photomicroscopy reveals some unexpected aspects of plasmid partition.
Plasmid. 48: 174-8, 2002. [Journal]
19)  Li Y, Austin S.
The P1 plasmid is segregated to daughter cells by a 'capture and ejection' mechanism coordinated with Escherichia coli cell division.
Mol Microbiol. 46: 63-74, 2002. [Journal]
20)  Li Y, Sergueev K, Austin S.
The segregation of the Escherichia coli origin and terminus of replication.
Mol Microbiol. 46: 985-96, 2002. [Journal]
21)  Sawitzke JA, Li Y, Sergueev K, Youngren B, Brendler T, Jones K, Austin S.
Transcriptional interference by a complex formed at the centromere-like partition site of plasmid P1.
J Bacteriol. 184: 2447-54, 2002. [Journal]
22)  Sawitzke J, Austin S.
An analysis of the factory model for chromosome replication and segregation in bacteria.
Mol Microbiol. 40: 786-94, 2001. [Journal]
23)  Sergueev K, Yu D, Austin S, Court D.
Cell toxicity caused by products of the p(L) operon of bacteriophage lambda.
Gene. 272: 227-35, 2001. [Journal]
24)  Brendler T, Sawitzke J, Sergueev K, Austin S.
A case for sliding SeqA tracts at anchored replication forks during Escherichia coli chromosome replication and segregation.
EMBO J. 19: 6249-58, 2000. [Journal]
25)  Youngren B, Radnedge L, Hu P, Garcia E, Austin S.
A plasmid partition system of the P1-P7par family from the pMT1 virulence plasmid of Yersinia pestis.
J Bacteriol. 182: 3924-8, 2000. [Journal]
26)  Sayeed S, Reaves L, Radnedge L, Austin S.
The stability region of the large virulence plasmid of Shigella flexneri encodes an efficient postsegregational killing system.
J Bacteriol. 182: 2416-21, 2000. [Journal]
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