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Recent Publications(since 2005)

M. Gomelsky. 2010. The core pathway: DGCs, PDEs, and c-di-GMP-binding proteins. Chapter 4. In The second messenger cyclic di-GMP. (A. Wolfe and K. Visick, eds) ASM Press (in press).

Fang, X. and M. Gomelsky. A c-di-GMP-dependent ‘antiswitch’ mechanism regulates bacterial flagellum rotation. (submitted)

Barends, T.R.M., E. Hartmann, J. Griese, T. Beitlich, N.V. Kirienko, D.A. Ryjenkov, J. Reinstein, R.L. Shoeman, M. Gomelsky# and I. Schlichting#. 2009. Structure and mechanism of a bacterial light-regulated cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase. Nature 459:1015-1018 (#, corresponding authors).

Tyagi, A., A. Penzkofer, J. Griese, I. Schlichting, N.V. Kirienko, and M. Gomelsky. 2008. Photodynamics of blue-light-regulated phosphodiesterase BlrP1 protein from Klebsiella pneumoniae and its photoreceptor BLUF domain. Chem Physics 354:130-141.

Gomelsky, L., O.V. Moskvin, R. Stenzel, D. Jones, T.J. Donohue and M. Gomelsky. 2008. Hierarchical regulation of photosynthesis gene expression by oxygen-responsive PrrBA and AppA-PpsR systems of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Bacteriol 190:8106-8114.

Holland, L.M., S.T. O’Donnell, D.A. Ryjenkov, L. Gomelsky, S.R. Slater, P.D. Fey, M. Gomelsky and J.P. O’Gara. 2008. A staphylococcal GGDEF domain protein regulates biofilm formation independently of c-di-GMP. J Bacteriol 190:5178–5189.

Claret, L., S. Miquel, N. Vieille, D.A. Ryjenkov, M. Gomelsky and A. Darfeuille-Michaud. 2007. The flagellar sigma factor FliA regulates adherence and invasion of Crohn disease-associated Escherichia coli via a c-di-GMP-dependent pathway. J Biol Chem 282:33275-33283.

Moskvin, O.V., S. Kaplan, M-A. Gilles-Gonzalez and M. Gomelsky. 2007. Novel heme-based oxygen sensor with a revealing evolutionary history. J Biol Chem 282:28740-28748. (Reviewed in Faculty of 1000 Biology, http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1092051/evaluation)

Zeller, T., M.A. Mraheil, O.V. Moskvin, K. Li, M. Gomelsky and G. Klug. 2007. Regulation of hydrogen peroxide-dependent gene expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Regulatory functions of OxyR. J Bacteriol 189:3784-3792.

Tarutina, M., D.A. Ryjenkov and M. Gomelsky. 2006. An unorthodox bacteriophytochrome from Rhodobacter sphaeroides involved in turnover of the second messenger c-di-GMP. J Biol Chem 281:34751–34758.

Ryjenko, D.A., R. Simm, U. Römling, and M. Gomelsky. 2006. The PilZ domain is a receptor for the second messenger c-di-GMP. The PilZ domain protein YcgR controls motility in enterobacteria. J Biol Chem 281:30310-30314. (Accelerated publication)

Harpster, M.H., S. Bandyopadhyay, D. P. Thomas, P.S. Ivanov, J.A. Keele, N. Pinegina, B. Gao, V. Amarendran, M. Gomelsky, R.J. McCormick, and M.M. Stayton. 2006. Earliest changes in the left ventricular transcriptome postmyocardial infarction. Mammal Genome 17:701-715.

Zeller, T., O.V. Moskvin, K. Li, G. Klug and M. Gomelsky. 2005. Transcriptome and physiological responses to hydrogen peroxide in the facultatively phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Bacteriol 187:7232-7242.

Jung, A., T. Domratcheva, M. Tarutina, Q. Wu, W.-H. Ko, R.L. Shoeman, M. Gomelsky, K.H. Gardner and I. Schlichting. 2005. Structure of a bacterial BLUF photoreceptor: Insights into blue light-mediated signal transduction. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:12350-12355.

Galperin, M.Y. and M. Gomelsky. 2005. Bacterial signal transduction modules: From genomics to biology. Features. ASM News 71:326-333.

Schmidt, A.J., D.A. Ryjenkov and M. Gomelsky. 2005. The ubiquitous protein domain EAL is a c-di-GMP-specific phosphodiesterase: Enzymatically active and inactive EAL domains. J Bacteriol 187:4774-4781.

Römling, U., M. Gomelsky and M.Y. Galperin. 2005. C-di-GMP: the dawning of a novel bacterial signalling system. MicroReview. Mol Microbiol 57:629-639.

Moskvin, O.V., L. Gomelsky and M. Gomelsky. 2005. Transcriptome analysis of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides PpsR regulon: PpsR as a master regulator of photosystem development. J Bacteriol 187:2148-2156.

Ryjenkov, D.A., M. Tarutina, O.V. Moskvin and M. Gomelsky. 2005. Cyclic diguanylate is a ubiquitous signaling molecule in bacteria: Insights into the biochemistry of the GGDEF protein domain. J Bacteriol 187:1792-1798.