RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Arends SJR, Williams K, Scott RJ, Rolong S, Popham DL, and Weiss DS. (2010) Discovery and Characterization of Three New Escherichia coli Septal Ring Proteins That Contain a SPOR Domain: DamX, DedD, and RlpA. J Bacteriol. 192:242-255. Epub 2009 Oct 30.

  • Arends SJ, Kustusch RJ, and Weiss DS. (2009) ATP-binding site lesions in FtsE impair cell division. J Bacteriol. 191:3772-84. Epub 2009 Apr 17.
  • Tarry M, Arends SJ, Roversi P, Piette E, Sargent F, Berks BC, Weiss DS, and Lea SM. (2009) The Escherichia coli cell division protein and model Tat substrate SufI (FtsP) localizes to the septal ring and has a multicopper oxidase-like structure. J Mol Biol. 386:504-19. Epub 2008 Dec 25.
  • Arends SJR, Williams KB, Kustusch RJ, and Weiss DS. (2007) Cell Division. Pages 173-197 in "The Periplasm." M. Ehrmann, ed. ASM Press, Washington, DC.
  • Wang S, Arends SJ, Weiss DS, and Newman EB. (2005) A deficiency in S-adenosylmethionine synthetase interrupts assembly of the septal ring in Escherichia coli K-12. Mol Microbiol. 58:791-9.
  • Arends SJ and Weiss DS. (2004) Inhibiting cell division in Escherichia coli has little if any effect on gene expression. J Bacteriol. 186:880-4.
  • Schmidt KL, Peterson ND, Kustusch RJ, Wissel MC, Graham B, Phillips GJ, and Weiss DS. (2004) A predicted ABC transporter, FtsEX,is needed for cell division in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 186:785-93.
  • Wissel MC and Weiss DS. (2004) Genetic analysis of the cell division protein FtsI (PBP3): amino acid substitutions that impair septal localization of FtsI and recruitment of FtsN. J Bacteriol. 186:490-502.
  • Weiss DS. (2004) Bacterial cell division and the septal ring. Mol Microbiol. 54:588-97.
  • Eberhardt C, Kuerschner L, and Weiss DS. (2003) Probing the catalytic activity of a cell division-specific transpeptidase in vivo with beta-lactams. J Bacteriol. 185:3726-34.
  • Mercer KL and Weiss DS. (2002) The Escherichia coli cell division protein FtsW is required to recruit its cognate transpeptidase, FtsI (PBP3), to the division site. J Bacteriol. 184:904-12.
  • Boyd D, Weiss DS, Chen JC, and Beckwith J. (2002) Towards single-copy gene expression systems making gene cloning physiologically relevant: lambda InCh, a simple Escherichia coli plasmid-chromosome shuttle system. J Bacteriol. 182:842-7.
  • Weiss DS, Chen JC, Ghigo JM, Boyd D, and Beckwith J. (1999) Localization of FtsI (PBP3) to the septal ring requires its membrane anchor, the Z ring, FtsA, FtsQ, and FtsL. J Bacteriol. 181:508-20.

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