Comparison to other organisms reveals conservation of cell cycle regulatory logic, even if regulatory proteins, themselves, are not conserved. This technique can be used to select for mutants blocked in the various stages of morphogenesis. The significance of this observation remains unclear. Moreover, active transport processes ensure the efficient segregation of sister chromosomes and the faithful restoration of nucleoid organization while DNA replication and condensation are in progress. In addition, transcription of phiCdl DNA by the E. coli enzyme produced a subset of transcripts not synthesized by the C. crescentus enzyme. B., Cohen, M., Delli-Santi, M., Fennell, C., Leinberry, C., Husband, J., Ladd, A., Seitz, W. R., Constanz, B. Overall 19% of the transcribed and translated genomic elements were newly identified or significantly improved by this approach, providing a valuable genomic resource to elucidate the complete C. crescentus genetic circuitry that controls asymmetric cell division. View details for Web of Science ID A1990EB36200070. Ph.D. 1972 Purdue University
We observed that SpoT is required for this phenomenon in swarmer cells, and in the absence of SpoT, carbon-starved swarmer cells inappropriately initiated DNA replication. A specialized protein secretion pathway is used by some Gram-negative bacterial pathogens for delivery of virulence factors directly into mammalian host cells. We present evidence that a bacterial signal transduction cascade that couples morphogenesis with cell cycle progression is regulated by dynamic localization of its components. By. In many cases, a large number of upstream signals are funneled to a master regulator of cellular behavior, but it remains unclear how individual proteins can rapidly integrate a complex array of signals within the appropriate spatial niche within the cell. These results suggest that subcellular localization of a prokaryotic protein involves interaction of specific regions of the protein with unique cell sites that contain either localized binding proteins or a specific secretory apparatus. To understand how ChpT interacts with multiple signaling partners, we solved the crystal structure of ChpT at 2.3 resolution. We analyzed the adaptive response of C. crescentus swarmer cells to carbon starvation and found that there was a block in both the swarmer-to-stalked cell polar differentiation program and the initiation of DNA replication. It was assumed for many years that the small size of the bacterial cell eliminates the need for a cytoskeleton, because simple diffusion of proteins is rapid over micron-scale distances. Our goal is to identify and understand the pathways that govern organogenesis of the pancreas, a vital organ with endocrine and exocrine functions. In contrast to Escherichia coli, the Caulobacter Tol-Pal complex is essential. Smart Products Design Lab. Blair, J. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World (Knopf, 2016) and the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (California, 2016). Thus, the remarkable organization of the chromosome is being established while DNA replication is still in progress. Research on structure and function of bacterial condensates in the Shapiro Lab. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence in the 16S-23S intergenic spacer region revealed the presence of tRNAIle and tRNAAla genes. Winzeler, E. A., Kang, P. J., Shapiro, L. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANS-ACTING MUTATIONS WHICH CAUSE OVEREXPRESSION OF A CELL-CYCLE REGULATED OPERON, POLAR LOCATION OF THE CHEMORECEPTOR COMPLEX IN THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI CELL, REQUIREMENT OF THE CARBOXYL TERMINUS OF A BACTERIAL CHEMORECEPTOR FOR ITS TARGETED PROTEOLYSIS. Four metrics characterizing the observed localization patterns of each of the three labeled proteins were extracted for hundreds of cell images from each of 854 mapped mutant strains. Caulobacter has a single circular chromosome whose origin of replication is positioned at one cell pole. steve.nordeen@uchsc.edu
View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07088.x, View details for Web of Science ID 000276036000013, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC2935252. Only the unphosphorylated form of CpdR localizes and activates ClpXP. These results demonstrate that the chemotaxis methylation machinery is positionally biased toward one portion of the predivisional cell, and that the time of expression of a set of fla and che genes is correlated with the positioning of their gene products within the cell. We present evidence that the first amino acid in the predicted DnaX protein corresponds to the first codon in the mRNA transcribed from the dnaX promoter; thus, the ribosome must recognize the mRNA at a site downstream of the start codon in an unusual but not unprecedented fashion. Additionally, using ribosome profiling and LC-MS, we mapped translation start sites and coding regions with near complete coverage. In order to explore the mechanism of P- and L-ring assembly, we examined the effect of a null mutation in the gene encoding the P-ring subunit, FlgI, on the expression, stability, and subcellular localization of the L-ring subunit, FlgH, in Caulobacter crescentus. The DnaA regulon includes genes encoding several replisome components, the GcrA global cell cycle regulator, the PodJ polar localization protein, the FtsZ cell division protein, and nucleotide biosynthesis enzymes. This DNA contains sequence motifs that are common to other bacterial origins, such as five DnaA boxes, an E. coli-like 13-mer, and an exceptional A + T-rich region. Although ClpAP does not exhibit subcellular localization, FtsZ is a substrate of both ClpXP and ClpAPin vivo and in vitro. Low levels of the L-ring protein were detected exclusively in the cell envelope of cells lacking the P-ring, suggesting that, in the absence of P-ring assembly, L-ring monomers are unable to form multimeric rings and are thus subject to proteolysis in the periplasm. CcrM is essential for viability in both of these organisms, and we show here that it is also essential in Brucella abortus. Goley, E. D., Dye, N. A., Werner, J. N., Gitai, Z., Shapiro, L. CrfA, a small noncoding RNA regulator of adaptation to carbon starvation in Caulobacter crescentus. The Caulobacter chromosome changes progressively from the fully methylated to the hemimethylated state during DNA replication. Cell cycle progression and polar differentiation are temporally coordinated in Caulobacter crescentus. One of the conserved structural motifs, the inverted repeat CIRCE element, is found in the 5' region of many heat shock operons, including the Caulobacter crescentus groESL operon. Isolation of the full-length ccrM genes from the aquatic bacterium C. crescentus, the soil bacterium R. meliloti, and the intracellular pathogen B. abortus showed that this sequence conservation extends over the entire protein. Ben Shapiro will speak at a free event on campus. Here we show that the MS-ring monomer FliF, a central motor component that anchors the flagellum in the cell membrane, is synthesized only in the predivisional cell and is integrated into the membrane at the incipient swarmer cell pole, where it initiates flagellar assembly. Fluorescence microscopy can potentially be used to reveal this information when specific labels, known as fluorescent biosensors, are used, but there has been minimal use of such biosensors in cryo-CLEM to date. The Caulobacter Tol-Pal complex is thus a key component of cell envelope structure and function, mediating OM constriction at the final step of cell division as well as the positioning of a protein localization factor. These include the MopD and MopE proteins from Erwinia carotovora, the Spa9 and Spa29 proteins from Shigella flexneri, and the YscS protein from Yersinia pestis. The expression of four of the novel sRNAs changes as the cell cycle progresses. View details for DOI 10.1128/JB.185.10.3068-3075.2003, View details for Web of Science ID 000182686900012, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC154060. The Caulobacter cell cycle is driven by a cascade of transient regulators, starting with the expression of DnaA in G(1) and ending with the expression of the essential CcrM DNA methyltransferase at the completion of DNA replication. Our long-term goal is to leverage genome and epigenome engineering as new avenues for understanding of genotype-disease relationship and for developing gene . The penicillin-binding protein PBP2, which is commonly branded as an essential cell elongation-specific transpeptidase, switches its localization from a dispersed, patchy pattern to an accumulation at the FtsZ ring location in response to osmotic upshifts as low as 40 mosmol/kg. The enzyme acts processively during methylation of specific DNA sequences, indicating a preferred order of product release in which S-adenosylhomocysteine is released from enzyme before fully methylated DNA. . Surface layers (S-layers) are paracrystalline, proteinaceous structures found in most archaea and many bacteria. The expression of NPTase II in these mutants is read from a chimeric mRNA that initiates in a chromosomal fla promoter and continues through the inserted NPTase II gene. At least three promotors and three major transcripts were shown to originate from the cloned gene cluster. We study organisms ranging from microbes to humans and have a main interest in the evolution of these organisms. One of these genes, flbN, is required early in the flagellar assembly process. Mechanisms that control timing of cell cycle and developmental events include transcriptional cascades, regulated phosphorylation and proteolysis of signal transduction proteins, transient genetic asymmetry, and intercellular communication. View details for Web of Science ID A1970I035400018, View details for Web of Science ID A1968D122300009, View details for Web of Science ID A1968B197000024, View details for Web of Science ID A19667876500003, View details for Web of Science ID A19656243300010, View details for Web of Science ID A19657086600018, View details for Web of Science ID A19656243300011, Director, Beckman Center for Molecular & Genetic Medicine (2004 - Present), Dickson Prize in Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2020), Chan/Zuckerberg Investigator, Chan/Zuckerberg Biohub (2017), ASCB Women in Cell Biology Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Cell Biology (2013), Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, Rockefeller University (2013), Dean's Medal, Stanford University School of Medicine (2012), Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University Medical Center (2012), National Medal of Science, National Science Foundation (2011), Abbott Lifetime Achievement Award, ASM (2010), Distinguished Alumna Award, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2010), Canada Gairdner International Award, Gairdner Foundation (2009), John Scott Award, Philadelphia City Trust (2009), Address the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Swedish (2008), Hitchcock Professorship, UC Berkeley (2008), Selman A. Waksman Award, National Academy of Sciences (2005), Elected to the American Philosophical Society, American Philosophical Society (2003), FASEB Excellence in Science Award, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (1994), National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (1994), American Academy of Microbiology, American Academy of Microbiology (1993), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992), Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (1991), Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Molecular Biology (1966), Molecular and Genetic Medicine (Fellowship Program), Department: Department of Developmental Biology. Isolation and characterization of a xylose-dependent promoter from Caulobacter crescentus. Thanbichler, M., Iniesta, A. Millions of possible codes can be prepared this way. Hopefully 2015 will be different. The flagellar promoters accessed by Tn5-VB32 exhibited temporal regulation analogous to the known flagellar and chemotaxis gene products. The distribution of MCPs was examined in flagellated and non-flagellated vesicles isolated from predivisional cells. Focused ultrasound excites cortical neurons by opening specific mechanosensitive ion channels, leading to gradual calcium accumulation, activation of calcium-gated channels, depolarization and spiking. To identify the sequence elements that contribute to the temporal control of hook operon transcription, we constructed deletions and base changes in the 5' region and fused the mutagenized regulatory region to transcription reporter genes. The structural organization of the flagellar filament of Caulobacter crescentus, as revealed by immunoelectron microscopy, shows five antigenically distinct regions within the hook-filament complex. 55:1233-1245, 2005). Fluorescence microscopy is a sensitive tool for this purpose. View details for DOI 10.1126/science.1142189, View details for Web of Science ID 000247400500051. When CpdR is phosphorylated, ClpXP is delocalized, and CtrA is not degraded. View details for Web of Science ID 000233399500043. Thus, CpdR function is regulated by a feedback loop that incorporates its differential phosphorylation, the transient polar localization and activity of the ClpXP protease, and the clearance of the CpdR by polar ClpXP that, in turn, releases ClpXP from the pole relieving the degradation of CtrA. We report that CtrA binds five sites within the chromosome replication origin in vitro. Ranked in the top 10 for Neurology and Neurosurgical Care by US News and World Report, SHC is at the cutting edge of the latest treatments for neurological diseases. These results indicate that the rapidly reassociating fraction derives from inverted repeat sequences within the chromosome and not from cross-links or plasmids. During the normal course of the C. crescentus cell cycle, the polar flagellum with hook and rod was shed into the culture medium without the basal rings. Unlike the chromosome, plasmids from the incompatibility groups Q and P replicated in all C. crescentus cell types. A major direction in the lab is to understand how such long-range interactions occur, how they achieve target specificity, and how they may be reprogrammed by alterations to the genome sequence. A 0.2 kb fragment of DNA located immediately upstream of the Caulobacter homolog of the Escherichia coli dnaX gene was able to completely rescue the temperature-sensitive phenotype of LS439. Illinois Experts Profile. Mollie Friedlander Qian in Seung Kims lab successfully defended her thesis titled Discovering new functions of the diabetes gene HNF1A in human pancreatic islets on February 8, 2022. Martin J. Smith. How do you make a protein that self-assembles, fills with air, excludes water and withstands several atmospheres of pressure? Emily Hare - HHMI Asscociate, David Kingsley Lab. Cell cycle progression in Caulobacter is governed by a multilayered regulatory network linking chromosome replication with polar morphogenesis and cell division. Taking MRI Technology down to Micrometer Scales RcdA is required for CtrA polar localization and degradation by ClpXP. We investigate the midplane protein FtsZ in Caulobacter crescentus with super-resolution imaging based on fluorescent-protein photoswitching and the natural polymerization/depolymerization dynamics of FtsZ associated with the Z-ring. In addition, we demonstrated that the fatty acid composition of wild-type C. crescentus can be altered by growing the cells in medium supplemented with any one of a variety of unsaturated fatty acids. Even though NAPs affect DNA-related processes differently, all of them have to oligomerize and bind DNA for their function. Both promoters exhibit CtrA-mediated feedback regulation: the early P1 promoter is negatively controlled by CtrA, and the late P2 promoter is under positive feedback control. This is a sold out event but a stand by line will be made available for those who were unable to claim a ticket or be part of the wait list for the event. Point mutations in one of the DnaA boxes abolish replication in C. crescentus. View details for Web of Science ID A1996TU64000047, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC40058. Stanford Clinical Pathology offers a wide range of routine & esoteric testing. Shapiro currently serves as a biochemistry professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. View details for Web of Science ID A1995QB30700010, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC176597, View details for Web of Science ID A1995BG35H00001. This is the first report of a Caulobacter crescentus protein that is essential for motility but is not spatially restricted to the region of the flagellar basal body. Caulobacter goes to great lengths to control the time and place of the activity of this critical regulatory factor during the cell cycle. View details for Web of Science ID 000072596200032, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC19662. The essential dnaN gene encodes a homolog of the Escherichia coli beta subunit of DNA polymerase III. Two rings were in the hook-proximal upper set, and three rings (two narrow and one wide) were in the lower set. A general mechanism in bacteria to rescue stalled ribosomes and to clear the cell of incomplete polypeptides involves an RNA species, tmRNA (SsrA), which functions as both a tRNA and an mRNA. When these two parameters are calculated for genes from nonmammalian eukaryotic organisms, genes from the same organism again have similar values, and genome-wide codon bias may also be predicted from intergenic sequences. Mutational analysis of FliI showed that two highly conserved amino acid residues in a bipartite ATP binding motif are necessary for flagellar assembly. A binding protein specific for cyclic guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP) has been partially purified from extracts of the eubacterium Caulobacter crescentus and resolved from cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP)-binding activity. Proteolytic control of Caulobacter cell cycle proteins is primarily executed by ClpXP, a dynamically localized protease implicated in turnover of several factors critical for faithful cell cycle progression. Gonzalez, D., Kozdon, J. View details for Web of Science ID 000232262800007. A., Britos, L., Shapiro, L. A spindle-like apparatus guides bacterial chromosome segregation. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Sarafan ChEM-H; Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Stanford PULSE Institute; shapiro@stanford.edu. B., McAdams, H. H., Shapiro, L., Collier, J. This gene was cloned, and it was found that its transcription is initiated early in the cell cycle. However, live-cell superresolution imaging has been challenged by the need to image three-dimensional (3D) structures relative to their biological context, such as the cellular membrane. The diameters of the two upper rings differed, being 32 and 21 nm, respectively. B.S. Their goal is to define these mechanisms using both molecular genetics and biochemistry. The trapping of enzyme-bound tRNA(Leu) in the editing site prevents catalytic turnover, thus inhibiting synthesis of leucyl-tRNA(Leu) and consequentially blocking protein synthesis. Temporally controlled proteolysis of the essential response regulator, CtrA, is critical for cell cycle progression in Caulobacter crescentus. The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus uses two-component phospho-signalling to regulate spatially distinct cell cycle events through the master regulator CtrA. The GroEL homolog, however, was distributed equally to both the stalked cell and the swarmer cell. The Global Regulatory Architecture of Transcription during the Caulobacter Cell Cycle. Imaging & visualization -Schneider, M. T., Zhang, J. n., Crisco, J. J., Weiss, A. C., Ladd, A. L., Nielsen, P. M., Besier, T. n.2019;7 (3): 297301, ANNALS OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE-ARM -Steele, K. M., Roh, E. Y., Mahtani, G., Meister, D. W., Ladd, A. L., Rose, J. Here we report that SsrA activity is required for normal timing of the G(1)-to-S transition in Caulobacter crescentus. Goley, E. D., Yeh, Y., Hong, S., Fero, M. J., Abeliuk, E., McAdams, H. H., Shapiro, L. The Architecture and Conservation Pattern of Whole-Cell Control Circuitry, Regulatory Response to Carbon Starvation in Caulobacter crescentus. Genetic analysis of these mutants resulted in the identification of at least eight che genes located at six different positions on the Caulobacter crescentus chromosome. Genetic networks with tens to hundreds of genes are difficult to analyze with currently available techniques. Recent work has provided information on how dynamic subcellular localization occurs and how it is exploited by the bacterial cell. phiCbK DNA cosediments with Escherichia coli phage T2 DNA and has therefore been assigned an S(20,w) value of 63.5S. Little is known about the structure and function of most nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) in bacteria. Thus this website will only describe the research activities of Dr. --Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. DNA methylation is now recognized as a regulator of multiple bacterial cellular processes. To identify factors contributing to the asymmetric biogenesis of polar pili, cytological studies of pilus assembly components were performed. On the basis of its location in the hook-filament complex, this region may contain hook-associated proteins. Using an inactive form of PleC (PleCH610A) that lacks the catalytic histidine residue, we provide evidence that PleC activity is responsible for the asymmetric distribution of CpaE and itself to only one of the two cell poles. To understand how polar organizing centres are established by PopZ, we investigated a set of mutated PopZ proteins for defects in sub-cellular localization and recruitment activity. Extra fun to be joined by Moore Scholar Mickael Tanter. Saurabh, S., Perez, A., Comerci, C., Shapiro, L., Moerner, W. A Localized Complex of Two Protein Oligomers Controls the Orientation of Cell Polarity. The FliL protein was found to be associated with the inner membrane and to be present in all cell types. This 37,000 Mr heat-shock protein might be related to the E. coli 32,000 Mr heat-shock sigma subunit. Find a doctor . Particular progress has been made in understanding the structure, replication, and segregation of the bacterial chromosome. We offer consultative services to pathologists around the world who seek assistance with challenging cases. Optical microscopy for this study was carried out at the Moerner lab at Stanford. These new reporter genes provide much greater sensitivity, nonlinear ultrasound contrast, and ease-of-use for expression in a variety of cell types. The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus divides asymmetrically to yield two functionally distinct cells: a motile, chemotactic swarmer cell, and a sessile stalked cell with replication and division capabilities. This is in contrast to a subset of flagellar genes which are transcribed from the chromosome in the incipient swarmer portion of the predivisional cell. View details for Web of Science ID A1990EB36200001. We seek to understand the mechanisms that regulate self-renewal, proliferation and differentiation in adult stem cell linages. Examination of the 16 S rRNA genes from other bacterial species and chloroplasts and 18 S rRNA genes from Xenopus and yeast revealed that the nucleotide sequence of this internal 16 S rRNA promoter region was highly conserved. American volume -Guitton, T. G., Ring, D.2011;93 (21): 2015-2021, GAIT & POSTURE -Butler, E. E., Ladd, A. L., Louie, S. A., Lamont, L. E., Wong, W., Rose, J. This structure is absent at the flagellar pole but not in the stalks of flbT mutant predivisional cells. Understanding the control logic in the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus has progressed to the point where we now have an integrated systems view of the operation of its entire cell cycle functioning as a state machine. emw@med.unc.edu
Graduate Student (joined @ 06/2017) Bioengineering. The cellular location of a derivative of the RK2 plasmid is distinct from that of the alpha proteobacterium genomic replicon origins but is conserved across bacteria. Postdoc. The stalked cell, which initiates chromosome replication immediately upon division, received the Lon homolog, the DnaK homolog and the 37,000 Mr RNA polymerase subunit. These ternary complexes aggregate predominantly at the cell poles. The effect of cyclic AMP on growth on sugars metabolized by inducible enzymes, as well as on sugars metabolized by constitutive enzymes, may represent a regulatory system common to both types of sugar utilization, since they share features that differ from glucose utilization, namely, temperature-sensitive growth and low intracellular concentrations of cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate. Frank Yang, lab member 2017-2019 PhD Candidate in Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2019-present BA Mathematics & Economics, Carleton College, 2017. We report herein a class of boron-containing compounds termed borinic esters that have broad spectrum antibacterial activity with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) in the low microgram/mL range. View details for Web of Science ID A1977DU20100033, View details for Web of Science ID A1976CH91600017. View details for Web of Science ID A1996VP61500004. Caulobacter crescentus divides asymmetrically generating two distinct cell types at each cell division: a stalked cell competent for DNA replication, and a swarmer cell that is unable to initiate DNA replication until it differentiates into a stalked cell later in the cell cycle. Each kind of bacterium also executes its own strategy to find nutrients in its habitat and to cope with conditions of stress from its environment. We report the identification of another C. crescentus heat shock operon containing two genes, hrcA (hrc for heat shock regulation at CIRCE elements) and a grpE homolog. We report that SciP, a helix-turn-helix transcription factor, is an essential component of this circuit. article. This Tn5 derivative also contained the intact tetracycline resistance-encoding region of the transposon Tn10. The ensuing accumulation of CtrA results in the activation of the P2 promoter and the repression of the P1 promoter late in the cell cycle. 25(7):488-490. These cells possess distinct functional morphologies and differential programs of transcription and DNA replication. Surprisingly, many signal transduction proteins are dynamically localized to specific subcellular addresses during the cell division cycle and sporulation, and proper localization is essential for their function. In this Review, we summarize the current knowledge on localization mechanisms in bacteria, with an emphasis on the role of polymeric protein assemblies in the directed movement and positioning of macromolecular complexes. This regulated promoter has an unusual sequence organization, and transcription from this promoter is essential for regulated (cell type-specific) replication. The next region (region IV), of length approximately 1 to 2 microns, appears to contain the 27.5 x 10(3) Mr flagellin, but at its distal end includes, in gradually increasing amounts, the 25 x 10(3) Mr flagellin. Here, we report that the conserved replication initiator, DnaA, can mediate chromosome segregation independent of replication initiation. Perez, A. M., Mann, T. H., Lasker, K., Ahrens, D. G., Eckart, M. R., Shapiro, L. Super-Resolution Microscopy and Single-Protein Tracking in Live Bacteria Using a Genetically Encoded, Photostable Fluoromodule. The predominant transcription start site in vitro was located near the 3' end of the 16 S rRNA gene. Also, cell pole morphogenesis and initiation of chromosome replication normally occurring at the swarmer-to-stalked cell transition are uncoupled in carbon-starved cells. Here, we review the progress that has been made towards understanding the mechanisms by which bacterial cytoskeletal proteins influence cellular organization. SpoT is a bifunctional synthase/hydrolase that controls the steady-state level of the stress-signaling nucleotide (p)ppGpp, and carbon starvation caused a SpoT-dependent increase in (p)ppGpp concentration. In Caulobacter crescentus, the origin of DNA replication is located at the cell pole. Strain GR131 has wild-type morphology and chromosome number, as assessed by flow cytometry. Moerner, W. E., Biteen, J., Conley, N. R., Lee, H., Lord, S. J., Thompson, M. A., Shapiro, L., Liu, N., Samuel, R., Twieg, R. J. View details for Web of Science ID A1990DY49600006. Both promoters were heat shock inducible, with maximal expression 10 to 20 min after heat shock. View details for Web of Science ID A1970G593000016, View details for Web of Science ID A1970H419900033, View details for Web of Science ID A1970G466200017. An asynchronous sequential digital circuit model equivalent to the validated simulation model was created. We have succeeded in isolating synchronized populations of Agrobacterium cells and analyzing their progression through the cell cycle. bioRxiv. His areas of interest include jurisprudence, international law, constitutional law, criminal law and cybersecurity. Nierman, W. C., Feldblyum, T. V., Laub, M. T., Paulsen, I. T., Nelson, K. E., Eisen, J., Heidelberg, J. F., Alley, M. R., Ohta, N., Maddock, J. R., Potocka, I., Nelson, W. C., Newton, A., Stephens, C., Phadke, N. D., Ely, B., DeBoy, R. T., Dodson, R. J., Durkin, A. S., Gwinn, M. L., Haft, D. H., Kolonay, J. F., Smit, J., Craven, M. 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