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Recent North Lab Publications on Bacterial Metabolism and Bio-products

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Redox poise in R. rubrum phototrophic growth drives large-scale changes in macromolecular pathways
Cannon WR, King E, Huening KA, North JA. PLOS Computational Biology. 2025; 21 (6), e1013015

A robust method for monitoring the growth and metabolism of probiotic bacteria in vitro
Janovick J, North JA, Zhang S, Zhu J, Blakeslee JJ, Hatzakis E. LWT. 2025; 221, 117597

Scientists’ call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals
Crowther TW, Rappuoli R, Corinaldesi C, Danovaro R, Donohue TJ, … Cell. 2024; 187 (19), 5195-5216

Escherichia coli possessing the dihydroxyacetone phosphate shunt utilize 5′-deoxynucleosides for growth
Huening KA, Groves JT, Wildenthal JA, Tabita FR, North JA. Microbiology Spectrum. 2024; 12 (4), e03086-23

An approach to learn regulation to maximize growth and entropy production rates in metabolism
King E, Holzer J, North JA, Cannon WR. Frontiers in Systems Biology. 2023; 3, 981866

A nitrogenase-like enzyme system catalyzes methionine, ethylene, and methane biogenesis.

North JA, Narrowe AB, Xiong W, Byerly KM, Zhao G, Young SJ, Murali S, Wildenthal JA, Cannon WR, Wrighton KC, Hettich RL, Tabita FR. Science. 2020 Aug 28; 369(6507):1094-1098. doi: 10.1126/science.abb6310.PMID: 32855335

A bifunctional salvage pathway for two distinct S-adenosylmethionine by-products that is widespread in bacteria, including pathogenic Escherichia coli.

North JA, Wildenthal JA, Erb TJ, Evans BS, Byerly KM, Gerlt JA, Tabita FR. Mol Microbiol. 2020 May; 113(5):923-937. doi: 10.1111/mmi.14459. Epub 2020 Feb 20.PMID: 31950558

Structural Perturbations of Rhodopseudomonas palustris Form II RuBisCO Mutant Enzymes That Affect CO₂ Fixation.

Satagopan S, North JA, Arbing MA, Varaljay VA, Haines SN, Wildenthal JA, Byerly KM, Shin A, Tabita FR. Biochemistry. 2019 Sep 17; 58(37):3880-3892. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00617. Epub 2019 Sep 3.PMID: 31456394

Two Distinct Aerobic Methionine Salvage Pathways Generate Volatile Methanethiol in Rhodopseudomonas palustris.

Miller AR, North JA, Wildenthal JA, Tabita FR. mBio. 2018 Apr 10; 9(2):e00407-18. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00407-18.PMID: 29636438 Free PMC article.

Microbial pathway for anaerobic 5′-methylthioadenosine metabolism coupled to ethylene formation.

North JA, Miller AR, Wildenthal JA, Young SJ, Tabita FR. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28; 114(48):E10455-E10464. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1711625114. Epub 2017 Nov 13.PMID: 29133429 Free PMC article.

Metabolic Regulation as a Consequence of Anaerobic 5-Methylthioadenosine Recycling in Rhodospirillum rubrum.

North JA, Sriram J, Chourey K, Ecker CD, Sharma R, Wildenthal JA, Hettich RL, Tabita FR. mBio. 2016 Jul 12; 7(4):e00855-16. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00855-16.PMID: 27406564 Free PMC article.

Functional metagenomic selection of ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from uncultivated bacteria.

Varaljay VA, Satagopan S, North JA, Witte B, Dourado MN, Anantharaman K, Arbing MA, Hoeft McCann S, Oremland RS, Banfield JF, Wrighton KC, Tabita FR. Environ Microbiol. 2016 Apr; 18(4):1187-99. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13138. Epub 2016 Jan 21.PMID: 26617072 Free article.

In Vivo Studies in Rhodospirillum rubrum Indicate That Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase (Rubisco) Catalyzes Two Obligatorily Required and Physiologically Significant Reactions for Distinct Carbon and Sulfur Metabolic Pathways.

Dey S, North JA, Sriram J, Evans BS, Tabita FR. J Biol Chem. 2015 Dec 25; 290(52):30658-68. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.691295. Epub 2015 Oct 28.PMID: 26511314 Free PMC article.