individual publications

• academic article

  • Analogs of the autoinducer 3-oxo-octanoyl-homoserine lactone strongly inhibit activity of the TraR protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.  Journal of Bacteriology.  180:5398-5405. 1998
  • Transcriptional regulation and location of Agrobacterium tumefaciens genes required for complete catabolism of octopine.  Journal of Bacteriology.  179:1-8. 1997
  • Identification of Agrobacterium tumefaciens genes that direct the complete catabolism of octopine.  Journal of Bacteriology.  178:1872-1880. 1996
  • Conserved cis-acting promoter elements are required for density-dependent transcription of Agrobacterium tumefaciens conjugal transfer genes.  Journal of Bacteriology.  178:435-440. 1996
  • Enzymatic synthesis of a quorum-sensing autoinducer using defined substrates.  Science.  272:1655-1658. 1996
  • Localization of OccR-activated and TraR-activated promoters that express two ABC-type permeases and the traR gene of Ti plasmid pTiR10.  Molecular Microbiology.  20:1199-1210. 1996
  • The conjugal transfer system of A. tumefaciens octopine-type Ti plasmids is closely related to the transfer system of an IncP plasmid and distantly related to Ti plasmid vir genes.  Journal of Bacteriology.  178:4248-4257. 1996
  • Activity of the Agrobacterium Ti plasmid conjugal transfer regulator TraR is inhibited by the product of the traM gene.  Journal of Bacteriology.  177:1367-1373. 1995

• chapter

  • Transcriptional regulation of conjugal transfer genes of octopine-type Ti plasmids.  Crown Gall: Advances in Understanding Interkingdom Gene Transfer. 59-74. 1996
  • Environmentally responsive DNA bending by the Agrobacterium tumefaciens transcriptional activator OccR.  Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant- Microbe Interactions. Vol 3. 1994