Principal Investigator
Stuart Levy
Professor
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Contact Information
Department of Microbiology
Tufts University
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
Office (617) 636-6764
Lab (617) 636-6765
Fax (617) 636-0337
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Bina, X., V. Perreten and S.B. Levy. (2003). The
periplasmic protein MppA requires an additional mutated locus to
repress marA expression in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 185:1465-1469.
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Robleto, E.A., I. Lopez-Hernandez, M.W. Silby
and S.B. Levy. (2003) Genetic analysis of the AdnA regulon in Pseudomonas
fluorescens: non-essential role of flagella in adhesion to sand and
biofilm formation. J. Bacteriol. 185:453-460.
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McMurry, L.M. and S.B. Levy. (2002) Fe2+ -Tetracycline-Mediated
Cleavage of the Tn10 Tetracycline Efflux Protein TetA Reveals a Substrate
Binding Site near Glutamine 225 in a Transmembrane Helix 7. J. Bacteriol.
184:5113-5120.
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Barbosa, T.M. and S.B. Levy. (2002) Activation
of the Escherichia coli nfnB gene by MarA through a highly divergent
marbox in a class II promoter. Molec. Microbiol. 45(1):191-202.
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Alekshun, M.N., S.B. Levy, T.R. Mealy, B.A. Seaton,
and J.F. Head. (2001) The crystal
structure of MarR a regulator of multiple antibiotic resistance,
at 2.3A resolution
Nature Structural Biology 8: 710-714.
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Wang, H., J.L. Dzink-Fox, M. Chen, and S.B. Levy.
(2001) Genetic characterization of
high-level fluoroquinolone resistant clinical Eschericahia coli strains
from China: role for
acrR mutations. Antimicrob. Agnts. Chemother. 45: 1515-1521.
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Marshall, B., E. Robleto, R. Wexler, P. Casaz
and S.B. Levy. (2001) The AdnA
transcriptional factor affects persistence and spread of Pseudomonas
fluorescens under
natural field conditions. Appl. Env. Microb. 67: 852-857.
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Casaz, P., A. Happel, J. Keithan, D. Read, S.
Strain and S.B. Levy. (2001) The
Pseudomonas fluorescens transcriptional activator AdnA is required
for adhesion and
motility. Microbiology 147: 355-361.
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Saraceni-Richards, C. and S.B. Levy. (2000) Second
site suppressor mutations of Gly-247
substitution mutants of the tetracycline efflux protein Tet(B) J.
Bacteriol. 182: 6514-
6516.
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Yin, C-C., M.L. Aldema-Ramos, I. Borges-Walmsley,
R.W. Taylor, A.R. Walmsley, S.B.
Levy and P.A. Bullough. (2000) The quarternary molecular architecture
of TetA, a
secondary tetracycline transporter from Escherichia coli Molec. Microb.
38: 482-492.
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Wong, Rebecca S.Y., L.M. McMurry and S.B. Levy
(2000) “Intergenic” blr gene in
Escherichia coli encodes a 41 residue membrane proein affecting intrinsic
susceptibility
to certain inhibitors of peptidoglycan synthesis. Molec. Microbiol.
37: 364-370.
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Barbosa, T. and S.B. Levy. (2000) Differential
expression of over 60 chromosomal genes
in Escherichia coli by constitutive expression of MarA. J. Bacteriol.
182: 3467-3474.
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Kern, W.V., M. Oethinger, A.S. Jellen-Ritter and
S.B. Levy (2000) Non-target gene
mutations in the development of fluoroquinolone resistance in Escherichia
coli.
Antimicrob. Agts. Chemother. 44:814-820.
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Alekshun, M.N., Y.S. Kim and S.B. Levy (2000)
Mutational analysis of MarR, the negative regulator of marRAB expression
in Escherichia coli, suggests the presence of two regions required
for DNA binding. Molec. Microbiol. 35:1394-1404.
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| Saraceni-Richards, C. and S.B. Levy (2000) Evidence
for interactions between helices 5
and 8 and a role for the interdomain loop in tetracycline resistance
mediated by hybrid
Tet proteins. J. Biol. Chem 275:6101-6106. |
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