Bacillus subtilis & Clostridium difficile

Shonna McBride
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center, Microbiology
B.S., McNeese State University, Biological Sciences

Thesis Topic
McBride, S. Study of the compartment-specific factors SigE and SpoIIE on sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; June 2005.

Current Research
Regulation of toxin production in Clostridium difficile

Publications

1. McBride SM, Coburn PS, Baghdayan AS, Willems RJ, Grande MJ, Shankar N,
   Gilmore MS. Genetic Variation and Evolution of the Pathogenicity
   Island of Enterococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol 2009 Mar 6 [Epub ahead of
   print].
2. McBride SM, Fischetti VA, Leblanc DJ, Moellering RC Jr, Gilmore MS. Genetic diversity among Enterococcus faecalis. PLoS ONE. 2007 Jul 4;2(7):e582.
3. McBride SM, Rubio A, Wang L, Haldenwang WG. Contributions of protein structure and gene position to the compartmentalization of the regulatory proteins sigma(E) and SpoIIE in sporulating Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol. 2005 Jul;57(2):434-51.
4. McBride, S. and Haldenwang, W.G. Sporulation phenotype of a Bacillus subtilis mutant expressing an unprocessable but active σE transcription factor. J Bacteriol 2004; 186:1999-2005.