Paul S. Hoffman

Do We Catalog or Not? How Research Libraries Provide Bibliographic Access to Electronic Journals in Aggregated Databases (2002)

Martin, Charity K., Hoffman, Paul S.

Traditionally, librarians have provided access to journal titles through the library's catalog. With the introduction of full-text databases, which consist of articles from many different journals,...

Insertion of Mini-IS605 and Deletion of Adjacent Sequences in the Nitroreductase (rdxA) Gene Cause Metronidazole Resistance in Helicobacter pylori NCTC11637

Debets-Ossenkopp, Yvette J., Pot, Raymond G. J., Van Westerloo, David J., Goodwin, Avery, Berg, Douglas E., ...

We found that NCTC11637, the type strain of Helicobacter pylori, the causative agent of peptic ulcer disease and an early risk factor for gastric cancer, is metronidazole resistant. DNA...

Sequential Inactivation of rdxA (HP0954) and frxA (HP0642) Nitroreductase Genes Causes Moderate and High-Level Metronidazole Resistance in Helicobacter pylori

Jeong, Jin-Yong, Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Dailidiene, Daiva, Wang, Yipeng, Velapatiño, Billie, Gilman, Robert H., ...

Helicobacter pylori is a human-pathogenic bacterial species that is subdivided geographically, with different genotypes predominating in different parts of the world. Here we test and extend an...

Metronidazole Activation Is Mutagenic and Causes DNA Fragmentation in Helicobacter pylori and in Escherichia coli Containing a Cloned H. pylori rdxA+ (Nitroreductase) Gene

Sisson, Gary, Jeong, Jin-Yong, Goodwin, Avery, Bryden, Louis, Rossler, Norma, Lim-Morrison, Sabrina, ...

Much of the normal high sensitivity of wild-type Helicobacter pylori to metronidazole (Mtz) depends on rdxA (HP0954), a gene encoding a novel nitroreductase that catalyzes the conversion of Mtz from...

Systematic Identification of Selective Essential Genes in Helicobacter pylori by Genome Prioritization and Allelic Replacement Mutagenesis

Chalker, Alison F., Minehart, Heather W., Hughes, Nicky J., Koretke, Kristin K., Lonetto, Michael A., Brinkman, Kerry K., ...

A comparative genomic approach was used to identify Helicobacter pylori 26695 open reading frames (ORFs) which are conserved in H. pylori J99 but highly diverged in other eubacteria. A survey of...

Essential Thioredoxin-Dependent Peroxiredoxin System from Helicobacter pylori: Genetic and Kinetic Characterization

Baker, Laura M. S., Raudonikiene, Ausra, Hoffman, Paul S., Poole, Leslie B.

Helicobacter pylori, an oxygen-sensitive microaerophile, contains an alkyl hydroperoxide reductase homologue (AhpC, HP1563) that is more closely related to 2-Cys peroxiredoxins of higher organisms...

Roles of FrxA and RdxA Nitroreductases of Helicobacter pylori in Susceptibility and Resistance to Metronidazole

Jeong, Jin-Yong, Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Akada, Junko K., Dailidiene, Daiva, Hoffman, Paul S., Berg, Douglas E.

The relative importance of the frxA and rdxA nitroreductase genes of Helicobacter pylori in metronidazole (MTZ) susceptibility and resistance has been controversial. Jeong et al. (J. Bacteriol....

Immunolocalization of Hsp60 in Legionella pneumophila

Garduño, Rafael A., Faulkner, Gary, Trevors, Mary A., Vats, Neeraj, Hoffman, Paul S.

One of the most abundant proteins synthesized by Legionella pneumophila, particularly during growth in a variety of eukaryotic host cells, is Hsp60, a member of the GroEL family of molecular...

Surface-Associated Hsp60 Chaperonin of Legionella pneumophila Mediates Invasion in a HeLa Cell Model

Garduño, Rafael A., Garduño, Elizabeth, Hoffman, Paul S.

HeLa cells have been previously used to demonstrate that virulent strains of Legionella pneumophila (but not salt-tolerant avirulent strains) efficiently invade nonphagocytic cells. Hsp60, a member...

Enzymes Associated with Reductive Activation and Action of Nitazoxanide, Nitrofurans, and Metronidazole in Helicobacter pylori

Sisson, Gary, Goodwin, Avery, Raudonikiene, Ausra, Hughes, Nicky J., Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Berg, Douglas E., ...

Nitazoxanide (NTZ) is a redox-active nitrothiazolyl-salicylamide prodrug that kills Helicobacter pylori and also many anaerobic bacterial, protozoan, and helminthic species. Here we describe...

Intracellular Growth of Legionella pneumophila Gives Rise to a Differentiated Form Dissimilar to Stationary-Phase Forms

Garduño, Rafael A., Garduño, Elizabeth, Hiltz, Margot, Hoffman, Paul S.

When Legionella pneumophila grows in HeLa cells, it alternates between a replicative form and a morphologically distinct “cyst-like” form termed MIF (mature intracellular form). MIFs are also...

Development of an Interleukin-12-Deficient Mouse Model That Is Permissive for Colonization by a Motile KE26695 Strain of Helicobacter pylori

Hoffman, Paul S., Vats, Neeraj, Hutchison, Donna, Butler, Jared, Chisholm, Kenneth, Sisson, Gary, ...

The identification of genes associated with colonization and persistence of Helicobacter pylori in the gastric mucosa has been limited by the lack of robust animal models that support infection by...

The fdxA Ferredoxin Gene Can Down-Regulate frxA Nitroreductase Gene Expression and Is Essential in Many Strains of Helicobacter pylori

Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Jeong, Jin-Yong, Dailidiene, Daiva, Hoffman, Paul S., Berg, Douglas E.

Very few examples of metabolic regulation are known in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. An unanticipated case was suggested, however, upon finding two types of metronidazole...

A 65-Kilobase Pathogenicity Island Is Unique to Philadelphia-1 Strains of Legionella pneumophila

Brassinga, Ann Karen C., Hiltz, Margot F., Sisson, Gary R., Morash, Michael G., Hill, Nathan, Garduno, Elizabeth, ...

Nucleotide sequence analysis of an ∼80-kb genomic region revealed an ∼65-kb locus that bears hallmarks of a pathogenicity island. This locus includes homologues of a type IV secretion system,...

Expression of magA in Legionella pneumophila Philadelphia-1 Is Developmentally Regulated and a Marker of Formation of Mature Intracellular Forms

Hiltz, Margot F., Sisson, Gary R., Brassinga, Ann Karen C., Garduno, Elizabeth, Garduno, Rafael A., Hoffman, Paul S.

Legionella pneumophila displays a biphasic developmental cycle in which replicating forms (RFs) differentiate postexponentially into highly infectious, cyst-like mature intracellular forms (MIFs)....

CARB-9, a Carbenicillinase Encoded in the VCR Region of Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 Belongs to a Family of Cassette-Encoded β-Lactamases†

Petroni, Alejandro, Melano, Roberto G., Saka, Héctor A., Garutti, Alicia, Mange, Laura, Pasterán, Fernando, ...

The gene blaCARB-9 was located in the Vibrio cholerae super-integron, but in a different location relative to blaCARB-7. CARB-9 (pI 5.2) conferred β-lactam MICs four to eight times lower than those...

The Helicobacter pylori Chemotaxis Receptor TlpB (HP0103) Is Required for pH Taxis and for Colonization of the Gastric Mucosa

Croxen, Matthew A., Sisson, Gary, Melano, Roberto, Hoffman, Paul S.

The location of Helicobacter pylori in the gastric mucosa of mammals is defined by natural pH gradients within the gastric mucus, which are more alkaline proximal to the mucosal epithelial cells and...

Cysteine Metabolism in Legionella pneumophila: Characterization of an l-Cystine-Utilizing Mutant

Ewann, Fanny, Hoffman, Paul S.

Growth of Legionella pneumophila on buffered charcoal-yeast extract (BCYE) medium is dependent on l-cysteine (but not l-cystine), which is added in excess over what is required for nutrition. We...

Insertion of Mini-IS605 and Deletion of Adjacent Sequences in the Nitroreductase (rdxA) Gene Cause Metronidazole Resistance in Helicobacter pylori NCTC11637

Debets-Ossenkopp, Yvette J., Pot, Raymond G. J., Van Westerloo, David J., Goodwin, Avery, Berg, Douglas E., ...

We found that NCTC11637, the type strain of Helicobacter pylori, the causative agent of peptic ulcer disease and an early risk factor for gastric cancer, is metronidazole resistant. DNA...

Sequential Inactivation of rdxA (HP0954) and frxA (HP0642) Nitroreductase Genes Causes Moderate and High-Level Metronidazole Resistance in Helicobacter pylori

Jeong, Jin-Yong, Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Dailidiene, Daiva, Wang, Yipeng, Velapatiño, Billie, Gilman, Robert H., ...

Helicobacter pylori is a human-pathogenic bacterial species that is subdivided geographically, with different genotypes predominating in different parts of the world. Here we test and extend an...

Metronidazole Activation Is Mutagenic and Causes DNA Fragmentation in Helicobacter pylori and in Escherichia coli Containing a Cloned H. pylori rdxA+ (Nitroreductase) Gene

Sisson, Gary, Jeong, Jin-Yong, Goodwin, Avery, Bryden, Louis, Rossler, Norma, Lim-Morrison, Sabrina, ...

Much of the normal high sensitivity of wild-type Helicobacter pylori to metronidazole (Mtz) depends on rdxA (HP0954), a gene encoding a novel nitroreductase that catalyzes the conversion of Mtz from...

Systematic Identification of Selective Essential Genes in Helicobacter pylori by Genome Prioritization and Allelic Replacement Mutagenesis

Chalker, Alison F., Minehart, Heather W., Hughes, Nicky J., Koretke, Kristin K., Lonetto, Michael A., Brinkman, Kerry K., ...

A comparative genomic approach was used to identify Helicobacter pylori 26695 open reading frames (ORFs) which are conserved in H. pylori J99 but highly diverged in other eubacteria. A survey of...

Essential Thioredoxin-Dependent Peroxiredoxin System from Helicobacter pylori: Genetic and Kinetic Characterization

Baker, Laura M. S., Raudonikiene, Ausra, Hoffman, Paul S., Poole, Leslie B.

Helicobacter pylori, an oxygen-sensitive microaerophile, contains an alkyl hydroperoxide reductase homologue (AhpC, HP1563) that is more closely related to 2-Cys peroxiredoxins of higher organisms...

Roles of FrxA and RdxA Nitroreductases of Helicobacter pylori in Susceptibility and Resistance to Metronidazole

Jeong, Jin-Yong, Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Akada, Junko K., Dailidiene, Daiva, Hoffman, Paul S., Berg, Douglas E.

The relative importance of the frxA and rdxA nitroreductase genes of Helicobacter pylori in metronidazole (MTZ) susceptibility and resistance has been controversial. Jeong et al. (J. Bacteriol....

Immunolocalization of Hsp60 in Legionella pneumophila

Garduño, Rafael A., Faulkner, Gary, Trevors, Mary A., Vats, Neeraj, Hoffman, Paul S.

One of the most abundant proteins synthesized by Legionella pneumophila, particularly during growth in a variety of eukaryotic host cells, is Hsp60, a member of the GroEL family of molecular...

Surface-Associated Hsp60 Chaperonin of Legionella pneumophila Mediates Invasion in a HeLa Cell Model

Garduño, Rafael A., Garduño, Elizabeth, Hoffman, Paul S.

HeLa cells have been previously used to demonstrate that virulent strains of Legionella pneumophila (but not salt-tolerant avirulent strains) efficiently invade nonphagocytic cells. Hsp60, a member...

Enzymes Associated with Reductive Activation and Action of Nitazoxanide, Nitrofurans, and Metronidazole in Helicobacter pylori

Sisson, Gary, Goodwin, Avery, Raudonikiene, Ausra, Hughes, Nicky J., Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Berg, Douglas E., ...

Nitazoxanide (NTZ) is a redox-active nitrothiazolyl-salicylamide prodrug that kills Helicobacter pylori and also many anaerobic bacterial, protozoan, and helminthic species. Here we describe...

Intracellular Growth of Legionella pneumophila Gives Rise to a Differentiated Form Dissimilar to Stationary-Phase Forms

Garduño, Rafael A., Garduño, Elizabeth, Hiltz, Margot, Hoffman, Paul S.

When Legionella pneumophila grows in HeLa cells, it alternates between a replicative form and a morphologically distinct “cyst-like” form termed MIF (mature intracellular form). MIFs are also...

Development of an Interleukin-12-Deficient Mouse Model That Is Permissive for Colonization by a Motile KE26695 Strain of Helicobacter pylori

Hoffman, Paul S., Vats, Neeraj, Hutchison, Donna, Butler, Jared, Chisholm, Kenneth, Sisson, Gary, ...

The identification of genes associated with colonization and persistence of Helicobacter pylori in the gastric mucosa has been limited by the lack of robust animal models that support infection by...

The fdxA Ferredoxin Gene Can Down-Regulate frxA Nitroreductase Gene Expression and Is Essential in Many Strains of Helicobacter pylori

Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Jeong, Jin-Yong, Dailidiene, Daiva, Hoffman, Paul S., Berg, Douglas E.

Very few examples of metabolic regulation are known in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. An unanticipated case was suggested, however, upon finding two types of metronidazole...

A 65-Kilobase Pathogenicity Island Is Unique to Philadelphia-1 Strains of Legionella pneumophila

Brassinga, Ann Karen C., Hiltz, Margot F., Sisson, Gary R., Morash, Michael G., Hill, Nathan, Garduno, Elizabeth, ...

Nucleotide sequence analysis of an ∼80-kb genomic region revealed an ∼65-kb locus that bears hallmarks of a pathogenicity island. This locus includes homologues of a type IV secretion system,...

Expression of magA in Legionella pneumophila Philadelphia-1 Is Developmentally Regulated and a Marker of Formation of Mature Intracellular Forms

Hiltz, Margot F., Sisson, Gary R., Brassinga, Ann Karen C., Garduno, Elizabeth, Garduno, Rafael A., Hoffman, Paul S.

Legionella pneumophila displays a biphasic developmental cycle in which replicating forms (RFs) differentiate postexponentially into highly infectious, cyst-like mature intracellular forms (MIFs)....

CARB-9, a Carbenicillinase Encoded in the VCR Region of Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 Belongs to a Family of Cassette-Encoded β-Lactamases†

Petroni, Alejandro, Melano, Roberto G., Saka, Héctor A., Garutti, Alicia, Mange, Laura, Pasterán, Fernando, ...

The gene blaCARB-9 was located in the Vibrio cholerae super-integron, but in a different location relative to blaCARB-7. CARB-9 (pI 5.2) conferred β-lactam MICs four to eight times lower than those...

The Helicobacter pylori Chemotaxis Receptor TlpB (HP0103) Is Required for pH Taxis and for Colonization of the Gastric Mucosa

Croxen, Matthew A., Sisson, Gary, Melano, Roberto, Hoffman, Paul S.

The location of Helicobacter pylori in the gastric mucosa of mammals is defined by natural pH gradients within the gastric mucus, which are more alkaline proximal to the mucosal epithelial cells and...

Cysteine Metabolism in Legionella pneumophila: Characterization of an l-Cystine-Utilizing Mutant

Ewann, Fanny, Hoffman, Paul S.

Growth of Legionella pneumophila on buffered charcoal-yeast extract (BCYE) medium is dependent on l-cysteine (but not l-cystine), which is added in excess over what is required for nutrition. We...

Compensatory Functions of Two Alkyl Hydroperoxide Reductases in the Oxidative Defense System of Legionella pneumophila†

LeBlanc, Jason J., Davidson, Ross J., Hoffman, Paul S.

Legionella pneumophila expresses two catalase-peroxidase enzymes that exhibit strong peroxidatic but weak catalatic activities, suggesting that other enzymes participate in decomposition of hydrogen...

Antiparasitic Drug Nitazoxanide Inhibits the Pyruvate Oxidoreductases of Helicobacter pylori, Selected Anaerobic Bacteria and Parasites, and Campylobacter jejuni▿

Hoffman, Paul S., Sisson, Gary, Croxen, Matthew A., Welch, Kevin, Harman, W. Dean, Cremades, Nunilo, ...

Nitazoxanide (NTZ) exhibits broad-spectrum activity against anaerobic bacteria and parasites and the ulcer-causing pathogen Helicobacter pylori. Here we show that NTZ is a noncompetitive inhibitor...

Antisense RNA Modulation of Alkyl Hydroperoxide Reductase Levels in Helicobacter pylori Correlates with Organic Peroxide Toxicity but Not Infectivity▿

Croxen, Matthew A., Ernst, Peter B., Hoffman, Paul S.

Much of the gene content of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori (∼1.7-Mb genome) is considered essential. This view is based on the completeness of metabolic pathways, infrequency of...

Flavodoxin:Quinone Reductase (FqrB): a Redox Partner of Pyruvate:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase That Reversibly Couples Pyruvate Oxidation to NADPH Production in Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni▿

St. Maurice, Martin, Cremades, Nunilo, Croxen, Matthew A., Sisson, Gary, Sancho, Javier, Hoffman, Paul S.

Pyruvate-dependent reduction of NADP has been demonstrated in cell extracts of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. However, NADP is not a substrate of purified pyruvate:ferredoxin...

An Ortholog of OxyR in Legionella pneumophila Is Expressed Postexponentially and Negatively Regulates the Alkyl Hydroperoxide Reductase (ahpC2D) Operon▿

LeBlanc, Jason J., Brassinga, Ann Karen C., Ewann, Fanny, Davidson, Ross J., Hoffman, Paul S.

Legionella pneumophila expresses two peroxide-scavenging alkyl hydroperoxide reductase systems (AhpC1 and AhpC2D) that are expressed differentially during the bacterial growth cycle. Functional loss...

Reciprocal Expression of Integration Host Factor and HU in the Developmental Cycle and Infectivity of Legionella pneumophila▿ †

Morash, Michael G., Brassinga, Ann Karen C., Warthan, Michelle, Gourabathini, Poornima, Garduño, Rafael A., Goodman, Steven D., ...

Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular parasite of protozoa that differentiates late in infection into metabolically dormant cysts that are highly infectious. Regulation of this process is poorly...