Philip Youderian

In vitro CpG methylation increases the transformation efficiency of Borrelia burgdorferi strains harboring the endogenous linear plasmid lp56 (2008)

Chen, Qiang, Fischer, Joshua Richard, Benoit, Vivian M., Dufour, Nicholas P., Youderian, Philip, Leong, John M.

Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in the Northern hemisphere. Low-passage-number infectious strains of B. burgdorferi exhibit extremely...

High-Throughput Functional Analysis of the Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 Genome (2005)

Holtman, C. Kay, Chen, You, Sandoval, Pamela, Gonzales, Alejandra, Nalty, Mark S., Thomas, Terry L., ...

Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 was the first cyanobacterial strain to be reliably transformed by exogenously added DNA and has become the model organism for cyanobacterial circadian rhythms. With a...

The tryptophan repressor sequence is highly conserved among the Enterobacteriaceae (1994)

Arvidson, Dennis N., Grove Arvidson, Cindy, Lawson, Catherine L., Miner, Jami, Adams, Curtis, Youderian, Philip

Tryptophan biosynthesis in Escherichia coli is regulated by the product of the trpR gene, the tryptophan (Trp) repressor. Trp aporepressor binds the corepressor, L-tryptophan, to form a holorepressor...

The challenge-phage assay reveals differences in the binding equilibria of mutant Escherichia coli Trp superrepressors in vivo (1993)

Shapiro, Michael, Arvidson, Dennis N., Pfau, James, Youderian, Philip

The phenotypes of four mutant Escherichia coli Trp repressor proteins with increased activities have been examined in vivo using the challenge-phage assay, an assay based on a positive genetic...

Phase variation in Salmonella: analysis of Hin recombinase and hix recombination site interaction in vivo (1988)

Hughes, Kelly T., Youderian, Philip; Simon, Melvin I.

The bacteriophage P22-based challenge phase selection was used to characterize the binding of Salmonella Hin recombinase to the wild-type hixL and hixR recombination sites, as well as to mutant and...

Phase variation in Salmonella: analysis of Hin recombinase and hix recombination site interaction in vivo (1988)

Hughes, Kelly T., Youderian, Philip; Simon, Melvin I.

The bacteriophage P22-based challenge phase selection was used to characterize the binding of Salmonella Hin recombinase to the wild-type hixL and hixR recombination sites, as well as to mutant and...

Spontaneous mutations occur near dam recognition sites in a dam- Escherichia coli host (1987)

Carraway, Margaretha, Youderian, Philip, Marinus, Martin G.

The mismatch repair system of Escherichia coli K12 removes mispaired bases from DNA. Mismatch repair can occur on either strand of DNA if it lacks N6-methyladenines within 5'-GATC-3' sequences. In...

Mutations That Confer Resistance to 2-Deoxyglucose Reduce the Specific Activity of Hexokinase from Myxococcus xanthus

Youderian, Philip, Lawes, Matthew C., Creighton, Chad, Cook, Jessica C., Saier, Milton H.

The glucose analog 2-deoxyglucose (2dGlc) inhibits the growth and multicellular development of Myxococcus xanthus. Mutants of M. xanthus resistant to 2dGlc, designated hex mutants, arise at a low...

Site-Specific Recombination of Temperate Myxococcus xanthus Phage Mx8: Genetic Elements Required for Integration†

Magrini, Vincent, Creighton, Chad, Youderian, Philip

Like most temperate bacteriophages, phage Mx8 integrates into a preferred locus on the genome of its host, Myxococcus xanthus, by a mechanism of site-specific recombination. The Mx8 int-attP genes...

Site-Specific Recombination of Temperate Myxococcus xanthus Phage Mx8: Regulation of Integrase Activity by Reversible, Covalent Modification†

Magrini, Vincent, Storms, Michael L., Youderian, Philip

Temperate Myxococcus xanthus phage Mx8 integrates into the attB locus of the M. xanthus genome. The phage attachment site, attP, is required in cis for integration and lies within the int (integrase)...

Biocontrol of Escherichia coli O157 with O157-Specific Bacteriophages

Kudva, Indira T., Jelacic, Srdjan, Tarr, Phillip I., Youderian, Philip, Hovde, Carolyn J.

Escherichia coli O157 antigen-specific bacteriophages were isolated and tested to determine their ability to lyse laboratory cultures of Escherichia coli O157:H7. A total of 53 bovine or ovine fecal...

Genetic Determinants of Immunity and Integration of Temperate Myxococcus xanthus Phage Mx8

Salmi, Daniel, Magrini, Vincent, Hartzell, Patricia L., Youderian, Philip

An 8.1-kb fragment of the temperate Myxococcus xanthus phage Mx8 genome, when cloned into a plasmid vector, permits site-specific integration of the plasmid and confers superinfection immunity....

A Chaperone in the HSP70 Family Controls Production of Extracellular Fibrils in Myxococcus xanthus

Weimer, Robby M., Creighton, Chad, Stassinopoulos, Angela, Youderian, Philip, Hartzell, Patricia L.

Three independent Tn5-lac insertions in the S1 locus of Myxococcus xanthus inactivate the sglK gene, which is nonessential for growth but required for social motility and multicellular development....

The aadA Gene of Plasmid R100 Confers Resistance to Spectinomycin and Streptomycin in Myxococcus xanthus

Magrini, Vincent, Creighton, Chad, White, David, Hartzell, Patricia L., Youderian, Philip

Plasmids with the aadA gene from plasmid R100, which confers resistance to the aminoglycosides spectinomycin and streptomycin in Escherchia coli, can be introduced into wild-type Myxococcus xanthus,...

Global Regulation of the Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Major Porin, OmpD

Santiviago, Carlos A., Toro, Cecilia S., Hidalgo, Alejandro A., Youderian, Philip, Mora, Guido C.

The OmpD porin is the most abundant outer membrane protein in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and represents about 1% of total cell protein. Unlike the case with the less abundant OmpC and...

The Geobacillus stearothermophilus V iscS Gene, Encoding Cysteine Desulfurase, Confers Resistance to Potassium Tellurite in Escherichia coli K-12

Tantaleán, Juan C., Araya, Manuel A., Saavedra, Claudia P., Fuentes, Derie E., Pérez, José M., Calderón, Iván L., ...

Many eubacteria are resistant to the toxic oxidizing agent potassium tellurite, and tellurite resistance involves diverse biochemical mechanisms. Expression of the iscS gene from Geobacillus...

Precise Excision of the Large Pathogenicity Island, SPI7, in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi

Bueno, Susan M., Santiviago, Carlos A., Murillo, Alejandro A., Fuentes, Juan A., Trombert, A. Nicole, Rodas, Paula I., ...

The large pathogenicity island (SPI7) of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a 133,477-bp segment of DNA flanked by two 52-bp direct repeats overlapping the pheU (phenylalanyl-tRNA) gene, contains...

The Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi tsx Gene, Encoding a Nucleoside-Specific Porin, Is Essential for Prototrophic Growth in the Absence of Nucleosides

Bucarey, Sergio A., Villagra, Nicolás A., Martinic, Mara P., Trombert, A. Nicole, Santiviago, Carlos A., Maulén, Nancy P., ...

The Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi tsx gene encodes a porin that facilitates the import of nucleosides. When serovar Typhi is grown under anaerobic conditions, Tsx is among the outer membrane...

Mutations That Improve the ANT Promoter of Salmonella Phage P22

Graña, Dolores, Youderian, Philip, Susskind, Miriam M.

Mutations that increase the activity of the promoter for the antirepressor gene of phage P22 were isolated by pseudoreversion of four severe promoter-down mutations. The sequence changes in these...

General Selection for Specific DNA-Binding Activities

Benson, Nicholas, Sugiono, Paul, Bass, Steven, Mendelman, Lynn V., Youderian, Philip

We present a general strategy for the selection of bacterial clones that express DNA-binding activities corresponding to particular DNA recognition sites. The selection uses a "challenge phage"...

Spontaneous Mutations Occur near Dam Recognition Sites in a dam-Escherichia coli Host

Carraway, Margaretha, Youderian, Philip, Marinus, M. G.

The mismatch repair system of Escherichia coli K12 removes mispaired bases from DNA. Mismatch repair can occur on either strand of DNA if it lacks N6-methyladenines within 5'-GATC-3' sequences. In...

Transposon Insertions of magellan-4 That Impair Social Gliding Motility in Myxococcus xanthus

Youderian, Philip, Hartzell, Patricia L.

Myxococcus xanthus has two different mechanisms of motility, adventurous (A) motility, which permits individual cells to glide over solid surfaces, and social (S) motility, which permits groups of...

Insertions of mini-Tn10 transposon T-POP in Salmonella enterica sv. typhi.

Hidalgo, Alejandro A, Trombert, A Nicole, Castro-Alonso, J C, Santiviago, Carlos A, Tesser, Bruno R, Youderian, Philip, ...

We have mutagenized a clinical strain of Salmonella enterica sv. typhi with mini-transposon Tn10dTet (T-POP) to obtain conditional lethal (tetracycline-dependent) mutants with T-POP insertions...

Mutations That Confer Resistance to 2-Deoxyglucose Reduce the Specific Activity of Hexokinase from Myxococcus xanthus

Youderian, Philip, Lawes, Matthew C., Creighton, Chad, Cook, Jessica C., Saier, Milton H.

The glucose analog 2-deoxyglucose (2dGlc) inhibits the growth and multicellular development of Myxococcus xanthus. Mutants of M. xanthus resistant to 2dGlc, designated hex mutants, arise at a low...

Site-Specific Recombination of Temperate Myxococcus xanthus Phage Mx8: Genetic Elements Required for Integration†

Magrini, Vincent, Creighton, Chad, Youderian, Philip

Like most temperate bacteriophages, phage Mx8 integrates into a preferred locus on the genome of its host, Myxococcus xanthus, by a mechanism of site-specific recombination. The Mx8 int-attP genes...

Site-Specific Recombination of Temperate Myxococcus xanthus Phage Mx8: Regulation of Integrase Activity by Reversible, Covalent Modification†

Magrini, Vincent, Storms, Michael L., Youderian, Philip

Temperate Myxococcus xanthus phage Mx8 integrates into the attB locus of the M. xanthus genome. The phage attachment site, attP, is required in cis for integration and lies within the int (integrase)...

Biocontrol of Escherichia coli O157 with O157-Specific Bacteriophages

Kudva, Indira T., Jelacic, Srdjan, Tarr, Phillip I., Youderian, Philip, Hovde, Carolyn J.

Escherichia coli O157 antigen-specific bacteriophages were isolated and tested to determine their ability to lyse laboratory cultures of Escherichia coli O157:H7. A total of 53 bovine or ovine fecal...

Genetic Determinants of Immunity and Integration of Temperate Myxococcus xanthus Phage Mx8

Salmi, Daniel, Magrini, Vincent, Hartzell, Patricia L., Youderian, Philip

An 8.1-kb fragment of the temperate Myxococcus xanthus phage Mx8 genome, when cloned into a plasmid vector, permits site-specific integration of the plasmid and confers superinfection immunity....

A Chaperone in the HSP70 Family Controls Production of Extracellular Fibrils in Myxococcus xanthus

Weimer, Robby M., Creighton, Chad, Stassinopoulos, Angela, Youderian, Philip, Hartzell, Patricia L.

Three independent Tn5-lac insertions in the S1 locus of Myxococcus xanthus inactivate the sglK gene, which is nonessential for growth but required for social motility and multicellular development....

The aadA Gene of Plasmid R100 Confers Resistance to Spectinomycin and Streptomycin in Myxococcus xanthus

Magrini, Vincent, Creighton, Chad, White, David, Hartzell, Patricia L., Youderian, Philip

Plasmids with the aadA gene from plasmid R100, which confers resistance to the aminoglycosides spectinomycin and streptomycin in Escherchia coli, can be introduced into wild-type Myxococcus xanthus,...

Global Regulation of the Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Major Porin, OmpD

Santiviago, Carlos A., Toro, Cecilia S., Hidalgo, Alejandro A., Youderian, Philip, Mora, Guido C.

The OmpD porin is the most abundant outer membrane protein in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and represents about 1% of total cell protein. Unlike the case with the less abundant OmpC and...

The Geobacillus stearothermophilus V iscS Gene, Encoding Cysteine Desulfurase, Confers Resistance to Potassium Tellurite in Escherichia coli K-12

Tantaleán, Juan C., Araya, Manuel A., Saavedra, Claudia P., Fuentes, Derie E., Pérez, José M., Calderón, Iván L., ...

Many eubacteria are resistant to the toxic oxidizing agent potassium tellurite, and tellurite resistance involves diverse biochemical mechanisms. Expression of the iscS gene from Geobacillus...

Precise Excision of the Large Pathogenicity Island, SPI7, in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi

Bueno, Susan M., Santiviago, Carlos A., Murillo, Alejandro A., Fuentes, Juan A., Trombert, A. Nicole, Rodas, Paula I., ...

The large pathogenicity island (SPI7) of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a 133,477-bp segment of DNA flanked by two 52-bp direct repeats overlapping the pheU (phenylalanyl-tRNA) gene, contains...

Mutations That Improve the ANT Promoter of Salmonella Phage P22

Graña, Dolores, Youderian, Philip, Susskind, Miriam M.

Mutations that increase the activity of the promoter for the antirepressor gene of phage P22 were isolated by pseudoreversion of four severe promoter-down mutations. The sequence changes in these...

General Selection for Specific DNA-Binding Activities

Benson, Nicholas, Sugiono, Paul, Bass, Steven, Mendelman, Lynn V., Youderian, Philip

We present a general strategy for the selection of bacterial clones that express DNA-binding activities corresponding to particular DNA recognition sites. The selection uses a "challenge phage"...

Spontaneous Mutations Occur near Dam Recognition Sites in a dam-Escherichia coli Host

Carraway, Margaretha, Youderian, Philip, Marinus, M. G.

The mismatch repair system of Escherichia coli K12 removes mispaired bases from DNA. Mismatch repair can occur on either strand of DNA if it lacks N6-methyladenines within 5'-GATC-3' sequences. In...

The Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi tsx Gene, Encoding a Nucleoside-Specific Porin, Is Essential for Prototrophic Growth in the Absence of Nucleosides

Bucarey, Sergio A., Villagra, Nicolás A., Martinic, Mara P., Trombert, A. Nicole, Santiviago, Carlos A., Maulén, Nancy P., ...

The Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi tsx gene encodes a porin that facilitates the import of nucleosides. When serovar Typhi is grown under anaerobic conditions, Tsx is among the outer membrane...

Transposon Insertions of magellan-4 That Impair Social Gliding Motility in Myxococcus xanthus

Youderian, Philip, Hartzell, Patricia L.

Myxococcus xanthus has two different mechanisms of motility, adventurous (A) motility, which permits individual cells to glide over solid surfaces, and social (S) motility, which permits groups of...

Insertions of mini-Tn10 transposon T-POP in Salmonella enterica sv. typhi.

Hidalgo, Alejandro A, Trombert, A Nicole, Castro-Alonso, J C, Santiviago, Carlos A, Tesser, Bruno R, Youderian, Philip, ...

We have mutagenized a clinical strain of Salmonella enterica sv. typhi with mini-transposon Tn10dTet (T-POP) to obtain conditional lethal (tetracycline-dependent) mutants with T-POP insertions...

Triple Mutants Uncover Three New Genes Required for Social Motility in Myxococcus xanthus

Youderian, Philip, Hartzell, Patricia L.

The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus glides over surfaces using two different locomotive mechanisms, called S (social) and A (adventurous) motility that enable cells to move both as groups and as...

In Vitro CpG Methylation Increases the Transformation Efficiency of Borrelia burgdorferi Strains Harboring the Endogenous Linear Plasmid lp56▿

Chen, Qiang, Fischer, Joshua R., Benoit, Vivian M., Dufour, Nicholas P., Youderian, Philip, Leong, John M.

Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in the Northern hemisphere. Low-passage-number infectious strains of B. burgdorferi exhibit extremely...