Publications
The Antibiotic Novobiocin Binds and Activates the ATPase That Powers Lipopolysaccharide Transport. J Am Chem Soc. 139, 17221-17224
(2017) Combining Mutations That Inhibit Two Distinct Steps of the ATP Hydrolysis Cycle Restores Wild-Type Function in the Lipopolysaccharide Transporter and Shows that ATP Binding Triggers Transport. MBio. 10.1128/mBio.01931-19
(2019) Crystal structure of a peptidoglycan glycosyltransferase suggests a model for processive glycan chain synthesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104, 5348-53
(2007) Decoupling catalytic activity from biological function of the ATPase that powers lipopolysaccharide transport. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, 4982-7
(2014) Functional and structural analysis of a key region of the cell wall inhibitor moenomycin. ACS Chem Biol. 5, 701-11
(2010) Simple Secondary Amines Inhibit Growth of Gram-Negative Bacteria through Highly Selective Binding to Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase. J Am Chem Soc. 143, 623-627
(2021) Structural analysis of the contacts anchoring moenomycin to peptidoglycan glycosyltransferases and implications for antibiotic design. ACS Chem Biol. 3, 429-36
(2008) Structural basis of unidirectional export of lipopolysaccharide to the cell surface. Nature. 567, 550-553
(2019) Structure and reconstitution of a hydrolase complex that may release peptidoglycan from the membrane after polymerization. Nat Microbiol. 10.1038/s41564-020-00808-5
(2020) Substrate Preferences Establish the Order of Cell Wall Assembly in Staphylococcus aureus. J Am Chem Soc. 140, 2442-2445
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