Jacobs-Wagner Lab

Publications

Charbon G, Brustad E, Scott KA, Wang J, Løbner-Olesen A, Schultz PG, Jacobs-Wagner C, Chapman E. (2011) Subcellular protein localization by using a genetically encoded fluorescent amino Acid. Chembiochem; 12:1818-21.
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Sliusarenko O, Heinritz J, Emonet T, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2011) High-throughput, subpixel precision analysis of bacterial morphogenesis and intracellular spatio-temporal dynamics. Mol Microbiol; 80:612-27.
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Cabeen MT, Herrmann H, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2011) The domain organization of the bacterial intermediate filament-like protein crescentin is important for assembly and function. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken); 68:205-19.
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Cabeen MT, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2010) The bacterial cytoskeleton. Annu Rev Genet; 44:365-92.
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Schofield WB, Lim HC, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2010) Cell cycle coordination and regulation of bacterial chromosome segregation dynamics by polarly localized proteins. EMBO J; 29:3068-81.
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Cabeen MT, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2010) A metabolic assembly line in bacteria. Nat Cell Biol; 12:731-3.
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Montero Llopis PM, Jackson AF, Sliusarenko O, Surovtsev I, Heinritz J, Emonet T, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2010) Spatial organization of the flow of genetic information in bacteria. Nature; 466: 77-81.
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Poggio S, Takacs CN, Vollmer W, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2010) A protein critical for cell constriction in the Gram-negative bacterium Caulobacter crescentus localizes at the division site through its peptidoglycan-binding LysM domains. Mol Microbiol
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Cabeen MT, Murolo MA, Briegel A, Bui NK, Vollmer W, Ausmees N, Jensen GJ, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2010) Mutations in the Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis pathway interfere with crescentin-mediated cell curvature in Caulobacter crescentus. J Bacteriol;192: 3368-78.
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Sliusarenko O, Cabeen MT, Wolgemuth CW, Jacobs-Wagner C, Emonet T. (2010) Processivity of peptidoglycan synthesis provides a built-in mechanism for the robustness of straight-rod cell morphology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A;107: 10086-91.
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Anwari K, Poggio S, Perry A, Gatsos X, Ramarathinam SH, Williamson NA, Noinaj N, Buchanan S, Gabriel K, Purcell AW, Jacobs-Wagner C, Lithgow T. (2010) A modular BAM complex in the outer membrane of the alpha-proteobacterium Caulobacter crescentus. PLoS One 5, e8619.
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Takacs CN, Poggio S, Charbon G, Pucheault M, Vollmer W, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2010) MreB drives de novo rod morphogenesis in Caulobacter crescentus via remodeling of the cell wall.
J Bacteriol. 192, 1671-84.
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Angelastro PS, Sliusarenko O, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2010) Polar localization of the CckA histidine kinase and cell cycle periodicity of the essential master regulator CtrA in Caulobacter crescentus. J Bacteriol. 192, 539-52.
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Clements A, Bursac D, Gatsos X, Perry AJ, Civciristov S, Celik N, Likic VA, Poggio S, Jacobs-Wagner C, Strugnell RA, Lithgow T. (2009) The reducible complexity of a mitochondrial molecular machine. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106, 15791-5.
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Cabeen MT, Charbon G, Vollmer W, Born P, Ausmees A, Weibel, D and Jacobs-Wagner C. (2009) Bacterial cell curvature via mechanical control of cell growth. EMBO J 28, 1208-1219.
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Charbon G, Cabeen MT and Jacobs-Wagner C. (2009) Bacterial intermediate filaments: In vivo assembly, organization and dynamics of crescentin. Genes & Dev 23, 1131-44.
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Alyahya S.A, Alexander A, Costa T, Henriques AO, Emonet T, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2009) RodZ, a component of the bacterial core morphogenic apparatus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:1239-44.
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Costa T, Priyadarshini R, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2008) Localization of PBP3 in Caulobacter crescentus is highly dynamic and largely relies on its functional transpeptidase domain. Mol Microbiol. 70:634-651.
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Ebersbach G, Briegel A, Jensen GJ, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2008) A self-associating protein critical for chromosome attachment, division, and polar organization in Caulobacter. Cell 134:956-68.
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Obuchowski PL, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2008) PflI, a protein involved in flagellar positioning in Caulobacter crescentus.
J Bacteriol. 190:1718-29.
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Cabeen MT, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2007) Skin and bones: the bacterial cytoskeleton, cell wall, and cell morphogenesis.
J Cell Biol. 179:381-7.
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Aaron M, Charbon G, Lam H, Schwarz H, Vollmer W, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2007) The tubulin homologue FtsZ contributes to cell elongation by guiding cell wall precursor synthesis in Caulobacter crescentus. Mol Microbiol. 64:938-52.
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Hallez R, Mignolet J, Van Mullem V, Wery M, Vandenhaute J, Letesson JJ, Jacobs-Wagner C, De Bolle X. (2007) The asymmetric distribution of the essential histidine kinase PdhS indicates a differentiation event in Brucella abortus. EMBO J. 26:1444-55.
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Ebersbach G, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2007) Exploration into the spatial and temporal mechanisms of bacterial polarity. Trends Microbiol. 15:101-8.
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Lam H., Schofield W.B. and Jacobs-Wagner, C. (2006) A landmark protein essential for establishing and perpetuating the polarity of a bacterial cell. Cell 124:1011-23.
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Cabeen, M.T. and Jacobs-Wagner, C. (2005) Bacterial cell shape. Nat Rev Microbiol. 3:601-10
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Matroule J.Y., Lam H., Burnette D.T., and Jacobs-Wagner C. (2004) Cytokinesis monitoring during development: Rapid pole-to-pole shuttling of a signaling protein by localized kinase and phosphatase in Caulobacter. Cell 118: 579-90.
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Jacobs-Wagner, C. (2004) Regulatory proteins with a sense of direction: Cell cycle signaling network in Caulobacter. Mol Microbiol. 51:7-13.
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Ausmees, N., Kuhn, J. R., and Jacobs-Wagner, C. (2003) The Bacterial cytoskeleton: An Intermediate Filament-like Function in Cell Shape. Cell 115:705-13.
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Ausmees, N. and Jacobs-Wagner, C. (2003) Spatial and temporal control of differentiation and cell cycle progression in Caulobacter crescentus. Annu Rev Microbiol. 57, 225-247.
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Lam, H., Matroule, J.-Y., and Jacobs-Wagner, C. (2003) The asymmetric spatial distribution of bacterial signal transduction proteins coordinates cell cycle events. Dev Cell 5, 149-159.
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Jacobs C, Ausmees N, Cordwell SJ, Shapiro L, Laub MT. (2003) Functions of the CckA histidine kinase in Caulobacter cell cycle control. Mol Microbiol. 47:1279-90.
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