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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Natural Science
Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology

Publications

Most recent publications

Integrating genomic and Tn-Seq data to identify common in vivo fitness mechanisms across multiple bacterial species. Fouts DE, Clarke TH, Severin GB, Brown AN, Ottosen EN, Holmes CL, Moricz BS, Mason S, Sinha R, Anderson MT, DiRita V, Bachman MA, Mobley HLT. mBio. 2025 Nov 12;16(11):e0198825. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01988-25. Epub 2025 Sep 22. PMID: 40981419.

Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacter hormaechei Uses Mucus Metabolism to Facilitate Gastrointestinal Colonization. Sinha R, Ottosen EN, Ngwaga T, Shames SR, DiRita VJ. mBio. 2025 Mar 12;16(3):e0288424. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02884-24. Epub 2025 Jan 29. PMID: 39878485.

Fitness factor genes conserved within the multi-species core genome of Gram-negative Enterobacterales species contribute to bacteremia pathogenesis. Mobley HLT, Anderson MT, Moricz BS, Severin GB, Holmes CL, Ottosen EN, Eichler T, Gupta S, Paudel S, Sinha R, Mason S, Himpsl SD, Brown AN, Gaca M, Kiser CM, Clarke TH, Fouts DE, DiRita VJ, Bachman MA. PLoS Pathog. 2024 Aug 23;20(8):e1012495. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012495. eCollection 2024 Aug. PMID:39178317.

An essential host dietary fatty acid promotes TcpH inhibition of TcpP proteolysis promoting virulence gene expression inVibrio cholerae. Demey LM, Sinha R, DiRita VJ. mBio. 2024 Aug 14;15(8):e0072124. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00721-24. Epub 2024 Jul 3. PMID:38958446.

Gut metabolite L-lactate supports Campylobacter jejuni population expansion during acute infection. Sinha R, LeVeque RM, Callahan SM, Chatterjee S, Stopnisek N, Kuipel M, Johnson JG, DiRita VJ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Jan 9;121(2):e2316540120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2316540120. Epub 2024 Jan 3. PMID: 38170751

Activation of aVibrio choleraeCBASS anti-phage system by quorum sensing and folate depletion. Severin GB, Ramliden MS, Ford KC, Van Alst AJ, Sanath-Kumar R, Decker KA, Hsueh BY, Chen G, Yoon SH, Demey LM, O'Hara BJ, Rhoades CR, DiRita VJ, Ng W-L, Waters CM. mBio. 2023 Oct 31;14(5):e0087523. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00875-23. Epub 2023 Aug 25. PMID: 37623317.

Transmembrane Transcription Regulators Are Widespread in Bacteria and Archaea. Demey LM, Gumerov VM, Xing J, Zhulin IB,DiRita VJ. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 Jun 15;11(3):e0026623. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00266-23. Epub 2023 May 8. PMID: 37154724.

Achieving Single-Molecule Tracking of Subcellular Regulation in Bacteria during Real-Time Environmental Perturbations. Calkins AL, Demey LM, Rosenthal BM,DiRita VJ, Biteen JS. Anal Chem. 2023 Jan 17;95(2):774-783. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02899. Epub 2022 Dec 28. PMID: 36576807.

Vibrio cholerae requires oxidative respiration through the bd-I and cbb3 oxidases for intestinal proliferation. Van Alst AJ, Demey LM, DiRita VJ. PLoS Pathog. 2022 May 2;18(5):e1010102. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010102. eCollection 2022 May. PMID: 35500027.

Independent Promoter Recognition by TcpP Precedes Cooperative Promoter Activation by TcpP and ToxR. Calkins AL, Demey LM, Karslake JD, Donarski ED, Biteen JS, DiRita VJ. mBio. 2021 Oct 26;12(5):e0221321. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02213-21. Epub 2021 Sep 7. PMID: 34488449

SMAUG: Analyzing single-molecule tracks with nonparametric Bayesian statistics. Karslake JD, Donarski ED, Shelby SA, Demey LM, DiRita VJ, Veatch SL, Biteen JS. Methods. 2021 Sep;193:16-26. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2020.03.008. Epub 2020 Apr 2. PMID: 32247784.

Aerobic Metabolism in Vibrio cholerae is Required for Population Expansion during Infection. Van Alst AJ, DiRita VJ. mBio. 2020 Sep 1;11(5):e01989-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01989-20. PMID: 32873763.

Phosphate transporter PstSCAB of Campylobacter jejuni is a critical determinant of lactate-dependent growth and colonization in chickens. Sinha R, LeVeque RM, Bowlin MQ, Gray MJ, DiRita VJ. J Bacteriol. 2020 Jan 13. pii: JB.00716-19. doi: 10.1128/JB.00716-19. PMID: 31932316.

 

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