[HTML][HTML] Rewiring the specificity of two-component signal transduction systems

JM Skerker, BS Perchuk, A Siryaporn, EA Lubin… - Cell, 2008 - cell.com
… (B) Identification of covarying residues in histidine kinases and response regulators. Cognate
operon pairs of histidine kinases and response regulators were concatenated and aligned. …

[HTML][HTML] Two-component signal transduction pathways regulating growth and cell cycle progression in a bacterium: a system-level analysis

JM Skerker, MS Prasol, BS Perchuk, EG Biondi… - PLoS …, 2005 - journals.plos.org
… The canonical two-component signal transduction system is shown in Figure 1B. A
histidine kinase, often in response to receipt of a signal or stimulus, autophosphorylates on a …

Regulation of the bacterial cell cycle by an integrated genetic circuit

…, SJ Reisinger, JM Skerker, M Arif, BS Perchuk… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
… 6) for each strain are quantified in b with representative images shown in c. Error bars
represent the mean ± sd from three independent sets of 150 cells. d, Levels of CtrAP per cell in …

[PDF][PDF] Evolving new protein-protein interaction specificity through promiscuous intermediates

CD Aakre, J Herrou, TN Phung, BS Perchuk, S Crosson… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
B. Ovals represent the set of protein B variants that are bound by protein A, and Xs indicate
particular protein B variants. Note that the intermediate state is a non-functional interaction. (…

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive mutations that prevent crosstalk enable the expansion of paralogous signaling protein families

EJ Capra, BS Perchuk, JM Skerker, MT Laub - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Orthologous proteins often harbor numerous substitutions, but whether these differences
result from neutral or adaptive processes is usually unclear. To tackle this challenge, we …

[PDF][PDF] A dynamic complex of signaling proteins uses polar localization to regulate cell-fate asymmetry in Caulobacter crescentus

CG Tsokos, BS Perchuk, MT Laub - Developmental cell, 2011 - cell.com
… When grown in the absence of vanillate to deplete DivK and at 37 C to inactivate DivL, this
strain accumulated multiple chromosomes as with the divLts strain (Figure 1B), suggesting …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic dissection and trajectory-scanning mutagenesis of the molecular interface that ensures specificity of two-component signaling pathways

EJ Capra, BS Perchuk, EA Lubin, O Ashenberg… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
… (B) The histidine kinases EnvZ and CpxA were autophosphorylated and examined for
phosphotransfer to the response regulators indicated. The mutations in OmpR(MI-CpxR) and …

[HTML][HTML] A DNA Damage-Induced, SOS-Independent Checkpoint Regulates Cell Division in Caulobacter crescentus

JW Modell, TK Kambara, BS Perchuk, MT Laub - PLoS biology, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Cells must coordinate DNA replication with cell division, especially during episodes of DNA
damage. The paradigm for cell division control following DNA damage in bacteria involves …

A phosphorelay system controls stalk biogenesis during cell cycle progression in Caulobacter crescentus

…, M Arif, MS Prasol, BS Perchuk… - Molecular …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
B. CC1114 amino acid sequence was aligned against the phosphotransferase domain of
ArcB (gi48994928, fragment 655–778 aa), the P1 domain of CheA (gi16129840, fragment 1–…

[PDF][PDF] A cell-type-specific protein-protein interaction modulates transcriptional activity of a master regulator in Caulobacter crescentus

…, CG Tsokos, YE Chen, BS Srinivasan, BS Perchuk… - Molecular cell, 2010 - cell.com
… , with no protein detected after 1 hr (Figure 2B). We then examined the morphology and …
(B) Western blot analysis showing SciP levels postshift to glucose or maintained in xylose at …