UW-Madison Dept of Bacteriology
Jerald C. Ensign
Professor of Bacteriology, Emeritus
3550 Microbial Sciences Building
1550 Linden Drive
(608) 262-7877
jcensign@wisc.edu
Select Publications
- Ciche TA, Blackburn M, Carney JR, Ensign JC. Photobactin: a catechol siderophore produced by Photorhabdus luminescens, an entomopathogen mutually associated with Heterorhabditis bacteriophora NC1 nematodes. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2003 69:4706-13.
- Ciche TA, Ensign JC. For the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens, which end of a nematode is out? Appl Environ Microbiol. 2003 69:1890-7.
- Bowen DJ, Ensign JC. Isolation and characterization of intracellular protein inclusions produced by the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2001 67:4834-41.
- Ciche TA, Bintrim SB, Horswill AR, Ensign JC. A Phosphopantetheinyl transferase homolog is essential for Photorhabdus luminescens to support growth and reproduction of the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora. J Bacteriol. 2001 183:3117-26.
- Bowen DJ, Ensign JC. Purification and characterization of a high-molecular-weight insecticidal protein complex produced by the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens Appl Environ Microbiol. 1998 64:3029-35.
- Bintrim SB, Ensign JC. Insertional inactivation of genes encoding the crystalline inclusion proteins of Photorhabdus luminescens results in mutants with pleiotropic phenotypes. J Bacteriol. 1998 180:1261-9.
- Kawamoto S, Watanabe H, Hesketh A, Ensign JC, Ochi K. Expression analysis of the ssgA gene product, associated with sporulation and cell division in Streptomyces griseus. Microbiology. 1997 143:1077-86.
- Serres MH, Ensign JC. Endogenous ADP-ribosylation of proteins in Mycobacterium smegmatis. J Bacteriol. 1996 178:6074-7.