UW-Madison Dept of Bacteriology

Jorge Escalante

Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena

Professor of Bacteriology

6478 Microbial Sciences Building
1550 Linden Drive
(608) 262-7379
escalante@bact.wisc.edu

Select Publications

  1. Lewis, J. L., L. Stamper, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2009. Regulation of expression of the tricarballylate utilization operon (tcuABC) of Salmonella enterica by TcuR and Crp. Res. Microbiol. 160:179-186. PMID: 19284970.
  1. Gardner, J. G., and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2009. In Bacillus subtilis, functions encoded by the acuABC operon are involved in the sirtuin-dependent control of acetyl-CoA synthetase activity. J. Bacteriol. 191:1749-1755. PMID: 19136592.

    Lewis, J. A., J. M. Boyd, D. M. Downs, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2009. Involvement of the global regulatory protein Cra in the expression of the iscRSUA operon revealed during studies of tricarballylate catabolism in Salmonella enterica. J. Bacteriol. 191:2069-2076. PMID: 19136587
      
    Mera, P. E., St Maurice, M., I. Rayment, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2009. Residue Phe112 of the human-type corrinoid adenosyltransferase (PduO) enzyme of Lactobacillus reuteri is critical to the formation of the 4-coordinate Co(II) corrinoid substrate and to the activity of the enzyme. Biochemistry 48:3138-3145. PMID: 19236001.

    Otte, M., and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2009. Biochemical characterization of the GTP:Adenosylcobinamide-phosphate guanylyltransferase (CobY) enzyme of the thermophilic archaeon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. Biochemistry 48:5882-5889. PMID: 19489548.

    Gray, M. J., and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2009. In vivo analysis of cobinamide salvaging in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1. J. Bacteriol. 191:3842-3851. PMID: 19376876.

Escalante-Semerena, J. C., and M. J. Warren.  5 August 2008, posting date. Chapter 3.6.3.8, Biosynthesis and Use of Cobalamin (B12). In A. Böck, R. Curtiss III, J. B. Kaper, P. D. Karp, F. C. Neidhardt, T. Nyström, J. M. Slauch, and C. L. Squires (ed.), EcoSal—Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

St. Maurice, M, P. E. Mera, K. Park, T. C. Brunold, J. C. Escalante-Semerena, and I. Rayment. 2008. Structural characterization of a human-type corrinoid adenosyltransferase confirms that coenzyme B12, is synthesized through a four-coordinate intermediate. Biochemistry 47:5755-5766. PMID: 18452306.