Recent publications:
Song, W., M. Lang, R Chen and D.C. Stein. 2000. Role of Lipooligosaccharide in Opa-independent Invasion of Neisseria gonorrhoeae into Human Epithelial Cells. J. Exp. Med.191:949-959.
Tong, Y., V. Reinhold, B. Reinhold, B. Brandt, and D. C. Stein. 2001. Structural and immunochemical characterization of the lipooligosaccharides expressed by Neisseria subflava 44. J. Bacteriol. 183:942-950 .
Arking, D., Y. Tong, and D. C. Stein. 2001. Analysis of lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis in the Neisseriaceae. J. Bacteriol. 183:934-941 .
Piekarowicz, A., K. Aneta , A. Kwiatek and D. C. Stein. 2001. Analysis of type I restriction modification systems in the Neisseriaceae: genetic organization and properties of the gene products. Mol. Microbiol. 41:1199-1210 .
Tong, Y. V. Reinhold, D. Arking and D. C. Stein. 2002. Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain PID2 simultaneously expresses six chemically related lipooligosaccharide structures. Glycobiology 12:523-533 .
Piekarowicz, A and D. C. Stein. 2002. Biochemical properties of Neisseria gonorrhoeae LgtE. J. Bacteriol. 184:6410-6416.
Roberts, R. J., M. Belfort, T. Bestor, A.S. Bhagwat, T.A. Bickle, J. Bitinaite,
R. M. Blumenthal, S. K. Degtyarev, D. T.F. Dryden, K. Dybvig, K. Firman, E.
S. Gromova, R. I. Gumport, S. E. Halford, S. Hattman, J. Heitman, D. P. Hornby,
A. Janulaitis, A. Jeltsch, J. Josephsen, A. Kiss, T. R. Klaenhammer, I. Kobayashi,
H. Kong, D. H. Krüger, S. Lacks, M. G. Marinus, M. Miyahara, R. D. Morgan,
N. E. Murray, V. Nagaraja, A. Piekarowicz, A. Pingoud, E. Raleigh, D. N. Rao,
N. Reich, V. E. Repin, E. U. Selker, P-C Shaw, D. C. Stein, B. L. Stoddard,
W. Szybalski, T. A. Trautner, J. L. Van Etten, J. M.B.Vitor, G. G. Wilson and
S-Y Xu. 2003. A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyltransferases,
homing endonucleases and their genes. Nucl. Acids Res. 31:1805-1812.
Ram, S., A.D. Cox, J. C. Wright, U. Vogel, S. Getzlaff, R. Boden, J. S. Plested, S. Meri, S. Gulati, D. C. Stein, J. C. Richards, E. R. Moxon and P. A. Rice. 2003. Neisserial lipooligosaccharide is a target for complement C4b: inner core phosphoethanolamine residues define C4b linkage specificity. J. Biol. Chem. 278:50853-62
Braun, D. C and D. C. Stein. 2004. The lgtABCDE gene cluster, involved in LOS biosynthesis in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, contains multiple promoter sequences. J. Bacteriol. 186:1038-1049.
Patrone, J. B., and D. C. Stein. 2004. Challenge of human monocytes with Neisseria gonorrhoeae: effects of dose on cytokine profile. J Leuk. Biol 76S:100.
O’Connor, E. T., A. Piekarowicz, K. V. Swanson, J. M. Griffiss, and D. C. Stein. 2006. Biochemical analysis of Lpt-3, a protein responsible for phosphoethanolamine addition to lipooligosaccharide of pathogenic Neisseria. J. Bacteriol. 188:1039-1049
Patrone, J. S. Bish and D. C. Stein. 2006. TNFa-independent IL-8 Expression: Alterations in Bacterial Challenge Dose Cause Differential Human Monocytic Cytokine Response. J. Immunology. 177:1314-1322
Patrone JB, Stein DC. 2007. Effect of gonococcal lipooligosaccharide variation on human monocytic cytokine profile. BMC Microbiol. 7:7.
Piekarowicz A, Klyz A, Majchrzak M, Adamczyk-Poplawska M, Maugel TK, and Stein DC. 2007. Characterization of the dsDNA prophage sequences in the genome of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and visualization of productive bacteriophage. BMC Microbiol. 5:66.
O’Connor, ET, KV Swanson, H Cheng, K Fluss, JM Griffiss, and DC Stein. Structural Requirements for Monoclonal Antibody 2-1-L8 Recognition of Neisseria Lipooligosaccharides. In press: Hybridoma
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