George Korza
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Wicander J, Gorsuch J, Chen L, Caldbeck R, Korza G, Brul S, et al.
J Bacteriol
. 2025 Feb;
:e0051024.
PMID: 40013823
Spores of have been found to germinate when incubated with LiCl, but not with other monovalent or divalent metal cations. spores also germinated with LiCl, but spores did not. In...
2.
Singh S, Ali M, Mok J, Korza G, Setlow P, Sastry S
J Appl Microbiol
. 2024 Jun;
135(7).
PMID: 38906847
Aim: Ohmic heating (OH) (i.e. heating by electric field) more effectively kills bacterial spores than traditional wet heating, yet its mechanism remains poorly understood. This study investigates the accelerated spore...
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Li Y, He L, Aryal M, Wicander J, Korza G, Setlow P
mBio
. 2023 Oct;
14(5):e0222023.
PMID: 37830807
and spores cause food spoilage and disease because of spores' dormancy and resistance to microbicides. However, when spores "come back to life" in germination, their resistance properties are lost. Thus,...
4.
Yu B, Kanaan J, Shames H, Wicander J, Aryal M, Li Y, et al.
Front Microbiol
. 2023 Apr;
14:1161604.
PMID: 37113233
2Duf, named after the presence of a transmembrane (TM) Duf421 domain and a small Duf1657 domain in its sequence, is likely located in the inner membrane (IM) of spores in...
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Tossounian M, Baczynska M, Dalton W, Peak-Chew S, Undzenas K, Korza G, et al.
Antioxidants (Basel)
. 2023 Apr;
12(4).
PMID: 37107313
Coenzyme A (CoA) is an important cellular metabolite that is critical for metabolic processes and the regulation of gene expression. Recent discovery of the antioxidant function of CoA has highlighted...
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Korza G, DePratti S, Fairchild D, Wicander J, Kanaan J, Shames H, et al.
J Appl Microbiol
. 2023 Feb;
134(3).
PMID: 36841229
Aims: This work aimed to characterize spore inner membrane (IM) properties and the mechanism of spore killing by wet heat and H2O2 with spores overexpressing the 2Duf protein, which is...
7.
Korza G, Goulet M, DeMarco A, Wicander J, Setlow P
Microorganisms
. 2023 Jan;
11(1).
PMID: 36677488
The development of Bacillus spore cores involves the accumulation of 3-phosphoglycerate (3PGA) during sporulation, following core acidification to ~6.4, and before decreases in core water content occur due to Ca-dipicolinc...
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Horne W, Volpe R, Korza G, DePratti S, Conze I, Shuryak I, et al.
Astrobiology
. 2022 Oct;
22(11):1337-1350.
PMID: 36282180
Increasingly, national space agencies are expanding their goals to include Mars exploration with sample return. To better protect Earth and its biosphere from potential extraterrestrial sources of contamination, as set...
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Kanaan J, Murray J, Higgins R, Nana M, DeMarco A, Korza G, et al.
J Appl Microbiol
. 2021 Nov;
132(3):2157-2166.
PMID: 34724311
Aims: A protein termed 2Duf greatly increases wet heat resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores. The current work examines the effects of 2Duf on spore resistance to other sporicides, including chemicals...
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Byrd B, Camilleri E, Korza G, Craft D, Green J, Rocha Granados M, et al.
J Bacteriol
. 2021 May;
203(14):e0001721.
PMID: 33972352
Spores of firmicute species contain 100s of mRNAs, whose major function in Bacillus subtilis is to provide ribonucleotides for new RNA synthesis when spores germinate. To determine if this is...