Paola E Mera
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Khan E, Mera P
bioRxiv
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40027726
Proper function in a bacterial cell relies on intrinsic cell size regulation. The molecular mechanisms underlying how bacteria maintain their cell size remain unclear. The conserved regulator DnaA, the initiator...
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Letzkus M, Trela C, Mera P
Mol Biol Cell
. 2024 Apr;
35(5):ar68.
PMID: 38568781
The ability of bacteria to maintain chromosomal integrity throughout their life cycle is crucial for survival. In , the polar factor TipN has been proposed to be involved with the...
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Letzkus M, Trela C, Mera P
bioRxiv
. 2024 Jan;
PMID: 38187783
Bacteria's ability to maintain chromosomal integrity throughout their life cycle is crucial for their survival. In , the polar factor TipN has been proposed to be involved with the partitioning...
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Puentes-Rodriguez S, Norcross J, Mera P
Nucleic Acids Res
. 2023 Nov;
51(22):12275-12287.
PMID: 37933842
Chromosomal maintenance is vital for the survival of bacteria. In Caulobacter crescentus, chromosome replication initiates at ori and segregation is delayed until the nearby centromere-like region parS is replicated. Our...
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Gade P, Erlandson A, Ullah A, Chen X, Mathews I, Mera P, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2023 May;
13(1):7980.
PMID: 37198233
Echinomycin is a natural product DNA bisintercalator antibiotic. The echinomycin biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces lasalocidi includes a gene encoding the self-resistance protein Ecm16. Here, we present the 2.0 Å...
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Puentes-Rodriguez S, Norcross J, Mera P
bioRxiv
. 2023 Apr;
PMID: 37090538
Chromosomal maintenance is vital for the survival of bacteria. In , chromosome replication initiates at and segregation is delayed until the nearby centromere-like region is replicated. Our understanding of how...
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Menikpurage I, Puentes-Rodriguez S, Elaksher R, Mera P
J Bacteriol
. 2023 Jan;
205(2):e0029622.
PMID: 36692299
Maintaining proper chromosome inheritance after the completion of each cell cycle is paramount for bacterial survival. Mechanistic details remain incomplete for how bacteria manage to retain complete chromosomes after each...
8.
Erlandson A, Gade P, Menikpurage I, Kim C, Mera P
Mol Microbiol
. 2022 May;
117(6):1434-1446.
PMID: 35534931
Bacteria use various strategies to become antibiotic resistant. The molecular details of these strategies are not fully understood. We can increase our understanding by investigating the same strategies found in...
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Menikpurage I, Woo K, Mera P
Front Microbiol
. 2021 Jun;
12:662317.
PMID: 34140937
In bacteria, DnaA is the most conserved DNA replication initiator protein. DnaA is a DNA binding protein that is part of the AAA+ ATPase family. In addition to initiating chromosome...
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Langen T, Cannon C, Blackburn D, Morgan E, Mera P
Integr Comp Biol
. 2021 May;
61(4):1237-1252.
PMID: 33956145
The city and its urban biome provides an extreme laboratory for studying fundamental biological questions and developing best practices for sustaining biodiverse and well-functioning ecological communities within anthropogenic built environments....