The Landick Lab
Researching fundamental and applied paradigms of gene regulation

All Publications

Below is a full list of publications from the Landick lab, including original research articles, literature reviews, protocols, and book chapters. All links will open in a new tab.

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  1. Lan F, Saba J, Qian Y, Ross T, Landick R, Venturelli OS. 2023. Single-cell analysis of multiple invertible promoters reveals differential inversion rates as a strong determinant of bacterial population heterogeneity. Sci Adv. 9, eadg5476. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg5476
  2. Delbeau M, Omollo EO, Froom R, Koh S, Mooney RA, Lilic M, Brewer JJ, Rock J, Darst SA, Campbell EA, Landick R. 2023. Structural and functional basis of the universal transcription factor NusG pro-pausing activity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mol Cell. 83, 1474-1488.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2023.04.007
  3. Kang JY, Mishanina TV, Bao Y, Chen J, Llewellyn E, Liu J, Darst SA, Landick R. 2023. An ensemble of interconverting conformations of the elemental paused transcription complex creates regulatory options. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120, e2215945120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215945120
  4. Malone BF, Perry JK, Olinares PDB, Lee HW, Chen J, Appleby TC, Feng JY, Bilello JP, Ng H, Sotiris J, Ebrahim M, Chua EYD, Mendez JH, Eng ET, Landick R, Götte M, Chait BT, Campbell EA, Darst SA. 2023. Structural basis for substrate selection by the SARS-CoV-2 replicase. Nature. 614, 781-787. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05664-3
  5. You L, Omollo EO, Yu C, Mooney RA, Shi J, Shen L, Wu X, Wen A, He D, Zeng Y, Feng Y, Landick R, Zhang Y. 2023. Structural basis for intrinsic transcription termination. Nature. 613, 783-789. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05604-1
  6. Hustmyer CM, Wolfe MB, Welch RA, Landick R. 2022. RfaH counter-silences inhibition of transcript elongation by H-NS-StpA nucleoprotein filaments in pathogenic Escherichia coli. mBio. 13, e0266222. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02662-22
  7. Zhang Y, Myers KS, Place M, Serate J, Xie D, Pohlmann E, La Reau A, Landick R, Sato TK. 2022. Transcriptomic data sets for Zymomonas mobilis 2032 during fermentation of ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX)-pretreated corn stover and switchgrass hydrolysates. Microbiol Resour Announc. 11, e0056422. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00564-22
  8. Cao X, Landick R, Campbell EA. 2022. A roadmap for designing narrow-spectrum antibiotics targeting bacterial pathogens. Microb Cell. 9, 136-138. https://doi.org/10.15698/mic2022.07.780
  9. Shen BA, Hustmyer CM, Roston D, Wolfe MB, Landick R. 2022. Bacterial H-NS contacts DNA at the same irregularly spaced sites in both bridged and hemi-sequestered linear filaments. iScience. 25, 104429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104429
  10. Cao X, Boyaci H, Chen J, Bao Y, Landick R, Campbell EA. 2022. Basis of narrow-spectrum activity of fidaxomicin on Clostridioides difficile. Nature. 604, 541-545. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04545-z
  11. Dai W, Darst SA, Dunham CM, Landick R, Petsko G, Weixlbaumer A. 2021. Seeing gene expression in cells: the future of structural biology. Fac Rev. 10, 79. https://doi.org/10.12703/r-01-000004
  12. Palo MZ, Zhu J, Mishanina TV, Landick R. 2021. Conserved trigger loop histidine of RNA polymerase II functions as a positional catalyst primarily through steric effects. Biochemistry. 60, 3323-3336. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00528
  13. Lee SB, Tremaine M, Place M, Liu L, Pier A, Krause DJ, Xie D, Zhang Y, Landick R, Gasch AP, Hittinger CT, Sato TK. 2021. Crabtree/Warburg-like aerobic xylose fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metab Eng. 68, 119-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2021.09.008
  14. Bao Y, Landick R. 2021. Obligate movements of an active site-linked surface domain control RNA polymerase elongation and pausing via a Phe pocket anchor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118, e2101805118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101805118
  15. Landick R. 2021. Transcriptional pausing as a mediator of bacterial gene regulation. Annu Rev Microbiol. 75, 291-314. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-micro-051721-043826
  16. Shiver AL, Osadnik H, Peters JM, Mooney RA, Wu PI, Henry KK, Braberg H, Krogan NJ, Hu JC, Landick R, Huang KC, Gross CA. 2021. Chemical-genetic interrogation of RNA polymerase mutants reveals structure-function relationships and physiological tradeoffs. Mol Cell. 81, 2201-2215.e9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2021.04.027
  17. Malone B, Chen J, Wang Q, Llewellyn E, Choi YJ, Olinares PDB, Cao X, Hernandez C, Eng ET, Chait BT, Shaw DE, Landick R, Darst SA, Campbell EA. 2021. Structural basis for backtracking by the SARS-CoV-2 replication-transcription complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118, e2102516118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102516118
  18. Saba J, Cao X, Landick R. 2021. Bacterial transcription continues to surprise: activation by alarmone-mediated σ-factor tethering. Mol Cell. 81, 8-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2020.12.031
  19. Lilic M, Chen J, Boyaci H, Braffman N, Hubin EA, Herrmann J, Müller R, Mooney R, Landick R, Darst SA, Campbell EA. 2020. The antibiotic sorangicin A inhibits promoter DNA unwinding in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis rifampicin-resistant RNA polymerase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 117, 30423-30432. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013706117
  20. Henry KK, Ross W, Myers KS, Lemmer KC, Vera JM, Landick R, Donohue TJ, Gourse RL. 2020. A majority of Rhodobacter sphaeroides promoters lack a crucial RNA polymerase recognition feature, enabling coordinated transcription activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 117, 29658-29668. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010087117
  21. Stoneman HR, Wrobel RL, Place M, Graham M, Krause DJ, De Chiara M, Liti G, Schacherer J, Landick R, Gasch AP, Sato TK, Hittinger CT. 2020. CRISpy-Pop: a web tool for designing CRISPR/Cas9-driven genetic modifications in diverse populations. G3 (Bethesda). 10, 4287-4294. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.120.401498
  22. Myers KS, Vera JM, Lemmer KC, Linz AM, Landick R, Noguera DR, Donohue TJ. 2020. Genome-wide identification of transcription start sites in two Alphaproteobacteria, Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 and Novosphingobium aromaticivorans DSM 12444. Microbiol Resour Announc. 9, e00880-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00880-20
  23. Kurumbang NP, Vera JM, Hebert AS, Coon JJ, Landick R. 2020. Heterologous expression of a glycosyl hydrolase and cellular reprogramming enable Zymomonas mobilis growth on cellobiose. PLoS One. 15, e0226235. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226235
  24. Vera JM, Ghosh IN, Zhang Y, Hebert AS, Coon JJ, Landick R. 2020. Genome-scale transcription-translation mapping reveals features of Zymomonas mobilis transcription units and promoters. mSystems. 5, e00250-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00250-20
  25. Liu Y, Ghosh IN, Martien JI, Zhang Y, Amador-Noguez D, Landick R. 2020. Regulated redirection of central carbon flux enhances anaerobic production of bioproducts in Zymomonas mobilis. Metab Eng. 61, 261-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2020.06.005
  26. Harden TT, Herlambang KS, Chamberlain M, Lalanne JB, Wells CD, Li GW, Landick R, Hochschild A, Kondev J, Gelles J. 2020. Alternative transcription cycle for bacterial RNA polymerase. Nat Commun. 11, 448. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14208-9
  27. Zhang Y, Vera JM, Xie D, Serate J, Pohlmann E, Russell JD, Hebert AS, Coon JJ, Sato TK, Landick R. 2019. Multiomic fermentation using chemically defined synthetic hydrolyzates revealed multiple effects of lignocellulose-derived inhibitors on cell physiology and xylose utilization in Zymomonas mobilis. Front Microbiol. 10, 2596. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02596
  28. Lal PB, Wells FM, Lyu Y, Ghosh IN, Landick R, Kiley PJ. 2019. A markerless method for genome engineering in Zymomonas mobilis ZM4. Front Microbiol. 10, 2216. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02216
  29. Kim J, Tremaine M, Grass JA, Purdy HM, Landick R, Kiley PJ, Reed JL. 2019. Systems metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli improves coconversion of lignocellulose-derived sugars. Biotechnol J. 14, e1800441. https://doi.org/10.1002/biot.201800441
  30. Shen BA, Landick R. 2019. Transcription of bacterial chromatin. J Mol Biol. 431, 4040-4066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2019.05.041
  31. Kang JY, Mishanina TV, Landick R, Darst SA. 2019. Mechanisms of transcriptional pausing in bacteria. J Mol Biol. 431, 4007-4029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2019.07.017
  32. Liu Y, Landick R, Raman S. 2019. A regulatory NADH/NAD+ redox biosensor for bacteria. ACS Synth Biol. 8, 264-273. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00485
  33. Stumper SK, Ravi H, Friedman LJ, Mooney RA, Corrêa IR, Gershenson A, Landick R, Gelles J. 2019. Delayed inhibition mechanism for secondary channel factor regulation of ribosomal RNA transcription. eLife. 8, e40576. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40576
  34. Bellecourt MJ, Ray-Soni A, Harwig A, Mooney RA, Landick R. 2019. RNA polymerase clamp movement aids dissociation from DNA but is not required for RNA release at intrinsic terminators. J Mol Biol. 431, 696-713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2019.01.003
  35. Saba J, Chua XY, Mishanina TV, Nayak D, Windgassen TA, Mooney RA, Landick R. 2019. The elemental mechanism of transcriptional pausing. eLife. 8, e40981. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40981
  36. Ghosh IN, Martien J, Hebert AS, Zhang Y, Coon JJ, Amador-Noguez D, Landick R. 2019. OptSSeq explores enzyme expression and function landscapes to maximize isobutanol production rate. Metab Eng. 52, 324-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2018.12.008
  37. Lawson MR, Ma W, Bellecourt MJ, Artsimovitch I, Martin A, Landick R, Schulten K, Berger JM. 2018. Mechanism for the regulated control of bacterial transcription termination by a universal adaptor protein. Mol Cell. 71, 911-922.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2018.07.014
  38. Boudreau BA, Kotlajich MV, Landick R. 2018. In vitro transcription assay to quantify effects of H-NS filaments on RNA chain elongation by RNA polymerase. In: Dame R. (eds) Bacterial Chromatin. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1837, pp. 351-386. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8675-0_18
  39. Higgins DA, Young MKM, Tremaine M, Sardi M, Fletcher JM, Agnew M, Liu L, Dickinson Q, Peris D, Wrobel RL, Hittinger CT, Gasch AP, Singer SW, Simmons BA, Landick R, Thelen MP, Sato TK. 2018. Natural variation in the multidrug efflux pump SGE1 underlies ionic liquid tolerance in yeast. Genetics. 210, 219-234. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301161
  40. Kang JY, Mooney RA, Nedialkov Y, Saba J, Mishanina TV, Artsimovitch I, Landick R, Darst SA. 2018. Structural basis for transcript elongation control by NusG family universal regulators. Cell. 173, 1650-1662.e14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.05.017
  41. Yang S, Vera JM, Grass J, Savvakis G, Moskvin OV, Yang Y, McIlwain SJ, Lyu Y, Zinonos I, Hebert AS, Coon JJ, Bates DM, Sato TK, Brown SD, Himmel ME, Zhang M, Landick R, Pappas KM, Zhang Y. 2018. Complete genome sequence and the expression pattern of plasmids of the model ethanologen Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 and its xylose-utilizing derivatives 8b and 2032. Biotechnol Biofuels. 11, 125. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-018-1116-x
  42. Boudreau BA, Hron DR, Qin L, van der Valk RA, Kotlajich MV, Dame RT, Landick R. 2018. StpA and Hha stimulate pausing by RNA polymerase by promoting DNA-DNA bridging of H-NS filaments. Nucleic Acids Res. 46, 5525-5546. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky265
  43. Helmling C, Klotzner DP, Sochor F, Mooney RA, Wacker A, Landick R, Furtig B, Heckel A, Schwalbe H. 2018. Life times of metastable states guide regulatory signaling in transcriptional riboswitches. Nat Commun. 9, 944. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03375-w
  44. Kang J, Mishanina TV, Bellecourt MJ, Mooney RA, Darst SA, Landick R. 2018. RNA polymerase accommodates a pause RNA hairpin by global conformational rearrangements that prolong pausing. Mol Cell. 69, 802-815.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2018.01.018
  45. Boyaci H, Chen J, Lilic M, Palka M, Mooney RA, Landick R, Darst SA, Campbell EA. 2018. Fidaxomicin jams Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA polymerase motions needed for initiation via RbpA contacts. Elife. 7, e34823. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34823
  46. Bottoms S, Dickinson Q, McGee M, Hinchman L, Higbee A, Hebert A, Serate J, Xie D, Zhang Y, Coon JJ, Myers CL, Landick R, Piotrowski JS. 2018. Chemical genomic guided engineering of gamma-valerolactone tolerant yeast. Microb Cell Fact. 17, 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-017-0848-9
  47. Ray-Soni A, Mooney RA, Landick R. 2017. Trigger loop dynamics can explain stimulation of intrinsic termination by bacterial RNA polymerase without terminator hairpin contact. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 114, E9233-E9242. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706247114
  48. Harwig A, Landick R, Berkhout B. 2017. The battle of RNA synthesis: virus versus host. Viruses. 9, E309. https://doi.org/10.3390/v9100309
  49. Welch R, Chung D, Grass J, Landick R, Keles S. 2017. Data exploration, quality control and statistical analysis of ChIP-exo/nexus experiments. Nucleic Acids Res. 45, e145. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx594
  50. Mishanina TV, Palo MZ, Nayak D, Mooney RA, Landick R. 2017. Trigger loop of RNA polymerase is a positional, not acid-base, catalyst for both transcription and proofreading. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 114, E5103-E5112. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702383114
  51. Feklistov A, Bae B, Hauver J, Lass-Napiorkowska A, Kalesse M, Glaus F, Altmann KH, Heyduk T, Landick R, Darst SA. 2017. RNA polymerase motions during promoter melting. Science. 356, 863-866. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam7858
  52. Steinert H, Sochor F, Wacker A, Buck J, Helmling C, Hiller F, Keyhani S, Noeske J, Grimm S, Rudolph MM, Keller H, Mooney RA, Landick R, Suess B, Furtig B, Wohnert J, Schwalbe H. 2017. Pausing guides RNA folding to populate transiently stable RNA structures for riboswitch-based transcription regulation. Elife. 6, e21297. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21297
  53. Kohler R, Mooney RA, Mills DJ, Landick R, Cramer P. 2017. Architecture of a transcribing-translating expressome. Science. 356, 194-197. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal3059
  54. Tetone LE, Friedman LJ, Osborne ML, Ravi H, Kyzer S, Stumper SK, Mooney RA, Landick R, Gelles J. 2017. Dynamics of GreB-RNA polymerase interaction allow a proofreading accessory protein to patrol for transcription complexes needing rescue. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 114, E1081-E1090. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616525114
  55. Sato TK, Tremaine M, Parreiras LS, Hebert AS, Myers KS, Higbee AJ, Sardi M, McIlwain SJ, Ong IM, Breuer RJ, Narasimhan RA, McGee MA, Dickinson Q, La Reau A, Xie D, Tian M, Piotrowski JS, Reed JL, Zhang Y, Coon JJ, Hittinger CT, Gasch AP, Landick R. 2016. Directed evolution reveals unexpected epistatic interactions that alter metabolic regulation and enable anaerobic xylose use by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genet. 12, e1006372. Erratum published in PLoS Genet., 12, e1006447. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006372
  56. Ghosh IN, Landick R. 2016. OptSSeq: High-throughput sequencing readout of growth enrichment defines optimal gene expression elements for homoethanologenesis. ACS Synth Biol. 5, 1519-1534. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.6b00121
  57. McIlwain SJ, Peris D, Sardi M, Moskvin OV, Zhan F, Myers K, Riley NM, Buzzell A, Parreiras LS, Ong IM, Landick R, Coon JJ, Gasch AP, Sato TK, Hittinger CT. 2016. Genome sequence and analysis of a stress-tolerant, wild-derived strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae used in biofuels research. G3 (Bethesda). 6, 1757-1766. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.116.029389
  58. Ray-Soni A, Bellecourt MJ, Landick R. 2016. Mechanisms of bacterial transcription termination: all good things must end. Annu Rev Biochem. 85, 319-347. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biochem-060815-014844
  59. Zhang J, Landick R. 2016. A two-way street: regulatory interplay between RNA polymerase and nascent RNA structure. Trends Biochem Sci. 41, 293-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2015.12.009
  60. Dickinson Q, Bottoms S, Hinchman L, McIlwain S, Li S, Myers CL, Boone C, Coon JJ, Hebert A, Sato TK, Landick R, Piotrowski JS. 2016. Mechanism of imidazolium ionic liquids toxicity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and rational engineering of a tolerant, xylose-fermenting strain. Microb Cell Fact. 15, 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-016-0417-7
  61. Ronayne EA, Wan YC, Boudreau BA, Landick R, Cox MM. 2016. P1 ref endonuclease: a molecular mechanism for phage-enhanced antibiotic lethality. PLoS Genet. 12, e1005797. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005797
  62. Harden TT, Wells CD, Friedman LJ, Landick R, Hochschild A, Kondev J, Gelles J. 2016. Bacterial RNA polymerase can retain sigma70 throughout transcription. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113, 602-607. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513899113
  63. Landick R, Wade JT, Grainger DC. 2015. H-NS and RNA polymerase: a love-hate relationship? Curr Opin Microbiol. 24, 53-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2015.01.009
  64. Serate J, Xie D, Pohlmann E, Donald C Jr, Shabani M, Hinchman L, Higbee A, Mcgee M, La Reau A, Klinger GE, Li S, Myers CL, Boone C, Bates DM, Cavalier D, Eilert D, Oates LG, Sanford G, Sato TK, Dale B, Landick R, Piotrowski J, Ong RG, Zhang Y. 2015. Controlling microbial contamination during hydrolysis of AFEX-pretreated corn stover and switchgrass: effects on hydrolysate composition, microbial response and fermentation. Biotechnol Biofuels. 8, 180. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-015-0356-2
  65. Bae B, Feklistov A, Lass-Napiorkowska A, Landick R, Darst SA. 2015. Structure of a bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme open promoter complex. eLife. 4, e08504. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08504
  66. Piotrowski JS, Okada H, Lu F, Li SC, Hinchman L, Ranjan A, Smith DL, Higbee AJ, Ulbrich A, Coon JJ, Deshpande R, Bukhman YV, McIlwain S, Ong IM, Myers CL, Boone C, Landick R, Ralph J, Kabbage M, Ohya Y. 2015. Plant-derived antifungal agent poacic acid targets beta-1,3-glucan. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112, E1490-1497. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1410400112
  67. Bae B, Nayak D, Ray A, Mustaev A, Landick R, Darst SA. 2015. CBR antimicrobials inhibit RNA polymerase via at least two bridge-helix cap-mediated effects on nucleotide addition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112, E4178-E4187. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502368112
  68. Kotlajich MV, Hron DR, Boudreau BA, Sun Z, Lyubchenko YL, Landick R. 2015. Bridged filaments of histone-like nucleoid structuring protein pause RNA polymerase and aid termination in bacteria. eLife. 4, e04970. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04970
  69. Windgassen TA, Mooney RA, Nayak D, Palangat M, Zhang J, Landick R. 2014. Trigger-helix folding pathway and SI3 mediate catalysis and hairpin-stabilized pausing by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. Nucleic Acids Res. 42, 12707-12721. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku997
  70. Hein PP, Kolb KE, Windgassen T, Bellecourt MJ, Darst SA, Mooney RA, Landick R. 2014. RNA polymerase pausing and nascent-RNA structure formation are linked through clamp-domain movement. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 21, 794-802. https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2867
  71. Haft RJ, Keating DH, Schwaegler T, Schwalbach MS, Vinokur J, Tremaine M, Peters JM, Kotlajich MV, Pohlmann EL, Ong IM, Grass JA, Kiley PJ, Landick R. 2014. Correcting direct effects of ethanol on translation and transcription machinery confers ethanol tolerance in bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, E2576-E2585. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1401853111
  72. Larson MH, Mooney RA, Peters JM, Windgassen T, Nayak D, Gross CA, Block SM, Greenleaf WJ, Landick R, Weissman JS. 2014. A pause sequence enriched at translation start sites drives transcription dynamics in vivo. Science. 344, 1042-1047. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251871
  73. Czyz A, Mooney RA, Iaconi A, Landick R. 2014. Mycobacterial RNA polymerase requires a U-tract at intrinsic terminators and is aided by NusG at suboptimal terminators. MBio. 5, e00931. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00931-14
  74. Zhang Y, Mooney RA, Grass JA, Sivaramakrishnan P, Herman C, Landick R, Wang JD. 2014. DksA guards elongating RNA polymerase against ribosome-stalling-induced arrest. Mol Cell. 53, 766-778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2014.02.005
  75. Kolb KE, Hein PP, Landick R. 2014. Antisense oligonucleotide-stimulated transcriptional pausing reveals RNA exit channel specificity of RNA polymerase and mechanistic contributions of NusA and RfaH. J Biol Chem. 289, 1151-1163. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M113.521393
  76. Nayak D, Voss M, Windgassen T, Mooney RA, Landick R. 2013. Cys-pair reporters detect a constrained trigger loop in a paused RNA polymerase. Mol Cell. 50, 882-893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2013.05.015
  77. Mooney RA, Landick R. 2013. Building a better stop sign: understanding the signals that terminate transcription. Nat Methods. 10, 618-619. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2527
  78. Weixlbaumer A, Leon K, Landick R, Darst SA. 2013. Structural basis of transcriptional pausing in bacteria. Cell. 152, 431-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2012.12.020
  79. Srivastava DB, Leon K, Osmundson J, Garner AL, Weiss LA, Westblade LF, Glickman MS, Landick R, Darst SA, Stallings CL, Campbell EA. 2013. Structure and function of CarD, an essential mycobacterial transcription factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 110, 12619-12624. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1308270110
  80. Chung D, Park D, Myers K, Grass JA, Kiley P, Landick R, Keles S. 2013. dPeak: high resolution identification of transcription factor binding sites from PET and SET ChIP-seq data. PLoS Comput Biol. 9, e1003246. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003246
  81. Park DM, Akhtar MS, Ansari AZ, Landick R, Kiley PJ. 2013. The bacterial response regulator ArcA uses a diverse binding site architecture to regulate carbon oxidation globally. PLoS Genet. 9, e1003839. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003839
  82. Myers KS, Yan H, Ong IM, Chung D, Liang K, Tran F, Keles S, Landick R, Kiley PJ. 2013. Genome-scale analysis of Escherichia coli FNR reveals complex features of transcription factor binding. PLoS Genet. 9, e1003565. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003565
  83. Decanio MS, Landick R, Haft RJ. 2013. The non-pathogenic Escherichia coli strain W secretes SslE via the virulence-associated type II secretion system beta. BMC Microbiol. 13, 130. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-13-130
  84. Peters JM, Mooney RA, Grass JA, Jessen ED, Tran F, Landick R. 2012. Rho and NusG suppress pervasive antisense transcription in Escherichia coli. Genes Dev. 26, 2621-2633. https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.196741.112
  85. Koslover DJ, Fazal FM, Mooney RA, Landick R, Block SM. 2012. Binding and translocation of termination factor Rho studied at the single-molecule level. J Mol Biol. 423, 664-676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2012.07.027
  86. Burmann BM, Knauer SH, Sevostyanova A, Schweimer K, Mooney RA, Landick R, Artsimovitch I, Rosch P. 2012. An alpha-helix to beta-barrel domain switch transforms the transcription factor RfaH into a translation factor. Cell. 150, 291-303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2012.05.042
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  88. Larson MH, Zhou J, Kaplan CD, Palangat M, Kornberg RD, Landick R, Block SM. 2012. Trigger loop dynamics mediate the balance between the transcriptional fidelity and speed of RNA polymerase II. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109, 6555-6560. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200939109
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  208. Landick R, Maguire D, Lutter LC. 1984. Optimization of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis conditions used for sequencing mixed oligodeoxyribonucleotides. DNA. 3, 414-419. https://doi.org/10.1089/dna.1984.3.413
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