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Contact-Dependent Inhibition of Growth in Escherichia coli Stephanie K. Aoki, Rupinderjit Pamma, Aaron D. Hernday, Jessica E. Bickham, Bruce A. Braaten, David A. Low*
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Braaten, B.A., Nou, X., Kaltenbach, L.S. and Low, D.A. (1994) "Methylation patterns in pap regulatory DNA control pyelonephritis-associated pili phase variation in Escherichia coli", Cell 76: 577-588.

Nou, X., Braaten, B., Kaltenbach, L. and Low, D. (1995) "Differential binding of Lrp to two sets of pap DNA binding sites, mediated by PapI, regulates Pap phase variation in Escherichia coli." EMBO J. 14:5785.

Kaltenbach, L., Braaten, B.A., Tucker, J., Krabbe, M., and Low, D.A. (1998) "Use of a two-color genetic screen to identify a domain of the global regulator Lrp that is specifically required for pap phase variation" J. Bacteriol. 180:1224

White-Ziegler, C.A., Angus-Hill, M.L., Braaten, B.A., van der Woude, M.W. and Low, D.A. (1998) "Thermoregulation of E. coli pap transcription: H-NS is a temperature-dependent DNA methylation blocking factor". Molecular Microbiology 28:1121

Heithoff, D.M., Sinsheimer, R.L., Low, D.A. and Mahan, M.J. (1999) "An essential role for DNA adenine methylation in bacterial virulence" Science 284:967.

Weyand, N. and Low, D.A. 2000 "Lrp is sufficient for the establishment of the phase off pap DNA methylation pattern and repression of pap transcription in vitro" J. Biol. Chem. 275:3192.

Nicholson, B. and Low, D. 2000 "DNA Methylation dependent regulation of Pef expression in Salmonella typhimurium" Molecular Microbiology. 2000 35:728.

Weyand, N.J., Braaten, B.A., van der Woude, M., Tucker, J. and Low, D.A. (2001) "The essential role of the promoter proximal subunit of CAP in Pap phase variation: Lrp- and helical phase-dependent activation of papBA transcription by CAP from -215" Molecular Microbiology 39:1504-1522.

Low, D.A., Weyand, N.J. and Mahan, M.J. (2001) Roles of DNA adenine methylation in regulating bacterial gene expression and virulence. (2001) Infect. Immun. 69:7197-7204.

Hernday, A., Krabbe, M., Braaten, B. and Low, D. (2002) Self-perpetuating epigenetic pili switches in bacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:16470-16476.

Hernday, A.D., Braaten, B.A. and Low, D.A. (2003) The mechanism by which DNA adenine methylase and PapI activate the Pap epigenetic Switch. Molecular Cell 12:947-957.

Hernday, A., Braaten, B. and Low, D. (2004) The intricate workings of a bacterial epigenetic switch. Advances in Systems Biology 547:. 83-90.

Hernday, A.D., Braaten, B.A., Maduro, G., Engelberts, P. and Low, D.A. (2004) "Regulation of the Pap epigenetic switch by CpxAR: phosphorylated CpxR inhibits transition to the phase ON state by competition with Lrp" (2004) Molecular Cell in press

Aoki SK, Pamma R, Hernday AD, Bickham JE, Braaten BA, Low DA. (2005) Contact-dependent inhibition of growth in Escherichia coli. Science. 309(5738):1245-8.