L Nicholas Ornston - Publications

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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Yale University, New Haven, CT 
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Molecular Biology, Microbiology Biology
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2007 Smith MG, Gianoulis TA, Pukatzki S, Mekalanos JJ, Ornston LN, Gerstein M, Snyder M. New insights into Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis revealed by high-density pyrosequencing and transposon mutagenesis. Genes & Development. 21: 601-14. PMID 17344419 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1510307  0.347
2006 Gore JM, Ran FA, Ornston LN. Deletion mutations caused by DNA strand slippage in Acinetobacter baylyi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72: 5239-45. PMID 16885271 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.00283-06  0.584
2006 Vaneechoutte M, Young DM, Ornston LN, De Baere T, Nemec A, Van Der Reijden T, Carr E, Tjernberg I, Dijkshoorn L. Naturally transformable Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1 belongs to the newly described species Acinetobacter baylyi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72: 932-6. PMID 16391138 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.72.1.932-936.2006  0.313
2005 Buchan A, Ornston LN. When coupled to natural transformation in Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1, PCR mutagenesis is made less random by mismatch repair. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71: 7610-2. PMID 16269815 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.71.11.7610-7612.2005  0.396
2005 Young DM, Parke D, Ornston LN. Opportunities for genetic investigation afforded by Acinetobacter baylyi, a nutritionally versatile bacterial species that is highly competent for natural transformation. Annual Review of Microbiology. 59: 519-51. PMID 16153178 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Micro.59.051905.105823  0.39
2004 Barbe V, Vallenet D, Fonknechten N, Kreimeyer A, Oztas S, Labarre L, Cruveiller S, Robert C, Duprat S, Wincker P, Ornston LN, Weissenbach J, Marlière P, Cohen GN, Médigue C. Unique features revealed by the genome sequence of Acinetobacter sp. ADP1, a versatile and naturally transformation competent bacterium. Nucleic Acids Research. 32: 5766-79. PMID 15514110 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/Gkh910  0.343
2004 Parke D, Ornston LN. Toxicity caused by hydroxycinnamoyl-coenzyme A thioester accumulation in mutants of Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70: 2974-83. PMID 15128559 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.70.5.2974-2983.2004  0.387
2003 Parke D, Ornston LN. Hydroxycinnamate (hca) catabolic genes from Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1 are repressed by HcaR and are induced by hydroxycinnamoyl-coenzyme A thioesters. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 5398-409. PMID 12957928 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.69.9.5398-5409.2003  0.507
2003 Smith MA, Weaver VB, Young DM, Ornston LN. Genes for chlorogenate and hydroxycinnamate catabolism (hca) are linked to functionally related genes in the dca-pca-qui-pob-hca chromosomal cluster of Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 524-32. PMID 12514037 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.69.1.524-532.2003  0.477
2002 Young DM, Kok RG, Ornston LN. Phenotypic expression of polymerase chain reaction-generated random mutations in a foreign gene after its introduction into an Acinetobacter chromosome by natural transformation. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 182: 103-15. PMID 11768958 DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-194-9:103  0.366
2001 Young DM, Ornston LN. Functions of the mismatch repair gene mutS from Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1. Journal of Bacteriology. 183: 6822-31. PMID 11698371 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.183.23.6822-6831.2001  0.413
2001 Parke D, Garcia MA, Ornston LN. Cloning and genetic characterization of dca genes required for beta-oxidation of straight-chain dicarboxylic acids in Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 67: 4817-27. PMID 11571189 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.10.4817-4827.2001  0.419
2001 D'Argenio DA, Segura A, Bünz PV, Ornston LN. Spontaneous mutations affecting transcriptional regulation by protocatechuate in Acinetobacter. Fems Microbiology Letters. 201: 15-9. PMID 11445161 DOI: 10.1111/J.1574-6968.2001.Tb10726.X  0.431
2000 Morawski B, Segura A, Ornston LN. Repression of Acinetobacter vanillate demethylase synthesis by VanR, a member of the GntR family of transcriptional regulators. Fems Microbiology Letters. 187: 65-8. PMID 10828402 DOI: 10.1111/J.1574-6968.2000.Tb09138.X  0.373
2000 Morawski B, Segura A, Ornston LN. Substrate range and genetic analysis of Acinetobacter vanillate demethylase. Journal of Bacteriology. 182: 1383-9. PMID 10671462 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.182.5.1383-1389.2000  0.387
1999 D'Argenio DA, Vetting MW, Ohlendorf DH, Ornston LN. Substitution, insertion, deletion, suppression, and altered substrate specificity in functional protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenases. Journal of Bacteriology. 181: 6478-87. PMID 10515940 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.181.20.6478-6487.1999  0.409
1999 Segura A, Bünz PV, D'Argenio DA, Ornston LN. Genetic analysis of a chromosomal region containing vanA and vanB, genes required for conversion of either ferulate or vanillate to protocatechuate in Acinetobacter. Journal of Bacteriology. 181: 3494-504. PMID 10348863  0.42
1999 Kok RG, Young DM, Ornston LN. Phenotypic expression of PCR-generated random mutations in a Pseudomonas putida gene after its introduction into an Acinetobacter chromosome by natural transformation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 65: 1675-80. PMID 10103267 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.65.4.1675-1680.1999  0.49
1998 Kok RG, D'Argenio DA, Ornston LN. Mutation analysis of PobR and PcaU, closely related transcriptional activators in acinetobacter. Journal of Bacteriology. 180: 5058-69. PMID 9748437 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.180.19.5058-5069.1998  0.428
1998 Gerischer U, Segura A, Ornston LN. PcaU, a transcriptional activator of genes for protocatechuate utilization in Acinetobacter. Journal of Bacteriology. 180: 1512-24. PMID 9515921 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.180.6.1512-1524.1998  0.514
1996 Gerischer U, D'Argenio DA, Ornston LN. IS1236, a newly discovered member of the IS3 family, exhibits varied patterns of insertion into the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus chromosome. Microbiology (Reading, England). 142: 1825-31. PMID 8757745 DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-7-1825  0.372
1996 Jeong EY, Ornston LN, Choi SH. Cloning of catBCIJFD genes for catechol degradation into chromosomal pobA and genetic stability of the recombinant Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. 60: 949-56. PMID 8695911  0.331
1995 Kowalchuk GA, Gregg-Jolly LA, Ornston LN. Nucleotide sequences transferred by gene conversion in the bacterium Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Gene. 153: 111-5. PMID 7883173 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(94)00760-P  0.453
1995 Gerischer U, Ornston LN. Spontaneous mutations in pcaH and -G, structural genes for protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Journal of Bacteriology. 177: 1336-47. PMID 7868609  0.33
1995 Houghton JE, Brown TM, Appel AJ, Hughes EJ, Ornston LN. Discontinuities in the evolution of Pseudomonas putida cat genes. Journal of Bacteriology. 177: 401-12. PMID 7814330 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.177.2.401-412.1995  0.403
1995 Elsemore DA, Ornston LN. Unusual ancestry of dehydratases associated with quinate catabolism in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Journal of Bacteriology. 177: 5971-8. PMID 7592351  0.416
1995 Fernandez J, Dimarco AA, Ornston LN, Harayama S. Purification and characterization of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus 4-hydroxybenzoate 3-hydroxylase after its overexpression in Escherichia coli. Journal of Biochemistry. 117: 1261-6. PMID 7490269  0.362
1994 Ehrt S, Ornston LN, Hillen W. RpoN (sigma 54) is required for conversion of phenol to catechol in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Journal of Bacteriology. 176: 3493-9. PMID 8206826 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.176.12.3493-3499.1994  0.351
1994 Hartnett GB, Ornston LN. Acquisition of apparent DNA slippage structures during extensive evolutionary divergence of pcaD and catD genes encoding identical catalytic activities in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Gene. 142: 23-9. PMID 8181753  0.362
1994 Shanley MS, Harrison A, Parales RE, Kowalchuk G, Mitchell DJ, Ornston LN. Unusual G + C content and codon usage in catIJF, a segment of the ben-cat supra-operonic cluster in the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus chromosome. Gene. 138: 59-65. PMID 8125318 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90783-8  0.683
1994 Kowalchuk GA, Hartnett GB, Benson A, Houghton JE, Ngai KL, Ornston LN. Contrasting patterns of evolutionary divergence within the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus pca operon. Gene. 146: 23-30. PMID 8063101 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90829-X  0.508
1994 DiMarco AA, Ornston LN. Regulation of p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase synthesis by PobR bound to an operator in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Journal of Bacteriology. 176: 4277-84. PMID 8021213  0.346
1994 Elsemore DA, Ornston LN. The pca-pob supraoperonic cluster of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus contains quiA, the structural gene for quinate-shikimate dehydrogenase. Journal of Bacteriology. 176: 7659-66. PMID 8002591  0.463
1994 Gregg-Jolly LA, Ornston LN. Properties of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus recA and its contribution to intracellular gene conversion. Molecular Microbiology. 12: 985-92. PMID 7934905 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.1994.Tb01086.X  0.519
1993 DiMarco AA, Averhoff BA, Kim EE, Ornston LN. Evolutionary divergence of pobA, the structural gene encoding p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase in an Acinetobacter calcoaceticus strain well-suited for genetic analysis. Gene. 125: 25-33. PMID 8449410 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(93)90741-K  0.495
1993 DiMarco AA, Averhoff B, Ornston LN. Identification of the transcriptional activator pobR and characterization of its role in the expression of pobA, the structural gene for p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Journal of Bacteriology. 175: 4499-506. PMID 8331077  0.406
1992 Neidle E, Hartnett C, Ornston LN, Bairoch A, Rekik M, Harayama S. cis-diol dehydrogenases encoded by the TOL pWW0 plasmid xylL gene and the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus chromosomal benD gene are members of the short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase superfamily. European Journal of Biochemistry / Febs. 204: 113-20. PMID 1740120 DOI: 10.1111/J.1432-1033.1992.Tb16612.X  0.689
1992 Averhoff B, Gregg-Jolly L, Elsemore D, Ornston LN. Genetic analysis of supraoperonic clustering by use of natural transformation in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Journal of Bacteriology. 174: 200-4. PMID 1729209  0.368
1991 Harayama S, Rekik M, Bairoch A, Neidle EL, Ornston LN. Potential DNA slippage structures acquired during evolutionary divergence of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus chromosomal benABC and Pseudomonas putida TOL pWW0 plasmid xylXYZ, genes encoding benzoate dioxygenases. Journal of Bacteriology. 173: 7540-8. PMID 1938949 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.173.23.7540-7548.1991  0.7
1991 Neidle EL, Hartnett C, Ornston LN, Bairoch A, Rekik M, Harayama S. Nucleotide sequences of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus benABC genes for benzoate 1,2-dioxygenase reveal evolutionary relationships among multicomponent oxygenases. Journal of Bacteriology. 173: 5385-95. PMID 1885518 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.173.17.5385-5395.1991  0.657
1990 Hartnett C, Neidle EL, Ngai KL, Ornston LN. DNA sequences of genes encoding Acinetobacter calcoaceticus protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase: evidence indicating shuffling of genes and of DNA sequences within genes during their evolutionary divergence. Journal of Bacteriology. 172: 956-66. PMID 2298704 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.172.2.956-966.1990  0.699
1990 Ngai KL, Neidle EL, Ornston LN. Catechol and chlorocatechol 1,2-dioxygenases. Methods in Enzymology. 188: 122-6. PMID 2280696 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(90)88022-3  0.597
1990 Rothmel RK, Aldrich TL, Houghton JE, Coco WM, Ornston LN, Chakrabarty AM. Nucleotide sequencing and characterization of Pseudomonas putida catR: a positive regulator of the catBC operon is a member of the LysR family. Journal of Bacteriology. 172: 922-31. PMID 1688844 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.172.2.922-931.1990  0.575
1989 Neidle EL, Hartnett C, Ornston LN. Characterization of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus catM, a repressor gene homologous in sequence to transcriptional activator genes. Journal of Bacteriology. 171: 5410-21. PMID 2793826 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.171.10.5410-5421.1989  0.713
1988 Neidle EL, Hartnett C, Bonitz S, Ornston LN. DNA sequence of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus catechol 1,2-dioxygenase I structural gene catA: evidence for evolutionary divergence of intradiol dioxygenases by acquisition of DNA sequence repetitions. Journal of Bacteriology. 170: 4874-80. PMID 3170486 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.170.10.4874-4880.1988  0.709
1988 Hughes EJ, Shapiro MK, Houghton JE, Ornston LN. Cloning and expression of pca genes from Pseudomonas putida in Escherichia coli. Journal of General Microbiology. 134: 2877-87. PMID 3076176 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-134-11-2877  0.424
1987 Frantz B, Ngai KL, Chatterjee DK, Ornston LN, Chakrabarty AM. Nucleotide sequence and expression of clcD, a plasmid-borne dienelactone hydrolase gene from Pseudomonas sp. strain B13. Journal of Bacteriology. 169: 704-9. PMID 3804974 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.169.2.704-709.1987  0.647
1987 Neidle EL, Ornston LN. Benzoate and muconate, structurally dissimilar metabolites, induce expression of catA in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Journal of Bacteriology. 169: 414-5. PMID 3793718 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.169.1.414-415.1987  0.64
1987 Doten RC, Gregg LA, Ornston LN. Influence of the catBCE sequence on the phenotypic reversion of a pcaE mutation in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Journal of Bacteriology. 169: 3175-80. PMID 3474227  0.389
1987 Doten RC, Ngai KL, Mitchell DJ, Ornston LN. Cloning and genetic organization of the pca gene cluster from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Journal of Bacteriology. 169: 3168-74. PMID 3036773  0.481
1987 Neidle EL, Shapiro MK, Ornston LN. Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus genes for benzoate degradation. Journal of Bacteriology. 169: 5496-503. PMID 2824437 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.169.12.5496-5503.1987  0.69
1986 Parke D, Ornston LN. Enzymes of the beta-ketoadipate pathway are inducible in Rhizobium and Agrobacterium spp. and constitutive in Bradyrhizobium spp. Journal of Bacteriology. 165: 288-92. PMID 3941043  0.308
1986 Neidle EL, Ornston LN. Cloning and expression of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus catechol 1,2-dioxygenase structural gene catA in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 168: 815-20. PMID 3536862 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.168.2.815-820.1986  0.715
1986 Shanley MS, Neidle EL, Parales RE, Ornston LN. Cloning and expression of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus catBCDE genes in Pseudomonas putida and Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 165: 557-63. PMID 3003031 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.165.2.557-563.1986  0.761
1984 Yeh WK, Ornston LN. p-Chloromercuribenzoate specifically modifies thiols associated with the active sites of beta-ketoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase and succinyl CoA: beta-ketoadipate CoA transferase. Archives of Microbiology. 138: 102-5. PMID 6591865 DOI: 10.1007/BF00413008  0.308
1984 Harwood CS, Ornston LN. TOL plasmid can prevent induction of chemotactic responses to aromatic acids. Journal of Bacteriology. 160: 797-800. PMID 6501222 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.160.2.797-800.1984  0.315
1984 Parke D, Ornston LN. Nutritional diversity of Rhizobiaceae revealed by auxanography Journal of General Microbiology. 130: 1743-1750. DOI: 10.1099/00221287-130-7-1743  0.322
1980 Yeh WK, Fletcher P, Ornston LN. Evolutionary divergence of co-selected beta-ketoadipate enol-lactone hydrolases in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 255: 6342-6. PMID 7391023  0.382
1980 McCorkle GM, Yeh WK, Fletcher P, Ornston LN. Repetitions in the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of beta-ketoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase from Pseudomonas putida. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 255: 6335-41. PMID 7391022  0.367
1980 Yeh WK, Ornston LN. Origins of metabolic diversity: substitution of homologous sequences into genes for enzymes with different catalytic activities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 77: 5365-9. PMID 6776535  0.413
1979 Ornston LN, Yeh WK. Origins of metabolic diversity: evolutionary divergence by sequence repetition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 76: 3996-4000. PMID 291059  0.4
1977 Ornston LN, Parke D. The evolution of induction mechanisms in bacteria: insights derived from the study of the beta-ketoadipate pathway. Current Topics in Cellular Regulation. 12: 209-62. PMID 324714 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-152812-6.50011-1  0.356
1976 Parke D, Ornston LN. Constitutive synthesis of enzymes of the protocatechuate pathway and of the beta-ketoadipate uptake system in mutant strains of Pseudomonas putida. Journal of Bacteriology. 126: 272-81. PMID 1262305  0.323
1973 Stanier RY, Ornston LN. The beta-ketoadipate pathway. Advances in Microbial Physiology. 9: 89-151. PMID 4599397  0.538
1973 Parke D, Meagher RB, Ornston LN. Relationships among enzymes of the beta-ketoadipate pathway. 3. Properties of crystalline gamma-carboxymuconolactone decarboxylase from Pseudomonas putida. Biochemistry. 12: 3537-42. PMID 4199896 DOI: 10.1021/Bi00742A029  0.351
1973 Meagher RB, Ornston LN. Relationships among enzymes of the beta-ketoadipate pathway. I. Properties of cis,cis-muconate-lactonizing enzyme and muconolactone isomerase from Pseudomonas putida. Biochemistry. 12: 3523-30. PMID 4199894 DOI: 10.1021/Bi00742A027  0.346
1967 Cánovas JL, Ornston LN, Stanier RY. Evolutionary significance of metabolic control systems. The beta-ketoadipate pathway provides a case history in bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.). 156: 1695-9. PMID 5611030 DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3783.1695  0.541
1966 Ornston LN, Stanier RY. The conversion of catechol and protocatechuate to beta-ketoadipate by Pseudomonas putida. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 241: 3776-86. PMID 5916391  0.541
1964 ORNSTON LN, STANIER RY. MECHANISM OF BETA-KETOADIPATE FORMATION BY BACTERIA. Nature. 204: 1279-83. PMID 14254410 DOI: 10.1038/2041279A0  0.54
1964 Ornston LN, Stanier RY. Mechanism of β-ketoadipate formation by bacteria Nature. 204: 1279-1283. DOI: 10.1038/2041279a0  0.478
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