Wayne L. Nicholson, Ph.D - Publications

Affiliations: 
1990-1995 Microbiology and Immunology University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth 
 1995-2003 Veterinary Science and Microbiology University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 
 2003- Microbiology and Cell Science University of Florida, Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, United States 
Area:
Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Bacterial Genetics, Astrobiology

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2021 Waters SM, Robles-Martínez JA, Nicholson WL. Growth at 5 kPa Causes Differential Expression of a Number of Signals in a Strain Adapted to Enhanced Growth at Low Pressure. Astrobiology. PMID 34357782 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2020.2389  0.78
2019 Nicholson WL, Ricco AJ. Nanosatellites for Biology in Space: In Situ Measurement of Spore Germination and Growth after 6 Months in Low Earth Orbit on the Mission. Life (Basel, Switzerland). 10. PMID 31905771 DOI: 10.3390/Life10010001  0.309
2019 Nicholson WL. A Bumpy Pathway to Stationary-Phase Survival in Bacillus subtilis. Mbio. 10. PMID 31662459 DOI: 10.1128/Mbio.02461-19  0.305
2019 Cortesão M, Fuchs FM, Commichau FM, Eichenberger P, Schuerger AC, Nicholson WL, Setlow P, Moeller R. Spore Resistance to Simulated Mars Surface Conditions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10: 333. PMID 30863384 DOI: 10.3389/Fmicb.2019.00333  0.679
2018 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Morrison MD, Miller KM, Schuerger AC, Nicholson WL. Transcriptomic responses of Serratia liquefaciens cells grown under simulated Martian conditions of low temperature, low pressure, and CO-enriched anoxic atmosphere. Scientific Reports. 8: 14938. PMID 30297913 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-33140-4  0.351
2018 Nicholson WL, Schuerger AC, Douki T. The Photochemistry of Unprotected DNA and DNA inside Bacillus subtilis Spores Exposed to Simulated Martian Surface Conditions of Atmospheric Composition, Temperature, Pressure, and Solar Radiation. Astrobiology. 18: 393-402. PMID 29589975 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2017.1721  0.388
2018 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Leehan JD, Nicholson WL. Alterations in the Spectrum of Spontaneous Rifampicin-Resistance Mutations in theGene after Cultivation in the Human Spaceflight Environment. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9: 192. PMID 29491852 DOI: 10.3389/Fmicb.2018.00192  0.335
2017 Morrison MD, Fajardo-Cavazos P, Nicholson WL. Cultivation in space flight produces minimal alterations in the susceptibility of Bacillus subtilis cells to 72 different antibiotics and growth-inhibiting compounds. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. PMID 28821547 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.01584-17  0.311
2017 Zeigler DR, Nicholson WL. Experimental Evolution of Bacillus subtilis. Environmental Microbiology. PMID 28631363 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13831  0.335
2016 Schuerger AC, Nicholson WL. Twenty Species of Hypobarophilic Bacteria Recovered from Diverse Soils Exhibit Growth under Simulated Martian Conditions at 0.7 kPa. Astrobiology. PMID 27870556 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2016.1587  0.306
2016 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Nicholson WL. Cultivation of Staphylococcus epidermidis in the Human Spaceflight Environment Leads to Alterations in the Frequency and Spectrum of Spontaneous Rifampicin-Resistance Mutations in the rpoB Gene. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7: 999. PMID 27446039 DOI: 10.3389/Fmicb.2016.00999  0.357
2016 de Oliveira RR, Nicholson WL. Synthetic operon for (R,R)-2,3-butanediol production in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 100: 719-28. PMID 26454865 DOI: 10.1007/S00253-015-7030-2  0.335
2015 Nicholson WL, Park R. Anaerobic growth of Bacillus subtilis alters the spectrum of spontaneous mutations in the rpoB gene leading to rifampicin resistance. Fems Microbiology Letters. PMID 26538577 DOI: 10.1093/Femsle/Fnv213  0.406
2015 Waters SM, Zeigler DR, Nicholson WL. Experimental evolution of enhanced growth by Bacillus subtilis at low atmospheric pressure: genomic changes revealed by whole-genome sequencing. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81: 7525-32. PMID 26296725 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.01690-15  0.641
2015 Nicholson WL, Zhalnina K, de Oliveira RR, Triplett EW. Proposal to rename Carnobacterium inhibens as Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens subsp. nov. and description of Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. gilichinskyi subsp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from Siberian permafrost. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65: 556-61. PMID 25392348 DOI: 10.1099/Ijs.0.067983-0  0.332
2014 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Maughan H, Nicholson WL. Evolution in the Bacillaceae. Microbiology Spectrum. 2. PMID 26104365 DOI: 10.1128/Microbiolspec.Tbs-0020-2014  0.632
2014 Waters SM, Robles-Martínez JA, Nicholson WL. Exposure of Bacillus subtilis to low pressure (5 kilopascals) induces several global regulons, including those involved in the SigB-mediated general stress response. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80: 4788-94. PMID 24878601 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.00885-14  0.756
2014 Moeller R, Raguse M, Reitz G, Okayasu R, Li Z, Klein S, Setlow P, Nicholson WL. Resistance of bacillus subtilis spore DNA to lethal ionizing radiation damage relies primarily on spore core components and DNA repair, with minor effects of oxygen radical detoxification Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80: 104-109. PMID 24123749 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.03136-13  0.663
2013 Leonard MT, Panayotova N, Farmerie WG, Triplett EW, Nicholson WL. Complete Genome Sequence of Carnobacterium gilichinskyi Strain WN1359T (DSM 27470T). Genome Announcements. 1. PMID 24285647 DOI: 10.1128/Genomea.00985-13  0.307
2013 de Oliveira RR, Nicholson WL. The LysR-type transcriptional regulator (LTTR) AlsR indirectly regulates expression of the Bacillus subtilis bdhA gene encoding 2,3-butanediol dehydrogenase. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 97: 7307-16. PMID 23576037 DOI: 10.1007/S00253-013-4871-4  0.357
2013 Schuerger AC, Ulrich R, Berry BJ, Nicholson WL. Growth of Serratia liquefaciens under 7 mbar, 0°C, and CO2-enriched anoxic atmospheres. Astrobiology. 13: 115-31. PMID 23289858 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2011.0811  0.322
2013 Nicholson WL, Krivushin K, Gilichinsky D, Schuerger AC. Growth of Carnobacterium spp. from permafrost under low pressure, temperature, and anoxic atmosphere has implications for Earth microbes on Mars. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 666-71. PMID 23267097 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1209793110  0.773
2012 Moeller R, Reitz G, Li Z, Klein S, Nicholson WL. Multifactorial resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores to high-energy proton radiation: role of spore structural components and the homologous recombination and non-homologous end joining DNA repair pathways. Astrobiology. 12: 1069-77. PMID 23088412 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2012.0890  0.594
2012 Moeller R, Schuerger AC, Reitz G, Nicholson WL. Protective role of spore structural components in determining Bacillus subtilis spore resistance to simulated mars surface conditions. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78: 8849-53. PMID 23064347 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.02527-12  0.564
2012 Nicholson WL, Moeller R, Horneck G. Transcriptomic responses of germinating Bacillus subtilis spores exposed to 1.5 years of space and simulated martian conditions on the EXPOSE-E experiment PROTECT. Astrobiology. 12: 469-86. PMID 22680693 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2011.0748  0.557
2012 Horneck G, Moeller R, Cadet J, Douki T, Mancinelli RL, Nicholson WL, Panitz C, Rabbow E, Rettberg P, Spry A, Stackebrandt E, Vaishampayan P, Venkateswaran KJ. Resistance of bacterial endospores to outer space for planetary protection purposes--experiment PROTECT of the EXPOSE-E mission. Astrobiology. 12: 445-56. PMID 22680691 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2011.0737  0.565
2012 Moeller R, Vlašić I, Reitz G, Nicholson WL. Role of altered rpoB alleles in Bacillus subtilis sporulation and spore resistance to heat, hydrogen peroxide, formaldehyde, and glutaraldehyde. Archives of Microbiology. 194: 759-67. PMID 22484477 DOI: 10.1007/S00203-012-0811-4  0.579
2012 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Waters SM, Schuerger AC, George S, Marois JJ, Nicholson WL. Evolution of Bacillus subtilis to enhanced growth at low pressure: up-regulated transcription of des-desKR, encoding the fatty acid desaturase system. Astrobiology. 12: 258-70. PMID 22416764 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2011.0728  0.648
2012 Nicholson WL. Increased competitive fitness of Bacillus subtilis under nonsporulating conditions via inactivation of pleiotropic regulators AlsR, SigD, and SigW. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78: 3500-3. PMID 22344650 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.07742-11  0.346
2011 Nicholson WL, Ricco AJ, Agasid E, Beasley C, Diaz-Aguado M, Ehrenfreund P, Friedericks C, Ghassemieh S, Henschke M, Hines JW, Kitts C, Luzzi E, Ly D, Mai N, Mancinelli R, et al. The O/OREOS mission: first science data from the Space Environment Survivability of Living Organisms (SESLO) payload. Astrobiology. 11: 951-8. PMID 22091486 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2011.0714  0.32
2011 Brown CT, Fishwick LK, Chokshi BM, Cuff MA, Jackson JM, Oglesby T, Rioux AT, Rodriguez E, Stupp GS, Trupp AH, Woollcombe-Clarke JS, Wright TN, Zaragoza WJ, Drew JC, Triplett EW, ... Nicholson WL, et al. Whole-genome sequencing and phenotypic analysis of Bacillus subtilis mutants following evolution under conditions of relaxed selection for sporulation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77: 6867-77. PMID 21821766 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.05272-11  0.375
2011 Maughan H, Nicholson WL. Increased fitness and alteration of metabolic pathways during Bacillus subtilis evolution in the laboratory. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77: 4105-18. PMID 21531833 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.00374-11  0.684
2011 Moeller R, Setlow P, Pedraza-Reyes M, Okayasu R, Reitz G, Nicholson WL. Role of the Nfo and ExoA apurinic/apyrimidinic endonucleases in radiation resistance and radiation-induced mutagenesis of bacillus subtilis spores Journal of Bacteriology. 193: 2875-2879. PMID 21441501 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00134-11  0.773
2011 Moeller R, Schuerger AC, Reitz G, Nicholson WL. Impact of two DNA repair pathways, homologous recombination and non-homologous end joining, on bacterial spore inactivation under simulated martian environmental conditions Icarus. 215: 204-210. DOI: 10.1016/J.Icarus.2011.06.035  0.604
2010 Nicholson WL, Fajardo-Cavazos P, Fedenko J, Ortíz-Lugo JL, Rivas-Castillo A, Waters SM, Schuerger AC. Exploring the low-pressure growth limit: evolution of Bacillus subtilis in the laboratory to enhanced growth at 5 kilopascals. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76: 7559-65. PMID 20889789 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.01126-10  0.771
2010 Moeller R, Reitz G, Berger T, Okayasu R, Nicholson WL, Horneck G. Astrobiological aspects of the mutagenesis of cosmic radiation on bacterial spores. Astrobiology. 10: 509-21. PMID 20624059 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2009.0429  0.564
2010 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Schuerger AC, Nicholson WL. Exposure of DNA and Bacillus subtilis spores to simulated martian environments: use of quantitative PCR (qPCR) to measure inactivation rates of DNA to function as a template molecule. Astrobiology. 10: 403-11. PMID 20528195 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2009.0408  0.374
2010 Moeller R, Douki T, Rettberg P, Reitz G, Cadet J, Nicholson WL, Horneck G. Genomic bipyrimidine nucleotide frequency and microbial reactions to germicidal UV radiation. Archives of Microbiology. 192: 521-9. PMID 20454780 DOI: 10.1007/S00203-010-0579-3  0.578
2010 Rivas-Castillo AM, Yasbin RE, Robleto E, Nicholson WL, Pedraza-Reyes M. Role of the Y-family DNA polymerases YqjH and YqjW in protecting sporulating Bacillus subtilis cells from DNA damage. Current Microbiology. 60: 263-7. PMID 19924481 DOI: 10.1007/S00284-009-9535-3  0.792
2009 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Langenhorst F, Melosh HJ, Nicholson WL. Bacterial spores in granite survive hypervelocity launch by spallation: implications for lithopanspermia. Astrobiology. 9: 647-57. PMID 19778276 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2008.0326  0.3
2009 Moeller R, Setlow P, Reitz G, Nicholson WL. Roles of small, acid-soluble spore proteins and core water content in survival of Bacillus subtilis spores exposed to environmental solar UV radiation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75: 5202-8. PMID 19542328 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.00789-09  0.668
2009 Nicholson WL, Fedenko J, Schuerger AC. Carbon-13 (13C) labeling of Bacillus subtilis vegetative cells and spores: suitability for DNA stable isotope probing (DNA-SIP) of spores in soils. Current Microbiology. 59: 9-14. PMID 19280259 DOI: 10.1007/S00284-009-9387-X  0.337
2009 Maughan H, Birky CW, Nicholson WL. Transcriptome divergence and the loss of plasticity in Bacillus subtilis after 6,000 generations of evolution under relaxed selection for sporulation. Journal of Bacteriology. 191: 428-33. PMID 18952793 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.01234-08  0.665
2008 Perkins AE, Schuerger AC, Nicholson WL. Isolation of rpoB mutations causing rifampicin resistance in Bacillus subtilis spores exposed to simulated Martian surface conditions. Astrobiology. 8: 1159-67. PMID 19191541 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2007.0224  0.684
2008 Nicholson WL. The Bacillus subtilis ydjL (bdhA) gene encodes acetoin reductase/2,3-butanediol dehydrogenase. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74: 6832-8. PMID 18820069 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.00881-08  0.354
2008 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Schuerger AC, Nicholson WL. Persistence of biomarker ATP and ATP-generating capability in bacterial cells and spores contaminating spacecraft materials under earth conditions and in a simulated martian environment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74: 5159-67. PMID 18567687 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.00891-08  0.307
2008 Moeller R, Setlow P, Horneck G, Berger T, Reitz G, Rettberg P, Doherty AJ, Okayasu R, Nicholson WL. Roles of the major, small, acid-soluble spore proteins and spore-specific and universal DNA repair mechanisms in resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores to ionizing radiation from X rays and high-energy charged-particle bombardment. Journal of Bacteriology. 190: 1134-40. PMID 18055591 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.01644-07  0.663
2008 Perkins AE, Nicholson WL. Uncovering new metabolic capabilities of Bacillus subtilis using phenotype profiling of rifampin-resistant rpoB mutants. Journal of Bacteriology. 190: 807-14. PMID 17644585 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00901-07  0.684
2007 Gioia J, Yerrapragada S, Qin X, Jiang H, Igboeli OC, Muzny D, Dugan-Rocha S, Ding Y, Hawes A, Liu W, Perez L, Kovar C, Dinh H, Lee S, Nazareth L, ... ... Nicholson WL, et al. Paradoxical DNA repair and peroxide resistance gene conservation in Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032. Plos One. 2: e928. PMID 17895969 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0000928  0.414
2007 Maughan H, Masel J, Birky CW, Nicholson WL. The roles of mutation accumulation and selection in loss of sporulation in experimental populations of Bacillus subtilis. Genetics. 177: 937-48. PMID 17720926 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.107.075663  0.658
2007 Moeller R, Douki T, Cadet J, Stackebrandt E, Nicholson WL, Rettberg P, Reitz G, Horneck G. UV-radiation-induced formation of DNA bipyrimidine photoproducts in Bacillus subtilis endospores and their repair during germination. International Microbiology : the Official Journal of the Spanish Society For Microbiology. 10: 39-46. PMID 17407059 DOI: 10.2436/Im.V10I1.9598  0.613
2007 Moeller R, Stackebrandt E, Reitz G, Berger T, Rettberg P, Doherty AJ, Horneck G, Nicholson WL. Role of DNA repair by nonhomologous-end joining in Bacillus subtilis spore resistance to extreme dryness, mono- and polychromatic UV, and ionizing radiation. Journal of Bacteriology. 189: 3306-11. PMID 17293412 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00018-07  0.615
2006 Tauscher C, Schuerger AC, Nicholson WL. Survival and germinability of Bacillus subtilis spores exposed to simulated Mars solar radiation: implications for life detection and planetary protection. Astrobiology. 6: 592-605. PMID 16916285 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2006.6.592  0.341
2006 Moeller R, Horneck G, Rettberg P, Mollenkopf HJ, Stackebrandt E, Nicholson WL. A method for extracting RNA from dormant and germinating Bacillus subtilis strain 168 endospores. Current Microbiology. 53: 227-31. PMID 16897257 DOI: 10.1007/S00284-006-0099-1  0.509
2006 Maughan H, Callicotte V, Hancock A, Birky CW, Nicholson WL, Masel J. The population genetics of phenotypic deterioration in experimental populations of Bacillus subtilis. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 60: 686-95. PMID 16739451 DOI: 10.1111/J.0014-3820.2006.Tb01148.X  0.632
2006 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Nicholson W. Bacillus endospores isolated from granite: close molecular relationships to globally distributed Bacillus spp. from endolithic and extreme environments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72: 2856-63. PMID 16597992 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.72.4.2856-2863.2006  0.371
2006 Schuerger AC, Nicholson WL. Interactive effects of hypobaria, low temperature, and CO2 atmospheres inhibit the growth of mesophilic Bacillus spp. under simulated martian conditions Icarus. 185: 143-152. DOI: 10.1016/J.Icarus.2006.06.014  0.351
2005 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Link L, Melosh HJ, Nicholson WL. Bacillus subtilis spores on artificial meteorites survive hypervelocity atmospheric entry: implications for Lithopanspermia. Astrobiology. 5: 726-36. PMID 16379527 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2005.5.726  0.338
2005 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Rebeil R, Nicholson WL. Essential cysteine residues in Bacillus subtilis spore photoproduct lyase identified by alanine scanning mutagenesis. Current Microbiology. 51: 331-5. PMID 16163454 DOI: 10.1007/S00284-005-0052-8  0.789
2005 Nicholson WL, Schuerger AC. Bacillus subtilis spore survival and expression of germination-induced bioluminescence after prolonged incubation under simulated Mars atmospheric pressure and composition: implications for planetary protection and lithopanspermia. Astrobiology. 5: 536-44. PMID 16078870 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2005.5.536  0.327
2005 Nicholson WL, Schuerger AC, Setlow P. The solar UV environment and bacterial spore UV resistance: Considerations for Earth-to-Mars transport by natural processes and human spaceflight Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 571: 249-264. PMID 15748651 DOI: 10.1016/J.Mrfmmm.2004.10.012  0.524
2004 Maughan H, Galeano B, Nicholson WL. Novel rpoB mutations conferring rifampin resistance on Bacillus subtilis: global effects on growth, competence, sporulation, and germination. Journal of Bacteriology. 186: 2481-6. PMID 15060052 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.186.8.2481-2486.2004  0.684
2004 Maughan H, Nicholson WL. Stochastic processes influence stationary-phase decisions in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 186: 2212-4. PMID 15028708 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.186.7.2212-2214.2004  0.633
2004 La Duc MT, Nicholson W, Kern R, Venkateswaran K. Microbial characterization of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft and its encapsulation facility. Environmental Microbiology. 5: 977-85. PMID 14510851 DOI: 10.1046/J.1462-2920.2003.00496.X  0.338
2004 Link L, Sawyer J, Venkateswaran K, Nicholson W. Extreme spore UV resistance of Bacillus pumilus isolates obtained from an ultraclean Spacecraft Assembly Facility. Microbial Ecology. 47: 159-163. PMID 14502417 DOI: 10.1007/S00248-003-1029-4  0.384
2003 Benardini JN, Sawyer J, Venkateswaran K, Nicholson WL. Spore UV and acceleration resistance of endolithic Bacillus pumilus and Bacillus subtilis isolates obtained from Sonoran desert basalt: implications for lithopanspermia. Astrobiology. 3: 709-17. PMID 14987476 DOI: 10.1089/153110703322736033  0.39
2003 Venkateswaran K, Kempf M, Chen F, Satomi M, Nicholson W, Kern R. Bacillus nealsonii sp. nov., isolated from a spacecraft-assembly facility, whose spores are gamma-radiation resistant. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53: 165-172. PMID 12656168 DOI: 10.1099/Ijs.0.02311-0  0.384
2003 Nicholson WL, Galeano B. UV resistance of Bacillus anthracis spores revisited: validation of Bacillus subtilis spores as UV surrogates for spores of B. anthracis Sterne. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 1327-30. PMID 12571068 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.69.2.1327-1330.2003  0.383
2003 Marshall MM, Hayes S, Moffett J, Sterling CR, Nicholson WL. Comparison of UV inactivation of spores of three encephalitozoon species with that of spores of two DNA repair-deficient Bacillus subtilis biodosimetry strains. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 683-5. PMID 12514061 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.69.1.683-685.2003  0.429
2002 Nicholson WL, Setlow B, Setlow P. UV photochemistry of DNA in vitro and in Bacillus subtilis spores at earth-ambient and low atmospheric pressure: implications for spore survival on other planets or moons in the solar system. Astrobiology. 2: 417-25. PMID 12593780 DOI: 10.1089/153110702762470518  0.582
2002 Nicholson WL, Fajardo-Cavazos P, Rebeil R, Slieman TA, Riesenman PJ, Law JF, Xue Y. Bacterial endospores and their significance in stress resistance. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 81: 27-32. PMID 12448702 DOI: 10.1023/A:1020561122764  0.769
2002 Maughan H, Birky CW, Nicholson WL, Rosenzweig WD, Vreeland RH. The paradox of the "ancient" bacterium which contains "modern" protein-coding genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 1637-9. PMID 12200492 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A004227  0.659
2002 Nicholson WL, Maughan H. The spectrum of spontaneous rifampin resistance mutations in the rpoB gene of Bacillus subtilis 168 spores differs from that of vegetative cells and resembles that of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Bacteriology. 184: 4936-40. PMID 12169622 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.184.17.4936-4940.2002  0.691
2001 Rebeil R, Nicholson WL. The subunit structure and catalytic mechanism of the Bacillus subtilis DNA repair enzyme spore photoproduct lyase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 98: 9038-43. PMID 11470912 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.161278998  0.761
2001 Slieman TA, Nicholson WL. Role of dipicolinic acid in survival of Bacillus subtilis spores exposed to artificial and solar UV radiation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 67: 1274-9. PMID 11229921 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.67.3.1274-1279.2001  0.789
2000 Avitia CI, Castellanos-Juárez FX, Sánchez E, Téllez-Valencia A, Fajardo-Cavazos P, Nicholson WL, Pedraza-Reyes M. Temporal secretion of a multicellulolytic system in Myxobacter sp. AL-1. Molecular cloning and heterologous expression of cel9 encoding a modular endocellulase clustered in an operon with cel48, an exocellobiohydrolase gene. European Journal of Biochemistry / Febs. 267: 7058-64. PMID 11106416 DOI: 10.1046/J.1432-1327.2000.01804.X  0.649
2000 Slieman TA, Rebeil R, Nicholson WL. Spore photoproduct (SP) lyase from Bacillus subtilis specifically binds to and cleaves SP (5-thyminyl-5,6-dihydrothymine) but not cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in UV-irradiated DNA. Journal of Bacteriology. 182: 6412-7. PMID 11053385 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.182.22.6412-6417.2000  0.776
2000 Nicholson WL, Munakata N, Horneck G, Melosh HJ, Setlow P. Resistance of Bacillus endospores to extreme terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews : Mmbr. 64: 548-72. PMID 10974126 DOI: 10.1128/Mmbr.64.3.548-572.2000  0.486
2000 Riesenman PJ, Nicholson WL. Role of the spore coat layers in Bacillus subtilis spore resistance to hydrogen peroxide, artificial UV-C, UV-B, and solar UV radiation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 66: 620-6. PMID 10653726 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.66.2.620-626.2000  0.733
2000 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Nicholson WL. The TRAP-like SplA protein is a trans-acting negative regulator of spore photoproduct lyase synthesis during Bacillus subtilis sporulation Journal of Bacteriology. 182: 555-560. PMID 10629212 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.182.2.555-560.2000  0.411
2000 Slieman TA, Nicholson WL. Artificial and solar UV radiation induces strand breaks and cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in Bacillus subtilis spore DNA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 66: 199-205. PMID 10618224 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.66.1.199-205.2000  0.798
1999 Nicholson WL, Law JF. Method for purification of bacterial endospores from soils: UV resistance of natural Sonoran desert soil populations of Bacillus spp. with reference to B. subtilis strain 168 Journal of Microbiological Methods. 35: 13-21. PMID 10076626 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(98)00097-9  0.331
1998 Rebeil R, Sun Y, Chooback L, Pedraza-Reyes M, Kinsland C, Begley TP, Nicholson WL. Spore photoproduct lyase from Bacillus subtilis spores is a novel iron-sulfur DNA repair enzyme which shares features with proteins such as class III anaerobic ribonucleotide reductases and pyruvate-formate lyases. Journal of Bacteriology. 180: 4879-85. PMID 9733691 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.180.18.4879-4885.1998  0.788
1997 Nicholson WL, Chooback L, Fajardo-Cavazos P. Analysis of spore photoproduct lyase operon (splAB) function using targeted deletion-insertion mutations spanning the Bacillus subtilis operons ptsHI and splAB. Molecular & General Genetics : Mgg. 255: 587-94. PMID 9323362 DOI: 10.1007/S004380050532  0.781
1997 Pedraza-Reyes M, Gutiérrez-Corona F, Nicholson WL. Spore photoproduct lyase operon (splAB) regulation during Bacillus subtilis sporulation: modulation of splB-lacZ fusion expression by P1 promoter mutations and by an in-frame deletion of splA. Current Microbiology. 34: 133-7. PMID 9009064 DOI: 10.1007/S002849900157  0.634
1996 Xue Y, Nicholson WL. The two major spore DNA repair pathways, nucleotide excision repair and spore photoproduct lyase, are sufficient for the resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores to artificial UV-C and UV-B but not to solar radiation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 62: 2221-7. PMID 8779559 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.62.7.2221-2227.1996  0.663
1995 Nicholson WL. Photoreactivation in the genus Bacillus Current Microbiology. 31: 361-364. PMID 8528007 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00294700  0.345
1995 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Nicholson WL. Molecular dissection of mutations in the Bacillus subtilis spore photoproduct lyase gene which affect repair of spore DNA damage caused by UV radiation Journal of Bacteriology. 177: 4402-4409. PMID 7635825 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.177.15.4402-4409.1995  0.436
1994 Pedraza-Reyes M, Gutiérrez-Corona F, Nicholson WL. Temporal regulation and forespore-specific expression of the spore photoproduct lyase gene by sigma-G RNA polymerase during Bacillus subtilis sporulation. Journal of Bacteriology. 176: 3983-91. PMID 8021181 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.176.13.3983-3991.1994  0.707
1994 Sun Y, Palasingam K, Nicholson WL. High-pressure liquid chromatography assay for quantitatively monitoring spore photoproduct repair mediated by spore photoproduct lyase during germination of uv-irradiated Bacillus subtilis spores. Analytical Biochemistry. 221: 61-5. PMID 7985805 DOI: 10.1006/Abio.1994.1379  0.598
1993 Fajardo-Cavazos P, Salazar C, Nicholson WL. Molecular cloning and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis spore photoproduct lyase (spl) gene, which is involved in repair of UV radiation- induced DNA damage during spore germination Journal of Bacteriology. 175: 1735-1744. PMID 8449881 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.175.6.1735-1744.1993  0.47
1991 Nicholson WL, Setlow B, Setlow P. Ultraviolet irradiation of DNA complexed with alpha/beta-type small, acid-soluble proteins from spores of Bacillus or Clostridium species makes spore photoproduct but not thymine dimers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 88: 8288-92. PMID 1924287 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.88.19.8288  0.544
1991 Henkin TM, Grundy FJ, Nicholson WL, Chambliss GH. Catabolite repression of alpha-amylase gene expression in Bacillus subtilis involves a trans-acting gene product homologous to the Escherichia coli lacl and galR repressors. Molecular Microbiology. 5: 575-84. PMID 1904524 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.1991.Tb00728.X  0.785
1990 Nicholson WL, Setlow B, Setlow P. Binding of DNA in vitro by a small, acid-soluble spore protein from Bacillus subtilis and the effect of this binding on DNA topology. Journal of Bacteriology. 172: 6900-6. PMID 2123857 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.172.12.6900-6906.1990  0.517
1990 Feavers IM, Foulkes J, Setlow B, Sun D, Nicholson W, Setlow P, Moir A. The regulation of transcription of the gerA spore germination operon of Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 4: 275-82. PMID 2110996 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.1990.Tb00594.X  0.509
1990 Nicholson WL, Setlow P. Dramatic increase in negative superhelicity of plasmid DNA in the forespore compartment of sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 172: 7-14. PMID 2104613 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.172.1.7-14.1990  0.531
1990 Nicholson WL, Sun D, Setlow P. Studies Of Dna Topology During Bacillus Subtilis Sporulation Genetics and Biotechnology of Bacilli. 339-347. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-274162-3.50040-2  0.516
1990 Weickert MJ, Larson L, Nicholson WL, Chambliss GH. Negative Control Of Amylase Synthesis: Mutations Which Eliminate Catabolite Repression Or Temporal Turn-Off Genetics and Biotechnology of Bacilli. 237-244. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-274162-3.50029-3  0.652
1989 Nakatani Y, Nicholson WL, Neitzke KD, Setlow P, Freese E. Sigma-G RNA polymerase controls forespore-specific expression of the glucose dehydrogenase operon in Bacillus subtilis. Nucleic Acids Research. 17: 999-1017. PMID 2493633 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/17.3.999  0.412
1989 Nicholson WL, Sun DX, Setlow B, Setlow P. Promoter specificity of sigma G-containing RNA polymerase from sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis: identification of a group of forespore-specific promoters. Journal of Bacteriology. 171: 2708-18. PMID 2468649 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.171.5.2708-2718.1989  0.51
1988 Chambliss GH, Won M, Weickert MJ, Nicholson WL. TRANSCRIPTION OF THE BACILLUS SUBTILIS α-AMYLASE GENE Genetics and Biotechnology of Bacilli. 85-89. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-274161-6.50019-X  0.644
1987 Nicholson WL, Park YK, Henkin TM, Won M, Weickert MJ, Gaskell JA, Chambliss GH. Catabolite repression-resistant mutations of the Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase promoter affect transcription levels and are in an operator-like sequence. Journal of Molecular Biology. 198: 609-18. PMID 3123701 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(87)90204-X  0.791
1987 Nicholson WL, Chambliss GH. Effect of decoyinine on the regulation of alpha-amylase synthesis in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 169: 5867-9. PMID 3119574 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.169.12.5867-5869.1987  0.662
1986 Nicholson WL, Chambliss GH. Molecular cloning of cis-acting regulatory alleles of the Bacillus subtilis amyR region by using gene conversion transformation. Journal of Bacteriology. 165: 663-70. PMID 3081488 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.165.3.663-670.1986  0.694
1985 Nicholson WL, Chambliss GH, Buckbinder L, Ambulos NP, Lovett PS. Isolation and expression of a constitutive variant of the chloramphenicol-inducible plasmid gene cat-86 under control of the Bacillus subtilis 168 amylase promoter. Gene. 35: 113-20. PMID 3928441 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(85)90163-5  0.681
1985 Nicholson WL, Chambliss GH. Isolation and characterization of a cis-acting mutation conferring catabolite repression resistance to alpha-amylase synthesis in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 161: 875-81. PMID 3918991 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.161.3.875-881.1985  0.689
1983 Nicholson WL, Robinson AD. Temperature Sensitive Mutations Affecting Extracellular Phenoloxidase Activity in Panus Tigrinus Mycologia. 75: 176-179. DOI: 10.1080/00275514.1983.12021651  0.62
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