Yunrong Chai, Ph.D. - Publications

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2005 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States 
Area:
Microbiology Biology

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2019 Greenwich J, Reverdy A, Gozzi K, Di Cecco G, Tashjian T, Godoy-Carter V, Chai Y. Decreasing Serine Levels During Growth Transition Triggers Biofilm Formation in . Journal of Bacteriology. PMID 31138626 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00155-19  0.39
2018 Gao T, Ding M, Yang CH, Fan H, Chai Y, Li Y. The Phosphotransferase System Gene ptsH Plays an Important Role in MnSOD Production, Biofilm Formation, Swarming motility, and Root Colonization in Bacillus cereus 905. Research in Microbiology. PMID 30395927 DOI: 10.1016/J.Resmic.2018.10.002  0.41
2018 Reverdy A, Chen Y, Hunter E, Gozzi K, Chai Y. Protein lysine acetylation plays a regulatory role in Bacillus subtilis multicellularity. Plos One. 13: e0204687. PMID 30265683 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0204687  0.461
2018 Chen Y, Wang J, Yang N, Wen Z, Sun X, Chai Y, Ma Z. Wheat microbiome bacteria can reduce virulence of a plant pathogenic fungus by altering histone acetylation. Nature Communications. 9: 3429. PMID 30143616 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-05683-7  0.318
2018 Yu Y, Yan F, He Y, Qin Y, Chen Y, Chai Y, Guo JH. The ClpY-ClpQ protease regulates multicellular development in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology (Reading, England). PMID 29629859 DOI: 10.1099/Mic.0.000658  0.468
2018 Zhang X, Gao T, Peng Q, Song L, Zhang J, Chai Y, Sun D, Song F. A strong promoter of a non-cry gene directs expression of the cry1Ac gene in Bacillus thuringiensis. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. PMID 29520600 DOI: 10.1007/S00253-018-8836-5  0.401
2018 Chen X, Gao T, Peng Q, Zhang J, Chai Y, Song F. The Novel Cell Wall Hydrolase CwlC from Bacillus thuringiensis is Essential for Mother Cell Lysis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. PMID 29374039 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.02640-17  0.367
2017 Habib C, Yu Y, Gozzi K, Ching C, Shemesh M, Chai Y. Characterization of the regulation of a plant polysaccharide utilization operon and its role in biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis. Plos One. 12: e0179761. PMID 28617843 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0179761  0.436
2017 Gao T, Li Y, Ding M, Chai Y, Wang Q. The phosphotransferase system gene ptsi in Bacillus cereus regulates expression of soda2 and contributes to colonization of wheat roots. Research in Microbiology. PMID 28478075 DOI: 10.1016/J.Resmic.2017.04.003  0.409
2017 Yan F, Yu Y, Gozzi K, Chen Y, Guo JH, Chai Y. A genome-wide investigation on biofilm formation in Bacillus cereus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. PMID 28432092 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.00561-17  0.395
2017 Xu S, Yang N, Zheng S, Yan F, Jiang C, Yu Y, Guo J, Chai Y, Chen Y. The spo0A-sinI-sinR regulatory circuit plays an essential role in biofilm formation, nematicidal activities, and plant protection in Bacillus cereus AR156. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions : Mpmi. PMID 28430084 DOI: 10.1094/Mpmi-02-17-0042-R  0.405
2017 Ching C, Gozzi K, Heinemann B, Chai Y, Godoy VG. RNA-mediated cis-regulation in Acinetobacter baumannii modulates stress-induced phenotypic variation. Journal of Bacteriology. PMID 28320880 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00799-16  0.404
2016 Yu Y, Yan F, Chen Y, Jin C, Guo JH, Chai Y. Poly-γ-Glutamic Acids Contribute to Biofilm Formation and Plant Root Colonization in Selected Environmental Isolates of Bacillus subtilis. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7: 1811. PMID 27891125 DOI: 10.3389/Fmicb.2016.01811  0.393
2016 Barlow J, Gozzi K, Kelley CP, Geilich BM, Webster TJ, Chai Y, Sridhar S, van de Ven AL. High throughput microencapsulation of Bacillus subtilis in semi-permeable biodegradable polymersomes for selenium remediation. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. PMID 27744558 DOI: 10.1007/S00253-016-7896-7  0.313
2016 Yan F, Yu Y, Wang L, Luo Y, Guo JH, Chai Y. The comER Gene Plays an Important Role in Biofilm Formation and Sporulation in both Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus cereus. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7: 1025. PMID 27446060 DOI: 10.3389/Fmicb.2016.01025  0.425
2015 Chen Y, Gozzi K, Chai Y. A bacterial volatile signal for biofilm formation. Microbial Cell (Graz, Austria). 2: 406-408. PMID 28357266 DOI: 10.15698/Mic2015.10.233  0.31
2015 Duanis-Assaf D, Steinberg D, Chai Y, Shemesh M. The LuxS Based Quorum Sensing Governs Lactose Induced Biofilm Formation by Bacillus subtilis. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6: 1517. PMID 26779171 DOI: 10.3389/Fmicb.2015.01517  0.365
2015 DeLoughery A, Dengler V, Chai Y, Losick R. Biofilm formation by Bacillus subtilis requires an endoribonuclease-containing multisubunit complex that controls mRNA levels for the matrix gene repressor SinR. Molecular Microbiology. PMID 26434553 DOI: 10.1111/Mmi.13240  0.413
2015 Gao T, Greenwich J, Li Y, Wang Q, Chai Y. The bacterial tyrosine kinase activator TkmA contributes to biofilm formation largely independent of the cognate kinase PtkA in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. PMID 26283769 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00438-15  0.322
2015 Chen Y, Gozzi K, Yan F, Chai Y. Acetic Acid Acts as a Volatile Signal To Stimulate Bacterial Biofilm Formation. Mbio. 6: e00392. PMID 26060272 DOI: 10.1128/Mbio.00392-15  0.39
2013 Subramaniam AR, Deloughery A, Bradshaw N, Chen Y, O'Shea E, Losick R, Chai Y. A serine sensor for multicellularity in a bacterium Elife. 2013. PMID 24347549 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.01501  0.403
2013 Beauregard PB, Chai Y, Vlamakis H, Losick R, Kolter R. Bacillus subtilis biofilm induction by plant polysaccharides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: E1621-30. PMID 23569226 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1218984110  0.346
2013 Shemesh M, Chai Y. A combination of glycerol and manganese promotes biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis via histidine kinase KinD signaling. Journal of Bacteriology. 195: 2747-54. PMID 23564171 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00028-13  0.375
2013 Vlamakis H, Chai Y, Beauregard P, Losick R, Kolter R. Sticking together: building a biofilm the Bacillus subtilis way. Nature Reviews. Microbiology. 11: 157-68. PMID 23353768 DOI: 10.1038/Nrmicro2960  0.34
2013 Chen Y, Yan F, Chai Y, Liu H, Kolter R, Losick R, Guo JH. Biocontrol of tomato wilt disease by Bacillus subtilis isolates from natural environments depends on conserved genes mediating biofilm formation. Environmental Microbiology. 15: 848-64. PMID 22934631 DOI: 10.1111/J.1462-2920.2012.02860.X  0.342
2012 Chai Y, Beauregard PB, Vlamakis H, Losick R, Kolter R. Galactose metabolism plays a crucial role in biofilm formation by Bacillus subtilis. Mbio. 3: e00184-12. PMID 22893383 DOI: 10.1128/Mbio.00184-12  0.399
2012 Chen Y, Chai Y, Guo Jh, Losick R. Evidence for cyclic Di-GMP-mediated signaling in Bacillus subtilis Journal of Bacteriology. 194: 5080-5090. PMID 22821967 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.01092-12  0.354
2012 Chen Y, Cao S, Chai Y, Clardy J, Kolter R, Guo JH, Losick R. A Bacillus subtilis sensor kinase involved in triggering biofilm formation on the roots of tomato plants. Molecular Microbiology. 85: 418-30. PMID 22716461 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2012.08109.X  0.353
2012 Costa ED, Chai Y, Winans SC. The quorum-sensing protein TraR of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is susceptible to intrinsic and TraM-mediated proteolytic instability. Molecular Microbiology. 84: 807-15. PMID 22515735 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2012.08037.X  0.732
2011 Chai Y, Norman T, Kolter R, Losick R. Evidence that metabolism and chromosome copy number control mutually exclusive cell fates in Bacillus subtilis. The Embo Journal. 30: 1402-13. PMID 21326214 DOI: 10.1038/Emboj.2011.36  0.339
2010 Chai Y, Kolter R, Losick R. Reversal of an epigenetic switch governing cell chaining in Bacillus subtilis by protein instability. Molecular Microbiology. 78: 218-29. PMID 20923420 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2010.07335.X  0.379
2010 Chai Y, Norman T, Kolter R, Losick R. An epigenetic switch governing daughter cell separation in Bacillus subtilis. Genes & Development. 24: 754-65. PMID 20351052 DOI: 10.1101/Gad.1915010  0.381
2009 Chai Y, Kolter R, Losick R. Paralogous antirepressors acting on the master regulator for biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 74: 876-87. PMID 19788541 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2009.06900.X  0.426
2009 Chai Y, Winans SC. The chaperone GroESL enhances the accumulation of soluble, active TraR protein, a quorum-sensing transcription factor from Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Journal of Bacteriology. 191: 3706-11. PMID 19329639 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.01434-08  0.669
2009 Chai Y, Kolter R, Losick R. A widely conserved gene cluster required for lactate utilization in Bacillus subtilis and its involvement in biofilm formation. Journal of Bacteriology. 191: 2423-30. PMID 19201793 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.01464-08  0.38
2008 Chu F, Kearns DB, McLoon A, Chai Y, Kolter R, Losick R. A novel regulatory protein governing biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 68: 1117-27. PMID 18430133 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2008.06201.X  0.412
2008 Chai Y, Chu F, Kolter R, Losick R. Bistability and biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 67: 254-63. PMID 18047568 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2007.06040.X  0.447
2007 Chai Y, Tsai CS, Cho H, Winans SC. Reconstitution of the biochemical activities of the AttJ repressor and the AttK, AttL, and AttM catabolic enzymes of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Journal of Bacteriology. 189: 3674-9. PMID 17307843 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.01274-06  0.672
2005 Chai Y, Winans SC. RepB protein of an Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid binds to two adjacent sites between repA and repB for plasmid partitioning and autorepression. Molecular Microbiology. 58: 1114-29. PMID 16262794 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2005.04886.X  0.666
2005 Weingart CL, White CE, Liu S, Chai Y, Cho H, Tsai CS, Wei Y, Delay NR, Gronquist MR, Eberhard A, Winans SC. Direct binding of the quorum sensing regulator CepR of Burkholderia cenocepacia to two target promoters in vitro. Molecular Microbiology. 57: 452-67. PMID 15978077 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2005.04656.X  0.744
2005 Chai Y, Winans SC. A small antisense RNA downregulates expression of an essential replicase protein of an Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid. Molecular Microbiology. 56: 1574-85. PMID 15916607 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2005.04636.X  0.621
2005 Chai Y, Winans SC. Amino-terminal protein fusions to the TraR quorum-sensing transcription factor enhance protein stability and autoinducer-independent activity. Journal of Bacteriology. 187: 1219-26. PMID 15687185 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.187.4.1219-1226.2005  0.678
2004 Chai Y, Winans SC. Site-directed mutagenesis of a LuxR-type quorum-sensing transcription factor: alteration of autoinducer specificity. Molecular Microbiology. 51: 765-76. PMID 14731277 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-2958.2003.03857.X  0.637
2003 Zhu J, Chai Y, Zhong Z, Li S, Winans SC. Agrobacterium bioassay strain for ultrasensitive detection of N-acylhomoserine lactone-type quorum-sensing molecules: detection of autoinducers in Mesorhizobium huakuii. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 6949-53. PMID 14602662 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.69.11.6949-6953.2003  0.549
2001 Chai Y, Zhu J, Winans SC. TrlR, a defective TraR-like protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, blocks TraR function in vitro by forming inactive TrlR:TraR dimers. Molecular Microbiology. 40: 414-21. PMID 11309123 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-2958.2001.02385.X  0.669
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