Publications - Department of Chemistry

Beals DG & Puri AW. Methanotroph phenotypic heterogeneity in a methane-oxygen counter gradient. bioRxiv. 2023.10.05.561118. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.05.561118

Wallace M, Cummings DA Jr., Roberts AG, & Puri AW. A widespread methylotroph acyl-homoserine lactone synthase produces a new quorum sensing signal that regulates swarming in Methylobacterium fujisawaense. mBio. Ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01999-23

Suo Z, Cummings DA Jr, Puri AW, Schaefer AL, & Greenberg EP. A Mesorhizobium japonicum quorum sensing circuit that involves three linked genes and an unusual acyl-homoserine lactone signal. mBio. 2023. 14(4): e0101023. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01010-23

Nguyen NA, Cong Y, Hurrell RC, Arias N, Garg N, Puri AW, Schmidt EW, & Agarwal V. A Silent Biosynthetic Gene Cluster from a Methanotrophic Bacterium Potentiates Discovery of a Substrate Promiscuous Proteusin Cyclodehydratase. ACS Chem Biol. 2022. 17: 1577-1585. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.2c00251

Robes JMD, Altamia MA, Murdock EG, Concepcion GP, Haygood MG, & Puri AW.
A conserved biosynthetic gene cluster is regulated by quorum sensing in a shipworm symbiont. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2022. 88: e00270-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00270-22

Petras D, Phelan VV, Acharya D, Allen AE, Aron AT, Bandeira N, Bowen BP, Belle-Oudry D, Boecker S, Cummings DA Jr, Deutsch JM, Fahy E, Garg N, Gregor R, Handelsman J, Navarro-Hoyos M, Jarmusch AK, Jarmusch SA, Louie K, Maloney KN, Marty MT, Meijler MM, Mizrahi I, Neve RL, Northen TR, Molina-Santiago C, Panitchpakdi M, Pullman B, Puri AW, Schmid R, Subramaniam S, Thukral M, Vasquez-Castro F, Dorrestein PC, & Wang M. GNPS Dashboard: collaborative exploration of mass spectrometry data in the web browser. Nat Methods. 2022. 19: 134-136. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01339-5

Cummings DA Jr., Snelling AI, & Puri AW. Methylotroph Quorum Sensing Signal Identification by Inverse Stable Isotopic Labeling. ACS Chem Biol. 2021. 16: 1332-1338. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.1c00329

Puri AW. Specialized Metabolites from Methylotrophic Proteobacteria. Curr Issues Mol Biol. 2019. 33: 211-224. https://doi.org/10.21775/cimb.033.211

PRIOR WORK

Puri AW, Liu D, Schaefer AL, Yu Z, Pesesky MW, Greenberg EP, & Lidstrom ME. Interspecies chemical signaling in a methane-oxidizing bacterial community. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2019. 85(7). pii: e02702-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02702-18

Puri AW*, Mevers E*, Ramadhar TR*, Petras D, Liu D, Piel J, Dorrestein PC, Greenberg EP, Lidstrom ME, & Clardy J. Tundrenone: An Atypical Secondary Metabolite from Bacteria with Highly Restricted Primary Metabolism. J Am Chem Soc. 2018. 140(6): 2002-2006. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b12240
*Equal contribution.

Puri AW, Schaefer AL, Fu Y, Beck DA, Greenberg EP, & Lidstrom ME. Quorum Sensing in a Methane-Oxidizing Bacterium. J Bacteriol. 2017. 199(5) pii: e00773-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00773-16

Bender KO, Garland M, Ferreyra JA, Hryckowian AJ, Child MA, Puri AW, Solow-Cordero DE, Higginbottom SK, Segal E, Banaei N, Shen A, Sonnenburg JL, & Bogyo M. A small-molecule antivirulence agent for treating Clostridium difficile infection. Sci Transl Med. 2015. 7(306): 306ra148. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aac9103

Puri AW, Owen S, Chu F, Chavkin T, Beck DA, Kalyuzhnaya MG, & Lidstrom ME. Genetic tools for the industrially promising methanotroph Methylomicrobium buryatense. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2015. 81(5): 1775-81. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03795-14

Xiao J, Broz P, Puri AW, Deu E, Morell M, Monack DM, & Bogyo M. A coupled protein and probe engineering approach for selective inhibition and activity-based probe labeling of the caspases. J Am Chem Soc. 2013. 135(24): 9130-8. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja403521u

Puri AW, Broz P, Shen A, Monack DM, & Bogyo M. Caspase-1 activity is required to bypass macrophage apoptosis upon Salmonella infection. Nat Chem Biol. 2012. 8(9): 745-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1023

Puri AW, Lupardus PJ, Deu E, Albrow VE, Garcia KC, Bogyo M, & Shen A. Rational design of inhibitors and activity-based probes targeting Clostridium difficile virulence factor TcdB. Chem Biol. 2010. 17(11): 1201-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2010.09.011

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