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Tracy Palmer

No longer a member of F1000[ 06-JUL-2001 - 01-MAY-2007 ]
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Sponsorship

Tracy Palmer sponsors free access to F1000 for Medical University of Southern Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Supporting F1000's initiative to make itself available to scientists in all countries, including free access to developing countries (more details).

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Evaluations

Rhomboid protease AarA mediates quorum-sensing in Providencia stuartii by activating TatA of the twin-arginine translocase.
Stevenson LG, Strisovsky K, …, Freeman M, Rather PN
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 Jan 16 104(3):1003-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 24 Jan 2007

Assembly factor Omp85 recognizes its outer membrane protein substrates by a species-specific C-terminal motif.
Robert V, Volokhina EB, …, Van Gelder P, Tommassen J
PLoS Biol 2006 Nov 4(11):e377 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Miguel Valvano / Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 5 Dec 2006

Wza the translocon for E. coli capsular polysaccharides defines a new class of membrane protein.
Dong C, Beis K, …, Whitfield C, Naismith JH
Nature 2006 Nov 9 444(7116):226-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Peter Artymiuk / Miguel Valvano / Tracy Palmer / Ilan Rosenshine
Evaluated 29 Nov 2006

N-linked glycosylation of folded proteins by the bacterial oligosaccharyltransferase.
Kowarik M, Numao S, …, Catrein I, Aebi M
Science 2006 Nov 17 314(5802):1148-50 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 29 Nov 2006

Functional analysis of 11 putative essential genes in Bacillus subtilis.
Hunt A, Rawlins JP, Thomaides HB, Errington J
Microbiology 2006 Oct 152(Pt 10):2895-907 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 9 Nov 2006

A specific secretion system mediates PPE41 transport in pathogenic mycobacteria.
Abdallah AM, Verboom T, …, Luirink J, Bitter W
Mol Microbiol 2006 Nov 62(3):667-79 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 7 Nov 2006

Tungsten transport protein A (WtpA) in Pyrococcus furiosus: the first member of a new class of tungstate and molybdate transporters.
Bevers LE, Hagedoorn PL, Krijger GC, Hagen WR
J Bacteriol 2006 Sep 188(18):6498-505 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 12 Sep 2006

The housekeeping dipeptide permease is the Escherichia coli heme transporter and functions with two optional peptide binding proteins.
Létoffé S, Delepelaire P, Wandersman C
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 Aug 22 103(34):12891-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 6 Sep 2006

Signal sequence directs localized secretion of bacterial surface proteins.
Carlsson F, Stålhammar-Carlemalm M, …, Carlemalm E, Lindahl G
Nature 2006 Aug 24 442(7105):943-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Victor DiRita / Tracy Palmer / Karin Romisch / Francisco Garcia-del Portillo / Marc Lecuit / Rino Rappuoli / Jean Pieters
Evaluated 4 Sep 2006

Outer membrane vesicle production by Escherichia coli is independent of membrane instability.
McBroom AJ, Johnson AP, Vemulapalli S, Kuehn MJ
J Bacteriol 2006 Aug 188(15):5385-92 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Terrance Beveridge / Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 4 Sep 2006

A putative multicopper protein secreted by an atypical type II secretion system involved in the reduction of insoluble electron acceptors in Geobacter sulfurreducens.
Mehta T, Childers SE, …, Lovley DR, Mester T
Microbiology 2006 Aug 152(Pt 8):2257-64 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 15 Aug 2006

The discovery of SycO highlights a new function for type III secretion effector chaperones.
Letzelter M, Sorg I, …, Callebaut I, Cornelis GR
EMBO J 2006 Jul 12 25(13):3223-33 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 18 Jul 2006

Yersinia YopJ acetylates and inhibits kinase activation by blocking phosphorylation.
Mukherjee S, Keitany G, …, Goldsmith EJ, Orth K
Science 2006 May 26 312(5777):1211-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | James Bliska / David Waugh / Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 13 Jun 2006

Direct visualization of red fluorescent lipoproteins indicates conservation of the membrane sorting rules in the family Enterobacteriaceae.
Lewenza S, Vidal-Ingigliardi D, Pugsley AP
J Bacteriol 2006 May 188(10):3516-24 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 13 Jun 2006

YcdB from Escherichia coli reveals a novel class of Tat-dependently translocated hemoproteins.
Sturm A, Schierhorn A, …, Lilie H, Brüser T
J Biol Chem 2006 May 19 281(20):13972-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 8 May 2006

Mba1, a membrane-associated ribosome receptor in mitochondria.
Ott M, Prestele M, …, Bonnefoy N, Herrmann JM
EMBO J 2006 Apr 19 25(8):1603-10 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 8 May 2006

Extracellular respiration of dimethyl sulfoxide by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1.
Gralnick JA, Vali H, Lies DP, Newman DK
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 Mar 21 103(12):4669-74 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 4 Apr 2006

A landmark protein essential for establishing and perpetuating the polarity of a bacterial cell.
Lam H, Schofield WB, Jacobs-Wagner C
Cell 2006 Mar 10 124(5):1011-23 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | William Margolin / Tracy Palmer / Tom Rapoport
Evaluated 4 Apr 2006

Bacterial birth scar proteins mark future flagellum assembly site.
Huitema E, Pritchard S, …, Radhakrishnan SK, Viollier PH
Cell 2006 Mar 10 124(5):1025-37 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Regine Hengge
Evaluated 4 Apr 2006

A common structural motif in the binding of virulence factors to bacterial secretion chaperones.
Lilic M, Vujanac M, Stebbins CE
Mol Cell 2006 Mar 3 21(5):653-64 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Ilan Rosenshine
Evaluated 7 Mar 2006

Construction of Escherichia coli K-12 in-frame, single-gene knockout mutants: the Keio collection.
Baba T, Ara T, …, Wanner BL, Mori H
Mol Syst Biol 2006 2:2006.0008 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Stephen Spiro / Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 7 Mar 2006

Oligomers of Tha4 organize at the thylakoid Tat translocase during protein transport.
Dabney-Smith C, Mori H, Cline K
J Biol Chem 2006 Mar 3 281(9):5476-83 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Jurgen Soll
Evaluated 25 Jan 2006

Ku70, a component of DNA-dependent protein kinase, is a mammalian receptor for Rickettsia conorii.
Martinez JJ, Seveau S, …, Matsuyama S, Cossart P
Cell 2005 Dec 16 123(6):1013-23 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Dominique Soldati / Lucio Comai / Tracy Palmer / Rino Rappuoli
Evaluated 4 Jan 2006

Genetic and biochemical analysis of the twin-arginine translocation pathway in halophilic archaea.
Dilks K, Giménez MI, Pohlschröder M
J Bacteriol 2005 Dec 187(23):8104-13 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 23 Nov 2005

Structure of the E. coli protein-conducting channel bound to a translating ribosome.
Mitra K, Schaffitzel C, …, Ban N, Frank J
Nature 2005 Nov 17 438(7066):318-24 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Ian Collinson / Mark Lemmon / Petra Fromme
Evaluated 21 Nov 2005

Photosynthesis genes in marine viruses yield proteins during host infection.
Lindell D, Jaffe JD, …, Church GM, Chisholm SW
Nature 2005 Nov 3 438(7064):86-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Daniel Chamovitz
Evaluated 8 Nov 2005

Large-scale translocation reversal within the thylakoid Tat system in vivo.
Di Cola A, Robinson C
J Cell Biol 2005 Oct 24 171(2):281-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 2 Nov 2005

Chaperone release and unfolding of substrates in type III secretion.
Akeda Y, Galán JE
Nature 2005 Oct 6 437(7060):911-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 11 Oct 2005

Mapping of the docking of SecA onto the chaperone SecB by site-directed spin labeling: insight into the mechanism of ligand transfer during protein export.
Crane JM, Mao C, …, Hubbell WL, Randall LL
J Mol Biol 2005 Oct 21 353(2):295-307 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 30 Sep 2005

Membrane vesicles traffic signals and facilitate group activities in a prokaryote.
Mashburn LM, Whiteley M
Nature 2005 Sep 15 437(7057):422-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert Palmer / Tracy Palmer / Gerald Pier / Ben Lugtenberg / Beth Lazazzera / Eric S. Gilbert
Evaluated 30 Sep 2005

A substrate-specific inhibitor of protein translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum.
Garrison JL, Kunkel EJ, Hegde RS, Taunton J
Nature 2005 Jul 14 436(7048):285-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Martin Pool / William Kaelin / Stephan Nussberger
Evaluated 21 Jul 2005

Selective inhibition of cotranslational translocation of vascular cell adhesion molecule 1.
Besemer J, Harant H, …, Dascher-Nadel C, Lindley IJ
Nature 2005 Jul 14 436(7048):290-3 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Martin Pool / Tracy Palmer / William Kaelin
Evaluated 21 Jul 2005

Identification of the membrane penetrating domain of Vibrio cholerae cytolysin as a beta-barrel structure.
Valeva A, Walev I, …, Zitzer A, Bhakdi S
Mol Microbiol 2005 Jul 57(1):124-31 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 12 Jul 2005

Structural characterization of the molecular platform for type III secretion system assembly.
Yip CK, Kimbrough TG, …, Miller SI, Strynadka NC
Nature 2005 Jun 2 435(7042):702-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 1 Jul 2005

Localization, annotation & comparison of the Escherichia coli K-12 proteome under two states of growth.
Lopez-Campistrous A, Semchuk P, …, Weiner JH, Ellison MJ
Mol Cell Proteomics 2005 May 18 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 27 May 2005

Cholesterol binding by the bacterial type III translocon is essential for virulence effector delivery into mammalian cells.
Hayward RD, Cain RJ, …, Garner MJ, Koronakis V
Mol Microbiol 2005 May 56(3):590-603 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 14 Apr 2005

Targeting protein homodimerization: a novel drug discovery system.
Furuta E, Yamamoto K, …, Kitayama T, Utsumi R
FEBS Lett 2005 Apr 11 579(10):2065-70 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 14 Apr 2005

Recognition of transmembrane helices by the endoplasmic reticulum translocon.
Hessa T, Kim H, …, White SH, von Heijne G
Nature 2005 Jan 27 433(7024):377-81 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Lois Weisman / Tom Rapoport / Karin Romisch / Tracy Palmer / Petra Fromme
Evaluated 15 Mar 2005

Isolation and characterization of bifunctional Escherichia coli TatA mutant proteins that allow efficient tat-dependent protein translocation in the absence of TatB.
Blaudeck N, Kreutzenbeck P, …, Sprenger GA, Freudl R
J Biol Chem 2005 Feb 4 280(5):3426-32 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 15 Mar 2005

An anaerobic mitochondrion that produces hydrogen.
Boxma B, de Graaf RM, …, Huynen MA, Hackstein JH
Nature 2005 Mar 3 434(7029):74-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Jacqueline Upcroft / Jeffrey Lawrence / Tracy Palmer / Martin Gruebele / William Martin
Evaluated 15 Mar 2005

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals native polymeric cell wall structure in Bacillus subtilis 168 and the existence of a periplasmic space.
Matias VR, Beveridge TJ
Mol Microbiol 2005 Apr 56(1):240-51 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Francisco Garcia-del Portillo
Evaluated 15 Mar 2005

Interaction network containing conserved and essential protein complexes in Escherichia coli.
Butland G, Peregrín-Alvarez JM, …, Greenblatt J, Emili A
Nature 2005 Feb 3 433(7025):531-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Benoit Coulombe
Evaluated 9 Feb 2005

An unusual signal peptide facilitates late steps in the biogenesis of a bacterial autotransporter.
Szabady RL, Peterson JH, Skillman KM, Bernstein HD
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 Jan 4 102(1):221-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Andreas Baumler / Tracy Palmer / Drusilla Burns
Evaluated 17 Jan 2005

Two minimal Tat translocases in Bacillus.
Jongbloed JD, Grieger U, …, Bron S, van Dijl JM
Mol Microbiol 2004 Dec 54(5):1319-25 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 29 Nov 2004

Structural insights into the assembly of the type III secretion needle complex.
Marlovits TC, Kubori T, …, Galán JE, Unger VM
Science 2004 Nov 5 306(5698):1040-2 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Drusilla Burns / Tracy Palmer / Esther Bullitt
Evaluated 19 Nov 2004

Mechanism of ammonia transport by Amt/MEP/Rh: structure of AmtB at 1.35 A.
Khademi S, O'Connell J, …, Miercke LJ, Stroud RM
Science 2004 Sep 10 305(5690):1587-94 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Ruma Banerjee / Ian Booth / Xiayang Qiu / Wolf B. Frommer
Evaluated 21 Sep 2004

The native architecture of a photosynthetic membrane.
Bahatyrova S, Frese RN, …, Otto C, Hunter CN
Nature 2004 Aug 26 430(7003):1058-62 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 8 Sep 2004

Subcellular sites for bacterial protein export.
Campo N, Tjalsma H, …, Kuipers OP, Jongbloed JD
Mol Microbiol 2004 Sep 53(6):1583-99 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 8 Sep 2004

Structure of the molybdopterin-bound Cnx1G domain links molybdenum and copper metabolism.
Kuper J, Llamas A, …, Mendel RR, Schwarz G
Nature 2004 Aug 12 430(7001):803-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 17 Aug 2004

A microdomain for protein secretion in Gram-positive bacteria.
Rosch J, Caparon M
Science 2004 Jun 4 304(5676):1513-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Carleen Collins
Evaluated 21 Jun 2004

Definition of a bacterial type IV secretion pathway for a DNA substrate.
Cascales E, Christie PJ
Science 2004 May 21 304(5674):1170-3 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Drusilla Burns / Craig Roy
Evaluated 26 May 2004

The hydrogenase-like Nar1p is essential for maturation of cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulphur proteins.
Balk J, Pierik AJ, …, Mühlenhoff U, Lill R
EMBO J 2004 May 19 23(10):2105-15 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Caroline Philpott / Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 25 May 2004

The structure of a mycobacterial outer-membrane channel.
Faller M, Niederweis M, Schulz GE
Science 2004 Feb 20 303(5661):1189-92 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Terrance Beveridge
Evaluated 29 Mar 2004

Structure of the translocator domain of a bacterial autotransporter.
Oomen CJ, van Ulsen P, …, Tommassen J, Gros P
EMBO J 2004 Mar 24 23(6):1257-66 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 29 Mar 2004

Nascent membrane and secretory proteins differ in FRET-detected folding far inside the ribosome and in their exposure to ribosomal proteins.
Woolhead CA, McCormick PJ, Johnson AE
Cell 2004 Mar 5 116(5):725-36 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Ulrich Hartl / Philippe I. Bastiaens / Ada Yonath / Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 29 Mar 2004

An engineered pathway for the formation of protein disulfide bonds.
Masip L, Pan JL, …, Bardwell JC, Collet JF
Science 2004 Feb 20 303(5661):1185-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 12 Mar 2004

Mechanically driven ATP synthesis by F1-ATPase.
Itoh H, Takahashi A, …, Yoshida M, Kinosita K
Nature 2004 Jan 29 427(6973):465-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Eduardo Rial / Wil Konings / Tracy Palmer / Jose Valpuesta / Andreas Engel
Evaluated 10 Feb 2004

Snapshots of DsbA in action: detection of proteins in the process of oxidative folding.
Kadokura H, Tian H, …, Bardwell JC, Beckwith J
Science 2004 Jan 23 303(5657):534-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Tracy Raivio
Evaluated 29 Jan 2004

Yeast Oxa1 interacts with mitochondrial ribosomes: the importance of the C-terminal region of Oxa1.
Jia L, Dienhart M, …, Hell K, Stuart RA
EMBO J 2003 Dec 15 22(24):6438-47 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 12 Jan 2004

Ribosome binding to the Oxa1 complex facilitates co-translational protein insertion in mitochondria.
Szyrach G, Ott M, …, Neupert W, Herrmann JM
EMBO J 2003 Dec 15 22(24):6448-57 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 12 Jan 2004

Evolutionary conservation of biogenesis of beta-barrel membrane proteins.
Paschen SA, Waizenegger T, …, Rapaport D, Neupert W
Nature 2003 Dec 18 426(6968):862-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Tracy Raivio / Suresh Subramani
Evaluated 8 Jan 2004

X-ray structure of a protein-conducting channel.
Van den Berg B, Clemons WM, …, Harrison SC, Rapoport TA
Nature 2004 Jan 1 427(6969):36-44 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Koreaki Ito / Karin Romisch / Jia-huai Wang / Stephen White / Tracy Palmer / Davis Ng / Senyon Choe / Ada Yonath / Kiyoshi Nagai / Manfred Schliwa / Bernd Bukau / Douglas Freymann
Evaluated 8 Jan 2004

The needle length of bacterial injectisomes is determined by a molecular ruler.
Journet L, Agrain C, Broz P, Cornelis GR
Science 2003 Dec 5 302(5651):1757-60 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer / Francisco Garcia-del Portillo / Christoph Dehio / Rino Rappuoli
Evaluated 10 Dec 2003

Tom40 protein import channel binds to non-native proteins and prevents their aggregation.
Esaki M, Kanamori T, …, Schultz PG, Endo T
Nat Struct Biol 2003 Dec 10(12):988-94 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Tracy Palmer
Evaluated 8 Dec 2003