Hershey Laboratory
Transitioning to the sessile state since 2021

Publications

  1. McLaughlin M, Hershey DM, Reyes Ruiz LM, Fiebig A, Crosson S. A cryptic transcription factor regulates Caulobacter adhesin development. PLoS Genet. 2022 Oct 31;18(10):e1010481.
  2. Wan J, Browne PJ, Hershey DM, Montabana E, Iavarone AT, Downing KH, Komeili A. A protease-mediated switch regulates the growth of magnetosome organelles in Magnetospirillum magneticum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Feb 8;119(6):e2111745119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2111745119.
  3. Hershey DM. Integrated control of surface adaptation by the bacterial flagellum. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2021 Feb 25;61:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2021.02.004.
  4. Hershey DM, Fiebig A, Crosson S. Flagellar Perturbations Activate Adhesion through Two Distinct Pathways in Caulobacter crescentus. mBio. 2021 Feb 9;12(1):e03266-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.03266-20.
  5. Urtecho G, Campbell DE, Hershey DM, Hussain FA, Whitaker RJ, O’Toole GA. Discovering the Molecular Determinants of Phaeobacter inhibens Susceptibility to Phaeobacter Phage MD18. mSphere. 2020 Nov 4;5(6):e00898-20. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00898-20.
  6. Hershey DM, Porfírio S, Black I, Jaehrig B, Heiss C, Azadi P, Fiebig A, Crosson S. Composition of the Holdfast Polysaccharide from Caulobacter crescentus. J Bacteriol. 2019 Aug 8;201(17):e00276-19. doi: 10.1128/JB.00276-19.** JB Spotlight article **
  7. Hershey DM, Fiebig A, Crosson S. A Genome-Wide Analysis of Adhesion in Caulobacter crescentus Identifies New Regulatory and Biosynthetic Components for Holdfast Assembly. mBio. 2019 Feb 12;10(1):e02273-18. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02273-18.
  8. Hershey DM, Browne PJ, Iavarone AT, Teyra J, Lee EH, Sidhu SS, Komeili A. Magnetite Biomineralization in Magnetospirillum magneticum Is Regulated by a Switch-like Behavior in the HtrA Protease MamE. J Biol Chem. 2016 Aug 19;291(34):17941-52. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.731000.
  9. Hershey DM, Ren X, Melnyk RA, Browne PJ, Ozyamak E, Jones SR, Chang MC, Hurley JH, Komeili A. MamO Is a Repurposed Serine Protease that Promotes Magnetite Biomineralization through Direct Transition Metal Binding in Magnetotactic Bacteria. PLoS Biol. 2016 Mar 16;14(3):e1002402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002402.
  10. Lu X, Hershey DM, Wang L, Bogdanove AJ, Peters RJ. An ent-kaurene-derived diterpenoid virulence factor from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola. New Phytol. 2015 Apr;206(1):295-302. doi: 10.1111/nph.13187.
  11. Vos SM, Lyubimov AY, Hershey DM, Schoeffler AJ, Sengupta S, Nagaraja V, Berger JM. Direct control of type IIA topoisomerase activity by a chromosomally encoded regulatory protein. Genes Dev. 2014 Jul 1;28(13):1485-97. doi: 10.1101/gad.241984.114
  12. Jackson AJ, Hershey DM, Chesnut T, Xu M, Peters RJ. Biochemical characterization of the castor bean ent-kaurene synthase(-like) family supports quantum chemical view of diterpene cyclization. Phytochemistry. 2014 Jul;103:13-21. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2014.04.005.
  13. Hershey DM, Lu X, Zi J, Peters RJ. Functional conservation of the capacity for ent-kaurene biosynthesis and an associated operon in certain rhizobia. J Bacteriol. 2014 Jan;196(1):100-6. doi: 10.1128/JB.01031-13.
  14. Morrone D, Lowry L, Determan MK, Hershey DM, Xu M, Peters RJ. Increasing diterpene yield with a modular metabolic engineering system in E. coli: comparison of MEV and MEP isoprenoid precursor pathway engineering. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2010 Feb;85(6):1893-906. doi: 10.1007/s00253-009-2219-x.