Garry Blakely

Publications

• A Single Chromosome Assembly of Bacteroides Fragilis Strain BE1 from Illumina and MinION Nanopore Sequencing Data
  GigaScience. 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 26640692
• Bacteria Repelling Poly(methylmethacrylate-co-dimethylacrylamide) Coatings for Biomedical Devices†Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI) Available: Polymer Microarray Screening, Including Analysis of Bacterial Adhesion by Fluorescence Microscopy and SEM, and Chemical Composition of Bacteria Repelling Polymers Identified in the Screen; Polymer Synthesis and Characterisation; Preparation of Catheter Pieces and Solvent Studies, and Details for Confocal Imaging/analysis. See DOI: 10.1039/c4tb01129eClick Here for Additional Data File
  Journal of Materials Chemistry. B, Materials for Biology and Medicine. Sep, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25580245
• ArdA Proteins from Different Mobile Genetic Elements Can Bind to the EcoKI Type I DNA Methyltransferase of E. Coli K12
  Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. Mar, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24368349
• Easing the Global Burden of Diarrhoeal Disease: Can Synthetic Biology Help?
  Systems and Synthetic Biology. Sep, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 24432144
• Mutations of the Domain Forming the Dimeric Interface of the ArdA Protein Affect Dimerization and Antimodification Activity but Not Antirestriction Activity
  The FEBS Journal. Oct, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23910724
• Crossing the Eukaryote-prokaryote Divide: A Ubiquitin Homolog in the Human Commensal Bacterium Bacteroides Fragilis
  Mobile Genetic Elements. May, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 23061022
• Removal of a Frameshift Between the HsdM and HsdS Genes of the EcoKI Type IA DNA Restriction and Modification System Produces a New Type of System and Links the Different Families of Type I Systems
  Nucleic Acids Research. Nov, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 23002145
• Exploring the DNA Mimicry of the Ocr Protein of Phage T7
  Nucleic Acids Research. Sep, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22684506
• A Unique Homologue of the Eukaryotic Protein-modifier Ubiquitin Present in the Bacterium Bacteroides Fragilis, a Predominant Resident of the Human Gastrointestinal Tract
  Microbiology (Reading, England). Nov, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21885481
• Multi-drug Resistant Bacteroides Fragilis Recovered from Blood and Severe Leg Wounds Caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Afghanistan
  Anaerobe. Aug, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21376821
• Twenty-eight Divergent Polysaccharide Loci Specifying Within- and Amongst-strain Capsule Diversity in Three Strains of Bacteroides Fragilis
  Microbiology (Reading, England). Nov, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20829291
• Binding and Degradation of Fibrinogen by Bacteroides Fragilis and Characterization of a 54 KDa Fibrinogen-binding Protein
  Microbiology (Reading, England). Aug, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20466764
• Single-molecule Imaging of Bacteroides Fragilis AddAB Reveals the Highly Processive Translocation of a Single Motor Helicase
  Nucleic Acids Research. Jun, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20185564
• The Structure of the KlcA and ArdB Proteins Reveals a Novel Fold and Antirestriction Activity Against Type I DNA Restriction Systems in Vivo but Not in Vitro
  Nucleic Acids Research. Mar, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20007596
• Extensive DNA Mimicry by the ArdA Anti-restriction Protein and Its Role in the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance
  Nucleic Acids Research. Aug, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19506028
• Protein Folding in Escherichia Coli: the Chaperonin GroE and Its Substrates
  Research in Microbiology. May, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19393741
• Mutational Analysis of Genes Implicated in LPS and Capsular Polysaccharide Biosynthesis in the Opportunistic Pathogen Bacteroides Fragilis
  Microbiology (Reading, England). Apr, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19332806
• The Orf18 Gene Product from Conjugative Transposon Tn916 is an ArdA Antirestriction Protein That Inhibits Type I DNA Restriction-modification Systems
  Journal of Molecular Biology. Nov, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18838147
• Control of the Endonuclease Activity of Type I Restriction-modification Systems is Required to Maintain Chromosome Integrity Following Homologous Recombination
  Molecular Microbiology. May, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16677300
• Extensive DNA Inversions in the B. Fragilis Genome Control Variable Gene Expression
  Science (New York, N.Y.). Mar, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15746427
• Smarter Than the Average Phage
  Molecular Microbiology. Nov, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15522071
• Is Modification Sufficient to Protect a Bacterial Chromosome from a Resident Restriction Endonuclease?
  Molecular Microbiology. Jan, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 14651617
• Coupling the Initiation of Chromosome Replication to Cell Size in Escherichia Coli
  Current Opinion in Microbiology. Apr, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12732304
• Multiple Inverted DNA Repeats of Bacteroides Fragilis That Control Polysaccharide Antigenic Variation Are Similar to the Hin Region Inverted Repeats of Salmonella Typhimurium
  Microbiology (Reading, England). Apr, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12686634