Publications

Here is a selection of our latest publications:     

  • Rampley CPN, Davison PA, Qian P, Preston GM, Hunter CN, Thompson IP, Wu LJ and Huang WE. (2017) Development of SimCells as a novel chassis for functional biosensors. Scientific Reports. 7(1):7261. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07391-6.
  • Ramachandran G, Miguel-Arribas A, Abia D, Singh PK, Crespo I, Gago-CoÂrdoba C, Hao JA, Luque-Ortega JR, Alfonso C, Wu LJ, Boer DR, Meijer WJ (2017) Discovery of a new family of relaxases in Firmicutes bacteria. PLOS Genetics. |DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006586.
  • Errington J, Wu LJ. Cell cycle machinery in Bacillus subtilis. In: Lowe J; Amos LA, ed. Prokaryotic Cytoskeletons. Springer New York, 2017, pp.67-101.
  • Errington J. Cell wall-deficient, L-form bacteria in the 21st century: A personal perspective. Biochemical Society Transactions 2017, 45(2), 287-295.
  • Errington J. Designer chemistry. Environmental Microbiology Reports 2017, 9(1), 36-37.
  • Santos-Beneit F, Errington J. Green fluorescent protein as a reporter for the spatial and temporal expression of actIII in Streptomyces coelicolor. Archives of Microbiology 2017, Epub ahead of print.
  • Baksh A, Kepplinger B, Isah H, Probert MR, Clegg W, Wills C, Goodfellow M, Errington J, Allenby N, Hall MJ. Production of 17-O-demethyl-geldanamycin, a cytotoxic ansamycin polyketide, by Streptomyces hygroscopicus DEM20745. Natural Product Research 2017, 31(16), 1895-1900.
  • Emami K, Guyet A, Kawai Y, Devi J, Wu LJ, Allenby N, Daniel RA, Errington J. RodA as the missing glycosyltransferase in Bacillus subtilis and antibiotic discovery for the peptidoglycan polymerase pathway. Nature Microbiology 2017, 2, 16253.
  • Tyler A, Sejzi HM, Morton S, Waddell PG, Wills C, McFarlane W, Gray J, Goodfellow M, Errington J, Allenby N, Zenkin N, Hall MJ. Structural Reassignment and Absolute Stereochemistry of Madurastatin C1 (MBJ-0034) and the Related Aziridine Siderophores: Madurastatins A1, B1 and MBJ-0035. Journal of Natural Products 2017, 80(5), 1558–1562.
  • Eland L, Wipat A, Lee S, Park S, Wu LJ. (2016) Microfluidics for bacterial imaging. In: Imaging Bacterial Molecules, Structures and Cells. Harwood, Jensen, eds. Vol 43, MIM, UK: Academic Press. pp. 69-112.
  • Adams DW, Wu LJ, Errington J. A benzamide-dependent ftsZ mutant reveals residues crucial for Z-ring assembly. Molecular Microbiology 2016, 99(6), 1028-1042.
  • Kloosterman TG, Lenarcic R, Willis CR, Roberts DM, Hamoen LW, Errington J, Wu LJ. Complex polar machinery required for proper chromosome segregation in vegetative and sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology 2016, 101(2), 333-350.
  • Errington J, Mickiewicz K, Kawai Y, Wu LJ. L-form bacteria, chronic diseases and the origins of life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2016, 371(1707).
  • Mercier R, Kawai Y, Errington J. Wall proficient E-coli capable of sustained growth in the absence of the Z-ring division machine. Nature Microbiology 2016, 1(8), 16091.
  • Mercier R, Kawai Y, Errington J(2014) General principles for the formation and proliferaton of a wall-free (L-fomr) state in bacteria. eLife 04629
  • Adams DW, Wu LJ, Errington J (2015) Nucleoid occlusion protein Noc recruits DNA to the bacterial cell membrane.  EMBO J. 34, 491-501
  • Kawai Y, Mercier R, Errington J. Bacterial Cell Morphogenesis Does Not Require a Preexisting Template Structure. Current Biology 2014, 24(8), 863-867.
  • Gruber S, Veening JW, Bach J, Blettinger M, Bramkamp M, Errington J. Interlinked Sister Chromosomes Arise in the Absence of Condensin during Fast Replication in B. subtilis. Current Biology 2014, 24(3), 293-298.
  • Trip EN, Veening JW, Stewart EJ, Errington J, Scheffers DJ. Balanced transcription of cell division genes in Bacillus subtilis as revealed by single cell analysis. Environmental Microbiology 2013, 15(12), 3196-3209.
  • Domínguez-Cuevas P, Porcelli I, Daniel RA, Errington J. Differentiated roles for MreB-actin isologues and autolytic enzymes in Bacillus subtilis morphogenesis. Molecular Microbiology 2013, 89(6), 1084-1098.
  • Mercier R, Kawai Y, Errington J. (2013) Excess Membrane Synthesis Drives a Primitive Mode of Cell Proliferation,  Cell ,152(5), 997-1007.
  • Errington J.(2013),  L-form bacteria, cell walls and the origins of life, Open Biology, 3, 120143.
  • Mercier R, Dominguez-Cuevas P, Errington J. (2012), Crucial Role for Membrane Fluidity in Proliferation of Primitive Cells, Cell Reports , 1(5), 417-423.
  • Scholefield G, Errington J, Murray H. (2012), Soj/ParA stalls DNA replication by inhibiting helix formation of the initiator protein DnaA, EMBO Journal, 31(6), 1542-1555.
  • Wu LJ, Errington J. (2012),Nucleoid occlusion and bacterial cell division, Nature Reviews Microbiology, 10(1), 8-12.
  • Dominguez-Cuevas P, Mercier R, Leaver M, Kawai Y, Errington J. (2012),  The rod to L-form transition of Bacillus subtilis is limited by a requirement for the protoplast to escape from the cell wall sacculus, Molecular Microbiology , 83(1), 52-66.
  • Kawai Y, Marles-Wright J, Cleverley RM, Emmins R, Ishikawa S, Kuwano M, Heinz N, Bui NK, Hoyland CN, Ogasawara N, Lewis RJ, Vollmer W, Daniel RA, Errington J.(2011),  A widespread family of bacterial cell wall assembly proteins, EMBO Journal, 30(24), 4931-4941.
  • Adams DW, Wu LJ, Czaplewski LG, Errington J, (2011), Multiple effects of benzamide antibiotics on FtsZ function, Molecular Microbiology, 80(1), 68-84.
  • Kawai Y, Marles-Wright J, Cleverley RM, Emmins R, Ishikawa S, Kuwano M, Heinz N, Bui NK, Hoyland CN, Ogasawara N, Lewis RJ, Vollmer W, Daniel RA, Errington J.(2011),  A widespread family of bacterial cell wall assembly proteins, EMBO Journal, 30(24), 4931-4941.
  • Su'etsugu M, Errington J. (2011), The Replicase Sliding Clamp Dynamically Accumulates behind Progressing Replication Forks in Bacillus subtilis Cells. Molecular Cell, 41(6), 720-732