Petra Levin
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American microbiologist
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Petra Levin's Degrees
- Bachelors Microbiology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Microbiology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Petra Anne Levin is an American microbiologist. She is a professor in the department of biology and co-director of the Plant and Microbial Biosciences Graduate Program at Washington University in St. Louis.
Petra Levin's Published Works
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Published Works
- A Metabolic Sensor Governing Cell Size in Bacteria (2007) (368)
- Cell-Size Control and Homeostasis in Bacteria (2015) (333)
- Cell-Size Control and Homeostasis in Bacteria (2015) (321)
- Transcription factor Spo0A switches the localization of the cell division protein FtsZ from a medial to a bipolar pattern in Bacillus subtilis. (1996) (289)
- Metabolism, cell growth and the bacterial cell cycle (2009) (287)
- Assembly dynamics of the bacterial cell division protein FTSZ: poised at the edge of stability. (2003) (274)
- Bipolar localization of a chromosome partition protein in Bacillus subtilis. (1997) (263)
- Identification and characterization of a negative regulator of FtsZ ring formation in Bacillus subtilis. (1999) (243)
- Cell Size Control in Bacteria (2012) (219)
- A Moonlighting Enzyme Links Escherichia coli Cell Size with Central Metabolism (2013) (186)
- Mechanistic Origin of Cell-Size Control and Homeostasis in Bacteria (2018) (164)
- Growth Rate-Dependent Regulation of Medial FtsZ Ring Formation (2003) (154)
- Identification of Bacillus subtilis genes for septum placement and shape determination (1992) (146)
- The divisome at 25: the road ahead. (2017) (142)
- Cell Size and the Initiation of DNA Replication in Bacteria (2012) (140)
- EzrA prevents aberrant cell division by modulating assembly of the cytoskeletal protein FtsZ (2004) (139)
- Characterization of a cell division gene from Bacillus subtilis that is required for vegetative and sporulation septum formation (1994) (124)
- A flexible C‐terminal linker is required for proper FtsZ assembly in vitro and cytokinetic ring formation in vivo (2013) (109)
- Small but Mighty: Cell Size and Bacteria. (2015) (108)
- Extreme C Terminus of Bacterial Cytoskeletal Protein FtsZ Plays Fundamental Role in Assembly Independent of Modulatory Proteins* (2012) (106)
- Fatty Acid Availability Sets Cell Envelope Capacity and Dictates Microbial Cell Size (2017) (105)
- An unusually small gene required for sporulation by Bacillus subtilis (1993) (99)
- The ClpX chaperone modulates assembly of the tubulin‐like protein FtsZ (2005) (98)
- The great divide: coordinating cell cycle events during bacterial growth and division. (2008) (94)
- Functional Taxonomy of Bacterial Hyperstructures (2007) (87)
- Growth rate and cell size: A re-examination of the growth law (2015) (87)
- Effect of minCD on FtsZ Ring Position and Polar Septation in Bacillus subtilis (1998) (74)
- Polymer Stability Plays an Important Role in the Positional Regulation of FtsZ (2001) (68)
- Size Laws and Division Ring Dynamics in Filamentous Escherichia coli cells (2018) (68)
- Toward a hyperstructure taxonomy. (2007) (61)
- Plasticity of Escherichia coli cell wall metabolism promotes fitness and antibiotic resistance across environmental conditions (2019) (53)
- The Widely Used Antimicrobial Triclosan Induces High Levels of Antibiotic Tolerance In Vitro and Reduces Antibiotic Efficacy up to 100-Fold In Vivo (2019) (52)
- The Division Inhibitor EzrA Contains a Seven-Residue Patch Required for Maintaining the Dynamic Nature of the Medial FtsZ Ring (2007) (52)
- 6 Light microscopy techniques for bacterial cell biology (2002) (52)
- Bacterial Cell Size: Multifactorial and Multifaceted. (2017) (49)
- Changes in the oligomerization potential of the division inhibitor UgtP co‐ordinate Bacillus subtilis cell size with nutrient availability (2012) (46)
- An intrinsically disordered linker plays a critical role in bacterial cell division. (2015) (46)
- ClpX Inhibits FtsZ Assembly in a Manner That Does Not Require Its ATP Hydrolysis-Dependent Chaperone Activity (2009) (46)
- Failsafe Mechanisms Couple Division and DNA Replication in Bacteria (2014) (45)
- Comprehensive analysis of central carbon metabolism illuminates connections between nutrient availability, growth rate, and cell morphology in Escherichia coli (2018) (38)
- Deletion of the Bacillus subtilis isocitrate dehydrogenase gene causes a block at stage I of sporulation (1997) (34)
- Bacterial Cell Wall Quality Control during Environmental Stress (2020) (33)
- Cell cycle and sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. (1998) (31)
- Peptidoglycan editing provides immunity to Acinetobacter baumannii during bacterial warfare (2020) (30)
- The Absence of (p)ppGpp Renders Initiation of Escherichia coli Chromosomal DNA Synthesis Independent of Growth Rates (2020) (29)
- Mutations in the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ highlight the role of GTP binding and longitudinal subunit interactions in assembly and function (2015) (28)
- Functional Domain Analysis of the Cell Division Inhibitor EzrA (2014) (21)
- Dissecting the functional contributions of the intrinsically disordered C-terminal tail of B. subtilis FtsZ. (2020) (20)
- Starvation induces shrinkage of the bacterial cytoplasm (2020) (19)
- Cell cycle: The bacterial approach to coordination (1998) (18)
- Asymmetric Division and Cell Fate during Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis (2000) (16)
- The active repertoire of Escherichia coli peptidoglycan amidases varies with physiochemical environment (2020) (16)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of A Comprehensive, CRISPR-based Functional Analysis of Essential Genes in Bacteria. (2016) (14)
- pH-dependent activation of cytokinesis modulates Escherichia coli cell size (2020) (12)
- One is Nothing without the Other: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Cell Growth and Cell Cycle Progression. (2019) (8)
- Localization, Assembly, and Activation of the Escherichia coli Cell Division Machinery (2021) (8)
- A Chemical Inhibitor of Cell Growth Reduces Cell Size in Bacillus subtilis. (2019) (8)
- Bacteriophage SP01 Gene Product 56 Inhibits Bacillus subtilis Cell Division by Interacting with FtsL and Disrupting Pbp2B and FtsW Recruitment (2020) (7)
- Nutrient availability as an arbiter of cell size. (2022) (6)
- A nutrient-dependent division antagonist is regulated post-translationally by the Clp proteases in Bacillus subtilis (2017) (5)
- Phenotypic Variation Is Almost Entirely Independent of the Host-Pathogen Relationship in Clinical Isolates of S. aureus (2015) (3)
- Bacterial Size: Can’t Escape the Long Arm of the Law (2017) (3)
- Plasticity in Escherichia coli cell wall metabolism promotes fitness and mediates intrinsic antibiotic resistance across environmental conditions (2018) (3)
- Beyond the average: An updated framework for understanding the relationship between cell growth, DNA replication, and division in a bacterial system (2022) (3)
- Generating specialized cell types by asymmetric division in Bacillus subtilis (1995) (3)
- Evolved sequence features within the intrinsically disordered tail influence FtsZ assembly and bacterial cell division (2018) (3)
- Evolving to End a Toxic Relationship: ADP Ribosylation in Interbacterial Warfare (2018) (2)
- Comprehensive analysis of central carbon metabolism reveals multiple connections between nutrients, biosynthetic capacity, and cell morphology in Escherichia coli (2017) (2)
- Single cells tell their own story: An updated framework for understanding stochastic variations in cell cycle progression in bacteria (2022) (2)
- Connecting sequence features within the disordered C-terminal linker of Bacillus subtilis FtsZ to functions and bacterial cell division (2022) (2)
- Keeping replication on par with division in Bacillus (2019) (1)
- Inactivation of multidrug‐resistant bacteria and bacterial spores and generation of high‐potency bacterial vaccines using ultrashort pulsed lasers (2021) (1)
- A bacterium that is not a microbe. (2022) (1)
- Bacteriophage SP01 Gene Product 56 (gp56) Inhibits Bacillus subtilis Cell Division by Interacting with DivIC/FtsL to Prevent Pbp2B/FtsW Recruitment (2020) (0)
- Environmental pH impacts division assembly and cell size in Escherichia coli (2019) (0)
- High levels of antibiotic tolerance and persistence are induced by the commercial anti-microbial triclosan (2016) (0)
- The Intrinsically Disordered Tail of FtsZ Impacts Polymerization and Bacterial Cell Division Through Sequence-Encoded Charge Patterning (2017) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Isolation and identification of new inner membrane-associated proteins that localize to cell poles in Escherichia coli. (2012) (0)
- Petra Anne Levin (2019) (0)
- Sequence-Encoded Charge Patterning of the Intrinsically Disordered Tail of FtsZ Impacts Polymerization and Bacterial Cell Division (2018) (0)
- Flux through lipid synthesis dictates bacterial cell size (2016) (0)
- Physiological and regulatory convergence between osmotic and nutrient stress responses in microbes. (2023) (0)
- Influence of structure on freeze‐drying kinetics of instant coffee (2020) (0)
- 2018 Microbial Stress Response Gordon Research Conference and Seminar (2019) (0)
- The commercial antimicrobial triclosan induces high levels of antibiotic tolerance in vitro and reduces antibiotic efficacy up to 100-fold in vivo (2018) (0)
- Report stasis in Bacteria (2014) (0)
- Mutations in the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ highlight the role of GTP binding and longitudinal subunit interactions in assembly and function (2015) (0)
- Characterization of a Cell Division Gene from Bacillus subtilis That Is Required for Vegetative and Sporulation Septum Formation (1994) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Positive control of cell division: FtsZ is recruited by SsgB during sporulation of Streptomyces. (2011) (0)
- Author response: Plasticity of Escherichia coli cell wall metabolism promotes fitness and antibiotic resistance across environmental conditions (2019) (0)
- Editor's evaluation: Adaptation of the periplasm to maintain spatial constraints essential for cell envelope processes and cell viability (2021) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Bacillus subtilis MinC destabilizes FtsZ-rings at new cell poles and contributes to the timing of cell division. (2009) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of The Min oscillator uses MinD-dependent conformational changes in MinE to spatially regulate cytokinesis. (2011) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Imaging-based identification of a critical regulator of FtsZ protofilament curvature in Caulobacter. (2010) (0)
- Report Cell-Size Control and Homeostasis in Bacteria (2015) (0)
- A nutrient-dependent division antagonist is regulated post-translationally by the Clp proteases in Bacillus subtilis (2018) (0)
- Single Molecule Dynamic Studies of UgtP, an Inhibitor of FtsZ (2011) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Proteotoxic stress induces a cell-cycle arrest by stimulating Lon to degrade the replication initiator DnaA. (2013) (0)
- Polymer Stability Plays an Important Role in the Positional Regulation of FtsZ (2001) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Geometric cue for protein localization in a bacterium. (2009) (0)
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