Shengchang
Su
, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Ph.D. 1996-2000 , China Agricultural University , Beijing , China
M.S. 1993-1996 , Xinjiang Agricultural University , Urumqi , Xinjiang, China
Selected Publications:
- (2009) Gallium disrupts iron uptake by intracellular and extracellular francisella and exhibits therapeutic efficacy in a murine pulmonary infection model. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Accepted.
- (2009) The S-Adenosyl-l-Homocysteine Hydrolase Gene ahcY of Agrobacterium radiobacter K84 Is Required for Optimal Growth, Antibiotic Production, and Biocontrol of Crown Gall Disease. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 22(6):713-24.
- (2009) A novel wall-associated receptor-like protein kinase gene, OsWAK1, plays important roles in rice blast disease resistance Plant Molecuar Biology. 69:337-346
- (2008) Induction and loss of Ti plasmid conjugative competence in response to the acyl-homoserine lactone quorum-sensing signal. J. Bacteriol. 190(13):4398-4407.
- (2007) Molecular basis of transcriptional antiactivation: TraM disrupts the TraR-DNA complex through stepwise interactions. J. Biol. Chem. 282: 19979-19991.
- (2007) Molecular cloning and differential expression of an aldehyde dehydrogenase gene in rice leaves in response to infection by blast fungus. Biologia 62: 523-528.
- (2006) Lon protease of the α-proteobacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens is required for normal growth, cellular morphology and full virulence. Microbiology, 152: 1197-1207.
- (2004) Dimerization properties of TraM, the antiactivator that modulates TraR-mediated quorum-dependent expression of the Ti plasmid tra genes. Mol. Microbiol., 53:1471-1485
- (2003) In situ activation of the quorum-sensing transcription factor TraR by cognate and non-cognate acyl-homoserine lactone ligands: Kinetics and consequences. J. Bacteriol. 185: 5665-5672.
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