Publications
Friest. J. A., Y. Maezato, S. Broussy, P. Blum and D. B. Berkowitz. 2010. Use of a Robust Dehydrogenase from an Archael Hyperthermophile in Asymmetric Catalysis-Dynamic Reductive Kinetic Resolution Entry into (S)-Profens. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (In Press).
Miller P. and P. Blum. 2010. Extremophile-Inspired Strategies for Enzymatic Biomass Saccharification. Environmental Technology. (In Press).
Mandal, D., Kohrer, C., Su, D., Russell, S.P., Krivos, K., Castleberry, C.M., Blum, P., Limbach, P.A., Soll, D., and Uttam, L. R. 2010. Agmatidine, a modified cytidine in the anticodon of archaeal tRNAIle, base pairs with adenosine but not with guanosine. PNAS vol. 107, no. 7, p 2872-2877.
Maaty, W.S., Wiedenheft, B., Tarlykov, P., Schaff, N., Heinemann, J., Robison-Cox, J., Valenzuela, J., Dougherty, A., Blum, P., Lawrence, C.M., Douglas, T., Young, M.J., and Bothner, B. 2009. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed; How the Thermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus Responds to Oxidative Stress. PLoS ONE, September, Vol. 4, Issue 9, e6964.
Cooper CR, Daugherty AJ, Tachdjian S, Blum PH, Kelly RM. 2009. Role of
vapBC toxin-antitoxin loci in the thermal stress response of Sulfolobus
solfataricus. Biochem Soc Trans. 37(Pt 1):123-6.
Auernik, K.S., Maezato, Y., Blum, P., and Kelly, R.M.. 2008. Genome
sequence of the metal-mobilizing, extremely thermoacidophilic archaeon
Metallosphaera sedula provides insights into bioleaching metabolism.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74 682-692.
Blum, P. 2008 (Editor) Archaea, new models for prokaryotic biology. (248
p.) Horizon Press, Norwich UK
Sowers, K. R., P. H. Blum, and S. DasSarma. 2007. Gene transfer in
archaea. Chp. 33, pp. 800-824. In, C. A. Reddy, T. J. Beveridge, J. A. Breznak, G. A. Marzluf,
and T. M. Schmidt (ed.), Methods for General and Molecular Microbiology.
American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington D.C.
Szabo Z, Sani M, Groeneveld M, Zolghadr B, Schelert J, Albers SV, Blum P, Boekema EJ, Driessen AJ. 2007. Flagellar motility and structure in the hyperthermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. J Bacteriol. 189:4305-4309.
Schelert, J., M. Drozda,V. Dixit, A. Dillman and P. Blum. 2006. Regulation of mercury resistance in the crenarchaeote Sulfolobus solfataricus. J Bacteriol. 2006 188:7141-50.
Ernst, H.A., L. L. Leggio, M. Willemoës, G. Leonard, P. Blum|, and Sine Larsen. 2006. Structure of the Sulfolobus solfataricus alpha-glucosidase: Implications for domain conservation and substrate recognition in GH31 J. Molec. Biol. 358:1106-1124.
Blum, P. 2006. Understanding Viability of Pathogens During Disinfection, 00-HHE-1. Water Env. Fed. pp 1- 65.
Ernst, H.A., Willemoës, M., Lo Leggio, L., Leonard, G., Blum, P., and Larsen, S. 2005. Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic characterization of the a-glucosidase MalA from Sulfolobus solfataricus. Acta Cryst. F61:1039-1042.
Simbahan, J., E. Redfield, and P. Blum. 2005. Community analysis of a mercury hot spring supports occurrence of domain-specific forms of mercuric reductase. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71:8836-8845.
Hoang, V., E. Bini, V. Dixit, M. Drozda, and P. Blum.
2004. The role
of cis-acting sequences governing catabolite repression control of lacS
expression in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. Genetics.
167: 1563-1572.
Simbahan, J., R. Drijber, and P. Blum. 2004.
Alicyclobacillus vulcanalis
sp. nov., a new thermophilic, acidophilic bacterium isolated from Coso
Hot Springs, California, USA. Int.
J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 54: 1703-1707
Korencic, D., I., Ahel, J., Schelert, M., Sacher, B.,
Ruana, C., Stathopoulosa,
P., Blum, M., Ibba, and D. Söll. 2004. A freestanding proofreading
domain is required for protein synthesis quality control in Archaea.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:10260-10265.
Chen, H., G. Ponniah, N. Solanen, and P. Blum. 2004.
Culture-independent
analysis of fecal enterobacteria in environmental samples by single
cell
mRNA profiling. Appl.
Environ. Microbiol. 70:4432-4439.
Dixit, V., M. Drozda, E. Bini and P. Blum. 2004. Mecury
targets transcription
in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 48:1993-1999.
Schelert, J., V. Dixit, V. Hoang, J. Simbahan, M. Drozda
and P. Blum.
2004. Occurrence and characterization of mercury resistance in the
hyperthermophilic
archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus using gene disruption. J.
Bacteriology 186:427-437.
Sowers, K. R., P. H. Blum, and S. DasSarma. 2004.
Genetics of Archaea
in "Methods for General and Molecular Microbiology" ASM Press.
Washington
D.C. (In Press).
Ponniah, G., H. Chen, R. Michielutti, N. Salonen and P.
Blum. 2003.
Single cell protein profiling of wastewater enterobacterial communities
predicts disinfection efficiency.
Appl.
Environ. Microbiol. 69:69:4227-4235.
Worthington, P., V. Hoang, P. Perez-Pomares, and P.
Blum. 2003. Targeted
disruption of the "-amylase gene in the hyperthermophilic archaeon
Sulfolobus
solfataricus.
J.
Bacteriol. 185:482-488.
Worthington, P., P. Blum, F. Perez-Pomares, and T.
Elthon. 2003. Large
scale cultivation of acidophilic hyperthermophiles for recovery of
secreted
proteins.
Appl.
Environ. Microbiol. 69:252-257.
Bini, E., V. Dikshit, K. Dirksen, M. Drozda, and P.
Blum. 2002. Stability
of mRNA in hyperthermophilic archaea.
RNA
8:1129-1136.
Blum, P. and V. Dikshit. 2002. Archaea. In “Desk
Encyclopedia of Microbiology”,
M. Schaechter (ed). Academic Press, New York.
Blum, P. 2001. (Ed.), Archaea, ancient microbes, extreme
environments
and the origin of life. Adv. Appl. Microbiol. vol. 50, pp. 1-382.
Academic
Press, New York.
Bini, E., and P. Blum. 2001. Archaeal catabolite
repression: a gene
regulatory
paradigm.
Adv.
Appl. Microbiol. 50: 339-366.
Haseltine C, Hill T, Montalvo-Rodriguez R, Kemper SK,
Shand RF, Blum
P. 2001. Secreted euryarchaeal microhalocins kill hyperthermophilic
crenarchaea.
J. Bacteriol. 183:287-91.
Montalvo-Rodriguez R, Haseltine C, Huess-LaRossa K,
Clemente T, Soto
J, Staswick P, Blum P. 2000. Autohydrolysis of plant polysaccharides
using
transgenic hyperthermophilic enzymes.
Biotechnol Bioeng. 70:151-9.
Rockabrand, D., T. Austin, R. Kaiser, and P. Blum. 1999.
Bacterial growth
state by single-cell protein profiling: does chlorination kill
coliforms
in municipal effluent?
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:4181-4188.
Haseltine, C., R. Montalvo-Rodriguez, A.Carl, E. Bini
and P. Blum. 1999.
Extragenic Pleiotropic Mutations That Repress Glycosyl Hydrolase
Expression
in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.
Genetics 152:1353-1361.
Haseltine, C., R. Montalvo-Rodriguez, E. Bini, A. Carl,
and P. Blum.
1999. Coordinate transcriptional control in the hyperthermophilic
archaeon
Sulfolobus
solfataricus.
J. Bacteriol. 181:3920-7.
Teter, S., W. Houry, D. Ang, T. Tradler, D. Rockabrand,
G. Fischer,
P. Blum, C. Georgopoulos, and F. Hartl. 1999. Polypeptide flux through
bacterial Hsp70: DnaK cooperates with trigger factor in chaperoning
nascent
chains. Cell
97:755-65.
Whitman, W. B., F. Pfeifer, P. Blum and A. Klein. 1999.
What archaea
have to tell biologists. Genetics
152:1245-1248.
Rockabrand, D., K. Livers, T. Austin, R. Kaiser, D.
Jensen, R. Burgess,
and P. Blum. 1998. Roles of DnaK and RpoS in starvation-induced
thermotolerance
of Escherichia coli. J.
Bacteriol. 180:846-854.
Rolfsmeier, M., C. Haseltine, E. Bini, A. Clark, and P.
Blum. 1998.
Molecular Characterization of the alpha-Glucosidase Gene (malA) From
the
Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. J.
Bacteriol. 180:1287-1295.
Lund, A. A., P. H. Blum and T. E. Elthon. 1998. Heat
stress response
of maize mitochondria. J.
Plant Physiol. 116:1097-1110.
Blum, P. H. 1997. Molecular genetics of the bacterial
stationary phase.
In "Bacteria in the Oligotrophic Environment, with Special Emphasis on
Starvation Survival" by R. Morita. Chapman and Hall.
Haseltine, C., M. Rolfsmeier, and P. Blum. 1996. The
glucose effect
and regulation of -amylase production in the hyperthermophilic archaeon
Sulfolobus
solfataricus.
J. Bacteriol 178:945-950.
Rockabrand, D. and P. Blum. 1995. Multicopy plasmid
supression of stationary
phase chaperone toxicity in Escherichia coli by
phosphogluconate
dehydratase and the N-terminus of DnaK. Mol.
Gen. Genet. 249:498-506.
Bailey, S.M., P. Blum, and M.M. Meagher. 1995. Improved
Homogenization
of Recombinant Escherichia coli Following Pretreatment With
Guanidine
HCl.
Biotechnol. Prog. 11:533-539.
Rolfsmeier, M., and P. Blum. 1995. Purification and
characterization
of a maltase from the extremely thermophilic Crenarchaeote Sulfolobus
solfataricus. J.
Bacteriol. 177:482-485.
Krska, J., T. Elthon, and P. Blum. 1993. Monclonal
antibody recognition
and function of a DnaK (HSP70) epitope found in gram negative bacteria.
J.
Bacteriol. 175:6433-6440.
Rockabrand, D., J. Partridge, and P. Blum. 1993.
Nucleotide sequence
analysis and heterologous expression of the Erysipelothrix
rhusiopathiaednaJ
gene. FEMS
Microbiol. Lett. 111:79-86.
Partridge, J., J. King, D. Rockabrand and P. Blum. 1993.
Cloning, molecular
analysis and expression of the Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae dnaK gene.
Infection
and Immunity 61:411-417.
Blum, P., J. Bauernfiend, J. Ory, and J. Krska. 1992.
Physiological
consequences of DnaK and DnaJ overproduction in Escherichia coli. J.
Bacteriol. 174:7436-7444.
Blum, P., M. Velligan, N. Lin and A. Matin. 1992.
Dissagregation and
solubilization of Human Growth Hormone inclusion bodies by DnaK. Bio/technology
10:301-304.
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