User:Massimo Merighi

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• Massimo Merighi
• Harvard University
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Education

• 2005, Postdoctoral training, Harvard University
• 2003, PhD, Ohio State University
• 1996, BS, University of Bologna

Research interests

1. Metabolic engineering of E. coli
2. Biofermentation
3. Recombineering

Publications

1. Merighi M, Septer AN, Carroll-Portillo A, Bhatiya A, Porwollik S, McClelland M, and Gunn JS. Genome-wide analysis of the PreA/PreB (QseB/QseC) regulon of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. BMC Microbiol. 2009 Feb 23;9:42. DOI:10.1186/1471-2180-9-42 |
2. Goodman AL, Merighi M, Hyodo M, Ventre I, Filloux A, and Lory S. Direct interaction between sensor kinase proteins mediates acute and chronic disease phenotypes in a bacterial pathogen. Genes Dev. 2009 Jan 15;23(2):249-59. DOI:10.1101/gad.1739009 |
3. Merighi M, Lee VT, Hyodo M, Hayakawa Y, and Lory S. The second messenger bis-(3'-5')-cyclic-GMP and its PilZ domain-containing receptor Alg44 are required for alginate biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol Microbiol. 2007 Aug;65(4):876-95. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05817.x |
4. Merighi M, Majerczak DR, Zianni M, Tessanne K, and Coplin DL. Molecular characterization of Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii HrpY, a conserved response regulator of the Hrp type III secretion system, and its interaction with the hrpS promoter. J Bacteriol. 2006 Jul;188(14):5089-100. DOI:10.1128/JB.01929-05 |
5. Zianni M, Tessanne K, Merighi M, Laguna R, and Tabita FR. Identification of the DNA bases of a DNase I footprint by the use of dye primer sequencing on an automated capillary DNA analysis instrument. J Biomol Tech. 2006 Apr;17(2):103-13.
6. Merighi M, Carroll-Portillo A, Septer AN, Bhatiya A, and Gunn JS. Role of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium two-component system PreA/PreB in modulating PmrA-regulated gene transcription. J Bacteriol. 2006 Jan;188(1):141-9. DOI:10.1128/JB.188.1.141-149.2006 |
7. Merighi M, Ellermeier CD, Slauch JM, and Gunn JS. Resolvase-in vivo expression technology analysis of the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium PhoP and PmrA regulons in BALB/c mice. J Bacteriol. 2005 Nov;187(21):7407-16. DOI:10.1128/JB.187.21.7407-7416.2005 |
8. Tamayo R, Choudhury B, Septer A, Merighi M, Carlson R, and Gunn JS. Identification of cptA, a PmrA-regulated locus required for phosphoethanolamine modification of the Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium lipopolysaccharide core. J Bacteriol. 2005 May;187(10):3391-9. DOI:10.1128/JB.187.10.3391-3399.2005 |
9. Merighi M, Majerczak DR, and Coplin DL. A novel transcriptional autoregulatory loop enhances expression of the Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii Hrp type III secretion system. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2005 Feb 15;243(2):479-87. DOI:10.1016/j.femsle.2005.01.009 |
10. Teplitski M, Chen H, Rajamani S, Gao M, Merighi M, Sayre RT, Robinson JB, Rolfe BG, and Bauer WD. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii secretes compounds that mimic bacterial signals and interfere with quorum sensing regulation in bacteria. Plant Physiol. 2004 Jan;134(1):137-46. DOI:10.1104/pp.103.029918 |
11. Merighi M, Majerczak DR, Stover EH, and Coplin DL. The HrpX/HrpY two-component system activates hrpS expression, the first step in the regulatory cascade controlling the Hrp regulon in Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2003 Mar;16(3):238-48. DOI:10.1094/MPMI.2003.16.3.238 |

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