Latest Publications

Selected Publications

  • Lyu Z, Yang X, Yahashiri A, Ha S, McCausland JW, Chen X, Britton BM, Weiss DS, Xiao J. (2024) E. coli FtsN coordinates synthesis and degradation of septal peptidoglycan by partitioning between a synthesis track and a denuded glycan track. bioRxiv. 2024 Aug 26; doi:10.1101/2024.05.13. 594014. PMID: 39253420.
  • Zbylicki B.R., Cochran S., Weiss D.S., Ellermeier C.D. (2025) Identification of two glycosyltransferases required for synthesis of membrane glycolipids in Clostridioides difficile. mBio, in press.
  • Apicella M.A., Edwards J.L., Ketterer M.R., Weiss D.S., Zhang Y., Jen F.E.-C., Jennings M.P. (2024) The phospholipase A of Neisseria gonorrhoeae lyses eukaryotic membranes and is necessary for survival in neutrophils and cervical epithelial cells. mBio. 15(10):e0242524. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02425-24. PMID: 39324821; PMCID: PMC11481481.
  • Bollinger, K.W., Müh, U., Ocius, K.L., Apostolos, A.J., Pires, M.M., Helm, R.F., Popham, D.L., Weiss, D.S., Ellermeier, C.D. (2024) Identification of a family of peptidoglycan transpeptidases reveals that Clostridioides difficile requires noncanonical cross-links for viability. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121(34):e2408540121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2408540121. PMID: 39150786
  • Zbylicki, B. R., Murphy, C. E., Petsche, J. A., Müh, U., Dorbila, H. A., Ho, T. D., Daum, M. N., Pannullo, A. G., Weiss, D. S. & Ellermeier, C. D. (2024). Identification of Clostridioides difficile mutants with increased Daptomycin resistance. J. Bacteriol. 206(3):e0036823. doi: 10.1128/jb.00368-23.PMID: 38376203; PMCID: PMC10955854
  • Lyu Z, Yahashiri A, Yang X, McCausland JM, Kaus GM, McQuillen R, Weiss D.S. & Xiao J. (2022) FtsN maintains active septal cell wall synthesis by forming a processive complex with the septum-specific peptidoglycan synthases in E. coli. Nat. Commun.  2022 Sep 30;13(1):5751. PMID: 36180460. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33404-8. 
  • Yahashiri, A., Babor, J. T., Anwar, A. L., Bezy, R. P., Piette, E. W., Arends, S. J., Müh, U., Steffen, M. R., Cline, J. M., Stanek, D. N., Lister, S. D., Swanson, S. M. & Weiss, D. S. (2020). DrpB (YedR) is a non-essential cell division protein in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 202 (23) e00284-20. PMID: 32900831. DOI: 10.1128/JB.00284-20.
  • Jones-Carson, J., Yahashiri, A., Kim, J. S., Liu, L., Fitzsimmons, L. F., Weiss, D. S. & Vázquez-Torres, A. (2020). Nitric oxide disrupts bacterial cytokinesis by poisoning purine matabolism. Sci Adv 6 (9) eaaz0260. PMID: 32133408. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0260.
  • Müh, U., Pannullo, A. G., Weiss, D. S. & Ellermeier, C. D. (2019). A Xylose-Inducible Expression System and a CRISPR Interference Plasmid for Targeted Knockdown of Gene Expression in Clostridioides difficile. J Bacteriol 201 (14) e00711-18. PMID: 30745377. DOI: 10.1128/JB.00711-18.
  • Ransom, E. M., Kaus, G. M., Tran, P. M., Ellermeier, C. D. & Weiss, D. S. (2018). Multiple factors contribute to bimodal toxin gene expression in Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile. Mol Microbiol 110 (4) 533-549. PMID: 30125399. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14107.
  • Yahashiri, A., Jorgenson, M. A. & Weiss, D. S. (2017). The SPOR Domain, a Widely Conserved Peptidoglycan Binding Domain That Targets Proteins to the Site of Cell Division. J Bacteriol 199 (14) e00118-17. PMID: 28396350. DOI: 10.1128/JB.00118-17.
  • Ransom, E. M., Weiss, D. S. & Ellermeier, C. D. (2016). Use of mCherryOpt Fluorescent Protein in Clostridium difficile. Methods Mol Biol 1476 53-67. PMID: 27507333. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6361-4_5.
  • Yahashiri, A., Jorgenson, M. A. & Weiss, D. S. (2015). Bacterial SPOR domains are recruited to septal peptidoglycan by binding to glycan strands that lack stem peptides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112 (36) 11347-52. PMID: 26305949. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508536112.
  • Weiss, D. S. (2015). Last but not least: new insights into how FtsN triggers constriction during Escherichia coli cell division. (Vols. 95). (6), pp. 903-9. Mol Microbiol. PMID: 25571948. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12925.
  • Ransom, E. M., Ellermeier, C. D. & Weiss, D. S. (2015). Use of mCherry Red fluorescent protein for studies of protein localization and gene expression in Clostridium difficile. Appl Environ Microbiol 81 (5) 1652-60. PMID: 25527559. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03446-14.
  • Buchanan, B. B., Hall, J. A. & Weiss, D. S. (2015). Sydney Kustu 1943-2014. National Academy of Sciences.