Dennis W. Grogan


	Dennis W. Grogan Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Microbiology

1. Grogan, D.W. 1996. Exchange of genetic markers at extremely high temperatures in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Journal of Bacteriology 178:3207-3211.

2. Grogan, D.W. 1996. Organization and interactions of cell envelope proteins of the extreme thermo-acidophile Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 42:1163-1171.

3. Grogan, D.W. 1997. Photoreactivation in an archaeon from geothermal environments. Microbiology (UK) 143:1071-1076.

4. Jacobs, K.L., and D.W. Grogan. 1997. Rates of spontaneous mutation in an archaeon from geothermal environments. Journal of Bacteriology 179:3298-3303.

5. Wood, E.R., F. Ghané, and D.W. Grogan. 1997. Genetic responses of the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius to short-wavelength UV light. Journal of Bacteriology 179:5693-5698.

6. Jacobs, K.L., and D.W. Grogan. 1998. Spontaneous mutation in a thermoacidophilic archaeon: Evaluation of genetic and physiological factors. Archives of Microbiology 169:81-83.

7. Ghané, F. and D.W. Grogan. 1998. Chromosomal marker exchange in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: Physiological and cellular aspects. Microbiology (UK) 144:1649-1657.

8. Grogan, D.W. 1998. Hyperthermophiles and the problem of DNA instability. Molecular Microbiology 28: 1043-1050.

9. Maiorano, J.N. and D.W. Grogan. 1999. Extremely thermostable orotidine-5'-monophosphate decarboxylase from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius FEMS Microbiology Letters 174: 81-87.

10. Schmidt, K. J., K. Beck, and D.W. Grogan. 1999. UV-stimulation of chromosomal marker exchange in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: implications for DNA repair, conjugation, and homologous recombination at extremely high temperatures. Genetics 152: 1407-1415.

11. Bernander, R., A. Poplawski and D. W. Grogan. 2000. Altered patterns of cellular growth, morphology, replication and division in conditional-lethal mutants of the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Microbiology 146: 749-757.

12. Grogan, D.W. 2000. The question of DNA repair in hyperthermophilic archaea. Trends in Microbiology 8: 180-185.

13. Reilly, M.S. and D.W. Grogan. 2001. Characterization of intragenic recombination in a hyperthermophilic archaeon via conjugational DNA exchange. Journal of Bacteriology 183: 2943-2946.

14. Grogan, D.W., G.T. Carver, and J. W. Drake. 2001. Genetic fidelity under harsh conditions: Analysis of spontaneous mutation in the thermoacidophilic archaeon. Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Proc. Nat. Acad. USA 98: 7928-7933.

15. Reilly M.S. and D.W. Grogan. 2002. Biological effects of DNA damage in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. FEMS Microbiol Lett 208: 29-34.

16. Bell, G.D. and D.W. Grogan. 2002. Loss of genetic accuracy in mutants of the thermoacidophile Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Archaea 1:45-52.

17. Grogan, D.W. and J.E. Hansen. 2003. Molecular characteristics of spontaneous deletions in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. J. Bacteriol. 185: 1266-1272.

18. Grogan, D.W. 2003. Cytosine methylation by the SuaI restriction-modification system: implications for genetic fidelity in a hyperthermophilic archaeon. J. Bacteriol.. 185: 4657-4661.

19. Whitaker R.J., D.W. Grogan, J.W. Taylor. 2003. Geographic barriers isolate endemic populations of hyperthermophilic archaea. Science 301:976-978.

20. Blount, Z.D. and D.W. Grogan. 2005. New Insertion Sequences of Sulfolobus: Functional properties and implications for genome evolution in hyperthermophilic archaea. Molecular Microbiology 55:312-325.

21. Hansen, J.E., A.C. Dill, and D.W. Grogan. 2005. Conjugational genetic exchange in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: Intragenic recombination with minimal dependence on marker separation. Journal of Bacteriology 187: 805-809.

22. Whitaker R.J., D.W. Grogan, J.W. Taylor. 2005. Recombination shapes the natural population structure of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22(12):2354-61.

23. Kurosawa, N., and D.W. Grogan. 2005. Homologous recombination of exogenous DNA with the Sulfolobus acidocaldarius genome: Properties and uses. FEMS Microbiology Letters 253(1):141-149.

24. Mackwan, R.R., G.T. Carver, J.W. Drake and D.W. Grogan. 2007. An unusual pattern of spontaneous mutations recovered in the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii. Genetics 176:697-702.

25. Berkner S., Grogan D., Albers S.V., Lipps G. 2007. Small multicopy, non-integrative shuttle vectors based on the plasmid pRN1 for Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Sulfolobus solfataricus, model organisms of the (cren-)archaea. Nucleic Acids Research 35: e88.

26. Grogan D.W., Ozarzak M.A., Bernander R. 2007. Variation in gene content among geographically diverse Sulfolobus isolates. Environ Microbiol. (in press)

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