Publications

• Husing, S. (2021). Control of membrane barrier during bacterial type III protein secretion. Nature Communications. Published, 06/2021.
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24226-1
• Wheatley, P & Gupta, S, Pandini, A., Chan, Y., Petzold, C. , Ralston, C.Y., Blair, D.F., and Khan, S. (2020). Allosteric priming of E. coli CheY by the flagellar motor switch protein FliM. Biophys. J. Vol. 119(6), 1108-1122. Published, 08/2020.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2020.08.009
• Ward, E. & Kim, E.A, Panushka, J., Botelho, T., Meyer, T. Kearns, D.B., Ordal, G., and Blair, D.F. (2018). Organization of the flagellar switch complex of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. Vol. 1128. Published, 11/09/2018.
• Ward E, Renault TT, Kim EA, Erhardt M, Hughes KT & Blair DF (2018). Type-III secretion pore formed by flagellar protein FliP. Molecular microbiology. Vol. 107, 94-103. Published, 02/01/2018.
• Ward E, Renault TT, Kim EA, Erhardt M, Hughes KT & Blair DF (2018). Type-III secretion pore formed by flagellar protein FliP. Molecular microbiology. Vol. 107, 94-103. Published, 02/01/2018.
• Ward, E. & Renault, T.T., Kim, E.A, Erhardt, M., Hughes, K.T., and Blair, D.F. (2018). Type-III secretion pore formed by flagellar protein FliP. Mol. Microbiol. Vol. 107(1), 94-103. Published, 01/2018.
• Kim, E.A & J., Meyer, T., Ide, N., Carlisle, R., Baker, S., and Blair, D.F. (2017). Biogenesis of the flagellar switch complex in Escherichia coli: Formation of sub-complexes independently of the basal-body MS-ring. Journal of Molecular Biology. Vol. 429, 2353-2359. Published, 07/2017.
• Erhardt, M & Wheatley, P., Kim, E.A, Hirano, T., Zhang, Y., Sarkar, M.K., Hughes, K.T., and Blair D.F. (2017). Mechanism of type-III protein secretion: Regulation of FlhA conformation by a functionally critical charged-residue cluster. Mol. Microbiol. Vol. 104, 234-249. Published, 06/2017.
• Kim, E.A. & J., Meyer, T., Carlisle, R., Baker, S., Ide, N., Lynch, M., Crane, B.R., and Blair D.F. (2017). Architecture of the flagellar switch complex of Escherichia coli: conformational plasticity of FliG and implications for adaptive remodeling. Journal of Molecular Biology. Vol. 429, 1305-1320. Published, 05/2017.
• Lynch, M.J., Levenson, R., Kim, E.A, Sircar, R., Blair, D.F., Dahlquist, F.W., and Crane, B.R. Co-folding of a FliF-FliG split domain forms the basis of the MS:C-ring interface within the bacterial flagellar motor. Structure 25, 317-328. doi: 10j.1016/j.str.2016.12.006 (2016). Published, 12/2016.
• Kim EA & Blair DF (2015). Function of the Histone-Like Protein H-NS in Motility of Escherichia coli: Multiple Regulatory Roles Rather than Direct Action at the Flagellar Motor. Journal of bacteriology. Vol. 197, 3110-20. Published, 09/01/2015.
• Boschert R, Adler FR & Blair DF (2015). Loose coupling in the bacterial flagellar motor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 112, 4755-60. Published, 04/01/2015.
• Blair, D.F. and Hughes, K.T. Irreducible complexity? Not! In Microbes and Evolution: The World that Darwin Never Saw, Maloy S., and Kolter, R., eds. ASM Press (Washington, DC) (2012). Published, 06/2012.
• Blair, D.F. Biochemical and structural studies of the bacterial flagellar motor. In The Encyclopedia of Biophysics, Armitage, J., ed., Springer (2012). Published, 03/2012.
• Paul, K., Carlquist, W.C., and Blair, D.F. Adjusting the spokes of the flagellar motor with the DNA-binding protein H-NS. J. Bacteriol. 193(21), 5914-5922 (2011). Published, 02/2011.
• Paul, K., Gonzalez-Bonet, G., Bilwes, A.M., Crane, B.R., and Blair, D.F. Architecture of the flagellar rotor. EMBO J. 30, 2962-2971 (2011). Published, 02/2011.
• Paul, K., Brunstetter, D., Titen, S., and Blair, D.F. A molecular mechanism of direction switching in the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108(41), 17171-17176 (2011). Published, 02/2011.
• Sarkar, M.K., Paul, K., and Blair, D.F. The chemotaxis protein CheY binds to the rotor FliN to control the direction of flagellar rotation in Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 9370-9375. Published, 05/2010.
• Paul, K., Nieto, V.M., Carlquist, W., Blair, D.F., and Harshey, R.M. The c-di-GMP binding protein YcgR controls flagellar motor direction and speed to affect chemotaxis by a 'backstop brake' mechanism. Molecular Cell 38, 1-12. Published, 04/2010.
• Sarkar, M.K., Paul, K., and Blair, D.F. Subunit Organization and Reversal-Associated Movements in the Flagellar Switch of Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 285(1):675-684. Published, 01/2010.

Presentations

• Workshop on flagella and Type-III secretion (Okinawa, Japan). Contributed Talk, Presented, 03/2017.
• American Society for Microbiology International Branch Meeting "Dissecting the flagellar protein pump". Contributed Talk, Presented, 03/2014.
• Gordon Conference on Bacterial Cell Surfaces: "Architecture and mechanism of the flagellar rotor". Contributed Talk, Presented, 06/2012.
• Gordon Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms: Molecular mechanisms of the flagellar switch". Contributed Talk, Presented, 01/2012.
• American Society for Microbiology "Structure and mechanism of the flagellar rotor". Contributed Talk, Presented, 05/2010.
• Gordon Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms. “Architecture of the flagellar rotor”. Contributed Talk, Presented, 01/2010.