New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center
Drs. Derbyshire and Gray
Clark RR, Lapierre P, Lasek-Nesselquist E, Gray TA, Derbyshire KM. A Polymorphic Gene within the Mycobacterium smegmatis esx1 Locus Determines Mycobacterial Self-Identity and Conjugal Compatibility. mBio. 2022; Apr 26;13 (2): e0021322. DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00213-22
Canestrari JG, Gordon EC, Bruce SA, Lasek-Nesselquist E, Schultz SR, Marietta HA, Biegas KJ, Swarts BM, Champion MM, Derbyshire KM, Gray TA. WhiB6 Transduces Contact-Dependent Signaling in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Coordinately Induces Both ESX-1 and ESX-4. Mol Microbiol. 2025; Dec;124 (6): 559-572. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.70030
Zhu J, Wolf ID, Dulberger CL, Won HI, Kester JC, Judd JA, Wirth SE, Clark RR, Li Y, Luo Y, Gray TA, Wade JT, Derbyshire KM, Fortune SM, Rubin EJ. Spatiotemporal localization of proteins in mycobacteria. Cell Rep. 2021; 37 (13): 110154. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110154
Sparks IL, Derbyshire KM, Jacobs WR Jr, Morita YS. Mycobacterium smegmatis: The Vanguard of Mycobacterial Research. J Bacteriol. 2023; 205 (1): e0033722. DOI: 10.1128/jb.00337-22
Smith C, Canestrari JG, Wang AJ, Champion MM, Derbyshire KM, Gray TA, Wade JT. Pervasive translation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Elife. 2022; Mar 28 (11): e73980. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.73980
Judd JA, Canestrari J, Clark R, Joseph A, Lapierre P, Lasek-Nesselquist E, Mir M, Palumbo M, Smith C, Stone M, Upadhyay A, Wirth SE, Dedrick RM, Meier CG, Russell DA, Dills A, Dove E, Kester J, Wolf ID, Zhu J, Rubin ER, Fortune S, Hatfull GF, Gray TA, Wade JT, Derbyshire KM. A Mycobacterial Systems Resource for the Research Community. mBio. 2021; 12 (2): e02401-20. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02401-20
Smith C, Canestrari JG, Wang J, Derbyshire KM, Gray TA, Wade JT. Pervasive Translation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 2019;
Canestrari JG, Lasek-Nesselquist E, Upadhyay A, Rofaeil M, Champion MM, Wade JT, Derbyshire KM, Gray TA. Polycysteine-encoding leaderless short ORFs function as cysteine-responsive attenuators of operonic gene expression in mycobacteria. Mol Microbio. 2020; 114 (1): 93-108. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14498
Shell SS, Wang J, Lapierre P, Mir M, Chase MR, Pyle M, Gawande R, Ahmad R, Sarracino D, Ioerger TR, Fortune SM, Derbyshire KM, Wade JT, Gray TA. Leaderless transcripts and small proteins are common features of the mycobacterial translational landscape. PLOS Genetics. 2015; 11 (11): e1005641.
Clark RR, Judd J, Lasek-Nesselquist E, Montgomery SA, Hoffmann JG, Derbyshire KM3, Gray TA. Direct cell-cell contact activates SigM to express the ESX-4 secretion system in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018; 115 (28): E6595-E660.