Jared Leadbetter

Acyl-homoserine lactone acylase from Ralstonia strain XJ12B represents a novel and potent class of quorum-quenching enzymes.

Arthrobacter strain VAI-A utilizes acyl-homoserine lactone inactivation products and stimulates quorum signal biodegradation by Variovorax paradoxus.

Cultivation of recalcitrant microbes: cells are alive, well and revealing their secrets in the 21st century laboratory.

Analysis of genes of tetrahydrofolate-dependent metabolism from cultivated spirochaetes and the gut community of the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis.

Utilization of acyl-homoserine lactone quorum signals for growth by a soil pseudomonad and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1.

Description of Treponema azotonutricium sp. nov. and Treponema primitia sp. nov., the first spirochetes isolated from termite guts.

Directed evolution of Vibrio fischeri LuxR for increased sensitivity to a broad spectrum of acyl-homoserine lactones.

Rapid acyl-homoserine lactone quorum signal biodegradation in diverse soils.

Utilization of homoserine lactone as a sole source of carbon and energy by soil Arthrobacter and Burkholderia species.

Community and cultivation analysis of arsenite oxidizing biofilms at Hot Creek.

Identification of QuiP, the product of gene PA1032, as the second acyl-homoserine lactone acylase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1.

Utilization of capsaicin and vanillylamine as growth substrates by Capsicum (hot pepper)-associated bacteria.

Dual selection enhances the signaling specificity of a variant of the quorum-sensing transcriptional activator LuxR.

In situ structure of the complete Treponema primitia flagellar motor.

Microfluidic digital PCR enables multigene analysis of individual environmental bacteria.

Acyl-HSL signal decay: intrinsic to bacterial cell-cell communications.

Directed evolution of Vibrio fischeri LuxR for improved response to butanoyl-homoserine lactone.

Metagenomic and functional analysis of hindgut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite.

Novel ultrastructures of Treponema primitia and their implications for motility.

Selenium controls transcription of paralogous formate dehydrogenase genes in the termite gut acetogen, Treponema primitia.

Diversity of formyltetrahydrofolate synthetases in the guts of the wood-feeding cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus and the omnivorous cockroach Periplaneta americana.

Genes for selenium dependent and independent formate dehydrogenase in the gut microbial communities of three lower, wood-feeding termites and a wood-feeding roach.

Complete genome sequence of the metabolically versatile plant growth-promoting endophyte Variovorax paradoxus S110.

RNA-seq reveals cooperative metabolic interactions between two termite-gut spirochete species in co-culture.

Formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase gene diversity in the guts of higher termites with different diets and lifestyles.

Anaerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenase diversity in the homoacetogenic hindgut microbial communities of lower termites and the wood roach.

Structural diversity of bacterial flagellar motors.

Probing individual environmental bacteria for viruses by using microfluidic digital PCR.

Genomic Analysis Reveals Multiple [FeFe] Hydrogenases and Hydrogen Sensors Encoded by Treponemes from the H(2)-Rich Termite Gut.

Peptidoglycan remodeling and conversion of an inner membrane into an outer membrane during sporulation.

Analysis of Extensive [FeFe] Hydrogenase Gene Diversity Within the Gut Microbiota of Insects Representing Five Families of Dictyoptera.

Selenium controls transcription of paralogous formate dehydrogenase genes in the termite gut acetogen, Treponema primitia.

Patterns of [FeFe] hydrogenase diversity in the gut microbial communities of lignocellulose-feeding higher termites.

Evidence for cascades of perturbation and adaptation in the metabolic genes of higher termite gut symbionts.

Localizing transcripts to single cells suggests an important role of uncultured deltaproteobacteria in the termite gut hydrogen economy.

Genome of the Root-Associated Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterium Variovorax paradoxus Strain EPS.

Genome-wide effects of selenium and translational uncoupling on transcription in the termite gut symbiont Treponema primitia.

Catechol 2,3-dioxygenase and other meta-cleavage catabolic pathway genes in the 'anaerobic' termite gut spirochete Treponema primitia.

Structure and expression of propanediol utilization microcompartments in Acetonema longum.