Paul Babitzke

Expression of conjugation genes is controlled by a novel zipper-type transcriptional attenuation mechanism
Daniel González-Álvarez, Andrés Miguel-Arribas, Sandeepani Ranaweera, Fernando Freire-Gómez, David Abia, Anne de Jong, Ling Juan Wu, Paul Babitzke, Wilfried J.J. Meijer, Aug 12 2026, In: Nucleic acids research
Date: Aug 12 2026

Canonical transcription termination mechanisms explain a minority of operons in cyanobacteria
Jennifer A. Cascino, K. Julia Dierksheide, Rishi K. Vishwakarma, Yulia Yuzenkova, Paul Babitzke, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, Gene Wei Li, Jan 2026, In: mSystems
Date: Jan 2026

Characterization of bacterial intrinsic transcription terminators identified with TERMITe - a novel method for comprehensive analysis of Term-seq data
Jan Grzegorz Kosiński, Sandeepani Ranaweera, Agnieszka Chełkowska-Pauszek, Mikhail Kashlev, Paul Babitzke, Marek Zywicki, Jul 8 2025, In: Nucleic acids research
Date: Jul 8 2025

Applying the brakes to transcription
Oshadhi T. Jayasinghe, Paul Babitzke, Jul 2025, In: Journal of bacteriology
Date: Jul 2025

NusG-dependent RNA polymerase pausing is a common feature of riboswitch regulatory mechanisms
Oshadhi T. Jayasinghe, Laura E. Ritchey, Thomas Breil, Paxton Newman, Helen Yakhnin, Paul Babitzke, Nov 27 2024, In: Nucleic acids research
Date: Nov 27 2024

A new reagent for in vivo structure probing of RNA G and U residues that improves RNA structure prediction alone and combined with DMS
Catherine A. Douds, Paul Babitzke, Philip C. Bevilacqua, Jul 2024, In: RNA
Date: Jul 2024

Multitier regulation of the E. coli extreme acid stress response by CsrA
Mark G. Gorelik, Helen Yakhnin, Archana Pannuri, Alyssa C. Walker, Christine Pourciau, Daniel Czyz, Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke, Apr 2024, In: Journal of bacteriology
Date: Apr 2024

CsrA coordinates the expression of ribosome hibernation and anti-σ factor proteins
Christine Pourciau, Helen Yakhnin, Archanna Pannuri, Mark G. Gorelik, Ying Jung Lai, Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke, Dec 2023, In: mBio
Date: Dec 2023

In vivo-like nearest neighbor parameters improve prediction of fractional RNA base-pairing in cells
Jacob P. Sieg, Elizabeth A. Jolley, Melanie J. Huot, Paul Babitzke, Philip C. Bevilacqua, Nov 10 2023, In: Nucleic acids research
Date: Nov 10 2023

Transcriptome-wide probing reveals RNA thermometers that regulate translation of glycerol permease genes in Bacillus subtilis
Elizabeth A. Jolley, Helen Yakhnin, David C. Tack, Paul Babitzke, Philip C. Bevilacqua, Sep 2023, In: RNA
Date: Sep 2023

New method for generating deletions and gene replacements in Escherichia coli
C. M. Hamilton, M. Aldea, B. K. Washburn, P. Babitzke, S. R. Kushner, 1989, In: Journal of bacteriology
Citations: 615

CsrB sRNA family
Paul Babitzke, Tony Romeo, Apr 2007, In: Current Opinion in Microbiology
Citations: 364

Positive regulation of motility and flhDC expression by the RNA-binding protein CsrA of Escherichia coli
Bangdong L. Wei, Anne Marie Brun-Zinkernagel, Jerry W. Simecka, Birgit M. Prüß, Paul Babitzke, Tony Romeo, 2001, In: Molecular Microbiology
Citations: 341

A novel sRNA component of the carbon storage regulatory system of Escherichia coli
Thomas Weilbacher, Kazushi Suzuki, Ashok K. Dubey, Xin Wang, Seshigirao Gudapaty, Igor Morozov, Carol S. Baker, Dimitris Georgellis, Paul Babitzke, Tony Romeo, May 2003, In: Molecular Microbiology
Citations: 325

Regulation of bacterial virulence by Csr (Rsm) systems
Christopher A. Vakulskas, Anastasia H. Potts, Babitzke Paul, Brian M.M. Ahmer, Romeo Tony, Jun 1 2015, In: Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Citations: 299

CsrA post-transcriptionally represses pgaABCD, responsible for synthesis of a biofilm polysaccharide adhesin of Escherichia coli
Xin Wang, Ashok K. Dubey, Kazushi Suzuki, Carol S. Baker, Paul Babitzke, Tony Romeo, Jun 2005, In: Molecular Microbiology
Citations: 266

Post-transcriptional regulation on a global scale
Tony Romeo, Christopher A. Vakulskas, Paul Babitzke, Feb 2013, In: Environmental microbiology
Citations: 256

Identification of a novel regulatory protein (CsrD) that targets the global regulatory RNAs CsrB and CsrC for degradation by RNase E
Kazushi Suzuki, Paul Babitzke, Sidney R. Kushner, Tony Romeo, Sep 15 2006, In: Genes and Development
Citations: 245

CsrA regulates glycogen biosynthesis by preventing translation of glgC in Escherichia coli
Carol S. Baker, Igor Morozov, Kazushi Suzuki, Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke, 2002, In: Molecular Microbiology
Citations: 245

Regulatory circuitry of the CsrA/CsrB and BarA/UvrY systems of Escherichia coli
Kazushi Suzuki, Xin Wang, Thomas Weilbacher, Anna Karin Pernestig, Öjar Melefors, Dimitris Georgellis, Paul Babitzke, Tony Romeo, Sep 2002, In: Journal of bacteriology
Citations: 244

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