Paul Babitzke

Co-Director of the Center for RNA Molecular Biology; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Paul Babitzke

Huck Institutes Affiliations

Publication Tags

Rna Messenger Rna Gene Expression Proteins Escherichia Coli Binding Sites Bacillus Subtilis Gels In Vitro Techniques Rna Binding Proteins Initiator Codon Genes Rna Stability Operon Virulence Regulator Genes Open Reading Frames Genome Dna Directed Rna Polymerases Base Pairing Pathogens Streptococcus Homeostasis Ribosomes Transcription Factors

Most Recent Papers

Examination of Csr regulatory circuitry using epistasis analysis with RNA-seq (Epi-seq) confirms that CsrD affects gene expression via CsrA, CsrB and CsrC

Anastasia H. Potts, Yuanyuan Leng, Paul Babitzke, Tony Romeo, 2018, Scientific Reports

Global regulation by CsrA and its RNA antagonists

Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke, 2018, Microbiology spectrum

Glyoxals as in vivo RNA structural probes of guanine base-pairing

David Mitchell, Laura E. Ritchey, Hongmarn Park, Paul Babitzke, Sarah M. Assmann, Philip C. Bevilacqua, 2018, RNA on p. 114-124

Global role of the bacterial post-transcriptional regulator CsrA revealed by integrated transcriptomics

Anastasia H. Potts, Christopher A. Vakulskas, Archana Pannuri, Helen Yakhnin, Paul Babitzke, Tony Romeo, 2017, Nature Communications

Modular organization of the NusA- and NusG-stimulated RNA polymerase pause signal that participates in the Bacillus subtilis trp operon attenuation mechanism

Smarajit Mondal, Alexander V. Yakhnin, Paul Babitzke, 2017, Journal of bacteriology

Noncanonical translation initiation comes of age

Paul Babitzke, Michael O'Connor, 2017, Journal of bacteriology

Translational repression of the RpoS antiadapter IraD by CsrA is mediated via translational coupling to a short upstream open reading frame

Hongmarn Park, Louise C. McGibbon, Anastasia H. Potts, Helen Yakhnin, Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke, 2017, mBio

Circuitry linking the global Csr- and σ<sup>E</sup>-dependent cell envelope stress response systems

Helen Yakhnin, Robert Aichele, Sarah E. Ades, Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke, 2017, Journal of Bacteriology

Eliminating blurry bands in gels with a simple cost-effective repair to the gel cassette

Jamie L. Bingaman, Erica A. Frankel, Chelsea M. Hull, Kathleen A. Leamy, Kyle J. Messina, David Mitchell, Hongmarn Park, Laura E. Ritchey, Paul Babitzke, Philip C. Bevilacqua, 2016, RNA on p. 1929-1930

Antagonistic control of the turnover pathway for the global regulatory sRNA CsrB by the CsrA and CsrD proteins

Christopher A. Vakulskas, Yuanyuan Leng, Hazuki Abe, Takumi Amaki, Akihiro Okayama, Paul Babitzke, Kazushi Suzuki, Tony Romeo, 2016, Nucleic acids research on p. 7896-7910

High-Impact Papers

Circuitry linking the Csr and stringent response global regulatory systems

Adrianne N. Edwards, Laura M. Patterson-Fortin, Christopher A. Vakulskas, Jeffrey W. Mercante, Katarzyna Potrykus, Daniel Vinella, Martha I. Camacho, Joshua A. Fields, Stuart A. Thompson, Dimitris Georgellis, Michael Cashel, Paul Babitzke, Tony Romeo, 2011, Molecular Microbiology on p. 1561-1580

Regulation of bacterial virulence by Csr (Rsm) systems

Christopher A. Vakulskas, Anastasia H. Potts, Babitzke Paul, Brian M.M. Ahmer, Romeo Tony, 2015, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews on p. 193-224

Integration of a complex regulatory cascade involving the SirA/BarA and Csr global regulatory systems that controls expression of the Salmonella SPI-1 and SPI-2 virulence regulons through HilD

Luary C. Martínez, Helen Yakhnin, Martha I. Camacho, Dimitris Georgellis, Paul Babitzke, José L. Puente, Víctor H. Bustamante, 2011, Molecular Microbiology on p. 1637-1656

CsrA activates flhDC expression by protecting flhDC mRNA from RNase E-mediated cleavage

Alexander V. Yakhnin, Carol S. Baker, Christopher A. Vakulskas, Helen Yakhnin, Igor Berezin, Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke, 2013, Molecular Microbiology on p. 851-866

Molecular Geometry of CsrA (RsmA) Binding to RNA and Its Implications for Regulated Expression

Jeffrey Mercante, Adrianne N. Edwards, Ashok K. Dubey, Paul Babitzke, Tony Romeo, 2009, Journal of Molecular Biology on p. 511-528

A genome-wide analysis of small regulatory RNAs in the human pathogen group a Streptococcus

Nataly Perez, Jeanette Treviño, Zhuyun Liu, Siu Chun Michael Ho, Paul Babitzke, Paul Sumby, 2009, PLoS One

Complex regulation of the global regulatory gene csrA

Helen Yakhnin, Alexander V. Yakhnin, Carol S. Baker, Elena Sineva, Igor Berezin, Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke, 2011, Molecular Microbiology on p. 689-704

CsrA-FliW interaction governs flagellin homeostasis and a checkpoint on flagellar morphogenesis in Bacillus subtilis

Sampriti Mukherjee, Helen Yakhnin, Dave Kysela, Josh Sokoloski, Paul Babitzke, Daniel B. Kearns, 2011, Molecular Microbiology on p. 447-461

Function of the Bacillus subtilis transcription elongation factor NusG in hairpin-dependent RNA polymerase pausing in the trp leader

Alexander V. Yakhnin, Helen Yakhnin, Paul Babitzke, 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 16131-16136

CsrA Represses Translation of sdiA, Which Encodes the N-acylhomoserine-L-lactone receptor of Escherichia coli, by Binding exclusively within the coding region of sdiA mRNA

Helen Yakhnin, Carol S. Baker, Igor Berezin, Michael A. Evangelista, Alisa Rassin, Tony Romeo, Paul Babitzke, 2011, Journal of Bacteriology on p. 6162-6170