Thomas K Wood
Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering
- 0042 Greenberg Indoor Cplex PA 16802
- tuw14@psu.edu
- 814-863-4811
Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Biofilms Antitoxins Quorum Sensing Bacteria Toxin Antitoxin Systems Cells Proteins Cell Anti Bacterial Agents Oxidative Stress Biotechnology Infection Bacterium Bacterial Infections Biofilm Virulence Mutation Antibiotics Stress Response Metabolic Networks And Pathways Dormancy Growth Mutant Escherichia Coli PathogenicityMost Recent Papers
Type VII Toxin/Antitoxin Classification System for Antitoxins that Enzymatically Neutralize Toxins
Xiaoxue Wang, Jianyun Yao, Yi Cheng Sun, Thomas K. Wood, 2021, Trends in Microbiology on p. 388-393
Concerns with computational protein engineering programmes IPRO and OptMAVEn and metabolic pathway engineering programme optStoic
Thomas K. Wood, 2021, Open Biology
Persister cells form in the plant pathogen xanthomonas citri subsp. Citri under different stress conditions
Paula M.M. Martins, Thomas K. Wood, Alessandra A. de Souza, 2021, Microorganisms on p. 1-15
Are we really studying persister cells?
Sooyeon Song, Thomas K. Wood, 2021, Environmental Microbiology Reports on p. 3-7
The primary physiological roles of autoinducer 2 in escherichia coli is chemotaxis and biofilm formation
Sooyeon Song, Thomas K. Wood, 2021, Microorganisms on p. 1-6
Conjugative plasmid-encoded toxin–antitoxin system PrpT/PrpA directly controls plasmid copy number
Songwei Ni, Baiyuan Li, Kaihao Tang, Jianyun Yao, Thomas K. Wood, Pengxia Wang, Xiaoxue Wang, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The secret lives of single cells
Thomas K. Wood, 2021, Microbial Biotechnology
‘Viable but non-culturable cells’ are dead
Sooyeon Song, Thomas K. Wood, 2021, Environmental Microbiology
Novel polyadenylylation-dependent neutralization mechanism of the HEPN/MNT toxin/antitoxin system
Jianyun Yao, Xiangkai Zhen, Kaihao Tang, Tianlang Liu, Xiaolong Xu, Zhe Chen, Yunxue Guo, Xiaoxiao Liu, Thomas K. Wood, Songying Ouyang, Xiaoxue Wang, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research on p. 11054-11067
(p)ppGpp and its role in bacterial persistence
Olga Pacios, Lucia Blasco, Inés Bleriot, Laura Fernandez-Garcia, Antón Ambroa, María López, German Bou, Rafael Cantón, Rodolfo Garcia-Contreras, Thomas K. Wood, Maria Tomás, 2020, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Most-Cited Papers
Bacterial persister cell formation and dormancy
Thomas K. Wood, Stephen J. Knabel, Brian W. Kwan, 2013, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 7116-7121
Toxin-antitoxin systems influence biofilm and persister cell formation and the general stress response
Xiaoxue Wang, Thomas K. Wood, 2011, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 5577-5583
A new type V toxin-antitoxin system where mRNA for toxin GhoT is cleaved by antitoxin GhoS
Xiaoxue Wang, Dana M. Lord, Hsin Yao Cheng, Devon O. Osbourne, Seok Hoon Hong, Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Cecilia Quiroga, Kevin Zheng, Torsten Herrmann, Wolfgang Peti, Michael J. Benedik, Rebecca Page, Thomas Keith Wood, 2012, Nature Chemical Biology on p. 855-861
Quorum quenching quandary: Resistance to antivirulence compounds
Toshinari Maeda, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Mingming Pu, Lili Sheng, Luis Rene Garcia, Maria Tomás, Thomas K. Wood, 2012, ISME Journal on p. 493-501
Roles of indole as an interspecies and interkingdom signaling molecule
Jin Hyung Lee, Thomas K. Wood, Jintae Lee, 2015, Trends in Microbiology on p. 707-718
Antitoxin MqsA helps mediate the bacterial general stress response
Xiaoxue Wang, Younghoon Kim, Seok Hoon Hong, Qun Ma, Breann L. Brown, Mingming Pu, Aaron M. Tarone, Michael J. Benedik, Wolfgang Peti, Rebecca Page, Thomas K. Wood, 2011, Nature Chemical Biology on p. 359-366
Arrested protein synthesis increases persister-like cell formation
Brian W. Kwan, John A. Valenta, Michael J. Benedik, Thomas K. Wood, 2013, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy on p. 1468-1473
Synthetic quorum-sensing circuit to control consortial biofilm formation and dispersal in a microfluidic device
Seok Hoon Hong, Manjunath Hegde, Jeongyun Kim, Xiaoxue Wang, Arul Jayaraman, Thomas K. Wood, 2012, Nature Communications
Evolution of Resistance to Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors
Vipin C. Kalia, Thomas K. Wood, Prasun Kumar, 2014, Microbial Ecology on p. 13-23
Quorum sensing enhancement of the stress response promotes resistance to quorum quenching and prevents social cheating
Rodolfo García-Contreras, Leslie Nuñez-López, Ricardo Jasso-Chávez, Brian W. Kwan, Javier A. Belmont, Adrián Rangel-Vega, Toshinari Maeda, Thomas K. Wood, 2015, ISME Journal on p. 115-125