Thomas K Wood
Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering
- 0042 Greenberg Indoor Cplex PA 16802
- tuw14@psu.edu
- 814-863-4811
Most Recent Publications
The world of phage tail-like bacteriocins: State of the art and biotechnological perspectives
Clara Ibarguren, Inés Bleriot, Lucia Blasco, Laura Fernández-García, Concha Ortiz-Cartagena, Lucia Arman, Antonio Barrio-Pujante, Olaya Menéndez Rodríguez, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Thomas K. Wood, María Tomás, 2025, Microbiological Research
A noncanonical intrinsic terminator in the HicAB toxin–antitoxin operon promotes the transmission of conjugative antibiotic resistance plasmids
Jianzhong Lin, Songwei Ni, Baiyuan Li, Yunxue Guo, Xinyu Gao, Yabo Liu, Lingxian Yi, Pengxia Wang, Ran Chen, Jianyun Yao, Thomas K. Wood, Xiaoxue Wang, 2025, Nucleic Acids Research
Conformational change as a mechanism for toxin activation in bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems
Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Hyeon Ji Hwang, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Journal of Virology
Capturing methane with recombinant soluble methane monooxygenase and recombinant methyl-coenzyme M reductase
Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Microbial Biotechnology
Phages produce persisters
Laura Fernández-García, Joy Kirigo, Daniel Huelgas-Méndez, Michael J. Benedik, María Tomás, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Microbial Biotechnology
Photoactive polymer coatings for antibacterial applications
Brock Hunter, Jessica L. Sacco, Kira Katterle, Joy Kirigo, Thomas Keith Wood, Esther Winter Gomez, Christian W. Pester, 2024, European Polymer Journal
Implications of lytic phage infections inducing persistence
Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Joy Kirigo, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Current Opinion in Microbiology
A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society
Kenneth Timmis, John E. Hallsworth, Terry J. McGenity, Rachel Armstrong, María Francisca Colom, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Max Chavarría, Patricia Bernal, Eric S. Boyd, Juan Luis Ramos, Martin Kaltenpoth, Carla Pruzzo, Gerard Clarke, Purificación López-Garcia, Michail M. Yakimov, Jessamyn Perlmutter, Chris Greening, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Willy Verstraete, Olga C. Nunes, Oleg Kotsyurbenko, Pablo Iván Nikel, Paola Scavone, Max M. Häggblom, Rob Lavigne, Frédérique Le Roux, James K. Timmis, Victor Parro, Carmen Michán, José Luis García, Arturo Casadevall, Shelley M. Payne, Joachim Frey, Omry Koren, James I. Prosser, Leo Lahti, Rup Lal, Shailly Anand, Utkarsh Sood, Pierre Offre, Casey C. Bryce, Allen Y. Mswaka, Jörg Jores, Betül Kaçar, Lars Mathias Blank, Nicole Maaßen, Phillip B. Pope, Horia L. Banciu, Judith Armitage, Sang Yup Lee, Fengping Wang, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Jack A. Gilbert, Thomas K. Wood, Branka Vasiljevic, Mario Soberón, Zulema Udaondo, Fernando Rojo, Jyoti Prakash Tamang, Tatiana Giraud, Jeanne Ropars, Thaddeus Ezeji, Volker Müller, Hirofume Danbara, Beate Averhoff, Angela Sessitsch, Laila Pamela Partida-Martínez, Wei Huang, Søren Molin, Pilar Junier, Ricardo Amils, Xiao Lei Wu, Eliora Ron, Huseyin Erten, Elaine Cristina Pereira de Martinis, Alexander Rapoport, Maarja Öpik, W. Donald R. Pokatong, Courtney Stairs, Mohammad Ali Amoozegar, Jéssica Gil Serna, 2024, Microbial Biotechnology
High-Throughput Screening Method Using Escherichia coli Keio Mutants for Assessing Primary Damage Mechanism of Antimicrobials
José A. Martínez-Álvarez, Marcos Vicente-Gómez, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Thomas K. Wood, Fátima Berenice Ramírez Montiel, Naurú Idalia Vargas-Maya, Beatriz Liliana España-Sánchez, Ángeles Rangel-Serrano, Felipe Padilla-Vaca, Bernardo Franco, 2024, Microorganisms
Single-cell analysis reveals that cryptic prophage protease LfgB protects Escherichia coli during oxidative stress by cleaving antitoxin MqsA
Laura Fernández-García, Xinyu Gao, Joy Kirigo, Sooyeon Song, Michael E. Battisti, Rodolfo Garcia-Contreras, Maria Tomas, Yunxue Guo, Xiaoxue Wang, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Microbiology spectrum
Most-Cited Papers
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
Relationship between quorum sensing and secretion systems
Rocio Trastoy Pena, Lucia Blasco, Antón Ambroa, Bertha González-Pedrajo, Laura Fernández-García, Maria López, Ines Bleriot, German Bou, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Thomas Keith Wood, Maria Tomás, 2019, Frontiers in Microbiology
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
Combatting bacterial infections by killing persister cells with mitomycin C
Brian W. Kwan, Nityananda Chowdhury, Thomas K. Wood, 2015, Environmental Microbiology on p. 4406-4414
Viable but non-culturable and persistence describe the same bacterial stress state
Jun Seob Kim, Nityananda Chowdhury, Ryota Yamasaki, Thomas K. Wood, 2018, Environmental Microbiology on p. 2038-2048
Electricity from methane by reversing methanogenesis
Michael J. McAnulty, Venkata G. Poosarla, Kyoung Yeol Kim, Ricardo Jasso-Chávez, Bruce E. Logan, Thomas K. Wood, 2017, Nature Communications
Mechanisms of bacterial tolerance and persistence in the gastrointestinal and respiratory environments
R. Trastoy, T. Manso, L. Fernández-García, L. Blasco, A. Ambroa, M. L. Pérez Del Molino, G. Bou, R. García-Contreras, T. K. Wood, M. Tomás, 2018, Clinical Microbiology Reviews
Tryptophan-metabolizing gut microbes regulate adult neurogenesis via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor
George Zhang Wei, Katherine A. Martin, Peter Yuli Xing, Ruchi Agrawal, Luke Whiley, Thomas K. Wood, Sophia Hejndorf, Yong Zhi Ng, Jeremy Zhi Yan Low, Janet Rossant, Robert Nechanitzky, Elaine Holmes, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Eng King Tan, Paul M. Matthews, Sven Pettersson, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
A Primary Physiological Role of Toxin/Antitoxin Systems Is Phage Inhibition
Sooyeon Song, Thomas K. Wood, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
Reversing methanogenesis to capture methane for liquid biofuel precursors
Valerie W.C. Soo, Michael J. McAnulty, Arti Tripathi, Fayin Zhu, Limin Zhang, Emmanuel Hatzakis, Philip B. Smith, Saumya Agrawal, Hadi Nazem-Bokaee, Saratram Gopalakrishnan, Howard M. Salis, James G. Ferry, Costas D. Maranas, Andrew D. Patterson, Thomas K. Wood, 2016, Microbial Cell Factories on p. 11