Jerod Ptacin

Publications

• Three-dimensional superresolution colocalization of intracellular protein superstructures and the cell surface in live Caulobacter crescentus. Lew MD, Lee SF, Ptacin JL, Lee MK, Twieg RJ, Shapiro L, Moerner WE. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011; 108 (46): E1102-10
• A spindle-like apparatus guides bacterial chromosome segregation. Ptacin JL, Lee SF, Garner EC, Toro E, Eckart M, Comolli LR, Moerner WE, Shapiro L. Nat Cell Biol. 2010; 12 (8): 791-8
• Initiating bacterial mitosis: understanding the mechanism of ParA-mediated chromosome segregation. Ptacin JL, Shapiro L. Cell Cycle. 2010; 9 (20): 4033-4
• Sequence-directed DNA export guides chromosome translocation during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Ptacin JL, Nollmann M, Becker EC, Cozzarelli NR, Pogliano K, Bustamante C. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2008; 15 (5): 485-93
• SpoIIIE strips proteins off the DNA during chromosome translocation. Marquis KA, Burton BM, Nollmann M, Ptacin JL, Bustamante C, Ben-Yehuda S, Rudner DZ. Genes Dev. 2008; 22 (13): 1786-95
• Identification of the FtsK sequence-recognition domain. Ptacin JL, Nöllmann M, Bustamante C, Cozzarelli NR. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2006; 13 (11): 1023-5
• Identification of oligonucleotide sequences that direct the movement of the Escherichia coli FtsK translocase. Levy O, Ptacin JL, Pease PJ, Gore J, Eisen MB, Bustamante C, Cozzarelli NR. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005; 102 (49): 17618-23
• Sequence-directed DNA translocation by purified FtsK. Pease PJ, Levy O, Cost GJ, Gore J, Ptacin JL, Sherratt D, Bustamante C, Cozzarelli NR. Science. 2005; 307 (5709): 586-90