Staff Profile
Dr Joseph Gray
Staff Scientist
- Email: joe.gray@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 8612
- Address: Molecular Biology Unit (MBU)
Cell and Molecular Biosciences
Medical School
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4H
Publications
- Ndeh D, Rogowski A, Cartmell A, Luis AS, Basle A, Gray J, Venditto I, Briggs J, Yang X, Labourel A, Terrapon N, Buffetto F, Nepogodiev S, Xiao Y, Field RA, Zhu Y, ONeill MA, Urbanowicz BR, York WS, Davies GJ, Abbott DW, Ralet MC, Martens EC, Henrissat B, Gilbert HJ. Complex pectin metabolism by gut bacteria reveals novel catalytic functions. Nature 2017, 544, 65-70.
- Kuru E, Lambert C, Rittichier J, Till R, Ducret A, Derouaux A, Gray J, Biboy J, Vollmer W, VanNieuwenhze M, Brun YV, Sockett RE. Fluorescent D-amino-acids reveal bi-cellular cell wall modifications important for Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predation. Nature Microbiology 2017, 2, 1648-1657.
- Cowell J, Buck M, Essa AH, Clarke R, Vollmer W, Vollmer D, Hilkens CM, Isaacs JD, Hall MJ, Gray J. Traceless-Cleavage of Protein-Biotin Conjugates Under Biologically-Compatible Conditions. ChemBioChem 2017, 18(17), 1688-1691.
- Jutras B, Scott M, Parry B, Biboy J, Gray J, Vollmer W, Jacobs-Wagner C. Lyme disease and relapsing fever Borrelia elongate through zones of peptidoglycan synthesis that mark division sites of daughter cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 2016, 113(33), 9162-9170.
- Labourel A, Crouch LI, Bras JLA, Jackson A, Rogowski A, Gray J, Yadav MP, Henrissat B, Fontes CMGA, Gilbert HJ, Najmudin S, Basle A, Cuskin F. The Mechanism by Which Arabinoxylanases Can Recognize Highly Decorated Xylans. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2016, 291(42), 22149-22159.
- Rismondo J, Möller L, Aldridge C, Gray J, Vollmer W, Halbedel S. Discrete and overlapping functions of peptidoglycan synthases in growth, cell division and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes. Molecular Microbiology 2015, 95(2), 332-351.
- Rico-Lastres P, Diez-Martinez R, Iglesias-Bexiga M, Bustamante N, Aldridge C, Hesek D, Lee M, Mobashery S, Gray J, Vollmer W, Garcia P, Menendez M. Substrate recognition and catalysis by LytB, a pneumococcal peptidoglycan hydrolase involved in virulence. Scientific Reports 2015, 5, 16198.
- Todorova K, Maurer P, Rieger M, Becker T, Bui NK, Gray J, Vollmer W, Hakenbeck R. Transfer of penicillin resistance from Streptococcus oralis to Streptococcus pneumoniae identifies murE as resistance determinant. Molecular Microbiology 2015, 97(5), 866-880.
- Pilhofer M, Aistleitner K, Biboy J, Gray J, Kuru E, Hall E, Brun YV, VanNieuwenhze MS, Vollmer W, Horn M, Jensen GJ. Discovery of chlamydial peptidoglycan reveals bacteria with murein sacculi but without FtsZ. Nature Communications 2013, 4, 2856.
- Tu WY, Pohl S, Gray J, Robinson NJ, Harwood CR, Waldron KJ. Cellular Iron Distribution in Bacillus anthracis. Journal of Bacteriology 2012, 194(5), 932-940.
- El Ghazouani A, Baslé A, Gray J, Graham DW, Firbank SJ, Dennison C. Variations in methanobactin structure influences copper utilization by methane-oxidizing bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012, 109(22), 8400-8404.
- Karavolos MH, Bulmer D, Spencer H, Rampioni G, Schmalen I, Baker S, Pickard D, Gray J, Fookes M, Winzer K, Ivens A, Dougan G, Williams P, Khan CMA. Salmonella Typhi sense host neuroendocrine stress hormones and release the toxin haemolysin E. EMBO Reports 2011, 12(3), 252-258.
- El Ghazouani A, Basle A, Firbank SJ, Knapp CW, Gray J, Graham DW, Dennison C. Copper-Binding Properties and Structures of Methanobactins from Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b. Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50(4), 1378-1391.
- Faulds-Pain A, Birchall C, Aldridge C, Smith WD, Grimaldi G, Nakamura S, Miyata T, Gray J, Li GL, Tang JX, Namba K, Minamino T, Aldridge PD. Flagellin Redundancy in Caulobacter crescentus and Its Implications for Flagellar Filament Assembly. Journal of Bacteriology 2011, 193(11), 2695-2707.