Staff Profile
Dr Ling Juan Wu
Senior Research Associate
- Email: l.j.wu@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3238
- Address: The Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology
Medical Science New Building
Medical School
Newcastle University
Richardson Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4AX
Background
Dr Ling Juan Wu is a Senior Research Associate in the Institute for Cell & Molecular Biosciences at Newcastle University.
Areas of expertise
- Bacterial genetics
- Cell biology
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Publications
- Errington J, Wu LJ. Cell cycle machinery in Bacillus subtilis. In: Lowe J; Amos LA, ed. Prokaryotic Cytoskeletons. Springer New York, 2017, pp.67-101.
- Rampley CPN, Davison PA, Qian P, Preston GM, Hunter CN, Thompson IP, Wu LJ, Huang WE. Development of SimCells as a novel chassis for functional biosensors. Scientific Reports 2017, 7(1), 7261.
- Ramachandran G, Miguel-Arribas A, Abia D, Singh PK, Crespo I, Gago-Cordoba C, Hao JA, Luque-Ortega JR, Alfonso C, Wu LJ, Boer DR, Meijer WJJ. Discovery of a new family of relaxases in Firmicutes bacteria. PLoS Genetics 2017, 13(2), e1006586.
- Emami K, Guyet A, Kawai Y, Devi J, Wu LJ, Allenby N, Daniel RA, Errington J. RodA as the missing glycosyltransferase in Bacillus subtilis and antibiotic discovery for the peptidoglycan polymerase pathway. Nature Microbiology 2017, 2, 16253.
- Miguel-Arribas A, Hao J-A, Luque-Ortega JR, Ramachandran G, Val-Calvo J, Gago-Cordoba C, Gonzalez-alvarez D, Abia D, Alfonso C, Wu LJ, Meijer WJJ. The Bacillus subtilis conjugative plasmid pLS20 encodes two ribbon-helix-helix type auxiliary relaxosome proteins that are essential for conjugation. Frontiers in Microbiology 2017, 8(NOV).
- Adams DW, Wu LJ, Errington J. A benzamide-dependent ftsZ mutant reveals residues crucial for Z-ring assembly. Molecular Microbiology 2016, 99(6), 1028-1042.
- Kloosterman TG, Lenarcic R, Willis CR, Roberts DM, Hamoen LW, Errington J, Wu LJ. Complex polar machinery required for proper chromosome segregation in vegetative and sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology 2016, 101(2), 333-350.
- Errington J, Mickiewicz K, Kawai Y, Wu LJ. L-form bacteria, chronic diseases and the origins of life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2016, 371(1707).
- Eland LE, Wipat A, Lee S, Park S, Wu LJ. Microfluidics for bacterial imaging. In: Harwood, C, ed. Methods in Microbiology. London, UK: Elsevier, 2016, pp.69-111.
- Kawai Y, Mercier R, Wu LJ, Dominguez-Cuevas P, Oshima T, Errington J. Cell Growth of Wall-Free L-Form Bacteria Is Limited by Oxidative Damage. Current Biology 2015, 25(12), 1613-1618.
- Adams DW, Wu LJ, Errington J. Nucleoid occlusion protein Noc recruits DNA to the bacterial cell membrane. EMBO Journal 2015, 34(4), 491-501.
- Ramachandran G, Singh PK, Luque-Ortega JR, Yuste L, Alfonso C, Rojo F, Wu LJ, Meijer WJJ. A Complex Genetic Switch Involving Overlapping Divergent Promoters and DNA Looping Regulates Expression of Conjugation Genes of a Gram-positive Plasmid. PLOS Genetics 2014, 10(10), 1004733.
- Adams DW, Wu LJ, Errington J. Cell cycle regulation by the bacterial nucleoid. Current Opinion in Microbiology 2014, 22, 94-101.
- Singh PK, Ramachandran G, Ramos-Ruiz R, Peiro-Pastor R, Abia D, Wu LJ, Meijer WJJ. Mobility of the Native Bacillus subtilis Conjugative Plasmid pLS20 Is Regulated by Intercellular Signaling. PLoS Genetics 2013, 9(10), e1003892.
- Singh PK, Ramachandran G, Duran-Alcalde L, Alonso C, Wu LJ, Meijer WJJ. Inhibition of Bacillus subtilis natural competence by a native, conjugative plasmid-encoded comK repressor protein. Environmental Microbiology 2012, 14(10), 2812-2825.
- Wu LJ, Errington J. Nucleoid occlusion and bacterial cell division. Nature Reviews Microbiology 2012, 10(1), 8-12.
- Adams DW, Wu LJ, Czaplewski LG, Errington J. Multiple effects of benzamide antibiotics on FtsZ function. Molecular Microbiology 2011, 80(1), 68-84.
- Wu LJ. Structure and segregation of the bacterial nucleoid. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 2004, 14(2), 126-132.