Selected Publications:
Jeanne M. DiChiara, Bo Liu, Sabine Figaro, Ciarán Condon, and David H. Bechhofer
Mapping of internal monophosphate 5’ ends of Bacillus subtilis messenger RNAs and ribosomal RNAs in wild-type and ribonuclease-mutant strains.
Nucleic Acids Research. 2016 Apr 20;44(7):3373-89. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw073. Epub 2016 Feb 15.
Bo Liu, Daniel B. Kearns, and David H. Bechhofer
Expression of multiple Bacillus subtilis genes is controlled by decay of slrA mRNA from Rho-dependent 3’ ends.
Nucleic Acids Research. 2016 Apr 20;44(7):3364-72. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw069. Epub 2016 Feb 8.
Elizabeth Salvo, Shanique Alabi, Bo Liu, Avner Schlessinger, and David H. Bechhofer
Interaction of Bacillus subtilis Polynucleotide Phosphorylase and RNase Y: Structural Mapping and Effect on mRNA Turnover.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2016 Mar 25;291(13):6655-63. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.711044. Epub 2016 Jan 21.
Green R, Landau E, and Bechhofer DH.
Clinically Relevant Small Group Discussions in a First Semester Medical School Molecular Science Course – Module 1: Sickle Cell Anemia.
MedEd PORTAL in press.
Gilet L, DiChiara JM, Figaro S, Bechhofer DH, Condon C.
Small stable RNA maturation and turnover in Bacillus subtilis.
Molecular Microbiology. 2015 Jan;95(2):270-82. Epub 2014 Dec 19.
Liu B, Deikus G, Bree A, Durand S, Kearns DB, Bechhofer DH.
Global analysis of mRNA decay intermediates in Bacillus subtilis wild-type and polynucleotide phosphorylase-deletion strains.
Molecular Microbiology. 2014 Oct;94(1):41-55. Epub 2014 Aug 21.
Bechhofer DH.
Nucleotide specificity in bacterial mRNA recycling.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. 2013 May 28;110(22):8765-6. Epub 2013 May 13. No abstract available.
Yao S, Richards J, Belasco JG, Bechhofer DH.
Decay of a model mRNA in Bacillus subtilis by a combination of RNase J1 5′ exonuclease and RNase Y endonuclease activities.
Journal of Bacteriology. 2011 Nov;193(22):6384-6. Epub 2011 Sep 9.
Deikus G, Bechhofer DH.
5′ End-independent RNase J1 endonuclease cleavage of Bacillus subtilis model RNA.
Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2011 Oct 7;286(40):34932-40. Epub 2011 Aug 23.
Richards J, Liu Q, Pellegrini O, Celesnik H, Yao S, Bechhofer DH, Condon C, Belasco JG.
An RNA pyrophosphohydrolase triggers 5′-exonucleolytic degradation of mRNA in Bacillus subtilis.
Molecular Cell. 2011 Sep 16;43(6):940-9.
Bechhofer DH.
Bacillus subtilis mRNA decay: new parts in the toolkit.
Wiley Interdiscip Reviews: RNA. 2011 May-Jun;2(3):387-94. Epub 2010 Dec 16. Review.
Condon C, Bechhofer DH.
Regulated RNA stability in the Gram positives.
Current Opinion in Microbiology. 2011 Apr;14(2):148-54. Epub 2011 Feb 19. Review.
Yao S, Bechhofer DH.
Initiation of decay of Bacillus subtilis rpsO mRNA by endoribonuclease RNase Y.
Journal of Bacteriology. 2010 Jul;192(13):3279-86. Epub 2010 Apr 23.