Publications

Methanogen-related publications:

Prakash D, Walter KA, Martinie RJ, McCarver AC, Kumar AK, Lessner DJ, Krebs C, Golbeck JH, Ferry JG. 2018. Toward a mechanistic and physiological understanding of a ferredoxin:disulfide reductase from the domains Archaea and Bacteria. J Biol Chem. 293(24):9198-9209. doi:10.1074/jbc.RA118.002473

McCarver AC, Lessner FH, Soroeta JM, Lessner DJ. 2017. Methanosarcina acetivorans utilizes a single NADPH-dependent thioredoxin system and contains additional thioredoxin homologues with distinct functions. Microbiol. 163:62-74.

Jennings ME, Lessner FH, Karr, EA, Lessner DJ. 2017. The [4Fe-4S] clusters of Rpo3 are key determinants in the post Rpo3/Rpo11 heterodimer formation of RNA polymerase in Methanosarcina acetivorans. Microbiologyopen. 6(1). doi: 10.1002/mbo3.399. Epub 2016 Aug 25.

Sheehan R, McCarver AC, Isom CE, Karr EA, Lessner DJ. 2015. The Methanosarcina acetivorans thioredoxin system activates DNA binding of the redox-sensitive transcriptional regulator MsvR. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol. 42:965-969.

McCarver AC and Lessner DJ. 2014. Molecular characterization of the thioredoxin system from Methanosarcina acetivornas. FEBS J. 281:4598-4611.

Jennings ME, Schaff CW, Horne AJ, Lessner FH, Lessner DJ. 2014. Expression of a bacterial catalase in a strictly anaerobic methanogen significantly increases tolerance to hydrogen peroxide but not oxygen. Microbiol. 160:270-278.

Isom CE, Turner JL, Lessner DJ, Karr EA. 2013. Redox-sensitive DNA binding by homodimeric Methanosarcina acetivorans MsvR is modulated by cysteine residues. BMC Microbiol. 13:163.

Horne AJ and Lessner DJ. 2013. Assessment of the oxidant tolerance of Methanosarcina acetivorans. FEMS Microbial. Lett. 343(1):13-9.

Lessner FH, Jennings ME, Hirata A, Duin EC, Lessner DJ. 2012. Subunit D of RNA Polymerase from Methanosarcina acetivorans contains two oxygen-labile [4Fe-4S]; implications for oxidant-dependent regulation of transcription. J Biol. Chem. 287:18510-18523. (http://www.jbc.org/content/287/22/18510.full.pdf+html)

Lessner DJ, Lhu L, Wahal CS, and Ferry JG. 2010. An engineered methanogenic pathway derived from the domains Bacteria and Archaea. mBio 1(5):300243-10. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2975365/?tool=pubmed)

Lessner DJ. 2009. Methanogenesis: Biochemistry. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470015902.a0000573.pub2/full)

Ferry JG and Lessner DJ. 2008. Methanogenesis in Marine Sediments. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1125:147-157. (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119397623/PDFSTART)

Lessner DJ and Ferry JG. 2007. The archaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans contains a protein disulfide reductase with an iron-sulfur cluster. J. Bacteriol. 189:7475-7484.
(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17675382)

Lessner DJ, Li L, Li Q, Rejtar T, Andreev VP, Reichlen M, Hill K, Moran JJ, Karger BL, and
Ferry JG. 2006. An unconventional pathway for reduction of CO2 to methane in CO-grown Methanosarcina acetivorans revealed by proteomics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 103:17921-17926. (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17101988)

Li Q, Li L, Rejtar T, Lessner DJ, Karger BL, and Ferry JG. 2006. Electron transport in the pathway of acetate conversion to methane in the marine archaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans. J. Bacteriol. 188:702-710.
(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16385060)

Other Publications:

Parales RE, Huang R, Yu CL, Parales JV, Lee FK, Lessner DJ, Ivkovic-Jensen MM, Liu W, Friemann R, Ramaswamy S, and Gibson DT. 2005. Purification, characterization, and crystallization of the components of the nitrobenzene and 2-nitrotoluene dioxygenase enzyme systems. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71:3806-3814.
(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16000792)

Friemann R, Ivkovic-Jensen MM, Lessner DJ, Yu CL, Gibson DT, Parales RE, Eklund H, and Ramaswamy S. 2005. Structural insight into the dioxygenation of nitroarene compounds: the crystal structure of nitrobenzene dioxygenase. J. Mol. Biol. 348:1139-1151.

Lessner DJ, Parales RE, Narayan S, and Gibson DT. 2003. Expression of the nitroarene dioxygenase genes in Comamonas sp. Strain JS765 and Acidovorax sp. strain JS42 is induced by multiple aromatic compounds. J. Bacteriol. 185:3895-3904.
(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=12813084)

Lessner DJ, Johnson GR, Parales RE, Spain JC, and Gibson DT. 2002. Molecular characterization and substrate specificity of nitrobenzene dioxygenase from Comamonas sp. Strain JS765. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68:634-641.
(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=11823201)

Parales RE, Lee K, Resnick SM, Jiang H, Lessner DJ, and Gibson DT. 2000. Substrate specificity of naphthalene dioxygenase: effect of specific amino acids at the active site of the enzyme. J. Bacteriol. 182:1641-1649.
(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=10692370)