Thomas K. Wood Research Group

Commentaries and Corrections to the Primary Literature

  1. Pseudo-correction for the conceptional plagiarism of Xin Fang and Kyle R. Allison published as “Resuscitation dynamics reveal persister partitioning after antibiotic treatment” in Molecular Systems Biology (2023), in which they claimed persister cells revive non-stochastically, grow exponentially, and revive in a heterogeneous manner, all previously published/discovered by us.
  2. Correction for missing attributions in “Reactive oxygen species induce antibiotic tolerance during systemic Staphylococcus aureus infection,” Sarah E. Rowe, Nikki J. Wagner, Lupeng Li, Jenna E. Beam, Alec D. Wilkinson, Lauren C. Radlinski, Qing Zhang, Edward A. Miao, and Brian P. Conlon, Nature Microbiology 5: 526 (2020). The authors did not reference our previous results in which we demonstrated for the first time that hydrogen peroxide increases persistence by 12,000-fold for bacterial cells.
  3. Correction for missing attributions in “Indole signaling at the host-microbiota pathogen interface,” A. Kumar and V. Sperandio, mBio 10: e01031-19 (2019).
  4. Correction for missing attributions in “Bacterial interspecies quorum sensing in the mammalian gut microbiota” by Karina Bivar Xavier, Comptes Rendus Biologies 341: 1297 (2018).
  5. Correction for missing attribution in “Chemotaxis towards autoinducer 2 mediates autoaggregation in Escherichia coli” by L. Laganenka, R. Colin, and V. Sourjik, Nature Communications 7: 12984 (2016).
  6. Correction for missing attribution in “Designing overall stoichiometric conversions and intervening metabolic reactions,” Anupam Chowdhury and Costas D. Maranas, Scientific Reports 5: 16009 (2015). DOI: 10.1038/srep16009 (scroll down to bottom of page to see comment)
  7. Corrections to “Development of Persister-FACSeq: A method to massively parallelize quantification of persister physiology and its heterogeneity,” Theresa C. Henry and Mark P. Brynildsen, Scientific Reports 6:25100, 2016, DOI: 10.1038/srep25100: “Persistent Persister Misperceptions,” Frontiers in Microbiology (2016) and “Tolerant, Growing Cells from Nutrient Shifts are not Persister Cells,” mBio (2017).
  8. Correction for missing reference for evolving toxin/antitoxin systems in “Evolving New Protein-Protein Interaction Specificity through Promiscuous Intermediates,” Christopher D. Aakre, Julien Herrou, Tuyen N. Phung, Barrett S. Perchuk, Sean Crosson, and Michael T. Laub, Cell 163: 594–606 (2015).
  9. Correction to “Extracellular ATP inhibits twitching motility-mediated biofilm expansion by Pseudomonas aeruginosa,” Laura M Nolan, Rosalia Cavaliere, Lynne Turnbull and Cynthia B Whitchurch, BMC Microbiology 15: 55 (2015).
  10. MicroCommentary “Biofilm Dispersal: Deciding When It’s Better to Travel,” T. K. Wood, Molecular Microbiology 94: 747-750 (2014).
  11. Corrections to “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Bacterial Persisters,” Etienne Maisonneuve and Kenn Gerdes, Cell 157: 539 (2014).
  12. Correction for “Active Efflux Influences the Potency of Quorum Sensing Inhibitors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa” ChemBioChem 15: 435-422 (2014).
  13. Correction for “Repurposing the antimycotic drug flucytosine for suppression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity,” by Francesco Imperi, Francesco Massai, Marcella Facchini, Emanuela Frangipani, Daniela Visaggioa, Livia Leoni, Alessandra Bragonzi, and Paolo Visca, Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 110: 7458–7463 (2013).
  14. Corrections to the errors regarding the metabolic state of persister cells in “Dormancy is Not Necessary or Sufficient for Bacterial Persistence,” M. A. Orman and M. P. Brynildsen, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 57: 3230-3239 (2013).
  15. Corrections to the errors regarding resistance to quorum quenching compounds found in “Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing: From Evolution to Application,” Schuster M, Sexton DJ, Diggle SP, Greenberg EP, Annual Reviews Microbiology 67: 43–63 (2013).
  16. “Precedence for the Structural Role of Flagella in Biofilms,” T. K. Wood, mBio 4(2): doi:10.1128/mBio.00225-13 (2013).
  17. “Active expression of soluble methane monooxygenase from Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b in heterologous hosts,” T. K. Wood, Microbiology 148: 3328-3329 (2002).