Thomas K. Wood Research Group

33 Prestige Publications (IF > 10)

  1. “Aerobic Degradation of Tetrachloroethylene by Toluene-o-Xylene Monooxygenase of Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1,” D. Ryoo, H. Shim, P. Barbieri, and T. K. Wood, Nature Biotechnology 18: 775-778 (2000). (press release).
  2. “A Stochastic Model of E. coli AI-2 Quorum Signal Circuit Reveals Alternative Synthesis Pathways,” J. Li, L. Wang, Y. Hashimoto, C.-H. Tsao, T. K. Wood, J. J. Valdez, E. Zafiriou, W. E. Bentley, Nature/EMBO Molecular Systems Biology 2: 67 (2006).
  3. “Escherichia coli transcription factor YncC (McbR) regulates colanic acid and biofilm formation by repressing expression of periplasmic protein YbiM (McbA),” X.-S. Zhang, R. Garcia Contreras, and T. K. Wood, Nature ISME Journal 2: 615-631 (2008).
  4. “Molecular approaches in bioremediation,” T. K. Wood, Current Opin. Biotechnol. 19:572-578 (2008).
  5. “Indole cell signaling occurs primarily at low temperatures in Escherichia coli,” J. Lee, X.-S. Zhang, M. Hegde, W. E. Bentley, A. Jayaraman, and T. K. Wood, Nature ISME Journal 2: 1007-1023 (2008). (featured article).
  6. “Control and benefits of CP4-57 prophage excision in Escherichia coli biofilms,” X. Wang, Y. Kim, and T. K. Wood, Nature ISME Journal 3: 1164-1179 (2009). (featured article).
  7. “Cryptic prophages help bacteria cope with adverse environments,” X. Wang, Y. Kim, Q. Ma, S. H. Hong, K. Pokusaeva, J. M. Sturino, and T. K. Wood, Nat. Commun. 1: 147 (2010). (featured by NIH NIGMS).
  8. “The bacterial signal indole increases epithelial-cell tight-junction resistance and attenuates indicators of inflammation,” T. Bansal, R. C. Alaniz, T. K. Wood, and A. Jayaraman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107: 228-233 (2010). (faculty of 1000 Medicine).
  9. “IS5 inserts upstream of the master motility operon flhDC in a quasi-Lamarckian way,” X. Wang and T. K. Wood, Nature ISME Journal 5: 1517-1525 (2011).
  10. “Antitoxin MqsA helps mediate the bacterial general stress response,” X. Wang, Y. Kim, S. H. Hong, Q. Ma, B. L. Brown, M. Pu, A. M. Tarone, M. J. Benedik, W. Peti, R. Page, and T. K. Wood, Nat. Chem. Biol. 7: 359-366 (2011). (featured by NIH NIGMS and highlighted by Nature Chemical Biology).
  11. “Synthetic quorum sensing circuit to control consortial biofilm formation and dispersal in a microfluidic device,” S. H. Hong, M. Hegde, J. Kim, X. Wang, A. Jayaraman, and T. K. Wood, Nat. Commun. 3: 613(2012). (highlighted by Nature Biotechnology).
  12. “Engineering biofilm formation and dispersal,” T. K. Wood, S. H. Hong, and Q. Ma, Trends Biotechnol. 29: 87-94 (2011).
  13. “Proteus mirabilis interkingdom swarming signals attract blow flies,” Q. Ma, A. Fonseca, W. Liu, A. T. Fields, M. L. Pimsler, A. F. Spindola, A. M. Tarone, T. L. Crippen, J. K. Tomberlin, and Thomas K. Wood, Nature ISME Journal 6: 1356–1366 (2012). (featured article).
  14. “Quorum quenching quandary: resistance to antivirulence compounds,” T. Maeda, R. Garcia-Contreras, M. Pu, L. Sheng, L. R. Garcia, M. Tomas, and T. K. Wood, Nature ISME Journal 6: 493 (2012). (highlighted by Nature Reviews Microbiology and featured article by ISMEJ).
  15. “A New Type V Toxin-Antitoxin System Where mRNA for Toxin GhoT is Cleaved by Antitoxin GhoS,” X. Wang, D. M. Lord, H.-Y. Cheng, D. O. Osbourne, S. H. Hong, V. Sanchez-Torres, C. Quiroga, K. Zhang, T. Herrmann, W. Peti, M. J. Benedik, R. Page, and T. K. Wood, Nature Chemical Biology 8:855-861 (2012). (highlighted by Nature Chemical Biology and Faculty 1000 Prime).
  16. “Quorum sensing enhancement of the stress response promotes resistance to quorum quenching and prevents social cheating,” R. García-Contreras, L. Nuñez-López, R. Jasso-Chávez, B. W. Kwan, J. A. Belmont, A. Rangel-Vega, T. Maeda, and T. K. Wood, Nature ISMEJ on-line (2014).
  17. “RalR (a DNase) and RalA (a small RNA) form a type I toxin–antitoxin system in Escherichia coli,” Y. Guo, C. Quiroga, Q. Chen, M. J. McAnulty, M. J. Benedik, T. K. Wood,* and X. Wang,* Nucleic Acids Research 42: 6448-6462 (2014).
  18. “Can resistance against quorum-sensing interference be selected?,” R. García-Contreras, T. Maeda, and T. K Wood, Nature ISMEJ on-line (2015).
  19. “An oxygen-sensitive toxin–antitoxin system,” O. Marimon, J. M. C. Teixeira, T. N. Cordeiro, V. W.C. Soo, T. L. Wood, M. Mayzel, I. Amata, J. García, A. Morera, M. Gay, M. Vilaseca, V. Y. Orekhov, T. K. Wood, and. M. Pons, Nature Communications 7:13634 (2016).
  20. “Roles of Indole as an Interspecies and Interkingdom Signaling Molecule,” J.-H. Lee, T. K. Wood, and J. Lee, Trends in Microbiology on-line (2015).
  21. “Living biofouling-resistant membranes as a model for the beneficial use of engineered biofilms,” T. L. Wood, R. Guha, L. Tanga, M. Geitnera, M. Kumara, and T. K. Wood, PNAS on-line (2016).
  22. “Electricity from methane by reversing methanogenesis,” M. J. McAnulty, V. G. Poosarla, K.-Y. Kim, R. Jasso-Chávez, B. E. Logan, and T. K. Wood, Nature Communications 8: 15419 (2017). (highlighted by Nature Energy and Altmetric score 143).
  23. “Mechanisms of Bacterial Tolerance and Persistence in the Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Environments,” R. Trastoy, T. Manso, L. Fernández-García, L. Blasco, A. Ambroa, M. L. Pérez del Molino, G. Bou, R. García-Contreras, T. K. Wood, and M. Tomás, Clinical Microbiology Reviews 31: e00023-18 (2018).
  24. “Rhamnolipids from Pseudomonas aeruginosa disperse the biofilms of sulfate-reducing bacteria,” T. L. Wood, T. Gong, L. Zhu, J. Miller, D. S. Miller, B. Yin, and T. K. Wood, npj Biofilms Microbiomes 4: 22 (2018).
  25. “Phages Mediate Bacterial Self-Recognition,” S. Song, Y. Guo, J.-S. Kim, X. Wang, and T. K. Wood, Cell Reports 27: 737–749 (2019).
  26. “Novel polyadenylylation-dependent neutralization mechanism of the HEPN/MNT toxin/antitoxin system,” J. Yao, X. Zhen, K. Tang, T. Liu, X. Xu, Z. Chen, Y. Guo, X. Liu, T. K. Wood, S. Ouyang, and X. Wang, Nucleic Acids Research 48: 11054–11067 (2020).
  27. “Type VII Toxin/Antitoxin Classification System for Antitoxins that Enzymatically Neutralize Toxins,” X. Wang, J. Yao, Y.-C. Sun, T. K. Wood, Trends in Microbiology on-line (2020).
  28. “Conjugative Plasmid-Encoded Toxin-Antitoxin System PrpT/PrpA Directly Controls Plasmid Copy Number,” S. Ni, B. Li, K. Tang, J. Yao, T. K. Wood, P. Wang, and X. Wang, PNAS U.S.A. 118: e2011577118 (2021).
  29. “Emerging Applications of Bacteria as Antitumor Agents,” V. C. Kalia, S. K. S. Patel, B. K. Cho, T. K. Wood, J. K. Lee, Seminars in Cancer Biology 86: 1014-1025 (2022).
  30. “Tryptophan metabolizing gut microbes regulate adult neurogenesis via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor,” G. Z. Wei, K. A. Martin, P. Y. Xing, R. Agrawal, L. Whiley, T. K. Wood, S. Hejndorf, N. Y. Zhi, L. Z. Y. Jeremy, J. Rossant, R. Nechanistzky, E. Holmes, J. K. Nicholson, E. K. Tann, P. M. Matthews, and S. Pettersson, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 118: e2021091118 (2021).
  31. “Mobile genetic elements used by competing coral microbial populations increase genomic plasticity,” P. Wang, Y. Zhao, W. Wang, S. Lin, K. Tang, T. Liu, T. K. Wood, and X. Wang, The ISME Journal: 16: 2220–2229 (2022).
  32. “Heat shock potentiates aminoglycosides against Gram-negative bacteria by enhancing antibiotic uptake, protein aggregation, and ROS,” B. Lv, X. Huang, C. Lijia, Y. Ma, M. Bian, Z. Li, J. Duan, F. Zhou, B. Yang, X. Qie, Y. Song, T. K. Wood, and X. Fu, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 120: e2217254120 (2023).
  33. “Converting Methane into Electricity and Higher-Value Chemicals at Scale via Anaerobic Microbial Fuel Cells,” T. K. Wood, I. Gurgan, Ethan Howley, and I. H. Riedel-Kruse, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 188: 113749 (2023).