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Thomas Wood

Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Chemical Engineering

304 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building

tuw14@psu.edu

814-863-4811

Personal or Departmental Website

Google Scholar Profile

Research Areas:

Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology

Interest Areas:

Metabolic engineering, biofilm formation, toxin/antitoxins.

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Chemical Engineering, 1985
  • Ph D, Chemical Engineering, 1991

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Charles W Abdalla, Ibrahim M Moustafa, Ibrahim M Moustafa, Mohamed Abdou, Khaled K Abdou and Thomas Wood, 2018, "Substrate Binding Protein DppA1 of ABC Transporter DppBCDF Increases Biofilm Formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Inhibiting Pf5 Prophage Lysis", FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 9
  • D Ma, Shanks RMQ, C M Davis, 3rd, D W Craft, T K Wood, B R Hamlin and K L Urish, 2018, "Viable bacteria persist on antibiotic spacers following two-stage revision for periprosthetic joint infection.", Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society, 36, (1), pp. 452-458
  • M A Saucedo-Mora, P Castañeda-Tamez, A Cazares, J Pérez-Velázquez, B A Hense, D Cazares, W Figueroa, M Carballo, G Guarneros, B Pérez-Eretza, N Cruz, Yasuo Nishiyama, T Maeda, J A Belmont-Díaz, Thomas Wood and R García-Contreras, 2017, "Selection of Functional Quorum Sensing Systems by Lysogenic Bacteriophages in Pseudomonas aeruginosa", Frontiers in microbiology, 8, pp. 1669
  • V G Poosarla, T Li, B C Goh, K Schulten, T K Wood and Costas D Maranas, 2017, "Computational de novo design of antibodies binding to a peptide with high affinity.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 114, (6), pp. 1331-1342
  • M J McAnulty, V G Poosarla, K Y Kim, R Jasso-Chávez, Bruce E Logan and T K Wood, 2017, "Electricity from methane by reversing methanogenesis.", Nature communications, 8, pp. 15419
  • J S Kim and T K Wood, 2017, "Tolerant, Growing Cells from Nutrient Shifts Are Not Persister Cells.", mBio, 8, (2)
  • M J McAnulty, V G Poosarla, J Li, V W Soo, F Zhu and T K Wood, 2017, "Metabolic engineering of Methanosarcina acetivorans for lactate production from methane.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 114, (4), pp. 852-861
  • L Van Melderen and T K Wood, 2017, "Commentary: What Is the Link between Stringent Response, Endoribonuclease Encoding Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems and Persistence?", Frontiers in microbiology, 8, pp. 191
  • J K Tomberlin, T L Crippen, G Wu, Audrey Griffin, T K Wood and R M Kilner, 2017, "Indole: An evolutionarily conserved influencer of behavior across kingdoms.", BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 39, (2)
  • I Castillo-Juarez, L E López-Jácome, G Soberón-Chávez, M Tomás, J Lee, P Castañeda-Tamez, I Á Hernández-Bárragan, M Y Cruz-Muñiz, T Maeda, T K Wood and R García-Contreras, 2017, "Exploiting Quorum Sensing Inhibition for the Control of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa and Acinetobacter Baumannii Biofilms.", Current topics in medicinal chemistry
  • T K Wood, 2017, "Metabolic manipulation of methanogens for methane machinations.", Microbial biotechnology, 10, (1), pp. 9-10
  • M Y Cruz-Muñiz, L E López-Jacome, M Hernández-Durán, R Franco-Cendejas, P Licona-Limón, J L Ramos-Balderas, M Martinéz-Vázquez, J A Belmont-Díaz, T K Wood and R García-Contreras, 2017, "Repurposing the anticancer drug mitomycin C for the treatment of persistent Acinetobacter baumannii infections.", International journal of antimicrobial agents, 49, (1), pp. 88-92
  • NHM Yasin, A Ikegami, Thomas Wood, C P Yu, T Haruyama and M S Takriff, 2017, "Oceans as bioenergy pools for methane production using activated methanogens in waste sewage sludge", 202, pp. 399-407
  • A L Brundage, T L Crippen, B Singh, M E Benbow, W Liu, A M Tarone, Thomas Wood and J K Tomberlin, 2017, "Interkingdom cues by bacteria associated with conspecific and heterospecific eggs of cochliomyia macellaria and chrysomya rufifacies (diptera: Calliphoridae) potentially govern succession on carrion", 110, (4), pp. 433
  • D Ma, RMQ Shanks, C M Davis, D W Craft and Thomas Wood, 2017, "Viable bacteria persist on antibiotic spacers following two-stage revision for periprosthetic joint infection", 110, (1), pp. 73-82
  • Y Guo, X Liu, B Li, J Yao, Thomas Wood and X Wang, 2017, "Tail-anchored inner membrane protein ElaB increases resistance to stress while reducing persistence in Escherichia coli", 199, (9), pp. e00057-17
  • V W Soo, B W Kwan, H Quezada, I Castillo-Juarez, B Perez-Eretza, S J Garcia-Contreras, M Martinez-Vazquez, Thomas Wood and R Garcia-Contreras, 2017, "Repurposing of anticancer drugs for the treatment of bacterial infections", 17, (10), pp. 1157-1176
  • Thomas Wood, 2017, "Compositions and methods for combating bacterial infections by killing persister cells with mitomycin C"
  • A L Brundage, T L Crippen, B Singh, M E Benbow, W Liu, A M Tarone, Thomas Wood and J K Tomberlin, 2017, "Interkingdom cues by bacteria associated with conspecific and heterospecific eggs of cochliomyia macellaria and chrysomya rufifacies (diptera: Calliphoridae) potentially govern succession on carrion", 110, (1), pp. 73-82
  • J S Kim, N Chowdhury and Thomas Wood, 2017, "Viable but non-culturable cells are persister cells"
  • Venkata G. Poosarla, Thammajun Wood, Lei Zhu, Daniel S. Miller, Bei Yin and Thomas Wood, 2017, "Dispersal and inhibitory roles of mannose, 2-deoxy-d-glucose and N-acetylgalactosaminidase on the biofilm of Desulfovibrio vulgaris", ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS, 9, (6), pp. 779-787
  • Rajarshi Guha, Boya Xiong, Michael Geitner, Tevin Moore, Thomas Wood, Darrell Velegol and Manish Kumar, 2017, "Reactive micromixing eliminates fouling and concentration polarization in reverse osmosis membranes", JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, 542, pp. 8-17
  • Thomas Wood, 2017, "Strategies for combating persister cell and biofilm infections", MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, 10, (5), pp. 1054-1056
  • N Ribaudo, X Li, Brian Davis, T K Wood and Zan Huang, 2017, "A Genome-Scale Modeling Approach to Quantify Biofilm Component Growth of Salmonella Typhimurium.", Journal of food science, 82, (1), pp. 154-166
  • J K Tomberlin, T L Crippen, G Wu, Audrey Griffin, Thomas Wood and R M Kilner, 2016, "Indole: An evolutionarily conserved influencer of behavior across kingdoms.", BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology
  • O Marimon, J M Teixeira, T N Cordeiro, V W Soo, Thammajun Wood, M Mayzel, I Amata, J García, A Morera, M Gay, M Vilaseca, V Y Orekhov, Thomas Wood and M Pons, 2016, "An oxygen-sensitive toxin-antitoxin system.", Nature communications, 7, pp. 13634
  • Ji-Woong Lee, Younhee Kim, G Gwon, Thomas Wood and Ji-Woong Lee, 2016, "Halogenated indoles eradicate bacterial persister cells and biofilms.", AMB Express, 6, (1), pp. 123
  • M J McAnulty, V G Poosarla, J Li, V W Soo, F Zhu and Thomas Wood, 2016, "Metabolic engineering of Methanosarcina acetivorans for lactate production from methane.", Biotechnology and bioengineering
  • Thomas Wood, 2016, "Metabolic manipulation of methanogens for methane machinations.", Microbial biotechnology
  • V W Soo, B W Kwan, H Quezada, I Castillo-Juárez, B Pérez-Eretza, S J García-Contreras, M Martínez-Vázquez, Thomas Wood and R García-Contreras, 2016, "Repurposing of Anticancer Drugs for the Treatment of Bacterial Infections.", Current topics in medicinal chemistry
  • N Chowdhury, Thammajun Wood, M Martínez-Vázquez, R García-Contreras and Thomas Wood, 2016, "DNA-crosslinker cisplatin eradicates bacterial persister cells.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 113, (9), pp. 1984-92
  • Y Zhao, M J McAnulty and Thomas Wood, 2016, "Toxin YafQ Reduces Escherichia coli Growth at Low Temperatures.", PloS one, 11, (8), pp. e0161577
  • Xiaoxing Wang and Thomas Wood, 2016, "Cryptic prophages as targets for drug development.", Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy, 27, pp. 30-8
  • K L Urish, P W DeMuth, B W Kwan, D W Craft, D Ma, H Haider, R S Tuan, Thomas Wood, C M Davis and 3rd, 2016, "Antibiotic-tolerant Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Persists on Arthroplasty Materials.", Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 474, (7), pp. 1649-56
  • Thammajun Wood and Thomas Wood, 2016, "The HigB/HigA toxin/antitoxin system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa influences the virulence factors pyochelin, pyocyanin, and biofilm formation.", MicrobiologyOpen, 5, (3), pp. 499-511
  • N Chowdhury, B W Kwan, L C McGibbon, Paul L Babitzke and Thomas Wood, 2016, "Toxin MqsR cleaves single-stranded mRNA with various 5' ends.", MicrobiologyOpen, 5, (3), pp. 370-7
  • Thammajun Wood, R Guha, L Tang, M Geitner, Manish Kumar and Thomas Wood, 2016, "Living biofouling-resistant membranes as a model for the beneficial use of engineered biofilms.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, (20), pp. E2802-11
  • Thomas Wood, 2016, "Combatting bacterial persister cells.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 113, (3), pp. 476-83
  • N Chowdhury, B W Kwan and Thomas Wood, 2016, "Persistence Increases in the Absence of the Alarmone Guanosine Tetraphosphate by Reducing Cell Growth.", Scientific reports, 6, pp. 20519
  • H Nazem-Bokaee, S Gopalakrishnan, James G Ferry, Thomas Wood and Costas D Maranas, 2016, "Assessing methanotrophy and carbon fixation for biofuel production by Methanosarcina acetivorans.", Microbial cell factories, 15, pp. 10
  • V W Soo, M J McAnulty, A Tripathi, F Zhu, Li Zhang, E Hatzakis, Patricck Smith, S Agrawal, H Nazem-Bokaee, S Gopalakrishnan, Howard M Salis, James G Ferry, Costas D Maranas, Andrew David Patterson and Thomas Wood, 2016, "Reversing methanogenesis to capture methane for liquid biofuel precursors.", Microbial cell factories, 15, pp. 11
  • Ji-Woong Lee, Younhee Kim, Kyung Hoon Lee, C J Kim, D J Park, Y Ju, Ji-Woong Lee, Thomas Wood and Ji-Woong Lee, 2016, "Streptomyces-derived actinomycin D inhibits biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus and its hemolytic activity.", Biofouling, 32, (1), pp. 45-56
  • R García-Contreras, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2016, "Can resistance against quorum-sensing interference be selected?", The ISME journal, 10, (1), pp. 4-10
  • Xiaolong Zhang, T L Crippen, Cassie J Coates, Thomas Wood and J K Tomberlin, 2015, "Effect of Quorum Sensing by Staphylococcus epidermidis on the Attraction Response of Female Adult Yellow Fever Mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti aegypti (Linnaeus) (Diptera: Culicidae), to a Blood-Feeding Source.", PloS one, 10, (12), pp. e0143950
  • Xin Liu, Y Li, Yao Guo, Z Zeng, B Li, Thomas Wood, X Cai and Xiaoxing Wang, 2015, "Physiological Function of Rac Prophage During Biofilm Formation and Regulation of Rac Excision in Escherichia coli K-12.", Scientific reports, 5, pp. 16074
  • B W Kwan, N Chowdhury and Thomas Wood, 2015, "Combatting bacterial infections by killing persister cells with mitomycin C.", Environmental microbiology, 17, (11), pp. 4406-14
  • Ji-Woong Lee, Thomas Wood and Ji-Woong Lee, 2015, "Roles of indole as an interspecies and interkingdom signaling molecule.", Trends in microbiology, 23, (11), pp. 707-18
  • R Yao, Q Liu, H Hu, Thomas Wood and Xiaolong Zhang, 2015, "Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli to enhance acetol production from glycerol.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 99, (19), pp. 7945-52
  • B W Kwan, D M Lord, W Peti, R Page, M J Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2015, "The MqsR/MqsA toxin/antitoxin system protects Escherichia coli during bile acid stress.", Environmental microbiology, 17, (9), pp. 3168-81
  • R García-Contreras, B Peréz-Eretza, R Jasso-Chávez, E Lira-Silva, J A Roldán-Sánchez, A González-Valdez, G Soberón-Chávez, R Coria-Jiménez, M Martínez-Vázquez, L D Alcaraz, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2015, "High variability in quorum quenching and growth inhibition by furanone C-30 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from cystic fibrosis patients.", Pathogens and disease, 73, (6), pp. ftv040
  • I Castillo-Juárez, T Maeda, E A Mandujano-Tinoco, M Tomás, B Pérez-Eretza, S J García-Contreras, Thomas Wood and R García-Contreras, 2015, "Role of quorum sensing in bacterial infections.", World journal of clinical cases, 3, (7), pp. 575-98
  • Y Hu, B W Kwan, D O Osbourne, M J Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2015, "Toxin YafQ increases persister cell formation by reducing indole signalling.", Environmental microbiology, 17, (4), pp. 1275-85
  • T J Mueller, M J Grisewood, H Nazem-Bokaee, S Gopalakrishnan, James G Ferry, Thomas Wood and Costas D Maranas, 2015, "Methane oxidation by anaerobic archaea for conversion to liquid fuels.", Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology, 42, (3), pp. 391-401
  • B W Kwan, D O Osbourne, Y Hu, M J Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2015, "Phosphodiesterase DosP increases persistence by reducing cAMP which reduces the signal indole.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 112, (3), pp. 588-600
  • K T Tran, T Maeda, V Sanchez-Torres and Thomas Wood, 2015, "Beneficial knockouts in Escherichia coli for producing hydrogen from glycerol.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 99, (6), pp. 2573-81
  • S Islam, M J Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2015, "Orphan toxin OrtT (YdcX) of Escherichia coli reduces growth during the stringent response.", Toxins, 7, (2), pp. 299-321
  • R García-Contreras, L Nuñez-López, R Jasso-Chávez, B W Kwan, J A Belmont, A Rangel-Vega, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2015, "Quorum sensing enhancement of the stress response promotes resistance to quorum quenching and prevents social cheating.", The ISME journal, 9, (1), pp. 115-25
  • B Singh, T L Crippen, L Zheng, A T Fields, Z Yu, Q Ma, Thomas Wood, S E Dowd, M Flores, J K Tomberlin and A M Tarone, 2015, "A metagenomic assessment of the bacteria associated with Lucilia sericata and Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae).", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 99, (2), pp. 869-83
  • Zhengfu Xu, S Islam, Thomas Wood and Zan Huang, 2015, "An Integrated Modeling and Experimental Approach to Study the Influence of Environmental Nutrients on Biofilm Formation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.", BioMed research international, 2015, pp. 506782
  • D M Lord, A Uzgoren Baran, V W Soo, Thomas Wood, W Peti and R Page, 2014, "McbR/YncC: implications for the mechanism of ligand and DNA binding by a bacterial GntR transcriptional regulator involved in biofilm formation.", Biochemistry, 53, (46), pp. 7223-31
  • Thomas Wood, 2014, "Biofilm dispersal: deciding when it is better to travel.", Molecular microbiology, 94, (4), pp. 747-50
  • B Hidalgo-Romano, J Gollihar, S A Brown, M Whiteley, E Valenzuela, Jr, H B Kaplan, Thomas Wood and R J McLean, 2014, "Indole inhibition of N-acylated homoserine lactone-mediated quorum signalling is widespread in Gram-negative bacteria.", Microbiology (Reading, England), 160, (Pt 11), pp. 2464-73
  • D M Lord, A U Baran, Thomas Wood, W Peti and R Page, 2014, "BdcA, a protein important for Escherichia coli biofilm dispersal, is a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase that binds specifically to NADPH.", PloS one, 9, (9), pp. e105751
  • B Sönmez, K C Yanik-Yildirim, Thomas Wood and G Vardar-Schara, 2014, "The role of substrate binding pocket residues phenylalanine 176 and phenylalanine 196 on Pseudomonas sp. OX1 toluene o-xylene monooxygenase activity and regiospecificity.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 111, (8), pp. 1506-12
  • Vandana Kalia, Thomas Wood and Prakash Kumar, 2014, "Evolution of resistance to quorum-sensing inhibitors.", Microbial ecology, 68, (1), pp. 13-23
  • Huanyu Cheng, V W Soo, S Islam, M J McAnulty, M J Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2014, "Toxin GhoT of the GhoT/GhoS toxin/antitoxin system damages the cell membrane to reduce adenosine triphosphate and to reduce growth under stress.", Environmental microbiology, 16, (6), pp. 1741-54
  • Yao Guo, C Quiroga, Qiuyan Chen, M J McAnulty, M J Benedik, Thomas Wood and Xiaoxing Wang, 2014, "RalR (a DNase) and RalA (a small RNA) form a type I toxin-antitoxin system in Escherichia coli.", Nucleic acids research, 42, (10), pp. 6448-62
  • V W Soo, Huanyu Cheng, B W Kwan and Thomas Wood, 2014, "de novo synthesis of a bacterial toxin/antitoxin system.", Scientific reports, 4, pp. 4807
  • K T Tran, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2014, "Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli to enhance hydrogen production from glycerol.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 98, (10), pp. 4757-70
  • R García-Contreras, B Pérez-Eretza, E Lira-Silva, R Jasso-Chávez, R Coria-Jiménez, A Rangel-Vega, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2014, "Gallium induces the production of virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.", Pathogens and disease, 70, (1), pp. 95-8
  • D O Osbourne, V W Soo, I Konieczny and Thomas Wood, 2014, "Polyphosphate, cyclic AMP, guanosine tetraphosphate, and c-di-GMP reduce in vitro Lon activity.", Bioengineered, 5, (4), pp. 264-8
  • M J McAnulty and Thomas Wood, 2014, "YeeO from Escherichia coli exports flavins.", Bioengineered, 5, (6), pp. 386-92
  • R García-Contreras, E Lira-Silva, R Jasso-Chávez, I L Hernández-González, T Maeda, T Hashimoto, F C Boogerd, L Sheng, Thomas Wood and R Moreno-Sánchez, 2013, "Isolation and characterization of gallium resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants.", International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM, 303, (8), pp. 574-82
  • Thomas Wood, Stephen J Knabel and B W Kwan, 2013, "Bacterial persister cell formation and dormancy.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 79, (23), pp. 7116-21
  • H Zhu, X Yi, Yingqiu Yvette Liu, H Hu, Thomas Wood and Xiaolong Zhang, 2013, "Production of acetol from glycerol using engineered Escherichia coli.", Bioresource technology, 149, pp. 238-43
  • V W Soo and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Antitoxin MqsA represses curli formation through the master biofilm regulator CsgD.", Scientific reports, 3, pp. 3186
  • R García-Contreras, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Resistance to quorum-quenching compounds.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 79, (22), pp. 6840-6
  • M Z Mohd Yusoff, Y Hashiguchi, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Four products from Escherichia coli pseudogenes increase hydrogen production.", Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 439, (4), pp. 576-9
  • D Koveal, M W Clarkson, Thomas Wood, R Page and W Peti, 2013, "Ligand binding reduces conformational flexibility in the active site of tyrosine phosphatase related to biofilm formation A (TpbA) from Pseudomonasaeruginosa.", Journal of molecular biology, 425, (12), pp. 2219-31
  • R García-Contreras, M Martínez-Vázquez, N Velázquez Guadarrama, A G Villegas Pañeda, T Hashimoto, T Maeda, H Quezada and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Resistance to the quorum-quenching compounds brominated furanone C-30 and 5-fluorouracil in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates.", Pathogens and disease, 68, (1), pp. 8-11
  • Xiaoxing Wang, D M Lord, S H Hong, W Peti, M J Benedik, R Page and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Type II toxin/antitoxin MqsR/MqsA controls type V toxin/antitoxin GhoT/GhoS.", Environmental microbiology, 15, (6), pp. 1734-44
  • L Zheng, T L Crippen, B Singh, A M Tarone, S Dowd, Z Yu, Thomas Wood and J K Tomberlin, 2013, "A survey of bacterial diversity from successive life stages of black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) by using 16S rDNA pyrosequencing.", Journal of medical entomology, 50, (3), pp. 647-58
  • D Koveal, T B Jayasundera, Thomas Wood, W Peti and R Page, 2013, "Backbone and sidechain (1)H, (15)N and (13)C assignments of Tyrosine Phosphatase related to Biofilm formation A (TpbA) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.", Biomolecular NMR assignments, 7, (1), pp. 57-9
  • B W Kwan, J A Valenta, M J Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Arrested protein synthesis increases persister-like cell formation.", Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 57, (3), pp. 1468-73
  • Zhengfu Xu, Xingyuan Fang, Thomas Wood and Zan Huang, 2013, "A systems-level approach for investigating Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation.", PloS one, 8, (2), pp. e57050
  • L Zheng, T L Crippen, L Holmes, B Singh, M L Pimsler, M E Benbow, A M Tarone, S Dowd, Z Yu, S L Vanlaerhoven, Thomas Wood and J K Tomberlin, 2013, "Bacteria mediate oviposition by the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.), (Diptera: Stratiomyidae).", Scientific reports, 3, pp. 2563
  • X. Wang*, D. M. Lord, S. H. Hong*, W. Peti, M. J. Benedik, R. Page and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Type II Toxin/Antitoxin MqsR/MqsA Controls Type V Toxin/Antitoxin GhoT/GhoS", Environmental Microbiology, 15, pp. 1734-1744
  • Thomas Wood, 2013, "Precedence for the Structural Role of Flagella in Biofilms", mBio, 4, (2)
  • H. Zhu, X. Yi, Y. Liu, H. Hu, X. Zhang and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Production of Acetol from Glycerol Using Engineered Escherichia coli", Bioresource Technology, 149, pp. 238-243
  • V. Sanchez-Torres, M. Z. M. Yusoff, C. Nakano, T. Maeda, H. I. Ogawa and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Influence of Escherichia coli hydrogenases on hydrogen fermentation from glycerol", Int. J. Hydrogen Energ.
  • M. J. McAnulty, V. R. Vepachedu, Thomas Wood and J. G. Ferry, 2013, "Biofuels: Microbially Generated Methane and Hydrogen", Encycl. Life Sci.
  • N. H. Mohd Yasin*, M. Fukuzaki, T. Maeda, T. Miyazaki, Ch. M. Mohd Hakiman Che Maail, H. Arffin and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Biohydrogen production from oil palm frond juice and sewage sludge by a metabolically engineered Escherichia coli strain", Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 38, pp. 10277-10283
  • T. Maeda, M. Z. Mohd Yusoff, Y. Hashiguchi and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Four Products from Escherichia coli Pseudogenes Increase Hydrogen Production", Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 439, pp. 576-579
  • R. García-Contreras, M. Martínez-Vázquez, N. Velázquez Guadarrama, A. Guadalupe Villegas Pañeda, T. Hashimoto, T. Maeda, H. Quezada and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Resistance to the quorum quenching compounds brominated furanone C-30 and 5-fluorouracil in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates", Pathogens and Disease
  • R. García-Contreras, E. Lira-Silva, R. Jasso-Chávez, I. L. Hernández-González, T. Maeda, T. Hashimoto, Fred C. Boogerd, L. Sheng*, Thomas Wood and R. Moreno-Sánchez, 2013, "Isolation and characterization of Gallium resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants", International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 303, pp. 574-582
  • R. García-Contreras, T. Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Resistance to Quorum Quenching Compounds", Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 79, pp. 6840-6846
  • R. García-Contreras, B. Pérez-Eretza, E. Lira-Silva, Ricardo Jasso-Chávez, R. Coria-Jiménez, A. Rangel-Vega, T. Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Gallium Induces the Production of Virulence Factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa", Pathogens and Disease
  • V. C. Kalia, Thomas Wood and P. Kumar, 2013, "Evolution of Resistance to Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors", Microbial Ecology
  • Z. Xu, X. Fang, Thomas Wood and J. Huang, 2013, "A Systems-Level Approach for Investigating Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Formation", PLoS ONE, 8, (e57050)
  • D. Koveal, M. W. Clarkson, Thomas Wood, R. Page and W. Peti, 2013, "Ligand Binding Reduces Conformational Flexibility in the Active Site of Tyrosine Phosphatase Related to Biofilm Formation A (TpbA) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa", J Molec. Biol., 425, pp. 2215-2231
  • L. Zheng, T. L. Crippen, B. Singh, A. M. Tarone, S. Dowd, Z. Yu, Thomas Wood and K. Tomberlin, 2013, "A Survey of Bacterial Diversity From Successive Life Stages of Black Soldier Fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) by using 16S rDNA Pyrosequencing", Journal of Medical Entomology, 50, pp. 647-658
  • L. Zheng, T. Crippen, L. Holmes, B. Singh, M. L. Pimsler, E. Benbow, A. M. Tarone, S. Dowd, Z. Yu, S. L. Vanlaerhoven, Thomas Wood and J. K. Tomberlin, 2013, "Bacteria Mediate Oviposition by the Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens (L.), (Dipteria: Stratiomyidae)", Scientific Reports 3, 3, pp. 2563-2570
  • B. W. Kwan*, J. A. Valenta, M. J. Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Arrested Protein Synthesis Increases Persister-Like Cell Formation", Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 57, pp. 1468-1473
  • Thomas Wood, S. J. Knabel and B. W. Kwan, 2013, "Bacterial Persister Cell Formation and Dormancy", Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 79, pp. 7116-7121
  • V. W. C. Soo* and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Antitoxin MqsA Represses Curli Formation Through the Master Biofilm Regulator CsgD", Scientific Reports, 3, pp. 3186-3192
  • H.-Y. Cheng*, V. W. C. Soo*, S. Islam, M. J. McAnulty*, M. J. Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2013, "Toxin GhoT of the GhoT/GhoS Toxin/Antitoxin System Damages the Cell Membrane to Reduce ATP and to Reduce Growth Under Stress", Environmental Microbiology
  • T Bansal, D N Kim, T Slininger, Thomas Wood and A Jayaraman, 2012, "Human intestinal epithelial cell-derived molecule(s) increase enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli virulence.", FEMS immunology and medical microbiology, 66, (3), pp. 399-410
  • Xiaoxing Wang, D M Lord, Huanyu Cheng, D O Osbourne, S H Hong, V Sanchez-Torres, C Quiroga, K Zheng, T Herrmann, W Peti, M J Benedik, R Page and Thomas Wood, 2012, "A new type V toxin-antitoxin system where mRNA for toxin GhoT is cleaved by antitoxin GhoS.", Nature chemical biology, 8, (10), pp. 855-61
  • L Sheng, M Pu, M Hegde, Yunjin Zhang, A Jayaraman and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Interkingdom adenosine signal reduces Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity.", Microbial biotechnology, 5, (4), pp. 560-72
  • Q Ma, A Fonseca, Wansheng Liu, A T Fields, M L Pimsler, A F Spindola, A M Tarone, T L Crippen, J K Tomberlin and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Proteus mirabilis interkingdom swarming signals attract blow flies.", The ISME journal, 6, (7), pp. 1356-66
  • S H Hong, Xiaoxing Wang, H F O'Connor, M J Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Bacterial persistence increases as environmental fitness decreases.", Microbial biotechnology, 5, (4), pp. 509-22
  • Jihee Kim, M Hegde, Seongeun Kim, Thomas Wood and A Jayaraman, 2012, "A microfluidic device for high throughput bacterial biofilm studies.", Lab on a chip, 12, (6), pp. 1157-63
  • Y Hu, M J Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Antitoxin DinJ influences the general stress response through transcript stabilizer CspE.", Environmental microbiology, 14, (3), pp. 669-79
  • T Maeda, R García-Contreras, M Pu, L Sheng, L R Garcia, M Tomás and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Quorum quenching quandary: resistance to antivirulence compounds.", The ISME journal, 6, (3), pp. 493-501
  • T Maeda, V Sanchez-Torres and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Hydrogen production by recombinant Escherichia coli strains.", Microbial biotechnology, 5, (2), pp. 214-25
  • S H Hong, M Hegde, Jihee Kim, Xiaoxing Wang, A Jayaraman and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Synthetic quorum-sensing circuit to control consortial biofilm formation and dispersal in a microfluidic device.", Nature communications, 3, pp. 613
  • W Chu, T R Zere, Marcia Weber, Thomas Wood, M Whiteley, B Hidalgo-Romano, E Valenzuela, Jr and R J McLean, 2012, "Indole production promotes Escherichia coli mixed-culture growth with Pseudomonas aeruginosa by inhibiting quorum signaling.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 78, (2), pp. 411-9
  • 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 Thomas Wood, 2012, "A New Type V Toxin-Antitoxin System Where mRNA for Toxin GhoT is Cleaved by Antitoxin GhoS", Nature Chemical Biology, 8, pp. 855-861
  • 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 Wood, 2012, "Proteus mirabilis interkingdom swarming signals attract blow flies", Nature ISME Journal, 6, pp. 1356-1366
  • S. H. Hong, M. Hegde, J. Kim, X. Wang, A. Jayaraman and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Synthetic quorum sensing circuit to control consortial biofilm formation and dispersal in a microfluidic device", Nature Commun., 3, (613)
  • T. Maeda, R. Garcia-Contreras, M. Pu, L. Sheng, L. R. Garcia, M. Tomas and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Quorum quenching quandary: resistance to antivirulence compounds", Nature ISME Journal, 6, (493)
  • T. Bansal, D. N. Kim, T. Slininger, Thomas Wood and A. Jayaraman, 2012, "Human intestinal epithelial cell-derived molecule(s) increase enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli virulence", 66, pp. 399-410
  • S. H. Hong, X. Wang, H. F. O'Connor, M. J. Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Bacterial persistence increases as environmental fitness decreases", Microb. Biotechnol, 5, pp. 509-522
  • Y. Hu, M. J. Benedik and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Antitoxin DinJ influences the general stress response through transcript stabilizer CspE", Environ. Microbiol, 14, pp. 669-679
  • J. Kim, M. Hegde, S. H. Kim, Thomas Wood and A. Jayaraman, 2012, "A microfluidic device for high throughput bacterial biofilm studies", Lab on a Chip, Advance Article, 12, pp. 1157-1163
  • J. K. Tomberlin, T. L. Crippen, A. M. Tarone, B. Singh, K. Adams, Y. H. Rezenom, M. E. Benbow, M. Flores, M. Longnecker, J. L. Pechal, D. H. Russell, R. C. Beier and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Interkingdom responses of flies to bacteria mediated by fly physiology and bacterial quorum sensing", Animal Behaviour, 84, pp. 1449-1456
  • W. Chu, T. R. Zere, M. M. Weber, Thomas Wood, M. Whiteley, B. Hildago-Romano, E. Valenzuela Jr and R. J. C. McLean, 2012, "Indole production promotes Escherichia coli mixed culture growth with Pseudomonas aeruginosa by inhibiting quorum signaling", Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 78, pp. 411-419
  • L. Sheng, M. Pu, M. Hegde, Y. Zhang, A. Jayaraman and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Interkingdom adenosine signal reduces Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity", Microb Biotechnol, 5, pp. 560-572
  • M. Z. M. Yusoff, T. Maeda, V. Sanchez-Torres, H. I. Ogawa, Y. Shirai, M. A. Hassan and Thomas Wood, 2012, "Uncharacterized Escherichia coli proteins YdjA and YhjY are related to biohydrogen production", Science Direct, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 37, pp. 17778-17787
  • Q Ma, Guangsheng Zhang and Thomas Wood, 2011, "Escherichia coli BdcA controls biofilm dispersal in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Rhizobium meliloti.", BMC research notes, 4, pp. 447
  • Xiaoxing Wang and Thomas Wood, 2011, "IS5 inserts upstream of the master motility operon flhDC in a quasi-Lamarckian way.", The ISME journal, 5, (9), pp. 1517-25
  • Xiaoxing Wang and Thomas Wood, 2011, "Toxin-antitoxin systems influence biofilm and persister cell formation and the general stress response.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 77, (16), pp. 5577-83
  • Q Ma and Thomas Wood, 2011, "Protein acetylation in prokaryotes increases stress resistance.", Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 410, (4), pp. 846-51
  • Xiaoxing Wang, Younhee Kim, S H Hong, Q Ma, B L Brown, M Pu, A M Tarone, M J Benedik, W Peti, R Page and Thomas Wood, 2011, "Antitoxin MqsA helps mediate the bacterial general stress response.", Nature chemical biology, 7, (6), pp. 359-66
  • Ji-Woong Lee, Younhee Kim, M H Cho, Thomas Wood and Ji-Woong Lee, 2011, "Transcriptomic analysis for genetic mechanisms of the factors related to biofilm formation in Escherichia coli O157:H7.", Current microbiology, 62, (4), pp. 1321-30
  • V Sanchez-Torres, H Hu and Thomas Wood, 2011, "GGDEF proteins YeaI, YedQ, and YfiN reduce early biofilm formation and swimming motility in Escherichia coli.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 90, (2), pp. 651-8
  • C Y Tsao, Lei Wang, Y Hashimoto, H Yi, J C March, M P DeLisa, Thomas Wood, J J Valdes and W E Bentley, 2011, "LuxS coexpression enhances yields of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli in part through posttranscriptional control of GroEL.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 77, (6), pp. 2141-52
  • Q Ma, Zifeng Yang, M Pu, W Peti and Thomas Wood, 2011, "Engineering a novel c-di-GMP-binding protein for biofilm dispersal.", Environmental microbiology, 13, (3), pp. 631-42
  • Thomas Wood, S H Hong and Q Ma, 2011, "Engineering biofilm formation and dispersal.", Trends in biotechnology, 29, (2), pp. 87-94
  • M Hegde, D L Englert, S Schrock, W B Cohn, C Vogt, Thomas Wood, M D Manson and A Jayaraman, 2011, "Chemotaxis to the quorum-sensing signal AI-2 requires the Tsr chemoreceptor and the periplasmic LsrB AI-2-binding protein.", Journal of bacteriology, 193, (3), pp. 768-73
  • B L Brown, Thomas Wood, W Peti and R Page, 2011, "Structure of the Escherichia coli antitoxin MqsA (YgiT/b3021) bound to its gene promoter reveals extensive domain rearrangements and the specificity of transcriptional regulation.", The Journal of biological chemistry, 286, (3), pp. 2285-96
  • Z Zhong, M Fritzsche, S B Pieper, Thomas Wood, K L Lear, Daniel Dandy and K F Reardon, 2011, "Fiber optic monooxygenase biosensor for toluene concentration measurement in aqueous samples.", Biosensors & bioelectronics, 26, (5), pp. 2407-12
  • T H Han, Ji-Woong Lee, M H Cho, Thomas Wood and Ji-Woong Lee, 2011, "Environmental factors affecting indole production in Escherichia coli.", Research in microbiology, 162, (2), pp. 108-16
  • M Pu and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Tyrosine phosphatase TpbA controls rugose colony formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by dephosphorylating diguanylate cyclase TpbB.", Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 402, (2), pp. 351-5
  • S H Hong, Ji-Woong Lee and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Engineering global regulator Hha of Escherichia coli to control biofilm dispersal.", Microbial biotechnology, 3, (6), pp. 717-28
  • Thomas Wood, W E Piers, B A Keay and M Parvez, 2010, "Synthesis and comparative characterization of 9-boraanthracene, 5-boranaphthacene, and 6-borapentacene stabilized by the H2IMes carbene.", Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 16, (40), pp. 12199-206
  • V Sanchez-Torres, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Global regulator H-NS and lipoprotein NlpI influence production of extracellular DNA in Escherichia coli.", Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 401, (2), pp. 197-202
  • Ji-Woong Lee, S R Hiibel, K F Reardon and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Identification of stress-related proteins in Escherichia coli using the pollutant cis-dichloroethylene.", Journal of applied microbiology, 108, (6), pp. 2088-102
  • A Ueda and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Tyrosine Phosphatase TpbA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Controls Extracellular DNA via Cyclic Diguanylic Acid Concentrations.", Environmental microbiology, 2, (3), pp. 449-55
  • A Ueda and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Tyrosine phosphatase TpbA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa controls extracellular DNA via cyclic diguanylic acid concentrations.", Environmental microbiology reports, 2, (3), pp. 449-55
  • Younhee Kim, Xiaoxing Wang, Xiaolong Zhang, S Grigoriu, R Page, W Peti and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Escherichia coli toxin/antitoxin pair MqsR/MqsA regulate toxin CspD.", Environmental microbiology, 12, (5), pp. 1105-21
  • S H Hong, Xiaoxing Wang and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Controlling biofilm formation, prophage excision and cell death by rewiring global regulator H-NS of Escherichia coli.", Microbial biotechnology, 3, (3), pp. 344-56
  • T Bansal, R C Alaniz, Thomas Wood and A Jayaraman, 2010, "The bacterial signal indole increases epithelial-cell tight-junction resistance and attenuates indicators of inflammation.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, (1), pp. 228-33
  • Younhee Kim and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Toxins Hha and CspD and small RNA regulator Hfq are involved in persister cell formation through MqsR in Escherichia coli.", Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 391, (1), pp. 209-13
  • Xiaoxing Wang, Younhee Kim, Q Ma, S H Hong, K Pokusaeva, J M Sturino and Thomas Wood, 2010, "Cryptic prophages help bacteria cope with adverse environments.", Nature communications, 1, pp. 147
  • H Hu and Thomas Wood, 2010, "An evolved Escherichia coli strain for producing hydrogen and ethanol from glycerol.", Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 391, (1), pp. 1033-8
  • M B Jones, Sara Peterson, R Benn, J C Braisted, B Jarrahi, K Shatzkes, D Ren, Thomas Wood and M J Blaser, 2010, "Role of luxS in Bacillus anthracis growth and virulence factor expression.", Virulence, 1, (2), pp. 72-83
  • B L Brown, S Grigoriu, Younhee Kim, J M Arruda, A Davenport, Thomas Wood, W Peti and R Page, 2009, "Three dimensional structure of the MqsR:MqsA complex: a novel TA pair comprised of a toxin homologous to RelE and an antitoxin with unique properties.", PLoS pathogens, 5, (12), pp. e1000706
  • T Zang, B W Lee, L M Cannon, K A Ritter, S Dai, D Ren, Thomas Wood and Zhuangfei Zhou, 2009, "A naturally occurring brominated furanone covalently modifies and inactivates LuxS.", Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 19, (21), pp. 6200-4
  • Xiaoxing Wang, Younhee Kim and Thomas Wood, 2009, "Control and benefits of CP4-57 prophage excision in Escherichia coli biofilms.", The ISME journal, 3, (10), pp. 1164-79
  • Q Ma and Thomas Wood, 2009, "OmpA influences Escherichia coli biofilm formation by repressing cellulose production through the CpxRA two-component system.", Environmental microbiology, 11, (10), pp. 2735-46
  • Thomas Wood, W E Piers, B A Keay and M Parvez, 2009, "Spirocyclic boronium ions: precursors to persistent neutral radicals.", Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), (34), pp. 5147-9
  • M Hegde, Thomas Wood and A Jayaraman, 2009, "The neuroendocrine hormone norepinephrine increases Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 virulence through the las quorum-sensing pathway.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 84, (4), pp. 763-76
  • V Sanchez-Torres, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2009, "Protein engineering of the transcriptional activator FhlA To enhance hydrogen production in Escherichia coli.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 75, (17), pp. 5639-46
  • J Shainsky, N L Derry, Y Leichtmann-Bardoogo, Thomas Wood and Angela A Fishman, 2009, "Rapid methods for high-throughput detection of sulfoxides.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 75, (14), pp. 4711-9
  • A Ueda and Thomas Wood, 2009, "Connecting quorum sensing, c-di-GMP, pel polysaccharide, and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through tyrosine phosphatase TpbA (PA3885).", PLoS pathogens, 5, (6), pp. e1000483
  • C Attila, A Ueda and Thomas Wood, 2009, "5-Fluorouracil reduces biofilm formation in Escherichia coli K-12 through global regulator AriR as an antivirulence compound.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 82, (3), pp. 525-33
  • Ji-Woong Lee, T Maeda, S H Hong and Thomas Wood, 2009, "Reconfiguring the quorum-sensing regulator SdiA of Escherichia coli to control biofilm formation via indole and N-acylhomoserine lactones.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 75, (6), pp. 1703-16
  • Younhee Kim, Xiaoxing Wang, Q Ma, Xiaolong Zhang and Thomas Wood, 2009, "Toxin-antitoxin systems in Escherichia coli influence biofilm formation through YjgK (TabA) and fimbriae.", Journal of bacteriology, 191, (4), pp. 1258-67
  • A Ueda, C Attila, M Whiteley and Thomas Wood, 2009, "Uracil influences quorum sensing and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and fluorouracil is an antagonist.", Microbial biotechnology, 2, (1), pp. 62-74
  • Thomas Wood, W E Piers, B A Keay and M Parvez, 2009, "9-Boraanthracene derivatives stabilized by N-heterocyclic carbenes.", Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 48, (22), pp. 4009-12
  • Ji-Woong Lee, C Attila, S L Cirillo, J D Cirillo and Thomas Wood, 2009, "Indole and 7-hydroxyindole diminish Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence.", Microbial biotechnology, 2, (1), pp. 75-90
  • Thomas Wood, 2009, "Insights on Escherichia coli biofilm formation and inhibition from whole-transcriptome profiling.", Environmental microbiology, 11, (1), pp. 1-15
  • Thomas Wood, 2008, "Molecular approaches in bioremediation.", Current opinion in biotechnology, 19, (6), pp. 572-8
  • Ji-Woong Lee, Xiaolong Zhang, M Hegde, W E Bentley, A Jayaraman and Thomas Wood, 2008, "Indole cell signaling occurs primarily at low temperatures in Escherichia coli.", The ISME journal, 2, (10), pp. 1007-23
  • A Ueda and Thomas Wood, 2008, "Potassium and sodium transporters of Pseudomonas aeruginosa regulate virulence to barley.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 79, (5), pp. 843-58
  • R García-Contreras, Xiaolong Zhang, Younhee Kim and Thomas Wood, 2008, "Protein translation and cell death: the role of rare tRNAs in biofilm formation and in activating dormant phage killer genes.", PloS one, 3, (6), pp. e2394
  • Chuntao Wu, Y C Hwang, Wang Lee, A Mulchandani, Thomas Wood, M V Yates and Weicheng Chen, 2008, "Detection of recombinant Pseudomonas putida in the wheat rhizosphere by fluorescence in situ hybridization targeting mRNA and rRNA.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 79, (3), pp. 511-8
  • Xiaolong Zhang, R García-Contreras and Thomas Wood, 2008, "Escherichia coli transcription factor YncC (McbR) regulates colanic acid and biofilm formation by repressing expression of periplasmic protein YbiM (McbA).", The ISME journal, 2, (6), pp. 615-31
  • T Maeda, V Sanchez-Torres and Thomas Wood, 2008, "Protein engineering of hydrogenase 3 to enhance hydrogen production.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 79, (1), pp. 77-86
  • Xiaoling Yang, Q Ma and Thomas Wood, 2008, "The R1 conjugative plasmid increases Escherichia coli biofilm formation through an envelope stress response.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 74, (9), pp. 2690-9
  • T Bansal, P Jesudhasan, S Pillai, Thomas Wood and A Jayaraman, 2008, "Temporal regulation of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli virulence mediated by autoinducer-2.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 78, (5), pp. 811-9
  • G Vardar-Schara, T Maeda and Thomas Wood, 2008, "Metabolically engineered bacteria for producing hydrogen via fermentation.", Microbial biotechnology, 1, (2), pp. 107-25
  • R Feingersch, J Shainsky, Thomas Wood and Angela A Fishman, 2008, "Protein engineering of toluene monooxygenases for synthesis of chiral sulfoxides.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 74, (5), pp. 1555-66
  • C Attila, A Ueda and Thomas Wood, 2008, "PA2663 (PpyR) increases biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 through the psl operon and stimulates virulence and quorum-sensing phenotypes.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 78, (2), pp. 293-307
  • T Maeda, V Sanchez-Torres and Thomas Wood, 2008, "Metabolic engineering to enhance bacterial hydrogen production.", Microbial biotechnology, 1, (1), pp. 30-9
  • C Attila, A Ueda, S L Cirillo, J D Cirillo, Weicheng Chen and Thomas Wood, 2008, "Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 virulence factors and poplar tree response in the rhizosphere.", Microbial biotechnology, 1, (1), pp. 17-29
  • A Jayaraman and Thomas Wood, 2008, "Bacterial quorum sensing: signals, circuits, and implications for biofilms and disease.", Annual review of biomedical engineering, 10, pp. 145-67
  • T Maeda, V Sanchez-Torres and Thomas Wood, 2007, "Enhanced hydrogen production from glucose by metabolically engineered Escherichia coli.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 77, (4), pp. 879-90
  • Cheng-Mao Lin, M S Cast, Thomas Wood and M Y Chen, 2007, "Phylogenetics and phylogeography of the oak treehopper Platycotis vittata indicate three distinct North American lineages and a neotropical origin.", Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 45, (2), pp. 750-6
  • J O Sharp, C M Sales, J C LeBlanc, Jude Liu, Thomas Wood, L D Eltis, W W Mohn and L Alvarez-Cohen, 2007, "An inducible propane monooxygenase is responsible for N-nitrosodimethylamine degradation by Rhodococcus sp. strain RHA1.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 73, (21), pp. 6930-8
  • Ji-Woong Lee, R Page, R García-Contreras, J M Palermino, Xiaolong Zhang, O Doshi, Thomas Wood and W Peti, 2007, "Structure and function of the Escherichia coli protein YmgB: a protein critical for biofilm formation and acid-resistance.", Journal of molecular biology, 373, (1), pp. 11-26
  • T Defoirdt, C M Miyamoto, Thomas Wood, E A Meighen, P Sorgeloos, W Verstraete and P Bossier, 2007, "The natural furanone (5Z)-4-bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone disrupts quorum sensing-regulated gene expression in Vibrio harveyi by decreasing the DNA-binding activity of the transcriptional regulator protein luxR.", Environmental microbiology, 9, (10), pp. 2486-95
  • T Maeda, V Sanchez-Torres and Thomas Wood, 2007, "Escherichia coli hydrogenase 3 is a reversible enzyme possessing hydrogen uptake and synthesis activities.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 76, (5), pp. 1035-42
  • T Bansal, D Englert, Ji-Woong Lee, M Hegde, Thomas Wood and A Jayaraman, 2007, "Differential effects of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and indole on Escherichia coli O157:H7 chemotaxis, colonization, and gene expression.", Infection and immunity, 75, (9), pp. 4597-607
  • J Li, C Attila, Lei Wang, Thomas Wood, J J Valdes and W E Bentley, 2007, "Quorum sensing in Escherichia coli is signaled by AI-2/LsrR: effects on small RNA and biofilm architecture.", Journal of bacteriology, 189, (16), pp. 6011-20
  • N T Tinh, N D Linh, Thomas Wood, K Dierckens, P Sorgeloos and P Bossier, 2007, "Interference with the quorum sensing systems in a Vibrio harveyi strain alters the growth rate of gnotobiotically cultured rotifer Brachionus plicatilis.", Journal of applied microbiology, 103, (1), pp. 194-203
  • Ji-Woong Lee, T Bansal, A Jayaraman, W E Bentley and Thomas Wood, 2007, "Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli biofilms are inhibited by 7-hydroxyindole and stimulated by isatin.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 73, (13), pp. 4100-9
  • T Maeda, G Vardar, W T Self and Thomas Wood, 2007, "Inhibition of hydrogen uptake in Escherichia coli by expressing the hydrogenase from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.", BMC biotechnology, 7, pp. 25
  • Ji-Woong Lee, A Jayaraman and Thomas Wood, 2007, "Indole is an inter-species biofilm signal mediated by SdiA.", BMC microbiology, 7, pp. 42
  • Xiaolong Zhang, R García-Contreras and Thomas Wood, 2007, "YcfR (BhsA) influences Escherichia coli biofilm formation through stress response and surface hydrophobicity.", Journal of bacteriology, 189, (8), pp. 3051-62
  • R Fernandes, C Y Tsao, Y Hashimoto, Lei Wang, Thomas Wood, G F Payne and W E Bentley, 2007, "Magnetic nanofactories: localized synthesis and delivery of quorum-sensing signaling molecule autoinducer-2 to bacterial cell surfaces.", Metabolic engineering, 9, (2), pp. 228-39
  • J Domka, Ji-Woong Lee, T Bansal and Thomas Wood, 2007, "Temporal gene-expression in Escherichia coli K-12 biofilms.", Environmental microbiology, 9, (2), pp. 332-46
  • B G Keenan and Thomas Wood, 2006, "Orthric Rieske dioxygenases for degrading mixtures of 2,4-dinitrotoluene/naphthalene and 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene/4-amino-2,6-dinitrotoluene.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 73, (4), pp. 827-38
  • Wang Lee, Thomas Wood and Weicheng Chen, 2006, "Engineering TCE-degrading rhizobacteria for heavy metal accumulation and enhanced TCE degradation.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 95, (3), pp. 399-403
  • Thomas Wood, A F González Barrios, M Herzberg and Ji-Woong Lee, 2006, "Motility influences biofilm architecture in Escherichia coli.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 72, (2), pp. 361-7
  • T Defoirdt, R Crab, Thomas Wood, P Sorgeloos, W Verstraete and P Bossier, 2006, "Quorum sensing-disrupting brominated furanones protect the gnotobiotic brine shrimp Artemia franciscana from pathogenic Vibrio harveyi, Vibrio campbellii, and Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 72, (9), pp. 6419-23
  • Thomas Wood, W E Piers, B A Keay and M Parvez, 2006, "1-Borabarrelene derivatives via Diels-Alder additions to borabenzenes.", Organic letters, 8, (13), pp. 2875-8
  • L Cao, Ji-Woong Lee, Weicheng Chen and Thomas Wood, 2006, "Enantioconvergent production of (R)-1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol from styrene oxide by combining the Solanum tuberosum and an evolved Agrobacterium radiobacter AD1 epoxide hydrolases.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 94, (3), pp. 522-9
  • T Leungsakul, Glenn Johnson and Thomas Wood, 2006, "Protein engineering of the 4-methyl-5-nitrocatechol monooxygenase from Burkholderia sp. strain DNT for enhanced degradation of nitroaromatics.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 72, (6), pp. 3933-9
  • Ji-Woong Lee, L Cao, S Y Ow, M E Barrios-Llerena, Weicheng Chen, Thomas Wood and P C Wright, 2006, "Proteome changes after metabolic engineering to enhance aerobic mineralization of cis-1,2-dichloroethylene.", Journal of proteome research, 5, (6), pp. 1388-97
  • F Radice, V Orlandi, V Massa, L Cavalca, A Demarta, Thomas Wood and P Barbieri, 2006, "Genotypic characterization and phylogenetic relations of Pseudomonas sp. (Formerly P. stutzeri) OX1.", Current microbiology, 52, (5), pp. 395-9
  • J Domka, Ji-Woong Lee and Thomas Wood, 2006, "YliH (BssR) and YceP (BssS) regulate Escherichia coli K-12 biofilm formation by influencing cell signaling.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 72, (4), pp. 2449-59
  • T Leungsakul, B G Keenan, M A Mori, M D Morton, J D Stuart, B F Smets and Thomas Wood, 2006, "Oxidation of aminonitrotoluenes by 2,4-DNT dioxygenase of Burkholderia sp. strain DNT.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 93, (2), pp. 231-7
  • Chuntao Wu, Thomas Wood, A Mulchandani and Weicheng Chen, 2006, "Engineering plant-microbe symbiosis for rhizoremediation of heavy metals.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 72, (2), pp. 1129-34
  • A F Barrios, R Zuo, D Ren and Thomas Wood, 2006, "Hha, YbaJ, and OmpA regulate Escherichia coli K12 biofilm formation and conjugation plasmids abolish motility.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 93, (1), pp. 188-200
  • J Li, Lei Wang, Y Hashimoto, C Y Tsao, Thomas Wood, J J Valdes, E Zafiriou and W E Bentley, 2006, "A stochastic model of Escherichia coli AI-2 quorum signal circuit reveals alternative synthesis pathways.", Molecular systems biology, 2, pp. 67
  • A F González Barrios, R Zuo, Y Hashimoto, L Yang, W E Bentley and Thomas Wood, 2006, "Autoinducer 2 controls biofilm formation in Escherichia coli through a novel motility quorum-sensing regulator (MqsR, B3022).", Journal of bacteriology, 188, (1), pp. 305-16
  • M Herzberg, I K Kaye, W Peti and Thomas Wood, 2006, "YdgG (TqsA) controls biofilm formation in Escherichia coli K-12 through autoinducer 2 transport.", Journal of bacteriology, 188, (2), pp. 587-98
  • G Vardar, Y Tao, Ji-Woong Lee and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Alanine 101 and alanine 110 of the alpha subunit of Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase influence the regiospecific oxidation of aromatics.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 92, (5), pp. 652-8
  • Hao Yin, Thomas Wood and B F Smets, 2005, "Reductive transformation of TNT by Escherichia coli resting cells: kinetic analysis.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 69, (3), pp. 326-34
  • T Leungsakul, B G Keenan, B F Smets and Thomas Wood, 2005, "TNT and nitroaromatic compounds are chemoattractants for Burkholderia cepacia R34 and Burkholderia sp. strain DNT.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 69, (3), pp. 321-5
  • T Leungsakul, B G Keenan, Hao Yin, B F Smets and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Saturation mutagenesis of 2,4-DNT dioxygenase of Burkholderia sp. strain DNT for enhanced dinitrotoluene degradation.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 92, (4), pp. 416-26
  • G Vardar and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Protein engineering of toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase from Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 for enhanced chlorinated ethene degradation and o-xylene oxidation.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 68, (4), pp. 510-7
  • R Zuo, D Ornek and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Aluminum- and mild steel-binding peptides from phage display.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 68, (4), pp. 505-9
  • Y Tao, W E Bentley and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Phenol and 2-naphthol production by toluene 4-monooxygenases using an aqueous/dioctyl phthalate system.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 68, (5), pp. 614-21
  • L Rui, L Cao, Weicheng Chen, K F Reardon and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Protein engineering of epoxide hydrolase from Agrobacterium radiobacter AD1 for enhanced activity and enantioselective production of (R)-1-phenylethane-1,2-diol.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 71, (7), pp. 3995-4003
  • D Ren, R Zuo, A F González Barrios, L A Bedzyk, G R Eldridge, M E Pasmore and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Differential gene expression for investigation of Escherichia coli biofilm inhibition by plant extract ursolic acid.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 71, (7), pp. 4022-34
  • Thomas Wood, K W McDermott and Ashley Sullivan, 2005, "Differential effects of growth/differentiation factor 5 and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor on dopaminergic neurons and astroglia in cultures of embryonic rat midbrain.", Journal of neuroscience research, 80, (6), pp. 759-66
  • M B Jones, R Jani, D Ren, Thomas Wood and M J Blaser, 2005, "Inhibition of Bacillus anthracis growth and virulence-gene expression by inhibitors of quorum-sensing.", The Journal of infectious diseases, 191, (11), pp. 1881-8
  • B G Keenan, T Leungsakul, B F Smets, M A Mori, D E Henderson and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Protein engineering of the archetypal nitroarene dioxygenase of Ralstonia sp. strain U2 for activity on aminonitrotoluenes and dinitrotoluenes through alpha-subunit residues leucine 225, phenylalanine 350, and glycine 407.", Journal of bacteriology, 187, (10), pp. 3302-10
  • Hao Yin, Thomas Wood and B F Smets, 2005, "Reductive transformation of TNT by Escherichia coli: pathway description.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 67, (3), pp. 397-404
  • Y Tao, W E Bentley and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Regiospecific oxidation of naphthalene and fluorene by toluene monooxygenases and engineered toluene 4-monooxygenases of Pseudomonas mendocina KR1.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 90, (1), pp. 85-94
  • J O Sharp, Thomas Wood and L Alvarez-Cohen, 2005, "Aerobic biodegradation of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) by axenic bacterial strains.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 89, (5), pp. 608-18
  • G Vardar, P Barbieri and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Chemotaxis of Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 and Burkholderia cepacia G4 toward chlorinated ethenes.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 66, (6), pp. 696-701
  • D Ren, R Zuo and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Quorum-sensing antagonist (5Z)-4-bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone influences siderophore biosynthesis in Pseudomonas putida and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 66, (6), pp. 689-95
  • G Vardar and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Alpha-subunit positions methionine 180 and glutamate 214 of Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase influence catalysis.", Journal of bacteriology, 187, (4), pp. 1511-4
  • G Vardar, K Ryu and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Protein engineering of toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase from Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 for oxidizing nitrobenzene to 3-nitrocatechol, 4-nitrocatechol, and nitrohydroquinone.", Journal of biotechnology, 115, (2), pp. 145-56
  • Angela A Fishman, Y Tao, L Rui and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Controlling the regiospecific oxidation of aromatics via active site engineering of toluene para-monooxygenase of Ralstonia pickettii PKO1.", The Journal of biological chemistry, 280, (1), pp. 506-14
  • L Rui, K F Reardon and Thomas Wood, 2005, "Protein engineering of toluene ortho-monooxygenase of Burkholderia cepacia G4 for regiospecific hydroxylation of indole to form various indigoid compounds.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 66, (4), pp. 422-9
  • D Ren, L A Bedzyk, R W Ye, S M Thomas and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Differential gene expression shows natural brominated furanones interfere with the autoinducer-2 bacterial signaling system of Escherichia coli.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 88, (5), pp. 630-42
  • L Rui, L Cao, Weicheng Chen, K F Reardon and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Active site engineering of the epoxide hydrolase from Agrobacterium radiobacter AD1 to enhance aerobic mineralization of cis-1,2-dichloroethylene in cells expressing an evolved toluene ortho-monooxygenase.", The Journal of biological chemistry, 279, (45), pp. 46810-7
  • R Zuo and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Inhibiting mild steel corrosion from sulfate-reducing and iron-oxidizing bacteria using gramicidin-S-producing biofilms.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 65, (6), pp. 747-53
  • S Iwashita, Thomas P Callahan, J Haydu and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Mesophilic aerobic degradation of a metal lubricant by a biological consortium.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 65, (5), pp. 620-6
  • Angela A Fishman, Y Tao, W E Bentley and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Protein engineering of toluene 4-monooxygenase of Pseudomonas mendocina KR1 for synthesizing 4-nitrocatechol from nitrobenzene.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 87, (6), pp. 779-90
  • D Ren, L A Bedzyk, P Setlow, D F England, S Kjelleberg, S M Thomas, R W Ye and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Differential gene expression to investigate the effect of (5Z)-4-bromo- 5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone on Bacillus subtilis.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 70, (8), pp. 4941-9
  • Y Tao, Angela A Fishman, W E Bentley and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Oxidation of benzene to phenol, catechol, and 1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene by toluene 4-monooxygenase of Pseudomonas mendocina KR1 and toluene 3-monooxygenase of Ralstonia pickettii PKO1.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 70, (7), pp. 3814-20
  • Y Tao, Angela A Fishman, W E Bentley and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Altering toluene 4-monooxygenase by active-site engineering for the synthesis of 3-methoxycatechol, methoxyhydroquinone, and methylhydroquinone.", Journal of bacteriology, 186, (14), pp. 4705-13
  • Cheng-Mao Lin, B N Danforth and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of maternal care in Membracine treehoppers.", Systematic biology, 53, (3), pp. 400-21
  • G Vardar and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Protein engineering of toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase from Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 for synthesizing 4-methylresorcinol, methylhydroquinone, and pyrogallol.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 70, (6), pp. 3253-62
  • B G Keenan, T Leungsakul, B F Smets and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Saturation mutagenesis of Burkholderia cepacia R34 2,4-dinitrotoluene dioxygenase at DntAc valine 350 for synthesizing nitrohydroquinone, methylhydroquinone, and methoxyhydroquinone.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 70, (6), pp. 3222-31
  • L Rui, Y M Kwon, Angela A Fishman, K F Reardon and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Saturation mutagenesis of toluene ortho-monooxygenase of Burkholderia cepacia G4 for Enhanced 1-naphthol synthesis and chloroform degradation.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 70, (6), pp. 3246-52
  • D Ren, L A Bedzyk, P Setlow, S M Thomas, R W Ye and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Gene expression in Bacillus subtilis surface biofilms with and without sporulation and the importance of yveR for biofilm maintenance.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 86, (3), pp. 344-64
  • D Ren, L A Bedzyk, S M Thomas, R W Ye and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Gene expression in Escherichia coli biofilms.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 64, (4), pp. 515-24
  • D Ren and Thomas Wood, 2004, "(5Z)-4-bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone reduces corrosion from Desulfotomaculum orientis.", Environmental microbiology, 6, (5), pp. 535-40
  • L Rui, Y M Kwon, K F Reardon and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Metabolic pathway engineering to enhance aerobic degradation of chlorinated ethenes and to reduce their toxicity by cloning a novel glutathione S-transferase, an evolved toluene o-monooxygenase, and gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase.", Environmental microbiology, 6, (5), pp. 491-500
  • Angela A Fishman, Y Tao and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Toluene 3-monooxygenase of Ralstonia pickettii PKO1 is a para-hydroxylating enzyme.", Journal of bacteriology, 186, (10), pp. 3117-23
  • D Ren, L A Bedzyk, R W Ye, S M Thomas and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Stationary-phase quorum-sensing signals affect autoinducer-2 and gene expression in Escherichia coli.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 70, (4), pp. 2038-43
  • R Zuo, D Ornek, B C Syrett, R M Green, C H Hsu, F B Mansfeld and Thomas Wood, 2004, "Inhibiting mild steel corrosion from sulfate-reducing bacteria using antimicrobial-producing biofilms in Three-Mile-Island process water.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 64, (2), pp. 275-83
  • V A Pferdeort, Thomas Wood and K F Reardon, 2003, "Proteomic changes in Escherichia coli TG1 after metabolic engineering for enhanced trichloroethene biodegradation.", Proteomics, 3, (6), pp. 1066-9
  • D C Pecota, G Osapay, M E Selsted and Thomas Wood, 2003, "Antimicrobial properties of the Escherichia coli R1 plasmid host killing peptide.", Journal of biotechnology, 100, (1), pp. 1-12
  • Thomas Wood, Ashley Sullivan and K W McDermott, 2003, "Viability of dopaminergic neurones is influenced by serum and astroglial cells in vitro.", Journal of neurocytology, 32, (1), pp. 97-103
  • Thomas Wood, 2002, "Active expression of soluble methane monooxygenase from Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b in heterologous hosts.", Microbiology (Reading, England), 148, (Pt 11), pp. 3328-9
  • D Ornek, A Jayaraman, B C Syrett, C H Hsu, F B Mansfeld and Thomas Wood, 2002, "Pitting corrosion inhibition of aluminum 2024 by Bacillus biofilms secreting polyaspartate or gamma-polyglutamate.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 58, (5), pp. 651-7
  • K A Canada, S Iwashita, H Shim and Thomas Wood, 2002, "Directed evolution of toluene ortho-monooxygenase for enhanced 1-naphthol synthesis and chlorinated ethene degradation.", Journal of bacteriology, 184, (2), pp. 344-9
  • D Ren, J J Sims and Thomas Wood, 2002, "Inhibition of biofilm formation and swarming of Bacillus subtilis by (5Z)-4-bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone.", Letters in applied microbiology, 34, (4), pp. 293-9
  • D Ren, J J Sims and Thomas Wood, 2001, "Inhibition of biofilm formation and swarming of Escherichia coli by (5Z)-4-bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone.", Environmental microbiology, 3, (11), pp. 731-6
  • D Ryoo, H Shim, F L Arenghi, P Barbieri and Thomas Wood, 2001, "Tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, and chlorinated phenols induce toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase activity in Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 56, (3-4), pp. 545-9
  • H Shim, D Ryoo, P Barbieri and Thomas Wood, 2001, "Aerobic degradation of mixtures of tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, dichloroethylenes, and vinyl chloride by toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase of Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 56, (1-2), pp. 265-9
  • H Shim and Thomas Wood, 2000, "Aerobic degradation of mixtures of chlorinated aliphatics by cloned toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase and toluene o-monooxygenase in resting cells.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 70, (6), pp. 693-8
  • H Shim, S Chauhan, D Ryoo, K Bowers, S M Thomas, K A Canada, J G Burken and Thomas Wood, 2000, "Rhizosphere competitiveness of trichloroethylene-degrading, poplar-colonizing recombinant bacteria.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 66, (11), pp. 4673-8
  • D Ryoo, H Shim, K Canada, P Barbieri and Thomas Wood, 2000, "Aerobic degradation of tetrachloroethylene by toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase of Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1.", Nature biotechnology, 18, (7), pp. 775-8
  • A Jayaraman, D Ornek, D A Duarte, Christina Lee, F B Mansfeld and Thomas Wood, 1999, "Axenic aerobic biofilms inhibit corrosion of copper and aluminum.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 52, (6), pp. 787-90
  • S Chauhan, E Yankelevich, V M Bystritskii and Thomas Wood, 1999, "Degradation of 2,4,5-trichlorophenol and 2,3,5,6-tetrachlorophenol by combining pulse electric discharge with bioremediation.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 52, (2), pp. 261-6
  • A Jayaraman, P J Hallock, R M Carson, Christina Lee, F B Mansfeld and Thomas Wood, 1999, "Inhibiting sulfate-reducing bacteria in biofilms on steel with antimicrobial peptides generated in situ.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 52, (2), pp. 267-75
  • D C Yee, S Chauhan, E Yankelevich, V Bystritskii and Thomas Wood, 1998, "Degradation of perchloroethylene and dichlorophenol by pulsed-electric discharge and bioremediation", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 59, (4), pp. 438-44
  • S Chauhan, P Barbieri and Thomas Wood, 1998, "Oxidation of trichloroethylene, 1,1-dichloroethylene, and chloroform by toluene/o-xylene monooxygenase from Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 64, (8), pp. 3023-4
  • A K Sun, J Hong and Thomas Wood, 1998, "Modeling trichloroethylene degradation by a recombinant pseudomonad expressing toluene ortho-monooxygenase in a fixed-film bioreactor", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 59, (1), pp. 40-51
  • A Jayaraman, A K Sun and Thomas Wood, 1998, "Characterization of axenic Pseudomonas fragi and Escherichia coli biofilms that inhibit corrosion of SAE 1018 steel.", Journal of applied microbiology, 84, (4), pp. 485-92
  • D C Yee, J A Maynard and Thomas Wood, 1998, "Rhizoremediation of trichloroethylene by a recombinant, root-colonizing Pseudomonas fluorescens strain expressing toluene ortho-monooxygenase constitutively.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 64, (1), pp. 112-8
  • A K Sun and Thomas Wood, 1997, "Trichloroethylene mineralization in a fixed-film bioreactor using a pure culture expressing constitutively toluene ortho -monooxygenase.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 55, (4), pp. 674-85
  • C S Kim and Thomas Wood, 1997, "Creating auxotrophic mutants in Methylophilus methylotrophus AS1 by combining electroporation and chemical mutagenesis.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 48, (1), pp. 105-8
  • A Jayaraman, E T Cheng, J C Earthman and Thomas Wood, 1997, "Axenic aerobic biofilms inhibit corrosion of SAE 1018 steel through oxygen depletion.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 48, (1), pp. 11-7
  • A Jayaraman, E T Cheng, J C Earthman and Thomas Wood, 1997, "Importance of biofilm formation for corrosion inhibition of SAE 1018 steel by axenic aerobic biofilms.", Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology, 18, (6), pp. 396-401
  • D C Pecota, C S Kim, K Wu, K Gerdes and Thomas Wood, 1997, "Combining the hok/sok, parDE, and pnd postsegregational killer loci to enhance plasmid stability.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 63, (5), pp. 1917-24
  • D C Yee and Thomas Wood, 1997, "2,4-Dichlorophenol degradation using Streptomyces viridosporus T7A lignin peroxidase.", Biotechnology progress, 13, (1), pp. 53-9
  • D Jahng, C S Kim, R S Hanson and Thomas Wood, 1996, "Optimization of trichloroethylene degradation using soluble methane monooxygenase of Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b expressed in recombinant bacteria.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 51, (3), pp. 349-59
  • D C Pecota and Thomas Wood, 1996, "Exclusion of T4 phage by the hok/sok killer locus from plasmid R1.", Journal of bacteriology, 178, (7), pp. 2044-50
  • A K Sun and Thomas Wood, 1996, "Trichloroethylene degradation and mineralization by pseudomonads and Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b.", Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 45, (1-2), pp. 248-56
  • K Wu and Thomas Wood, 1994, "Evaluation of the hok/sok killer locus for enhanced plasmid stability.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 44, (8), pp. 912-21
  • D Jahng and Thomas Wood, 1994, "Trichloroethylene and chloroform degradation by a recombinant pseudomonad expressing soluble methane monooxygenase from Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b.", Applied and environmental microbiology, 60, (7), pp. 2473-82
  • K Wu, D Jahng and Thomas Wood, 1994, "Temperature and growth rate effects on the hok/sok killer locus for enhanced plasmid stability.", Biotechnology progress, 10, (6), pp. 621-9
  • Thomas Wood and S W Peretti, 1991, "Construction of a specialized-ribosome vector or cloned-gene expression in E. coli.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 38, (8), pp. 891-906
  • Thomas Wood and S W Peretti, 1991, "Effect of chemically-induced, cloned-gene expression on protein synthesis in E. Coli.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 38, (4), pp. 397-412
  • Thomas Wood and S W Peretti, 1990, "Depression of protein synthetic capacity due to cloned-gene expression in E. coli.", Biotechnology and bioengineering, 36, (9), pp. 865-78
  • Thomas Wood and S I Guttman, 1983, "Enchenopa binotata Complex: Sympatric Speciation?", Science (New York, N.Y.), 220, (4594), pp. 310-2
  • L R Nault, Thomas Wood and A M Goff, 1974, "Treehopper (Membracidae) alarm pheromones.", Nature, 249, (455), pp. 387-8

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  • Robert Aalberts, Robert Aalberts, Ibrahim M Moustafa, Abdelkader Abdessameud, Robert Aalberts, Robert Aalberts, Robert Aalberts, Abdelkader Abdessameud, Charles W Abdalla, Thomas Wood and Robert Aalberts, 2017, "Exploiting Quorum Sensing Inhibition for the Control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii Biofilms", CURRENT TOPICS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, 17, (17), pp. 1915-1927
  • Khaled K Abdou, Khaled K Abdou, Mohamed Abdou, Robert Aalberts, Khaled K Abdou, Abdelkader Abdessameud, Abdelkader Abdessameud, Thomas Wood and Robert Aalberts, 2017, "Repurposing of Anticancer Drugs for the Treatment of Bacterial Infections", CURRENT TOPICS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, 17, (10), pp. 1157-1176
  • Thomas Wood, 2013, "Precedence for the structural role of flagella in biofilms.", mBio, 4, (2), pp. e00225-13
  • D. Koveal, T. B. Jayasundera, Thomas Wood, W. Peti and R. Page, 2012, "Backbone and sidechain 1H, 15N and 13C assignments of Tyrosine Phosphatase related to Biofilm formation A (TpbA) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
  • P van Dillewijn, H Nojiri, J R Van der Meer and Thomas Wood, 2009, "Bioremediation, a broad perspective.", Microbial biotechnology, 2, (2), pp. 125-7

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