Items by Waterfield, Nicholas

Book Sections

Waterfield, N., Hares, M., Hinchliffe, S., Wren, B. and Ffrench-Constant, R., 2007. The insect toxin complex of Yersinia. In: Genus Yersinia: From Genomics to Function. Vol. 603. Springer, pp. 247-257. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

Ffrench-Constant, R. and Waterfield, N., 2006. An ABC guide to the bacterial toxin complexes. In: Advances in Applied Microbiology, Vol 58. Vol. 58. Elsevier, pp. 169-183. (Advances in Applied Microbiology)

Articles

Pereira Morais, M. P., Marshall, D., Flower, S. E., Caunt, C. J., James, T. D., Williams, R. J., Waterfield, N. R. and Van Den Elsen, J. M. H., 2013. Analysis of protein glycation using fluorescent phenylboronate gel electrophoresis. Scientific Reports, 3, 1437.

Beeton, M.L., Atkinson, D.J. and Waterfield, N.R., 2013. An amoeba phagocytosis model reveals a novel developmental switch in the insect pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis. Journal of Insect Physiology, 59 (2), pp. 223-231.

Thanwisai, A., Tandhavanant, S., Saiprom, N., Waterfield, N. R., Ke Long, P., Bode, H. B., Peacock, S. J. and Chantratita, N., 2012. Diversity of Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus spp. and their symbiotic entomopathogenic nematodes from Thailand. PLoS ONE, 7 (9), e43835.

Yang, G., Hernández-Rodríguez, C.S., Beeton, M.L., Wilkinson, P., ffrench-Constant, R.H. and Waterfield, N. R., 2012. Pdl1 is a putative lipase that enhances Photorhabdus toxin complex secretion. PLoS Pathogens, 8 (5), e1002692.

Vlisidou, I., Waterfield, N. and Wood, W., 2012. Elucidating the in vivo targets of Photorhabdus toxins in real-time using Drosophila embryos. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 710, pp. 49-57.

Amos, M. R., Sanchez-Contreras, M., Jackson, R. W., Munoz-Berbel, X., Ciche, T. A., Yang, G., Cooper, R. M. and Waterfield, N. R., 2011. Influence of the Photorhabdus luminescens phosphomannose isomerase gene, manA, on mannose utilization, exopolysaccharide structure, and biofilm formation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77 (3), pp. 776-785.

Poulter, N., Donaldson, M., Mulley, G., Duque, L., Waterfield, N., Shard, A. G., Spencer, S., Jenkins, A. T. A. and Johnson, A. L., 2011. Plasma deposited metal Schiff-base compounds as antimicrobials. New Journal of Chemistry, 35 (7), pp. 1477-1484.

Dowling, A. J., Wilkinson, P. A., Holden, M. T. G., Quail, M. A., Bentley, S. D., Reger, J., Waterfield, N. R., Titball, R. W. and Ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2010. Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals Loci Encoding Anti-Macrophage Factors in the Human Pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei K96243. PLoS ONE, 5 (12), e15693.

Peat, S. M., Ffrench-Constant, R. H., Waterfield, N. R., Marokhazi, J., Fodor, A. and Adams, B. J., 2010. A robust phylogenetic framework for the bacterial genus Photorhabdus and its use in studying the evolution and maintenance of bioluminescence: A case for 16S, gyrB, and glnA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 57 (2), pp. 728-740.

Vlisidou, I., Eleftherianos, I., Dorus, S., Yang, G., Ffrench-Constant, R. H., Reynolds, S. E. and Waterfield, N. R., 2010. The KdpD/KdpE two-component system of Photorhabdus asymbiotica promotes bacterial survival within M. sexta hemocytes. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 105 (3), pp. 352-362.

Wilkinson, P., Paszkiewicz, K., Moorhouse, A., Szubert, J. M., Beatson, S., Gerrard, J., Waterfield, N. R. and Ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2010. New plasmids and putative virulence factors from the draft genome of an Australian clinical isolate of Photorhabdus asymbiotica. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 309 (2), pp. 136-143.

Jones, R. T., Sanchez-Contreras, M., Vlisidou, I., Amos, M. R., Yang, G., Munoz-Berbel, X., Upadhyay, A., Potter, U. J., Joyce, S. A., Ciche, T. A., Jenkins, A. T. A., Bagby, S., ffrench-Constant, R. H. and Waterfield, N. R., 2010. Photorhabdus adhesion modification protein (Pam) binds extracellular polysaccharide and alters bacterial attachment. BMC Microbiology, 10, 141.

Waterfield, N., 2010. Host–pathogen interactions: Proline gives insect pathogens the green light. Current Biology, 20 (1), R13-R15.

Poulter, N., Munoz-Berbel, X., Johnson, A. L., Dowling, A. J., Waterfield, N. and Jenkins, A. T. A., 2009. An organo-silver compound that shows antimicrobial activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a monomer and plasma deposited film. Chemical Communications

Vlisidou, I., Dowling, A. J., Evans, I. R., Waterfield, N., ffrench-Constant, R. H. and Wood, W., 2009. Drosophila embryos as model systems for monitoring bacterial infection in real time. PLoS Pathogens, 5 (7), e1000518.

Wilkinson, P., Waterfield, N. R., Crossman, L., Corton, C., Sanchez-Contreras, M., Vlisidou, I., Barron, A., Bignell, A., Clark, L., Ormond, D., Mayho, M., Bason, N., Smith, F., Simmonds, M., Churcher, C., Harris, D., Thompson, N. R., Quail, M., Parkhill, J. and ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2009. Comparative genomics of the emerging human pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica with the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens. BMC Genomics, 10, pp. 302-324.

Eleftherianos, I., Waterfield, N. R., Bone, P., Boundy, S., Ffrench-Constant, R. H. and Reynolds, S. E., 2009. A single locus from the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens inhibits activated Manduca sexta phenoloxidase. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 293 (2), pp. 170-176.

Plichta, K. L., Joyce, S. A., Clarke, D., Waterfield, N. and Stock, S. P., 2009. Heterorhabditis gerrardi n. sp (Nematoda: Heterorhabditidae): the hidden host of Photorhabdus asymbiotica (Enterobacteriaceae: gamma-Proteobacteria). Journal of Helminthology, 83 (4), pp. 309-320.

Waterfield, N. R., Ciche, T. and Clarke, D., 2009. Photorhabdus and a Host of Hosts. Annual Review of Microbiology, 63, pp. 557-574.

Ahantarig, A., Chantawat, N., Waterfield, N. R., Ffrench-Constant, R. and Kittayapong, P., 2009. PirAB Toxin from Photorhabdus asymbiotica as a Larvicide against Dengue Vectors. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75 (13), pp. 4627-4629.

Waterfield, N. R., Sanchez-Contreras, M., Eleftherianos, I., Dowling, A., Yang, G., Wilkinson, P., Parkhill, J., Thomson, N., Reynolds, S. E., Bode, H., Dorus, S. and ffrench-Constant, R., 2008. Rapid Virulence Annotation (RVA): identification of virulence factors using a bacterial genome library and multiple invertebrate hosts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (41), pp. 15967-15972.

Hares, M. C., Hinchliffe, S. J., Strong, P. C. R., Eleftherianos, I., Dowling, A. J., Ffrench-Constant, R. H. and Waterfield, N., 2008. The Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia pestis toxin complex is active against cultured mammalian cells. Microbiology, 154, pp. 3503-3517.

Erickson, D. L., Waterfield, N. R., Vadyvaloo, V., Long, D., Fischer, E. R., ffrench-Constant, R. and Hinnebusch, B. J., 2007. Acute oral toxicity of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis to fleas: implications for the evolution of vector-borne transmission of plague. Cellular Microbiology, 9 (11), pp. 2658-2666.

Dowling, A. J., Waterfield, N. R., Hares, M. C., Le Goff, G., Streuli, C. H. and Ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2007. The Mcf1 toxin induces apoptosis via the mitochondrial pathway and apoptosis is attenuated by mutation of the BH3-like domain. Cellular Microbiology, 9 (10), pp. 2470-2484.

Arnold, D. L., Jackson, R. W., Waterfield, N. R. and Mansfield, J. W., 2007. Evolution of microbial virulence: the benefits of stress. Trends in Genetics, 23 (6), pp. 293-300.

Eleftherianos, I., Millichap, P. J., Felfoldi, G., Gokcen, F., Waterfield, N., Clarke, D. J., Ffrench-Constant, R. H. and Reynolds, S. E., 2007. Probing the insect immune system with the entomopathogen Photorhabdus. Journal of Insect Science, 7.

Ffrench-Constant, R. H., Dowling, A. and Waterfield, N. R., 2007. Insecticidal toxins from Photorhabdus bacteria and their potential use in agriculture. Toxicon, 49 (4), pp. 436-451.

Gerrard, J. G., Joyce, S. A., Clarke, D. J., Ffrench-Constant, R. H., Nimmo, G. R., Looke, D. F. M., Feil, E. J., Pearce, L. and Waterfield, N. R., 2006. Nematode symbiont for Photorhabdus asymbiotica. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 12 (10), pp. 1562-1564.

Peat, S., French-Constant, R., Waterfield, N. and Adams, B. J., 2006. A phylogenetic analysis of Photorhabdus and the evoution of bioluminescent intensity. Journal of Nematology, 38 (2), p. 286.

Ffrench-Constant, R. H. and Waterfield, N. R., 2006. Ground control for insect pests. Nature Biotechnology, 24 (6), pp. 660-661.

Yang, G., Dowling, A. J., Gerike, U., ffrench-Constant, R. H. and Waterfield, N. R., 2006. Photorhabdus virulence cassettes confer injectable insecticidal activity against the wax moth. Journal of Bacteriology, 188 (6), pp. 2254-2261.

Peat, S., French-Constant, R., Waterfield, N. and Adams, B. J., 2006. The effect of rooting and outgroup choice in recovering significant cospeciation between Heterorhabditis and Photorhabdus. Journal of Nematology, 38 (2), p. 286.

ffrench-Constant, R., Waterfield, N., Dowling, A., Hares, M., Yang, G., Eleftherianos, I., Millechamp, P. and Reynolds, S., 2005. Probing the insect immune system with the insect pathogen Photorhabdus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A - Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 141 (3), S108.

Siegfried, B. D., Waterfield, N. and ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2005. Expressed sequence tags from Diabrotica virgifera virgifera midgut identify a coleopteran cadherin and a diversity of cathepsins. Insect Molecular Biology, 14 (2), pp. 137-143.

Waterfield, N., Kamita, S. G., Hammock, B. D. and Ffrench-Constant, R., 2005. The Photorhabdus Pir toxins are similar to a developmentally regulated insect protein but show no juvenile hormone esterase activity. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 245 (1), pp. 47-52.

Waterfield, N., Hares, M., Yang, G., Dowling, A. and ffrench-Constant, R., 2005. Potentiation and cellular phenotypes of the insecticidal Toxin complexes of Photorhabdus bacteria. Cellular Microbiology, 7 (3), pp. 373-382.

Waterfield, N. R., Wren, B. W. and ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2004. Invertebrates as a source of emerging human pathogens. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2 (10), pp. 833-841.

Dowling, A. J., Daborn, P. J., Waterfield, N. R., Wang, P., Streuli, C. H. and ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2004. The insecticidal toxin Makes caterpillars floppy (Mcf) promotes apoptosis in mammalian cells. Cellular Microbiology, 6 (4), pp. 345-353.

Gerrard, J., Waterfield, N., Vohra, R. and ffrench-Constant, R., 2004. Human infection with Photorhabdus asymbiotica: an emerging bacterial pathogen. Microbes and Infection, 6 (2), pp. 229-237.

Waterfield, N. R., Daborn, P. J. and Ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2004. Insect pathogenicity islands in the insect pathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus. Physiological Entomology, 29 (3), pp. 240-250.

Waterfield, N. R., Daborn, P. J., Dowling, A. J., Yang, G. W., Hares, M. and Ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2003. The insecticidal toxin makes caterpillars floppy 2 (Mcf2) shows similarity to HrmA, an avirulence protein from a plant pathogen. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 229 (2), pp. 265-270.

Marokhazi, J., Waterfield, N., LeGoff, G., Feil, E., Stabler, R., Hinds, J., Fodor, A. and ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2003. Using a DNA microarray to investigate the distribution of insect virulence factors in strains of Photorhabdus bacteria. Journal of Bacteriology, 185 (15), pp. 4648-4656.

Ffrench-Constant, R., Waterfield, N., Daborn, P., Joyce, S., Bennett, H., Au, C., Dowling, A., Boundy, S., Reynolds, S. and Clarke, D., 2003. Photorhabdus: towards a functional genomic analysis of a symbiont and pathogen. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 26 (5), pp. 433-456.

Waterfield, N. R., Daborn, P. J. and ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2002. Genomic islands in Photorhabdus. Trends in Microbiology, 10 (12), pp. 541-545.

Sharma, S., Waterfield, N., Bowen, D., Rocheleau, T., Holland, L., James, R. and ffrench-Constant, R., 2002. The lumicins: novel bacteriocins from Photorhabdus luminescens with similarity to the uropathogenic-specific protein (USP) from uropathogenic Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 214 (2), pp. 241-249.

Daborn, P. J., Waterfield, N., Silva, C. P., Au, C. P. Y., Sharma, S. and Ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2002. A single Photorhabdus gene, makes caterpillars floppy (mcf), allows Escherichia coli to persist within and kill insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99 (16), pp. 10742-10747.

Silva, C. P., Waterfield, N. R., Daborn, P. J., Dean, P., Chilver, T., Au, C. P. Y., Sharma, S., Potter, U., Reynolds, S. E. and ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2002. Bacterial infection of a model insect: Photorhabdus luminescens and Manduca sexta. Cellular Microbiology, 4 (6), pp. 329-339.

Waterfield, N., Dowling, A., Sharma, S., Daborn, P. J., Potter, U. and Ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2001. Oral toxicity of Photorhabdus luminescens W14 toxin complexes in Escherichia coli. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 67 (11), pp. 5017-5024.

Daborn, P. J., Waterfield, N., Blight, M. A. and Ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2001. Measuring virulence factor expression by the pathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens in culture and during insect infection. Journal of Bacteriology, 183 (20), pp. 5834-5839.

Waterfield, N. R., Bowen, D. J., Fetherston, J. D., Perry, R. D. and ffrench-Constant, R. H., 2001. The tc genes of Photorhabdus: a growing family. Trends in Microbiology, 9 (4), pp. 185-191.

ffrench-Constant, R. H., Waterfield, N., Burland, V., Perna, N. T., Daborn, P. J., Bowen, D. and Blattner, F. R., 2000. A genomic sample sequence of the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens W14: Potential implications for virulence. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66 (8), pp. 3310-3329.

Patent

Ffrench-Constant, Richard, 2006. Nematistatic protein. C07K14/24-WO2006123157(A2), 23 November 2006.

Ffrench-Constant, Richard, 2003. Photorhabdus luminescens MCF toxin genes and uses thereof. A01N63/02-WO03102129 (A2), 11 December 2003.

Ffrench-Constant, Richard, 2002. DNA sequences from photorhabdus luminescens. C07K14/24-US2002078478 (A1), 20 June 2002.