Publications
* corresponding author(s)
Wang*, X., Montero Llopis, P. (2016) Visualizing Bacillus subtilis During Vegetative Growth and Spore Formation. Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1431:275-87.
Wang, X., Le, T.B., Lajoie, B.R., Dekker, J., Laub, M.T., Rudner, D.Z.(2015). Condensin promotes the juxtaposition of DNA flanking its loading site in Bacillus subtilis. Genes Dev. 29, 1661-1675.
Wang, X., Rudner, D.Z. (2014) Spatial organization of bacterial chromosomes. Curr Opin Microbiol. 22, 66-72 [review].
Wang, X., Montero Llopis, P., Rudner, D.Z. (2014) Bacillus subtilis chromosome organization oscillates between two distinct patterns. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111 (35) 12877-12882.
Broedersz, C.P., Wang, X., Meir, Y., Loparo, J.J., Rudner, D.Z., Wingreen, N.S. (2014) Condensation and localization of the partitioning protein ParB on the bacterial chromosome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111 (24), 8809-14.
Graham, T.G., Wang, X., Song, D., Etson, C.M., van Oijen, A.M., Rudner, D.Z., Loparo, J.J. (2014) ParB spreading requires DNA bridging. Genes Dev. 28(11), 1228-38.
Pimentel, B., Nair, R., Bermejo-Rodríguez, C., Preston, M.A., Agu, C.A., Wang, X., Bernal, J.A., Sherratt, D.J., de la Cueva-Méndez, G. (2014) Toxin Kid uncouples DNA replication and cell division to enforce retention of plasmid R1 in Escherichia coli cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111(7), 2734-9.
Wang, X., Tang, O.W., Riley, E.P., Rudner, D.Z. (2014) The SMC condensin complex is required for origin segregation in Bacillus subtilis. Curr Biol. 24(3), 287-92.
Wang, X., Montero Llopis, P., Rudner, D.Z.(2013) Organization and segregation of bacterial chromosomes. Nat Rev Genet. 14(3), 191-203. [review]
Yardimci, H., Wang, X., Loveland, A.B., Tappin, I., Rudner, D.Z., Hurwitz, J., van Oijen, A.M., Walter, J.C. (2012) Bypass of a protein barrier by a replicative DNA helicase. Nature. 492(7428), 205-9.
Jackson, D., Wang, X., Rudner D.Z. (2012) Spatio-temporal organization of replication in bacteria and eukaryotes (nucleoids and nuclei). Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 4(8). pii: a010389. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a010389. [review]
Wang, X., Lesterlin, C., Reyes-Lamothe, R., Ball, G., Sherratt, D.J. (2011) Replication and segregation of an Escherichia coli chromosome with two replication origins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108 (26) E243–E250.
Wang, X., Sherratt, D.J. (2010) Independent segregation of the two arms of the Escherichia coli ori region requires neither RNA synthesis nor MreB dynamics. J Bacteriol. 192, 6143-53.
Liu, X., Wang, X., Reyes-Lamothe, R., Sherratt, D.J. (2010) Replication-directed sister chromosome alignment in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol. 75, 1090-7. [Epub 2009 Jul 24]
Wang, X., Reyes-Lamothe, R., Sherratt, D.J. (2008) Modulation of Escherichia coli sister chromosome cohesion by topoisomerase IV. Genes Dev. 22, 2426-2433.
Wang, X., Reyes-Lamothe, R., Sherratt, D.J. (2008) Visualizing genetic loci and molecular machines in living bacteria. Biochem Soc Trans. 36, 749-753. [review]
Reyes-Lamothe, R., Wang, X., Sherratt, D.J. (2008) Escherichia coli and its chromosome. Trends Microbiol. 16, 238-245. [review]
Wang, X., Liu, X., Possoz, C., Sherratt, D.J. (2006). The two Escherichia coli chromosome arms locate to separate cell halves. Genes Dev. 20, 1727-1731.
Wang, X., Possoz, C., Sherratt, D.J. (2005). Dancing around the divisome: asymmetric chromosome segregation in Escherichia coli. Genes Dev. 19, 2367-2377.