Publications
(* indicates undergraduate student author; † indicates equal contribution)
Brennan, C.M.*†, Mazzucca, N.Q.*†, Mezoian, T.*, Hunt, T.M*., Keane, M.L*., Leonard, J.N.*, Scola, S.E.*, Beer, E.N.*, Perdue, S., and B.J. Pellock. Reduced heme levels underlie the exponential growth defect of the Shewanella oneidensis hfq mutant. PLOS ONE 2014; Oct 30 9(10):e109879. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109879. (Link to paper)
Brennan C.M.*, Keane M.L.*, Hunt T.M.*, Goulet M.T.*, Mazzucca N.Q.*, Sexton Z.*, Mezoian T.*, Douglas K.E.*, Osborn J.M.*, and B.J. Pellock. Shewanella oneidensis Hfq promotes exponential phase growth, stationary phase culture density, and cell survival. BMC Microbiology 2013; 13:33. doi:10.1186/1471-2180-13-33 (Link to paper)
Mecca, S., Pellock, B.J., and R. Bretz*. Pathogen removal options: emphasizing SOLDIS for the filtrate of a GSAP Microflush toilet. Water and Society II, WIT Transactions on Ecology and The Environment, Vol 178, pp 201-13 (2013). Editor: C.A. Brebbia, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
Bosch, J.A., Sumabat, T.M., Hafezi, Y., Pellock, B.J., Gandhi, K.D., and I.K. Hariharan. The Drosophila F-box protein Fbxl7 binds to the protocadherin Fat and regulates Dachs localization and Hippo signaling. eLife 2014; 3:e03383. doi:10.7554/eLife.03383. (Link to paper)
Challa, M., Malladi, S., Pellock, B.J., Dresnek, D., Varadarajan, S., Yin, W., White, K., and S.B. Bratton. Drosophila Omi, a mitochondrial-localized IAP antagonist and pro-apoptotic serine protease. EMBO Journal., 26:3144-56, 2007. (Link to paper)
Krieser, R.J., Moore, F.E., Dresnek, D., Pellock, B.J., Patel, R., Huang, A., Brachmann, C., and K. White. The Drosophila homolog of the putative phosphatidylserine receptor functions to inhibit apoptosis during development. Development, 134: 2407-14, 2007. (Link to paper)
Tseng, A-S.K., Tapon, N., Kanda, H., Cigizoglu, S*., Edelmann, L., Pellock, B.J., White, K. and I.K. Hariharan. The HMG-box protein Capicua regulates growth downstream of the receptor tyrosine kinase/Ras signaling pathway. Current Biology, 17:728-33, 2007. (Link to paper)
Pellock, B.J., Buff, E., White, K. and I.K. Hariharan. The Drosophila tumor suppressors Expanded and Merlin differentially regulate cell cycle exit, apoptosis, and Wingless signaling. Developmental Biology, 304:102-115, 2007. (Link to paper)
Tyler, D.M., Li, W., Zhuo, N., Pellock, B.J., and N.E. Baker. Genes affecting cell competition in Drosophila. Genetics, 175:643-57, 2007. (Link to paper)
Cao, J.†, Pellock, B.J.†, White, K., and L.A. Raftery. A commercial phospho-Smad antibody detects endogenous BMP signaling in Drosophila tissues. Drosophila Information Service, 89:131-5, 2006. (Link to paper)
Staehelin, C., Forsberg L.S., D'Haeze, W., Gao, M-Y, Carlson, R.W. Xie, Z-P, Pellock, B.J., Jones, K.M., Walker, G.C., Streit, W.R. and W.J. Broughton. Exo-oligosaccharides of Rhizobium sp. NGR234 are required for symbiosis with various legumes. Journal of Bacteriology, 188:6168-78, 2006. (Link to paper)
Mah, T.F., Pitts, B., Pellock, B.J., Walker, G.C., Stewart, P.S., and G.A. O'Toole, A genetic basis for Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm antibiotic resistance. Nature, 426:306-310, 2003. (Link to paper)
Pellock, B.J., Teplitski, M., Bauer, W.D., Boinay, R.P.*, and G.C. Walker, A LuxR homolog controls production of symbiotically active EPS II by Sinorhizobium meliloti. Journal of Bacteriology, 184:5067-5076, 2002. (Link to paper)
Pellock, B.J., Cheng, H.-P., and G.C. Walker, Alfalfa root nodule invasion efficiency is dependent on Sinorhizobium meliloti polysaccharides. Journal of Bacteriology, 182:4310-4318, 2000. (Link to paper)
Wang, L.-X., Wang, Y., Pellock, B.J., and G.C. Walker, Structural characterization of the symbiotically important low-molecular-weight succinoglycan of Sinorhizobium meliloti. Journal of Bacteriology, 181:6788-6796, 1999. (Link to paper)
Popham, H.J.R., Pellock, B.J., Robson, M., Dierks, P., and L.K. Miller, Characterization of a variant of Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus with a nonfunctional ORF 603. Biological Control, 12:223-230, 1998. (Link to paper)
Pellock, B.J., Lu, A., Meagher, R. Weise, M., and L.K. Miller, Sequence, function, and phylogenetic analysis of an ascovirus DNA polymerase gene. Virology, 216:146-157, 1996. (Link to paper)