Publications
Our Publications
Recent Preprints and Publications
GpsB is an accessory Z-ring anchor (2024)
Dipanwita Bhattacharya, Lily McKnight, Asher King, and Prahathees Eswara. “GpsB is an accessory Z-ring anchor.” bioRxiv (2024)
Staphylococcus aureus FtsZ and PBP4 bind to the conformationally dynamic N-terminal domain of GpsB (2024)
Michael Sacco, Lauren Hammond, Radwan Noor, Dipanwita Bhattacharya, Lily McKnight, Jesper Madsen, Xiujun Zhang, Shane Butler, M Trent Kemp, Aiden Jaskolka-Brown, Sebastian Khan^, Ioannis Gelis, Prahathees Eswara*, and Yu Chen*. “Staphylococcus aureus FtsZ and PBP4 bind to the conformationally dynamic N-terminal domain of GpsB.” eLife (2024)
Crucial Role for Lipoteichoic Acid Assembly in the Metabolic Versatility and Antibiotic Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus (2023)
Troy Burtchett, John Shook, Laura Hesse, Philip Delekta, Robert Brzozowski, Alhakam Nouri, Alexa Calas, Catherine Spanoudis, Prahathees Eswara, and Neal Hammer. “Crucial Role for Lipoteichoic Acid Assembly in the Metabolic Versatility and Antibiotic Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus.” Infection and Immunity (2023)
Polyamines and linear DNA mediate bacterial threat assessment of bacteriophage infection (2023)
Camilla de Mattos, Artem Nemudryi, Dominick Faith, DeAnna Bublitz, Lauren Hammond, Margie Kinnersley, Caleb Schwartzkopf, Autumn Robinson, Alex Joyce, Lia Michaels, Robert Brzozowski, Alison Coluccio, Denghui David Xing, Jumpei Uchiyama, Laura Jennings, Prahathees Eswara, Blake Wiedenheft, and Patrick Secor. “Polyamines and linear DNA mediate bacterial threat assessment of bacteriophage infection.” PNAS (2023)
MraZ transcriptionally controls the critical level of FtsL required for focusing Z-rings and kickstarting septation in Bacillus subtilis (2022)
Maria White, Abigail Hough-Neidig, Sebastian Khan, and Prahathees Eswara*. “MraZ transcriptionally controls the critical level of FtsL required for focusing Z-rings and kickstarting septation in Bacillus subtilis.” Journal of Bacteriology (2022)
GpsB coordinates cell division and cell surface decoration by wall teichoic acids in Staphylococcus aureus (2022)
Lauren Hammond, Michael Sacco, Sebastian Khan, Catherine Spanoudis, Abigail Hough, Yu Chen, and Prahathees Eswara*. "GpsB coordinates cell division and cell surface decoration by wall teichoic acids in Staphylococcus aureus." Microbiology Spectrum (2022)
Articles Highlighting Our Research
USF researchers focus on the ‘Achilles heel’ of drug-resistant bacteria: Cell division
University of South Florida
The recent publications of our lab were advertised university-wide by a USF CAS Chronicles article.
USF Researcher Awarded NIH Outstanding Investigator Grant for Understanding and Limiting Bacterial Proliferation
University of South Florida
The news of our NIH R35 MIRA-ESI award, a first of its kind for USF, was celebrated
through an USF News article.
Time to Split
Nature Reviews Microbiology
A review article highlighted the key findings of our 2018 eLife paper.
Fighting Staph on a Cellular Level
University of South Florida
Our 2018 eLife paper was advertised university-wide by an USF News article.
Study reveals function of protein crucial to survival of Staph infections
National Institutes of Health
The National Cancer Institute covered our 2018 eLife paper in a news article.