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Shawn French

CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

January 6, 2023

Authors: Alcock BP, Huynh W … Bhando B, Carfrae LA, Farha MA, French S, Gordzevich R, Rachwalski K, Tu MM … Brown ED … McArthur AG.

Reference: Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 January 6; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac920

Central metabolism is a key player in E. coli biofilm stimulation by sub-MIC antibiotics

September 15, 2022

Authors: Yaeger LN, French S, Brown ED, Côté JP, Burrows LL

Reference: bioRxiv 2022 September 15; doi: 10.1101/2022.09.14.507886

Chemical Screen for Vancomycin Antagonism Uncovers Probes of the Gram-Negative Outer Membrane

May 11, 2021

Authors: Klobucar K, Côté JP, French S, Borrillo L, Guo ABY, Serrano-Wu MH, Lee KK, Hubbard B, Johnson JW, Gaulin JL, Magolan J, Hung DT, and Brown ED.

Reference: ACS Chem. Biol. 2021 May 11; doi: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00179

Systems-Level Chemical Biology to Accelerate Antibiotic Drug Discovery

March 31, 2021

Authors: Farha MA, French S, and Brown ED.

Reference: Acc. Chem. Res.. 2021 Mar 31; doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00011

Physicochemical and Structural Parameters Contributing to the Antibacterial Activity and Efflux Susceptibility of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Escherichia coli

January 19, 2021

Authors: El Zahed SS, French S, Farha MA, Kumar G, and Brown ED.

Reference: AAC. 2021 Jan 19; doi: 10.1128/AAC.01925-20.

Gene Dispensability in Escherichia coli Grown in Thirty Different Carbon Environments

September 29, 2020

Authors: Tong M, French S, El Zahed SS, Ong WK, Karp PD, Brown ED

Reference: mBio. 2020 Sept 29; doi: 10.1128/mBio.02259-20

Genetic and Chemical Screening in Human Blood Serum Reveals Unique Antibacterial Targets and Compounds against Klebsiella pneumoniae

July 21, 2020

Authors: Weber BS, De Jong AM, Guo ABY, Dharavath S, French S, Fiebig-Comyn AA, Coombes BK, Magnolan J, Brown ED.

Reference: Cell Rep. 2020 July 21; doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107927

Genetic and Chemical-Genetic Interactions Map Biogenesis and Permeability Determinants of the Outer Membrane of Escherichia coli

March 10, 2020

Authors: Klobucar K, French S, Côté JP, Howes JR, Brown ED

Reference: mBio. 2020 Mar 10; doi: 10.1128/mBio.00161-20

A comprehensive guide to dynamic analysis of microbial gene expression using the 3D-printed PFIbox and a fluorescent reporter library

January 8, 2020

Authors: French S, Guo ABY, Brown ED.

Reference: Nat. Protoc. 2020 Jan 08; doi: 10.1038/s41596-019-0257-0

Potentiation of Antibiotics against Gram-Negative Bacteria by Polymyxin B Analogue SPR741 from Unique Perturbation of the Outer Membrane

September 30, 2019

Authors: French S, Farha M, Ellis MJ, Sameer Z, Côté JP, Cotroneo N, Lister T, Rubio A, Brown ED.
Reference: ACS Infect. Dis. 2019 Sept 30th; doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00159

A macrophage-based screen identifies antibacterial compounds selective for intracellular Salmonella Typhimurium

January 14, 2019

Authors: Ellis MJ, Tsai CN, Johnson JW, French S, Elhenawy W, Porwollik S, Andrews-Polymenis H, McClelland M, Magolan J, Coombes BK and Brown ED. 
Reference: Nat. Commun. 2019 Jan 14; doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-08190-x

Open-Source High-Throughput Phenomics of Bacterial Promoter-Reporter Strains

August 29, 2018

Authors: French S, Coutts BE, Brown ED.
Reference: Cell Syst. 2018. Aug 29; doi:10.1016/j.cels.2018.07.004

Bicarbonate alters bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics by targeting the proton motive force

December 21, 2017

Authors: Farha MA, French S, Stokes JM, Brown ED.
Reference: ACS Infect Dis. 2017 Dec 21;4(3):382-390. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00194.

Exploiting the sensitivity of nutrient transporter deletion strains in discovery of natural product antimetabolites

October 25, 2017

Authors: Gehrke SS, Kumar G, Yokubynas NA, Côté JP, Wang W, French S, MacNair CR, Wright GD,
Reference: ACS Infect Dis. 2017 Oct 25;3(12):955-965. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00149.

Chemical genomics reveals mechanistic hypotheses for uncharacterized bioactive molecules in bacteria

October 1, 2017

Authors: French S, Ellis MJ, Coutts BE, Brown ED.
Reference: Curr Opin Microbiol. 2017 Sept 26;39:42-47. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.09.005

Bacteria Getting into Shape: Genetic Determinants of E. coli Morphology

March 7, 2017

Authors: French S, Côté JP, Stokes JM, Truant R, Brown ED.
Reference: mBio. 2017 Mar 7;8(2):e01977-16. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01977-16

Pentamidine sensitizes Gram-negative pathogens to antibiotics and overcomes acquired colistin resistance

March 6, 2017

Authors: Stokes JM, MacNair CR, Ilyas B, French S, Côté JP, Bouwman C, Farha MA, Sieron AO, Whitfield C, Coombes BK, Brown, ED.
Reference: Nature Microbiology. 2017 Mar 06;2(5):17028. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.28

A cell-based approach to characterize antimicrobial compounds through kinetic dose response

December 15, 2016

Authors: MacNair CR, Stokes JM, French S, Myers CL, Iyer KR, Brown ED.
Reference: Bioorg Med Chem. 2016 Dec 15;24(24):6315-6319. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2016.09.053.

Identification of Two Phosphate Starvation-induced Wall Teichoic Acid Hydrolases Provides First Insights into the Degradative Pathway of a Key Bacterial Cell Wall Component.

December 9, 2016

Authors: Myers CL, Li FK, Koo BM, El-Halfawy OM, French S, Gross CA, Strynadka NC, Brown ED.
Reference: J Biol Chem. 2016 Dec 9;291(50):26066-26082.

The Genome-Wide Interaction Network of Nutrient Stress Genes in Escherichia coli

November 22, 2016

Authors: Côté JP, French S, Gehrke SS, MacNair CR, Mangat CS, Bharat A, Brown ED.
Reference: MBio. 2016 Nov 22;7(6). pii: e01714-16. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01714-16.