Houra Merrikh, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2009 Molecular and Cell Biology Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, United States 
Area:
Microbiology Biology, Molecular Biology

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2023 Browning KR, Merrikh H. Pathogenic bacteria experience pervasive RNA polymerase backtracking during infection. Mbio. e0273723. PMID 38095872 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02737-23  0.307
2023 Carvajal-Garcia J, Samadpour AN, Hernandez Viera AJ, Merrikh H. Oxidative stress drives mutagenesis through transcription-coupled repair in bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2300761120. PMID 37364106 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2300761120  0.446
2023 Stoy H, Zwicky K, Kuster D, Lang KS, Krietsch J, Crossley MP, Schmid JA, Cimprich KA, Merrikh H, Lopes M. Direct visualization of transcription-replication conflicts reveals post-replicative DNA:RNA hybrids. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 30: 348-359. PMID 36864174 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-023-00928-6  0.4
2022 Stoy H, S Lang K, Merrikh H, Lopes M. Locus-Specific Analysis of Replication Dynamics and Detection of DNA-RNA Hybrids by Immuno Electron Microscopy. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2528: 67-89. PMID 35704186 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2477-7_6  0.39
2021 Lang KS, Merrikh H. Topological stress is responsible for the detrimental outcomes of head-on replication-transcription conflicts. Cell Reports. 34: 108797. PMID 33657379 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108797  0.415
2021 Ragheb MN, Merrikh C, Browning K, Merrikh H. Mfd regulates RNA polymerase association with hard-to-transcribe regions in vivo, especially those with structured RNAs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. PMID 33443179 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008498118  0.379
2019 Ragheb M, Merrikh H. The enigmatic role of Mfd in replication-transcription conflicts in bacteria. Dna Repair. 102659. PMID 31311770 DOI: 10.1016/J.Dnarep.2019.102659  0.575
2018 Ragheb MN, Thomason MK, Hsu C, Nugent P, Gage J, Samadpour AN, Kariisa A, Merrikh CN, Miller SI, Sherman DR, Merrikh H. Inhibiting the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance. Molecular Cell. PMID 30449724 DOI: 10.1016/J.Molcel.2018.10.015  0.367
2018 Merrikh CN, Merrikh H. Gene inversion potentiates bacterial evolvability and virulence. Nature Communications. 9: 4662. PMID 30405125 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-07110-3  0.4
2018 Lang KS, Merrikh H. The Clash of Macromolecular Titans: Replication-Transcription Conflicts in Bacteria. Annual Review of Microbiology. PMID 29856930 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Micro-090817-062514  0.539
2018 Mangiameli SM, Cass JA, Merrikh H, Wiggins PA. The bacterial replisome has factory-like localization. Current Genetics. PMID 29632994 DOI: 10.1007/S00294-018-0830-Z  0.476
2018 Samadpour AN, Merrikh H. DNA gyrase activity regulates DnaA‐dependent replication initiation in Bacillus subtilis Molecular Microbiology. 108: 115-127. PMID 29396913 DOI: 10.1111/Mmi.13920  0.58
2017 Loftie-Eaton W, Bashford K, Quinn H, Dong K, Millstein J, Hunter S, Thomason MK, Merrikh H, Ponciano JM, Top EM. Compensatory mutations improve general permissiveness to antibiotic resistance plasmids. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1: 1354-1363. PMID 29046540 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-017-0243-2  0.354
2017 Lang KS, Hall AN, Merrikh CN, Ragheb M, Tabakh H, Pollock AJ, Woodward JJ, Dreifus JE, Merrikh H. Replication-Transcription Conflicts Generate R-Loops that Orchestrate Bacterial Stress Survival and Pathogenesis. Cell. 170: 787-799.e18. PMID 28802046 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cell.2017.07.044  0.421
2017 Merrikh H. Spatial and Temporal Control of Evolution through Replication-Transcription Conflicts. Trends in Microbiology. PMID 28216294 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tim.2017.01.008  0.483
2017 Mangiameli SM, Veit BT, Merrikh H, Wiggins PA. The Replisomes Remain Spatially Proximal throughout the Cell Cycle in Bacteria. Plos Genetics. 13: e1006582. PMID 28114307 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1006582  0.463
2017 Mangiameli S, Merrikh CN, Wiggins PA, Merrikh H. Transcription leads to pervasive replisome instability in bacteria. Elife. 6. PMID 28092263 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.19848  0.526
2016 Merrikh CN, Weiss E, Merrikh H. The Accelerated Evolution of Lagging Strand Genes Is Independent of Sequence Context. Genome Biology and Evolution. PMID 28039230 DOI: 10.1093/Gbe/Evw274  0.402
2016 Mangiameli SM, Merrikh CN, Wiggins PA, Merrikh H. Author response: Transcription leads to pervasive replisome instability in bacteria Elife. DOI: 10.7554/Elife.19848.040  0.416
2015 Merrikh CN, Brewer BJ, Merrikh H. The B. subtilis Accessory Helicase PcrA Facilitates DNA Replication through Transcription Units. Plos Genetics. 11: e1005289. PMID 26070154 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1005289  0.515
2015 Million-Weaver S, Samadpour AN, Merrikh H. Replication Restart after Replication-Transcription Conflicts Requires RecA in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 197: 2374-82. PMID 25939832 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00237-15  0.594
2015 Million-Weaver S, Samadpour AN, Moreno-Habel DA, Nugent P, Brittnacher MJ, Weiss E, Hayden HS, Miller SI, Liachko I, Merrikh H. An underlying mechanism for the increased mutagenesis of lagging-strand genes in Bacillus subtilis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: E1096-105. PMID 25713353 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1416651112  0.551
2015 Mangiameli S, Merrikh H, Wiggins P. Direct Visualization of DNA Replication Conflicts in the Bacterial Cell Biophysical Journal. 108: 68. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bpj.2014.11.407  0.563
2014 Mangiameli SM, Wiggins PA, Merrikh H, Merrikh C. Vizualizing Repliication Restart Process In Vivo with Single-Molecule Sensitivity Biophysical Journal. 106. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bpj.2013.11.1602  0.516
2013 Paul S, Million-Weaver S, Chattopadhyay S, Sokurenko E, Merrikh H. Accelerated gene evolution through replication-transcription conflicts. Nature. 495: 512-5. PMID 23538833 DOI: 10.1038/Nature11989  0.447
2012 Merrikh H, Zhang Y, Grossman AD, Wang JD. Replication-transcription conflicts in bacteria. Nature Reviews. Microbiology. 10: 449-58. PMID 22669220 DOI: 10.1038/Nrmicro2800  0.506
2011 Merrikh H, Grossman AD. Control of the replication initiator DnaA by an anti-cooperativity factor. Molecular Microbiology. 82: 434-46. PMID 21895792 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2011.07821.X  0.599
2011 Merrikh H, Machón C, Grainger WH, Grossman AD, Soultanas P. Co-directional replication-transcription conflicts lead to replication restart. Nature. 470: 554-7. PMID 21350489 DOI: 10.1038/Nature09758  0.555
2011 Rahn-Lee L, Merrikh H, Grossman AD, Losick R. The sporulation protein SirA inhibits the binding of DnaA to the origin of replication by contacting a patch of clustered amino acids Journal of Bacteriology. 193: 1302-1307. PMID 21239581 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.01390-10  0.428
2011 Smits WK, Merrikh H, Bonilla CY, Grossman AD. Primosomal proteins DnaD and DnaB are recruited to chromosomal regions bound by DnaA in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 193: 640-8. PMID 21097613 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.01253-10  0.46
2009 Merrikh H, Ferrazzoli AE, Lovett ST. Growth phase and (p)ppGpp control of IraD, a regulator of RpoS stability, in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 191: 7436-46. PMID 19820090 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00412-09  0.591
2009 Goranov AI, Breier AM, Merrikh H, Grossman AD. YabA of Bacillus subtilis controls DnaA-mediated replication initiation but not the transcriptional response to replication stress. Molecular Microbiology. 74: 454-66. PMID 19737352 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2009.06876.X  0.547
2009 Merrikh H, Ferrazzoli AE, Bougdour A, Olivier-Mason A, Lovett ST. A DNA damage response in Escherichia coli involving the alternative sigma factor, RpoS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 611-6. PMID 19124769 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0803665106  0.602
2005 Celenza JL, Quiel JA, Smolen GA, Merrikh H, Silvestro AR, Normanly J, Bender J. The Arabidopsis ATR1 Myb transcription factor controls indolic glucosinolate homeostasis. Plant Physiology. 137: 253-62. PMID 15579661 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.104.054395  0.305
2004 Dower K, Kuperwasser N, Merrikh H, Rosbash M. A synthetic A tail rescues yeast nuclear accumulation of a ribozyme-terminated transcript. Rna (New York, N.Y.). 10: 1888-99. PMID 15547135 DOI: 10.1261/Rna.7166704  0.411
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