Publications

Bacteriophages target membrane-anchored glycopolymers to promote host cell lysis and progeny release. McKitterick AC, Evan W. Lyerly EW, Bernhardt TG. bioRxiv. 2025 June 24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.24.661397

Chemical Proteomics Strategies for Analyzing Protein Lipidation Reveal the Bacterial O-Mycoloylome. Banahene N, Peters-Clarke TM, Biegas KJ, Shishkova E, Hart EM, McKitterick AC, Kambitsis NH, Johnson UG, Bernhardt TG, Coon JJ, Swarts BM. J Am Chem Soc. 2024 May 1;146(17):12138-12154. doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c02278. Epub 2024 Apr 18. PMID: 38635392

Phage resistance profiling identifies new genes required for biogenesis and modification of the corynebacterial cell envelope. McKitterick AC, Bernhardt TG. Elife. 2022 Nov 9;11:e79981. doi: 10.7554/eLife.79981. PMID: 36350124

Temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern phage-pathogen conflicts. LeGault, KL, Hays, SG, Angermeyer, A, McKitterick, AC, Johura, F, Sultana, M, Ahmed, T, Alam, M, Seed, KD. Science. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg2166

Viral satellites exploit phage proteins to escape degradation of the bacterial host chromosome. McKitterick, AC, Hays, SG, Johura, FT, Alam, M, and Seed, KD.  Cell Host Microbe. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2019.09.006.

Competition between mobile genetic elements drives optimization of a phage-encoded CRISPR-Cas system: Insights from a natural arms-race. McKitterick, AC, LeGault, KL, Angermeyer, A, and Seed, KD. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0089.

Anti-phage islands force their target phage to directly mediate island excision and spread. McKitterick, AC and Seed, KD. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04786-5. Nature Communications. 2018.

A highly specific phage defense system is a conserved feature of the Vibrio cholerae mobilome. O’Hara, BJ, Barth, ZK, McKitterick, AC, and Seed, KD. PLOS Genetics. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006838