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  1. Identification of insertion sites for the integrative and conjugative element Tn916 in the Bacillus subtilis chromosome

    Article • PLOS One, May 2025, PLOS

    Alan D Grossman

  2. A phage-encoded counter-defense inhibits an NAD-degrading anti-phage defense system

    Article • PLoS Genetics, April 2025, PLOS

    Alan D Grossman

  3. Timing of integration into the chromosome is critical for the fitness of an integrative and conjugative element and its bacterial host

    Article • PLoS Genetics, February 2023, PLOS

    Alan D Grossman

  4. Beneficial and detrimental genes in the cellular response to replication arrest

    Article • PLoS Genetics, December 2022, PLOS

    Alan D Grossman

  5. Activation of the integrative and conjugative element Tn916 causes growth arrest and death of host bacteria

    Article • PLoS Genetics, October 2022, PLOS

    Alan D Grossman

  6. Multiple mechanisms for overcoming lethal over‐initiation of DNA replication

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, September 2022, Wiley

    Alan D Grossman

  7. Biology and engineering of integrative and conjugative elements: Construction and analyses of hybrid ICEs reveal element functions that affect species-specific efficiencies

    Article • PLoS Genetics, May 2022, PLOS

    Alan D Grossman

  8. A CRISPR interference screen reveals a role for cell wall teichoic acids in conjugation in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, May 2022, Wiley

    Alan D Grossman

  9. Interactions between mobile genetic elements: An anti-phage gene in an integrative and conjugative element protects host cells from predation by a temperate bacteriophage

    Article • PLoS Genetics, February 2022, PLOS

    Alan D Grossman

  10. Genetic networks controlled by the bacterial replication initiator and transcription factor DnaA in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 2017, Wiley

    Alan D Grossman

  11. Rok and DnaA in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, January 2017, Wiley

    Alan D Grossman

  12. Autonomous Replication of the Conjugative Transposon Tn916

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, October 2016, ASM Journals

    Alan D Grossman

  13. Complete Genome Sequence ofBacillus subtilisStrain CU1050, Which Is Sensitive to Phage SPβ

    Article • Genome Announcements, April 2016, ASM Journals

    Alan D Grossman

  14. The Composition of the Cell Envelope Affects Conjugation in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, February 2016, ASM Journals

    Alan D Grossman

  15. Integrative and Conjugative Elements (ICEs): What They Do and How They Work

    Article • Annual Review of Genetics, November 2015, Annual Reviews

    Dr Christopher M Johnson, Alan D Grossman

  16. Complete Genome Sequences of Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis Laboratory Strains JH642 (AG174) and AG1839

    Article • Genome Announcements, July 2014, ASM Journals

    Alan D Grossman

  17. The Bifunctional Cell Wall Hydrolase CwlT Is Needed for Conjugation of the Integrative and Conjugative Element ICEBs1 in Bacillus subtilis and B. anthracis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, February 2014, ASM Journals

    Alan D Grossman

  18. The ins and outs of peptide signaling

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, July 1998, Elsevier

    Alan D Grossman