David Wilson

Cornell University
Professor, Energy
United States

My co-authors include

Professor Christos Kroupis

Professor Patrick D Schloss

My Publications

Processive Cellulases

January 2015

the combination of an exocellulase and an endocellulase gives more then additive hydr...

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
October 2013

Interview with David B. Wilson

Industrial Biotechnology
June 2013

Cellulase Processivity

January 2012

Synergistic interactions in cellulose hydrolysis

Biofuels
January 2012

Determination of the molecular states of the processive endocellulase Thermobifida fusc...

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
August 2011

Microbial diversity of cellulose hydrolysis

Current Opinion in Microbiology
June 2011

Special issue of Current Opinion in Microbiology, focused on ‘Ecology and Industrial Mi...

Current Opinion in Microbiology
June 2011

Glycoside hydrolases: Catalytic base/nucleophile diversity

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
June 2010

The first evidence that a single cellulase can be essential for cellulose degradation i...

Molecular Microbiology
December 2009

The absence of an identifiable single catalytic base residue in<i>Thermobifida fusca</i...

FEBS Journal
July 2009

Evidence for a novel mechanism of microbial cellulose degradation

Cellulose
June 2009

Cellulases and biofuels

Current Opinion in Biotechnology
June 2009

Cell cycle progression in<i>Escherichia coli</i>B/r affects transcription of certain ge...

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
February 2009

Chitin binding by<i>Thermobifida fusca</i>cellulase catalytic domains

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
July 2008

Final Technical Report

April 2008

Three Microbial Strategies for Plant Cell Wall Degradation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
March 2008

ORIGINAL RESEARCH: Endocellulolytic activity of the Clostridium thermocellum Cel9C (fo...

Industrial Biotechnology
March 2008

Regulation and characterization ofThermobifida fusca carbohydrate-binding module protei...

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
January 2008

Effect of sodium hydroxide treatment of bacterial cellulose on cellulase activity

Cellulose
October 2007

Characterization of a family 45 glycosyl hydrolase from Fibrobacter succinogenes S85

Anaerobe
April 2007

Effect of digestion by pure cellulases on crystallinity and average chain length for ba...

Cellulose
March 2007

Characterization of a <i>Thermobifida fusca</i> β-1,3-Glucanase (Lam81A) with a Potenti...

Biochemistry
November 2006

IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMOBIFIDA FUSCA GENES INVOLVED IN PLANT CELL ...

January 2006

A mutant of Prevotella ruminicola B14 deficient in β-1,4-endoglucanase and mannanase ac...

FEMS Microbiology Letters
January 2006

Thermobifida fuscafamily-6 cellulases as potential designer cellulosome components

Biocatalysis and Biotransformation
January 2006

Crystal Structure of <i>Thermobifida fusca</i> Endoglucanase Cel6A in Complex with Subs...

Biochemistry
September 2005

Selective cadmium accumulation using recombinant Escherichia coli

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
February 2005

Purification and characterization of<i>Thermobifida fusca</i>xylanase 10B

Canadian Journal of Microbiology
October 2004

Quantifying bacterial population dynamics in compost using 16S rRNA gene probes

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
September 2004

Cloning, characterization and phylogenetic relationships ofcel5B, a new endoglucanase e...

Journal of Basic Microbiology
September 2004

Kinetic Studies of <i>Thermobifida fusca</i> Cel9A Active Site Mutant Enzymes

Biochemistry
July 2004

Studies ofThermobifida fusca plant cell wall degrading enzymes

The Chemical Record
January 2004

Characterization and Comparison of Metal Accumulation in Two <I>Escherichia coli&...

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology
January 2004

Tracking temporal changes of bacterial community fingerprints during the initial stages...

FEMS Microbiology Ecology
October 2003

Binding and reversibility ofThermobifida fusca Cel5A, Cel6B, and Cel48A and their respe...

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
September 2003

Cloning, expression and characterization of a family-74 xyloglucanase from<i>Thermobifi...

European Journal of Biochemistry
June 2003

Positional expression effects of cysteine mutations in the Thermobifida fusca cellulase...

Enzyme and Microbial Technology
February 2003

Mapping of chorismate mutase and prephenate dehydrogenase domains in the Escherichia co...

European Journal of Biochemistry
January 2003

Binding of Thermobifida fusca CDCel5A, CDCel6B and CDCel48A to easily hydrolysable and ...

Enzyme and Microbial Technology
December 2002

Binding mechanisms forThermobifida fusca Cel5A, Cel6B, and Cel48A cellulose-binding mod...

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
September 2002

Mutation and expression of N233C-D506C of cellulase Cel6B from Thermobifida fusca in Es...

Enzyme and Microbial Technology
May 2002

Cloning

January 2002

Ligation

January 2002

Cloning

January 2002

Minigene

January 2002

Polylinker

January 2002

Recombinant <scp>DNA</scp>

January 2002

Ligase Chain Reaction

January 2002

Blunt‐End Ligation

January 2002

Cohesive, Sticky Ends

January 2002

Fill‐In Reaction

January 2002

<scp>Dg</scp> ‐ <scp>Dc</scp> Tailing

January 2002

Ligase Chain Reaction

January 2002

Synergism in Binary Mixtures of Thermobifida fusca Cellulases Cel6B, Cel9A, and Cel5A o...

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology
January 2002

A selective inhibitor of Escherichia coli prephenate dehydratase

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
September 2001

Cloning and Biochemical Characterization of BglC, a β-Glucosidase from the Cellulolytic...

Current Microbiology
April 2001

Cloning, expression and characterization of a Family 48 exocellulase, Cel48A, from Ther...

European Journal of Biochemistry
August 2000

Probing the Catalytic Mechanism of Prephenate Dehydratase by Site-Directed Mutagenesis ...

Biochemistry
March 2000

Regulation of Phenylalanine Biosynthesis. Studies on the Mechanism of Phenylalanine Bin...

Biochemistry
August 1999

Mechanistic Studies of Active Site Mutants of <i>Thermomonospora fusca</i> Endocellulas...

Biochemistry
July 1999

Comparing the Thermodynamic Stabilities of a Related Thermophilic and Mesophilic Enzyme

Biochemistry
February 1999

Genetics and Properties of Cellulases

January 1999

The role of ruminal carboxymethylcellulases in the degradation of Î²-glucans from cerea...

FEMS Microbiology Ecology
November 1998

Active-Site Binding of Glycosides by <i>Thermomonospora fusca</i> Endocellulase E2

Biochemistry
June 1998

A Prevotella ruminicola B 1 4 Operon Encoding Extracellular Polysaccharide Hydrolases

Current Microbiology
November 1997

Surface residue mutations which change the substrate specificity of Thermomonospora fus...

Journal of Biotechnology
September 1997

Genetic engineering and its potential for mercury(II) bioremediation

January 1997

Study of cadmium uptake and accumulation in Lactobacillus plantarum and Escherichia coli

January 1997

Identification of Two Functionally Different Classes of Exocellulases

Biochemistry
January 1996

Characterization of a Thermomonospora fusca exocellulase

Biochemistry
March 1995

[19] Cloning of Thermomonospora fusca Cellulase Genes in Escherichia coli and Streptomy...

January 1995

The effect of carbohydrates on the expression of the Prevotella ruminicola 1,4-Î²-D-en...

FEMS Microbiology Letters
January 1995

Activity studies of eight purified cellulases: Specificity, synergism, and binding doma...

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
October 1993

Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of a thermophilic endocellulase

Biochemistry
September 1993

Disulfide arrangement and chemical modification of .beta.-1,4-endoglucanase E2 from The...

Biochemistry
August 1993

Dimerization of Thermomonospora fusca .beta.-1,4-endoglucanase E2

Biochemistry
August 1993

Disulfide arrangement and functional domains of .beta.-1,4-endoglucanase E5 from Thermo...

Biochemistry
August 1993

Structure—Function Relationships in Cellulase Genes

July 1993

Continuous, high level production and excretion of a plasmid-encoded protein byEscheric...

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
April 1993

Effects of plasmid copy number and runaway plasmid replication on overproduction and ex...

Biotechnology Progress
January 1993

Escherichia coli host cell modifications in continuous culture affecting heterologous p...

Biotechnology Progress
July 1992

Expression of human epidermal growth factor byEscherichia coli in continuous culture

Biotechnology Letters
May 1992

Guest editorial

Bioresource Technology
January 1991

Chorismate mutase/prephenate dehydratase from escherichia coli: Subcloning, overproduct...

Tetrahedron
January 1991

A genetically engineered monofunctional chorismate mutase

Journal of the American Chemical Society
May 1990

A new class of endoglycosidase inhibitors. Studies on endocellulases

Journal of the American Chemical Society
January 1989

Cloning of Thermomonospora fusca genes coding for beta 1-4 endoglucanases E1, E2 and E5

Gene
November 1988

Release of periplasmic enzymes and other physiological effects of ?-lactamase overprodu...

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
September 1988

Cellulases of Thermomonospora fusca

January 1988

Reply from Wilson and Majerus

Trends in Biochemical Sciences
February 1986

Purification and characterization of two .beta.-1,4-endoglucanases from Thermomonospora...

Biochemistry
December 1985

Cloning and Expression of a Thermomonospora YX Endocellulase Gene in E. coli

Nature Biotechnology
September 1983

Isolation and characterization of a 2000-bp derivative of pBR322

Plasmid
May 1982

Cloning and expression of the yeast galactokinase gene in an Escherichia coli plasmid

Gene
April 1979

The NH<sub>2</sub>-terminal sequences of galactokinase from<i>Escherichia coli</i>and<i...

FEBS Letters
November 1977

Tryptophan and cysteine residues of the acetylcholine receptors of Torpedo species. Rel...

Biochemistry
September 1975

Polarity and transcription in the galactose operon of E. coli

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
July 1972

[35] Galactokinase and uridine diphosphogalactose 4-epimerase from Escherichia coli

January 1966

Aerobic Microbial Cellulase Systems