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 inThermobifida fuscaexocel...
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 inEscherichia coliB/r affects transcription of certain genes: Im...
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
February 2009
Chitin binding byThermobifida fuscacellulase 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 Thermobifida fusca β-1,3-Glucanase (Lam81A) with a Potential Rol...
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 Thermobifida fusca Endoglucanase Cel6A in Complex with Substrate ...
Biochemistry
October 2005
Selective cadmium accumulation using recombinant Escherichia coli
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
February 2005
Purification and characterization of Thermobifida fusca 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 Thermobifida fusca Cel9A Active Site Mutant Enzymes †
Biochemistry
August 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</I> St...
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 fromThermobifida ...
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 DNA
January 2002
Ligase Chain Reaction
January 2002
Blunt-End Ligation
January 2002
Cohesive, Sticky Ends
January 2002
Fill-In Reaction
January 2002
Dg-Dc 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
April 2000
Regulation of Phenylalanine Biosynthesis. Studies on the Mechanism of Phenylalanine Bi...
Biochemistry
September 1999
Mechanistic Studies of Active Site Mutants of Thermomonospora fusca Endocellulase E2 †
Biochemistry
July 1999
Comparing the Thermodynamic Stabilities of a Related Thermophilic and Mesophilic Enzym...
Biochemistry
February 1999
Genetics and Properties of Cellulases
January 1999
The role of ruminal carboxymethylcellulases in the degradation of β-glucans from cerea...
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
November 1998
Active-Site Binding of Glycosides by Thermomonospora fusca 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-β-D-en...
FEMS Microbiology Letters
January 1995
Structure—Function Relationships in Cellulase Genes
December 1993
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
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 NH2 -terminal sequences of galactokinase from Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces c...
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
