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  1. The good, the bad, and the ugly of metals as antimicrobials

    Article • BioMetals, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  2. Selenite bioreduction by a consortium of halophilic/halotolerant bacteria and/or yeasts in saline media

    Article • Environmental Pollution, August 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  3. Use of Microbial Consortia in Bioremediation of Metalloid Polluted Environments

    Article • Microorganisms, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  4. Mechanochemical Preparation, Solid-State Characterization, and Antimicrobial Performance of Copper and Silver Nitrate Coordination Polymers with L- and DL-Arginine and Histidine

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  5. Exploring the Co-Crystallization of Kojic Acid with Silver(I), Copper(II), Zinc(II), and Gallium(III) for Potential Antibacterial Applications

    Article • Molecules, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  6. Small multidrug resistance protein EmrE phenotypically associates with OmpW, DcrB and YggM for osmotic stress protection by betaine in Escherichia coli

    Article • Microbiology, December 2022, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  7. Tolerance, Adaptation, and Cell Response Elicited by Micromonospora sp. Facing Tellurite Toxicity: A Biological and Physical-Chemical Characterization

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Delia Chillura Martino, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  8. Comparison of Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Activity of Proflavine Co-crystallized with Silver, Copper, Zinc, and Gallium Salts

    Article • ACS Applied Bio Materials, August 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  9. Antibacterial, Antibiofilm, and Antioxidant Activity of 15 Different Plant-Based Natural Compounds in Comparison with Ciprofloxacin and Gentamicin

    Article • Antibiotics, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  10. Enhanced Exoelectrogenic Activity of Cupriavidus metallidurans in Bioelectrochemical Systems through the Expression of a Constitutively Active Diguanylate Cyclase

    Article • Environments, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  11. Assessing Microbial Monitoring Methods for Challenging Environmental Strains and Cultures

    Article • Microbiology Research, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  12. Transcriptomic Analysis of the Dual Response of Rhodococcus aetherivorans BCP1 to Inorganic Arsenic Oxyanions

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2022, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  13. Tellurite and Selenite: how can these two oxyanions be chemically different yet so similar in the way they are transformed to their metal forms by bacteria?

    Article • April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  14. Synergism inhibition and eradication activity of silver nitrate/potassium tellurite combination against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm

    Article • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  15. Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines against Delta (B.1.617.2) Variant: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Studies

    Article • Vaccines, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  16. Using a chemical genetic screen to enhance our understanding of the antimicrobial properties of copper

    Article • Metallomics, December 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  17. Assessing microbial growth monitoring methods for challenging strains and cultures

    Article • October 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  18. Efficacy and Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials

    Article • Vaccines, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  19. Nanomaterials in Wound Healing and Infection Control

    Article • Antibiotics, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  20. Creation of Universal Primers Targeting Nonconserved, Horizontally Mobile Genes: Lessons and Considerations

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2021, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  21. Proflavine and zinc chloride “team chemistry”: combining antibacterial agents via solid-state interaction

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  22. Processing of Metals and Metalloids by Actinobacteria: Cell Resistance Mechanisms and Synthesis of Metal(loid)-Based Nanostructures

    Article • Microorganisms, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  23. Metal-Resistance in Bacteria: Why Care?

    Article • Genes, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  24. Silver Antibacterial Synergism Activities with Eight Other Metal(loid)-Based Antimicrobials against Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus

    Article • Antibiotics, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  25. Multiple Compounds Secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Increase the Tolerance of Staphylococcus aureus to the Antimicrobial Metals Copper and Silver

    Article • mSystems, October 2020, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  26. Biomolecular composition of capping layer and stability of biogenic selenium nanoparticles synthesized by five bacterial species

    Article • Microbial Biotechnology, October 2020, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  27. Co-crystallization of antibacterials with inorganic salts: paving the way to activity enhancement

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  28. Phylogenetic characterization of the energy taxis receptor Aer in Pseudomonas and phenotypic characterization in Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707

    Article • Microbiology, December 2019, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  29. Influence of Bacterial Physiology on Processing of Selenite, Biogenesis of Nanomaterials and Their Thermodynamic Stability

    Article • Molecules, July 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Giovanni Vallini, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  30. Specificity in the Susceptibilities of Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates to Six Metal Antimicrobials

    Article • Antibiotics, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  31. Using a Chemical Genetic Screen to Enhance Our Understanding of the Antimicrobial Properties of Gallium against Escherichia coli

    Article • Genes, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  32. Is Silver the Ultimate Antimicrobial Bullet?

    Article • Antibiotics, December 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  33. Some facts about the respiratory enzymes of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 recently renamed as Pseudomonas furukawaii sp. nov., type strain KF707

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, September 2018, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  34. The Response of <em>Cupriavidus Metallidurans</em> CH34 to Cadmium Involves a Decrease in Intracellular Levels of C-Di-GMP Probably Mediated by a Novel Metal Regulated Phosphodiesterase That Inhibits the Biofilm Lifestyle

    Article • July 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  35. Using a Chemical Genetic Screen to Enhance Our Understanding of the Antibacterial Properties of Silver

    Article • Genes, July 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  36. Few Conserved Amino Acids in the Small Multidrug Resistance Transporter EmrE Influence Drug Polyselectivity

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2018, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  37. Selenium and tellurium nanomaterials

    Article • Physical Sciences Reviews, April 2018, De Gruyter

    Elena Piacenza, Professor Raymond J. Turner, Professor Giovanni Vallini

  38. Aerobic Growth of Rhodococcus aetherivorans BCP1 Using Selected Naphthenic Acids as the Sole Carbon and Energy Sources

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, April 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  39. Assembly, growth and conductive properties of tellurium nanorods produced by Rhodococcus aetherivorans BCP1

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  40. Biosynthesis of selenium-nanoparticles and -nanorods as a product of selenite bioconversion by the aerobic bacterium Rhodococcus aetherivorans BCP1

    Article • New Biotechnology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  41. Stability of biogenic metal(loid) nanomaterials related to the colloidal stabilization theory of chemical nanostructures

    Article • Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Raymond J. Turner, Elena Piacenza

  42. Cardiolipin synthase A colocalizes with cardiolipin and osmosensing transporter ProP at the poles of Escherichia coli cells

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, January 2018, Wiley

    University Professor Emerita Janet Marion Wood, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  43. Primary Metabolism and Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Alterations Precede Long-Chain Fatty Acid Changes Impacting Neutral Lipid Metabolism in Response to an Anticancer Lysophosphatidylcholine Analogue in Yeast

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, September 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  44. metal ions used as antibiotics

    Article • Microbial Biotechnology, July 2017, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  45. Biphenyl Modulates the Expression and Function of Respiratory Oxidases in the Polychlorinated-Biphenyls Degrader Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, June 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  46. Silver oxynitrate – an efficacious compound for the prevention and eradication of dual-species biofilms

    Article • Biofouling, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  47. Secondary multidrug efflux pump mutants alter Escherichia coli biofilm growth in the presence of cationic antimicrobial compounds

    Article • Research in Microbiology, April 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  48. Screening selectively harnessed environmental microbial communities for biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in moving bed biofilm reactors

    Article • Bioresource Technology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  49. Antimicrobial activity of biogenically produced spherical Se-nanomaterials embedded in organic material against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus strains on hydroxyapatite-coated surfaces

    Article • Microbial Biotechnology, February 2017, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner, Dr Emanuele Zonaro, Professor Giovanni Vallini, Elena Piacenza

  50. The efficacy of different anti-microbial metals at preventing the formation of, and eradicating bacterial biofilms of pathogenic indicator strains

    Article • The Journal of Antibiotics, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  51. Bacterial conversion of toxic metal/metalloid chemical species into exploitable nano-materials

    Article • Journal of Hazardous Materials, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Emanuele Zonaro, Professor Giovanni Vallini, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  52. Assembly pathway of a bacterial complex iron sulfur molybdoenzyme

    Article • BioMolecular Concepts, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  53. Rhodococcus aetherivorans BCP1 as cell factory for the production of intracellular tellurium nanorods under aerobic conditions

    Article • Microbial Cell Factories, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  54. Relationship between craniocervical orientation and center of force of occlusion in adults

    Article • CRANIO®, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  55. A comparison of the response of twoBurkholderia fungorumstrains grown as planktonic cells versus biofilm to dibenzothiophene and select polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

    Article • Canadian Journal of Microbiology, October 2016, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Giovanni Vallini, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  56. Removal and biodegradation of naphthenic acids by biochar and attached environmental biofilms in the presence of co-contaminating metals

    Article • Bioresource Technology, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  57. On the role of a specific insert in acetate permeases (ActP) for tellurite uptake in bacteria: functional and structural studies

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Stefano Ciurli, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  58. Identification of protein–protein interactions between the TatB and TatC subunits of the twin-arginine translocase system and respiratory enzyme specific chaperones

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, April 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  59. Evaluating the Metal Tolerance Capacity of Microbial Communities Isolated from Alberta Oil Sands Process Water

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2016, PLOS

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  60. The Role of <i>cheA</i> Genes in Swarming and Swimming Motility of <i>Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes</i> KF707

    Article • Microbes and Environments, January 2016, Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  61. Influence of GTP on system specific chaperone – Twin arginine signal peptide interaction

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  62. Culturing oil sands microbes as mixed species communities enhances ex situ model naphthenic acid degradation

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, September 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  63. Metabolomics reveals differences of metal toxicity in cultures of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 grown on different carbon sources

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Sean C Booth, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  64. Biogenic selenium and tellurium nanoparticles synthesized by environmental microbial isolates efficaciously inhibit bacterial planktonic cultures and biofilms

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, June 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Emanuele Zonaro, Professor Giovanni Vallini, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  65. NarJ subfamily system specific chaperone diversity and evolution is directed by respiratory enzyme associations

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  66. Growth of Rhodococcus sp. strain BCP1 on gaseous n-alkanes: new metabolic insights and transcriptional analysis of two soluble di-iron monooxygenase genes

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, May 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  67. Silver Oxynitrate, an Unexplored Silver Compound with Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Activity

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, April 2015, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  68. Making water-soluble integral membrane proteins in vivo using an amphipathic protein fusion strategy

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  69. Thermodynamic Characterization of the DmsD Binding Site for the DmsA Twin-Arginine Motif

    Article • Biochemistry, March 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  70. Unusual pairing between assistants: Interaction of the twin-arginine system-specific chaperone DmsD with the chaperonin GroEL

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  71. Respiration and ecological niche influence bacterial membrane lipid compositions

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner, Dr Sean C Booth

  72. ‘Come into the fold’: A comparative analysis of bacterial redox enzyme maturation protein members of the NarJ subfamily

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  73. Surveillance and molecular characterization of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in a hospital water distribution system over a three-year period

    Article • Journal of Hospital Infection, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  74. Excited State Photoreaction between the Indole Side Chain of Tryptophan and Halocompounds Generates New Fluorophores and Unique Modifications

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, April 2014, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  75. Outer Membrane Protein OmpW Participates with Small Multidrug Resistance Protein Member EmrE in Quaternary Cationic Compound Efflux

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, March 2014, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  76. Reduction of chalcogen oxyanions and generation of nanoprecipitates by the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus

    Article • Journal of Hazardous Materials, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  77. Harnessing oil sands microbial communities for use in ex situ naphthenic acid bioremediation

    Article • Chemosphere, February 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  78. Unique Photobleaching Phenomena of the Twin-Arginine Translocase Respiratory Enzyme Chaperone DmsD

    Article • The Open Biochemistry Journal, January 2014, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  79. Mixed-Species Biofilms Cultured from an Oil Sand Tailings Pond can Biomineralize Metals

    Article • Microbial Ecology, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  80. Diversity and Evolution of Bacterial Twin Arginine Translocase Protein, TatC, Reveals a Protein Secretion System That Is Evolving to Fit Its Environmental Niche

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2013, PLOS

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  81. The Hydrophobic Region of the DmsA Twin-Arginine Leader Peptide Determines Specificity with Chaperone DmsD

    Article • Biochemistry, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  82. Multi-species biofilms defined from drinking water microorganisms provide increased protection against chlorine disinfection

    Article • Biofouling, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  83. Spatial distributions of Pseudomonas fluorescens colony variants in mixed-culture biofilms

    Article • BMC Microbiology, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  84. Antimicrobial activity of metals: mechanisms, molecular targets and applications

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  85. Membrane composition influences the topology bias of bacterial integral membrane proteins

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  86. Visualizing a multidrug resistance protein, EmrE, with major bacterial lipids using Brewster angle microscopy

    Article • Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  87. Effect of aluminium and copper on biofilm development of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 and P. fluorescens as a function of different media compositions

    Article • Metallomics, January 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sean C Booth, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  88. The cmbT gene encodes a novel major facilitator multidrug resistance transporter in Lactococcus lactis

    Article • Research in Microbiology, January 2013, Elsevier

    PhD Milan Kojic, Branko Jovčić , Professor Raymond J. Turner

  89. Microbial processing of tellurium as a tool in biotechnology

    Article • Biotechnology Advances, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  90. Small Multidrug Resistance Protein EmrE Reduces Host pH and Osmotic Tolerance to Metabolic Quaternary Cation Osmoprotectants

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, August 2012, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  91. Genome Sequence of the Polychlorinated-Biphenyl Degrader Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2012, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  92. Spectroscopic analysis of small multidrug resistance protein EmrE in the presence of various quaternary cation compounds

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  93. Real-time imaging of lipid domains and distinct coexisting membrane protein clusters

    Article • Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  94. Evaluation of microbial biofilm communities from an Alberta oil sands tailings pond

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  95. Spectroscopic analysis of the intrinsic chromophores within small multidrug resistance protein SugE

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  96. Towards understanding the Tat translocation mechanism through structural and biophysical studies of the amphipathic region of TatA from Escherichia coli

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  97. Differences in Metabolism between the Biofilm and Planktonic Response to Metal Stress

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, July 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sean C Booth, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  98. Synergistic effect of lipopeptide biosurfactant with antibiotics against Escherichia coli CFT073 biofilm

    Article • International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  99. Metabolomics and its application to studying metal toxicity

    Article • Metallomics, January 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sean C Booth, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  100. Analyses of both thealkBGene Transcriptional Start Site andalkBPromoter-Inducing Properties ofRhodococcussp. Strain BCP1 Grown onn-Alkanes

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2010, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  101. Phenotypic diversification in vivo: Pseudomonas aeruginosa gacS− strains generate small colony variants in vivo that are distinct from in vitro variants

    Article • Microbiology, December 2010, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  102. A histidine-kinasecheAgene ofPseudomonas pseudoalcaligensKF707 not only has a key role in chemotaxis but also affects biofilm formation and cell metabolism

    Article • Biofouling, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  103. Monooxygenases involved in the n-alkanes metabolism by Rhodococcus sp. BCP1: molecular characterization and expression of alkB gene

    Article • Journal of Biotechnology, November 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  104. Comparing system-specific chaperone interactions with their Tat dependent redox enzyme substrates

    Article • FEBS Letters, October 2010, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  105. Tolerance of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 to metals, polychlorobiphenyls and chlorobenzoates: effects on chemotaxis-, biofilm- and planktonic-grown cells

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, September 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  106. Enhanced translocation of recombinant proteins via the Tat pathway with chaperones in Escherichia coli

    Article • Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  107. Real-time imaging of the lateral architecture of lipids and proteins in Escherichia coli membranes

    Article • Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, August 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  108. Microtiter susceptibility testing of microbes growing on peg lids: a miniaturized biofilm model for high-throughput screening

    Article • Nature Protocols, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  109. DmsD, a Tat system specific chaperone, interacts with other general chaperones and proteins involved in the molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, June 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  110. Needed, new paradigms in antibiotic development

    Article • Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, April 2010, Informa Healthcare

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  111. Phenotypic and metabolic profiling of colony morphology variants evolved fromPseudomonas fluorescensbiofilms

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, April 2010, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  112. Multimeric forms of the small multidrug resistance protein EmrE in anionic detergent

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Mu-Ping Nieh, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  113. Identification of a novel ABC transporter required for desiccation tolerance, and biofilm formation inRhizobium leguminosarumbv.viciae3841

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, March 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  114. Inorganic Polyphosphate and Energy Metabolism in Mammalian Cells

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  115. The activity of silver against Escherichia coli biofilm is increased by a lipopeptide biosurfactant

    Article • Canadian Journal of Microbiology, March 2010, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  116. Visualizing Interactions along the Escherichia coli Twin-Arginine Translocation Pathway Using Protein Fragment Complementation

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2010, PLOS

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  117. Chromosomal antioxidant genes have metal ion-specific roles as determinants of bacterial metal tolerance

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, October 2009, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  118. Anti-adhesion activity of two biosurfactants produced by Bacillus spp. prevents biofilm formation of human bacterial pathogens

    Article • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  119. Using synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy and principal components analysis to monitor dissolved organic matter dynamics in a glacier system

    Article • Hydrological Processes, May 2009, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  120. Structural Analysis of a Monomeric Form of the Twin-Arginine Leader Peptide Binding Chaperone Escherichia coli DmsD

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  121. The Chromosomal Toxin Gene yafQ Is a Determinant of Multidrug Tolerance for Escherichia coli Growing in a Biofilm

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2009, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  122. The GacS–GacA two-component regulatory system ofPseudomonas fluorescens: a bacterial two-hybrid analysis

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, March 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  123. In vivo associations of Escherichia coli NarJ with a peptide of the first 50 residues of nitrate reductase catalytic subunit NarG

    Article • Canadian Journal of Microbiology, February 2009, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  124. Differential Interactions between Tat-Specific Redox Enzyme Peptides and Their Chaperones

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 2009, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  125. Diversity and evolution of the small multidrug resistance protein family

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  126. Metabolomic Investigation of the Bacterial Response to a Metal Challenge

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2008, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  127. Microbial biofilms: Advances in remediation of co-contaminants

    Article • Journal of Biotechnology, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  128. Small multidrug resistance proteins: A multidrug transporter family that continues to grow

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  129. Structural proteomics of the cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  130. Copper and Quaternary Ammonium Cations Exert Synergistic Bactericidal and Antibiofilm Activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2008, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  131. Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 upon biofilm formation on a polystyrene surface acquire a strong antibiotic resistance with minor changes in their tolerance to metal cations and metalloid oxyanions

    Article • Archives of Microbiology, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  132. Identification of Residues in DmsD for Twin-Arginine Leader Peptide Binding, Defined through Random and Bioinformatics-Directed Mutagenesis

    Article • Biochemistry, February 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  133. Investigating Protein–Protein Interactions by Far-Westerns

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  134. Multimetal resistance and tolerance in microbial biofilms

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  135. Strong poison revisited

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, November 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  136. Pseudomonas fluorescens' view of the periodic table

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2007, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  137. A subpopulation ofCandida albicansandCandida tropicalisbiofilm cells are highly tolerant to chelating agents

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, July 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  138. Metal Ions May Suppress or Enhance Cellular Differentiation in Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis Biofilms

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2007, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  139. Development of indole chemistry to label tryptophan residues in protein for determination of tryptophan surface accessibility

    Article • Protein Science, June 2007, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  140. The TatA Subunit of Escherichia coli Twin-Arginine Translocase Has an N-in Topology

    Article • Biochemistry, May 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  141. The Bacterial Response to the Chalcogen Metalloids Se and Te

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  142. The GacS sensor kinase controls phenotypic reversion of small colony variants isolated from biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  143. The use of microscopy and three-dimensional visualization to evaluate the structure of microbial biofilms cultivated in the calgary biofilm device

    Article • Biological Procedures Online, December 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  144. The Thiol:Disulfide Oxidoreductase DsbB Mediates the Oxidizing Effects of the Toxic Metalloid Tellurite (TeO32−) on the Plasma Membrane Redox System of the Facultative Phototroph Rhodobacter capsulatus

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, November 2006, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  145. Physical nature of signal peptide binding to DmsD

    Article • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  146. Abundance and Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Glacier Systems

    Article • Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research, May 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  147. Identification of Trichloroethanol Visualized Proteins from Two-Dimensional Polyacrylamide Gels by Mass Spectrometry

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, April 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  148. An evaluation ofin vitro protein–protein interaction techniques: Assessing contaminating background proteins

    Article • PROTEOMICS, April 2006, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  149. Twin-arginine translocase may have a role in the chaperone function of NarJ from Escherichia coli

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, April 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  150. Metal resistance in Candida biofilms

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, March 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  151. Twin-arginine signal peptide attributes effective display of CD147 to filamentous phage

    Article • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  152. High-throughput metal susceptibility testing of microbial biofilms

    Article • BMC Microbiology, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  153. Persister cells mediate tolerance to metal oxyanions in Escherichia coli

    Article • Microbiology, October 2005, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  154. SMR proteins SugE and EmrE bind ligand with similar affinity and stoichiometry

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  155. Effects of the twin-arginine translocase on the structure and antimicrobial susceptibility ofEscherichia colibiofilms

    Article • Canadian Journal of Microbiology, August 2005, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  156. Persister cells, the biofilm matrix and tolerance to metal cations in biofilm and planktonic Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, July 2005, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  157. Signal peptide–chaperone interactions on the twin-arginine protein transport pathway

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Prof Frank Sargent, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  158. Organic solvent extracted EmrE solubilized in dodecyl maltoside is monomeric and binds drug ligand

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, February 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  159. Investigation of Ligand Binding to the Multidrug Resistance Protein EmrE by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  160. In Vivo 31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation of Tellurite Toxicity in Escherichia coli

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2004, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  161. Biofilm susceptibility to metal toxicity

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, December 2004, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  162. Sequence analysis of bacterial redox enzyme maturation proteins (REMPs)

    Article • Canadian Journal of Microbiology, April 2004, Canadian Science Publishing

    Prof Frank Sargent, Professor Raymond J. Turner

  163. Folding forms of Escherichia coli DmsD, a twin-arginine leader binding protein

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  164. Visible fluorescent detection of proteins in polyacrylamide gels without staining

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  165. Transport of physiological nucleosides and anti-viral and anti-neoplastic nucleoside drugs by recombinantEscherichia colinucleoside-H+cotransporter (NupC) produced inXenopus laevisoocytes

    Article • Molecular Membrane Biology, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  166. Mutagenesis of SugE, a small multidrug resistance protein

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, December 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner, Dr Mike S Son

  167. The Twin-arginine Leader-binding Protein, DmsD, Interacts with the TatB and TatC Subunits of the Escherichia coli Twin-arginine Translocase

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  168. Examination of EmrE conformational differences in various membrane mimetic environments

    Article • Biochemistry and Cell Biology, April 2003, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  169. A novel procedure for separating small peptides on polyacrylamide gels

    Article • Letters in Peptide Science, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  170. DmsD is required for the biogenesis of DMSO reductase inEscherichia colibut not for the interaction of the DmsA signal peptide with the Tat apparatus

    Article • FEBS Letters, December 2002, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  171. Optimization of expression and the purification by organic extraction of the integral membrane protein EmrE

    Article • Protein Expression and Purification, October 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  172. Differential effects of a molybdopterin synthase sulfurylase (moeB) mutation onEscherichia colimolybdoenzyme maturation

    Article • Biochemistry and Cell Biology, August 2002, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  173. Visualization of Proteins in Acrylamide Gels Using Ultraviolet Illumination

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, February 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  174. The Light-induced Reactions of Tryptophan with Halocompounds¶

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  175. Identification of a twin-arginine leader-binding protein

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, April 2001, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  176. Glutathione is a target in tellurite toxicity and is protected by tellurite resistance determinants in <i>Escherichia coli</i>

    Article • Canadian Journal of Microbiology, January 2001, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  177. Escherichia coli TehB RequiresS-Adenosylmethionine as a Cofactor To Mediate Tellurite Resistance

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, November 2000, ASM Journals

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  178. The Role of Cysteine Residues in Tellurite Resistance Mediated by the TehAB Determinant

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, October 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  179. Multiple Roles for the Twin Arginine Leader Sequence of Dimethyl Sulfoxide Reductase of Escherichia coli

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  180. A Novel and Ubiquitous System for Membrane Targeting and Secretion of Cofactor-Containing Proteins

    Article • Cell, April 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  181. Article • BioMetals, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  182. Expression and epitope tagging of the membrane anchor subunit (DmsC) of Escherichia coli dimethyl sulfoxide reductase

    Article • Protein Engineering Design and Selection, March 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  183. The SMR family: a novel family of multidrug efflux proteins involved with the efflux of lipophilic drugs

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 1996, Wiley

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  184. A new gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) superagonist in goldfish: influence of dialkyl-d-homoarginine at position 6 on gonadotropin-II and growth hormone release

    Article • Regulatory Peptides, August 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  185. Differential Actions of a Mammalian Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Antagonist on Gonadotropin-ll and Growth Hormone Release in Goldfish, <i>Carassius auratus</i>

    Article • Neuroendocrinology, January 1994, Karger Publishers

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  186. Evaluation of transmembrane helix prediction methods using the recently defined NMR structures of the coat proteins from bacteriophages M13 and Pf1

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology, September 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  187. Long-lived fluorescence lifetime from tyrosine in a peptide derived from S-100b

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, October 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  188. Use of diethyldithiocarbamate for quantitative determination of tellurite uptake by bacteria

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, August 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  189. Fluorescence properties of angiotensin II analogues in receptor-simulating environments: relationship between tyrosinate fluorescence lifetime and biological activity

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, May 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  190. Tyrosinate fluorescence lifetimes for oxytocin and vasopressin in receptor-simulating environments: Relationship to biological activity and 1H-NMR data

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, September 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Raymond J. Turner

  191. Spectroscopic characterization of thioredoxin covalently modified with monofunctional organoarsenical reagents

    Article • Biochemistry, February 1987, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Raymond J. Turner