3D MicroCT Imaging of Medicago sativa Root Nodules

Samantha G Crossman, Meiru Wang, Stephanie H Nowotarski, Melainia L McClain, Siva Sankari. Jove

Mutations in legume genes that influence symbiosis create a complex selective landscape for rhizobial symbionts

Sohini Guha, Regina B Bledsoe, Jeremy Sutherland, Brendan Epstein, Gwendolyn M Fry, Vikram Venugopal, Siva Sankari, Alejandra Gil-Polo, Garrett Levin, Barney A Geddes, Nevin D Young, Peter Tiffin, Liana T Burghardt. The ISME Journal

Exploiting peptide chirality and transport to dissect the complex mechanism of action of host peptides on bacteria

Siva Sankari, Markus FF Arnold, Vignesh MP Babu, Michael Deutsch, Graham C Walker. PLoS Genetics

A CRISPR Interference System for Inducible Gene Knockdown in soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti

Francisco J Guerra-Garcia, Siva Sankari

Structure-based phylogenetic analysis reveals multiple events of convergent evolution of cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides in legume-rhizobium symbiosis

Amira Boukherissa, Siva Sankari, Tatiana Timchenko, Mickaël Bourge, Peter Mergaert, George C Dicenzo, Jacqui A Shykoff, Benoît Alunni, Ricardo C Rodríguez de la Vega

NCR peptides in plant-bacterial symbiosis: applications and importance

Sankari S, Guerra-Garcia F. Trends in Microbiology.

The BacA (SbmA) Importer of Symbiotically Important Legume Nodule Cysteine-Rich Peptides: Insights into Protein Architecture, Function, and Evolutionary Implications

Markus FF Arnold, Siva Sankari, Michael Deutsch, Charley C Gruber, Francisco J Guerra-Garcia, Kostantinos Beis, Graham C Walker

Unraveling the Molecular Arms Race: Grapevine Fanleaf Virus Proteins as Suppressors of Plant Antiviral Silencing Pathways

Sankari S, Lovelace AH. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2023;36:534-535.

A bacterial iron exporter for maintenance of iron homeostasis

Sankari S, O'Brian MR. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2014;16498-16507.

The Bradyrhizobium japonicum ferrous iron transporter FeoAB is required for ferric iron utilization in free living aerobic cells and for symbiosis

Sankari S, O'Brian MR. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2016;291;15653-15662.

A haem-sequestering plant peptide promotes iron uptake in symbiotic bacteria

Sankari S, Babu VMP , Bian K, Alhhazmi A, Andorfer MC, Avalos DM. Nature Microbiology. 2022;7;1453-1465.

Sinorhizobium meliloti YbeY is a zinc-dependent single-strand specific endoribonuclease that plays an important role in 16S ribosomal RNA processing.

Babu VMP, Sankari S, Budnick JA , Caswell CC, Walker GC. Nucleic Acids Research. 2020;48;332-348.

Synthetic lethality of the bfr and mbfA genes reveals a functional relationship between iron storage and iron export in managing stress responses in Bradyrhizobium japonicum

Sankari S, O’Brian MR. PloS One. 2016;11;e0157250.

Flux balance analysis for maximizing polyhydroxyalkanoate production in Pseudomonas putida

Ramalingam S, Vikram M , Vigneshbabu MP, Sivasankari M. NISCAIR-CSIR, India. 2011.

A Mutant Era GTPase Suppresses Phenotypes Caused by Loss of Highly Conserved YbeY Protein in Escherichia coli

Babu VMP, Sankari S, Ghosal A, Walker GC. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022;13;896075.

Understanding the Mechanism of Action of Anti-microbial Peptides Using a Novel DNA-based Strategy and Enantiomers.

Sankari S, Arnold MF, Walker GC. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Animal. 2019;55;S26.

Discovery and analysis of iron export and iron import mechanisms of Bradyrhizobium japonicum and their roles in managing stress responses

Sankaran SSIM State University of New York at Buffalo. 2016.