Grace Li, PhD

Li, Y. G., Haeusser, D., Margolin, W., & Christie, P. J. (2025). Conjugative delivery of toxin genes ccdB and kil confers synergistic killing of bacterial recipients. Journal of Bacteriology, e00168-25.

 Li, Y. G., Breidenstein, A., Berntsson, R. P. A., & Christie, P. J. (2024). Conjugative transfer of the IncN plasmid pKM101 is mediated by dynamic interactions between the TraK accessory factor and TraI relaxase. FEBS letters, 598(21), 2717-2733.

Kishida, K., Li, Y. G., Ogawa-Kishida, N., Khara, P., Al Mamun, A. A. M., Bosserman, R. E., & Christie, P. J. (2024). Chimeric systems composed of swapped Tra subunits between distantly-related F plasmids reveal striking plasticity among type IV secretion machines. PLoS genetics, 20(3), e1011088.

Al Mamun, A. A. M., Kissoon, K., Li, Y. G., Hancock, E., & Christie, P. J. (2024). The F plasmid conjutome: the repertoire of E. coli proteins translocated through an F-encoded type IV secretion system. Msphere, 9(7), e00354-24.

 Li, Y. G., Kishida, K., Ogawa-Kishida, N., & Christie, P. J. (2023). Ligand-displaying Escherichia coli cells and minicells for programmable delivery of toxic payloads via type IV secretion systems. MBio, 14(5), e02143-23.

 Li, Y. G., & Christie, P. J. (2020). The TraK accessory factor activates substrate transfer through the pKM101 type IV secretion system independently of its role in relaxosome assembly. Molecular microbiology, 114(2), 214-229.

 Li, Y. G., Hu, B., & Christie, P. J. (2019). Biological and structural diversity of type IV secretion systems. Microbiology spectrum, 7(2), 10-1128.

González‐Rivera, C., Khara, P., Awad, D., Patel, R., Li, Y. G., Bogisch, M., & Christie, P. J. (2019). Two pKM101‐encoded proteins, the pilus‐tip protein TraC and Pep, assemble on the Escherichia coli cell surface as adhesins required for efficient conjugative DNA transfer. Molecular microbiology, 111(1), 96-117.

Rehman, S., Li, Y. G., Schmitt, A., Lassinantti, L., Christie, P. J., & Berntsson, R. P. A. (2019). Enterococcal PcfF is a ribbon-helix-helix protein that recruits the relaxase PcfG through binding and bending of the oriT sequence. Frontiers in microbiology, 10, 958.

Li, Y. G., & Christie, P. J. (2018). The Agrobacterium VirB/VirD4 T4SS: mechanism and architecture defined through in vivo mutagenesis and chimeric systems. Agrobacterium Biology: From Basic Science to Biotechnology, 233-260.

Li, Y. G., & Fallon, A. M. (2016). Rearing the soil arthropod Folsomia candida (Collembola: Isotomidae) on agar plates and estimating biomass by protein staining with Ponceau S. Applied entomology and zoology, 51(3), 489-494.

Baldridge, G. D., Li, Y. G., Witthuhn, B. A., Higgins, L., Markowski, T. W., Baldridge, A. S., & Fallon, A. M. (2016). Mosaic composition of ribA and wspB genes flanking the virB8-D4 operon in the Wolbachia supergroup B-strain, wStr. Archives of Microbiology, 198(1), 53-69.