Carl Bauer
Professor and Chair, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Department
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1986
Postdoctoral Fellow, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
Research
Oxygen and light regulation of gene expression; biosynthesis of heme and chlorophyll; prokaryotic development.
Representative Publications
Gene Expression
Wu J, Bauer CE (2010) RegB kinase activity is controlled in part by monitoring the ratio of oxidized to reduced ubiquinones in the ubiquinone pool. MBio. 1. pii: e00272-10.
Dragnea V, Arunkumar AI, Lee CW, Giedroc DP, Bauer CE. (2010) A Q63E Rhodobacter sphaeroides AppA BLUF domain mutant is locked in a pseudo-light-excited signaling state. Biochemistry. 49:10682-90. PMID: 2108279
Dragnea V, Arunkumar AI, Yuan H, Giedroc DP, Bauer CE.(2009) Spectroscopic studies of the AppA BLUF domain from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: addressing movement of tryptophan 104 in the signaling state.Biochemistry. 48:9969-79. PMID: 19746968
Yuan, H. and C. E. Bauer. 2008. PixD promotes dark oligomerization of the BLUF photoreceptor PixD. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 11715-11719.
Masuda, S., J. Berleman, B. M. Hasselbring and C. E. Bauer. 2008. Regulation of aerobic photosystem synthesis in the purple bacterium Rhodospirillum centenum by CrtJ and AerR. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 7, 1267–1272
Yuan, H., & C. E. Bauer. 2008. PixE promotes Dark Oligomerization of the BLUF Photoreceptor PixD. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA. In Press.Prokaryotic Differentiation
Marden, JN, JE Berleman, CE Bauer. 2011. Cyclic GMP regulates encystment in Rhodospirillum centenum. Mol. Micro. 79:600-615 (Commentary of this study in Mol. Micro 79:562-565). PMID: 21214648
Lu YK, Marden J, Han M, Swingley WD, Mastrian SD, Chowdhury SR, Hao J, Helmy T, Kim S, Kurdoglu AA, Matthies HJ, Rollo D, Stothard P, Blankenship RE, Bauer CE, Touchman JW (2010) Metabolic flexibility revealed in the genome of the cyst-forming alpha-1 proteobacterium Rhodospirillum centenum. BMC Genomics. 11:325.
Berleman, J., & C. E. Bauer 2005. A chemotaxis like signal transduction cascade controls a cyst developmental pathway in Rhodospirillum centenum . Mol . Microbiol. 55, 1390-1402.
Berelman, J. & C. E. Bauer. 2004.Characterization of the cyst cell formation in the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum centenum . Microbiology150, 383-390 (Featured on cover)
Berleman, J., B. Hasselbring, & C. E. Bauer. 2004. Hypercyst Mutants in Rhodospirillum centenum Identify Regulatory Loci Involved in Cyst Cell Differentiation. J. Bacteriol. 186, 5834-5841 (Featured on cover).
