David Kehoe

Associate Professor

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Education

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution, Stanford University, 1993

Research

Environmental regulation of gene expression in bacteria

Representative Publications

Li, L., Alvey, R. M., Bezy, R. P., and D. M. Kehoe. 2008. Inverse transcriptional activities during complementary chromatic adaptation are controlled by binding of the response regulator RcaC to red and green light responsive promoters. Molecular Microbiology, 68: 286-297.

Li, L. and D. M. Kehoe. 2008. Abundance changes of the response regulator RcaC require specific aspartate and histidine residues and are necessary for normal light color responsiveness. Journal of Bacteriology, 190: 7241-7250.

Alvey, R. M., Bezy, R. P., Frankenberg-Dinkle, N., and D. M. Kehoe.  2007. A light regulated OmpR-class promoter element coordinates light harvesting protein and chromophore biosynthetic enzyme gene expression. Molecular Microbiology, 64: 319-332.

Kehoe, D. M. and A. Gutu. 2006. Responding to color: the regulation of complementary chromatic adaptation. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 57: 127-150.

Alvey, R. M., Li, L., Balabas, B., Stowe-Evans, E. L., and D. M. Kehoe.  2005.  Signal transduction pathways regulating chromatic adaptation. In Light Sensing in Plants (Ed. M. Wada, K. Shimazaki, and M. Iino) (Springer-Verlag Publishers, Tokyo) pp. 299-306.

Li, L. and D. M. Kehoe.  2005.  In vivo analysis of the roles of conserved aspartate and histidine residues within a complex response regulator. Molecular Microbiology, 55: 1538-1552.

Montgomery, B. L., Casey, E. S., Grossman, A. R., and D. M. Kehoe.  2004.  AplA: a member of a new class of phycobiliproteins lacking a traditional role in photosynthetic light harvesting. Journal of Bacteriology, 186: 7420-7428.

Stowe-Evans, E. L., and Kehoe, D. M.  2004. Signal transduction during light-quality acclimation in cyanobacteria: a model system for understanding phytochrome-response pathways in prokaryotes. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 3: 495-502.

Stowe-Evans, E. L., Ford, J., and Kehoe, D. M.  2004. Genomic DNA microarray analysis: identification of new genes regulated by light in the cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon. J. Bacteriol. 186: 4338-4349.

Terauchi, K., Montgomery, B. L., Grossman, A. R., Lagarias, J. C., and D. M. Kehoe.  2004. RcaE is a complementary chromatic adaptation photoreceptor required for green and red light responsiveness. Mol. Microbiol. 51: 567-577.