Melanie Marketon
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 2002
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, 2003-2006
Research
Molecular mechanisms of pathogenic microbe-host interactionsRepresentative Publications
Dewoody, R., and M.M. Marketon. 2012. Regulation of the type III secretion system injectisome: Hall monitors for translocation. Submitted to Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.
Dewoody, R., P.M. Merritt, and M.M. Marketon. 2012. YopK control both rate and fidelity of Yop translocation. Submitted to Molecular Microbiology.
Houppert, A.S., L. Bohman, A.J. Caulfield, W.W. Lathem, and M.M.Marketon. 2012. RfaL is required for Yersinia pestis type III secretion and virulence. Submitted to Infection and Immunity.
Houppert, A. S., E. Kwiatkowski, E. M. Glass, K. L. DeBord, P. M. Merritt, O. Schneewind, and M. M. Marketon. 2012. Identification of Chromosomal Genes in Yersinia pestis that Influence Type III Secretion and Delivery of Yops into Target Cells. PLoS ONE 7(3): e34039. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034039. PMCID: PMC3316589.
Dewoody, R., P.M. Merritt, A.S. Houppert, and M.M. Marketon. 2011. YopK Regulates the Yersinia pestis Type III Secretion System from Within Host Cells. Mol Microbiol. 79:1445-1461. PMCID: PMC3210821.
DeBord, K.L., D.M. Anderson, M.M. Marketon, K.A. Overheim, R.W. DePaolo, N. Ciletti, B. Jabri, and O. Schneewind. 2006. Immunogenicity and protective immunity against bubonic plague and pneumonic plague by immunization of mice with the recombinant V10 antigen, a variant of LcrV. Infect Immun. 74: 4910-4914. PMCID: PMC1539636.
DeBord, K.L., D.M. Anderson, M.M. Marketon, K.A. Overheim, R.W. DePaolo, N. Ciletti, B. Jabri, and O. Schneewind. 2006. Immunogenicity and protective immunity against bubonic plague and pneumonic plague by immunization of mice with the recombinant V10 antigen, a variant of LcrV. Infect Immun. 74: 4910-4914. PMCID: PMC1539636.
Sorg, J.A, N.C. Miller, M.M. Marketon, and O. Schneewind. 2005. Rejection of Impassable Substrates by Yersinia Type III Secretion Machines. J. Bacteriol. 187: 7090-7102. PMCID: PMC1251613.
Marketon, M.M., R.W. DePaolo, K.L. DeBord, B. Jabri, and O. Schneewind. 2005. Plague Bacteria Target Immune Cells during Infection. Science 309: 1739-1741. PMCID: PMC3210820.
