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8633
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Overview

Bernard Weisblum is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including chemistry and medicine, with a focus on organic chemistry and pharmacology. Weisblum's work also engages with microbiology and molecular biology as subfields, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry.

The scientist has contributed to the literature in specialized research areas such as antimicrobial peptides and activities, antimicrobial agents and applications, polydiacetylene-based materials and applications, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, fungal biology and applications, and plant biochemistry and biosynthesis.

Weisblum has published in notable scientific journals, including the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology.

  • Beyond Amphiphilic Balance: Changing Subunit Stereochemistry Alters the Pore-Forming Activity of Nylon-3 Polymers, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Rice-induced secondary metabolite gene expression in Aspergillus nidulans, 2020, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Their collaborations include work with researchers such as Lei Liu, Kevin C. Courtney, Sean W. Huth, Leslie A. Rank, and Edwin R. Chapman.

Best Publications

  • Erythromycin resistance by ribosome modification.

    Bernard Weisblum

  • Nucleotide sequence and functional map of pC194, a plasmid that specifies inducible chloramphenicol resistance.

    S Horinouchi;B Weisblum

  • Non-haemolytic β-amino-acid oligomers

    Emilie A. Porter;Xifang Wang;Hee-Seung Lee;Bernard Weisblum

  • Nucleotide sequence and functional map of pE194, a plasmid that specifies inducible resistance to macrolide, lincosamide, and streptogramin type B antibodies.

    S Horinouchi;B Weisblum

  • Construction of a colicin E1-R factor composite plasmid in vitro: means for amplification of deoxyribonucleic acid.

    T Tanaka;B Weisblum

  • Mimicry of host-defense peptides by unnatural oligomers: antimicrobial beta-peptides.

    Emilie A. Porter;Bernard Weisblum;Samuel H. Gellman

  • Mimicry of antimicrobial host-defense peptides by random copolymers.

    Brendan P. Mowery;Sarah E. Lee;Denis A. Kissounko;Raquel F. Epand

  • On the role of soluble ribonucleic acid in coding for amino acids.

    Francois Chapeville;Fritz Lipmann;Günter von Ehrenstein;Bernard Weisblum

  • Antibiotic inhibitors of the bacterial ribosome.

    B Weisblum;J Davies

  • Quinacrine, A Chromosome Stain Specific for Deoxyadenylate-Deoxythymidylate-Rich Regions in DNA

    Bernard Weisblum;Pieter L. De Haseth

  • Altered Methylation of Ribosomal RNA in an Erythromycin-Resistant Strain of Staphylococcus aureus

    C. J. Lai;B. Weisblum

  • Structure-activity studies of 14-helical antimicrobial beta-peptides: probing the relationship between conformational stability and antimicrobial potency.

    Tami L. Raguse;Emilie A. Porter;Bernard Weisblum;Samuel H. Gellman

  • Insights into erythromycin action from studies of its activity as inducer of resistance.

    Bernard Weisblum

  • Posttranscriptional modification of mRNA conformation: Mechanism that regulates erythromycin-induced resistance

    Sueharu Horinouchi;Bernard Weisblum

  • Inducible resistance to macrolides, lincosamides and streptogramin type B antibiotics: The resistance phenotype, its biological diversity, and structural elements that regulate expression – A review

    Bernard Weisblum

  • Fluorometric properties of the bibenzimidazole derivative Hoechst 33258, a fluorescent probe specific for AT concentration in chromosomal DNA.

    Bernard Weisblum;Elise Haenssler

  • Unexpected Relationships between Structure and Function in α,β-Peptides: Antimicrobial Foldamers with Heterogeneous Backbones

    Margaret A Schmitt;Bernard Weisblum;Samuel H Gellman

  • Structure-activity relationships among random nylon-3 copolymers that mimic antibacterial host-defense peptides.

    Brendan P. Mowery;Alexandra H. Lindner;Bernard Weisblum;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Interplay among Folding, Sequence, and Lipophilicity in the Antibacterial and Hemolytic Activities of α/β-Peptides

    Margaret A Schmitt;Bernard Weisblum;Samuel H Gellman

  • Plasmid copy number control: isolation and characterization of high-copy-number mutants of plasmid pE194.

    B Weisblum;M Y Graham;T Gryczan;D Dubnau

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel H. Gellman
Samuel H. Gellman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian K. Kay
Brian K. Kay University of Illinois at Chicago
Matthew T. Gillespie
Matthew T. Gillespie Monash University
Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer California Institute of Technology
Shannon S. Stahl
Shannon S. Stahl University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark Mayford
Mark Mayford University of California, San Diego
Sueharu Horinouchi
Sueharu Horinouchi University of Tokyo
Sean P. Palecek
Sean P. Palecek University of Wisconsin–Madison
Helen E. Blackwell
Helen E. Blackwell University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rodney A. Welch
Rodney A. Welch University of Wisconsin–Madison

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