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Colin R. Harwood is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Molecular Biology as a subfield.

Their work encompasses several specialized areas including:

  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Heat shock proteins research
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Frequent publication venues for Harwood include:

  • Marine Biotechnology
  • FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • Microbial Biotechnology
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • microLife

Harwood has collaborated extensively with several researchers, notably:

  • Robert M. Cleverley
  • David Webb
  • Stuart Middlemiss
  • Phillip W. Duke
  • Anthony S. Clare

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • The ins and outs of Bacillus proteases: activities, functions and commercial significance (2021), published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • Impact of Redox Conditions on Antibiotic Resistance Conjugative Gene Transfer Frequency and Plasmid Fate in Wastewater Ecosystems (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • A model industrial workhorse: Bacillus subtilis strain 168 and its genome after a quarter of a century (2023), published in Microbial Biotechnology
  • Development of vaccines at the time of COVID-19 (2020), published in microLife
  • In Vitro Oxidative Crosslinking of Recombinant Barnacle Cyprid Cement Gland Proteins (2021), published in Marine Biotechnology

Best Publications

  • The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis

    F. Kunst;N. Ogasawara;I. Moszer;A. M. Albertini

  • Essential Bacillus subtilis genes

    K. Kobayashi;S.D. Ehrlich;A. Albertini;G. Amati

  • Molecular biological methods for Bacillus

    Colin R. Harwood;Simon M. Cutting

  • Condition-Dependent Transcriptome Reveals High-Level Regulatory Architecture in Bacillus subtilis

    Pierre Nicolas;Ulrike Mäder;Etienne Dervyn;Tatiana Rochat

  • Viability and activity in readily culturable bacteria: a review and discussion of the practical issues

    Douglas B. Kell;Arseny S. Kaprelyants;Arseny S. Kaprelyants;Dieter H. Weichart;Colin R. Harwood

  • Bacterial viability and culturability.

    Michael R. Barer;Colin R. Harwood

  • Toxin gene expression by shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: the role of antibiotics and the bacterial SOS response.

    Patrick T. Kimmitt;Colin R. Harwood;Michael R. Barer

  • Bacillus subtilis and its relatives: molecular biological and industrial workhorses.

    Colin R. Harwood

  • Global Network Reorganization During Dynamic Adaptations of Bacillus subtilis Metabolism

    Joerg Martin Buescher;Wolfram Liebermeister;Matthieu Jules;Markus Uhr

  • Bacillus protein secretion: an unfolding story.

    Colin R. Harwood;Rocky Cranenburgh

  • Post-translocational folding of secretory proteins in Gram-positive bacteria

    Matti Sarvas;Colin R. Harwood;Sierd Bron;Jan Maarten van Dijl

  • Secondary metabolite production and the safety of industrially important members of the Bacillus subtilis group.

    Colin R Harwood;Jean-Marie Mouillon;Susanne Pohl;José Arnau

  • Limiting factors in Escherichia coli fed-batch production of recombinant proteins.

    Anna Maria Sandén;Ingela Prytz;Ioannis Tubulekas;Cecilia Förberg

  • Cell Wall Structure, Synthesis, and Turnover

    A. R. Archibald;I. C. Hancock;C. R. Harwood

  • Dystrophin in skeletal muscle. I. Western blot analysis using a monoclonal antibody.

    Louise V.B. Nicholson;Keith Davison;Gavin Falkous;Colin Harwood

  • THE VIABLE BUT NON-CULTURABLE HYPOTHESIS AND MEDICAL BACTERIOLOGY

    M. R. Barer;L. T. Gribbon;C. R. Harwood;C. E. Nwoguh

  • d-Alanine Substitution of Teichoic Acids as a Modulator of Protein Folding and Stability at the Cytoplasmic Membrane/Cell Wall Interface of Bacillus subtilis

    Hanne-Leena Hyyryläinen;Marika Vitikainen;Joanne Thwaite;Hongyan Wu

  • Heterologous protein secretion by bacillus species from the cradle to the grave.

    Susanne Pohl;Colin R. Harwood

  • Influence of a Cell-Wall-Associated Protease on Production of α-Amylase by Bacillus subtilis

    Keith Stephenson;Colin R. Harwood

  • Regulatory interactions between the Pho and sigma(B)-dependent general stress regulons of Bacillus subtilis.

    Zoltán Prágai;Colin R Harwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael R. Barer
Michael R. Barer University of Leicester
Sierd Bron
Sierd Bron University of Groningen
Michael Hecker
Michael Hecker University of Greifswald
Jan Maarten van Dijl
Jan Maarten van Dijl University Medical Center Groningen
Alan C. Ward
Alan C. Ward Newcastle University
Georges Rapoport
Georges Rapoport Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Claudine Médigue
Claudine Médigue University of Paris-Saclay
Antoine Danchin
Antoine Danchin Institut Cochin
Eduardo P. C. Rocha
Eduardo P. C. Rocha Institut Pasteur
Georg Homuth
Georg Homuth Greifswald University Hospital

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