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Overview

Harris Bernstein is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with substantial contributions spanning several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Molecular Medicine, Endocrinology, and Ecology.

The scientist has explored various topics related to bacterial genetics and biotechnology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, lipid membrane structure and behavior, Escherichia coli research studies, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, as well as protein structure and dynamics.

Below are some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Harris Bernstein:

  • Cryo-EM structures reveal multiple stages of bacterial outer membrane protein folding, 2022, Cell
  • Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins Are Targeted to the Bam Complex by Two Parallel Mechanisms, 2021, mBio
  • BamA forms a translocation channel for polypeptide export across the bacterial outer membrane, 2021, Molecular Cell
  • Function of the Omp85 Superfamily of Outer Membrane Protein Assembly Factors and Polypeptide Transporters, 2022, Annual Review of Microbiology
  • Small Molecule Antibiotics Inhibit Distinct Stages of Bacterial Outer Membrane Protein Assembly, 2022, mBio

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Matthew Thomas Doyle
  • Janine H. Peterson
  • Xu Wang
  • John R. Jimah
  • Tyrone Dowdy

Harris Bernstein's work has been published in several notable scientific venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • mBio
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell
  • Annual Review of Microbiology

Best Publications

  • DNA repair/pro-apoptotic dual-role proteins in five major DNA repair pathways: fail-safe protection against carcinogenesis.

    Carol Bernstein;Harris Bernstein;Claire M. Payne;Harinder Garewal

  • Bile acids as carcinogens in human gastrointestinal cancers.

    H. Bernstein;C. Bernstein;C.M. Payne;K. Dvorakova

  • Model for signal sequence recognition from amino-acid sequence of 54K subunit of signal recognition particle

    Harris D. Bernstein;Mark A. Poritz;Katharina Strub;Patricia J. Hoben

  • The surprising complexity of signal sequences.

    Ramanujan S. Hegde;Harris D. Bernstein

  • The E. coli Signal Recognition Particle Is Required for the Insertion of a Subset of Inner Membrane Proteins

    Nancy D Ulbrandt;John A Newitt;Harris D Bernstein

  • Protein secretion in gram-negative bacteria via the autotransporter pathway.

    Nathalie Dautin;Harris D. Bernstein

  • Carcinogenicity of deoxycholate, a secondary bile acid.

    Carol Bernstein;Hana Holubec;Achyut K. Bhattacharyya;Huy Nguyen

  • An E. coli Ribonucleoprotein Containing 4.5S RNA Resembles Mammalian Signal Recognition Particle

    Mark A. Poritz;Harris D. Bernstein;Katharina Strub;Dieter Zopf

  • Bile acids as endogenous etiologic agents in gastrointestinal cancer

    Harris Bernstein;Carol Bernstein;Claire M Payne;Katerina Dvorak

  • DNA Damage as the Primary Cause of Aging

    Helen L. Gensler;Harris Bernstein

  • The methionine-rich domain of the 54 kd protein subunit of the signal recognition particle contains an Rna binding site and can be crosslinked to a signal sequence

    D. Zopf;H. D. Bernstein;A. E. Johnson;P. Walter

  • Interaction of E. coli Ffh/4.5S ribonucleoprotein and FtsY mimics that of mammalian signal recognition particle and its receptor

    Joshua D. Miller;Harris D. Bernstein;Harris D. Bernstein;Peter Walter

  • The targeting pathway of Escherichia coli presecretory and integral membrane proteins is specified by the hydrophobicity of the targeting signal

    Hin C. Lee;Harris D. Bernstein

  • Bile acids in combination with low pH induce oxidative stress and oxidative DNA damage: relevance to the pathogenesis of Barrett’s oesophagus

    Katerina Dvorak;Claire M Payne;Melissa Chavarria;Lois Ramsey

  • Cloning and expression of a human kinesin heavy chain gene: interaction of the COOH-terminal domain with cytoplasmic microtubules in transfected CV-1 cells

    F Navone;J Niclas;N Hom-Booher;L Sparks

  • Genetic damage, mutation, and the evolution of sex

    Harris Bernstein;Henry C. Byerly;Frederic A. Hopf;Richard E. Michod

  • Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Reduces Mucus and Intermicrovillar Bridges in Human Stem Cell-Derived Colonoids

    Julie In;Jennifer Foulke-Abel;Nicholas C. Zachos;Anne Marie Hansen

  • Poliovirus mutant that does not selectively inhibit host cell protein synthesis.

    Harris D. Bernstein;Nahum Sonenberg;David Baltimore

  • Interaction of an autotransporter passenger domain with BamA during its translocation across the bacterial outer membrane

    Raffaele Ieva;Harris D. Bernstein

  • Nicotine increases oxidative stress, activates NF-κB and GRP78, induces apoptosis and sensitizes cells to genotoxic/xenobiotic stresses by a multiple stress inducer, deoxycholate: relevance to colon carcinogenesis

    Cara L Crowley-Weber;Katerina Dvorakova;Cheray Crowley;Harris Bernstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Michod
Richard E. Michod University of Arizona
Eugene W. Gerner
Eugene W. Gerner University of Arizona
Richard E. Sampliner
Richard E. Sampliner University of Arizona
Mary Pat Moyer
Mary Pat Moyer Incell Corporation (United States)
Mark Donowitz
Mark Donowitz Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
George L. Wilcox
George L. Wilcox University of Minnesota
Stephen Cusack
Stephen Cusack European Bioinformatics Institute
Peter Walter
Peter Walter University of California, San Francisco
Arthur E. Johnson
Arthur E. Johnson Texas A&M University
Mary K. Estes
Mary K. Estes Baylor College of Medicine

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