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Overview

Jeffrey A. Cole is an academic affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Environmental Science. Within these broader areas, their work focuses on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Physiology, and Surgery.

The scientist has contributed to the understanding of bacterial genetics and biotechnology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, as well as studies related to Helicobacter pylori-associated gastroenterology. Other notable topics in their research include gastric cancer management and outcomes, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and Escherichia coli research studies.

Notable papers by Jeffrey A. Cole include:

  • "Anaerobic bacterial response to nitric oxide stress: Widespread misconceptions and physiologically relevant responses," 2021, Molecular Microbiology
  • "The Di-Iron Protein YtfE Is a Nitric Oxide-Generating Nitrite Reductase Involved in the Management of Nitrosative Stress," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, with multiple works appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and Microbiology Spectrum. Other publication venues include the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Molecular Microbiology, and Helicobacter.

Frequent collaborators in Jeffrey A. Cole's work include Ian R. Henderson, Adam F. Cunningham, Christopher Icke, Emily C. A. Goodall, and Samantha A McKeand.

Best Publications

  • Nitrate, bacteria and human health.

    Jon O. Lundberg;Eddie Weitzberg;Jeff A. Cole;Nigel Benjamin

  • A Novel and Ubiquitous System for Membrane Targeting and Secretion of Cofactor-Containing Proteins

    Joel H Weiner;Peter T Bilous;Gillian M Shaw;Shannon P Lubitz

  • A reassessment of the FNR regulon and transcriptomic analysis of the effects of nitrate, nitrite, NarXL, and NarQP as Escherichia coli K12 adapts from aerobic to anaerobic growth.

    Chrystala Constantinidou;Jon L. Hobman;Lesley Griffiths;Mala D. Patel

  • NITRITE REDUCTION TO AMMONIA BY FERMENTATIVE BACTERIA: A SHORT CIRCUIT IN THE BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN CYCLE

    J. A. Cole;C.M. Brown

  • Improved nitrogen removal by application of new nitrogen-cycle bacteria

    Mike S.M. Jetten;Markus Schmid;Ingo Schmidt;Mariska Wubben

  • Nitrate reduction to ammonia by enteric bacteria: redundancy, or a strategy for survival during oxygen starvation?

    Jeff Cole

  • Detection and widespread distribution of the nrfA gene encoding nitrite reduction to ammonia, a short circuit in the biological nitrogen cycle that competes with denitrification

    Sudesh B. Mohan;Markus Schmid;Mike Jetten;Jeff Cole

  • Respiratory detoxification of nitric oxide by the cytochrome c nitrite reductase of Escherichia coli.

    Susannah R. Poock;Emily R. Leach;James W.B. Moir;Jeffrey A. Cole

  • In vitro and in vivo modification of Neisseria gonorrhoeae lipooligosaccharide epitope structure by sialylation.

    R E Mandrell;A J Lesse;J V Sugai;M Shero

  • The essential genome of Escherichia coli K-12

    Emily C. A. Goodall;Ashley Robinson;Iain G. Johnston;Sara Jabbari

  • Competition between Escherichia coli strains expressing either a periplasmic or a membrane-bound nitrate reductase: does Nap confer a selective advantage during nitrate-limited growth?

    Laura C. Potter;Paul Millington;Lesley Griffiths;Gavin H. Thomas

  • A seven-gene operon essential for formate-dependent nitrite reduction to ammonia by enteric bacteria.

    Haitham Hussain;Jane Grove;Lesley Griffiths;Stephen Busby

  • Escherichia coli K-12 genes essential for the synthesis of c-type cytochromes and a third nitrate reductase located in the periplasm.

    J Grove;S Tanapongpipat;G Thomas;Lesley Griffiths

  • Structure and Spectroscopy of the Periplasmic Cytochrome c Nitrite Reductase from Escherichia coli

    Vicki A. Bamford;Hayley C. Angove;Harriet E. Seward;Andrew J. Thomson

  • Cytidine 5'-monophospho-N-acetyl neuraminic acid and a low molecular weight factor from human blood cells induce lipopolysaccharide alteration in gonococci when conferring resistance to killing by human serum.

    Nicholas J. Parsons;Pankaj V. Patel;Eng L. Tan;Eng L. Tan;Joao R.C. Andrade

  • The roles of the polytopic membrane proteins NarK, NarU and NirC in Escherichia coli K‐12: two nitrate and three nitrite transporters

    Stephanie Clegg;Feng Yu;Lesley Griffiths;Jeffrey A. Cole

  • The NsrR Regulon of Escherichia coli K-12 Includes Genes Encoding the Hybrid Cluster Protein and the Periplasmic, Respiratory Nitrite Reductase

    Nina Filenko;Stephen Spiro;Douglas F. Browning;Derrick Squire

  • Nitrate reduction in the periplasm of gram-negative bacteria.

    Laura Potter;Hayley Angove;David J. Richardson;Jeff Cole

  • Cytidine 5'-monophospho-N-acetylneuraminic acid or a related compound is the low Mr factor from human red blood cells which induces gonococcal resistance to killing by human serum.

    Christine A. Nairn;J. A. Cole;P. V. Patel;N. J. Parsons

  • Different physiological roles of two independent pathways for nitrite reduction to ammonia by enteric bacteria.

    Lisa Page;Lesley Griffiths;Jeff A. Cole

  • Roles of NapF, NapG and NapH, subunits of the Escherichia coli periplasmic nitrate reductase, in ubiquinol oxidation.

    T. H. C. Brondijk;D. Fiegen;D. J. Richardson;J. A. Cole

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry Smith
Harry Smith University of Birmingham
Stephen J. W. Busby
Stephen J. W. Busby University of Birmingham
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Ian R. Henderson
Ian R. Henderson University of Cambridge
Adam F. Cunningham
Adam F. Cunningham University of Birmingham
Julea N. Butt
Julea N. Butt University of East Anglia
Stephen J. Forsythe
Stephen J. Forsythe Nottingham Trent University
Marcus A. Horn
Marcus A. Horn University of Hannover
Andrew J. Fox
Andrew J. Fox Manchester Royal Infirmary
Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

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