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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1973 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

L N Ornston is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. The scholar's career includes recognition as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, awarded in 1973.

Their academic output does not currently list recent papers, frequent co-authors, or frequent publication venues. There is also no specific information on main fields or subfields of study, or main topics of work associated with their publications or research focus available at this time.

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The available data emphasizes their institutional affiliation and a notable award, situating them within the academic context of Yale University and the broader scientific community recognized by the Guggenheim Fellowship. No indication of the scientist's passing has been recorded, so all information is presented in the present tense.

Best Publications

  • The Conversion of Catechol and Protocatechuate to β-Ketoadipate by Pseudomonas putida I. BIOCHEMISTRY

    L.N. Ornston;R.Y. Stanier

  • Unique features revealed by the genome sequence of Acinetobacter sp. ADP1, a versatile and naturally transformation competent bacterium

    Valérie Barbe;David Vallenet;Nuria Fonknechten;Annett Kreimeyer

  • Nucleotide sequences of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus benABC genes for benzoate 1,2-dioxygenase reveal evolutionary relationships among multicomponent oxygenases.

    E L Neidle;C Hartnett;L N Ornston;A Bairoch

  • Naturally transformable Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1 belongs to the newly described species Acinetobacter baylyi.

    Mario Vaneechoutte;David M. Young;L. Nicholas Ornston;Thierry De Baere

  • Nucleotide sequencing and characterization of Pseudomonas putida catR: a positive regulator of the catBC operon is a member of the LysR family.

    R. K. Rothmel;T. L. Aldrich;J. E. Houghton;W. M. Coco

  • Potential DNA slippage structures acquired during evolutionary divergence of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus chromosomal benABC and Pseudomonas putida TOL pWW0 plasmid xylXYZ, genes encoding benzoate dioxygenases.

    S Harayama;M Rekik;A Bairoch;E L Neidle

  • Physically associated enzymes produce and metabolize 2-hydroxy-2,4-dienoate, a chemically unstable intermediate formed in catechol metabolism via meta cleavage in Pseudomonas putida.

    S Harayama;M Rekik;K L Ngai;L N Ornston

  • DNA sequence of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus catechol 1,2-dioxygenase I structural gene catA: evidence for evolutionary divergence of intradiol dioxygenases by acquisition of DNA sequence repetitions.

    E L Neidle;C Hartnett;S Bonitz;L N Ornston

  • DNA sequences of genes encoding Acinetobacter calcoaceticus protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase: evidence indicating shuffling of genes and of DNA sequences within genes during their evolutionary divergence.

    C. Hartnett;E. L. Neidle;Ka-Leung Ngai;L. N. Ornston

  • Genetic analysis of a chromosomal region containing vanA and vanB, genes required for conversion of either ferulate or vanillate to protocatechuate in Acinetobacter.

    A Segura;P V Bünz;D A D'Argenio;L N Ornston

  • Identification of the transcriptional activator pobR and characterization of its role in the expression of pobA, the structural gene for p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus.

    A A DiMarco;B Averhoff;L N Ornston

  • cis-diol dehydrogenases encoded by the TOL pWW0 plasmid xylL gene and the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus chromosomal benD gene are members of the short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase superfamily.

    Ellen L Neidle;Christopher Hartnett;L Nicholas Ornston;Amos Marc Bairoch

  • Characterization of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus catM, a repressor gene homologous in sequence to transcriptional activator genes.

    E L Neidle;C Hartnett;L N Ornston

  • Structure of Acinetobacter strain ADP1 protocatechuate 3, 4-dioxygenase at 2.2 A resolution: implications for the mechanism of an intradiol dioxygenase.

    M W Vetting;D A D'Argenio;L N Ornston;D H Ohlendorf

  • Chemotaxis to plant phenolic inducers of virulence genes is constitutively expressed in the absence of the Ti plasmid in Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

    D Parke;L N Ornston;E W Nester

  • Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus genes for benzoate degradation.

    E L Neidle;M K Shapiro;L N Ornston

  • Genetic Control of Enzyme Induction in the β-Ketoadipate Pathway of Pseudomonas putida: Deletion Mapping of cat Mutations

    M. L. Wheelis;L. N. Ornston

  • Nucleotide sequence and expression of clcD, a plasmid-borne dienelactone hydrolase gene from Pseudomonas sp. strain B13.

    B. Frantz;Ka-Leung Ngai;D. K. Chatterjee;L. N. Ornston

  • Regulation of p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase synthesis by PobR bound to an operator in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus.

    A A DiMarco;L N Ornston

  • Cloning and expression of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus catechol 1,2-dioxygenase structural gene catA in Escherichia coli.

    E L Neidle;L N Ornston

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen L. Neidle
Ellen L. Neidle University of Georgia
Shigeaki Harayama
Shigeaki Harayama Chuo University
Eugene W. Nester
Eugene W. Nester University of Washington
Richard B. Meagher
Richard B. Meagher University of Georgia
Amos Marc Bairoch
Amos Marc Bairoch Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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