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Marjorie Russel is a researcher affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States with a focus on multiple fields within the biological and medical sciences. Their main areas of study include Environmental Science, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist's subfields of study extend into Ecology, Infectious Diseases, and Genetics, reflecting a diverse and interdisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry.

Marjorie Russel's research has covered a range of topics, notably concentrated on bacterial and microbial interactions as well as bacterial genetics. Specific themes in their work include:

  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Their recent publication record includes a paper titled Expression, Purification, and Cryo-EM Structural Analysis of an Outer Membrane Secretin Channel, published in 2024 in the journal Methods in molecular biology. This publication focuses on molecular biology techniques and structural analysis methods relevant to bacterial outer membrane proteins.

Collaboration is a notable part of their research practice. Frequent co-authors include Rebecca Conners, Mathew McLaren, and Vicki A. M. Gold, indicating an active engagement in multidisciplinary studies and team-driven scientific projects.

Marjorie Russel's scholarly contributions appear in specialized venues, with recent work published in Methods in molecular biology, a journal known for detailed protocols and methodological advances in molecular biosciences.

Best Publications

  • An improved filamentous helper phage for generating single-stranded plasmid DNA.

    Marjorie Russel;Simon Kidd;Mark R. Kelley

  • Filamentous bacteriophage: biology, phage display and nanotechnology applications.

    Jasna Rakonjac;Nicholas J Bennett;Julian Spagnuolo;Dragana Gagic

  • Phage shock protein, a stress protein of Escherichia coli.

    Janice L. Brissette;Marjorie Russel;Lorin Weiner;Peter Model

  • Macromolecular assembly and secretion across the bacterial cell envelope: type II protein secretion systems

    Marjorie Russel

  • Filamentous phage assembly

    M Russel

  • Interaction of mutant thioredoxins of Escherichia coli with the gene 5 protein of phage T7. The redox capacity of thioredoxin is not required for stimulation of DNA polymerase activity.

    H E Huber;M Russel;P Model;C C Richardson

  • Thioredoxin is required for filamentous phage assembly

    Marjorie Russel;Peter Model

  • Thioredoxin or glutaredoxin in Escherichia coli is essential for sulfate reduction but not for deoxyribonucleotide synthesis.

    M Russel;P Model;A Holmgren

  • The Salmonella typhimurium InvH protein is an outer membrane lipoprotein required for the proper localization of InvG

    Simon Daefler;Marjorie Russel

  • Translational, autogenous regulation of gene 32 expression during bacteriophage T4 infection.

    M Russel;L Gold;H Morrissett;P Z O'Farrell

  • pIV, a filamentous phage protein that mediates phage export across the bacterial cell envelope, forms a multimer.

    Barbara I. Kazmierczak;Donna L. Mielke;Marjorie Russel;Peter Model

  • Filamentous phage assembly: variation on a protein export theme.

    Marjorie Russel;Nora A Linderoth;Andrej Šali

  • Structure of the filamentous phage pIV multimer by cryo-electron microscopy.

    Natacha Opalka;Roland Beckmann;Nicolas Boisset;Martha N. Simon

  • Moving through the membrane with filamentous phages

    Marjorie Russel

  • Filamentous phage pre-coat is an integral membrane protein: Analysis by a new method of membrane preparation

    Marjorie Russel;Peter Model

  • The C‐terminal domain of the secretin PulD contains the binding site for its cognate chaperone, PulS, and confers PulS dependence on pIVf1 function

    Simon Daefler;Ingrid Guilvout;Kim R. Hardie;Anthony P. Pugsley

  • Secretion and membrane integration of a filamentous phage-encoded morphogenetic protein.

    Janice L. Brissette;Marjorie Russel

  • Low-frequency infection of F- bacteria by transducing particles of filamentous bacteriophages.

    M. Russel;H. Whirlow;Tai-Ping Sun;R. E. Webster

  • Regulation of gene 32 expression during bacteriophage T4 infection of Escherichia coli.

    L Gold;P Z O'Farrell;M Russel

  • Modification of DNA by glucose 6-phosphate induces DNA rearrangements in an Escherichia coli plasmid.

    Richard Bucala;Peter Model;Marjorie Russel;Anthony Cerami

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Model
Peter Model Rockefeller University
Arne Holmgren
Arne Holmgren Karolinska Institute
Jef D. Boeke
Jef D. Boeke New York University
Sanford M. Simon
Sanford M. Simon Rockefeller University
Seth A. Darst
Seth A. Darst Rockefeller University
Andrej Sali
Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco
Joseph Heitman
Joseph Heitman Duke University
Roland Beckmann
Roland Beckmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Anthony P. Pugsley
Anthony P. Pugsley Institut Pasteur
Richard Bucala
Richard Bucala Yale University

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