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Michael J. Schurr is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on various subfields including Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Genetics.

Their main topics of work involve bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, studies related to diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and tetanus, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, dermatology and skin diseases, research on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and antimicrobial peptides and activities.

Michael J. Schurr has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Comparative Medicine
  • Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Lasers in Medical Science
  • The American Surgeon

The recent papers authored by Schurr cover a range of subjects in microbial biology, infection, and trauma care. Notable publications include:

  • "Pyochelin biotransformation by Staphylococcus aureus shapes bacterial competition with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in polymicrobial infections" (2023, Cell Reports)
  • "Selective Inhibition of Streptococci Biofilm Growth via a Hydroxylated Azobenzene Coating" (2020, Advanced Materials Interfaces)
  • "Effect of Antimicrobial Prophylaxis on Corynebacterium bovis Infection and the Skin Microbiome of Immunodeficient Mice" (2022, Comparative Medicine)
  • "AB569, a non-toxic combination of acidified nitrite and EDTA, is effective at killing the notorious Iraq/Afghanistan combat wound pathogens, multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter spp." (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Acute Pain in the Trauma Patient" (2020, Current Trauma Reports)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Schurr's research, with frequent coauthors including Christopher A Manuel, Derek L Fong, Jori K Leszczynski, Lauren M Habenicht, and Christian Jenul.

Best Publications

  • Space flight alters bacterial gene expression and virulence and reveals a role for global regulator Hfq

    J. W. Wilson;C. M. Ott;K. Höner zu Bentrup;R. Ramamurthy

  • Detection of conversion to mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infecting cystic fibrosis patients

    Vojo Deretic;Daniel W. Martin

  • Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenicity

    J. W. Wilson;M. J. Schurr;C. L. LeBlanc;R. Ramamurthy

  • Control of AlgU, a member of the sigma E-like family of stress sigma factors, by the negative regulators MucA and MucB and Pseudomonas aeruginosa conversion to mucoidy in cystic fibrosis.

    M J Schurr;H Yu;J M Martinez-Salazar;J C Boucher

  • Surfaces modified with nanometer-thick silver-impregnated polymeric films that kill bacteria but support growth of mammalian cells

    Ankit Agarwal;Tahlia L. Weis;Michael J. Schurr;Nancy G. Faith

  • Conversion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to mucoidy in cystic fibrosis: environmental stress and regulation of bacterial virulence by alternative sigma factors.

    V Deretic;M J Schurr;J C Boucher;D W Martin

  • A549 Lung Epithelial Cells Grown as Three-Dimensional Aggregates: Alternative Tissue Culture Model for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pathogenesis

    A. J. Carterson;K. Höner zu Bentrup;C. M. Ott;M. S. Clarke

  • Anaerobic killing of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa by acidified nitrite derivatives under cystic fibrosis airway conditions

    Sang Sun Yoon;Ray Coakley;Gee W. Lau;Sergei V. Lymar

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa hypoxic or anaerobic biofilm infections within cystic fibrosis airways

    Daniel J. Hassett;Mark D. Sutton;Michael J. Schurr;Andrew B. Herr

  • Analysis of promoters controlled by the putative sigma factor AlgU regulating conversion to mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: relationship to sigma E and stress response.

    D W Martin;M J Schurr;H Yu;V Deretic

  • Two distinct loci affecting conversion to mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis encode homologs of the serine protease HtrA.

    J C Boucher;J Martinez-Salazar;M J Schurr;M H Mudd

  • Functional equivalence of Escherichia coli sigma E and Pseudomonas aeruginosa AlgU: E. coli rpoE restores mucoidy and reduces sensitivity to reactive oxygen intermediates in algU mutants of P. aeruginosa.

    H Yu;M J Schurr;V Deretic

  • Transcriptional and Proteomic Responses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 to Spaceflight Conditions Involve Hfq Regulation and Reveal a Role for Oxygen

    Aurélie Crabbé;Michael J. Schurr;Pieter Monsieurs;Lisa Morici

  • Media Ion Composition Controls Regulatory and Virulence Response of Salmonella in Spaceflight

    James W. Wilson;C. Mark Ott;Laura Quick;Laura Quick;Richard Davis

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm infections in cystic fibrosis: insights into pathogenic processes and treatment strategies.

    Daniel J Hassett;Thomas R Korfhagen;Randall T Irvin;Michael J Schurr

  • The MerR-Like Regulator BrlR Confers Biofilm Tolerance by Activating Multidrug Efflux Pumps in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms

    Julie Liao;Michael J. Schurr;Karin Sauer

  • Differentiation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa into the alginate‐producing form: inactivation of mucB causes conversion to mucoidy

    D. W. Martin;M. J. Schurr;M. H. Mudd;V. Deretic

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa, mucoidy and the chronic infection phenotype in cystic fibrosis

    V. Deretic;Michael J. Schurr;Hongwei Yu

  • Dual regulation of mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and sigma factor antagonism

    J. C. Boucher;M. J. Schurr;V. Deretic

  • Multiple promoters and induction by heat shock of the gene encoding the alternative sigma factor AlgU (sigma E) which controls mucoidy in cystic fibrosis isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    M J Schurr;H Yu;J C Boucher;N S Hibler

Frequent Co-Authors

Vojo Deretic
Vojo Deretic University of New Mexico
Daniel J. Hassett
Daniel J. Hassett University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Christopher J. Murphy
Christopher J. Murphy University of California, Davis
Nicholas L. Abbott
Nicholas L. Abbott Cornell University
Karin Sauer
Karin Sauer Binghamton University
Joanna B. Goldberg
Joanna B. Goldberg Emory University
Charles J. Czuprynski
Charles J. Czuprynski University of Wisconsin–Madison
Duane L. Pierson
Duane L. Pierson National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Benjamin Gaston
Benjamin Gaston Indiana University
Fiona S. L. Brinkman
Fiona S. L. Brinkman Simon Fraser University

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