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Michael R. McNeil is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, epidemiology, infectious diseases, organic chemistry, and plant science.

Their research topics mainly focus on Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis, biochemical and molecular research, infectious diseases and mycology, and bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Prominent recent papers by Michael R. McNeil include:

  • Cell Surface Remodeling of Mycobacterium abscessus under Cystic Fibrosis Airway Growth Conditions, 2020, ACS Infectious Diseases
  • Polysaccharide Succinylation Enhances the Intracellular Survival of Mycobacterium abscessus, 2020, ACS Infectious Diseases
  • Secondary extended mannan side chains and attachment of the arabinan in mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan, 2020, Communications Chemistry
  • Role of succinyl substituents in the mannose-capping of lipoarabinomannan and control of inflammation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, 2023, PLoS Pathogens
  • Acylation of glycerolipids in mycobacteria, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include Mary Jackson, Shiva K. Angala, Juan M. Belardinelli, Zuzana Palčeková, and Charlotte Avanzi.

Their publications are often found in venues such as ACS Infectious Diseases, Communications Chemistry, PLoS Pathogens, Nature Communications, and Implementation Science Communications.

Best Publications

  • Isolation and characterization of plant cell walls and cell wall components

    William S. York;Alan G. Darvill;Michael McNeil;Thomas T. Stevenson

  • Structure and function of the primary cell walls of plants.

    Michael McNeil;Alan G. Darvill;Stephen C. Fry;Peter Albersheim

  • Complex lipid determines tissue-specific replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice

    Jeffery S. Cox;Bing Chen;Michael McNeil;William R. Jacobs

  • The transcriptional responses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to inhibitors of metabolism: novel insights into drug mechanisms of action.

    Helena I.M. Boshoff;Timothy G. Myers;Brent R. Copp;Michael R. McNeil

  • An unambiguous nomenclature for xyloglucan‐derived oligosaccharides

    Stephen C. Fry;William S. York;Peter Albersheim;Alan Darvill

  • Determination, by methylation analysis, of the glycosyl-linkage compositions of microgram quantities of complex carbohydrates

    Thomas J. Waeghe;Alan G. Darvill;Michael McNeil;Peter Albersheim

  • Inhibition of mycolic acid transport across the Mycobacterium tuberculosis plasma membrane

    Anna E Grzegorzewicz;Ha Pham;Vijay A K B Gundi;Michael S Scherman

  • Host-Pathogen Interactions : XXII. A Galacturonic Acid Oligosaccharide from Plant Cell Walls Elicits Phytoalexins.

    Eugene A. Nothnagel;Michael McNeil;Peter Albersheim;Anne Dell

  • Predominant structural features of the cell wall arabinogalactan of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as revealed through characterization of oligoglycosyl alditol fragments by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and by 1H and 13C NMR analyses.

    M Daffe;P J Brennan;M McNeil

  • Structure of Plant Cell Walls: VIII. A New Pectic Polysaccharide.

    Alan G. Darvill;Michael McNeil;Peter Albersheim

  • The primary structures of one elicitor-active and seven elicitor-inactive hexa(beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-D-glucitols isolated from the mycelial walls of Phytophthora megasperma f. sp. glycinea.

    J K Sharp;M McNeil;P Albersheim

  • Evidence for the nature of the link between the arabinogalactan and peptidoglycan of mycobacterial cell walls.

    M McNeil;M Daffe;P J Brennan

  • Structure of Plant Cell Walls: XIX. Isolation and Characterization of Wall Polysaccharides from Suspension-Cultured Douglas Fir Cells

    Jerry R. Thomas;Michael McNeil;Alan G. Darvill;Peter Albersheim

  • Lipoarabinomannan of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Capping with mannosyl residues in some strains.

    D Chatterjee;K Lowell;B Rivoire;M R McNeil

  • Structure of Plant Cell Walls: X. RHAMNOGALACTURONAN I, A STRUCTURALLY COMPLEX PECTIC POLYSACCHARIDE IN THE WALLS OF SUSPENSION-CULTURED SYCAMORE CELLS.

    Michael McNeil;Alan G. Darvill;Peter Albersheim

  • 3 – The Primary Cell Walls of Flowering Plants

    Alan Darvill;Michael McNEIL;Peter Albersheim;Deborah P. Delmer

  • Host-Symbiont Interactions: V. THE STRUCTURE OF ACIDIC EXTRACELLULAR POLYSACCHARIDES SECRETED BY RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM AND RHIZOBIUM TRIFOLII

    Børre K. Robertsen;Per Åman;Alan G. Darvill;Michael McNeil

  • Cell Wall Core Galactofuran Synthesis Is Essential for Growth of Mycobacteria

    Fei Pan;Mary Jackson;Yufang Ma;Michael McNeil

  • A new interpretation of the structure of the mycolyl-arabinogalactan complex of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as revealed through characterization of oligoglycosylalditol fragments by fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

    Gurdyal S. Besra;Kay-Hooi Khoo;Michael R. McNeil;Anne Dell

  • Novel inhibitors of an emerging target in Mycobacterium tuberculosis; substituted thiazolidinones as inhibitors of dTDP-rhamnose synthesis.

    Kerim Babaoglu;Mark A. Page;Victoria C. Jones;Michael R. McNeil

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Brennan
Patrick J. Brennan Colorado State University
Peter Albersheim
Peter Albersheim University of Georgia
Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson Colorado State University
Alan G. Darvill
Alan G. Darvill University of Georgia
Delphi Chatterjee
Delphi Chatterjee Colorado State University
Dean C. Crick
Dean C. Crick Colorado State University
Kay-Hooi Khoo
Kay-Hooi Khoo National Taiwan University
Gurdyal S. Besra
Gurdyal S. Besra University of Birmingham
Richard E. Lee
Richard E. Lee St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Anne Dell
Anne Dell Imperial College London

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