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Peter R. Reeves is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Food Science, Organic Chemistry, and Ecology.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Gut microbiota and health, Probiotics and Fermented Foods, Lung Cancer Research Studies, and Neutropenia and Cancer Infections.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • Single-gene long-read sequencing illuminates Escherichia coli strain dynamics in the human intestinal microbiome (2022, Cell Reports)
  • Repeat-Unit Elongations To Produce Bacterial Complex Long Polysaccharide Chains, an O-Antigen Perspective (2023, EcoSal Plus)
  • The Remarkable Dual-Level Diversity of Prokaryotic Flagellins (2020, mSystems)
  • Reclassification of Shigella species as later heterotypic synonyms of Escherichia coli in the Genome Taxonomy Database (2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • The low level of O antigen in Salmonella enterica Paratyphi A is due to inefficiency of the glycosyltransferase WbaV (2021, FEMS Microbiology Letters)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Dalong Hu, Yaoqin Hong, Jilong Qin, Ajeet Gajra, and Susan O'Brien.

Known publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Reports
  • EcoSal Plus
  • mSystems
  • FEMS Microbiology Letters

Best Publications

  • Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective

    Thierry Wirth;Daniel Falush;Ruiting Lan;Frances M Colles

  • Genetic analysis of the capsular biosynthetic locus from all 90 pneumococcal serotypes.

    Stephen D Bentley;David M Aanensen;Angeliki Mavroidi;David Saunders

  • A Vibrio cholerae pathogenicity island associated with epidemic and pandemic strains

    David K. R. Karaolis;Judith A. Johnson;Camella C. Bailey;Edgar C. Boedeker

  • Multiple independent origins of Shigella clones of Escherichia coli and convergent evolution of many of their characteristics

    Gulietta M. Pupo;Ruiting Lan;Peter R. Reeves

  • Biosynthesis of O-antigens: genes and pathways involved in nucleotide sugar precursor synthesis and O-antigen assembly

    Gabrielle Samuel;Peter Reeves

  • Bacterial polysaccharide synthesis and gene nomenclature

    Peter R. Reeves;Matthew Hobbs;Miguel A. Valvano;Mikael Skurnik

  • Organization of the Escherichia coli K-12 gene cluster responsible for production of the extracellular polysaccharide colanic acid.

    G Stevenson;K Andrianopoulos;M Hobbs;P R Reeves

  • Genetics of resistance to colicins in Escherichia coli K-12: cross-resistance among colicins of group A.

    J K Davies;P Reeves

  • Structure and sequence of the rfb (O antigen) gene cluster of Salmonella serovar typhimurium (strain LT2).

    X.-M. Jiang;B. Neal;F. Santiago;S. J. Lee

  • Structure of the O antigen of Escherichia coli K-12 and the sequence of its rfb gene cluster

    G. Stevenson;B. Neal;Dan Liu;M. Hobbs

  • An O-antigen processing function for Wzx (RfbX): a promising candidate for O-unit flippase.

    Dan Liu;R. A. Cole;P. R. Reeves

  • Evolutionary Relationships among Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Inferred from Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis and mdh Sequence Studies

    Gulietta M. Pupo;David K. R. Karaolis;Ruiting Lan;Peter R. Reeves

  • Organization of Escherichia coli O157 O Antigen Gene Cluster and Identification of Its Specific Genes

    Lei Wang;Peter R. Reeves

  • Escherichia coli in disguise: molecular origins of Shigella.

    Ruiting Lan;Peter R. Reeves

  • Escherichia coli K12 regains its O antigen.

    Dan Liu;Peter R. Reeves

  • Evolution of Salmonella O antigen variation by interspecific gene transfer on a large scale

    Peter Reeves

  • Intraspecies variation in bacterial genomes: the need for a species genome concept.

    Ruiting Lan;Peter R. Reeves

  • Structure and genetics of Shigella O antigens

    Bin Liu;Yuriy A. Knirel;Lu Feng;Lu Feng;Andrei V. Perepelov

  • Structure and genetics of Escherichia coli O antigens.

    Bin Liu;Bin Liu;Axel Furevi;Andrei V Perepelov;Xi Guo;Xi Guo

  • Con--mutants: class of mutants in Escherichia coli K-12 lacking a major cell wall protein and defective in conjugation and adsorption of a bacteriophage.

    Ronald A. Skurray;Robert E. W. Hancock;Peter Reeves

  • Repeat unit polysaccharides of bacteria: a model for polymerization resembling that of ribosomes and fatty acid synthetase, with a novel mechanism for determining chain length.

    David A. Bastin;Gordon Stevenson;Peter K. Brown;Antje Haase

Frequent Co-Authors

Lei Wang
Lei Wang Nankai University
Ruiting Lan
Ruiting Lan University of New South Wales
Lu Feng
Lu Feng Nankai University
Bin Liu
Bin Liu National University of Singapore
Mikael Skurnik
Mikael Skurnik University of Helsinki
Yuriy A. Knirel
Yuriy A. Knirel Russian Academy of Sciences
Otto Holst
Otto Holst Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Antonio Molinaro
Antonio Molinaro University of Naples Federico II
Gwendolyn L. Gilbert
Gwendolyn L. Gilbert University of Sydney
Vitali Sintchenko
Vitali Sintchenko University of Sydney

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