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Overview

Virginia L. Miller is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on multiple subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science, Endocrinology, Genetics, and Molecular Medicine.

Their recent scholarly work includes studies published in venues such as Current Opinion in Microbiology, mBio, Nature Communications, and UNC Libraries. Notable publications by Virginia L. Miller include:

  • The intersection of capsule gene expression, hypermucoviscosity and hypervirulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae (2020, Current Opinion in Microbiology)
  • The Small Protein RmpD Drives Hypermucoviscosity in Klebsiella pneumoniae (2020, mBio)
  • Hypermucoviscosity Regulator RmpD Interacts with Wzc and Controls Capsular Polysaccharide Chain Length (2023, mBio)
  • Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe (2024, Nature Communications)
  • A Serendipitous Mutation Reveals the Severe Virulence Defect of a Klebsiella pneumoniae fepB Mutant (2020, UNC Libraries)

Their research topics show interdisciplinary engagement with subjects such as Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Yersinia bacterium, plague, and ectoparasites research, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Vibrio bacteria research studies, Plant-based Medicinal Research, and Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research.

Virginia L. Miller has published multiple papers in recurring venues prominently including UNC Libraries, mBio, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, and Current Opinion in Microbiology.

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers including Raquel S. Peixoto, Christian R. Voolstra, Lisa Y. Stein, Philip Hugenholtz, and Joana Falcão Salles, reflecting a broad network in their interdisciplinary research fields.

Best Publications

  • A novel suicide vector and its use in construction of insertion mutations: osmoregulation of outer membrane proteins and virulence determinants in Vibrio cholerae requires toxR.

    V L Miller;J J Mekalanos

  • Use of phoA gene fusions to identify a pilus colonization factor coordinately regulated with cholera toxin

    Ronald K. Taylor;Virginia L. Miller;Deirdre B. Furlong;John J. Mekalanos

  • Cholera toxin transcriptional activator ToxR is a transmembrane DNA binding protein

    Virginia L. Miller;Ronald K. Taylor;John J. Mekalanos

  • Herpesvirus latency confers symbiotic protection from bacterial infection

    Erik S. Barton;Douglas W. White;Jason S. Cathelyn;Kelly A. Brett-McClellan

  • Evidence for two genetic loci in Yersinia enterocolitica that can promote invasion of epithelial cells.

    V L Miller;S Falkow

  • Molecular basis of the interaction of Salmonella with the intestinal mucosa.

    K. Heran Darwin;Virginia L. Miller

  • A new pathway for the secretion of virulence factors by bacteria: The flagellar export apparatus functions as a protein-secretion system

    Glenn M. Young;Deborah H. Schmiel;Virginia L. Miller

  • Synthesis of cholera toxin is positively regulated at the transcriptional level by toxR

    Virginia L. Miller;John J. Mekalanos

  • Yersinia enterocolitica invasin: a primary role in the initiation of infection.

    Jeffrey C. Pepe;Virginia L. Miller

  • Progression of primary pneumonic plague: a mouse model of infection, pathology, and bacterial transcriptional activity.

    Wyndham W. Lathem;Seth D. Crosby;Virginia L. Miller;William E. Goldman

  • The ail locus is found uniquely in Yersinia enterocolitica serotypes commonly associated with disease.

    V L Miller;J J Farmer;W E Hill;S Falkow

  • A Plasminogen-Activating Protease Specifically Controls the Development of Primary Pneumonic Plague

    Wyndham W. Lathem;Paul A. Price;Virginia L. Miller;William E. Goldman

  • Identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae virulence determinants using an intranasal infection model

    Matthew S. Lawlor;James Hsu;Paul D. Rick;Virginia L. Miller

  • Yersiniabactin Is a Virulence Factor for Klebsiella pneumoniae during Pulmonary Infection

    Matthew S. Lawlor;Christopher O'Connor;Virginia L. Miller

  • Type III secretion chaperone-dependent regulation: activation of virulence genes by SicA and InvF in Salmonella typhimurium.

    K.Heran Darwin;Virginia L. Miller

  • Identification of Yersinia enterocolitica genes affecting survival in an animal host using signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis

    Andrew J. Darwin;Virginia L. Miller

  • Bacterial phospholipases and pathogenesis.

    Deborah H. Schmiel;Virginia L. Miller

  • Regulation of virulence by members of the MarR/SlyA family

    Damon W Ellison;Virginia L Miller

  • Cloning of the YenI restriction endonuclease and methyltransferase from Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O8 and construction of a transformable R-M+ mutant.

    Susan A. Kinder;Julie L. Badger;Gene O. Bryant;Jeffrey C. Pepe

  • Identification of toxS, a regulatory gene whose product enhances toxR-mediated activation of the cholera toxin promoter.

    V L Miller;V J DiRita;J J Mekalanos

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanley Falkow
Stanley Falkow Stanford University
John J. Mekalanos
John J. Mekalanos Harvard Medical School
William E. Goldman
William E. Goldman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Joseph Cava
Robert Joseph Cava Princeton University
Ralph R. Isberg
Ralph R. Isberg Tufts University
Tomasz Klimczuk
Tomasz Klimczuk Gdańsk University of Technology
Henny W. Zandbergen
Henny W. Zandbergen Delft University of Technology
Nai Phuan Ong
Nai Phuan Ong Princeton University
Yayu Wang
Yayu Wang Tsinghua University
M. Alexander Schmidt
M. Alexander Schmidt University of Münster

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