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60
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World Ranking
1955
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973

Overview

Wilma Ross is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, focusing on the broad fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work covers a total of 25 publications within these areas, with particular emphasis on Molecular Biology and Genetics, along with contributions to Ecology, Plant Science, and Structural Biology.

Their research topics include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, CRISPR and genetic engineering, RNA modifications and cancer, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, bacteriophages, and microbial interactions as well as RNA research and splicing.

Ross has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals, with publication venues including:

  • Molecular Cell
  • Metabolic Engineering
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Journal of Bacteriology

Representative papers authored or co-authored by Ross include:

  • Stepwise Promoter Melting by Bacterial RNA Polymerase (2020, Molecular Cell)
  • Reverse engineering of fatty acid-tolerant Escherichia coli identifies design strategies for robust microbial cell factories (2020, Metabolic Engineering)
  • A majority of Rhodobacter sphaeroides promoters lack a crucial RNA polymerase recognition feature, enabling coordinated transcription activation (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Guanosine Tetraphosphate Has a Similar Affinity for Each of Its Two Binding Sites on Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Rhodobacter sphaeroides CarD Negatively Regulates Its Own Promoter (2021, Journal of Bacteriology)

Wilma Ross frequently collaborates with other researchers, notably including:

  • Richard L. Gourse
  • Saumya Gopalkrishnan
  • Kemardo K. Henry
  • Jonathan Jagodnik
  • Daniel E. Shaw

Best Publications

  • A third recognition element in bacterial promoters: DNA binding by the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase

    Wilma Ross;Khoosheh K. Gosink;Julia Salomon;Kazuhiko Igarashi

  • DksA: a critical component of the transcription initiation machinery that potentiates the regulation of rRNA promoters by ppGpp and the initiating NTP.

    Brian J. Paul;Melanie M. Barker;Wilma Ross;David A. Schneider

  • E.coli Fis protein activates ribosomal RNA transcription in vitro and in vivo.

    W Ross;J F Thompson;J T Newlands;R L Gourse

  • Transcription regulation by initiating NTP concentration: rRna synthesis in bacteria

    Tamas Gaal;Michael S. Bartlett;Wilma Ross;Charles L. Turnbough

  • rRNA transcription in Escherichia coli

    Brian J. Paul;Wilma Ross;Tamas Gaal;Richard L. Gourse

  • Identification of an UP element consensus sequence for bacterial promoters

    Shawn T. Estrem;Tamas Gaal;Wilma Ross;Richard L. Gourse

  • Advances in bacterial promoter recognition and its control by factors that do not bind DNA.

    Shanil P. Haugen;Wilma Ross;Richard L. Gourse

  • UPs and downs in bacterial transcription initiation: the role of the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase in promoter recognition.

    Richard L. Gourse;Wilma Ross;Tamas Gaal

  • Viral integration and excision: structure of the lambda att sites

    Arthur Landy;Wilma Ross

  • rRNA TRANSCRIPTION AND GROWTH RATE–DEPENDENT REGULATION OF RIBOSOME SYNTHESIS IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

    R L Gourse;T Gaal;M S Bartlett;J A Appleman

  • Domain organization of RNA polymerase α subunit: C-terminal 85 amino acids constitute a domain capable of dimerization and DNA binding

    Erich E. Blatter;Wilma Ross;Hong Tang;Richard L. Gourse

  • The Magic Spot: A ppGpp Binding Site on E. coli RNA Polymerase Responsible for Regulation of Transcription Initiation

    Wilma Ross;Catherine E. Vrentas;Patricia Sanchez-Vazquez;Tamas Gaal

  • ppGpp Binding to a Site at the RNAP-DksA Interface Accounts for Its Dramatic Effects on Transcription Initiation during the Stringent Response

    Wilma Ross;Patricia Sanchez-Vazquez;Albert Y. Chen;Jeong-Hyun Lee

  • Factor Independent Activation of rrnB P1: An "Extended" Promoter with an Upstream Element that Dramatically Increases Promoter Strength

    Lin Rao;W. Ross;J. A. Appleman;T. Gaal

  • Bacterial promoter architecture: subsite structure of UP elements and interactions with the carboxy-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase alpha subunit.

    S. T. Estrem;W. Ross;T. Gaal;Z. W. S. Chen

  • DNA-binding determinants of the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase: novel DNA-binding domain architecture.

    Tamas Gaal;Wilma Ross;Erich E. Blatter;Hong Tang

  • rRNA Promoter Regulation by Nonoptimal Binding of σ Region 1.2: An Additional Recognition Element for RNA Polymerase

    Shanil P. Haugen;Melanie B. Berkmen;Wilma Ross;Tamas Gaal

  • Escherichia coli Promoters with UP Elements of Different Strengths: Modular Structure of Bacterial Promoters

    Wilma Ross;Sarah E. Aiyar;Julia Salomon;Richard L. Gourse

  • Promoter recognition and discrimination by EsigmaS RNA polymerase.

    Tamas Gaal;Wilma Ross;Shawn T. Estrem;Lam H. Nguyen

  • Genome-wide effects on Escherichia coli transcription from ppGpp binding to its two sites on RNA polymerase

    Patricia Sanchez-Vazquez;Colin N. Dewey;Nicole Kitten;Wilma Ross

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard L. Gourse
Richard L. Gourse University of Wisconsin–Madison
Arthur Landy
Arthur Landy Brown University
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Elizabeth A. Campbell Rockefeller University
Seth A. Darst
Seth A. Darst Rockefeller University
Richard H. Ebright
Richard H. Ebright Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Timothy J. Donohue
Timothy J. Donohue University of Wisconsin–Madison
Reid C. Johnson
Reid C. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen J. W. Busby
Stephen J. W. Busby University of Birmingham
Hong Tang
Hong Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Robert Landick
Robert Landick University of Wisconsin–Madison

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