Epernicus: Natacha Ruiz, Ph.D.

Natacha Ruiz, Ph.D.

Position:
Senior Scientist

Molecular Biology

Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
Advisor:
Thomas J. Silhavy
Degrees:

Ph.D., Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Pathogenesis, Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO)

B.A., Microbiology & Chemistry, University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
Past Advisors:

Thomas J. Silhavy (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Michael Caparon (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:

Communities:

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Natacha Ruiz's Publications (18)

Transport of lipopolysaccharide across the cell envelope: the long road of discovery.
Ruiz N, Kahne D, Silhavy TJ

Nature reviews. Microbiology. 2009 Sep;7(9):677-83
Streptococcus pyogenes YtgP (Spy_0390) complements Escherichia coli strains depleted of the putative peptidoglycan flippase MurJ.
Ruiz N

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy. 2009 Aug;53(8):3604-5
Characterization of the role of the Escherichia coli periplasmic chaperone SurA using differential proteomics.
Vertommen D, Ruiz N, Leverrier P, Silhavy TJ, Collet JF

Proteomics. 2009 May;9(9):2432-43
Bioinformatics identification of MurJ (MviN) as the peptidoglycan lipid II flippase in Escherichia coli.
Ruiz N

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 Oct 7;105(40):15553-7
Identification of two inner-membrane proteins required for the transport of lipopolysaccharide to the outer membrane of Escherichia coli.
Ruiz N, Gronenberg LS, Kahne D, Silhavy TJ

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 Apr 8;105(14):5537-42
A suppressor of cell death caused by the loss of sigmaE downregulates extracytoplasmic stress responses and outer membrane vesicle production in Escherichia coli.
Button JE, Silhavy TJ, Ruiz N

Journal of bacteriology. 2007 Mar;189(5):1523-30
Probing the barrier function of the outer membrane with chemical conditionality.
Ruiz N, Wu T, Kahne D, Silhavy TJ

ACS chemical biology. 2006 Jul 21;1(6):385-95
Advances in understanding bacterial outer-membrane biogenesis.
Ruiz N, Kahne D, Silhavy TJ

Nature reviews. Microbiology. 2006 Jan;4(1):57-66
Chemical conditionality: a genetic strategy to probe organelle assembly.
Ruiz N, Falcone B, Kahne D, Silhavy TJ

Cell. 2005 Apr 22;121(2):307-17
Identification of a multicomponent complex required for outer membrane biogenesis in Escherichia coli.
Wu T, Malinverni J, Ruiz N, Kim S, Silhavy TJ, Kahne D

Cell. 2005 Apr 22;121(2):235-45
Sensing external stress: watchdogs of the Escherichia coli cell envelope.
Ruiz N, Silhavy TJ

Current opinion in microbiology. 2005 Apr;8(2):122-6
RpoS proteolysis is regulated by a mechanism that does not require the SprE (RssB) response regulator phosphorylation site.
Peterson CN, Ruiz N, Silhavy TJ

Journal of bacteriology. 2004 Nov;186(21):7403-10
Constitutive activation of the Escherichia coli Pho regulon upregulates rpoS translation in an Hfq-dependent fashion.
Ruiz N, Silhavy TJ

Journal of bacteriology. 2003 Oct;185(20):5984-92
Genetic basis for activity differences between vancomycin and glycolipid derivatives of vancomycin.
Eggert US, Ruiz N, Falcone BV, Branstrom AA, Goldman RC, Silhavy TJ, Kahne D

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2001 Oct 12;294(5541):361-4
RpoS-dependent transcriptional control of sprE: regulatory feedback loop.
Ruiz N, Peterson CN, Silhavy TJ

Journal of bacteriology. 2001 Oct;183(20):5974-81
Cytolysin-mediated translocation (CMT): a functional equivalent of type III secretion in gram-positive bacteria.
Madden JC, Ruiz N, Caparon M

Cell. 2001 Jan 12;104(1):143-52
Streptolysin O and adherence synergistically modulate proinflammatory responses of keratinocytes to group A streptococci.
Ruiz N, Wang B, Pentland A, Caparon M

Molecular microbiology. 1998 Jan;27(2):337-46
Keratinocyte proinflammatory responses to adherent and nonadherent group A streptococci.
Wang B, Ruiz N, Pentland A, Caparon M

Infection and immunity. 1997 Jun;65(6):2119-26

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Natacha Ruiz, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Natacha Ruiz's Genealogy

Natacha Ruiz's Publications (18)