Publications

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Silpe JE, Duddy OP, Johnson GE, Beggs GA, Hussain, FA, Forsberg KJ, Bassler BL. Small protein modules dictate prophage fates during polylysogeny. Nature. 2023; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06376-y.
Forsberg KJ. Anti-CRISPR discovery: using magnets to find needles in haystacks. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2023; 167952, doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.167952.
Luyten YA, Hausman DE, Young JC, Doyle LA, Higashi KM, Ubilla-Rodriguez NC, Lambert AR, Arroyo CS, Forsberg KJ, Morgan RD, Stoddard BL, Kaiser BK. Identification and characterization of the WYL BrxR protein and its gene as separable regulatory elements of a BREX phage restriction system. Nucleic Acids Research, 2022; gkac311.
Forsberg KJ, Schmidtke DT, Werther R, Uribe RV, Hausman D, Sommer, MOA, Stoddard BL, Kaiser BK, Malik HS. The novel anti-CRISPR AcrIIA22 relieves DNA torsion in target plasmids and impairs SpyCas9 activity. PLoS Biol. 2021; 19(10): e3001428.

Forsberg KJ, Bhatt IV, Schmidtke DT, Javanmardi K, Dillard KE, Stoddard BL, Finkelstein IJ, Kaiser BK, Malik HS. Functional metagenomics-guided discovery of potent Cas9 inhibitors in the human microbiome. eLife. 2019; Sep 10(8): e46540. (PMID: 31502535)
Forsberg KJ, Malik HS. Microbial Genomics: The Expanding Universe of Bacterial Defense Systems. Current Biology. 2018; 28(8):R361-364.
Crofts TS, Wang B, Spivak A, Gianoulis TA, Forsberg KJ, Gibson MK, Johnsky LA, Broomall SM, Rosenzweig CN, Skowronski EW, Gibbons HS, Sommer MO, Dantas G. Shared strategies for β-lactam catabolism in the soil microbiome. Nature Chem Bio. 2018, doi: 10.1038/s41589-018-0052-1.
Xu Z, Stogios PJ, Quaile AT, Forsberg KJ, Patel S, Skarina T, Houliston S, Arrowsmith C, Dantas G, Savchenko A. Structural and Functional Survey of Environmental Aminoglycoside Acetyltransferases Reveals Functionality of Resistance Enzymes. ACS Infectious Diseases. 2017; 9(3), 653-665.
Crofts TS, Wang B, Spivak A, Gianoulis TA, Forsberg KJ, Gibson MK, Johnsky LA, Broomall SM, Rosenzweig CN, Skowronski EW, Gibbons HS, Sommer MO, Dantas G. Draft genome sequences of three β-lactam-catabolizing soil Proteobacteria. Genome Announcements. 2017; 32(5), e00653-17.
Yoneda A, Henson WR, Goldner NK, Park KJ, Forsberg KJ, Kim SJ, Pesesky MW, Foston M, Dantas G, and Moon TS. Comparative transcriptomics elucidates adaptive phenol tolerance and utilization in lipid-accumulating Rhodococcus opacus PD630. Nucl. Acids Res, 2016; doi:10.1093/nar/gkw055
Forsberg KJ, Patel S, Witt E, Wang B, Ellison T, Dantas G. Identification of genes conferring tolerance to lignocellulose-derived inhibitors by functional selections in soil metagenomes. Appl Environ Microbiol, 2016; 82(2), 528-537.
Forsberg KJ, Patel S, Wencewicz TA, Dantas G. The tetracycline destructases: a novel family of tetracycline-inactivating enzymes. Chemistry & Biology, 2015; 22(7), 888-897.
Gibson MK, Forsberg KJ, Dantas G. Improved Annotation of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants Reveals Microbial Resistomes Cluster by Ecology. The ISME Journal. 2015; 9:207
Forsberg KJ‡, Patel S‡, Gibson MK, Lauber CL, Knight R, Fierer, N, Dantas G. Bacterial phylogeny structures soil resistomes across habitats. Nature. 2014; 509 (7502): 612.
Pehrsson EC, Forsberg KJ, Gibson MK, Ahmadi S, Dantas G. Novel resistance functions uncovered using functional metagenomic investigations of resistance reservoirs. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2013; 4(145).
Moore AM, Patel S, Forsberg KJ, Wang B, Bentley G, Razia Y, Qin X, Tarr PI, Dantas G. Pediatric Fecal Microbiota Harbor Diverse and Novel Antibiotic Resistance Genes. PLOS ONE. 2013; 8 (11): e78822.
Forsberg KJ‡, Reyes A‡, Wang B, Selleck EM, Sommer MO, Dantas G. The shared antibiotic resistome of soil bacteria and human pathogens. Science. 2012; 337(6098):1107-11.
Harris RA, Wang T, Coarfa C, Nagarajan RP, Hong C, Downey SL, Johnson BE, Fouse SD, Delaney A, Zhao Y, Olshen A, Ballinger T, Zhou X, Forsberg KJ, Gu J, Echipare L, O`Geen H, Lister R, Pelizzola M, Xi Y, Epstein CB, Bernstein BE, Hawkins RD, Ren B, Chung WY, Gu H, Bock C, Gnirke A, Zhang MQ, Haussler D, Ecker JR, Li W, Farnham PJ, Waterland RA, Meissner A, Marra MA, Hirst M, Milosavljevic A, Costello JF. Comparison of sequencing-based methods to profile DNA methylation and identification of monoallelic epigenetic modifications. Nat Biotechnol. 2010; 28(10):1097-105.

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