List of Faculty Publications

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Journal Article
S. Wang, Arellano-Santoyo, H., Combs, P. A., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Actin-like cytoskeleton filaments contribute to cell mechanics in bacteria.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 107, no. 20, pp. 9182-5, 2010.
T. Mignot and Shaevitz, J. W., “Active and passive mechanisms of intracellular transport and localization in bacteria.”, Curr Opin Microbiol, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 580-5, 2008.
M. J. Lang, Asbury, C. L., Shaevitz, J. W., and Block, S. M., “An automated two-dimensional optical force clamp for single molecule studies.”, Biophys J, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 491-501, 2002.
J. P. Nguyen, Linder, A. N., Plummer, G. S., Shaevitz, J. W., and Leifer, A. M., “Automatically tracking neurons in a moving and deforming brain.”, PLoS Comput Biol, vol. 13, no. 5, p. e1005517, 2017.
J. W. Shaevitz, Abbondanzieri, E. A., Landick, R., and Block, S. M., “Backtracking by single RNA polymerase molecules observed at near-base-pair resolution.”, Nature, vol. 426, no. 6967, pp. 684-7, 2003.
S. van Teeffelen, Wang, S., Furchtgott, L., Huang, K. Casey, Wingreen, N. S., Shaevitz, J. W., and Gitai, Z., “The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 108, no. 38, pp. 15822-7, 2011.
J. P. Nguyen, Bratton, B. P., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Biophysical Measurements of Bacterial Cell Shape.”, Methods Mol Biol, vol. 1440, pp. 227-45, 2016.
J. W. Shaevitz, “Combining modeling and experiment to understand bacterial growth.”, Biophys J, vol. 104, no. 12, p. 2573, 2013.
J. W. Shaevitz and Fletcher, D. A., “Curvature and torsion in growing actin networks.”, Phys Biol, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 026006, 2008.
Y. Deng, Sun, M., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Direct measurement of cell wall stress stiffening and turgor pressure in live bacterial cells.”, Phys Rev Lett, vol. 107, no. 15, p. 158101, 2011.
E. A. Abbondanzieri, Greenleaf, W. J., Shaevitz, J. W., Landick, R., and Block, S. M., “Direct observation of base-pair stepping by RNA polymerase.”, Nature, vol. 438, no. 7067, pp. 460-5, 2005.
S. Thutupalli, Sun, M., Bunyak, F., Palaniappan, K., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Directional reversals enable Myxococcus xanthus cells to produce collective one-dimensional streams during fruiting-body formation.”, J R Soc Interface, vol. 12, no. 109, p. 20150049, 2015.
Y. Deng and Shaevitz, J. W., “Effect of aberration on height calibration in three-dimensional localization-based microscopy and particle tracking.”, Appl Opt, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 1886-90, 2009.
G. S. Liu, Bratton, B. P., Gitai, Z., and Shaevitz, J. W., “The effect of antibiotics on protein diffusion in the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane.”, PLoS One, vol. 12, no. 10, p. e0185810, 2017.
Y. Deng, Coen, P., Sun, M., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Efficient multiple object tracking using mutually repulsive active membranes.”, PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 6, p. e65769, 2013.
J. W. Shaevitz and Fletcher, D. A., “Enhanced three-dimensional deconvolution microscopy using a measured depth-varying point-spread function.”, J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 2622-7, 2007.
T. Mignot, Shaevitz, J. W., Hartzell, P. L., and Zusman, D. R., “Evidence that focal adhesion complexes power bacterial gliding motility.”, Science, vol. 315, no. 5813, pp. 853-6, 2007.
T. Pilizota and Shaevitz, J. W., “Fast, multiphase volume adaptation to hyperosmotic shock by Escherichia coli.”, PLoS One, vol. 7, no. 4, p. e35205, 2012.
B. Sabass, Koch, M. D., Liu, G., Stone, H. A., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Force generation by groups of migrating bacteria.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 114, no. 28, pp. 7266-7271, 2017.
S. Wang, Furchtgott, L., Huang, K. Casey, and Shaevitz, J. W., “Helical insertion of peptidoglycan produces chiral ordering of the bacterial cell wall.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 109, no. 10, pp. E595-604, 2012.
S. van Teeffelen, Shaevitz, J. W., and Gitai, Z., “Image analysis in fluorescence microscopy: bacterial dynamics as a case study.”, Bioessays, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 427-36, 2012.
M. D. Koch and Shaevitz, J. W., “Introduction to Optical Tweezers.”, Methods Mol Biol, vol. 1486, pp. 3-24, 2017.
J. W. Shaevitz and Fletcher, D. A., “Load fluctuations drive actin network growth.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 104, no. 40, pp. 15688-92, 2007.
G. J. Berman, Choi, D. M., Bialek, W., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies.”, J R Soc Interface, vol. 11, no. 99, 2014.
S. Wang, Arellano-Santoyo, H., Combs, P. A., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Measuring the bending stiffness of bacterial cells using an optical trap.”, J Vis Exp, no. 38, 2010.
S. Wang and Shaevitz, J. W., “The mechanics of shape in prokaryotes.”, Front Biosci (Schol Ed), vol. 5, pp. 564-74, 2013.
K. Casey Huang, Ehrhardt, D. W., and Shaevitz, J. W., “The molecular origins of chiral growth in walled cells.”, Curr Opin Microbiol, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 707-14, 2012.
M. Sun, Wartel, M., Cascales, E., Shaevitz, J. W., and Mignot, T., “Motor-driven intracellular transport powers bacterial gliding motility.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 108, no. 18, pp. 7559-64, 2011.
N. Ouzounov, Nguyen, J. P., Bratton, B. P., Jacobowitz, D., Gitai, Z., and Shaevitz, J. W., “MreB Orientation Correlates with Cell Diameter in Escherichia coli.”, Biophys J, vol. 111, no. 5, pp. 1035-43, 2016.
R. Balagam, Litwin, D. B., Czerwinski, F., Sun, M., Kaplan, H. B., Shaevitz, J. W., and Igoshin, O. A., “Myxococcus xanthus gliding motors are elastically coupled to the substrate as predicted by the focal adhesion model of gliding motility.”, PLoS Comput Biol, vol. 10, no. 5, p. e1003619, 2014.
D. Bruce Borenstein, Meir, Y., Shaevitz, J. W., and Wingreen, N. S., “Non-local interaction via diffusible resource prevents coexistence of cooperators and cheaters in a lattice model.”, PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 5, p. e63304, 2013.
T. Pilizota and Shaevitz, J. W., “Origins of Escherichia coli Growth Rate and Cell Shape Changes at High External Osmolality.”, Biophys J, vol. 107, no. 8, pp. 1962-9, 2014.
O. Polyakov, He, B., Swan, M., Shaevitz, J. W., Kaschube, M., and Wieschaus, E., “Passive mechanical forces control cell-shape change during Drosophila ventral furrow formation.”, Biophys J, vol. 107, no. 4, pp. 998-1010, 2014.
T. M. Bartlett, Bratton, B. P., Duvshani, A., Miguel, A., Sheng, Y., Martin, N. R., Nguyen, J. P., Persat, A., Desmarais, S. M., VanNieuwenhze, M. S., Huang, K. Casey, Zhu, J., Shaevitz, J. W., and Gitai, Z., “A Periplasmic Polymer Curves Vibrio cholerae and Promotes Pathogenesis.”, Cell, vol. 168, no. 1-2, pp. 172-185.e15, 2017.
E. A. Abbondanzieri, Shaevitz, J. W., and Block, S. M., “Picocalorimetry of transcription by RNA polymerase.”, Biophys J, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. L61-3, 2005.
T. Pilizota and Shaevitz, J. W., “Plasmolysis and cell shape depend on solute outer-membrane permeability during hyperosmotic shock in E. coli.”, Biophys J, vol. 104, no. 12, pp. 2733-42, 2013.
G. J. Berman, Bialek, W., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Predictability and hierarchy in Drosophila behavior.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 113, no. 42, pp. 11943-11948, 2016.
S. M. Block, Asbury, C. L., Shaevitz, J. W., and Lang, M. J., “Probing the kinesin reaction cycle with a 2D optical force clamp.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 100, no. 5, pp. 2351-6, 2003.
Q. Wang, J Taliaferro, M., Klibaite, U., Hilgers, V., Shaevitz, J. W., and Rio, D. C., “The PSI-U1 snRNP interaction regulates male mating behavior in Drosophila.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 113, no. 19, pp. 5269-74, 2016.
T. S. Ursell, Nguyen, J., Monds, R. D., Colavin, A., Billings, G., Ouzounov, N., Gitai, Z., Shaevitz, J. W., and Huang, K. Casey, “Rod-like bacterial shape is maintained by feedback between cell curvature and cytoskeletal localization.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 111, no. 11, pp. E1025-34, 2014.
R. M. Morgenstein, Bratton, B. P., Nguyen, J. P., Ouzounov, N., Shaevitz, J. W., and Gitai, Z., “RodZ links MreB to cell wall synthesis to mediate MreB rotation and robust morphogenesis.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 112, no. 40, pp. 12510-5, 2015.
B. P. Bratton and Shaevitz, J. W., “Simple Experimental Methods for Determining the Apparent Focal Shift in a Microscope System.”, PLoS One, vol. 10, no. 8, p. e0134616, 2015.
M. J. Rosenbluth, Crow, A., Shaevitz, J. W., and Fletcher, D. A., “Slow stress propagation in adherent cells.”, Biophys J, vol. 95, no. 12, pp. 6052-9, 2008.
Y. Deng, Sun, M., Lin, P. - H., Ma, J., and Shaevitz, J. W., “Spatial covariance reconstructive (SCORE) super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.”, PLoS One, vol. 9, no. 4, p. e94807, 2014.
J. W. Shaevitz, Lee, J. Y., and Fletcher, D. A., “Spiroplasma swim by a processive change in body helicity.”, Cell, vol. 122, no. 6, pp. 941-5, 2005.
J. W. Shaevitz, Block, S. M., and Schnitzer, M. J., “Statistical kinetics of macromolecular dynamics.”, Biophys J, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 2277-85, 2005.
J. W. Shaevitz and Gitai, Z., “The structure and function of bacterial actin homologs.”, Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol, vol. 2, no. 9, p. a000364, 2010.
J. W. Shaevitz, “Super-resolution for a 3D world.”, Nat Methods, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 471-2, 2008.
U. Klibaite, Berman, G. J., Cande, J., Stern, D. L., and Shaevitz, J. W., “An unsupervised method for quantifying the behavior of paired animals.”, Phys Biol, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 015006, 2017.
J. P. Nguyen, Shipley, F. B., Linder, A. N., Plummer, G. S., Liu, M., Setru, S. U., Shaevitz, J. W., and Leifer, A. M., “Whole-brain calcium imaging with cellular resolution in freely behaving Caenorhabditis elegans.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 113, no. 8, pp. E1074-81, 2016.