Gene expression
in S. meliloti
Infection of host
plants by S. meliloti
Microbial ecology
of the rhizosphere
Publications
Arango, C., Bringhurst, R. M. and D. J. Gage (2008) Sinorhizobium meliloti mutants lacking PTS enzymes HPr or EIIA are altered in diverse processes including carbon metabolism, cobalt requirements and succinoglycan production. J. Bacteriol. 190:2947-2956 (get pdf file)

Cardon, Z.G. and D. J. Gage (2006) Resource exchange in the rhizosphere: Molecular tools and the microbial perspective. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 37:459-488 (get pdf file)

Monahan, H., Arango, C., and D. J. Gage(2005) Architecture of infection thread networks in developing root nodules induced by the symbiotic bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti on Medicago truncatula. Plant Physiology 140: 661-670(get low-resolution pdf-480 KB or get high-resolution pdf, plus supplemental material-8.3 MB)

D. J. Gage (2004) Infection and invasion of roots by symbiotic, nitrogen-fixing rhizobia during nodulation of temperate legumes. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 68:280-300 (get pdf file)

M. Rosado and D. J. Gage (2003) A gfp reporter for monitoring rRNA synthesis and growth rate of the nodulating symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti: use in the laboratory and in a model complex environment, the rhizosphere. FEMS Letters 126:15-22 (get pdf file)

D. J. Gage (2002) Analysis of infection thread development using gfp-and Dsred- expressing Sinorhizobium meliloti. J. Bacteriol 184: 7042-7046 (get pdf file) INFECTION THREAD GROWTH MODEL HERE

Bringhurst, R. M. and D. J. Gage (2002) Control of inducer accumulation plays a key role in succinated-mediated catabolite repression in Sinorhizobium meliloti. J. Bacteriology 184:5385-5392 (get pdf file)

Bringhurst, R. M., Cardon, Z., and D. J. Gage (2001). Galactosides in the rhizosphere: utilization by Sinorhizobium meliloti and development of a biosensor. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 98:4540-4545 (get pdf file)

Gage, D. J., and William Margolin (2000). Hanging by a thread: invasion of legume plants by rhizobia. Current Opinion in Microbiology 3:613-617 (get pdf file)

Bringhurst, R. M., and D. J. Gage (2000) An AraC-like transcriptional activator is required for induction of genes needed for a-galactoside utilization in Sinorhizobium meliloti. FEMS Microbiol. Letters 188:23 (get pdf file).

Gage, D. J., and S. R. Long. (1998) a-galactoside uptake in Rhizobium meliloti: isolation and characterization of agpA, a gene encoding a periplasmic binding protein required for melibiose and raffinose utilization. J. Bacteriology 180: 5739 - 5748 (get pdf file).

Gage, D. J., Bobo, T. and S. R. Long. (1996). Use of green fluorescent protein to visualize the early events of symbiosis between Rhizobium meliloti and alfalfa, Medicago sativa. J. Bacteriology 178:7159 (get pdf file).

Gage, D.J., and F.C. Neidhardt. (1992). Adaptation of Escherichia coli to an uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation, 2,4-dinitrophenol. J. Bacteriology 175: 7105

Gage, D.J., and F.C. Neidhardt. (1992). Modulation of the heat shock response by one-carbon metabolism in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriology 175: 1961.