Seemay Chou, PhD

ASST ADJ PROF-FY

M_Biochemistry and Biophysics

+1 415 653-8989

Seemay Chou is in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Her lab investigates the mechanisms by which bacteria interact with specific organisms, including other microbes and tick disease vectors by which they can be transmitted to humans.

Publications

Antibacterial potency of type VI amidase effector toxins is dependent on substrate topology and cellular context.

eLife

Radkov A, Sapiro AL, Flores S, Henderson C, Saunders H, Kim R, Massa S, Thompson S, Mateusiak C, Biboy J, Zhao Z, Starita LM, Hatleberg WL, Vollmer W, Russell AB, Simorre JP, Anthony-Cahill S, Brzovic P, Hayes B, Chou S

Host blood meal identity modifies vector gene expression and competency.

Molecular ecology

Ring K, Couper LI, Sapiro AL, Yarza F, Yang XF, Clay K, Mateusiak C, Chou S, Swei A

The cyclic dinucleotide 2'3'-cGAMP induces a broad antibacterial and antiviral response in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Margolis SR, Dietzen PA, Hayes BM, Wilson SC, Remick BC, Chou S, Vance RE

Ticks Resist Skin Commensals with Immune Factor of Bacterial Origin.

Cell

Hayes BM, Radkov AD, Yarza F, Flores S, Kim J, Zhao Z, Lexa KW, Marnin L, Biboy J, Bowcut V, Vollmer W, Pedra JHF, Chou S

An Affair to Remember: How an Endosymbiont Partners with Its Host to Build a Cell Envelope.

Cell

Radkov AD, Chou S

Differential modes of crosslinking establish spatially distinct regions of peptidoglycan in Caulobacter crescentus.

Molecular microbiology

Stankeviciute G, Miguel AV, Radkov A, Chou S, Huang KC, Klein EA

Ixodes scapularis does not harbor a stable midgut microbiome.

The ISME journal

Ross BD, Hayes B, Radey MC, Lee X, Josek T, Bjork J, Neitzel D, Paskewitz S, Chou S, Mougous JD

Transferred interbacterial antagonism genes augment eukaryotic innate immune function.

Nature

A type VI secretion-related pathway in Bacteroidetes mediates interbacterial antagonism.

Cell host & microbe

Identification, structure, and function of a novel type VI secretion peptidoglycan glycoside hydrolase effector-immunity pair.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Whitney JC, Chou S, Russell AB, Biboy J, Gardiner TE, Ferrin MA, Brittnacher M, Vollmer W, Mougous JD