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Heidi B. Kaplan
Researcher at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Publications - 52
Citations - 6507
Heidi B. Kaplan is an academic researcher from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The author has contributed to research in topics: Myxococcus xanthus & Gene. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 50 publications receiving 5848 citations. Previous affiliations of Heidi B. Kaplan include Dartmouth College & Stanford University.
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Biofilm Formation as Microbial Development
TL;DR: The results reviewed in this article indicate that the formation of biofilms serves as a new model system for the study of microbial development.
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Diffusion of autoinducer is involved in regulation of the Vibrio fischeri luminescence system.
Heidi B. Kaplan,E. P. Greenberg +1 more
TL;DR: A model for autoinduction is described wherein autoinducer association with cells is by simple diffusion and binding ofautoinducer to its active site is reversible.
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Evolution of sensory complexity recorded in a myxobacterial genome
Barry S. Goldman,William C. Nierman,William C. Nierman,Dale Kaiser,Steven C. Slater,Steven C. Slater,Anthony S. Durkin,Jonathan A. Eisen,Catherine M. Ronning,W. B. Barbazuk,M. Blanchard,C. Field,Conrad Halling,Gregory Hinkle,O. Iartchuk,H. S. Kim,Chris Mackenzie,Ramana Madupu,Nancy M. Miller,Alla Shvartsbeyn,Steven A. Sullivan,Mark Vaudin,Roger C. Wiegand,Heidi B. Kaplan +23 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that gene duplication and divergence were major contributors to genomic expansion from its progenitor, and families of genes encoding the production of secondary metabolites are overrepresented in the genome but may have been received by horizontal gene transfer and are likely to be important for predation.
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Metagenomic analysis of nitrate-reducing bacteria in the oral cavity: implications for nitric oxide homeostasis.
Embriette R. Hyde,Fernando Andrade,Zalman Vaksman,Kavitha Parthasarathy,Hong Jiang,Deepa K. Parthasarathy,Ashley C. Torregrossa,Gena D. Tribble,Heidi B. Kaplan,Joseph F. Petrosino,Nathan S. Bryan +10 more
TL;DR: The results provide a possible new therapeutic target and paradigm for NO restoration in humans by specific oral bacteria, and may also provide mechanistic evidence for the oral systemic link.
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A new set of chemotaxis homologues is essential for Myxococcus xanthus social motility
TL;DR: Genetic analysis and phenotypical characterization indicate that the M. xanthus dif locus is required for social (S) motility, the first report of a M.Xanthus chemotaxis‐like signal transduction pathway that could regulate or co‐ordinate the movement of M. Xanthus cells to bring about S motility.