Nathan Rigel, Ph.D.

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Education: B.S. Microbiology
Pennsylvania State University, 2002

Ph.D. Microbiology & Immunology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 2008

Publications:

Rigel, N.W., Schwalm, J., Ricci, D.P., and Silhavy, T.J. BamE Modulates the Escherichia coli Beta-Barrel Assembly Machine Component BamA. 2012. J Bacteriol. 194(5):1002-1008. PMID:22178970.

Rigel, N.W. and Silhavy, T.J. Making a Beta-Barrel: Assembly of Outer Membrane Proteins in Gram-negative Bacteria. 2012. Curr Opin Microbiol. 15(2):189-193. PMID: 22221898.

Hall J.D., S.L. Kurtz, N.W. Rigel, B.M. Gunn, S. Taft-Benz, J.P. Morrison, A.M. Fong, D.D. Patel, M. Braunstein, and T.H Kawula. (2009) The impact of chemokine receptor CX3CR1 deficiency during respiratory infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Francisella tularensis. Clin. Exp. Immunol. 156:278-284.

Rigel, N.W., H.S. Gibbons, J.R. McCann, J.A. McDonough, S. Kurtz, and M. Braunstein. (2009) The accessory SecA2 system of mycobacteria requires ATP binding and the canonical SecA1. J. Biol. Chem. 284:9927-9936.

Rigel, N.W., and M. Braunstein. (2008) A new twist on an old pathway-accessory Sec systems. Mol. Microbiol. 69:291-302.

McDonough, J.A., J.R. McCann, E.M. Tekippe, J.S. Silverman, N.W. Rigel, and M. Braunstein. (2008) Identification of functional Tat signal sequences in Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins. J. Bacteriol. 190:6428-6438.

Hou, J.M., N.G. D'Lima, N.W. Rigel, H.S. Gibbons, J.R. McCann, M. Braunstein, and C.M. Teschke. (2008) ATPase activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis SecA1 and SecA2 proteins and its importance for SecA2 function in macrophages. J. Bacteriol. 190:4880-4887.

Zhao, D., X. Yang, L. Quan, L. Timofejeva, N.W. Rigel, H. Ma, and C.A. Makaroff. (2006) ASK1, a SKP1 homolog, is required for nuclear reorganization, presynaptic homolog juxtaposition and the proper distribution of cohesin during meiosis in Arabidopsis. Plant Mol. Biol. 62:1573-5028.