An asymmetric gene evolution mechanism via replication-transcription conflicts (735.11)
Houra Merrikh , Ariana Nakta Samadpour , Samuel Million-Weaver
The FASEB Journal 28
2014
The B. subtilis accessory helicase PcrA facilitates replication through transcription units genome-wide (LB126)
Houra Merrikh , Christopher Merrikh
The FASEB Journal 28
1
2014
2009
Lagging strand encoding promotes adaptive evolution
Houra Merrikh , Leonard A. Harris , Christopher N. Merrikh , Sarah Mangiameli
bioRxiv
2020
Topological stress is responsible for the detrimental outcomes of head-on replication-transcription conflicts.
Houra Merrikh , Kevin S. Lang
Cell Reports 34 ( 9) 108797 -108797
1
2021
Replication-transcription conflicts in bacteria
Houra Merrikh , Yan Zhang , Alan D. Grossman , Jue D. Wang
Nature Reviews Microbiology 10 ( 7) 449 -458
141
2012
Gene inversion potentiates bacterial evolvability and virulence
Christopher N. Merrikh , Houra Merrikh
Nature Communications 9 ( 1) 4662
22
2018
Replication Restart after Replication-Transcription Conflicts Requires RecA in Bacillus subtilis
Samuel Million-Weaver , Ariana Nakta Samadpour , Houra Merrikh
Journal of Bacteriology 197 ( 14) 2374 -2382
27
2015
Growth phase and (p)ppGpp control of IraD, a regulator of RpoS stability, in Escherichia coli.
Houra Merrikh , Alexander E. Ferrazzoli , Susan T. Lovett
Journal of Bacteriology 191 ( 24) 7436 -7446
70
2009
The B. subtilis Accessory Helicase PcrA Facilitates DNA Replication through Transcription Units
Christopher N. Merrikh , Bonita J. Brewer , Houra Merrikh
PLOS Genetics 11 ( 6) e1005289
34
2015
Co-directional replication–transcription conflicts lead to replication restart
Houra Merrikh , Cristina Machón , William H. Grainger , Alan D. Grossman
Nature 470 ( 7335) 554 -557
126
2011
Accelerated gene evolution through replication-transcription conflicts
Sandip Paul , Samuel Million-Weaver , Sujay Chattopadhyay , Evgeni Sokurenko
Nature 495 ( 7442) 512 -515
95
2013
Targeting evolution to inhibit antibiotic resistance.
Houra Merrikh , Rahul M. Kohli
FEBS Journal 287 ( 20) 4341 -4353
4
2020
Inhibiting the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance.
Mark N. Ragheb , Maureen K. Thomason , Chris Hsu , Patrick Nugent
Molecular Cell 73 ( 1) 157
155
2019
Vizualizing Repliication Restart Process In Vivo with Single-Molecule Sensitivity
Sarah M. Mangiameli , Paul A. Wiggins , Houra Merrikh , Chris Merrikh
Biophysical Journal 106 ( 2)
2014
Transcription leads to pervasive replisome instability in bacteria
Sarah M Mangiameli , Christopher N Merrikh , Paul A Wiggins , Houra Merrikh
eLife 6
40
2017
The enigmatic role of Mfd in replication-transcription conflicts in bacteria.
Mark Ragheb , Houra Merrikh
DNA Repair 81 102659 -102659
1
2019
The bacterial replisome has factory-like localization.
Sarah M. Mangiameli , Julie A. Cass , Houra Merrikh , Paul A. Wiggins
Current Genetics 64 ( 5) 1029 -1036
8
2018
The recent report by Liu and Zhang Claiming “No support for the adaptive hypothesis of lagging-strand encoding in bacterial genomes” is factually incorrect
Christopher Merrikh , Houra Merrikh
bioRxiv
2
2020
Compensatory mutations improve general permissiveness to antibiotic resistance plasmids.
Wesley Loftie-Eaton , Kelsie Bashford , Hannah Quinn , Kieran Dong
Nature Ecology and Evolution 1 ( 9) 1354 -1363
135
2017