Staff Profile

School of

Biomedical Sciences

Faculty of Medical Sciences

Newcastle University

Framlington Place

Newcastle upon Tyne   NE2 4HH

Tel. 0191 208 3838   

www.ncl.ac.uk/biomed

School of

Biomedical Sciences

Faculty of Medical Sciences

Newcastle University

Framlington Place

Newcastle upon Tyne   NE2 4HH

Tel. 0191 208 3838 

www.ncl.ac.uk/biomed

• Hardyman J, Tyson J, Jackson K, Aldridge C, Cockell S, Wakeling L, Valentine RA, Ford D. Zinc sensing by metal-responsive transcription factor 1 (MTF1) controls metallothionein and ZnT1 expression to buffer the sensitivity of the transcriptome response to zinc. Metallomics 2016, 8(3), 337-343.
• Johnston C, Bootsma HJ, Aldridge C, Manuse S, Gisch N, Schwudke D, Hermans PWM, Grangeasse C, Polard P, Vollmer W, Claverys JP. Co-Inactivation of GlnR and CodY Regulators Impacts Pneumococcal Cell Wall Physiology. PLoS ONE 2015, 10(4).
• Rismondo J, Möller L, Aldridge C, Gray J, Vollmer W, Halbedel S. Discrete and overlapping functions of peptidoglycan synthases in growth, cell division and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes. Molecular Microbiology 2015, 95(2), 332-351.
• Rico-Lastres P, Diez-Martinez R, Iglesias-Bexiga M, Bustamante N, Aldridge C, Hesek D, Lee M, Mobashery S, Gray J, Vollmer W, Garcia P, Menendez M. Substrate recognition and catalysis by LytB, a pneumococcal peptidoglycan hydrolase involved in virulence. Scientific Reports 2015, 5, 16198.
• Arnaouteli S, Giastas P, Andreou A, Tzanodaskalaki M, Aldridge C, Tzartos SJ, Vollmer W, Eliopoulos E, Bouriotis V. Two putative polysaccharide deacetylases are required for osmotic stability and cell shape maintenance in Bacillus anthracis. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2015, 290(21), 13465-13478.
• Hoyland CN, Aldridge C, Cleverley RM, Duchêne MC, Minasov G, Onopriyenko O, Sidiq K, Stogios PJ, Anderson WF, Daniel RA, Savchenko A, Vollmer W, Lewis RJ. Structure of the LdcB LD-carboxypeptidase reveals the molecular basis of peptidoglycan recognition. Structure 2014, 22(7), 949-960.
• Tomlinson G, Chimalapati S, Pollard T, Lapp T, Cohen J, Camberlein E, Stafford S, Periselneris J, Aldridge C, Vollmer W, Picard C, Casanova JL, Noursadeghi M, Brown J. TLR-Mediated Inflammatory Responses to Streptococcus pneumoniae are Highly Dependent on Surface Expression of Bacterial Lipoproteins. Journal of Immunology 2014, 193(7), 3736-3745.
• Bisicchia P, Bui NK, Aldridge C, Vollmer W, Devine KM. Acquisition of VanB-type vancomycin resistance by Bacillus subtilis: the impact on gene expression, cell wall composition and morphology. Molecular Microbiology 2011, 81(1), 157-178.
• Saini S, Floess E, Aldridge C, Brown J, Aldridge PD, Rao CV. Continuous control of flagellar gene expression by the σ²⁸–FlgM regulatory circuit in Salmonella enterica. Molecular Microbiology 2011, 79(1), 264-278.
• Faulds-Pain A, Birchall C, Aldridge C, Smith WD, Grimaldi G, Nakamura S, Miyata T, Gray J, Li GL, Tang JX, Namba K, Minamino T, Aldridge PD. Flagellin Redundancy in Caulobacter crescentus and Its Implications for Flagellar Filament Assembly. Journal of Bacteriology 2011, 193(11), 2695-2707.
• Aldridge PD, Karlinsey JE, Aldridge C, Birchall C, Thompson D, Yagasaki J, Hughes KT. The flagellar-specific transcription factor, σ28, is the Type III secretion chaperone for the flagellar-specific anti- σ28 factor FlgM. Genes & Development 2006, 20(16), 2315-2326.
• Rismondo J, Wamp S, Aldridge C, Vollmer W, Halbedel S. Stimulation of PgdA-dependent peptidoglycan N-deacetylation by GpsB-PBP A1 in Listeria monoctyogenes. Molecular Microbiology 2018, 107(4), 472-487.