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		Publications Jack Meeks
		Journal Articles Meeks, J.C., D.L. Willson, and R.D. Gaines. 1968. Triosephosphate isomerase from selected Chlorophyta. Phytochemistry 7, 2095-2101. Meeks, J.C. and R.W. Castenholz. 1971. Growth and photosynthesis in an extreme thermophile Synechococcus lividus (Cyanophyta). Archives fur Mikrobiologie 78, 25-41. Thomas, J., J.C. Meeks, C.P. Wolk, P.W. Shaffer, S.M. Austin, and W.-S. Chien. 1977. Formation of glutamine from [¹³N]ammonia, [¹³N]dinitrogen, and [¹⁴C]glutamate by heterocysts isolated from Anabaena cylindrica. Journal of Bacteriology 129, 1545-1555. Meeks, J.C., C.P. Wolk, J. Thomas, P.W. Shaffer, W. Lochau, A. Galonsky, S.M. Austin, and W.-S. Chien. 1977. The pathways of assimilation of ¹³NH₄+ by the cyanobacterium, Anabaena cylindrica. Journal of Biological Chemistry 252, 7894-7900. Meeks, J.C. and R.W. Castenholz. 1978. Photosynthetic properties of the extreme thermophile Synechococcus lividus. I. Effect of temperature on fluorescence and enhancement of carbon dioxide assimilation. Journal of Thermal Biology 3, 11-18. Meeks, J.C. and R.W. Castenholz. 1978. Photosynthetic properties of the extreme thermophile Synechococcus lividus. II. Stoichiometry between oxygen evolution and carbon dioxide assimilation. Journal of Thermal Biology 3, 19-24. Meeks, J.C., R.L. Malmberg, and C.P. Wolk. 1978. Uptake of auxotrophic cells of a heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium by tobacco protoplasts, and the fate of their associations. Planta 139, 55-60. Meeks, J.C., C.P. Wolk, W. Lochau, N. Schilling, P.W. Shaffer, and W.-S. Chien. 1978. Pathways of assimilation of [¹³N]N₂ and¹³NH₄+ by cyanobacteria with and without heterocysts. Journal of Bacteriology 134, 125-130. Meeks, J.C., C.P. Wolk, Y. Avissar, N. Schilling, P.W. Shaffer, and W.-S. Chien. 1978. Initial organic products of fixation of [¹³N]N₂ by root nodules of soybean (Glycine max). Plant Physiology 61, 980-983. Skokut, T.A., C.P. Wolk, J. Thomas, J.C. Meeks, P.W. Shaffer, and W.-S. Chien. 1978. Initial organic products of assimilation of [¹³N]ammonium and [¹³N]nitrate by tobacco cells cultured on different sources of nitrogen. Plant Physiology 62, 299-304. McElfresh, M.W., J.C. Meeks, and N.J. Parks. 1979. The synthesis of ¹³N-labelled nitrite of high specific activity and purity. Journal of Radioanalytical Chemistry 53, 337-344. Meeks, J.C., K.L. Wycoff, J.S. Chapman, and C.S. Enderlin. 1983. Regulation of expression of nitrate and dinitrogen assimilation in Anabaena species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 45, 1351-1359. Enderlin, C.S. and J.C. Meeks. 1983. Pure culture and reconstitution of the Anthoceros-Nostoc symbiotic association. Planta 158, 157-165. Meeks, J.C., C.S. Enderlin, K.L. Wycoff, J.S. Chapman, and C.M. Joseph. 1983. Assimilation of ¹³NH₄+ by Anthoceros grown with and without symbiotic Nostoc. Planta 158, 384-391. Chapman, J.S. and J.C. Meeks. 1983. Glutamine and glutamate transport by Anabaena variabilis. Journal of Bacteriology 156, 122-129. Kustu, S., J. Hirschman, D. Burton, J. Jelesko, and J.C. Meeks. 1984. Covalent modification of bacterial glutamine synthetase: physiological significance. Molecular and General Genetics 197, 309-314. Meeks, J.C., C.S. Enderlin, C.M. Joseph, J.S. Chapman, and M.W.L. Lollar. 1985. Fixation of [¹³N]N₂ and transfer of fixed nitrogen in the Anthoceros-Nostoc symbiotic association. Planta 164, 406-414. Meeks, J.C., N. Steinberg, C.M. Joseph, C.S. Enderlin, P.A. Jorgensen, and G.A. Peters. 1985. Assimilation of exogenous and dinitrogen-derived¹³NH₄+ by Anabaena azollae separated from Azolla caroliniana Willd. Archives of Microbiology 142, 229-232. Cangelosi, G.A., C.M. Joseph, J.J. Rosen, and J.C. Meeks. 1986. Cloning and expression of a Nostoc sp. leucine biosynthetic gene in Escherichia coli. Archives of Microbiology 145, 315-321. Chapman, J.S. and J.C. Meeks. 1987. Conditions for mutagenesis of the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis. Journal of General Microbiology 133, 111-118. Joseph, C.M. and J.C. Meeks. 1987. Regulation of expression of glutamine synthetase in a symbiotic Nostoc strain associated with Anthoceros punctatus. Journal of Bacteriology 169, 2471-2475. Meeks, J.C., N. Steinberg, C.S. Enderlin, C.M. Joseph, and G.A. Peters. 1987. Azolla-Anabaena relationship. XIII. Fixation of [¹³N]N₂. Plant Physiology 84, 883-886. Westby, C.A., C.S. Enderlin, N. A. Steinberg, C.M. Joseph, and J.C. Meeks. 1987. Assimilation of ¹³NH₄+ by Azospirillum brasilense grown under nitrogen limitation and excess. Journal of Bacteriology 169, 4211-4214. Meeks, J.C., C.M. Joseph, and R. Haselkorn. 1988. Organization of the nif genes in cyanobacteria in symbiotic association with Azolla caroliniana and Anthoceros punctatus. Archives of Microbiology 150, 61-71. Lee, K.Y, C.M. Joseph, and J.C. Meeks. 1988. Glutamine synthetase specific activity and protein concentration in symbiotic Anabaena associated with Azolla caroliniana. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology 54, 345-355. Campbell, E.L. and J.C. Meeks. 1989. Characteristics of hormogonia formation by symbiotic Nostoc spp. in response to the presence of Anthoceros punctatus or its extracellular products. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 55, 125-131. Steinberg, N.A. and J.C. Meeks. 1989. Photosynthetic C0₂ fixation and ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase activity of Nostoc sp. strain UCD 7801 in symbiotic association with Anthoceros punctatus. Journal of Bacteriology 171, 6227-6233. Steinberg. N.A. and J.C. Meeks. 1991. Physiological sources of reductant for nitrogen fixation activity in Nostoc sp. strain UCD 7801 in symbiotic association with Anthoceros punctatus. Journal of Bacteriology 173, 7324-7329. Campbell, E. L. and J.C. Meeks. 1992. Evidence for plant-mediated regulation of nitrogenase expression in the Anthoceros-Nostoc symbiotic association. Journal of General Microbiology 138, 473-480. Summers, M.L., J.C. Meeks, S. Chu and R.E. Wolf, Jr. 1994. Nucleotide sequence of an operon in Nostoc sp. strain ATCC 29133 encoding four genes of the oxidative pentose phosphate cycle. Plant Physiology 105, 267-268. Meeks, J.C., E.L. Campbell and P.S. Bisen. 1994. Elements interrupting nitrogen fixation genes in cyanobacteria: presence and absence of a nifD element in clones of Nostoc sp. strain Mac. Microbiology 140, 3225-3232. Cohen, M.F., J.G. Wallis, E.L. Campbell and J.C. Meeks, 1994. Transposon mutagenesis of Nostoc sp. strain ATCC 29133, a filamentous cyanobacterium with multiple cellular differentiation alternatives. Microbiology 140, 3233-3240. Summers, M.L., J.G. Wallis, E.L. Campbell and J.C. Meeks. 1995. Genetic evidence of a major role for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in nitrogen fixation and dark growth of the cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain ATCC 29133. Journal of Bacteriology 177, 6184-6194. Campbell, E.L., K.D. Hagen, M.F. Cohen, M.L. Summers and J.C. Meeks. 1996. The devR gene product is characteristic of receivers of two-component regulatory systems and is essential for heterocyst development in the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain ATCC 29133. Journal of Bacteriology 178, 2037-2043. Summers, M.L. and J.C. Meeks. 1996. Transcriptional regulation of zwf, encoding glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, from the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme strain ATCC 29133. Molecular Microbiology 22, 473-480. Cohen, M.F. and J.C. Meeks. 1997. A hormogonium regulating locus, hrmUA, of the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme strain ATCC 29133 and its response to an extract of a symbiotic plant partner Anthoceros punctatus. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 10, 280-289. Campbell, E.L., M.F. Cohen and J.C. Meeks. 1997. A polyketide synthase-like gene is involved in synthesis of heterocyst glycolipids in Nostoc punctiforme strain ATCC 29133. Archives of Microbiology 167, 251-258. Hanson, T.E., K. Forchhammer, N. Tandeau de Marsac and J. C. Meeks. 1998. Characterization of the glnB gene product of Nostoc punctiforme strain ATCC 29133: glnB or the P_II protein may be essential. Microbiology 144, 1537-1547. Campbell, E.L., B. Brahamsha and J.C. Meeks. 1998. Mutation of an alternative sigma factor in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme results in increased infection of its symbiotic plant partner Anthoceros punctatus. Journal of Bacteriology, 180, 4938-4941. Hagen, K.D. and J.C. Meeks. 1999. Biochemical and genetic evidence for participation of DevR in a phosphorelay signal transduction pathway essential for heterocyst maturation in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133. Journal of Bacteriology 181, 4430-4434. Invited Book Chapters, Reviews, Methods Papers Meeks, J.C. 1974. Chlorophylls. In: Algal Physiology and Biochemistry (W. D. P. Stewart, ed.), pp. 161-175. Blackwell Scientific Publications, London. Meeks, J.C., C.P. Wolk, J. Thomas, S.M. Austin, and A. Galonsky. 1978. Use of ¹³N in studies of fixation of dinitrogen and assimilation of ammonium by cyanobacteria. In: Isotopes in Biological Dinitrogen Fixation. pp. 163-170. International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna, Austria. Meeks, J.C. 1981. Radiotracer studies of nitrogen metabolism in cyanobacteria. In: Recent Advances in Chemistry Series no. 197, Short-Lived Radionuclides in Chemistry and Biology (J.W. Root and K.A. Krohn, eds.), pp. 269-294. American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. Peters, G.A., D. Kaplan, J.C. Meeks, K.M. Buzby, B.H. Marsh, and J.L. Corbin. 1985. Aspects of nitrogen and carbon interchange in the Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis. In: Nitrogen fixation and CO₂ metabolism (P. W. Ludden and J. E. Burris, eds.), pp. 213-222. Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc., New York. Kustu, S., J. Hirschman, and J.C. Meeks. 1985. Adenylylation of bacterial glutamine synthetase: physiological significance. Current Topics in Cellular Regulation 27, 201-213. Meeks, J.C., C.S. Enderlin, C.M. Joseph, N. Steinberg, and Y.M. Weeden. 1985. Use of ¹³N to study N₂ fixation and assimilation by cyanobacterial-lower plant associations. In: Nitrogen Fixation Research Progress (H. J. Evans, P. J. Bottomly and W. E. Newton, eds.), pp. 301-307. Martins Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Meeks, J.C. 1988. Symbiotic associations. In: Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 167, Cyanobacteria (A. Glazer and L. Packer, eds.), pp. 113-121. Academic Press, New York. Peters, G.A. and J.C. Meeks. 1989. The Azolla-Anabaena azollae symbiosis: Basic biology. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 40, 193-210. Meeks, J.C. 1990. Cyanobacterial-bryophyte associations. In: Handbook of Symbiotic Cyanobacteria (A. N. Rai, ed.), pp. 43-63. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida. Meeks, J.C. 1990. Nitrogen assimilation in cyanobacteria. In: Phycotalk, Vol. 2 (H. D. Kumar, ed.), pp. 86-102. Rastogi & Co., Meerut, India. Meeks, J.C. 1993. ₁₃N techniques. In: Nitrogen Isotope Techniques (R. Knowles and T. H, Blackburn, eds.), pp. 273-303. Academic Press, NY. Meeks, J.C. 1998. Symbiotic associations between nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria and plants. BioScience 48, 266-276. Campbell EL, B Brahamsha, and J.C. Meeks. 1998. Mutation of an alternative sigma factor in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme results in increased infection of its symbiotic plant partner. Journal of Bacteriology 180:4938-4941. Cohen, M.F., J.C. Meeks, Y.A. Cai and C.P. Wolk. 1998. Transposon mutagenesis of heterocyst-forming filamentous cyanobacteria. In: Methods in Enzymology Vol. 297, Photosynthesis: molecular biology of energy capture (L. McIntosh, ed.), pp. 3-17. Academic Press, New York. Meeks, J.C., E.L. Campbell, K. Hagen, T. Hanson, N. Hitzeman and F. Wong. 1999. Developmental alternatives of symbiotic Nostoc punctiforme in response to its plant partner Anthoceros punctatus. In: The Phototrophic Prokaryotes (G.A. Peschek, W. Loffelhardt and G. Schmetterer, eds.). pp. 665-678, Plenum Publishing Corp., New York. Zehr, J.P, B. Dominic, Y-B. Chen, M. Mellon and J.C. Meeks. 1999. Nitrogen fixation in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium: a challenging model for ecology and molecular biology. In: The Phototrophic Prokaryotes (G.A. Peschek, W. Loffelhardt and G. Schmetterer, eds.). pp. 485-500, Plenum Publishing Corp., New York. Hagen, K.D. and J.C. Meeks. 2001. The unique cyanoacterial protein OpcA is an allosteric effector of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133. Journal of Biological Chemistry 276, 11477-11486. Wong, F.C.Y. and J.C. Meeks. 2001. The hetF gene product is essential to heterocyst differentiation and affects HetR function in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme. Journal of Bacteriology 183, 2654-2661. Meeks, J.C., J. Elhai, T. Theil, M. Potts, F. Larimer, J. Lameridin, P. Predki and R. Atlas. 2001. An overview of the genome of Nostoc punctiforme, a multicellular, symbiotic cyanobacterium. Photosynthesis Research 70, in press. Meeks, J.C., and J. Elhai. 2001. Regulation of cellular differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteria in free-living and plant-associated symbiotic growth states. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 65, in press.