Gusa A, Yadav V, Roth C, Williams JD, Shouse EM, Magwene P, Heitman J, Jinks-Robertson S. Genome-wide analysis of heat stress-stimulated transposon mobility in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jan 24;120(4):e2209831120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2209831120. Epub 2023 Jan 20. PMID: 36669112; PMCID: PMC9942834. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36669112/

Fu C, Davy A, Holmes S, Sun S, Yadav V, Gusa A, Coelho MA, Heitman J. Dynamic genome plasticity during unisexual reproduction in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans. PLoS Genet. 2021 Nov 29;17(11):e1009935. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009935. PMID: 34843473; PMCID: PMC8670703. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34843473/

Gusa A, Williams JD, Cho JE, Averette AF, Sun S, Shouse EM, Heitman J, Alspaugh JA, Jinks-Robertson S. Transposon mobilization in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus is mutagenic during infection and promotes drug resistance in vitro. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 May 5;117(18):9973-9980. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2001451117. Epub 2020 Apr 17. PMID: 32303657; PMCID: PMC7211991. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32303657/

Gusa A, Jinks-Robertson S. Mitotic Recombination and Adaptive Genomic Changes in Human Pathogenic Fungi. Genes (Basel). 2019 Nov 7;10(11):901. doi: 10.3390/genes10110901. PMID: 31703352; PMCID: PMC6895784. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31703352/

Balthazar JT, Gusa A, Martin LE, Choudhury B, Carlson R, Shafer WM. Lipooligosaccharide Structure is an Important Determinant in the Resistance of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae to Antimicrobial Agents of Innate Host Defense. Front Microbiol. 2011 Feb 18;2:30. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00030. PMID: 21747781; PMCID: PMC3128933. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21747781/

Gusa AA, Froehlich BJ, Desai D, Stringer V, Scott JR. CovR activation of the dipeptide permease promoter (PdppA) in Group A Streptococcus. J Bacteriol. 2007 Feb;189(4):1407-16. doi: 10.1128/JB.01036-06. Epub 2006 Sep 22. PMID: 16997962; PMCID: PMC1797356. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16997962/

Gusa AA, Gao J, Stringer V, Churchward G, Scott JR. Phosphorylation of the group A Streptococcal CovR response regulator causes dimerization and promoter-specific recruitment by RNA polymerase. J Bacteriol. 2006 Jul;188(13):4620-6. doi: 10.1128/JB.00198-06. PMID: 16788170; PMCID: PMC1482990. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16788170/

Gao J, Gusa AA, Scott JR, Churchward G. Binding of the global response regulator protein CovR to the sag promoter of Streptococcus pyogenes reveals a new mode of CovR-DNA interaction. J Biol Chem. 2005 Nov 25;280(47):38948-56. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M506121200. Epub 2005 Sep 20. PMID: 16174772. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16174772/

Gusa AA, Scott JR. The CovR response regulator of group A streptococcus (GAS) acts directly to repress its own promoter. Mol Microbiol. 2005 Jun;56(5):1195-207. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04623.x. PMID: 15882414. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15882414/

Bjöersdorff A, Bagert B, Massung RF, Gusa A, Eliasson I. Isolation and characterization of two European strains of Ehrlichia phagocytophila of equine origin. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 2002 Mar;9(2):341-3. doi: 10.1128/cdli.9.2.341-343.2002. PMID: 11874874; PMCID: PMC119922. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11874874/

Massung RF, Lee K, Mauel M, Gusa A. Characterization of the rRNA genes of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophila. DNA Cell Biol. 2002 Aug;21(8):587-96. doi: 10.1089/104454902320308960. PMID: 12215262. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12215262/

Gusa AA, Buller RS, Storch GA, Huycke MM, Machado LJ, Slater LN, Stockham SL, Massung RF. Identification of a p28 gene in Ehrlichia ewingii: evaluation of gene for use as a target for a species-specific PCR diagnostic assay. J Clin Microbiol. 2001 Nov;39(11):3871-6. doi: 10.1128/JCM.39.11.3871-3876.2001. PMID: 11682500; PMCID: PMC88457. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11682500/