Publications

Siegal-Gaskins, D., and Crosson, S.  2008.  Tightly-regulated and heritable division control in single bacterial cells.  Biophys. J. 95:2063-2072.

Purcell, E.B., Siegal-Gaskins, D., Rawling D.C., Fiebig, A., and Crosson, S.  2007.  A photosensory two-component system regulates bacterial cell attachment.  Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA 104:18241-18246. [pdf]

Crosson, S., McGrath, P.T., Stephens, C., McAdams, H.H., and Shapiro, L.  2005.  Conserved modular design of an oxygen sensory/signaling network with species specific output.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 8018-8023. [pdf]

Gauden, M, Crosson, S., van Stokkum, I.H., van Grondelle, R., Moffat, K., Kennis, J.T.M.  2004.  Low-temperature and time-resolved spectroscopic characterization of the LOV2 domain of Avena sativa phototropin 1.  Proc. SPIE 5463: 97-104.

Anderson, S., Crosson, S., and Moffat, K.  2004.  Short hydrogen bonds in photoactive yellow protein.  Acta Cryst. D 60:1008-1016. [pdf]

Kennis, J.T.M., van Stokkum, I., Crosson, S., Gauden, M., Moffat, K., and van Grondelle, R.  2004.  The LOV2 domain of phototropin: a reversible photochromic switch. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126: 4512-4513. [pdf]

Kennis, J.T.M., Crosson, S., Gauden, M., van Stokkum, I., Moffat K., and van Grondelle, R. 2003.  Primary reactions of the LOV2 domain of phototropin, a plant blue-light photoreceptor.  Biochemistry 42: 3385-3392. [pdf]

Crosson, S., Rajagopal, S. and Moffat, K.  2003.  The LOV domain family: photoresponsive signaling modules coupled to diverse output domains.  Biochemistry 42: 2-10. [pdf]

Crosson, S. and Moffat, K.  2002.  Photoexcited structure of a plant photoreceptor domain reveals a light-driven molecular switch. Plant Cell 14: 1067-1075. [pdf]

Crosson, S. and Moffat, K. 2001.  Structure of a flavin-binding plant photoreceptor domain: insights into light-mediated signal transduction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 2995-3000. [pdf]

Srajer, V., Crosson, S., Schmidt, M., Key, J., Schotte, F., Anderson, S., Perman, B., Ren, Z., Teng, T.-Y., Bourgeois, D., Wulff, M., and Moffat, K.  2000.  Extraction of accurate structure factor amplitudes from Laue data: wavelength normalization with wiggler and undulator X-ray sources. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 7: 236-244.

Invited Reviews/Book Chapters

Purcell, E.B. and Crosson, S.  2008.  Photoregulation in prokaryotes.   Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 11:168-178.

Kennis, J.T.M. and Crosson, S.   2007.  A bacterial pathogen sees the light.   Science 317:1041-1042.

Purcell, E.B., Boutte, C.C., and Crosson, S.   2007.  Two-component networks and cell cycle control in Caulobacter crescentus. In Bacterial Signal Transduction: Networks and Drug Targets ; ed. R. Utsumi.  Landes-Eurekah.  Austin, Texas.

Crosson, S.  LOV domain structure, dynamics and diversity.  2005.  In Handbook of Photosensory Receptors;  ed. W. Briggs and J. Spudich.  Wiley-VCH Verlag.  Weinheim, Germany.

Crosson, S. McAdams, H., and Shapiro, L.  2004.  A genetic oscillator and the regulation of cell cycle progression in Caulobacter crescentus.  Cell Cycle 3: 1252-1254. [pdf]