Makrina Totsika

ScholarGPS® ID: 67487991550005

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Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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Life Sciences

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Biomedical Sciences

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110

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Determining glycosyltransferase functional order via lethality due to accumulated O-antigen intermediates, exemplified with Shigella flexneri O-antigen biosynthesis (journal article) Qin, Jilong \| Hong, Yaoqin \| Totsika, Makrina Applied and Environmental Microbiology, volume 90, issue 6 (2024). 10.1128/aem.02203-23 Cite \| Source
A conditional nature for the synthetical lethality between defects in lipid and peptidoglycan biosynthesis (journal article) Hong, Yaoqin \| Qin, Jilong \| Totsika, Makrina Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 120, issue 52 (2023). 10.1073/pnas.2318882120 Cite \| Source
Repeat-Unit Elongations To Produce Bacterial Complex Long Polysaccharide Chains, an O-Antigen Perspective (journal article) Hong, Yaoqin \| Hu, Dalong \| Verderosa, Anthony D. \| Qin, Jilong \| Totsika, Makrina \| Reeves, Peter R. EcoSal Plus, volume 11, issue 1 (2023). 10.1128/ecosalplus.esp-0020-2022 Cited by (4) \| Cite \| Source
In Vitro Activities of Oxazolidinone Antibiotics Alone and in Combination with C-TEMPO against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms (journal article) Ndukwe, Audrey R. N. \| Qin, Jilong \| Wiedbrauk, Sandra \| Boase, Nathan R. B. \| Fairfull-Smith, Kathryn E. \| Totsika, Makrina Antibiotics, volume 12, issue 12, pages 1706- (2023). 10.3390/antibiotics12121706 Cite \| Source
Bladder-draining lymph nodes support germinal center B cell responses during urinary tract infection in mice (journal article) Hawas, Sophia \| Vagenas, Dimitrios \| Haque, Ashraful \| Totsika, Makrina Infection and Immunity, volume 91, issue 11 (2023). 10.1128/iai.00317-23 Cite \| Source
O antigen biogenesis sensitises Escherichia coli K-12 to bile salts, providing a plausible explanation for its evolutionary loss (journal article) Qin, Jilong \| Hong, Yaoqin \| Morona, Renato \| Totsika, Makrina PLOS Genetics, volume 19, issue 10, pages e1010996- (2023). 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010996 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source
Preclinical Evaluation of Nitroxide-Functionalised Ciprofloxacin as a Novel Antibiofilm Drug Hybrid for Urinary Tract Infections (journal article) Hawas, Sophia \| Qin, Jilong \| Wiedbrauk, Sandra \| Fairfull-Smith, Kathryn \| Totsika, Makrina Antibiotics, volume 12, issue 10, pages 1479- (2023). 10.3390/antibiotics12101479 Cite \| Source
Extensive Diversity in Escherichia coli Group 3 Capsules Is Driven by Recombination and Plasmid Transfer from Multiple Species (journal article) Hong, Yaoqin \| Qin, Jilong \| Forga, Xavier Bertran \| Totsika, Makrina Microbiology Spectrum, volume 11, issue 4 (2023). 10.1128/spectrum.01432-23 Cite \| Source
Simple and Efficient Synthesis of 3-Aryl-2-oxazolidinone Scaffolds Enabling Increased Potency toward Biofilms (journal article) Ndukwe, Audrey R. N. \| Hawas, Sophia \| Qin, Jilong \| Wiedbrauk, Sandra \| Totsika, Makrina \| Boase, Nathan R. B. \| Fairfull-Smith, Kathryn E. Molecular Pharmaceutics, volume 20, issue 7, pages 3484-3493 (2023). 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.3c00095 Cited by (4) \| Cite \| Source
Perforated intravenous catheter design is acceptable for the administration of contrast-enhanced computed tomography administration in cancer patients: Results of a pilot randomised controlled trial (journal article) Gavin, Nicole C \| Wignall, Elizabeth \| Marsh, Nicole \| Marquart, Louise \| Dobeli, Karen L \| O’Brien, Catherine \| Verderosa, Anthony D \| Totsika, Makrina \| Keogh, Samantha The Journal of Vascular Access (2023). 10.1177/11297298231171422 Cite \| Source
A Buried Water Network Modulates the Activity of the Escherichia coli Disulphide Catalyst DsbA (journal article) Wang, Geqing \| Qin, Jilong \| Verderosa, Anthony D. \| Hor, Lilian \| Santos-Martin, Carlos \| Paxman, Jason J. \| Martin, Jennifer L. \| Totsika, Makrina \| Heras, Begoña Antioxidants, volume 12, issue 2, pages 380- (2023). 10.3390/antiox12020380 Cite \| Source
Cysteine-Dependent Conformational Heterogeneity of Shigella flexneri Autotransporter IcsA and Implications of Its Function (journal article) Qin, Jilong \| Hong, Yaoqin \| Morona, Renato \| Totsika, Makrina Microbiology Spectrum, volume 10, issue 6 (2022). 10.1128/spectrum.03410-22 Cited by (2) \| Cite \| Source
A method for increasing electroporation competence of Gram-negative clinical isolates by polymyxin B nonapeptide (journal article) Qin, Jilong \| Hong, Yaoqin \| Pullela, Karthik \| Morona, Renato \| Henderson, Ian R. \| Totsika, Makrina Scientific Reports, volume 12, issue 1 (2022). 10.1038/s41598-022-15997-8 Cited by (6) \| Cite \| Source
Co-Occurrence of Multidrug Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Pathogenic Clones of Human Relevance in an Equine Pneumonia Case (journal article) Venturini, Carola \| Bowring, Bethany \| Partridge, Sally R. \| Ben Zakour, Nouri L. \| Fajardo-Lubian, Alicia \| Lopez Ayala, Ariana \| Qin, Jilong \| Totsika, Makrina \| van Galen, Gaby \| Norris, Jacqueline \| Iredell, Jonathan Microbiology Spectrum, volume 10, issue 3 (2022). 10.1128/spectrum.02158-21 Cited by (5) \| Cite \| Source
Loss of β-Ketoacyl Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase III Activity Restores Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli Sensitivity to Previously Ineffective Antibiotics (journal article) Hong, Yaoqin \| Qin, Jilong \| Verderosa, Anthony D. \| Hawas, Sophia \| Zhang, Bing \| Blaskovich, Mark A. T. \| Cronan, John E. \| Totsika, Makrina mSphere, volume 7, issue 3 (2022). 10.1128/msphere.00117-22 Cited by (7) \| Cite \| Source
Variation of Antigen 43 self-association modulates bacterial compacting within aggregates and biofilms (journal article) Vo, Julieanne L. \| Ortiz, Gabriela C. Martínez \| Totsika, Makrina \| Lo, Alvin W. \| Hancock, Steven J. \| Whitten, Andrew E. \| Hor, Lilian \| Peters, Kate M. \| Ageorges, Valentin \| Caccia, Nelly \| ... \| Heras, Begoña npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, volume 8, issue 1 (2022). 10.1038/s41522-022-00284-1 Cited by (8) \| Cite \| Source
Selective Binding of Small Molecules to Vibrio cholerae DsbA Offers a Starting Point for the Design of Novel Antibacterials (journal article) Wang, Geqing \| Mohanty, Biswaranjan \| Williams, Martin L. \| Doak, Bradley C. \| Dhouib, Rabeb \| Totsika, Makrina \| McMahon, Róisín M. \| Sharma, Gaurav \| Zheng, Dan \| Bentley, Matthew R. \| ... \| Scanlon, Martin J. ChemMedChem, volume 17, issue 6 (2022). 10.1002/cmdc.202100673 Cited by (2) \| Cite \| Source
The suppressor of copper sensitivity protein C from Caulobacter crescentus is a trimeric disulfide isomerase that binds copper(I) with subpicomolar affinity (journal article) Petit, Guillaume A. \| Hong, Yaoqin \| Djoko, Karrera Y. \| Whitten, Andrew E. \| Furlong, Emily J. \| McCoy, Airlie J. \| Gulbis, Jacqueline M. \| Totsika, Makrina \| Martin, Jennifer L. \| Halili, Maria A. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, volume 78, issue 3, pages 337-352 (2022). 10.1107/S2059798322000729 Cited by (2) \| Cite \| Source
Combination Therapies for Biofilm Inhibition and Eradication: A Comparative Review of Laboratory and Preclinical Studies (journal article) Hawas, Sophia \| Verderosa, Anthony D. \| Totsika, Makrina Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, volume 12 (2022). 10.3389/fcimb.2022.850030 Cited by (53) \| Cite \| Source
Differential Afa/Dr Fimbriae Expression in the Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli ST131 Clone (journal article) Alvarez-Fraga, Laura \| Phan, Minh-Duy \| Goh, Kelvin G. K. \| Nhu, Nguyen Thi Khanh \| Hancock, Steven J. \| Allsopp, Luke P. \| Peters, Kate M. \| Forde, Brian M. \| Roberts, Leah W. \| Sullivan, Matthew J. \| ... \| Schembri, Mark A. mBio, volume 13, issue 1 (2022). 10.1128/mbio.03519-21 Cited by (10) \| Cite \| Source