2025
2024
Mohammed Kaplan; The connection between Darwin’s finches and bacterial flagellar motors. Physics Today 1 March 2024; 77 (3): 28–33. https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.nkma.bqid
2023
Shepherd DC, Kaplan M, Vankadari N, Kim KW, Larson CL, Dutka P, Beare PA, Krzymowski E, Heinzen RA, Jensen GJ, Ghosal D; Morphological remodeling of Coxiella burnetii during its biphasic developmental cycle revealed by cryo-electron tomography. iScience 21 July 2023; 26 (7) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107210
Kaplan, M., Chang, YW., Oikonomou, C.M. et al. Bdellovibrio predation cycle characterized at nanometre-scale resolution with cryo-electron tomography. Nat Microbiol 22 June 2023; 8, 1267–1279. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01401-2
Kaplan M, Yao Q, Jensen GJ. Structure and Assembly of the Proteus mirabilis Flagellar Motor by Cryo-Electron Tomography. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 5 May 2023; 24(9):8292. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24098292
2022
Kaplan M, Oikonomou CM, Wood CR, Chreifi G, Ghosal D, Dobro MJ, Yao Q, Pal RR,Baidya AK,Liu Y, Maggi S, McDowall AW, Ben-Yehuda S, Rosenshine I, Briegel A, Beeby M, Chang Y, Shaffer CL, Jensen GJ. Discovery of a Novel Inner Membrane-Associated Bacterial Structure Related to the Flagellar Type III Secretion System. J Bacteriol 18 July 2022; 204:e00144-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00144-22
Kaplan M, Oikonomou CM, Wood CR, Chreifi G, Subramanian P, Ortega DR, Chang YW, Beeby M, Shaffer CL, Jensen GJ. Novel transient cytoplasmic rings stablize assembling bacterial flagellar motors. The EMBO Journal 18 March 2022; 41 (10):e109523. https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.2021109523
2021
Kaplan M, Chreifi G, Metskas LA, Liedtke J, Wood CR, Oikonomou CM, Nicolas WJ, Subramanian P, Zacharoff LA, Wang Y, Chang YW, Beeby M, Dobro MJ, Zhu Y, McBride MJ, Briegel A, Shaffer CL, Jensen GJ. In situ imaging of bacterial outer membrane projections and associated protein complexes using electron cryo-tomography. eLife 1 September 2021; 10:e73099. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.73099
Kaplan M, Tocheva EI,Briegel A,Dobro MJ,Chang Y,Subramanian P, McDowall AW, Beeby M, Jensen GJ. Loss of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor Switch Complex upon Cell Lysis. mBio 8 June 2021; 12:10.1128/mbio.00298-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00298-21
Kaplan M, Wang Y, Chreifi G, Zhang L, Chang YW, Jensen GJ. Programmed Flagellar Ejection in Caulobacter crescentus Leaves PL-subcomplexes. Journal of Molecular Biology 25 June 2021; 433 (13):167004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167004.