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Mengfei Ho

Senior Research Scientist (PI: Dr. Brenda Wilson)

Additional Campus Affiliations

Senior Research Scientist, Microbiology
Research Assistant Professor, Microbiology

Recent Publications

Danov, A., Pollin, I., Moon, E., Ho, M., Wilson, B. A., Papathanos, P. A., Kaplan, T., & Levy, A. (2024). Identification of novel toxins associated with the extracellular contractile injection system using machine learning. Molecular Systems Biology, 20(8), 859-879. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44320-024-00053-6

Handy, N. B., Xu, Y., Moon, D., Sowizral, J. J., Moon, E., Ho, M., & Wilson, B. A. (2024). Hierarchical determinants in cytotoxic necrotizing factor (CNF) toxins driving Rho G-protein deamidation versus transglutamination. mBio, 15(7), e0122124. Article e01221-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01221-24

Haywood, E. E., Handy, N. B., Lopez, J. W., Ho, M., & Wilson, B. A. (2021). Insertion-trigger residues differentially modulate endosomal escape by cytotoxic necrotizing factor toxins. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 297(5), Article 101347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101347

Ho, M., Moon, D., Pires-Alves, M., Thornton, P. D., McFarlin, B. L., & Wilson, B. A. (2021). Recovery of microbial community profile information hidden in chimeric sequence reads. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 19, 5126-5139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2021.08.050

Zeng, X., Chi, X., Ho, B. T., Moon, D., Lambert, C., Hall, R. J., Baybayan, P., Wang, S., Wilson, B. A., & Ho, M. (2019). Comparative genome analysis of an extensively drug-resistant isolate of avian sequence type 167 Escherichia coli strain sanji with novel in silico serotype O89b:H9. mSystems, 4(1), Article e0024218. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00242-18

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