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Vincent Escuyer

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Bacterial Diseases
Ph.D. (1989), University of Paris 7-Institut Pasteur, France
Postdoctoral training, Harvard Medical School

E-mail: vee01@health.state.ny.us

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  • Wang, Y., Long, M. C., Ranganathan, S., Escuyer, V., Parker, W. B. and Li, R. (2005) Overexpression, purification and crystallographic analysis of a unique adenosine kinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Act. Cryst., 61: 553–557.
  • White, L. E., Ross, L. J., Cunningham, A., Escuyer, V. (2004). Cloning, expression and characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis dihydrofolate reductase. FEMS. Microbiol. Lett. 232: 101-105.
  • Long, M. C., Escuyer, V. and Parker, W. B. (2003) Identification and Characterization of a unique adenosine kinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Bacteriol. 185: 6548-6555.
  • Zhang,N., Torrelles, J.B., McNeil, M. R., Escuyer, V.E. , Khoo, KH., Brennan P. J. and Chatterjee, D. (2003) The Emb proteins of mycobacteria direct arabinosylation of lipoarabinomannan and arabinogalactan via an N-terminal recognition region and a C-terminal synthetic region. Mol. Microbiol. 50: 69-76.
  • Khasnobis, S., Escuyer, V.E. and Chatterjee, D. (2002). Emerging therapeutic targets in tuberculosis: post-genomic era. Expert Opin. Ther. Targets. 6: 21-40.
  • Escuyer, V.E. , Lety, M.A., Torrelles, J.B., Khoo, K.H., Tang, J.B., Rithner, C.D., Frehel, C., McNeil M. R. , Brennan P.J. and Chatterjee D. (2001). The role of the embA, B gene products in the biosynthesis of the terminal hexaarabinofuranosyl motif of Mycobacterium smegmatis arabinogalactan. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 48854-48862.
  • Lety, M.A., Nair, S., Berche, P. and Escuyer, V. (1997). A single point mutation in the embB gene is responsible for resistance to ethambutol in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 41: 2629-33.
  • Escuyer, V. , Haddad, N., Frehel, C. and Berche, P. (1996). Molecular characterization of a surface-exposed superoxide dismutase of Mycobacterium avium. Microb. Pathogen. 20: 41-55.
  • Baulard, A., Escuyer, V. , Haddad, N., Kremer, L., Locht, P. and Berche, P. (1995). Mercury resistance as a selective marker for recombinant mycobacteria. Microbiology 141: 1045-1050. The first two authors contributed equally to this work.
  • Killeen, K.P., Escuyer, V. , Mekalanos, J.J. and Collier, R.J. (1992). Reversion of recombinant toxoids: mutations in diphtheria toxin that partially compensate for active site deletions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89: 6207-6209.
  • Escuyer, V. and Collier, R.J. (1991). Anthrax protective antigen interacts with a specific receptor on the surface of CHO-K1 cells. Infect. Immun. 59: 3381-3386.

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E-mail: vee01@health.state.ny.us.