• Ben-Porat, N., Ohayon, A., Rosenberg, T., Musa, A., Petersen, E., and Mills, E. (2024) Utilizing nutrient type compounds as anti-bacterial compounds: arginine or cysteine inhibits Salmonella growth in egg white. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 12:1404218.

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• Shterzer, N., Sbehat, Y., Poudel, B., Rothschild, N., Oloko, O.E., Druyan, S. and Mills, E. (2024) Comparative analysis of reproductive tract microbiomes in modern and slower-growing broiler breeder lines. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 11:1386410.

 

• Eitan, A., Gover, O., Sulimani, L., Meiri, D., Shterzer, N., Mills, E., and Schwartz, B. (2024) The Effect of Oil-Based Cannabis Extracts on Metabolic Parameters and Microbiota Composition of Mice Fed a Standard and a High-Fat Diet. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25 (2): 1073.

 

• Shterzer, N., Rothschild, N., Sbehat, Y., Dayan, J., Eytan, D., Uni, Z. and Mills, E. (2023) Vertical transmission of gut bacteria in commercial chickens is limited. Animal Microbiome 5 (1), 50.

 

• Shterzer, N.*, Sbehat, Y.*, Poudel, B., Rothschild, N., Oloko, O.E., Headrick, J., Petersen, E., Druyan, S. and Mills, E. (2023) Differences in gut bacterial community composition between modern and slower-growing broiler breeder lines: Implications of growth selection on microbiome composition. Frontiers in Physiology, 14:1151151. * equal contribution.

 

• Poudel, B., Shterzer, N., Sbehat, Y., Ben Porat, N., Rakover, M., Sharon, R., Wolicki, D., Rahamim, S., Bar-Shira, E., and Mills, E. (2022) Characterizing the chicken gut colonization ability of a diverse group of bacteria. Poultry Science, 102136.

 

• Stern, E., Shterzer, N. and Mills, E. (2022) Characterizing 5-oxoproline sensing pathways of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Scientific Reports 12 (1), 1-10.

 

• Mills, E., and Petersen, E. (2022). Quantification of microbial fluorescent sensors during live intracellular infections. In: Gal-Mor O. Ed. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 2427: Bacterial Virulence, p 119-131. Springer Nature.

 

• Shterzer, N., Rothschild, N., Sbehat, Y., Stern, E., Nazarov, A. and Mills, E. (2020). Large overlap in the intestinal and oviduct microbiomes of chickens. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11:1508.

 

• Petersen, E., Mills, E. and Miller, S.I. (2019). Cyclic-di-GMP regulation promotes survival of a slow-replicating subpopulation of intracellular Salmonella Typhimurium. PNAS, 116(13):6635-40.

 

• Mills, E., and Avraham, R. (2017). Breaking the population barrier by single cell analysis: one host against one pathogen. Current Opinion in Microbiology 36: 69-75. 

 

• Katsowich, N., Elbaz, N., Pal, R.R., Mills, E., Kobi, S., Kahan, T. and Rosenshine, I. (2017). Host-cell attachment elicits post-transcriptional regulation in infecting enteropathogenic bacteria. Science 355(6326): 735-739.

 

• Mills, E.*, Petersen, E.*, Kulasekara, B.R. and Miller, S.I. (2015). A direct screen for c-di-GMP modulators reveals a Salmonella Typhimurium periplasmic L-arginine-sensing pathway. Science Signaling 8(380): ra57. * equal contribution. Article was featured with a focus written by Ute Romling. Received Cover.

 

• Mills, E.*, Baruch, K.*, Aviv, G., Nitzan, M. and Rosenshine, I. (2013). Dynamics of the type III secretion system activity of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. mBio 4(4): e00303-13. * equal contribution.

 

• Padavannil, A., Jobichen, C., Mills, E., Velazquez-Campoy, A., Li, M., Leung, K.Y., Mok, Y.K., Rosenshine, I. and Sivaraman, J. (2013). Structure of GrlR-GrlA complex that prevents GrlA activation of virulence genes. Nature Communications 4:2546.

 

• Mills, E.*, Pultz, I.S.*, Kulasekara, H.D. and Miller, S.I. (2011). The bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP: mechanisms of signaling. Cellular Microbiology. 13(8): 1122-9. * equal contribution.

 

• Sathiyamoorthy, K., Mills, E., Franzmann, T.M., Rosenshine, I. and Saper, M.A. (2011). The crystal structure of Escherichia coli group 4 capsule protein GfcC reveals a domain organization resembling that of Wza. Biochemistry 50(24): 5465-76.

 

• Nadler, C., Baruch, K., Kobi, S., Mills, E., Haviv, G., Farago, M., Alkalay, I., Bartfeld, S., Meyer, T.F., Ben-Neriah, Y. and Rosenshine, I. (2010). The Type III secretion effector NleE inhibits NF-κB activation. PLoS Pathogens 6 (1): e1000743.

 

• Mills, E.*, Baruch K.*, Charpentier, X.*, Kobi S. and Rosenshine, I. (2008). Real time analysis of effector translocation by the type III secretion system of enteropathogenic E. coli. Cell Host and Microbe 3, 104-113. * equal contribution.

 

• Li M., Rosenshine I., Yu H.B., Nadler C., Mills E., Hew C.L. and Leung K.Y. (2006). Identification and characterization of NleI, a new non-LEE-encoded effector of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC). Microbes and Infection 8 (14-15), 2890-2898.

 

• Fridkin, A., Mills, E., Margalit, A., Neufeld, E., Lee, K.K., Feinstein, N., Cohen, M., Wilson, K.L. and Gruenbaum, Y. (2004). Matefin, a Caenorhabditis elegans germ line-specific SUN-domain nuclear membrane protein, is essential for early embryonic and germ cell development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101 (18), 6987-6992.

 

• Parnes, S., Mills, E., Segall, C., Raviv, S., Davis, C. and Sagi, A. (2004). Reproductive readiness of the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei in a brackish water system. Aquaculture 236, 593-606.

 

• Gruenbaum, Y., Goldman, R.D., Meyuhas, R., Mills, E., Margalit, A., Fridkin, A., Dayani, Y., Prokocimer, M. and Enosh, A. (2003). The nuclear lamina and its functions in the nucleus. International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology (formally international Review of Cytology) 226, 1-62. Invited review.