Contact Details
- Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Department
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Qualifications
- PhD
- Research summary
- Molecular microbiology
Research
Working in Professor Greg Cook's Laboratory. Areas of research include biochemistry, molecular microbiology, enzyme kinetics, structural and functional characterization of succinate and hydrogenase enzymes in mycobacteriaPublications
Pecsi, I., Hards, K., Ekanayaka, N., Berney, M., Hartman, T., Jacobs, Jr, W. R., & Cook, G. M. (2014). Essentiality of succinate dehydrogenase in Mycobacterium smegmatis and its role in the generation of the membrane potential under hypoxia. mBio, 5(4), e01093-14. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01093-14 Journal - Research Article
Pecsi, I., Hirmondo, R., Brown, A. C., Lopata, A., Parish, T., Vertessy, B. G., & Tóth, J. (2012). The dUTPase enzyme is essential in Mycobacterium smegmatis. PLoS ONE, 7(5), e37461. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037461 Journal - Research Article
Pecsi, I. (2011). In vivo analysis of dUTPase essentiality in Mycobacterium smegmatis: Structural and functional characterization of human and mycobacterial dUTPase enzymes in vitro (PhD). Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. 9p. Awarded Doctoral Degree
Erdélyi, P., Borsos, É., Takács-Vellai, K., Kovács, T., Kovács, A. L., Sigmond, T., … Pécsi, I., … Vellai, T. (2011). Shared developmental roles and transcriptional control of autophagy and apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Cell Science, 124(9), 1510-1518. doi: 10.1242/jcs.080192 Journal - Research Article
Pécsi, I., Szabó, J. E., Adams, S. D., Simon, I., Sellers, J. R., Vértessy, B. G., & Tóth, J. (2011). Nucleotide pyrophosphatase employs a P-loop-like motif to enhance catalytic power and NDP/NTP discrimination. PNAS, 108(35), 14437-14442. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1013872108 Journal - Research Article