Dr Rob Fagerlund

Contact Details
- Position
- Research Fellow
- Department
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Qualifications
- PhD
- Research summary
- Phage resistance mechanisms
Research
Working with A/P Peter Fineran
Publications
Jowsey, W. J., Morris, C. R. P., Hall, D. A., Sullivan, J. T., Fagerlund, R. D., Eto, K. Y., … Ronson, C. W. (2023). DUF2285 is a novel helix-turn-helix domain variant that orchestrates both activation and antiactivation of conjugative element transfer in proteobacteria. Nucleic Acids Research, gkad457. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad457
McBride, T. M., Cameron, S. C., Fineran, P. C., & Fagerlund, R. D. (2023). The biology and type I/III hybrid nature of type I-D CRISPR-Cas systems. Biochemical Journal, 480(7), 471-488. doi: 10.1042/bcj20220073
Mayo-Muñoz, D., Smith, L. M., Garcia-Doval, C., Malone, L. M., Harding, K. R., Jackson, S. A., Hampton, H. G., Fagerlund, R. D., Gumy, L. F., & Fineran, P. C. (2022). Type III CRISPR-Cas provides resistance against nucleus-forming jumbo phages via abortive infection. Molecular Cell, 82, 4471-4486.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.10.028
Schwartz, E. A., McBride, T. M., Bravo, J. P. K., Wrapp, D., Fineran, P. C., Fagerlund, R. D., & Taylor, D. W. (2022). Structural rearrangements allow nucleic acid discrimination by type I-D Cascade. Nature Communications, 13, 2829. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30402-8
Birkholz, N., Jackson, S. A., Fagerlund, R. D., & Fineran, P. C. (2022). A mobile restriction-modification system provides phage defence and resolves an epigenetic conflict with an antagonistic endonuclease. Nucleic Acids Research, 50(6), 3348-3361. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac147
Fagerlund, R. D., Ferguson, T. J., Maxwell, H. W. R., Opel-Reading, H. K., Krause, K. L., & Fineran, P. C. (2019). Reconstitution of CRISPR adaptation in vitro and its detection by PCR. In S. Bailey (Ed.), Methods in enzymology (Vol. 616: CRISPR-Cas enzymes). (pp. 411-433). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2018.10.024
Chapter in Book - Research
Jowsey, W. J., Morris, C. R. P., Hall, D. A., Sullivan, J. T., Fagerlund, R. D., Eto, K. Y., … Ronson, C. W. (2023). DUF2285 is a novel helix-turn-helix domain variant that orchestrates both activation and antiactivation of conjugative element transfer in proteobacteria. Nucleic Acids Research, gkad457. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad457
Journal - Research Article
Birkholz, N., Jackson, S. A., Fagerlund, R. D., & Fineran, P. C. (2022). A mobile restriction-modification system provides phage defence and resolves an epigenetic conflict with an antagonistic endonuclease. Nucleic Acids Research, 50(6), 3348-3361. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac147
Journal - Research Article
Mayo-Muñoz, D., Smith, L. M., Garcia-Doval, C., Malone, L. M., Harding, K. R., Jackson, S. A., Hampton, H. G., Fagerlund, R. D., Gumy, L. F., & Fineran, P. C. (2022). Type III CRISPR-Cas provides resistance against nucleus-forming jumbo phages via abortive infection. Molecular Cell, 82, 4471-4486.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.10.028
Journal - Research Article
Schwartz, E. A., McBride, T. M., Bravo, J. P. K., Wrapp, D., Fineran, P. C., Fagerlund, R. D., & Taylor, D. W. (2022). Structural rearrangements allow nucleic acid discrimination by type I-D Cascade. Nature Communications, 13, 2829. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30402-8
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Usher, B., Birkholz, N., Beck, I. N., Fagerlund, R. D., Jackson, S. A., Fineran, P. C., & Blower, T. R. (2021). Crystal structure of the anti-CRISPR repressor Aca2. Journal of Structural Biology, 213, 107752. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2021.107752
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Fagerlund, R. D., Forsman, J. A., Biswas, S., Vass, I., Davies, F. K., Summerfield, T. C., & Eaton-Rye, J. J. (2020). Stabilization of Photosystem II by the PsbT protein impacts photodamage, repair and biogenesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, 1861, 148234. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2020.148234
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Forsman, J. A., Fagerlund, R. D., Biswas, S., Summerfield, T. C., & Eaton-Rye, J. J. (2020). The PsbT protein modifies the bicarbonate-binding environment of Photosystem II. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 58(4), 406-421. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2020.1772320
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McBride, T. M., Schwartz, E. A., Kumar, A., Taylor, D. W., Fineran, P. C., & Fagerlund, R. D. (2020). Diverse CRISPR-Cas complexes require independent translation of small and large subunits from a single gene. Molecular Cell, 80, 971-979. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.11.003
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Pinilla-Redondo, R., Shehreen, S., Marino, N. D., Fagerlund, R. D., Brown, C. M., Sørensen, S. J., Fineran, P. C., & Bondy-Denomy, J. (2020). Discovery of multiple anti-CRISPRs highlights anti-defense gene clustering in mobile genetic elements. Nature Communications, 11(1), 5652. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19415-3
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Birkholz, N., Fagerlund, R. D., Smith, L. M., Jackson, S. A., & Fineran, P. C. (2019). The autoregulator Aca2 mediates anti-CRISPR repression. Nucleic Acids Research, 47(18), 9658-9665. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz721
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Greisch, J.-F., Tamara, S., Scheltema, R. A., Maxwell, H. W. R., Fagerlund, R. D., Fineran, P. C., … Heck, A. J. R. (2019). Expanding the mass range for UVPD-based native top-down mass spectrometry. Chemical Science, 10, 7163-7171. doi: 10.1039/c9sc01857c
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Hampton, H. G., Jackson, S. A., Fagerlund, R. D., Vogel, A. I. M., Dy, R. L., Blower, T. R., & Fineran, P. C. (2018). AbiEi binds cooperatively to the Type IV abiE toxin-antitoxin operator via a positively-charged surface and causes DNA bending and negative autoregulation. Journal of Molecular Biology, 430(8), 1141-1156. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.02.022
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Fagerlund, R. D., Wilkinson, M. E., Klykov, O., Barendregt, A., Pearce, F. G., Kieper, S. N., Maxwell, H. W. R., … Krause, K. L., Bostina, M., … Staals, R. H. J., & Fineran, P. C. (2017). Spacer capture and integration by a type I-F Cas1–Cas2-3 CRISPR adaptation complex. PNAS, 114(26), E5122-E5128. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1618421114
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Jackson, S. A., McKenzie, R. E., Fagerlund, R. D., Kieper, S. N., Fineran, P. C., & Brouns, S. J. J. (2017). CRISPR-Cas: Adapting to change. Science, 356(6333), eaal5056. doi: 10.1126/science.aal5056
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Fagerlund, R. D., Perederina, A., Berezin, I., & Krasilnikov, A. S. (2015). Footprinting analysis of interactions between the largest eukaryotic RNase P/MRP protein Pop1 and RNase P/MRP RNA components. RNA, 21, 1591-1605. doi: 10.1261/rna.049007.114
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Fagerlund, R. D., Staals, R. H. J., & Fineran, P. C. (2015). The Cpf1 CRISPR-Cas protein expands genome-editing tools. Genome Biology, 16, 251. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0824-9
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Luo, H., Jackson, S. A., Fagerlund, R. D., Summerfield, T. C., & Eaton-Rye, J. J. (2014). The importance of the hydrophilic region of PsbL for the plastoquinone electron acceptor complex of Photosystem II. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, 1837(9), 1435-1446. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.02.015
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Bricker, T. M., Roose, J. L., Fagerlund, R. D., Frankel, L. K., & Eaton-Rye, J. J. (2012). The extrinsic proteins of Photosystem II. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, 1817(1), 121-142. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.07.006
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Fagerlund, R. D., Ooi, P. L., & Wilbanks, S. M. (2012). Soluble expression and purification of tumor suppressor WT1 and its zinc finger domain. Protein Expression & Purification, 85(2), 165-172. doi: 10.1016/j.pep.2012.08.002
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Fagerlund, R. D., & Eaton-Rye, J. J. (2011). The lipoproteins of cyanobacterial photosystem II. Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology B, 104(1-2), 191-203. doi: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2011.01.022
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Liptak, M. D., Fagerlund, R. D., Ledgerwood, E. C., Wilbanks, S. M., & Bren, K. (2011). The proapoptotic G41S mutation to human cytochrome c alters the heme electronic structure and increases the electron self-exchange rate. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(5), 1153-1155. doi: 10.1021/ja106328k
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Jackson, S. A., Fagerlund, R. D., Wilbanks, S. M., & Eaton-Rye, J. J. (2010). Crystal structure of PsbQ from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 at 1.8 Å: Implications for binding and function in cyanobacterial photosystem II. Biochemistry, 49(13), 2765-2767. doi: 10.1021/bi100217h
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Morison, I. M., Cramer Bordé, E. M., Cheesman, E. J., Cheong, P. L., Holyoake, A. J., Fichelson, S., Weeks, R. J., Lo, A., Davies, S. M. K., Wilbanks, S. M., Fagerlund, R. D., Ludgate, M. W., da Silva Tatley, F. M., Coker, M. S. A., Bockett, N. A., Hughes, G., Pippig, D. A., Smith, M. P., … Ledgerwood, E. C. (2008). A mutation of human cytochrome c enhances the intrinsic apoptotic pathway but causes only thrombocytopenia. Nature Genetics, 40(4), 387-389. doi: 10.1038/ng.103
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McBride, T. M., Cameron, S. C., Fineran, P. C., & Fagerlund, R. D. (2023). The biology and type I/III hybrid nature of type I-D CRISPR-Cas systems. Biochemical Journal, 480(7), 471-488. doi: 10.1042/bcj20220073
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