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Chris Whitfield
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Latest papers
Structural insights into the polytopic Escherichia coli phosphoglycosyl transferase WbaP.
Open biology · 2026
Structure of WzxE the lipid III flippase for Enterobacterial Common Antigen polysaccharide.
Open biology · 2025
Molecular basis for the phosphorylation of bacterial tyrosine kinase Wzc.
Nature communications · 2025
81 publications.
Structural insights into the polytopic Escherichia coli phosphoglycosyl transferase WbaP.
Weckener M, Le Bas A, Ward PN, Clarke BR, Harrison PJ, McMahon SA, Liu H, Eddershaw A, Giltrap AM, Pardon E, Lakshminarayanan A, Steyaert J, Davis BG, Whitfield C, Naismith JH
Structure of WzxE the lipid III flippase for Enterobacterial Common Antigen polysaccharide.
Le Bas A, Clarke BR, Teelucksingh T, Lee M, El Omari K, Giltrap AM, McMahon SA, Liu H, Beale JH, Mykhaylyk V, Duman R, Paterson NG, Ward PN, Harrison PJ, Weckener M, Pardon E, Steyaert J, Liu H, Quigley A, Davis BG, Wagner A, Whitfield C, Naismith JH
Molecular basis for the phosphorylation of bacterial tyrosine kinase Wzc.
Yang Y, Batista M, Clarke BR, Agyare-Tabbi MR, Song H, Kuehfuss NM, Le Bas A, Robinson CV, Whitfield C, Stansfeld PJ, Naismith JH, Liu J
Transition transferases prime bacterial capsule polymerization.
Litschko C, Di Domenico V, Schulze J, Li S, Ovchinnikova OG, Voskuilen T, Bethe A, Cifuente JO, Marina A, Budde I, Mast TA, Sulewska M, Berger M, Buettner FFR, Lowary TL, Whitfield C, Codée JDC, Schubert M, Guerin ME, Fiebig T
O-antigen polysaccharides in Klebsiella pneumoniae: structures and molecular basis for antigenic diversity.
Whitfield C, Kelly SD, Stanton TD, Wyres KL, Clarke BR, Forrester TJB, Kowalczyk A
Three-component systems represent a common pathway for extracytoplasmic addition of pentofuranose sugars into bacterial glycans.
Kelly SD, Duong NH, Nothof JT, Lowary TL, Whitfield C
Structure, biosynthesis and regulation of the T1 antigen, a phase-variable surface polysaccharide conserved in many Salmonella serovars.
Kelly SD, Allas MJ, Goodridge LD, Lowary TL, Whitfield C
Klebsiella pneumoniae O-polysaccharide biosynthesis highlights the diverse organization of catalytic modules in ABC transporter-dependent glycan assembly.
Kelly SD, Williams DM, Zhu S, Kim T, Jana M, Nothof J, Thota VN, Lowary TL, Whitfield C
Inhibiting fatty acid synthesis overcomes colistin resistance
Carfrae LA, Rachwalski K, French S, Gordzevich R, Seidel L, Tsai CN, Tu MM, MacNair CR, Ovchinnikova OG, Clarke BR
The lipid linked oligosaccharide polymerase Wzy and its regulating co-polymerase, Wzz, from enterobacterial common antigen biosynthesis form a complex.
Weckener M, Woodward LS, Clarke BR, Liu H, Ward PN, Le Bas A, Bhella D, Whitfield C, Naismith JH
Frequent collaborators
- Eric Brown and Jonathan Stokes: 18 shared papers
- Eric Brown and Brian Coombes: 17 shared papers
- Brian Coombes and Jonathan Stokes: 5 shared papers
- Eric Brown and Chris Whitfield: 3 shared papers
- Jonathan Stokes and Chris Whitfield: 2 shared papers
- Brian Coombes and Chris Whitfield: 1 shared paper
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
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