Selected Publications
Lawrence, E.C., Pan, H., Ollikainen, N. & Belin, B.J. (2026) Origin and transport of bacterial hopanoids. mSystems https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00619-26
Carlew, T.S., Atherton Puri, A.A., Shim, A., Parada Rojas, C., Buchanan, R.A., Chang, J.H., Sachs, J.L., Belin, B.J. (2026) Aeschynomene americana induces terminal bacteroid differentiation in Bradyrhizobium sp. USDA3516, a novel model for dalbergioid–rhizobium symbiosis. BMC Plant Biology https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-026-08893-0
Lubin, M.B., Teizeira, D.H., Belin, B.J (2026)
Characterization of chemotaxis in soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens. Applied Environmental Microbiology
Belin, B.J.,Tookmanian, E.M., de Anda, J., Wong, G.C.L., Newman, D.K. (2019) Extended Hopanoid Loss Reduces Bacterial Motility and Surface Attachment and Leads to Heterogeneity in Root Nodule Growth Kinetics in a Bradyrhizobium-Aeschynomene Symbiosis. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 32 (10), 1415-1428.
Pan, H., Shim, A., Lubin, M.B., Belin, B.J. (2024) Hopanoid lipids promote soybean–Bradyrhizobium symbiosis. mBio Mar 6:e0247823
Belin, B.J., Busset, N., Giraud, E., Molinaro, A., Silipo, A., Newman, D.K. (2018) Hopanoid
lipids: from membranes to plant-bacteria interactions. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 16(5):304-315.
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