1. Publications: Peter M. Power
16: Power PM, Roddam LF, Dieckelmann M, Srikhanta YN, Tan YC, Berrington AW, Jennings MP.
Genetic characterization of pilin glycosylation in Neisseria meningitidis. Microbiology. 2000
Apr;146 ( Pt 4):967-79. PubMed PMID: 10784055.
15: Power PM, Jennings MP. The genetics of glycosylation in Gram-negative bacteria. FEMS Microbiol
Lett. 2003 Jan 28;218(2):211-22. Review. PubMed PMID:12586395.
14: Power PM, Roddam LF, Rutter K, Fitzpatrick SZ, Srikhanta YN, Jennings MP.Genetic
characterization of pilin glycosylation and phase variation in Neisseria meningitidis. Mol Microbiol.
2003 Aug;49(3):833-47. PubMed PMID: 12864863.
13: Warren MJ, Roddam LF, Power PM, Terry TD, Jennings MP. Analysis of the role of pglI in pilin
glycosylation of Neisseria meningitidis. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2004 May 1;41(1):43-50.
PubMed PMID: 15094166.
12: Power PM, Jones RA, Beacham IR, Bucholtz C, Jennings MP. Whole genome analysis reveals a
high incidence of non-optimal codons in secretory signal sequences of Escherichia coli. Biochem
Biophys Res Commun. 2004 Sep 24;322(3):1038-44. PubMed PMID: 15336569.
11: Power PM, Seib KL, Jennings MP. Pilin glycosylation in Neisseria meningitides occurs by a similar
pathway to wzy-dependent O-antigen biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Res
Commun. 2006 Sep 8;347(4):904-8. Epub 2006 Jul 25. PubMed PMID: 16870136.
10: Power PM, Ku SC, Rutter K, Warren MJ, Limnios EA, Tapsall JW, Jennings MP. The phase-variable
allele of the pilus glycosylation gene pglA is not strongly associated with strains of Neisseria
gonorrhoeae isolated from patients with disseminated gonococcal infection. Infect Immun. 2007
Jun;75(6):3202-4. Epub 2007 Feb 12. PubMed PMID: 17296763; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC1932893.
9: Zalucki YM, Power PM, Jennings MP. Selection for efficient translation initiation biases codon usage
at second amino acid position in secretory proteins. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007;35(17):5748-54. Epub
2007 Aug 23. PubMed PMID: 17717002; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2034453.
8: Juhas M, Power PM, Harding RM, Ferguson DJ, Dimopoulou ID, Elamin AR, Mohd-Zain Z, Hood DW,
Adegbola R, Erwin A, Smith A, Munson RS, Harrison A,Mansfield L, Bentley S, Crook DW. Sequence
and functional analyses of Haemophilus spp. genomic islands. Genome Biol. 2007;8(11):R237.
PubMed PMID: 17996041; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2258188.
7: Ku SC, Schulz BL, Power PM, Jennings MP. The pilin O-glycosylation pathway of pathogenic
Neisseria is a general system that glycosylates AniA, an outer membrane nitrite reductase. Biochem
Biophys Res Commun. 2009 Jan 2;378(1):84-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.11.025. Epub 2008 Nov
14. PubMed PMID: 19013435.
6: Power PM, Sweetman WA, Gallacher NJ, Woodhall MR, Kumar GA, Moxon ER, Hood DW. Simple
sequence repeats in Haemophilus influenzae. Infect Genet Evol. 2009 Mar;9(2):216-28. doi:

2. 0.1016/j.meegid.2008.11.006. Epub 2008 Nov 28. PubMed PMID: 19095084; PubMed Central
PMCID: PMC2651432.
5: Power PM, Bentley SD, Parkhill J, Moxon ER, Hood DW. Investigations into genome diversity of
Haemophilus influenzae using whole genome sequencing of clinical isolates and laboratory
transformants. BMC Microbiol. 2012 Nov 23;12:273. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-273. PubMed
PMID: 23176117; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3539920.
4: Schulz BL, Jen FE, Power PM, Jones CE, Fox KL, Ku SC, Blanchfield JT, Jennings MP. Identification
of bacterial protein O-oligosaccharyltransferases and their glycoprotein substrates. PLoS One. 2013
May 3;8(5):e62768. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062768. Print 2013. PubMed PMID: 23658772;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3643930.
3: Jen FE, Warren MJ, Schulz BL, Power PM, Swords WE, Weiser JN, Apicella MA, Edwards JL,
Jennings MP. Dual pili post-translational modifications synergize to mediate meningococcal
adherence to platelet activating factor receptor on human airway cells. PLoS Pathog.
2013;9(5):e1003377. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003377.Epub 2013 May 16. PubMed PMID:
23696740; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3656113.
2: Young RE, Twelkmeyer B, Vitiazeva V, Power PM, Schweda EK, Hood DW. Haemophilus
parainfluenzae expresses diverse lipopolysaccharide O-antigens using ABC transporter and Wzy
polymerase-dependent mechanisms. Int J Med Microbiol.2013 Dec;303(8):603-17. doi:
10.1016/j.ijmm.2013.08.006. Epub 2013 Aug 23. PubMed PMID: 24035104; PubMed Central
PMCID: PMC3989065.
1: Blakeway LV, Power PM, Jen FE, Worboys SR, Boitano M, Clark TA, Korlach J, Bakaletz LO,
Jennings MP, Peak IR, Seib KL. ModM DNA methyltransferase methylome analysis reveals a
potential role for Moraxella catarrhalis phasevarions in otitis media. FASEB J. 2014
Dec;28(12):5197-207. doi: 10.1096/fj.14-256578. Epub 2014 Sep 2. PubMed PMID: 25183669.