Cont@ct:
Mitchel J.Doktycz
Biological & Nanoscale Systems Group
Life Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratories

PO Box 2008 MS 6123
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6123
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Dale Pelletier is a staff scientist in the Life Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Maine in Orono, ME in 1986, his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Iowa in 2000 and did his post-doctoral work at Stanford University. in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. His current research focuses on the use of molecular biology, genomics and proteomics technologies to investigate protein-protein interactions and bacterial physiology.

Publications

1. Nathan C. VerBerkmoes, M.B. Shah, P.K. Lankford, D. A. Pelletier, M.B. Strader, D.L. Tabb, W. H. McDonald, J.W. Barton, G.B. Hurst, L. Hauser, B.H. Davison, J.T. Beatty, C.S. Harwood, F. R. Tabita, R.L. Hettich, and F.W. Larimer. 2005. Determination and Comparison of the Baseline Proteomes of the Versatile Microbe Rhodopseudomonas palustris under its Major Metabolic States. J. Proteome Res. In Press

2. Thormann, K.M., R.M. Saville, S. Shukla, D.A. Pelletier, and A.M. Spormann. 2004. Initial Phases of Biofilm Formation in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. J. Bacteriol. 186(23):8096–8104.

3. Strader, M.B., N.C. VerBerkmoes, D.L. Tabb, H.M. Connelly, J.W. Barton, B.D. Bruce, D.A. Pelletier, B.H. Davison, R.L. Hettich, F.W. Larimer, and G.B. Hurst. 2004. Characterization of the 70S Ribosome from Rhodopseudomonas palustris using an Integrated “Top-Down” and “Bottom-Up” Mass Spectrometric Approach. J. Proteome Res. 3(5):965-978.

4. Larimer, F.W., P. Chain, L. Hauser, J. Lamerdin, S. Malfatti, L. Do, M. Land, D.A. Pelletier, J.T. Beatty, A.S. Lang, F.R. Tabita, J.L. Gibson, T.E. Hanson, C. Bobst, J.L. Torres Y Torres, C. Peres, F.H. Harrison, J. Gibson and C.S. Harwood. 2004. Complete genome sequence of the metabolically versatile photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Nature Biotechnology, 22(1):55-61.

5. Doktycz, M.J., C. Sullivan, P. R. Hoyt, D. A. Pelletier, S. Wu and D. P. Allison. 2003. AFM imaging of bacteria in liquid media by immobilization on gelatin coated mica surfaces. Ultramicroscopy, 97:209-216.

6. Johnson, H.A., D.A. Pelletier and A.M. Spormann. 2001. Isolation and characterization of anaerobic ethylbenzene dehydrogenase, a novel Mo-Fe-S enzyme. J. Bacteriol. 183:4536-42.

7. Pelletier, D.A. and C.S. Harwood. 1999. 2-Hydroxycyclohexanecarboxyl Coenzyme A dehydrogenase, an enzyme characteristic of the anaerobic benzoate degradation pathway used by Rhodopseudomonas palustris. J. Bacteriol. 182:2753-2760.

8. Gibson, K.J., D.A. Pelletier, and I.M. Turner, Sr. 1999. Transfer of sulfur to biotin from biotin synthase (BioB protein). Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 254:632-635.

9. Pelletier, D.A. and C.S. Harwood. 1998. 2-Ketocyclohexanecarboxyl coenzyme A hydrolase, the cleavage enzyme required for anaerobic benzoate degradation by R. palustris. J. Bacteriol. 180:2330-2336.

10. Egland, P.E., D.A. Pelletier, M. Dispensa, J. Gibson and C.S. Harwood. 1997. A cluster of bacterial genes for anaerobic benzene ring reduction. Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci.USA. 94:6484-6489.

11. Haddock, J.D., D.A. Pelletier and D.T. Gibson. 1997. Purification and properties of ferredoxinBPH, An component of biphenyl 2,3-dioxygenase of Pseudomonas sp. strain LB400. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 19:355-359.

12. Paster, B.J., D.A. Pelletier, F.E. Dewhirst, W.G. Weisburg, V. Fussing, L.K. Poulsen, S. Dannenberg and I. Schroeder. 1996. Phylogenetic position of the spirochetal genus Cristispira. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:942-946.

13. Stone BB, Cohen SP, Breton GL, Nietupski RM, Pelletier DA, Fiandaca MJ, Moe JG, Smith JH, Shah JS, Weisburg WG. 1996. Detection of rRNA from four respiratory pathogens using an automated Q beta replicase assay. Mol Cell Probes. 10:359-70.

14. An, Q., G. Radcliffe, R. Vassallo, D. Buxton, W. J. O’Brien, D.A. Pelletier, W. G. Weisburg, J. D. Klinger, and D. M. Olive. 1992. Infection with a plasmid-free variant chlamydia related to Chlamydia trachomatis identified by using multiple assays for nucleic acid detection. J. Clin. Microbiol. 30:2814-2821.

15. Breeuwer, J.A.J., R. Stouthamer, S. M. Barns, D.A. Pelletier, W.G. Weisburg and J.H. Werren. 1992. Phylogeny of cytoplasmic incompatibility micro-organisms in the parasitoid wasp genus Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) based on 16S ribosomal DNA sequences. Insect Mol. Biology. 1:25-36.

16. Weisburg, W.G., S.M. Barns, D.A. Pelletier, and D.J. Lane. 1991. 16S Ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study. J. Bacteriol. 173:697-703.