Kelly T. Hughes

This study quantifies the cost-benefit trade-off of peritrichous flagellation in Salmonella enterica, showing that increased flagellation reduces growth rate but enhances motility and competitive fitness in structured environments.

The paper presents cryo-EM structures of the bacterial flagellar Export Apparatus, revealing a rotary gating mechanism coupling proton flow to export channel opening.

This study uses nanopore sequencing to identify operon-specific ribosome remodeling in Staphylococcus aureus resistant to naphthyridone antibiotics.

The paper identifies FlhE as a periplasmic chaperone that prevents the formation of periplasmic flagella in Salmonella, which disrupts cell wall synthesis and causes cell lysis.