Bridgette Wellslager

The paper identifies shared protein signatures between oral and gut bacteria, revealing co-evolutionary relationships through phylogenetic analysis and mass spectrometry.

This study shows that Porphyromonas gingivalis relies on glutamate for growth and survival in intracellular autophagic vacuoles by utilizing glutamate dehydrogenase and preferentially using glutamate-glutamate dipeptide.

This paper identifies how Porphyromonas gingivalis uses HSp27 phosphorylation to drive a redox-sensitive, LC3C-specific autophagy mechanism that supports its intracellular survival in human gingival cells.