Sampriti Mukherjee

This study identifies Bd0967 as a C-terminal processing protease in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus that degrades flagellins and regulates developmental progression.

The paper identifies DimA, a microprotein that activates photo-sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by triggering proteolysis of MucA and enhancing algB expression through a positive feedback loop.

This paper shows that Pseudomonas aeruginosa maintains monoflagellation via the FleQ-FleN circuit, and hyperflagellation leads to fitness defects, suggesting regulatory plasticity enables adaptive evolution of flagellar configurations.

The paper develops Swarm-seq to assess CsrA homologs' ability to regulate swarming motility, revealing functional divergence in RNA-binding specificity across bacterial species.