Professor Wim Meijer

Research

Professor Wim Meijer BSc MSC PhD

Book Chapters:

Prescott, J.F., W.G. Meijer, J.A. Vazquez-Boland (2010) 'Rhodococcus' In: C.L. Gyles, J.F. Prescott, J.G. Songer, C.O. Thoen (eds). Pathogenesis of bacterial infections of animals. Ames, IA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. [Details]

Gottschal, J.C. , W.G. Meijer and, Y. Oda. (1997) 'Use of molecular probing to assess microbial activities in natural ecosystems' In: Eds H. Insam & A. Rangger pp 10-18. Springer, Heidelberg (eds). Microbial communities; functional versus structural approaches. [Details]

Meijer, W. G. (1996) 'Genetics of CO2 fixation in methylotrophs' In: In M. E. Lidstrom and F. R. Tabita (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (eds). Microbial growth on C1 compounds. [Details]

Dijkhuizen, L., L. M. Croes, and W. G. Meijer (1989) 'Mixotrophic growth' In: In G. Hamer, T. Egli, and M. Snozzi (eds.), Hartung﷓Gorre verlag, Konstanz (eds). Mixed and multiple substrates and feedstocks. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals:

Miranda-CasoLuengo, R., A. Miranda-CasoLuengo, E.P. O'Connell, R.J. Fahey, C.A. Boland, J.A. Vazquez-Boland, W.G. Meijer (2011) 'The vapA Co-Expressed Virulence Plasmid Gene vcgB (orf10) of the Intracellular Actinomycete Rhodococcus equi'. Microbiology, . [Details]

Letek, M. et al. (2010) 'The genome of a pathogenic Rhodococcus: cooptive virulence underpinned by key gene acquisitions'. PLoS Genetics, 6 (9). [DOI] [Details]

Higgins, RM,Danilowicz, BS,Balbuena, JA,Danielsdottir, AK,Geffen, AJ,Meijer, WG,Modin, J,Montero, FE,Pampoulie, C,Perdiguero-Alonso, D,Schreiber, A,Stefansson, MO,Wilson, B (2010) 'Multi-disciplinary fingerprints reveal the harvest location of cod Gadus morhua in the northeast Atlantic'. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 404 :197-206. [DOI] [Details]

Dawson, T. R. M. Y., D.W. Horohov, W.G. Meijer, and G. Muscatello. (2010) 'Current understanding of the equine immune response to Rhodococcus equi: potential impact on immunoprophylaxis'. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 135 (1-2):1-11. [DOI] [Details]

Vazquez-Boland, J.A., Prescott, J.F., Meijer, W.G, Leadon DP, Hines, S.A. (2009) 'Rhodococcus equi comes of age'. Equine Veterinary Journal, 41 (1):93-95. [DOI] [Details]

Smith, C.J., B.S. Danilowicz, W.G. Meijer (2009) 'Bacteria associated with the mucus layer of Merlangius merlangus0 (whiting) as biological tags to determine harvest location'. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 66 :713-716. [DOI] [Details]

Letek, M. Ocampo-Sosa, A., Sanders, M., Fogarty, U., Buckley, T., Leadon, D., Gonzalez, P., Scortii, M., Meijer, W.G., Parkhill, J., Bentley, S., Vazquez-Boland, J.A. (2008) 'Evolution of the Rhodococcus equi vap pathogenicity island seen through comparison of host associated vapA and vapB virulence plasmids'. Journal of Bacteriology, 190 (17):5797-5805. [DOI] [Details]
Miranda-CasoLuengo, R., Prescott, J.F., Vazquez-Boland, J.A., Meijer, W.G. (2008) 'The intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi produces a catecholate siderophore required for saprophytic growth'. Journal of Bacteriology, 190 (5):1631-1637. [DOI] [Details]
Byrne, G.A., C.A. Boland, E.P. O'Connell and W.G. Meijer (2008) 'Differential mRNA stability of the vapAICD operon of the facultative intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi'. Fems Microbiology Letters, 280 (1):89-94. [DOI] [Details]
Wilson, B., B.S. Danilowicz and W.G. Meijer (2008) 'The diversity of bacterial communities associated with Atlantic cod Gadus morhua'. Microbial Ecology, 55 (3):425-434. [DOI] [Details]
Smith, C.J., B.S. Danilowicz and W.G. Meijer (2007) 'Characterisation of the bacterial community associated with the surface and mucus layer of whiting'. Fems Microbiology Ecology, 62 (1):90-97. [DOI] [Details]
Muscatello, G, D.P. Leadon, A. Ocampo-Sosa, D.A. Lewis, U. Fogarty, T. Buckley, M. Klay, J.R. Gilkerson, W.G. Meijer and J.A. Vazquez-Boland (2007) 'Rhodococcus equi infection in foals: the science of 'Rattles''. Equine Veterinary Journal, 39 :470-478. [Details]
Gawler,A.H., Beecher, J.E., Brandão, J., Carroll, N., Falcão, L., Gourmelon, M., Masterson, B., Nunes, B., Porter, J., Rincé, A., Rodrigues, R., Thorp, M., Walters, J.M., and W.G. Meijer (2007) 'Validation of host specific Bacteroidetes 16S rRNA genes as markers to determine the origin of faecal pollution in Atlantic Rim countries of the European Union'. Water Research, 41 :3780-3784. [Details]
Byrne, G.A., D.A. Russell, X. Chen and W.G. Meijer (2007) 'Transcriptional regulation of the virR operon of the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi'. Journal of Bacteriology, 189 :5082-5089. [Details]
Pond, K.R., R. Rangdale, W.G. Meijer, J. Brandao, L. Falcao, A. Rince, B. Masterson, J. Greaves, A. Gawler, E. McDonnell, A.A. Cronin, S. Pedley. (2005) 'Developing pollution source tracking for recreational and shellfish waters'. ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS, 5 :237-247. [Details]
Miranda-CasoLuengo, R; Duffy, PS; O'Connell, EP; Graham, BJ; Mangan, MW; Prescott, JF; Meijer, WG; (2005) 'The iron-regulated iupABC operon is required for saprophytic growth of the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi at low iron concentrations'. Journal of Bacteriology, 187 (10):3438-3444. [Details]
Wall, D.M.,Duffy P.S., DuPont C, Prescott J.F., Meijer, W.G. (2005) 'Isocitrate lyase activity is required for virulence of the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi'. Infection and Immunity, 76 (10):6736-6741. [Details]
Mangan, MW; Byrne, GA; Meijer, WG; (2005) 'Versatile Rhodococcus equi-Escherichia coli shuttle vectors'. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology, 87 (2):161-167. [Details]
Smith, CJ; Danilowicz, BS; Clear, AK; Costello, FJ; Wilson, B; Meijer, WG; (2005) 'T-Align, a web-based tool for comparison of multiple terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism profiles'. FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY, 54 (3):375-380. [Details]
Meijer, W.G., Prescott, J.F. (2004) 'Rhodococcus equi'. Veterinary Research, 35 :383-396. [Details]
Russell, DA; Byrne, GA; O'Connell, EP; Boland, CA; Meijer, WG; (2004) 'The LysR-type transcriptional regulator VirR is required for expression of the virulence gene vapA of Rhodococcus equi ATCC 33701'. Journal of Bacteriology, 186 (17):5576-5584. [Details]
Pond, KR; Rangdale, R; Meijer, WG; Brandao, J; Falcao, L; Rince, A; Masterson, B; Greaves, J; Gawler, A; McDonnell, E; Cronin, AA; Pedley, S; (2004) 'Workshop report: Developing pollution source tracking for recreational and shellfish waters'. Environmental Forensics, 5 (4):237-247. [Details]
Oda, Y; Meijer, WG; Gibson, JL; Gottschal, JC; Forney, LJ; (2004) 'Analysis of diversity among 3-chlorobenzoate-degrading strains of Rhodopseudomonas palustris'. Microbial Ecology, 47 (1):68-79. [Details]
van Keulen, G. and W.G. Meijer. (2003) 'Improved recovery of DNA from polyacrylamide gels after in situ DNA footprinting'. Journal of Microbiology Methods, 54 :289-291. [Details]
van Keulen, G; Ridder, ANJA; Dijkhuizen, L; Meijer, WG; (2003) 'Analysis of DNA binding and transcriptional activation by the LysR-type transcriptional regulator CbbR of Xanthobacter flavus'. Journal of Bacteriology, 185 (4):1245-1252. [Details]
Rahman, MT; Herron, LL; Kapur, V; Meijer, WG; Byrne, BA; Ren, J; Nicholson, VM; Prescott, JE; (2003) 'Partial genome sequencing of Rhodococcus equi ATCC 33701'. Veterinary Microbiology, 94 (2):143-158. [Details]
Claessen, D., Wösten, H.A.B., van Keulen, G., Faber, O.G., Alves, A.M.C.R., Meijer, W.G., and Dijkhuizen, L. (2002) 'Two novel homologous proteins of Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces lividans are involved in formation of the rodlet layer and mediate attachment to a hydrophobic surface'. Molecular Microbiology, 44 :1483-1492. [Details]
Oda, Y; Wanders, W; Huisman, LA; Meijer, WG; Gottschal, JC; Forney, LJ; (2002) 'Genotypic and phenotypic diversity within species of purple nonsulfur bacteria isolated from aquatic sediments'. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68 (7):3467-3477. [Details]
Kelly, BG; Wall, DM; Boland, CA; Meijer, WG; (2002) 'Isocitrate lyase of the facultative intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi'. Microbiology-Sgm, 148 (NA):793-798. [Details]
Mangan, MW; Meijer, WG; (2001) 'Random insertion mutagenesis of the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi using transposomes'. Fems Microbiology Letters, 205 (2):243-246. [Details]
Tichi M.A., W.G. Meijer and F. R. Tabita. (2001) 'Complex I and its involvement in redox homeostasis and carbon and nitrogen metabolism in Rhodobacter capsulatus'. Journal of Bacteriology, 183 :7285-7294. [Details]
Boland, C. A. and W. G. Meijer (2000) 'The iron regulatory protein IdeR (DtxR) of Rhodococcus equi'. Fems Microbiology Letters, 191 :1-5. [Details]
van Keulen, G., L. Dijkhuizen, and W. G. Meijer (2000) 'Effects of the Calvin cycle on the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide concentrations and redox balances of Xanthobacter flavus'. Journal of Bacteriology, 182 :4637-4639. [Details]
Oda, Y; Slagman, SJ; Meijer, WG; Forney, LJ; Gottschal, JC; (2000) 'Influence of growth rate and starvation on fluorescent in situ hybridization of Rhodopseudomonas palustris'. FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY, 32 (3):205-213. [Details]
Meijer, W.G., M.E. Nienhuis-Kuiper, and T.A. Hansen (1999) 'Fermentative bacteria from estuarine mud: Phylogenetic position of Acidaminobacter hydrogenoformans and description of a new type of Gram-negative, propionigenic bacterium as Propionibacter pelophilus gen. nov., sp. nov'. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 49 :1039-1044. [Details]
Shively, JM; van Keulen, G; Meijer, WG; (1998) 'Something from almost nothing: Carbon dioxide fixation in chemoautotrophs'. Annual Review of Microbiology, 52 (NA):191-230. [Details]
van Keulen, G., L. Girbal, E.R.E. van den Bergh, L. Dijkhuizen, and W.G. Meijer (1998) 'The LysR-type transcriptional regulator CbbR controlling autotrophic CO2 fixation is an NADPH-sensor'. Journal of Bacteriology, 180 :1411-1417. [Details]
Meijer, W. G., P. de Boer, and G. van Keulen (1997) 'Xanthobacter flavus employs a single triosephosphate isomerase for heterotrophic and autotrophic metabolism'. Microbiology, 143 :1925-1931. [Details]
Meijer, W. G., E. R. E. van den Bergh, and L. M. Smith. . (1996) 'Induction of the gap-pgk operon encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and 3-phosphoglycerate kinase of Xanthobacter flavus requires the LysR-type transcriptional activator CbbR'. Journal of Bacteriology, 178 :881-887. [Details]
Alves, A. M. C. R., W. G. Meijer, J. W. Vrijbloed, and L. Dijkhuizen. (1996) 'Characterization and phylogeny of the pfp gene of Amycolatopsis methanolica encoding pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase'. Journal of Bacteriology, 178 :149-155. [Details]
van den Bergh, E. R. E., S. C. Baker, R. J. Raggers, P. Terpstra, E. C. Woudstra, L. Dijkhuizen, and W. G. Meijer. (1996) 'Primary structure and phylogeny of the Calvin cycle enzymes transketolase and fructosebisphosphate aldolase of Xanthobacter flavus'. Journal of Bacteriology, 178 :888-893. [Details]
van der Maarel, M. J. E. C., M. Jansen, R. Haanstra, W. G. Meijer, and T. A. Hansen. (1996) 'Demethylation of dimethylsulfoniopropionate to 3-S-methylmercaptopropionate by marine sulfate-reducing and acetogenic bacteria'. Applied Environmental Microbiology, 62 :3978-3984. [Details]
van der Maarel, M. J. E. C., S. van Bergeijk, A. van Werkhoven, A. M. Laverman, W. G. Meijer, W. T. Stam, and T. A. Hansen. (1996) 'Cleavage of dimethylsulfoniopropionate and reduction of acrylate by Desulfovibrio acrylicus sp. nov. Arch'. Microbiology, 166 :109-115. [Details]
Smith, L. M., W. G. Meijer, L. Dijkhuizen, and P. M. Goodwin. (1996) 'A protein having similarity with methylmalonyl CoA mutase is required for the assimilation of methanol and ethanol by Methylobacterium extorquens AM1'. Microbiology, 142 :675-684. [Details]
van den Bergh, E. R. E., T. A. W. van der Kooij, L. Dijkhuizen, and W. G. Meijer. (1995) 'Fructosebisphosphatase isoenzymes of the chemoautotroph Xanthobacter flavus'. Journal of Bacteriology, 177 :5680-5684. [Details]
Meijer, W. G. (1994) 'The Calvin cycle enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase of Xanthobacter flavus required for autotrophic CO2 fixation is not encoded by the cbb operon'. Journal of Bacteriology, 176 :6120-6126. [Details]
van den Bergh, E. R. E., L. Dijkhuizen, and W. G. Meijer (1993) 'CbbR, a LysR type transcriptional activator, is required for expression of the autotrophic CO2 fixation enzymes of Xanthobacter flavus'. Journal of Bacteriology, 175 :6097-6104. [Details]
Meijer, W. G. and F. R. Tabita (1992) 'Isolation and characterization of the nifUSVW-rpoN gene cluster from Rhodobacter sphaeroides'. Journal of Bacteriology, 174 (12):3855-3866. [Details]
Tabita, F. R., J. L. Gibson, B. Bowien, L. Dijkhuizen, and W. G. Meijer (1992) 'Uniform designation for the genes of the Calvin Benson Bassham reductive pentose phosphate pathway of bacteria'. Fems Microbiology Letters, 99 :107-110. [Details]
Croes, L. M., W. G. Meijer, and L. Dijkhuizen (1991) 'Regulation of methanol oxidation and carbon dioxide fixation in Xanthobacter strain 25a grown in continuous culture'. Archives of Microbiology, 155 :159-163. [Details]
Meijer, W. G., A. C. Arnberg, H. G. Enequist, P. Terpstra, M. E. Lidstrom, and L. Dijkhuizen. (1991) 'Identification and organization of carbon dioxide fixation genes in Xanthobacter flavus H4-14'. Molecular & General Genetics, 225 (2):320-330. [Details]
Meijer, W. G., H. G. Enequist, P. Terpstra, and L. Dijkhuizen (1990) 'Nucleotide sequences of the genes encoding fructosebisphosphatase and phosphoribulokinase from Xanthobacter flavus H4-14'. Journal of General Microbilogy, 136 (11):2225-2230. [Details]
Meijer, W. G., L. M. Croes, B. Jenni, L. G. Lehmicke, M. E. Lidstrom, and L. Dijkhuizen (1990) 'Characterization of Xanthobacter strains H4﷓14 and 25a and enzyme profiles after growth under autotrophic and heterotrophic growth conditions'. Archives of Microbiology, 153 :360-367. [Details]
Eggink, G., H. Engel, W. G. Meijer, J. Otten, J. Kingma, and B. Witholt (1988) 'Alkane utilization in Pseudomonas oleovorans'. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 263 :13400-13405. [Details]
Meijer, W. G. and L. Dijkhuizen (1988) 'Regulation of autotrophic metabolism in Pseudomonas oxalaticus OX1 wild-type and an isocitrate?lyase?deficient mutant'. Journal of General Microbilogy, 134 (12):3231-3237. [Details]
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Conference Publications:

Lynam, B., Clipson,N., Meijer,W. and J.Gillespie Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis profiles compared to 16S rDNA sequence analysis of clones obtained from an enriched and non-enriched bottled natural mineral water Proceedings of the SGM Irish Branch Spring Metting, 'Recent Advances in Molecular Microbial Ecology', UCG.(2000) UCG, [Details]

Miranda-CasoLuengo, R and Meijer, WG (2008) Iron acquisition by Rhodococcus equi 4th Havemeyer Workshop on Rhodococcus equi Edinburgh, UK, [Details]

Miranda-CasoLuengo, R and Meijer, WG (2008) Rhodococcus equi produces a catecholate siderophore required for saprophytic growth 4th Havemeyer Workshop on Rhodococcus equi Edinburgh, UK, [Details]

Gnojska, A; Fahey, R; Chen, X; Miranda-CasoLuengo, R and Meijer, WG (2008) Enumeration of proliferating Rhodococcus equi inside macrophage cells 4th Havemeyer Workshop on Rhodococcus equi Edinburgh, UK, [Details]

Chen, X., Yang, J. & Meijer, W.G. (2006) Identification of a sensor kinase and arylsulfatase interacting with the orphan response regulator VirS (Orf8) encoded by the virulence plasmid of Rhodococcus equi Society for General Microbiology, Autumn meeting Dublin, Ireland, , 31-AUG-06 [Details]

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Finn, C.E., X. Chen & W.G. Meijer (2007) Protein networks of Rhodococcus equi 160th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology P MI 34 [Details]
Miranda-CasoLuengo, R. and W.G. Meijer (2007) A novel signal transduction system in mycolic acid-containing bacteria International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom [Details]
Chen X, Yang J and Meijer W.G. (2007) Identification of sensor kinase interacting with VirS encoded by the virulence plasmid of Rhodococcus equi International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom [Details]
Finn, C., X. Chen and W.G Meijer. (2007) Virulence protein networks of Rhodococcus equi International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom [Details]
Miranda-CasoLuengo, R. and W.G. Meijer. (2007) 160th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology, Manchester. p CCS 09 Iron acquisition by Rhodococcus equi [Details]
Fahey, R. and W.G. Meijer. 2007 (2007) An investigation into the extent and function of sigma factors in the genome of Rhodococcus equi 160th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology. P. PS 11 [Details]
Finn, C.E., X. Chen & W.G. Meijer. (2007) 160th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology P MI 34 Protein networks of Rhodococcus equi [Details]
Miranda-CasoLuengo, R. & Meijer, W.G. (2007) Iron Acquisition by Rhodococcus equi 160th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology,Manchester. p CCS 09 Manchester, UK, , 31-AUG-06 [Details]
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