Prof. Arieh  Zaritsky: Selected Previous Publications

Bacterial Physiology Biological Control of Insects other

  • Articles in Refereed Periodicals

      Pritchard, R.H. & Zaritsky, A. (1970). Effect of thymine concentration on the replication velocity of DNA in a thymineless mutant of Escherichia coli. Nature (Lond.) 226: 126-131

      Beacham, I.R., Beacham, K., Zaritsky, A. & Pritchard, R.H. (1971). Intracellular thymidine triphosphate concentration in wild-type and thymine-requiring mutants of Escherichia coli 15 and K12. J. molec. Biol. 60 : 75-86

      Zaritsky, A. & Pritchard, R.H. (1973). Changes in cell size and shape associated with changes in the replication time of the chromosome of Eschrichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 114: 824-837

      Zaritsky, A. & von Meyenburg, K. (1974). Synthesis of ribosomal protein during the cell cycle of Escherichia coli B/r. Molec. gen. Genet. 129: 217-227

      Zaritsky, A. (1975). On dimensional determination of rod-shaped bacteria. J. theoret. Biol. 54: 243-248

      Zaritsky, A. (1975). Rate stimulation of DNA synthesis after inhibition. J. Bacteriol. 122: 841-846

      Zaritsky, A. (1977). Branching of fast-growing Escherichia coli 15T- at low thymine concentrations. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 2: 65-69

      Rosenberger, R.F., Grover, N.B., Zaritsky, A. & Woldringh, C.L. (1978). Control of microbial surface growth by density. Nature (Lond.) 271: 244-245

      Zaritsky, A. & Woldringh, C.L. (1978). Chromosome replication rate and cell shape in Escherichia coli: lack of coupling. J. Bacteriol. 135: 581-58

      Zaritsky, A., Woldringh, C.L. & Mirelman, D. (1979). Constant peptidoglycan density in the succulus of Escherichia coli B/r growing at different rates. FEBS Lett. 98: 29-32

      Woldringh, C.L., Grover, N.B., Rosenberger, R.F. & Zaritsky, A. (1980). Dimensional rearrangement of rod-shaped bacteria following nutritional shift-up. II. Experiments with Escherichia coli B/r. J. theoret. Biol. 86: 441-454

      Zaritsky, A., Kihara, M. & Macnab, R.M. (1981). Measurement of membrane potential in Bacillus subtilis: a comparison of lipophilic cations, rubidium ion, and a cyanine dye as probes. J. membr. Biol. 63: 215-231

      Zaritsky, A. & Macnab, R.M. (1981). Effects of lipophilic cations on motility and other physiological properties in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 147: 1054-1062

      Cann, G.M., Zaritsky, A. & Koshland, M.E. (1982). Primary structure of the immunoglobin J-chain from the mouse. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 79: 6656-6660

      Zaritsky, A. (1982). Effects of growth temperature on ribosomes and other physiological properties of Escherichia coli B/r. J. Bacteriol. 151: 485-486

      Zaritsky, A. (1983). Membrane microviscosity might be involved in bacterial morphologenesis. Speculat. Sci. Technol. 6: 465-470

      Zaritsky, A. & Mendelson, N.H. (1984). Helical macrofiber formation in Bacillus subtilis: inhibition by penicillin G. J. Bacteriol. 158: 1182-1187

      Zaritsky, A., Parola, A.H., Abdah, M. & Masalha, H. (1985). Homeoviscous adaptation, growth rate and morphogenesis in bacteria. Biophys. J. 48: 337-339

      Zaritsky, A. & Khawaled, K. (1986). Toxicity in carcasses of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis-killed Aedes aegypti larvae against scavenging larvae: implications to bioassay. J. Amer. Mosq. Control Assoc. 2: 555-559

      Gollop, R. & Zaritsky, A. (1987). Construction of the full coding information for murine J-chain protein from cDNA and its homologous genomic clone. Nucl. Acids Res. 15: 1876

      Sivan, S., Zaritsky, A. & Kagan-Zur, V. (1988). Replication forks of Escherichia coli are not the preferred sites for lysogenic integration of bacteriophage Mu. J. Bacteriol. 170: 3089-3093

      Zaritsky, A., Gollop, R. & Cann, G.M. (1988). Tertiary structure of the mRNA coding for J-chain might be involved in differentiation of mature B-lymphocytes to (IgM)5-secretory cells. Speculat. Sci. Technol. 11: 205-213

      Parola, A.H., Ibdah, M., Gill, D. & Zaritsky, A. (1990). Deviation from homeoviscous adaptation in Escherichia coli membranes. Biophys. J. 57: 621-626

      Thomas, P.S., Zaritsky, A. & Boussiba, S. (1990). Ammonium excretion by an MSX resistant mutant of the rice field cyanobacterium Anabaena siamensis. Appl. environ. Microbiol. 56: 3499-3504

      Zaritsky, A. & Forester, E. (1991). A simulation program to display specific digestion products of predicted RNA foldings. Comput. Appl. Biosc. 7: 57-60

      Zaritsky, A., Zalkinder, V., Ben-Dov, E. & Barak, Z. (1991). Bioencapsulation and delivery to mosquito larvae of Bacillus thuringiensis H14 -endotoxin by Tetrahymena pyriformis. J. invertebr. Pathol. 58: 455-457

      Douek, J., Einav, M. & Zaritsky, A. (1992). Sensitivity to plating of Escherichia coli cells expressing the cytA gene from Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis. Molec. gen. Genet. 232: 162-165

      Takefuji, Y., Ben-Alon, D. & Zaritsky, A. (1992). Neural computing in discovering RNA interactions. BioSystems 27: 85-96

      Zaritsky, A. & Helmstetter, C.E. (1992). Rate maintenence of cell division in Escherichia coli B/r: Analysis of a simple nutritional downshift. J. Bacteriol. 174: 8152-8155

      Zaritsky, A., Woldringh, C.L., Helmstetter, C.E. & Grover, N.B. (1993). Dimensional rearrangement of Escherichia coli B/r cells during a nutritional shift-down. J. gen. Microbiol. 139: 2711-2714

      Otieno-Ayayo, Z., Chipman, D.M., Zaritsky, A. & Khawaled, K. (1993). Integrity of the 130 kDa polypeptide of Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. israelensis -endotoxin in K-S sporulation medium. Insect Sci. Applic. 14: 377-381

      Manasherob, R., Ben-Dov, E., Zaritsky, A. & Barak, Z. (1994). Protozoan- enhanced toxicity of Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. israelensis -endotoxin against Aedes aegypyi larvae. J. invertebr. Pathol. 63: 244-248

      Woldringh, C.L., Zaritsky, A. & Grover, N.B.(1994). Nucleoid partitioning and the division plane in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 176: 6030-6038

      Fishov, I., Zaritsky, A. & Grover, N.B. (1995). On microbial states of growth (Microreview). Molec. Microbiol. 15: 789-794

      Ben Dov, E., Boussiba, S. & Zaritsky, A. (1995). Mosquito larvicidal activity of Escherichia coli with combinations of genes from Bacilus thuringiensis susbp. israelensis. J. Bacteriol. 177: 2851-2857

      Ben-Dov, E., Einav, M., Peleg, N., Boussiba, S. & Zaritsky, A. (1996). Restriction map of the 125 kb plasmid of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis carrying the mosquito larvicidal genes. Appl. environ. Microbiol. 62: 3140-3145

      Manasherob, R., Ben-Dov, E., Margalit, J., Zaritsky, A. & Barak, Z. (1996). Raising activity of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis against Anopheles stephensi larvae by encapsulation in Tetrahymena pyriformis (Hymenostomatidia: Tetrahymenidae). J. Amer. Mosq. Control Assoc. 12: 672-631.

      Hadas, H., Einav, M., Fishov, I. & Zaritsky, A. (1997). Bacteriophage T4 development depends on the physiology of its host Escherichia coli. Microbiology 143: 179-185

      Ben-Dov, E., Zaritsky, A., Dahan, E., Barak, Z., Sinai, R., Manasherob, R., Khamraev, A., Troitskaya, E., Dubitsky, A., Berezina, N. & Maraglith, Y. (1997). Extended screening by PCR for seven cry-group genes from field-collected strains of Bacillus thuringiensis. Appl. environ. Microbiol. 63: 4883-4890

      Manasherob, R., Ben-Dov, E., Zaritsky, A. & Barak, Z. (1998). Germination, growth and sporulation of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis in excreted food vacuoles of the protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis. Appl. environ. Microbiol. 64: 1750-1758

      Ben-Dov, E., Dahan, E., Zaritsky, A., Barak, Z., Sinai, R., Manasherob, R., Khamraev, A., Troyetskaya, E., Dubitsky, A., Berezina, N. & Margalith, Y. (1998). Novel cry-type genes detected by extended PCR screening from field-collected strains of Bacillus thuringiensis. Isr. J. Entomol. 32: 163-169

       

  • Book Editing

      Regulation of the Cell Cycle in Prokaryotes. Book of Abstracts, EMBO Workshop, 1984.

       

  • Chapters in Books

      Buchnik, D. & Zaritsky, A.(1984). Regulation of cell envelope extension in Escherichia coli: a study of a mutant with modified morphology. EMBO Workshop III: 24-27

      Zaritsky, A. & Woldringh, C.L. (1987). Similarity of dimensional rearrangement in E. coli cells responding to thymine limitation and to nutritional shift-up. EMBO Workshop, pp. 78-80

      Zaritsky, A., Einav, M. & Douek, J. (1990). Does the lipophilic 28 kDa polypeptide of B. thuringiensis var. israelensis mosquitocidal -endotoxin kill Escherichia coli cells by disrupting their 'replisomes'? EMBO Workshop, pp. 14-16

      Khawaled, K., Chipman, D.M., Zaritsky, A. & Barak, Z. (1991). Tracing the -endotoxin polypeptides of B. thuringiensis var. israelensis in mosquito larvae. Proc. 1st Asia-Pacific Conf. Entomol. 1: 89-96

      Boussiba, S. & Zaritsky, A. (1992). Mosquito biocontrol by the -endotoxin genes of B. thuringiensis var. israelensis cloned in an ammonium-excreting mutant of a rice-field isolate of the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena siamensis. Proceedings of the 1992 Miami Bio/Technology Winter Symp. "Advances in Gene Technology: Feeding the World in the 21st Century". Eds. W.J. Whelan, F. Ahmad, H. Bialy, S. Black, M.L. King, M.B. Rabin, L.P. Solomonson & I.K. Vasil. IRL/Oxford Univ. Press, p. 89

      Zaritsky, A. & Forester, E. (1992). A simulation program to display specific digestion products of predicted RNA foldings. In: Directory of Molecular Biology Software (eds. G. Cameron and P. Rice), Cherwell Scientific Publishing, Oxford

      Zaritsky, A. (1995). Biotechnology in the Service of Pesticide Production and Use for Integrated Control of Mosquitoes. In: Combating Malaria. Proc. UNESCO/WHO meeting of experts. UNESCO, Paris, pp. 31-48

      Fishov, I., Zaritsky, A. & Grover, N.B. (1995). On microbial states of growth (Microreview). Molec. Microbiol. 15: 789-794

      Manasherob, R., Ben-Dov, E., Margalit, J., Zaritsky, A. & Barak, Z. (1996). Raising activity of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis against Anopheles stephensi larvae by encapsulation in Tetrahymena pyriformis (Hymenostomatidia: Tetrahymenidae). J. Amer. Mosq. Control Assoc. 12: 672-631

      Margalith, J., Becker, N., Back, C. & Zaritsky, A. (1995). Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis as a Biological Control Agent of Mosquitoes and Black Flies. In, Bacillus thuringiensis Biotechnology and Enviromental Benefits (eds. T.-Y. Feng, K.-F. Chak, R.A Smith, T. Yamamoto, J. Margalith, C. Chilcott & R.I. Rose), Hua Shiang Yuan Publ. Co., Taipei. Vol. I: 521-556

      Boussiba, S., Wu, X. Zaritsky, A. (1997). Nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria as BTi toxin genes delivery system - a Biotechnological approach to control malaria mosquitoes. In: Modern Agriculture and the Environment. Rosen et al. (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 97-108, 1997

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