Ping Xu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Phone: (804) 827-6264

Fax: (804) 828-0150

          
           
             
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    Selected Publications

  1. Xiuchun. Ge, Rafael Rodriguez, My Trinh, John Gunsolley, and Ping Xu*. Oral Microbiome of Deep and Shallow Dental Pockets In Chronic Periodontitis. Submit.

  2. My Trihn, Xiuchun Ge, Alleson Dobson, Todd Kitten, Cindy L. Munro, Ping Xu*. Two-Component System Response Regulators Involved in Virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 in Infective Endocarditis. PLoS One.

  3. Ge X, Xu P*. Genome-wide Gene Deletions in Streptococcus sanguinis by High Throughput PCR. J Vis Exp. 2012 Nov 23;(69). pii: 4356. doi: 10.3791/4356.

  4. Chen L, Ge X, Wang X, Patel JR, Xu P*. SpxA1 Involved in Hydrogen Peroxide Production, Stress Tolerance and Endocarditis Virulence in Streptococcus sanguinis. PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e40034. Epub 2012 Jun 29.(article)

  5. Xu P, Ge X, Chen L, Wang X, Dou Y, Xu JZ, Patel JR, Stone V, Trinh M, Evans K, Kitten T, Bonchev D, Buck GA. (2011) Genome-wide essential gene identification in Streptococcus sanguinis. Scientific Reports Volume: 1, Article number: 125 DOI: doi:10.1038/srep00125. (article)

  6. Manque PA, Probst C, Pereira MC, Rampazzo RC, Ozaki LS, Pavoni DP, Silva Neto DT, Carvalho MR, Xu P, Serrano MG, Alves JM, Meirelles Mde N, Goldenberg S, Krieger MA, Buck GA. (2011) Trypanosoma cruzi infection induces a global host cell response in cardiomyocytes. Infect Immun. 2011 May;79(5):1855-62. Epub 2011 Feb 22. (PDF)

  7. Chen L, Ge X, Dou Y, Wang X, Patel JR, Xu P.(2010) Identification of hydrogen peroxide production related genes in Streptococcus sanguinis and their functional relationship with pyruvate oxidase. Microbiology. 2010 Sep 16. (PDF)

  8. Ge X, Kitten T, Munro CL, Conrad DH, Xu P (2010) Pooled Protein Immunization for Identification of Cell Surface Antigens in Streptococcus sanguinis. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011666 (PDF)

  9. Das S, Kanamoto T, Ge X, Xu P, Unoki T, Munro CL, Kitten T. Contribution of lipoproteins and lipoprotein processing to endocarditis virulence in Streptococcus sanguinis. J Bacteriol. 2009 Jul;191(13):4166-79. (PDF).

  10. Ge X, Kitten T, Chen Z, Lee S, Munro CL and Xu P. Identification of Streptococcus sanguinis genes required for biofilm formation and examination of their role in endocarditis virulence. Infection & Immunity, June; 76 (6), 2008. (PDF).

  11. Xu P, Alves JM, Kitten T, Brown A, Chen Z, Ozaki LS, Manque P, Ge X, Serrano MG, Puiu D, Hendricks S, Wang Y, Chaplin MD, Akan D, Paik S, Peterson DL, Macrina FL, Buck GA. Genome of the opportunistic pathogen Streptococcus sanguinis. J Bacteriol. 2007 Apr;189(8):3166-75. (PDF).

  12. Xu P, Widmer G, Wang Y, Ozaki LS, Alves JM, Serrano MG, Puiu D, Manque P, Akiyoshi D, Mackey AJ, Pearson WR, Dear PH, Bankier AT, Peterson DL, Abrahamsen MS, Kapur V, Tzipori S, Buck GA. The genome of Cryptosporidium hominis. Nature. 2004 Oct 28;431(7012):1107-12. (PDF)

  13. Abrahamsen MS, Templeton TJ, Enomoto S, Abrahante JE, Zhu G, Lancto CA, Deng M, Liu C, Widmer G, Tzipori S, Buck GA, Xu P, Bankier AT, Dear PH, Konfortov BA, Spriggs HF, Iyer L, Anantharaman V, Aravind L, Kapur V. Complete genome sequence of the apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum. Science. 2004 Apr 16;304(5669):441-5 (PDF)

  14. Liu X-Z, Blanton SH, Bitner-Glindzicz M, Pandya A, Landa B, Macardle B, Pajput K, Bellman S, Webb BT, Xu Ping, Smith RJH, Nance WE. Haplotype analysis of the USH1D locus and genotype-phenotype co relations. Clinical Genetics 2001, 59: 00-00. (PDF)

  15. Limin Wen, Ping Xu, Gauri Benegal, M. Ruth C.Carvaho, Diann R. Butler, and Gregory A. Buck. Trypanosoma cruzi: Exogenously Regulated Gene Expression. Experimental Paratitol. 2001, 00:00) (PDF)

  16. Ping Xu, Limin Wen, Gurai Begenal, Xu Wang and Gregory A. Buck. Identification of a spliced leader RNA binding protein from Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2001 Jan 15;112(1):39-49. (PDF)

  17. Limin Wen, Ping Xu, Gauri Benegal, Maria Ruth M. Carvalho, Gregory A. Buck. PPB1, A Putative Spliced Leader RNA Gene Transcription Factor in Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2000, 110(2):207-21 (PDF)

  18. Widmer G, Akiyoshi D, Buckholt MA, Feng X, Rich SM, Deary KM, Bowman CA, Xu P, Wang Y, Wang X, Buck GA, Tzipori S. Animal propagation and genomic survey of a genotype 1 isolate of Cryptosporidium parvum. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2000 May;108(2):187-97. (PDF)