Selected Publications

Au, N., Kuester-Schoeck, E., Mandava, V., Bothwell, L.E., Canny, S.P., Chachu, K., Colavito, Fuller, S.A. Groban, E.S., Hensley, L.A., O'Brien, T.C., Shah, A., Tierney, J.T., Tomm, L.L., O'Gara, T.M., Goranov, A.I., Grossman, A.D. and Lovett, C.M. (2005) Genetic Composition of the Bacillus subtilis SOS system. J. Bacteriol. 187: 7655-7666.

Groban, E.S. Johnson, M.B., Banky, P., Burnett, P.G., Calderon, G.L., Dwyer, E.C., Fuller, S.N., Gebre, B., King, L.M., Sheren, I.N., Von Mutius, L.D., O’Gara, T.M. and Lovett, C.M. (2005) Binding of the Bacillus subtilis LexA Protein to the SOS Operator. Nucleic Acids Res. 33: 6287-6295.

Lovett, C and Chang, R. (2005) Understanding Chemistry, McGraw-Hill.

Dubnau, D. and Lovett, C.M. (2003) Transformation and recombination. In Bacillus subtilis and Other Gram Positive organisms. Amercian Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.

Hamoen, L.W., Haijema, B., Bijlsma, J.J., Venema, G., and Lovett, C.M. (2001) The Bacillus subtilis competence transcription factor, ComK, overrides LexA-imposed transcriptional inhibition without physically displacing LexA, J. Biol. Chem.276: 42901-42907.

Sadighi, K., Bushar, I.M., O’Gara, T.M., and Lovett, C.M. (1997) DNA microsatellite analysis of endangered populations of timber rattlesnakes Crotalus horridus. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 78 (3).

Carter, C.A., Gray, E.A., Schneider, T.L., Lovett, C.M., Scott, L., Messer, A.C. and Richardson, D.P. (1997) Toxicarioside B and Toxicarioside C. New Cardenolides Isolated from Antiaris toxicaria Latex-Derived Dart Poison. Tetrahedron 53: 16959-16968.

Carter, C.A., Forney, R.W., Gray, E.A., Gehring, A.M. Schneider, T.L., Young, D.B., Lovett, C.M., Scott, L., Messer, A.C. and Richardson, D.P. (1997) Toxicarioside A. A New Cardenolide Isolated from Antiaris toxicara Latex-Derived Dart Poison. Assignment of the 1H- and 13C-NMR Ahifts for and Antiarigenin Aglycone. Tetrahedron 53: 13557-13566.

Miller, M.C., Resnick, J.B., Smith, B.T. and Lovett, C.M. (1996) The Bacillus subtilis dinR Gene Codes for the Anaologue of Escherichia coli LexA: Purification and Characterization of the DinR Protein. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 33502-33508.

Lovett, C.M., O'Gara, T.M. and Woodruff, J.N. (1994) Analysis of the SOS Inducing Signal in Bacillus subtilis Using Escherichia coli LexA as a Probe. J. Bacteriol. 176: 4914-4923.
Lovett, C.M., Cho, K, and O'Gara, T.M. (1993) Purification of an SOS repressor from Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 175: 6842-6849.

Szszepanowska, H. and Lovett, C.M. (1992) A Study of the Removal and Prevention of Fungal Stains on Paper. J. Amer. Inst. Cons. 31: 147-160.

Lovett, C.M., Love, P.E., and Yasbin, R.E. (1989) Competence-specific induction of the Bacillus subtilis RecA protein analogue: Evidence for dual regulation of a recombination protein. J. Bacteriol. 171: 2318-2322.

Lovett, C.M., Fitzgibbon, T. and Chang, R. (1989) Effects of UV irradiation on the thermal denaturation of DNA. J. Chem. Ed. 66: 526-528.

Yasbin, R.E., Love, P.E., Jackson, J. and Lovett, C.M. (1988) Evolutionary divergence of the SOS-like system of Bacillus subtilis, p. 485-490. In Mechanisms and Consequences of DNA Damage Processing. Alan R. Liss, Inc.

Lovett, C.M., Love, P.E., Yasbin, R.E. and Roberts, J.W. (1988) SOS-like induction in Bacillus subtilis: Induction of the RecA protein analogue and a damage-inducible operon by DNA damage in Rec+ and DNA repair deficient strains. J. Bacteriol. 170: 1467-1474.