Recent Publications 

2024

Mun W, Choi S. Jang HC, Mitchell RJ. 2024. One-Pot fermenter processing for the mass cultivation of predatory bacteria. Chem Eng Journal. 2023; 14: 1256252. (Editorial) >LINK


2023

Whitworth DE , Pérez J, Mitchell RJ, S Pande. 2023. Mechanisms of prokaryotic predation, volume II. Front Microbiol. 2023; 14: 1256252. (Editorial) >LINK

Mun W, Choi SY, Upatissa S, Mitchell RJ. 2023. Predatory bacteria as potential biofilm control and eradication agents in the food industry. Food Sci Biotechnol. 1-15 >LINK

Upatissa SJ, M,Mun W, Mitchell RJ. 2022. Pairing Colicins B and E5 with Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus to Eradicate Carbapenem- and Colistin-Resistant Strains of Escherichia coli. Microbiol Spectr. e0017323. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00173-23 >LINK

Upatissa S, Mitchell RJ. 2023. The “Cins” of Our Fathers: Rejuvenated Interest in Colicins to Combat Drug Resistance. J Microbiol. 61 (2), 145-158 >LINK

Kim ER, Joe C, Mitchell RJ, Gu MB. 2023. Biosensors for healthcare: Current and future perspectives. Trends in Biotechnology, 41 (3), 374-395 >LINK


2022

Mun W, Upatissa SJ, Lim S, Dwidar M, Mitchell RJ. 2022. Outer Membrane Porin F (OmpF) in E. coli is Critical for Effective Predation by Bdellovibrio. Microbiol Spectr. 10(6), e0309422 >LINK

Park JY, Mun W, Chun J,Sang B-I, Mitchell RJ,3, Lee J-H. 2022. Alkali Extraction to Detoxify Rice Husk-Derived Silica and Increase Its Biocompatibility. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. >LINK

Jang HC, Mun W,  Choi SY, Mitchell RJ. 2022. Use of Resazurin To Rapidly Enumerate Bdellovibrio-and-Like Organisms and Evaluate Their Activities. Microbiol Spectr. >LINK

Lim S, Bhak J, Jeon S, Mun W, Bhak J, Choi SY, Mitchell RJ. 2022. The kiss of death: Serratia marcescens antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus requires both de novo prodigiosin synthesis and direct contact. Microbiol Spectr. >LINK

Jang HC, Choi SY, Mun W, Jeong SH, Mitchell RJ. 2022. Predation of colistin- and carbapenem-resistant bacterial pathogenic populations and their antibiotic resistance genes in simulated microgravity. Microbiol Res.  255, 126941 >LINK 


2021

Kim M, Mun W, Jung WH, Lee J, Cho G, Kwon J, Ahn DJ, Mitchell RJ, Kim BS. 2021. Antimicrobial PEGtides: A Modular Poly (ethylene glycol)-Based Peptidomimetic Approach to Combat Bacteria. ACS Nano. 15 (5) 9143–9153  >LINK 

Choi SY, Lim S, Yoon K, Lee JI, Mitchell RJ. 2021. Biotechnological Activities and Applications of Bacterial Pigments Violacein and Prodigiosin. J Biol Eng. 15 (1), 1-16 >LINK 

Dwidar M, Jang H, Sangwan N, Mun W, Im H, Yoon S, Choi S, Nam D, Mitchell RJ. 2021. Diffusible signaling factor, a quorum-sensing molecule, interferes with and is toxic towards Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J. Microb Ecol. 81 (2), 347-356 >LINK 


2020

Cybulski O, Dygas M, Mikulak-Klucznik B, Siek M, Klucznik T, Choi SY, Mitchell RJ, Sobolev YI, Grzybowski B. 2020. Concentric liquid reactors for chemical synthesis and separation. Nature. 586, 57–63  >LINK

Soh SM, Lee D-G, Mitchell RJ. 2020. Enhanced Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) Power Outputs Through Membrane Permeabilization Using a Branched Polyethyleneimine. Biosens Bioelectron >LINK

The Ecology of Predation at the Microscale. Eds. Edouard Jurkevitch and Robert J. Mitchell. Springer, 2020, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-45599-6 >LINK

Im H, Bäcker LE, Mitchell RJ. 2020. Environmental and Biotic Factors Impacting the Activities of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. in The Ecology of Predation at the Microscale. Eds. Edouard Jurkevitch and Robert J. Mitchell. Springer >LINK

Dwidar M, Jang H, Sangwan N, Mun W, Im H, Yoon S, Choi S, Nam D, Mitchell RJ. 2020. Diffusible signaling factor, a quorum-sensing molecule, interferes with and is toxic towards Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J. Microb Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01585-8 >LINK

Soh SM, Jang H, Mitchell RJ. 2020. Loss of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) inner core increases the electrocompetence of Escherichia coli. Appl Microbiol Biotech. 104 (17), 7427-7435 >LINK

Mitchell RJ, Mun W, Mabekou SS, Jang H, Choi SY. 2020 Compounds affecting predation by and viability of predatory bacteria. Appl Microbiol Biotech. 104, 3705–3713 >LINK

Yoon K, Lee TY, Moon J-H, Choi SY, Choi YJ, Mitchell RJ, Lee JI. 2020 Consumption of Oleic Acid During Matriphagy in Free-Living Nematodes Alleviates the Toxic Effects of the Bacterial Metabolite Violacein. Sci Rep 10 (1), 14186 >LINK

Choi SY, Lim S, Cho G, Kwon J, Mun W, Mitchell RJ. 2020. Chromobacterium violaceum delivers violacein, a hydrophobic antibiotic, to other microbes in membrane vesicles. Env Microbiol. 22 (2), 705-713 >LINK

2019

H Im, H Kwon, G Cho, J Kwon, SY Choi, RJ Mitchell. 2019. Viscosity has dichotomous effects on Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus HD100 predation. Environmental Microbiology 21 (12), 4675-4684 >LINK

G Cho, J Kwon, SM Soh, H Jang, RJ Mitchell. 2019. Sensitivity of predatory bacteria to different surfactants and their application to check bacterial predation. Applied Microbiol and Biotechnol 103 (19), 8169-8178 >LINK


2018

AK Monnappa, W Bari, JK Seo, RJ Mitchell. 2018. The Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factor of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (CNFy) is Carried on Extracellular Membrane Vesicles to Host Cells. Scientific reports 8 (1), 1-8 >LINK

H Im, M Dwidar, RJ Mitchell. 2018. Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus HD100, a predator of Gram-negative bacteria, benefits energetically from Staphylococcus aureus biofilms without predation. The ISMEJ 12 (8), 2090-2095 >LINK


2017

W Mun, H Kwon, H Im, SY Choi, AK Monnappa, RJ Mitchell. 2017. Cyanide production by Chromobacterium piscinae shields it from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus HD100 predation. MBio 8 (6), e01370-17 >LINK

SS Mabekou, SC Lee, TH Dinh, K Won, RJ Mitchell. 2017. Enhanced sensitivity and responses to viologens from a whole‐cell bacterial bioreporter treated with branched polyethyleneimines. Journal of applied microbiology 123 (6), 1478-1487 >LINK

M Dwidar, H Im, JK Seo, RJ Mitchell. 2017. Attack-phase Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus responses to extracellular nutrients are analogous to those seen during late intraperiplasmic growth. Microbial ecology 74 (4), 937-946  >LINK

H Im, SY Choi, S Son, RJ Mitchell. 2017. Combined application of bacterial predation and violacein to kill polymicrobial pathogenic communities. Scientific reports 7 (1), 1-10   >LINK

SY Choi, H Im, RJ Mitchell. 2017. Violacein and bacterial predation: promising alternatives for priority multidrug resistant human pathogens. Future Microbiology 12 (10), 835-838   >LINK

H Im, S Son, RJ Mitchell, CM Ghim. 2017. Serum albumin and osmolality inhibit Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predation in human serum. Scientific reports 7 (1), 1-9   >LINK

S Bharadwaj, RJ Mitchell, A Qureshi, JH Niazi. 2017. Toxicity evaluation of e-juice and its soluble aerosols generated by electronic cigarettes using recombinant bioluminescent bacteria responsive to specific cellular damages.  Biosensors and Bioelectronics 90, 53-60  >LINK

H Im, S Lee, SA Soper, RJ Mitchell. 2017. Staphylococcus aureus extracellular vesicles (EVs): surface-binding antagonists of biofilm formation. Molecular BioSystems 13 (12), 2704-2714  >LINK


2016

AK Monnappa, W Bari, SY Choi, RJ Mitchell. 2016. Investigating the responses of human epithelial cells to predatory bacteria. Scientific reports 6, 33485  >LINK

YR Lee, RJ Mitchell, KS Whang. 2016. Isolation and characterization of antifungal violacein producing bacterium Collimonas sp. DEC-B5. The Korean Journal of Microbiology 52 (2), 212-219. (Korean)   >LINK

JH Kwon, H Kang, BI Sang, Y Kim, J Min, RJ Mitchell, JH Lee. 2016. Feasibility of a facile butanol bioproduction using planetary mill pretreatment. Bioresource technology 199, 283-287  >LINK


2015

S Lee, JH Lee, RJ Mitchell. 2015. Analysis of Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052’s transcriptional response to ferulic acid and its application to enhance the strain tolerance. Biotechnology for biofuels 8 (1), 68  >LINK

SY Choi, S Kim, S Lyuck, SB Kim, RJ Mitchell. 2015. High-level production of violacein by the newly isolated Duganella violaceinigra str. NI28 and its impact on Staphylococcus aureus. Scientific reports 5, 15598 >LINK

R Singh, AK Monnappa, S Hong, RJ Mitchell, J Jang. 2015. Effects of carbon dioxide aerosols on the viability of Escherichia coli during biofilm dispersal. Scientific reports 5 (1), 1-9 >LINK

M Dwidar, D Nam, RJ Mitchell. 2015. Indole negatively impacts predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and its release from the bdelloplast. Environmental microbiology 17 (4), 1009-1022  >LINK

S Lee, RJ Mitchell. 2015. Perspectives on the use of transcriptomics to advance biofuels. AIMS Bioengineering 2 (4), 487 >LINK

JH Kwon, S Lee, JW Lee, YW Hong, JH Chang, D Sung, SH Kim, BI Sang, RJ Mitchell JH Lee. 2015. Improved sugar production by optimizing planetary mill pretreatment and enzyme hydrolysis process. BioMed research international >LINK

SY Choi, K Yoon, JI Lee, RJ Mitchell. 2015. Violacein: properties and production of a versatile bacterial pigment. BioMed research international  >LINK