Rebecca Parales
Associate Professor
reparales@ucdavis.edu
Microbiology
Office
226 Briggs Hall
(530)754-5233
Lab
(530)754-5234
1993
PhD
Cornell University
Microbiology
1981
BS
University of Connecticut
Chemistry
Bacterial degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons and man-made environmental pollutants. Bacterial chemotaxis to pollutants and man-made chemicals.
Department of Microbiology
American Society for Microbiology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Microbiology
Last updated 11/19/2009
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X. Liu and R.E. Parales. 2008. Chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to pyrimidines: a new role for the signal transducer Tap. J. Bacteriol. 190:972-979
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X. Liu and R.E. Parales. 2009. Bacterial chemotaxis to atrazine and related s-triazines. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:5481-5488.
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K.-S. Ju and R.E. Parales. 2009. Application of nitroarene dioxygenases in the design of novel strains
that degrade chloronitrobenzenes. Microbial Biotechnol. 2:242-252.
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K.-S. Ju and R.E. Parales. 2006. Control of substrate specificity by active site residues in nitrobenzene dioxygenase. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:1817-1824.
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X. Liu, P.L. Wood, J.V. Parales, and R.E. Parales. 2009. Chemotaxis to pyrimidines and identification of a cytosine chemoreceptor in Pseudomonas putida. J. Bacteriol. 191:2909-2916.
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R.E. Parales, J.V. Parales, J.L. Ditty, and D.A. Pelletier. 2008. Diversity of microbial toluene degradation pathways. Adv. Appl. Microbiol. 64:1-73.
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R. Friemann, M.M. Ivkovic-Jensen, D.J. Lessner, C.-L. Yu, D.T. Gibson, R.E. Parales, H. Eklund and S. Ramaswamy. 2005. Structural insights into the dioxygenation of nitroarene compounds: The crystal structure of the nitrobenzene dioxygenase. J. Mol. Biol. 348:1139-1151.
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K.-S. Lee, J.V. Parales, R. Friemann and R.E. Parales. 2005. Substrate specificity of 2-nitrotoluene dioxygenase: effect of specific amino acid substitutions at the active site of the enzyme. J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 32:465-473.
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R.E. Parales, K.-S. Ju, J. Rollefson, and J.L. Ditty. 2008. Bioavailability, transport and chemotaxis of organic pollutants. pp. 145-187. In: Microbial Bioremediation. E. Diaz, (ed.) Caister Academic Press, Norfolk, UK.
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R.E. Parales. 2004. Nitrobenzoates and aminobenzoates are attractants for Pseudomonas strains. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70:285-292.
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R.E. Parales, A. Ferrandez, and C.S. Harwood. 2004. Chemotaxis in Pseudomonads. In: Pseudomonas Volume I: Genomics, Life Style and Molecular Architecture. J.-L. Ramos, (ed.). pp. 793-815. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York.
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Karlsson, A., J.V. Parales, R.E. Parales, D.T. Gibson, H. Eklund, and S. Ramaswamy. 2003. Crystal structure of naphthlene dioxygenase: Side-on binding of dioxygen to iron. Science 299:1039-1043.
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D.J. Lessner, R.E. Parales, S. Narayan and D.T. Gibson. 2003. Expression of the nitroarene dioxygenase genes Comamonas sp. strain JS765 and Acidovorax sp. strain JS42 is induced by multiple aromatic compounds. J. Bacteriol. 185:3895-3904.
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R.E. Parales and C.S. Harwood. 2002. Bacterial chemotaxis to pollutants and plant-derived aromatic molecules. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 5:266-273.
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R.E. Parales, J.L. Ditty, and C.S. Harwood. 2000. Toluene-degrading bacteria are chemotactic to the environmental pollutants benzene, toluene, and trichloroethylene. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66:4098-4104.
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K.-S. Ju, J.V. Parales and R.E. Parales. 2009. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of nitrotoluene detection in the transcriptional regulator NtdR. Mol. Microbiol. 74:826-843.
225 Briggs Hall
Post-doctoral Associates: Kou-San Ju, Joseph Penrod, Karina Herrera-Seitz. Graduate Students: Christy Rabinovitch (MGG), Krissy Mahan (BMCDB), Mark Wolf (BMCDB). Undergraduates: Grischa Chen, Rita Luu, J. Nicole Felix. Staff Research Associate: Juan Parales.
Bacterial diversity and physiology
MIC
105
Microbial Diversity
Winter
MIC
105L
Microbial Diversity Laboratory
Winter
MIC
200B
Advanced Bacteriology
Winter