*Corresponding author ^Senior author
2025
Laura M. Nolan*, James J. Lazenby, Ryan Sweet, Gregory J. Wickham, Haider Al-Khanaq,
Samuel J. Bloomfield, Alison. E. Mather, Cynthia B. Whitchurch^ (2025) Tissue destruction
during food spoilage is associated with the formation of biofilms by Pseudomonas species.
Biorxiv, 2025.07.11.664243.
Laura M. Nolan*, Mark. A Webber, Alain Filloux^ (2025) Throwing a spotlight on genomic
dark matter: the power and potential of transposon-insertion sequencing.
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 301(6):110231
2024
Micaela Mossop, Jonathan Ish-Horowicz, Dominic Hughes, Rebecca Dobra, Alessandra G.
Cunanan, Mark Rosenthal, Siobhán B Carr, Newara Ramadan, Laura M. Nolan^, and Jane
C. Davies^* (2024) Chronicity counts: The impact of P. aeruginosa, S. aureus and co-
infection in cystic fibrosis.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Feb 29, 210(2)
Ronan A. Murphy, Jade Pizzato, Leah Cuthbertson, Akshay Sabnis, Andrew Edwards,
Laura M. Nolan, Thomas Vorup-Jensen, Gerald Larrouy-Maumus and Jane C. Davies*^
(2024) Antimicrobial peptide glatiramer acetate targets Pseudomonas aeruginosa
lipopolysaccharides to breach membranes without altering lipopolysaccharide modification.
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, 2(4)
2022
Laura M. Nolan*^ and Luke P. Allsopp*^ (2022) Antimicrobial weapons of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In: Ramos J. L., Filloux A. M. (eds) Pseudomonas
aeruginosa: biology, pathogenesis and control strategies.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1386:223-256
2021
Lynne Turnbull, Roger Leigh, Rosalia Cavaliere, Sarah R. Osvath, Laura M. Nolan, Daniel
Smyth, Kristien Verhoeven, Rochard A. Chole and Cynthia B. Whitchurch*^ (2021) Device
Design Modifications Informed by In Vitro Testing of Bacterial Attachment Reduce Infection
Rates of Cochlear Implants in Clinical Practice.
Microorganisms, 9(9), 1809
Laura M. Nolan, Amy K. Cain, Thomas Clamens, R. Christopher D. Furniss, Eleni Manoli,
Maria A. Sainz-Polo, Gordon Dougan, David Albesa-Jové, Julian Parkhill, Despoina A. I.
Mavridou and Alain Filloux*^ (2021) Identification of Tse8 as a Type VI secretion system
toxin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa that targets the bacterial transamidosome to inhibit
protein synthesis in prey cells. Nature Microbiology, 6, 1199–1210
Pappu K. Mandal, Giulia Ballerin, Laura M. Nolan, Nicola K. Petty and Cynthia B.
Whitchurch*^ (2021) Bacteriophage infection produces membrane vesicles in Escherichia
coli via both explosive cell lysis and membrane blebbing.
Microbiology, 167:001021.
Amelia L. Hynen, James J. Lazenby, George M. Savva, Laura C. McCaughey, Lynne
Turnbull, Laura M. Nolan^ and Cynthia B. Whitchurch*^ (2021) Multiple holins contribute to
extracellular DNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.
Microbiology,167(2):000990.
2020
Laura M. Nolan, Lynne Turnbull, Marilyn Katrib, Sarah R. Osvath, Davide Losa,
James J. Lazenby and Cynthia B. Whitchurch*^ (2020) Pseudomonas aeruginosa is
capable of natural transformation in biofilms
Microbiology, 166(10):995-1003.
Laura M. Nolan, Laura C. McCaughey, Jessica Merjane, Lynne Turnbull, Cynthia B.
Whitchurch*^ (2020) ChpC controls twitching motility-mediated expansion of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms in response to serum albumin, mucin and
oligopeptides Microbiology, 166(7):669-678.
Luke P. Allsopp* Patricia Bernal, Laura M. Nolan and Alain Filloux*^ (2020)
Causalities of war: The connection between type VI secretion system and
microbiota Cellular Microbiology, 22(3):e13153.
2019
Amy K. Cain, Laura M. Nolan, Geraldine Sullivan, Cynthia B. Whitchurch, Alain
Filloux* and Julian Parkhill^ (2019) Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa reference strain PAK
Microbiology Resource Announcements,8:e00865-19
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Thomas E. Wood, Andreas Förster, Eleni Manoli, Laura M. Nolan, Sophie A.
Howard, Abderrahman Hachani, Richard Hayward, Paul S. Freemont and Alain
Filloux*^ (2019) The Pseudomonas aeruginosa T6SS delivers a periplasmic toxin
disrupting bacterial cell morphology
Cell Reports, 29(1):187-201.e7.
2018
Laura M. Nolan,Cynthia B. Whitchurch, Lars Barquist, Marilyn Katrib, Christine J. Boinett, Matthew Mayho,
David Goulding, Ian G. Charles, Alain Filloux, Julian Parkhill*^ and Amy K. Cain*^ (2018) A global genomic
approach uncovers novel components for twitching motility-mediated biofilm expansion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Microbial Genomics, 4(11):e000229.
Anne Lorenz, Mattias Preuße, Simon Bruchmann, Victor Pawar, Niels Grahl, Matthew Pils, Laura M. Nolan, Alain Filloux,
Sigi Weiß and Susanne Häußler*^ (2018) Importance of flagella mediated activation of the host immune response for the
establishment of a chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection type.
Environmental Microbiology, 21(3):883-897.
2017
Luke P. Allsopp, Thomas E. Wood, Sophie A. Howard, Federica Maggiorelli, Laura M. Nolan, Sarah Wettstadt, and Alain Filloux*^ (2017) RsmA and AmrZ
orchestrate the assembly of all three type VI secretion systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
PNAS, 114(29):7707-7712.
2015
Laura M. Nolan, Rosalia Cavaliere, Lynne Turnbull, and Cynthia B. Whitchurch*^ (2015) Extracellular ATP inhibits twitching motility-mediated
biofilm expansion by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
BMC Microbiology, 15:55.
2013
Amanda Mackie, Ingrid M. Keseler, Laura M. Nolan, Peter D. Karp, Ian T. Paulsen
(2013) Dead End Metabolites - Defining the Known Unknowns of the E. coli Metabolic Network
PLoS ONE, 8(9):e75210.
Erin S. Gloag, Lynne Turnbull, Alan Huang, Pascal Vallotton, Huabin Wang, Laura M. Nolan, Lisa Millili, Cameron Hunt, Jing Lu,
Sarah R. Osvath, Leigh G. Monahan, Rosalia Cavaliere, Ian G. Charles, Matt P. Wand, Michelle L. Gee, Ranganathan
Prabhakar, Cynthia B. Whitchurch (2013) Self-organization of bacterial biofilms is facilitated by extracellular DNA
PNAS, 110(28):11541-6.
2012
Laura M. Nolan, Scott A. Beatson, Larry Croft, Peter M. Jones, Anthony M. George,
John S. Mattick, Lynne Turnbull, and Cynthia B. Whitchurch (2012) Extragenic
suppressor mutations that restore twitching motility to fimL mutants of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa are associated with elevated intracellular cyclic AMP levels
Microbiology Open, 1(4):490-501.
2011
Nicholas V. Coleman, Sheree Yau, Neil L. Wilson, Laura M. Nolan, Margaret D.
Migocki, Mai-anh Ly, Ben Crossett and Andrew J. Holmes (2011) Untangling the
multiple monooxygenases of Mycobacterium chubunese strain NBB4, a versatile
hydrocarbon degrader
Environmental Microbiology Reports, 3(3):297-307.
2009
Ingrid M. Keseler, César Bonavides-Martínez, Julio Collado-Vides, Socorro Gama-
Castro, Robert P. Gunsalus, D. Aaron Johnson, Markus Krummenacker, Laura M. Nolan, Suzanne Paley, Ian T. Paulsen,
Martin Peralta-Gil, Alberto Santos-Zavaleta, Alexander Glennon Shearer and Peter D. Karp (2009) Ecocyc: A comprehensive
view of Escherichia coli biology
Nucleic Acids Research, 37:D464-470.