Dr Jasna Rakonjac
Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry

Background

B.Sc. and M.Sc., University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Ph.D., Rockefeller University, USA.

Research Interests

• Mechanism of M13 (f1) phage infection and assembly
• Outer membrane channels of Gram-negative bacteria
• Phage display as a tool in functional genomics and metagenomics
• Gibberellin signalling in plants
• Host-phage wars

More information is available on Jasna's lab website.

Selected Publications

• Bennett, N.J., Gagic, D., Sutherland-Smith, A.J. and Rakonjac, J., (2011) Characterization of a dual-function domain that mediates membrane insertion and excision of Ff filamentous bacteriophage, J. Mol. Biol., 411:972-85.
  
  
• Rakonjac, J., Bennett, N.J., Spagnuolo, J. Gagic, D. and Russel, M., (2011) Filamentous bacteriophage: biology, phage display and nanotechnology applications. Curr. Issues Mol. Biol. 13:51-76.
  
  
• Sheerin, D.J., Buchanan, Kirk, C., Harvey, D., Sun, X., Spagnuolo, J., Li, S., Liu T., Woods, V.A., Foster, T., Jones, W.T. and Rakonjac, J., (2011) Inter- and intra-molecular interactions of Arabidopsis thaliana DELLA protein RGL1. Biochem. J. 435:629-639.
  
  
• Spagnuolo, J., Opalka, N., Wen, W.X., Gagic, D., Chabaud, E., Bellini, D., Bennett, M.D., Norris, G.E., Darst, S.A., Russel, M. & Rakonjac, J., (2010), Identification of gating regions in the primary structure of the secretin pIV. Molecular Microbiology, 76 : 133-150.
  
  
• Sun, X., Jones, W.T., Harvey, D., Edwards, P.J.B., Pascal, S.M., Kirk, C., Considine, T., Sheerin, D.J., Rakonjac, J., Oldfield, C.J., Xue, B., Dunker, K.A., Uversky, V.N., (2010), N-Terminal domains od DELLA proteins are intrinsically unstructured protein in the absence of interaction with GID1 GA receptors, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285 : 11557-71.
  
  
• Jankovic, D., Collett, M.A., Lubbers, M.W. and Rakonjac, J. (2007). Direct selection and phage display of a Gram-positive secretome. Genome Biology, 8, R266.
  
  
• Foster, T., Kirk, C., Jones, W.T., Allan, A.C., Espleay, R., Karunairetnam, S. and Rakonjac, J. (2007). Characterisation of the DELLA subfamily in apple (Malus x domestica Borkh). Tree Genetics and Genomes, 3, 187-197.
  
  
• Bennett, N.J. and Rakonjac, J. (2006). Unlocking of the filamentous bacteriophage virion during infection is mediated by the C domain of pIII. Journal of Molecular Biology, 356, 266-273.
  
  
• Rakonjac, J., O’Toole, P.W. and Lubbers, M.W. (2005). Isolation of lactococcal prolate phage-phage recombinants by enrichment strategy reveals two novel host range determinants. Journal of Bacteriology, 187, 3110-3121.
  
  
• Rakonjac, J., Ward, L.J., Schiemann, A.H., Gardner, P.P., Lubbers, M.W. and O'Toole, P.W. (2003). Sequence diversity and functional conservation of the origin of replication in lactococcal prolate phages. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69, 5104-5114.
  
  
• Casellas, R., Shih, T.A., Kleinewietfeld, M., Rakonjac, J., Nemazee, D., Rajewsky, K. and Nussenzweig, M.C. (2001). Contribution of receptor editing to the antibody repertoire. Science, 291, 1541-1544.
  
  
• Rakonjac, J., Feng, J. and Model, P. (1999). Filamentous phage are released from the bacterial membrane by a two-step mechanism involving a short C-terminal fragment of pIII. Journal of Molecular Biology, 289, 1253-1265.
  
  
• Rakonjac, J. and Model, P. (1998). Roles of pIII in filamentous phage assembly. Journal of Molecular Biology, 282, 25-41.

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