Special Researcher/Tenure-track Associate Professor
Pei T-T#, Li H#, Liang X#, Wang Z-H, Liu G, Wu L-L, Kim H, Xie Z, Yu M, Lin S, Xu P, Dong TG. 2020. Intramolecular chaperone-mediated secretion of an Rhs effector toxin by a type VI secretion system. Nature Communications
Hersch SJ, Watanabe N, Stietz MS, Manera K, Kamal F, Burkinshaw B, Lam L, Pun A, Li M, Savchenko A, Dong TG. 2020. Envelope stress responses defend against type six secretion system attacks independently of immunity proteins. Nature Microbiology
Liang X, Kamal F, Pei T.T., Xu P., Mekalanos J.J., Dong T (2019). An on-board checking mechanism ensures effector delivery of the type VI secretion system in Vibrio cholerae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 116(46):23292-23298. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1914202116. Epub 2019 Oct 28
Burkinshaw B, Liang X, Wong M, Le A, Lam L, Dong T (2018). A Type VI Secretion System effector delivery mechanism dependent on PAAR and a chaperone/co-chaperone complex , Nature Microbiology 3(5):632–640
Ho B, Fu Y, Dong TG, Mekalanos JJ. (2017) Vibrio cholerae type 6 secretion system effector trafficking in target bacterial cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. i 114(35):9427-9432
Dong T*, Dong S#, Catalano C#, Moore R#, Liang X#, Mekalanos J (2015) Generation of reactive oxygen species by lethal attacks from competing microbes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112(7):2181-6 *Co-correspondence author, #trainees in Dong lab.
Wong M, Liang X, Smart M, Tang L, Moore R, Ingalls B, Dong T.G, (2016) Microbial herd protection mediated by antagonistic interaction in polymicrobial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, spotlight article
Wilton M*., Wong M.*, Tang L., Liang X., Moore R., Parkins M., Lewenza S., Dong T.G. (2016). Chelation of membrane-bound cations by extracellular DNA activates the T6SS in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Infection and Immunity, 84(8):2355-61. * Contributed equally