By Adjunct Professor Brett Anthony Neilan

Journal articles

Kaebernick M; Dittmann E; Borner T; Neilan BA, 2002, 'Multiple alternate transcripts direct the biosynthesis of microcystin, a cyanobacterial non-ribosomal peptide', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68, pp. 449 - 455

Neilan BA, 2002, 'The molecular evolution and DNA profiling of toxic cyanobacteria', Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 4, pp. 1 - 11

Coldham T; Rose K; O'Rourke J; Danon SJ; Mitchell HM; Neilan B; Dalton H; Lee A, 2001, 'Isolation and characterisation of new Helicobacter spp from Australian marsupials', GUT, 49, pp. A53 - A53, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000171232500187&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Moffitt M, 2001, 'On the presence of peptide synthetase and polyketide synthase genes in the cyanobacterial genus Nodularia', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 196, pp. 207 - 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(01)00070-2

Kaebernick M; Rohrlack T; Christoffersen K; Neilan BA, 2001, 'A spontaneous mutant of microcystin biosynthesis: genetic characterization and efrfrect on Daphnia', Environmental Microbiology, pp. 669 - 679

Lukondeh T; Neilan BA; Moffitt MC; Burns BP; Naidoo D; Della Vedova J; Gooden J; Feitz AJ, 2001, 'Absence of cyanotoxin carryover into milk', The Australian Journal of Dairy Technology, pp. 132 - 132

Dittmann E; Erhard M; Kaebernick M; Scheler C; Neilan BA; von Dohren H; Borner T, 2001, 'Altered expression of two light-dependent genes in a microcystin-lacking mutant of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806', Microbiology, 147, pp. 3113 - 3119

Holden PJ; Foster LJ; Neilan BA; Berra G; Vu QM, 2001, 'Characterisation of novel salt tolerant iron-oxidising bacteria', Biohydrometallurgy Fundamentals, Technology and Sustainable Development Part A, 1, pp. 283 - 290

Tillett D; Parker DL; Neilan BA, 2001, 'Detection of toxigenicity by a probe for the microcystin synthetase A gene (mcyA) of the cyanobacterial genus Microcystis: comparison of toxicities with 16s rRNA and phycocyanin operon (Phycocyanin intergenic spacer) phylogenies', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, pp. 2810 - 2818

Kaebernick M; Neilan BA, 2001, 'Ecological and molecular investigations of cyanotixin production', FEMS Microbiology Ecology, pp. 1 - 9

Kaebernick M; Neilan BA, 2001, 'Ecological and molecular investigations of cyanotoxin production', FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 35, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2001.tb00782.x

Baker JA; Neilan BA; Entsch B; McKay DB, 2001, 'Identification of Cyanobacteria and their Toxigenicity in Environmental Samples by Rapid Molecular Analysis', Environmental Toxicology, 16, pp. 472 - 482

Schembri M; Neilan BA; Saint C, 2001, 'Identification of genes inplicated in toxin production in the Cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii', Environmental Toxicology, 16, pp. 413 - 421

Dittmann E; Neilan BA; Borner T, 2001, 'Molecular biology of peptide an dpolyketide biosynthesis in cyanobacteria', Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, pp. 467 - 473

Moffitt MC; Neilan BA, 2001, 'On the presence of peptide synthetase and polyketide synthase genes in the cyanobacterial genus Nodularia', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 196, pp. 207 - 214

Llewellyn LE; Negri AP; Doyle J; Baker PD; Beltran EC; Neilan BA, 2001, 'Radioreceptor assays for sensitive detection and quantitation of saxitoxin and its analogues from strains of the Freshwater Cyanobactetium, Anabaena circinalis', Environmental Science and Technology, pp. 1445 - 1451

Moffitt MC; Blackburn SI; Neilan BA, 2001, 'rRNA sequences reflect the ecophysiology and define the toxic cyanobacteria of the genus Nodularia', International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, pp. 505 - 512

Saker M; Neilan BA, 2001, 'Varied diazotrophies, morphologies, and toxicities of genetically similar isolates of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Nostocales, Cyanophyceae) from Northern Australia', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, pp. 1839 - 1845

Moffitt M, 2000, 'The expansion of mechanistic and organismic diversity associated with non-ribosomal peptides', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 191, pp. 159 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(00)00318-9

Seidel KE; Jakob W; Rudolph M; Neilan BA; Lee A, 2000, 'Helicobacter sp. also occur in European raccoon dogs.', GUT, 47, pp. A69 - A69, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000090131200250&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Danon SJ; Seidel K; Neilan BA; Yokoto Y; Lee A, 2000, 'Lower bowel mucus: The natural habitat for Helicobacter species in most animals.', GUT, 47, pp. A68 - A68, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000090131200245&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Danon SJ; Goh KL; Parasakthi N; Neilan BA; Grehan MJ; Lee A, 2000, 'The human colon: A reservoir for Helicobacter species.', GUT, 47, pp. A2 - A3, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000090131200011&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Beltran C; Neilan BA, 2000, 'Geographical segregation of the neurotoxin-producing cyanobacterium Anabaena circinalis.', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, pp. 4468 - 4474

Kaebernick M; Borner T; Neilan BA; Dittmann E, 2000, 'Light and the transcriptional response of the microcystin biosynthesis gene cluster', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, pp. 3387 - 3392

Mankelow DP; Neilan BA, 2000, 'Nonribosomal peptide antibiotics', Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, 10, pp. 1583 - 1591

Tillett D; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2000, 'Optimized rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) for mapping bacterial mRNA transcripts.', BioTechniques, pp. 448 - 456

Tillett D; Dittmann E; Erhard M; Vondohren H; Borner T; Neilan BA, 2000, 'Structural organisation of the microcystin biosynthesis in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806: An integrated peptide-polyketide synthetase system', Chemistry and biology, pp. 753 - 764

Moffitt MC; Neilan BA, 2000, 'The expansion of mechanistic and organismic diversity associated with non-ribosomal peptides', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 191, pp. 159 - 167

Pomati F; Sacchi S; Rossetti C; Giovannardi S; Onodera H; Oshima Y; Neilan BA, 2000, 'The freshwater cyanobacterium Planktothrix sp FP1: molecular identification and detection of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins.', Journal of Phycology, pp. 553 - 562

Burns BP; Hazell SL; Mendz GL; Kolesnikow T; Tillett D; Neilan BA, 2000, 'The Helicobacter pylori pyrB gene encoding aspartate carbamoyltransferase is essential for bacterial survival', Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 380, pp. 78 - 84

Tillett D; Neilan BA, 2000, 'Xanthogenate nucleic acid isolation from cultured and environmental cyanobacteria', Journal of Phycology, pp. 251 - 258

Tillett D; Neilan BA, 1999, 'An improved method for the purification of large DNA fragments from agarose gels using Wizard Plus SV columns', Analytical Biochemistry, pp. 218 - 219

Wilson KA; Schembri M; Saint C; Neilan BA, 1999, 'Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii: tracking down toxin genes', Microbiology Australia, 20, pp. 19

Tillett D; Neilan BA, 1999, 'Enzyme-free cloning: a rapid method to clone PCR products independent of vector restriction enzyme sites', Nucleic Acids Research, pp. e26

Tillett D; Neilan BA, 1999, 'n-butanol purification of dye terminator sequencing reactions', BioTechniques, pp. 606 - 610

Neilan BA; Dittman E; Rouhiainen L; Bass A; Schaub V; Sivonen K; Boerner T, 1999, 'Nonribosomal peptide synthesis and toxigenicity of cyanobacteria', Journal of Bacteriology, 181, pp. 4089 - 4097

Neilan BA, 1999, 'Pathogenic cyanobacteria and blue-green algal blooms', Microbiology Australia, 20, pp. 32 - 35

Neilan BA, 1999, 'Toxin biosynthesiis in cyanobacteria: a blue print for combinatorial drug design', Microbiology Australia, 20, pp. 15 - 17

Saker M; Neilan BA; Griffiths D, 1999, 'Two morphological forms of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (cyanobacteria) isolated from Solomon Dam, Palm Island, Queensland', Journal of Phycology, pp. 599 - 606

Tillett D; Neilan BA, 1998, 'Small-scale preparation of the single-copy bacterial artificial chromosome vector pBeloBAC11', Biotechniques, 24, pp. 568 - 572, http://dx.doi.org/10.2144/98244bm10

De Ungria MC; Tillett D; Neilan BA; Cox P; Lee A, 1998, 'A novel method of extracting plasmid DNA from Helicobacter species.', Helicobacter, pp. 269 - 277

Neilan BA; Tillett D, 1998, 'A rapid small-scale preparation of the single copy bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) vector: pBeloBAC11', BioTechniques, pp. 568 - 570

Bernardo EB; Neilan BA; Couperwhite I, 1998, 'Characterization, differentiation and identification of wild-type', Systematic and Applied Microbiology, pp. 599 - 608

Holmstrom CG; James SG; Neilan BA; White DR; Kjelleberg S, 1998, 'Pseudoalteromonas tunicata sp. nov., a bacterium that produces antifouling agaents', International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, pp. 1205 - 1212

Daud Khaled A, 1997, 'Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Lactobacillus using multiplex RAPD-PCR', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 153, pp. 191 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(97)00260-7

Jacobs D, 1997, 'Improved methods for in situ enzymatic amplification and detection of low copy number genes in bacteria', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 152, pp. 65 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(97)00180-8

Neilan BA; Jacobs D; Del Dot T; Blackall LL; Hawkins PR; Cox PT; Goodman AE, 1997, 'rRNA sequences and evolutionary relationships among toxic and nontoxic cyanobacteria of the genus Microcystis', International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 47, pp. 693 - 697, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-3-693

Paje ML; Neilan BA; Couperwhite I, 1997, 'A Rhodococcus species that thrives on medium saturated with liquid benzene', Microbiology, 143, pp. 2975 - 2981

Neilan BA; Wilton AN; Jacobs D, 1997, 'A universal procedure for primer labelling of amplicons', Nucleic Acids Research, pp. 2938 - 2939

Daud Khaled AK; Neilan BA; Henriksson A; Conway PL, 1997, 'Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Lactobacillus using a multiplex RAPD-PCR', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 153, pp. 191 - 197

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