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Publications / Press

ROWLEY LABORATORY (2016-present)

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  1. Bizarria, R.; Creagh, J. W.; Santos, R. A. C. dos; Givens, L. L.; Coss, S. A.; Badigian, T. J.; Chavez, A. V.; Tekle, R. T.; Fredstrom, N.; Ytreberg, F. M.; Dunham, M. J.; Rodrigues, A.; Rowley, P. A.* Novel Killer Yeasts and Toxins from the Gardens of Fungus-Growing Ants. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2026, e0224625. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02246-25
     

  2. Creagh, J. W.; Rolfsmeier, M.; Evans, K. J.; Bizarria, R.; Reetz, D. C.; Badigian, T. J.; Fredericks, L. R.; Hasenoehrl, A. M.; Brown, A. P.; Graves, B. M.; Alexander, C. K.; Rodrigues, A.; Stoffregen, E. P.; Patel, J. S.; Ytreberg, F. M.; Rowley, P. A.* The Saccharomyces Killer Toxin K62 Is a Protein of the Aerolysin Family. mBio 2025, e0142525. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01425-25. 
     

  3. Major, J. R.; Warren, C. A.; Rowley, P. A.* The Association of Yarrowia Lipolytica with Onychomycosis. Méd. Mycol. Case Rep. 2025, 49, 100715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2025.100715.
     

  4. Elg, C. A.; Mack, E.; Rolfsmeier, M.; McLean, T. C.; Sneddon, D.; Kosterlitz, O.; Soderling, E.; Narum, S.; Rowley, P. A.; Sullivan, J.; Thomas, C. M.; Top, E. M. Evolution of a Plasmid Regulatory Circuit Ameliorates Plasmid Fitness Cost. Mol. Biol. Evol. 2025, 42 (4), msaf062. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf062. 
     

  5. Li, S.; Lund-Andersen, P.; Wang, S.-H.; Ytreberg, F. M.; Naik, M. T.; Patel, J. S.; Rowley, P. A.* The Identification of a Novel Interaction Site for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid on Nucleoporin 153. J. Gen. Virol. 2025, 106 (5), 002104. https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.002104.
     

  6. Condon, D. E.; Schroeder, B. K.; Rowley, P. A.; Ytreberg, F. M. Discovery of Novel Targets for Important Human and Plant Fungal Pathogens via an Automated Computational Pipeline HitList. PLOS One 2025, 20 (6), e0323991. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323991. 
     

  7. Taylor, M. B.; Warwick, A. R.; Skophammer, R.; Boyer, J. M.; Geck, R. C.; Gunkelman, K.; Walson, M.; Rowley, P. A.*; Dunham, M. J.* yEvo: A Modular Eukaryotic Genetics and Evolution Research Experience for High School Students. Ecol. Evol. 2024, 14 (1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10811.
     

  8. Zhong, V.; Ketchum, N.; Mackenzie, J. K.; Garcia, X.; Rowley, P. A.* Inhibition of Diastatic Yeasts by Saccharomyces Killer Toxins to Prevent Hyperattenuation during Brewing. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2024, e0107224. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01072-24.
     

  9. Ellis, J. R.; Rowley, P. A.* An apparent lack of synergy between degradative enzymes against Staphylococcus aureus biofilms. microPublication Biol. 2024, https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.001119
     

  10. Taylor, M. B.; Warwick, A. R.; Skophammer, R.; Boyer, J. M.; Geck, R. C.; Gunkelman, K.; Walson, M.; Rowley, P. A.*; Dunham, M. J.* yEvo: A Modular Eukaryotic Genetics and Evolution Research Experience for High School Students. Ecol. Evol. 2024, 14 (1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10811.
     

  11. Crabtree, A. M.; Taggart, N. T.; Lee, M. D.; Boyer, J. M.; Rowley, P. A.* The Prevalence of Killer Yeasts and Double-Stranded RNAs in the Budding Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Yeast Res. 2023, foad046. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsyr/foad046.
     

  12. Ellis, J. R.; Bull, J. J.; Rowley, P. A.* Fungal Glycoside Hydrolases Display Unique Specificities for Polysaccharides and Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms. Microorg 2023, 11 (2), 293. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11020293.
     

  13. Taggart, N. T.; Crabtree, A. M.; Creagh, J. W.; Bizarria, R.; Li, S.; Higuera, I. de la; Barnes, J. E.; Shipley, M. A.; Boyer, J. M.; Stedman, K. M.; Ytreberg, F. M.; Rowley, P. A.* Novel Viruses of the Family Partitiviridae Discovered in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLOS Pathog. 2023, 19 (6), e1011418. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011418.
     

  14. Li, S.; Patel, J. S.; Yang, J.; Crabtree, A. M.; Rubenstein, B. M.; Lund-Andersen, P. K.; Ytreberg, F. M.; Rowley, P. A.* Defining the HIV Capsid Binding Site of Nucleoporin 153. Msphere 2022, 7 (5), e0031022. https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00310-22. 
     

  15. Lee, M. D.; Creagh, J. W.; Fredericks, L. R.; Crabtree, A. M.; Patel, J. S.; Rowley, P. A.* The Characterization of a Novel Virus Discovered in the Yeast Pichia membranifaciens. Viruses 2022, 14 (3) , 594. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14030594.
     

  16. Taylor, M. B.; Skophammer, R.; Warwick, A. R.; Geck, R. C.; Boyer, J. M.; Students, yEvo; Walson, M.; Large, C. R. L.; Hickey, A. S.-M.; Rowley, P. A.;* Dunham, M. J.* yEvo: Experimental Evolution in High School Classrooms Selects for Novel Mutations That Impact Clotrimazole Resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkac246.
     

  17. Fredericks, L. R.; Lee, M. D.; Eckert, H. R.; Li, S.; Shipley, M. A.; Roslund, C. R.; Boikov, D. A.; Kizer, E. A.; Sobel, J. D.; Rowley, P. A.* Vaginal Isolates of Candida glabrata Are Uniquely Susceptible to Ionophoric Killer Toxins Produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Antimicrob Agents Ch 2021, 65 (7) , e02450-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.02450-20.
     

  18. Fredericks, L. R.; Lee, M. D.; Crabtree, A. M.; Boyer, J. M.; Kizer, E. A.; Taggart, N. T.; Roslund, C. R.; Hunter, S. S.; Kennedy, C. B.; Willmore, C. G.; Tebbe, N. M.; Harris, J. S.; Brocke, S. N.; Rowley, P. A.* The Species-Specific Acquisition and Diversification of a K1-like Family of Killer Toxins in Budding Yeasts of the Saccharomycotina. Plos Genet 2021, 17 (2), e1009341. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009341.
     

  19. Fredericks, L. R.; Lee, M. D.; Roslund, C. R.; Crabtree, A. M.; Allen, P. B.; Rowley, P. A.* The Design and Implementation of Restraint Devices for the Injection of Pathogenic Microorganisms into Galleria mellonella. Plos One 2020, 15 (7) , e0230767. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230767.
     

  20. Rowley, P. A*.; Ellahi, A.; Han, K.; Patel, J. S.; Leuven, J. T. V.; Sawyer, S. L. Nuku, a Family of Primate Retrocopies Derived from KU70. G3 GenesGenomesGenet. 2021, 11 (8), jkab163. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab163. 
     

  21. Crabtree, A. M.; Kizer, E. A.; Hunter, S. S.; Leuven, J. T. V.; New, D. D.; Fagnan, M. W.; Rowley, P. A.* A Rapid Method for Sequencing Double-Stranded RNAs Purified from Yeasts and the Identification of a Potent K1 Killer Toxin Isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Viruses 2019, 11 (1) , 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/v11010070.
     

  22. Rowley, P. A.* The Frenemies within: Viruses, Retrotransposons and Plasmids That Naturally Infect Saccharomyces Yeasts. Yeast (Chichester, England)  2017, 49 (1) , 111–292. https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.3234.

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POSTDOCTORAL PUBLICATIONS​ (2011-2016)

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  1. Fan, H.-F.; Su, B.-Y.; Ma, C.-H.; Rowley, P. A.; Jayaram, M.* A Bipartite Thermodynamic-Kinetic Contribution by an Activating Mutation to RDF-Independent Excision by a Phage Serine Integrase. Nucleic Acids Res 2020, gkaa401-. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa401.
     

  2. Gibbons, J. M.; Marno, K. M.; Pike, R.; Lee, W. J.; Jones, C. E.; Ogunkolade, B. W.; Pardieu, C.; Bryan, A.; Fu, R. M.; Warnes, G.; Rowley, P. A.; Sloan, R. D.; McKnight, A.* HIV-1 Accessory Protein Vpr Interacts with REAF/RPRD2 to Mitigate Its Antiviral Activity. Journal of Virology 2019. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01591-19.
     

  3. Rowley, P. A.; Patterson, K.; Sandmeyer, S. B.; Sawyer, S. L.* Control of Yeast Retrotransposons Mediated through Nucleoporin Evolution. PLoS genetics 2018, 14 (4) , e1007325. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007325.
     

  4. Rowley, P. A.; Ho, B.; Bushong, S.; Johnson, A.; Sawyer, S. L.* XRN1 Is a Species-Specific Virus Restriction Factor in Yeasts. PLoS Pathog 2016, 12 (10) , e1005890. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005890.
     

  5. McBee, R. M.; Rozmiarek, S. A.; Meyerson, N. R.; Rowley, P. A.; Sawyer, S. L.* The Effect of Species Representation on the Detection of Positive Selection in Primate Gene Data Sets. Molecular biology and evolution 2015, 32 (4) , 1091–1096. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msu399.
     

  6. Jayaram, M.;* Ma, C.-H.; Kachroo, A. H.; Rowley, P. A.; Guga, P.; Fan, H.-F.; Voziyanov, Y. An Overview of Tyrosine Site-Specific Recombination: From an Flp Perspective. Microbiology Spectrum 2015, 3 (4) . https://doi.org/10.1128/microbiolspec.mdna3-0021-2014.
     

  7. Rowley, P. A.; Kachroo, A. H.; Ma, C.-H.; Maciaszek, A. D.; Guga, P.; Jayaram, M.* Stereospecific Suppression of Active Site Mutants by Methylphosphonate Substituted Substrates Reveals the Stereochemical Course of Site-Specific DNA Recombination. Nucleic Acids Res 2015, 43 (12) , 6023–6037. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv513.
     

  8. Meyerson, N. R.; Rowley, P. A.; Swan, C. H.; Le, D. T.; Wilkerson, G. K.; Sawyer, S. L.* Positive Selection of Primate Genes That Promote HIV-1 Replication. Virology 2014, 454–455 (C) , 291–298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2014.02.029.
     

  9. Yen-Ting-Liu; Sau, S.; Ma, C.-H.; Kachroo, A. H.; Rowley, P. A.; Chang, K.-M.; Fan, H.-F.; Jayaram, M.* The Partitioning and Copy Number Control Systems of the Selfish Yeast Plasmid: An Optimized Molecular Design for Stable Persistence in Host Cells. Microbiol Spectr 2014, 2 (5) , 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1128/microbiolspec.plas-0003-2013.
     

  10. Ma, C.-H.; Liu, Y.-T.; Savva, C. G.; Rowley, P. A.; Cannon, B.; Fan, H.-F.; Russell, R.; Holzenburg, A.; Jayaram, M.* Organization of DNA Partners and Strand Exchange Mechanisms during Flp Site-Specific Recombination Analyzed by Difference Topology, Single Molecule FRET and Single Molecule TPM. Journal of molecular biology 2014, 426 (4) , 793–815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2013.11.017.
     

  11. Ma, C.-H.; Cui, H.; Hajra, S.; Rowley, P. A.; Fekete, C.; Sarkeshik, A.; Ghosh, S. K.; Yates, J. R.; Jayaram, M.* Temporal Sequence and Cell Cycle Cues in the Assembly of Host Factors at the Yeast 2 Micron Plasmid Partitioning Locus. Nucleic Acids Res 2013, 41 (4) , 2340–2353. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gks1338.
     

  12. Rowley, P. A.; Kachroo, A. H.; Ma, C.-H.; Maciaszek, A. D.; Guga, P.; Jayaram, M.* Electrostatic Suppression Allows Tyrosine Site-Specific Recombination in the Absence of a Conserved Catalytic Arginine. J Biol Chem 2010, 285 (30), 22976–22985. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m110.112292.
     

  13. Kachroo, A. H.; Ma, C.-H.; Rowley, P. A.; Maciaszek, A. D.; Guga, P.; Jayaram, M.* Restoration of Catalytic Functions in Cre Recombinase Mutants by Electrostatic Compensation between Active Site and DNA Substrate. Nucleic Acids Research 2010, 38 (19), 6589–6601. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkq466.
     

  14. Ma, C.-H.; Rowley, P. A.; Macieszak, A.; Guga, P.; Jayaram, M.* Active Site Electrostatics Protect Genome Integrity by Blocking Abortive Hydrolysis during DNA Recombination. The EMBO Journal 2009, 28 (12), 1745–1756. https://doi.org/10.1038/emboj.2009.131.

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GRADUATE SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS (2008-2011)

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  1. Smith, M. C. M.;* Brown, W. R. A.; McEwan, A. R.; Rowley, P. A. Site-Specific Recombination by φC31 Integrase and Other Large Serine Recombinases. Biochemical Society transactions 2010, 38 (2) , 388–394. https://doi.org/10.1042/bst0380388.
     

  2. McEwan, A. R.; Rowley, P. A.; Smith, M. C. M.* DNA Binding and Synapsis by the Large C-Terminal Domain of phiC31 Integrase. Nucleic Acids Research 2009, 37 (14), 4764–4773. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp485.
     

  3. Rowley, P. A.; Smith, M. C. A.; Younger, E.; Smith, M. C. M.* A Motif in the C-Terminal Domain of phiC31 Integrase Controls the Directionality of Recombination. Nucleic Acids Res 2008, 36 (12), 3879–3891. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkn269.
     

  4. Rowley, P. A.; Smith, M. C. M.* Role of the N-Terminal Domain of phiC31 Integrase in attB-attP Synapsis. J Bacteriol 2008, 190 (20) , 6918–6921. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00612-08.

The University of Idaho, Moscow.

Department of Biological Sciences

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