Julia M. Inamine
Professor

Phone: 491-7543
Fax: 491-1815
Email: Julia.Inamine@colostate.edu
Office: B105 Microbiology Building
Lab: B230 Microbiology Building

 

Degrees

• B.S., University of Washington
• Ph.D., Duke University

Research Interests

Molecular Genetics of Mycobacteria

• My laboratory is interested in the molecular genetic analysis of Mycobacterium species with regard to genes involved in drug resistance and virulence as well as the biosynthesis of cell wall components. Current projects focus on (1) genomic and proteomic analyses of M. avium subspecies avium and M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis, (2) comparison of the lipid and lipoglycan profiles of M. avium and M. paratuberculosis, and (3) the genetic analysis of Mycobacterium avium colony morphotypes and definition of the basis for drug resistance and virulence.

Selected Publications

Pub Med for Inamine JM.

• Eckstein, T.M., J.T. Belisle, and J.M. Inamine. 2003. Proposed pathway for the biosynthesis of serovar-specific glycopeptidolipids in Mycobacterium avium serovar 2. Microbiology 149: 2797-2807.
• Lee, S-H., M. Cheung, V. Irani, J.D. Carroll, J.M. Inamine, W.R. Howe, and J.N. Maslow. 2002. Optimization of electroporation conditions for Mycobacterium avium. Tuberculosis 82:167-174.
• Eckstein, T.M., J.M. Inamine, M.L. Lambert, and J.T. Belisle. 2000. A genetic mechanism for deletion of the ser2 gene cluster and formation of rough morphological variants of Mycobacterium avium. J. Bacteriol. 182:6177-6182.
• Belanger, A.E., and J.M. Inamine. 2000. Genetics of cell wall biosynthesis, p. 191-202. In G.F. Hatfull and W.R. Jacobs, Jr. (ed.), Molecular Genetics of Mycobacteria, ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
• Schaeffer, M.L., K.-H. Khoo, G.S. Besra, D. Chatterjee, P.J. Brennan, J.T. Belisle, and J.M. Inamine. 1999. The pimB gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes a mannosyltransferase involved in lipoarabinomannan biosynthesis.J. Biol. Chem. 274:31625-31631.