Associate Professor Mihnea Bostina

2025

Journal - Research Article

Hodgkinson-Bean, J., Ayala, R., Jayawardena, N., Rutter, G. L., Watson, B. N. J., Mayo-Muñoz, D., … Fineran, P. C., … Bostina, M. (2025). Global structural survey of the flagellotropic myophage φTE infecting agricultural pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum. Nature Communications, 16, 3257. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58514-x

Hills, F., Jorge, F., Burga, L. N., & Bostina, M. (2025). Expression and purification of SARS-related spike glycoproteins for cryo-EM analysis. Current Protocols, 5(e70115). doi: 10.1002/cpz1.70115

Hills, F. R., Geoghegan, J. L., & Bostina, M. (2025). Architects of infection: A structural overview of SARS-related coronavirus spike glycoproteins. Virology, 110383. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110383

Wardell, S. J. T., Yung, D. B. Y., Gupta, A., Bostina, M., Overhage, J., Hancock, R. E. W., & Pletzer, D. (2025). DJK-5, an anti-biofilm peptide, increases Staphylococcus aureus sensitivity to colistin killing in co-biofilms with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. npj Biofilms & Microbiomes, 11, 8. doi: 10.1038/s41522-024-00637-y

Journal - Research Other

McJarrow-Keller, K., Eruera, A.-R., Crowe, A. J. M., Kumaran, R., Hyun, J., & Bostina, M. (2025). Atlas of interactions between decoration proteins and major capsid proteins of coliphage N4. Viruses, 17, 19. doi: 10.3390/v17010019

2024

Journal - Research Article

Chang, F., Wu, Q., Hu, Y., Pan, Z., Liu, Y.-C., Li, Y.-C., Bostina, M., … Li, Y.-P. (2024). Engineered bispecific antibodies with enhanced breadth and potency against SARS-CoV-2 variants and SARS-related coronaviruses. Medical Microbiology & Immunology, 213, 24. doi: 10.1007/s00430-024-00809-9

McSweeney, A. M., Eruera, A.-R., McKenzie-Goldsmith, G. M., Bouwer, J. C., Brown, S. H. J., Stubbing, L. A., … Bostina, M., Krause, K. L., & Ward, V. K. (2024). Activity and cryo-EM structure of the polymerase domain of the human norovirus ProPol precursor. Journal of Virology, 98(11), e01193-24. doi: 10.1128/jvi.01193-24

Mackay, S. M., Sutherland, B., Easingwood, R. A., Hopkins, A., Bostina, M., & Tan, E. W. (2024). Evidence for phospholipid self-organisation in concentrated ammonia-water environments. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Biomembranes, 1866, 184391. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2024.184391

Eruera, A.-R., Hodgkinson-Bean, J., Rutter, G. L., Hills, F. R., Kumaran, R., Crowe, A. J. M., Jadav, N., Chang, F., McJarrow-Keller, K., Jorge, F., … Bostina, M. (2024). Ejectosome of Pectobacterium bacteriophage ΦM1. PNAS Nexus, 3, pgae416. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae416

Hills, F. R., Eruera, A.-R., Hodgkinson-Bean, J., Jorge, F., Easingwood, R., Brown, S. H. J., … Burga, L. N., & Bostina, M. (2024). Variation in structural motifs within SARS-related coronavirus spike proteins. PLoS Pathogens, 20(5), e1012158. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012158

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Wierenga, J., Morgan, K., Hunter, S., Taylor, H., Argilla, L., Webster, T., Burga, L., Bostina, M., Lim, L., … Geoghegan, J. (2024). Finding the causative agents of infectious diseases affecting hoiho (yellow-eyed penguins) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 51(3-4), (pp. 440). doi: 10.1080/03014223.2024.2332118

2023

Journal - Research Article

Wierenga, J. R., Grimwood, R., Taylor, H. S., Hunter, S., Argilla, L. S., Webster, T., Lim, L., French, R., … Jorge, F., Bostina, M., Burga, L., … Geoghegan, J. L. (2023). Total infectome investigation of diphtheritic stomatitis in yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) reveals a novel and abundant megrivirus. Veterinary Microbiology, 286, 109895. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2023.109895

Jadav, N., Velamoor, S., Huang, D., Cassin, L., Hazelton, N., Eruera, A.-R., Burga, L. N., & Bostina, M. (2023). Beyond the surface: Investigation of tumorsphere morphology using volume electron microscopy. Journal of Structural Biology, 215, 108035. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2023.108035

Waqqar, S., Lee, K., Lawley, B., Bilton, T., Quiñones‑Mateu, M. E., Bostina, M., & Burga, L. N. (2023). Directed evolution of Seneca Valley virus in tumorsphere and monolayer cell cultures of a small-cell lung cancer model. Cancers, 15, 2541. doi: 10.3390/cancers15092541

Wierenga, J. R., Morgan, K. J., Hunter, S., Taylor, H. S., Argilla, L. S., Webster, T., Dubrulle, J., Jorge, F., Bostina, M., Burga, L., … Geoghegan, J. L. (2023). A novel gyrovirus is abundant in yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) chicks with a fatal respiratory disease. Virology, 579, 75-83. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2022.12.012

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Burga, L., Pham, A., Nimick, M., Waqqar, S., Turner, P., Watanabe, E., & Bostina, M. (2023). Developing oncolytic Seneca Valey Virus for cancer treatment. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) 50th Anniversary Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzsbmb.org/conference

Rutter, G., Velamoor, S., Huang, D., Hazelton, N., Bostina, M., & Harland, D. (2023). Investigating the structure of sheep wool hair fibre using new microscopic techniques. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) 50th Anniversary Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzsbmb.org/conference

Jadav, N., Velamoor, S., Huang, D., Hazelton, N., Eruera, A., Burga, L. N., & Bostina, M. (2023). Beyond the Surface: Ultrastructural Investigation of TS vs ML using vEM. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) 50th Anniversary Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzsbmb.org/conference

Chang, F., Wu, Q., Liu, Y., Hu, Y., Eruera, A.-R., Hill, F., Bostina, M., & Li, Y. (2023). Monoclonal bispecific antibodies exhibiting remarkable breadth and potency against SARS-CoV-2 variants and SARS-like coronaviruses. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) 50th Anniversary Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzsbmb.org/conference

Yung, D., Wardell, S. J. T., Hancock, R. E. W., Bostina, M., & Pletzer, D. (2023). Anti-biofilm peptide DJK-5 potentiates activity of colistin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus co-biofilms. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) 50th Anniversary Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzsbmb.org/conference

Hills, F., Eruera, A.-R., Brown, S., Bouwer, J., Hodgkinson-Bean, J., Easingwood, R., Jorge, F., & Bostina, M. (2023). Cryo-EM reveals variation in structural motifs within animal SARS-related coronavirus spike proteins. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) 50th Anniversary Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzsbmb.org/conference

Hodgkinson-Bean, J., Eruera, A.-R., Hills, F. R., Kumaran, R., Crowe, A., Rutter, G., Jadav, N., … Bostina, M. (2023). Journey to the center of the phage: A voyage through the particle structure of short tailed Pectobacterium phage FM1. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) 50th Anniversary Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzsbmb.org/conference

Kumaran, R., Jayawardena, N., Burga, L., Wolf, M., & Bostina, M. (2023). Structural insights into senecavirus genome uncoating mechanism. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) 50th Anniversary Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzsbmb.org/conference

2022

Journal - Research Article

Peng, Y., Liu, Y., Hu, Y., Chang, F., Wu, Q., Yang, J., … Bostina, M., … Li, Y.-P. (2022). Monoclonal antibodies constructed from COVID-19 convalescent memory B cells exhibit potent binding activity to MERS-CoV spike S2 subunit and other human coronaviruses. Frontiers in Immunology, 13, 1056272. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1056272

Jayawardena, N., McCarthy, C., Wang, I., Waqqar, S., Burga, L. N., Strauss, M., & Bostina, M. (2022). Characterisation of a Seneca Valley virus thermostable mutant. Virology, 575, 74-82. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2022.08.015

Warring, S. L., Malone, L. M., Jayaraman, J., Easingwood, R. A., Rigano, L. A., Frampton, R. A., … Kleffmann, T., … Bostina, M., & Fineran, P. C. (2022). A lipopolysaccharide-dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance. Environmental Microbiology, 24(10), 4834-4852. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.16106

Harfoot, R., Lawley, B., Hernández, L. C., Kuang, J., Grant, J., Treece, J. M., LeQueux, S., Day, R., Jack, S., Stanton, J.-A. L., Bostina, M., Ussher, J. E., & Quiñones‑Mateu, M. E. (2022). Characterization of the first SARS-CoV-2 isolates from Aotearoa New Zealand as part of a rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Viruses, 14, 366. doi: 10.3390/v14020366

Wang, I., Gupta, S. K., Ems, G., Jayawardena, N., Strauss, M., & Bostina, M. (2022). Cryo-EM structure of a possum enterovirus. Viruses, 14, 318. doi: 10.3390/v14020318

Journal - Research Other

Velamoor, S., Mitchell, A., Bostina, M., & Harland, D. (2022). Processing hair follicles for transmission electron microscopy. Experimental Dermatology, 31, 110-121. doi: 10.1111/exd.14439

Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Hills, F. R., Burga, L., Watanabe, E., & Bostina, M. (2022, August). Comparison of the structural and phylogenetic evolution of the Coronaviridae spike protein. Poster session presented at the Advances in Microscopy Satellite Meeting: Queenstown Research Week, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Watanabe, E., Burga, L., Velamoor, S., Nimick, M., Easingwood, R., & Bostina, M. (2022, August). Effects of Seneca Valley virus with clinically available chemotherapeutic drugs on 3D tumour-like cell cultures of triple negative breast cancer cells. Poster session presented at the Advances in Microscopy Satellite Meeting: Queenstown Research Week, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Waqqar, S., Jayawardena, N. N., McCarthy, C., Lawley, B., Wang, I., Bilton, T., Burga, L. N., Quinones Mateu, M., … Bostina, M. (2022, August). Obtaining Seneca valley virus variants with increased capsid stability under evolutionary pressure. Poster session presented at the Advances in Microscopy Satellite Meeting: Queenstown Research Week, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Burga, L. N., Pham, A., Nimick, M., Turner, P., Watanabe, E., & Bostina, M. (2022, August). Developing oncolytic Seneca Valley Virus for cancer treatment. Verbal presentation at the Cancer Satellite Meeting: Queenstown Research Week, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Velamoor, S., Mitchell, A., Humbel, B., & Bostina, M. (2022, August). Visualizing viral replication and assembly using volume electron microscopy. Verbal presentation at the Advances in Microscopy Satellite Meeting: Queenstown Research Week, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Eruera, A., Campbell, A., Opel-Reading, H., Bostina, M., Krause, K., & Ward, V. (2022, August). Cryo-EM structural investigation of human norovirus protease-polymerase precursor. Verbal presentation at the Advances in Microscopy Satellite Meeting: Queenstown Research Week, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Hodgkinson-Bean, J., Jayawardena, N., Fineran, P., Wolf, M., & Bostina, M. (2022, August). Cryo-EM structure of the oversized bacteriophage ΦTE capsid. Verbal presentation at the Advances in Microscopy Satellite Meeting: Queenstown Research Week, Queenstown, New Zealand.

2021

Chapter in Book - Research

Burga, L., & Bostina, M. (2021). Oncolytic Viruses. In D. H. Bamford & M. Zuckerman (Eds.), Encyclopedia of virology (Vol.1). (4th ed.) (pp. 658-661). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-814515-9.00064-3

Journal - Research Article

Jayawardena, N., Miles, L. A., Burga, L. N., Rudin, C., Wolf, M., Poirier, J. T., & Bostina, M. (2021). N-linked glycosylation on anthrax toxin receptor 1 is essential for Seneca Valley virus infection. Viruses, 13(5), 769. doi: 10.3390/v13050769

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Humbel, B. M., Velamoor, S., Mitchell, A., & Bostina, M. (2021). Volume microscopy of nudivirus infected cells. In P. Ghosal, C. B. Carter, K. R. Vinothkumar & R. Sarkar (Eds.), Applications of Microscopy in Materials and Life Sciences: Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Microscopy Conference. (pp. 251-260). Singapore: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-2982-2_25

Velamoor, S., Lequeux, S., Easingwood, R., Mitchell, A., Plowman, J., Bostina, M., & Harland, D. (2021). A correlative fluorescent and electron microscopic technique for ultralocalization of trichocyte keratins. In P. Ghosal, C. B. Carter, K. R. Vinothkumar & R. Sarkar (Eds.), Applications of Microscopy in Materials and Life Sciences: Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Microscopy Conference. (pp. 243-250). Singapore: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-2982-2_24

2020

Journal - Research Article

Velamoor, S., Mitchell, A., Humbel, B. M., Kim, W., Pushparajan, C., Visnovsky, G., Burga, L. N., & Bostina, M. (2020). Visualizing nudivirus assembly and egress. mBio, 11(4), e01333-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01333-20

Velamoor, S., Richena, M., Mitchell, A., Lequeux, S., Bostina, M., & Harland, D. (2020). High-pressure freezing followed by freeze substitution of a complex and variable density miniorgan: The wool follicle. Journal of Microscopy, 278(1), 18-28. doi: 10.1111/jmi.12875

Journal - Research Other

Jayawardena, N., Poirier, J. T., Burga, L. N., & Bostina, M. (2020). Virus-receptor interactions and virus neutralization: Insights for oncolytic virus development. Oncolytic Virotherapy, 9, 1-15. doi: 10.2147/ov.S186337

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Harfoot, R., Grant, J., Lawley, B., Hernandez, L., Hills, F., Kang, J., Saunders, M., Mitchell, A., Bostina, M., Ussher, J., & Quiñones‑Mateu, M. E. (2020, December). Characterization of the first SARS-CoV-2 isolates from New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the 6th One Health Aotearoa (OHA) Symposium, [Online].

2019

Journal - Research Article

Kim, S. H., Mercer, A., Mitchell, A., de Miranda, J. R., Ward, V., Mondet, F., & Bostina, M. (2019). Viral infections alter antennal epithelium ultrastructure in honey bees. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 168, 107252. doi: 10.1016/j.jip.2019.107252

Harland, D. P., Novotná, V., Richena, M., Bostina, M., Velamoor, S., & McKinnon, A. J. (2019). Hair-structure mystery solved by datamining two decades of electron tomograms. Microscopy & Microanalysis, 25(Suppl. 2), 1348-1349. doi: 10.1017/S1431927619007475

McCarthy, C., Jayawardena, N., Burga, L. N., & Bostina, M. (2019). Developing picornaviruses for cancer therapy. Cancers, 11(5), 685. doi: 10.3390/cancers11050685

Harland, D. P., Novotna, V., Richena, M., Velamoor, S., Bostina, M., & McKinnon, A. J. (2019). Helical twist direction in the macrofibrils of keratin fibres is left handed. Journal of Structural Biology, 206, 345-348. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2019.04.007

Watson, B. N. J., Easingwood, R. A., Tong, B., Wolf, M., Salmond, G. P. C., Staals, R. H. J., Bostina, M., & Fineran, P. C. (2019). Different genetic and morphological outcomes for phages targeted by single or multiple CRISPR-Cas spacers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1772), 20180090. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0090

Journal - Research Other

Jayawardena, N., Burga, L. N., Poirier, J. T., & Bostina, M. (2019). Virus-receptor interactions: Structural insights for oncolytic virus development. Oncolytic Virotherapy, 8, 39-56. doi: 10.2147/ov.S218494

Bostina, M. (2019). Monoclonal antibodies point to Achilles' heel in picornavirus capsid. PLoS Biology, 17(4), e3000232. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000232

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Madani, G., Lamping, E., Bostina, M., Raunser, S., Hall, N., Mitra, A., & Cannon, R. D. (2019, September). Expression, purification, and negative staining of Candida albicans plasma membrane protein Cdr1. Verbal presentation at the Sir John Walsh Research Institute Research Day, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Velamoor, S., Lequeux, S., Mitchell, A., Bostina, M., & Harland, D. (2019, August-September). Investigating the structural assembly of keratins in biological materials using electron microscopy. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Bostina, M. (2019, August-September). Using Cryo-EM to understand Seneca Valley Virus specific tropism for cancer cells. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings, Queenstown, New Zealand.

2018

Journal - Research Article

Jayawardena, N., Burga, L. N., Easingwood, R. A., Takizawa, K., Wolf, M., & Bostina, M. (2018). Structural basis for anthrax toxin receptor 1 recognition by Seneca Valley Virus. PNAS, 115(46), E10934-E10940. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1810664115

Strauss, M., Jayawardena, N., Sun, E., Easingwood, R. A., Burga, L. N., & Bostina, M. (2018). Cryo-electron microscopy structure of Seneca Valley Virus procapsid. Journal of Virology, 92(6), e01927-17. doi: 10.1128/jvi.01927-17

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Velamoor, S., Lequeux, S., Harland, D., & Bostina, M. (2018). Electron tomography to determine keratin intermediate filament formation in wool follicles. Proceedings of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) Joint Annual Conference: Microbes & Molecules. (pp. 100). Retrieved from https://www.nzmsconference.org.nz

McCarthy, C., Burga, L., & Bostina, M. (2018). Thermal selection of Seneca Valley Virus to reveal residues important for capsid stability. Proceedings of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) Joint Annual Conference: Microbes & Molecules. (pp. 93-94). Retrieved from https://www.nzmsconference.org.nz

Watson, B. N. J., Easingwood, R. A., Tong, B., Wolf, M., Salmond, G. P. C., Staals, R. H. J., Bostina, M., & Fineran, P. C. (2018). Different genetic and morphological outcomes for phages targeted by single or multiple CRISPR-Cas spacers. Proceedings of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) Joint Annual Conference: Microbes & Molecules. (pp. 73). Retrieved from https://www.nzmsconference.org.nz

Strauss, M., Jayawardena, N., Sun, E., Easingwood, R. A., Burga, L. N., & Bostina, M. (2018). Cryo-electron microscopy structure of Seneca Valley Virus procapsid. Proceedings of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) Joint Annual Conference: Microbes & Molecules. (pp. 72). Retrieved from https://www.nzmsconference.org.nz

Watson, B. N. J., Easingwood, R. A., Tong, B., Wolf, M., Salmond, G. P. C., Staals, R. H. J., Bostina, M., & Fineran, P. C. (2018). Different genetic and morphological outcomes for phages targeted by single or multiple CRISPR-Cas spaces. Proceedings of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) Joint Annual Conference: Microbes & Molecules. (pp. 40). Retrieved from https://www.nzmsconference.org.nz

2017

Journal - Research Article

Miles, L. A., Burga, L. N., Gardner, E. E., Bostina, M., Poirier, J. T., & Rudin, C. M. (2017). Anthrax toxin receptor 1 is the cellular receptor for Seneca Valley virus. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 127(8), 2957-2967. doi: 10.1172/jci93472

Basu, K., Lajoie, D., Aumentado-Armstrong, T., Chen, J., Koning, R. I., Bossy, B., Bostina, M., … Rouiller, I. (2017). Molecular mechanism of DRP1 assembly studied in vitro by cryo-electron microscopy. PLoS ONE, 12(6), e0179397. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179397

Fagerlund, R. D., Wilkinson, M. E., Klykov, O., Barendregt, A., Pearce, F. G., Kieper, S. N., Maxwell, H. W. R., … Krause, K. L., Bostina, M., … Staals, R. H. J., & Fineran, P. C. (2017). Spacer capture and integration by a type I-F Cas1–Cas2-3 CRISPR adaptation complex. PNAS, 114(26), E5122-E5128. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1618421114

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Jayawardena, N., Burga, L., Easingwood, R., & Bostina, M. (2017). Cryo-electron microscopy investigation of a novel oncolytic virus-receptor complex. Proceedings of the University of Otago Student Research Symposium: Te Wānaka Rakahau: Ākoka. (pp. 37-38). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/graduate-research/scholarships/otago643219.html

Burga, L., McCarthy, C., Rosengren, R., & Bostina, M. (2017). Targeting triple negative breast cancer with the oncolytic Seneca Valley Virus. Proceedings of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) Annual Conference. 193. Retrieved from http://www.nzmsconference.org.nz/

Bostina, M. (2017). Geometrical principles for understanding the architecture of iridoviruses. Proceedings of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) Annual Conference. 158. Retrieved from http://www.nzmsconference.org.nz/

Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Jayawardena, N., Burga, L., Easingwood, R., & Bostina, M. (2017, September). Cryo-electron microscopy investigation of a novel oncolytic picornavirus-receptor complex. Poster session presented at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Fagerlund, R. D., Wilkinson, M. E., Klykov, O., Barendregt, A., Pearce, F. G., Maxwell, H. W. R., … Krause, K. L., Bostina, M., … Staals, R. H. J., & Fineran, P. C. (2017, September). DNA capture and integration by the type I-F CRISPR-Cas adaptation complex from Pectobacterium atrosepticum. Poster session presented at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Reader, K., Lequeux, S., & Bostina, M. (2017, January-February). Electron tomography of oocyte mitochondria. Verbal presentation at the 28th New Zealand Conference on Microscopy, Auckland, New Zealand.

Bostina, M., Young, V., Easingwood, R., Ward, V. K., & Wolf, M. (2017, September). Architecture of a large DNA virus as revealed by cryo-electron microscopy. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings, Queenstown, New Zealand.

2016

Journal - Research Article

Hampton, H. G., McNeil, M. B., Paterson, T. J., Ney, B., Williamson, N. R., Easingwood, R. A., Bostina, M., … Fineran, P. C. (2016). CRISPR-Cas gene-editing reveals RsmA and RsmC act through FlhDC to repress the SdhE flavinylation factor and control motility and prodigiosin production in Serratia. Microbiology, 162(6), 1047-1058. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000283

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Malone, L. M., Easingwood, R. A., Bostina, M., & Fineran, P. C. (2016, November). Isolation and characterization of novel Serratia phages. Verbal presentation at the Joint Meeting of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) and the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB), Christchurch, New Zealand.

Tong, B., Watson, B. N. J., Frampton, R. A., Young, V. L., Taylor, C., Easingwood, R. A., Pitman, A. R., Kleffmann, T., … Fineran, P. C., & Bostina, M. (2016, November). Cryo-electron microscopy structure and proteome of phages infecting plant pathogenic bacteria. Verbal presentation at the Joint Meeting of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) and the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB), Christchurch, New Zealand.

Bostina, M., Strauss, M., & Burga, L. (2016, November). Genome-capsid interaction in Seneca Valley virus. Verbal presentation at the Joint Meeting of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) and the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB), Christchurch, New Zealand.

2015

Journal - Research Article

Frampton, R. A., Lopez Acedo, E., Young, V. L., Chen, D., Tong, B., Taylor, C., Easingwood, R. A., … Kleffmann, T., Bostina, M., & Fineran, P. C. (2015). Genome, proteome and structure of a T7-like bacteriophage of the kiwifruit canker phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae. Viruses, 7(7), 3361-3379. doi: 10.3390/v7072776

Schoderboeck, L., Riad, S., Bokor, A. M., Wicky, H. E., Strauss, M., Bostina, M., Oswald, M. J., Empson, R. M., & Hughes, S. M. (2015). Chimeric rabies SADB19-VSVg-pseudotyped lentiviral vectors mediate long-range retrograde transduction from the mouse spinal cord. Gene Therapy, 22, 357-364. doi: 10.1038/gt.2015.3

Kalynych, S., Cherney, M., Bostina, M., Rouiller, I., & Cygler, M. (2015). Quaternary structure of WzzB and WzzE polysaccharide co-polymerases. Protein Science, 24(1), 58-69. doi: 10.1002/pro.2586

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Bostina, M. (2015). A clear view into bacterial ultrastructure: Cryofixation methods for electron tomography. Proceedings of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) 60th Conference. (pp. 26). Retrieved from http://www.nzmsconference.org.nz/

Lin, S., Bostina, M., Leunissen, J., & Harris, C. (2015). An electron tomography database of bacterial morphology. Proceedings of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (NZMS) 60th Conference. (pp. 26). Retrieved from http://www.nzmsconference.org.nz/

Yevstigneyeva, M., & Bostina, M. (2015). Electron microscopic analysis of orf virus multiprotein entry-fusion complex (EFC). Proceedings of the 27th National Conference on Microscopy. Retrieved from http://microscopy2015.otago.ac.nz/index.html

Chen, D., Bostina, M., & Fineran, P. (2015). Structural characterisation of the novel bateriophage Φ-Psa17 for the biocontrol of the kiwifruit canker phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actinidiae. Proceedings of the 27th National Conference on Microscopy. Retrieved from http://microscopy2015.otago.ac.nz/index.html

Bostina, M. (2015). Cryo-electron microscopy of viruses. Proceedings of the 27th National Conference on Microscopy. Retrieved from http://microscopy2015.otago.ac.nz/index.html

2014

Journal - Research Article

Sverzhinsky, A., Fabre, L., Cottreau, A. L., Biot-Pelletier, D. M. P., Khalil, S., Bostina, M., … Coulton, J. W. (2014). Coordinated rearrangements between cytoplasmic and periplasmic domains of the membrane protein complex ExbB-ExbD of Escherichia coli. Structure, 22(5), 791-797. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2014.02.010

Schotte, L., Strauss, M., Thys, B., Halewyck, H., Filman, D. J., Bostina, M., … Rombaut, B. (2014). Mechanism of action and capsid-stabilizing properties of VHHs with an in vitro antipolioviral activity. Journal of Virology, 88(8), 4403-4413. doi: 10.1128/JVI.03402-13

2013

Journal - Research Article

Strauss, M., Levy, H. C., Bostina, M., Filman, D. J., & Hogle, J. M. (2013). RNA transfer from poliovirus 135S particles across membranes is mediated by long umbilical connectors. Journal of Virology, 87(7), 3903-3914. doi: 10.1128/jvi.03209-12

Grishin, A. M., Ajamian, E., Tao, L., Bostina, M., Zhang, L., Trempe, J.-F., … Cygler, M. (2013). Family of phenylacetyl-CoA monooxygenases differs in subunit organization from other monooxygenases. Journal of Structural Biology, 184(2), 147-154. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2013.09.012

Abedi, S., Karimi, B., Kazemi, F., Bostina, M., & Vali, H. (2013). Amorphous TiO₂ coated into periodic mesoporous organosilicate channels as a new binary photocatalyst for regeneration of carbonyl compounds from oximes under sunlight irradiation. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 11(3), 416-419. doi: 10.1039/c2ob26907d

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Bostina, M. (2013). Entry of picornaviruses into cells: A structural scenario. Proceedings of the Australasian Virology Society (AVS) Meeting. Retrieved from http://www.avs.org.au/scientific-program/

2012

Journal - Research Article

Kulczyk, A. W., Akabayov, B., Lee, S.-J., Bostina, M., Berkowitz, S. A., & Richardson, C. C. (2012). An interaction between DNA polymerase and helicase is essential for the high processivity of the bacteriophage T7 replisome. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287(46), 39050-39060. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.410647

Grishin, A. M., Ajamian, E., Zhang, L., Rouiller, I., Bostina, M., & Cygler, M. (2012). Protein-protein interactions in the β-oxidation part of the phenylacetate utilization pathway: Crystal structure of the PaaF-PaaG hydratase-isomerase complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287(45), 37986-37996. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.388231

Karimi, B., Behzadnia, H., Bostina, M., & Vali, H. (2012). A nano-fibrillated mesoporous carbon as an effective support for palladium nanoparticles in the aerobic oxidation of alcohols "on pure water". Chemistry: A European Journal, 18(28), 8634-8640. doi: 10.1002/chem.201200373

2011

Journal - Research Article

Gopalakrishnan, G., Yam, P. T., Madwar, C., Bostina, M., Rouiller, I., Colman, D. R., & Lennox, R. B. (2011). Label-free visualization of ultrastructural features of artificial synapses via cryo-EM. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2(12), 700-704. doi: 10.1021/cn200094j

Bostina, M., Levy, H., Filman, D. J., & Hogle, J. M. (2011). Poliovirus RNA is released from the capsid near a twofold symmetry axis. Journal of Virology, 85(2), 776-783. doi: 10.1128/jvi.00531-10

2010

Chapter in Book - Research

Levy, H., Bostina, M., Filman, D. J., & Hogle, J. M. (2010). Cell entry: A biochemical and structural perspective. In E. Ehrenfeld, E. Domingo & R. P. Roos (Eds.), The Picornaviruses. (pp. 87-104). Washington, DC: ASM Press.

Journal - Research Article

Levy, H. C., Bostina, M., Filman, D. J., & Hogle, J. M. (2010). Catching a virus in the act of RNA release: A novel poliovirus uncoating intermediate characterized by cryo-electron microscopy. Journal of Virology, 84(9), 4426-4441. doi: 10.1128/jvi.02393-09

2009

Journal - Research Article

Burga, L. N., Tung, N. M., Troyan, S. L., Bostina, M., Konstantinopoulos, P. A., Fountzilas, H., … Wulf, G. M. (2009). Altered proliferation and differentiation properties of primary mammary epithelial cells from BRCA1 mutation carriers. Cancer Research, 69(4), 1273-1278. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-2954

2007

Journal - Research Article

Bostina, M., Bubeck, D., Schwartz, C., Nicastro, D., Filman, D. J., & Hogle, J. M. (2007). Single particle cryoelectron tomography characterization of the structure and structural variability of poliovirus-receptor-membrane complex at 30 Å resolution. Journal of Structural Biology, 160(2), 200-210. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2007.08.009

2006

Journal - Research Article

Peng, G., Bostina, M., Radermacher, M., Rais, I., Karas, M., & Michel, H. (2006). Biochemical and electron microscopic characterization of the F₁F₀ ATP synthase from the hyperthermophilic eubacterium Aquifex aeolicus. FEBS Letters, 580(25), 5934-5940. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.09.062

2005

Journal - Research Article

Raunser, S., Hasse, W., Bostina, M., Parcej, D. N., & Kühlbrandt, W. (2005). High-yield expression, reconstitution and structure of the recombinant, fully functional glutamate transporter GLT-1 from Rattus norvegicus. Journal of Molecular Biology, 351(3), 598-613. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.06.036

Bostina, M., Mohsin, B., Kühlbrandt, W., & Collinson, I. (2005). Atomic model of the E. coli membrane-bound protein translocation complex SecYEG. Journal of Molecular Biology, 352(5), 1035-1043. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.08.005

2004

Journal - Research Article

Abdrakhmanova, A., Zickermann, V., Bostina, M., Radermacher, M., Schägger, H., Kerscher, S., & Brandt, U. (2004). Subunit composition of mitochondrial complex I from the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, 1658(1-2), 148-156. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2004.04.019

2003

Journal - Research Article

Zickermann, V., Bostina, M., Hunte, C., Ruiz, T., Radermacher, M., & Brandt, U. (2003). Functional implications from an unexpected position of the 49-kDa subunit of NADH:Ubiquinone oxidoreductase. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278(31), 29072-29078. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M302713200

Peng, G., Fritzsch, G., Zickermann, V., Schägger, H., Mentele, R., Lottspeich, F., Bostina, M., … Michel, H. (2003). Isolation, characterization and electron microscopic single particle analysis of the NADH:Ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) from the hyperthermophilic eubacterium Aquifex aeolicus. Biochemistry, 42(10), 3032-3039. doi: 10.1021/bi026876v