William M. Shafer

Also affiliated with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Atlanta VA Medical Center

Immunology and MicrobiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 1 indexed paper attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

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Papers

Driven by 28 papers. Top paper: “The serogroup B meningococcal outer membrane vesicle-based vaccine 4CMenB induces cross-species protection against Neisseria gonorrhoeae”.

The serogroup B meningococcal outer membrane vesicle-based vaccine 4CMenB induces cross-species protection against Neisseria gonorrhoeae

PLoS Pathogens(2020)10.1371/journal.ppat.1008602

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0.705DataRank · unranked

109 citations

Kristie L. Connolly, Afrin A. Begum, Knashka Underwood, Stephen C. Darnell, William M. Shafer +9 more

Hormonal steroids induce multidrug resistance and stress response genes in Neisseria gonorrhoeae by binding to MtrR

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-45195-1

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0.555DataRank · unranked

14 citations

Julio C. Ayala, Concerta L. Holley, Vijaya Dhulipala, Grace A. Beggs, John R. Perfect +4 more

Transcriptional responses of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to glucose and lactate: implications for resistance to oxidative damage and biofilm formation

mBio(2024)10.1128/mbio.01761-24

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0.375DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Jacqueline T. Balthazar, William M. Shafer, Julio C. Ayala

Taking the Gonococcus-Human Relationship to a Whole New Level: Implications for the Coevolution of Microbes and Humans

mBio(2011)10.1128/mbio.00067-11

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0.312DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Elizabeth A. Ohneck, William M. Shafer

Experimental genital tract infection demonstrates Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrCDE efflux pump is not required for in vivo human infection and identifies gonococcal colonization bottleneck

PLoS Pathogens(2024)10.1371/journal.ppat.1012578

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0.299DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Jacqueline T. Balthazar, Afrin A. Begum, Nancy Hua, Ann E. Jerse, William M. Shafer +3 more

Gentamicin induction of the gonococcal hicAB toxin-antitoxin-encoding system and impact on gene expression influencing biofilm formation and in vivo fitness in a strain-specific manner

mBio(2025)10.1128/mbio.01595-25

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0.110DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Vijaya Dhulipala, Adriana Le Van, Jacqueline T. Balthazar, Vincent J. Oliver, Ann E. Jerse +2 more

Control of gdhR Expression in Neisseria gonorrhoeae via Autoregulation and a Master Repressor (MtrR) of a Drug Efflux Pump Operon

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/xzxn-yp73

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William M. Shafer, Vijaya Dhulipala, Raúl G. Doyle, Afrin A. Begum, Ann E. Jerse +5 more

A community-driven resource for genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance prediction of Neisseria gonorrhoeae at Pathogenwatch

Genome Medicine(2021)10.1186/s13073-021-00858-2

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125 citations

Corin Yeats, BENJAMIN TAYLOR, Richard Goater, Anthony Underwood, Khalil Abudahab +15 more

Structures of Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrR-operator complexes reveal molecular mechanisms of DNA recognition and antibiotic resistance-conferring clinical mutations

Nucleic Acids Research(2021)10.1093/nar/gkab213

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20 citations

Julio C. Ayala, Logan G. Kavanaugh, Timothy D. Read, Grace M. Hooks, Maria A. Schumacher +3 more

A Single Amino Acid Substitution in Elongation Factor G Can Confer Low-Level Gentamicin Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy(2022)10.1128/aac.00251-22

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17 citations

Vijaya Dhulipala, Jacqueline T. Balthazar, Adriana Le Van, Afrin A. Begum, Shao-Chun Chen +8 more

Transcriptional regulation of the mtrCDE efflux pump operon: importance for Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial resistance

Microbiology(2022)10.1099/mic.0.001231

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12 citations

Jacqueline T. Balthazar, William M. Shafer, Julio C. Ayala

High-level in vitro resistance to gentamicin acquired in a stepwise manner in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy(2023)10.1093/jac/dkad168

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10 citations

Susanne Jacobsson, Concerta L. Holley, William M. Shafer, Magnus Unemo, Daniel Golparian

Transcriptional activation of ompA in Neisseria gonorrhoeae mediated by the XRE family member protein NceR

mBio(2023)10.1128/mbio.01244-23

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4 citations

Vijaya Dhulipala, Stavaros A. Maurakis, Ashley Nicole Greenawalt, Timothy D. Read, Cynthia Nau Cornelissen +2 more

Hormonal steroids bind the Neisseria gonorrhoeae multidrug resistance regulator, MtrR, to induce a multidrug binding efflux pump and stress-response sigma factor

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.06.13.544409

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1 citations

Julio C. Ayala, Grace A. Beggs, John R. Perfect, Maria A. Schumacher, William M. Shafer +2 more

Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrCDE Efflux Pump During In Vivo Experimental Genital Tract Infection in Men and Mice Reveals the Presence of Within-Host Colonization Bottleneck

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.06.23.23291824

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Jacqueline T. Balthazar, Afrin A. Begum, Nancy Hua, Ann E. Jerse, William M. Shafer +3 more

Structural and functional diversity of Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) efflux pump transporters with implications for antimicrobial resistance

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews(2024)10.1128/mmbr.00089-23

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30 citations

Debayan Dey, William M. Shafer, Graeme L. Conn, Logan G. Kavanaugh

Drug Targeting a Gonococcal Virulence Factor Exploits Host Antimicrobial Peptides in Clearance of Infection

The Journal of Infectious Diseases(2020)10.1093/infdis/jiaa439

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2 citations

William M. Shafer

Azithromycin susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the USA in 2017: a genomic analysis of surveillance data

The Lancet Microbe(2020)10.1016/s2666-5247(20)30059-8

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54 citations

Sandra Seby, Matthew Schmerer, Jesse C. Thomas, Cau D. Pham, Sancta St. Cyr +21 more

A laboratory-based predictive pathway for the development of Neisseria gonorrhoeae high-level resistance to corallopyronin A, an inhibitor of bacterial RNA polymerase

Microbiology Spectrum(2024)10.1128/spectrum.00560-24

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3 citations

Daniel Golparian, Magnus Unemo, Timothy D. Read, Miriam Große, Marc Stadler +7 more

Ensuring a sustained workforce to combat antibiotic resistance in the 21st century: the critical need for training the next-gen of scientists at the pre-doctoral level

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy(2024)10.1128/aac.00244-24

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0 citations

Graeme L. Conn, William M. Shafer

Murine modeling of menstruation identifies immune correlates of protection during Chlamydia muridarum challenge

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.05.21.595090

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Paola Vidal, Richa S. Varughese, Zheng-Rong Tiger Li, Thien Duy Chen, Steven C. Tuske +5 more

Experimental genital tract infection demonstrates Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrCDE efflux pump is not required for in vivo human infection and identifies gonococcal colonization bottleneck.

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/n3aq-y894

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0 citations

Joseph A. Duncan, William M. Shafer, Afrin A. Begum, Ann E. Jerse, Marcia M. Hobbs +3 more

Murine modeling of menstruation identifies immune correlates of protection during Chlamydia muridarum challenge

PLoS Pathogens(2025)10.1371/journal.ppat.1012276

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M Elliott Williams, Paola Vidal, Richa S. Varughese, Zheng-Rong Tiger Li, Thien Duy Chen +7 more

Gentamicin induction of the gonococcal hicAB toxin-antitoxin encoding system and impact on gene expression influencing biofilm formation and in vivo fitness in a strain-specific manner

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.06.11.659166

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0 citations

Vijaya Dhulipala, Adriana Le Van, Jacqueline T. Balthazar, Vincent J. Oliver, Ann E. Jerse +2 more

The impact of dynamic mucosal baseline immune states on C. muridarum and N. gonorrhoeae infection outcomes in a murine menstruation model 3775

The Journal of Immunology(2025)10.1093/jimmun/vkaf283.1539

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Richa S. Varunghese, Sofia Rose Cendoya, William M. Shafer, Alison Kohlmeier, Paola Vidal

Transcriptional control of the gonococcal ompA gene by the MisR/MisS two-component regulatory system

Scientific Reports(2020)10.1038/s41598-020-66382-2

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3 citations

Julio C. Ayala, William M. Shafer, Concerta L. Holley

Cryo-EM Structures of a Gonococcal Multidrug Efflux Pump Illuminate a Mechanism of Drug Recognition and Resistance

mBio(2020)10.1128/mbio.00996-20

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70 citations

Mitchell A. Moseng, Jennifer L. Reimche, Concerta L. Holley, Vijaya Dhulipala, Chih‐Chia Su +3 more

Experimental Gonococcal Infection in Male Volunteers: Cumulative Experience with Neisseria gonorrhoeae Strains FA1090 and MS11mkC

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/mc3m-n146

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William M. Shafer, P. Frederick Sparling, Ann E. Jerse, Carolyn Deal, Myron S. Cohen +1 more