B. S. in Marine Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, B.C.S. México
M. S. in Coastal Ocenography, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, B.C. México
Ph. D. in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1) Garza-Sánchez, F., Janssen, B. D., and C. S. Hayes (2006) Prolyl-tRNAPro in the A-site of SecM-arrested ribosomes inhibits the recruitment of transfer-messenger RNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281:34258-34268
2) Garza-Sánchez, F., Gin, J. G., and C. S. Hayes (2008) Amino acid starvation and colicin D treatment induce A-site mRNA cleavage in Escherichia coli. Journal of Molecular Biology 378:505-519
3) Garza-Sánchez, F., Shoji, S., Fredrick, K., and C. S. Hayes (2009) RNase II is important for A-site mRNA cleavage during ribosome pausing. Molecular Microbiology 73:882-897
4) Garza-Sánchez, F., Schaub, R. E., Janssen, B. D., and C. S. Hayes (2011) tmRNA regulates synthesis of the ArfA ribosome rescue factor. Molecular Microbiology 80:1204-1219
5) Diner, E. J., Garza-Sánchez, F., and C. S. Hayes (2011) Genome engineering using targeted oligonucleotide libraries and functional selection. Methods in Molecular Biology 765:71-82
6) Holberger, L. E., Garza-Sánchez, F., Lamoureux, J., Low, D. A., and C. S. Hayes (2012) A novel family of toxin/antitoxin proteins in Bacillus species. FEBS Letters 586:132-136
7) Schaub, R. E., Poole, S. J., Garza-Sánchez, F., Benbow, S. and C. S. Hayes (2012) Proteobacterial ArfA peptides are synthesized from non-stop messenger RNAs. Journal of Biological Chemistry 287:29765-29775
8) Janssen, B. D., Garza-Sánchez, F. and C. S. Hayes (2013) A-site mRNA cleavage is not required for tmRNA-mediated ssrA-peptide tagging. PLoS ONE 8:e81319
9) Koskiniemi, S., Garza-Sánchez, F., Sandegren, L., Webb, J. S., Braaten, B., Poole, S. J., Andersson, D. I., Hayes, C. S. and D. A. Low (2014) Selection of orphan Rhs toxin expression in evolved Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. PLoS Genetics 10:e1004255
10) Koskiniemi, S., Garza-Sánchez, F., Edman, N., Chaudhuri, S., Poole, S. J., Manoil, C., Hayes, C. S. and D. A. Low (2015) Genetic analysis of the CDI pathway from Burkholderia pseudomallei 1026b. PLoS ONE 10:e0120265
11) Janssen, B. D., Garza-Sánchez, F. and C. S. Hayes (2015) YoeB toxin is activated during thermal stress. MicrobiologyOpen 4:682-689
12) Johnson, P. M., Beck, C. M., Morse, R. P., Garza-Sánchez, F., Low, D. A., Hayes, C. S. and C. W. Goulding (2016) Unraveling the essential role of CysK in CDI toxin activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 113:9792-9797
13) Johnson, P. M., Gucinski, G. C., Garza-Sánchez, F., Wong, T., Hung, L.-W., Hayes, C. S. and C. W. Goulding (2016) Functional diversity of cytotoxic tRNase/immunity protein complexes from Burkholderia pseudomallei. Journal of Biological Chemistry 291:19387-19400
14) Jones, A. M., Garza-Sánchez, F., So, J., Hayes, C. S. and D. A. Low (2017) Activation of contact-
dependent antibacterial tRNase toxins by translation elongation factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 114:E1951-E1957
15) Benoni, R., Beck, C. M., Garza-Sánchez, F., Betatti, S., Mozzarelli, A., Hayes C. S., and B. Campanini (2017) Activation of an anti-bacterial toxin by the biosynthetic enzyme CysK: mechanism of binding, interaction specificity and competition with cysteine synthase. Scientific Reports 7:8817
16) Michalska, K., Gucinski, G. C., Garza-Sánchez, F., Johnson, P. M., Stols, L., Eschenfeldt, W. H., Babnigg, G., Low, D. A., Goulding, C. W., Joachimiak, A., and C. S. Hayes (2017) Structure of a novel antibacterial toxin that exploits elongation factor Tu to cleave specific tRNAs. Nucleic Acids Research 45:10306-10320
17) Gucinski, G. C, Michalska, K., Garza-Sánchez, F., Eschenfeldt, W. H., Stols, L., Nguyen, J. Y., Goulding, C. W., Joachimiak, A. and C. S. Hayes (2019) Convergent evolution of the barnase/EndoU/colicin/RelE (BECR) fold in antibacterial tRNase toxins. Structure 27:1660-1674
18) Donato, S. L., Beck, C. M., Garza-Sánchez, F., Jensen, S. J., Ruhe, Z. C., Cunningham, D. A., Singleton, I., Low, D. A. and C. S. Hayes (2020) The β-encapsulation cage of rearrangement hotspot (Rhs) effectors is required for type VI secretion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U. S. A. 117:33540-33548
19) Halvorsen, T. M, Garza-Sánchez, F., Ruhe, Z. C., Bartelli, N. L., Chan, N. A., Nguyen, J. Y., Low, D. A. and C. S. Hayes (2021) Lipidation of class IV CdiA effector proteins promotes target-cell recognition during contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI). mBio 12:e0253021
20) Jensen, S. J., Cuthbert, B. J., Garza-Sánchez, F., Helou, C. C., de Miranda, R., Goulding, C. W. and C. S. Hayes (2024) Advanced glycation end-product crosslinking activates a type VI secretion system phospholipase effector protein. Nature Communications 15:8804
