Dr Rochelle Da Costa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Publications
Journal Articles
Yang, Zihao, Goodall, Emily C. A., Zhang, Bing, Torres, Von V. L., Rooke, Jessica L., Pullela, Karthik, Da Costa, Rochelle M., Icke, Christopher, Blaskovich, Mark A.T., Legood, Simon, Cunningham, Adam F., Vollmer, Waldemar, Bryant, Jack A. and Henderson, Ian R. (2025). Loss of cardiolipin and porins bypasses the essentiality of the sigma E cell envelope stress response in Escherichia coli. mBio, 16 (9) e01613-25, e0161325. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01613-25
Rooke, Jessica L., Goodall, Emily C. A., Pullela, Karthik, Da Costa, Rochelle, Martinelli, Nicole, Smith, Chelsie, Mora, Maria, Cunningham, Adam F. and Henderson, Ian R. (2024). Genome-wide fitness analysis of Salmonella enterica reveals aroA mutants are attenuated due to iron restriction in vitro. mBio, 15 (10), 1-17. doi: 10.1128/mbio.03319-23
Da Costa, Rochelle M., Rooke, Jessica L., Wells, Timothy J., Cunningham, Adam F. and Henderson, Ian R. (2024). Type 5 secretion system antigens as vaccines against Gram-negative bacterial infections. npj Vaccines, 9 (1) 159, 159. doi: 10.1038/s41541-024-00953-6
Goodall, Emily C. A., Isom, Georgia L., Rooke, Jessica L., Pullela, Karthik, Icke, Christopher, Yang, Zihao, Boelter, Gabriela, Jones, Alun, Warner, Isabel, Da Costa, Rochelle, Zhang, Bing, Rae, James, Tan, Wee Boon, Winkle, Matthias, Delhaye, Antoine, Heinz, Eva, Collet, Jean-Francois, Cunningham, Adam F., Blaskovich, Mark A., Parton, Robert G., Cole, Jeff A., Banzhaf, Manuel, Chng, Shu-Sin, Vollmer, Waldemar, Bryant, Jack A. and Henderson, Ian R. (2021). Loss of YhcB results in dysregulation of coordinated peptidoglycan, LPS and phospholipid synthesis during Escherichia coli cell growth. PLoS Genetics, 17 (12) e1009586, 1-40. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009586
Ray, Semanti, Da Costa, Rochelle, Thakur, Samriddhi and Nandi, Dipankar (2020). Salmonella Typhimurium encoded cold shock protein E is essential for motility and biofilm formation. Microbiology, 166 (5), 460-473. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000900
Ray, Semanti, Da Costa, Rochelle, Das, Mrinmoy and Nandi, Dipankar (2019). Interplay of cold shock protein E with an uncharacterized protein, YciF, lowers porin expression and enhances bile resistance in Salmonella Typhimurium. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 294 (23), 9084-9099. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.008209