Ruiz, Natividad, and Thomas Silhavy. (2022) 2022. “How Escherichia Coli Became the Flagship Bacterium of Molecular Biology”. J Bacteriol, e0023022. doi:10.1128/jb.00230-22.

Chng, Shu-Sin, Natividad Ruiz, Gitanjali Chimalakonda, Thomas Silhavy, and Daniel Kahne. (2010) 2010. “Characterization of the Two-Protein Complex in Escherichia Coli Responsible for Lipopolysaccharide Assembly at the Outer Membrane”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107 (12): 5363-8. doi:10.1073/pnas.0912872107.

Vertommen, Didier, Natividad Ruiz, Pauline Leverrier, Thomas Silhavy, and Jean-François Collet. (2009) 2009. “Characterization of the Role of the Escherichia Coli Periplasmic Chaperone SurA Using Differential Proteomics”. Proteomics 9 (9): 2432-43. doi:10.1002/pmic.200800794.

Ruiz, Natividad, Brian Falcone, Daniel Kahne, and Thomas Silhavy. (2005) 2005. “Chemical Conditionality: A Genetic Strategy to Probe Organelle Assembly”. Cell 121 (2): 307-17. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.02.014.

Wu, Tao, Juliana Malinverni, Natividad Ruiz, Seokhee Kim, Thomas Silhavy, and Daniel Kahne. (2005) 2005. “Identification of a Multicomponent Complex Required for Outer Membrane Biogenesis in Escherichia Coli”. Cell 121 (2): 235-45. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.02.015.

Ruiz, Natividad, and Thomas Silhavy. (2005) 2005. “Sensing External Stress: Watchdogs of the Escherichia Coli Cell Envelope”. Curr Opin Microbiol 8 (2): 122-6. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2005.02.013.

Peterson, Celeste, Natividad Ruiz, and Thomas Silhavy. (2004) 2004. “RpoS Proteolysis Is Regulated by a Mechanism That Does Not Require the SprE (RssB) Response Regulator Phosphorylation Site”. J Bacteriol 186 (21): 7403-10. doi:10.1128/JB.186.21.7403-7410.2004.

Ruiz, Natividad, and Thomas Silhavy. (2003) 2003. “Constitutive Activation of the Escherichia Coli Pho Regulon Upregulates RpoS Translation in an Hfq-Dependent Fashion”. J Bacteriol 185 (20): 5984-92. doi:10.1128/JB.185.20.5984-5992.2003.

Button, Julie, Thomas Silhavy, and Natividad Ruiz. (2007) 2007. “A Suppressor of Cell Death Caused by the Loss of SigmaE Downregulates Extracytoplasmic Stress Responses and Outer Membrane Vesicle Production in Escherichia Coli”. J Bacteriol 189 (5): 1523-30. doi:10.1128/JB.01534-06.

Ruiz, Natividad, Tao Wu, Daniel Kahne, and Thomas Silhavy. (2006) 2006. “Probing the Barrier Function of the Outer Membrane With Chemical Conditionality”. ACS Chem Biol 1 (6): 385-95. doi:10.1021/cb600128v.

Ruiz, Natividad, Daniel Kahne, and Thomas Silhavy. (2006) 2006. “Advances in Understanding Bacterial Outer-Membrane Biogenesis”. Nat Rev Microbiol 4 (1): 57-66. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1322.

Chimalakonda, Gitanjali, Natividad Ruiz, Shu-Sin Chng, Ronald Garner, Daniel Kahne, and Thomas Silhavy. (2011) 2011. “Lipoprotein LptE Is Required for the Assembly of LptD by the Beta-Barrel Assembly Machine in the Outer Membrane of Escherichia Coli”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108 (6): 2492-7. doi:10.1073/pnas.1019089108.

Ruiz, Natividad, Shu-Sin Chng, Annie Hiniker, Daniel Kahne, and Thomas Silhavy. (2010) 2010. “Nonconsecutive Disulfide Bond Formation in an Essential Integral Outer Membrane Protein”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107 (27): 12245-50. doi:10.1073/pnas.1007319107.

Ruiz, Natividad, Daniel Kahne, and Thomas Silhavy. (2009) 2009. “Transport of Lipopolysaccharide across the Cell Envelope: The Long Road of Discovery”. Nat Rev Microbiol 7 (9): 677-83. doi:10.1038/nrmicro2184.

Ruiz, Natividad, Luisa Gronenberg, Daniel Kahne, and Thomas Silhavy. (2008) 2008. “Identification of Two Inner-Membrane Proteins Required for the Transport of Lipopolysaccharide to the Outer Membrane of Escherichia Coli”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105 (14): 5537-42. doi:10.1073/pnas.0801196105.

Malojčić, Goran, Dorothee Andres, Marcin Grabowicz, Alexander George, Natividad Ruiz, Thomas Silhavy, and Daniel Kahne. (2014) 2014. “LptE Binds to and Alters the Physical State of LPS to Catalyze Its Assembly at the Cell Surface”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111 (26): 9467-72. doi:10.1073/pnas.1402746111.

Okuda, Suguru, David Sherman, Thomas Silhavy, Natividad Ruiz, and Daniel Kahne. (2016) 2016. “Lipopolysaccharide Transport and Assembly at the Outer Membrane: The PEZ Model”. Nat Rev Microbiol 14 (6): 337-45. doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.25.

Lee, James, Mingyu Xue, Joseph Wzorek, Tao Wu, Marcin Grabowicz, Luisa Gronenberg, Holly Sutterlin, et al. (2016) 2016. “Characterization of a Stalled Complex on the β-Barrel Assembly Machine”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113 (31): 8717-22. doi:10.1073/pnas.1604100113.