Casey Crooks, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Franz St. John, Casey Crooks, Michael Endres, Lily Pakdaman, Lisa Koch, Loreen Bynum, Nathaniel Kuch, Andrzej Joachimiak, Kemin Tan. 2026. Protein structure of a glycoside hydrolase family 30, subfamily 12 endo-1,4-β-xylanase
• Lisa Koch, Casey Crooks, Franz St. John. 2024. Development of a high-performance gel filtration chromatography polysaccharide sizing method to facilitate glycoside hydrolase functional analysis
• Heikko Kallakas, Nayomi Z. Plaza, Casey Crooks, Derek Turner, Mathew Gargulak, Matthew A. Arvanitis, Charles R. Frihart, Christopher G. Hunt. 2024. Effect of Protein Surface Hydrophobicity and Surface Amines on Soy Adhesive Strength
• Franz St. John, Loreen Bynum, Dante A. Tauscheck, Casey Crooks. 2024. Use of xylosidase 3C from Segatella baroniae to discriminate xylan non-reducing terminus substitution characteristics
• Franz St. John, Casey Crooks, Youngchang Kim, Kemin Tan, Andrzej Joachimiak. 2022. The first crystal structure of a xylobiose‐bound xylobiohydrolase with high functional specificity from the bacterial glycoside hydrolase family 30, subfamily 10
• Casey Crooks, Nathan J. Bechle, Franz St. John. 2021. A New Subfamily of Glycoside Hydrolase Family 30 with Strict Xylobiohydrolase Function
• Casey Crooks, Liangkun Long, Franz St. John. 2020. CaXyn30B from the solventogenic bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum is a glucuronic acid-dependent endoxylanase
• Franz St. John, Diane Dietrich, Casey Crooks, Peter Balogun, Vesna de Serrano, Edwin Pozharski, James Kennon Smith, Elizabeth Bales, Jason Hurlbert. 2018. A plasmid borne, functionally novel glycoside hydrolase family 30 subfamily 8 endoxylanase from solventogenic Clostridium
• Casey Crooks, Jonathan M. Palmer, Daniel Lindner. 2018. Draft genome sequence of Burkholderia cepacia ATCC 17759, a polyhydroxybutyrate-co-valerate copolymer-producing bacterium
• Franz St. John, Casey Crooks, Diane Dietrich, Jason Hurlbert. 2017. Xylanase 30 A from Clostridium thermocellum functions as a glucuronoxylan xylanohydrolase
• Neha Sawhney, Casey Crooks, Virginia Chow, James F. Preston, Franz St. John. 2016. Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of carbohydrate utilization by Paenibacillus sp. JDR-2: systems for bioprocessing plant polysaccharides
• Barbara L. Illman, Julia Sedlmair, Miriam Unger, Casey Crooks, Marli Oliveira, Carol Hirschmugl. 2015. Chemistry of wood in 3D: new infrared imaging
• Neha Sawhney, Casey Crooks, Franz St. John, James F. Preston, R. M. Kelly. 2014. Transcriptomic Analysis of Xylan Utilization Systems in Paenibacillus sp. strain JDR-2
• Franz St. John, Diane Dietrich, Casey Crooks, Edwin Pozharski, Javier M. González, Elizabeth Bales, Kennon Smith, Jason C. Hurlbert. 2014. A novel member of glycoside hydrolase family 30 subfamily 8 with altered substrate specificity
• Diane Dietrich, Barbara L. Illman, Casey Crooks. 2013. Differential sensitivity of polyhydroxyalkanoate producing bacteria to fermentation inhibitors and comparison of polyhydroxybutyrate production from Burkholderia cepacia and Pseudomonas pseudoflava
• Semarjit Shary, Carl J. Houtman, Ellen A. Panisko, Premsagar Korripally, Jae San Ryu, Franz St. John, Casey Crooks, Matti Siika-aho, Jon K. Magnuson, Kenneth E. Hammel. 2011. Proteomic and functional analysis of the cellulase system expressed by Postia placenta during brown rot of solid wood
• Jun Fan, Casey Crooks, Gary Creissen, Lionel Hill, Shirley Fairhurst, Peter Doerner, Chris Lamb. 2011. Pseudomonas sax genes overcome aliphatic isothiocyanate-mediated non-host resistance in Arabidopsis
• Jun Fan, Lionel Hill, Casey Crooks, Peter Doerner, Chris Lamb. 2009. Abscisic acid has a key role in modulating diverse plant-pathogen interactions
• Diane Dietrich, Casey Crooks. 2009. Gene cloning and heterologous expression of pyranose 2-oxidase from the brown-rot fungus, Gloeophyllum trabeum

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• St John FJ, Crooks MEC. 2023. Method for the Production of Xylobiose and Other Defined Xylooligosaccharides. US Patent No. US 11,618,914 April 4, 2023. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11618914B2/en
• St John FJ, Crooks MEC, Dietrich D.  2020. Glycosyl Hydrolase Xylanases, Compositions and Methods of Use for Efficient Hydrolysis and Processing of Xylan.  US Patent No. 10,793,926 Oct. 6, 2020. https://patents.google.com/patent/US10793926B2/en

• UCSF, PhD Microbiology, Immunology