July 2021
It seems that the Covid 19 pandemic has stimulated an unexpected interest in the work of writers who use medical science as the basis of their fiction. Although it is widely reported that Ken has a background in medical research, not much detail has been included in websites covering his work. It appears that readers have been doing their own research about this – searching online for his scientific publications – and coming up with a blank. There is a simple explanation for this. Ken McClure is a pen name used exclusively for his thrillers. His real name, Ken Begg, appears on academic publications. Accordingly, a list of these is now attached to end possible conspiracy theories. That’s his job.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS LIST
Geddes, A.M., J.F. Munro, K.J. Begg and B. Burns (1967) Four Years Experience with Lincomycin Hydrochloride. International Congress of Chemotherapy, Vienna, Austria. 1967.
Murdoch, J.M., A.M. Geddes, J.F. Munro, B.A. Burns and K.J. Begg. (1967). The Treatment of Bone and Joint Infections with Lincomycin Hydrochloride.
Medical Journal of Austria. 198: 398-401.
Begg, K.J. (1967). Addendum on Serum Levels. The Susceptibility of Mycobacteria to Rifamide and Rifampicin. Tubercle. (London) 48: 144-150.
Donachie, W.D. and K.J. Begg. (1970) Growth of the Bacterial Cell.
Nature (London). 227: 274-276.
Donachie, W.D. and K.J. Begg (1971) Independence of Cell Division and DNA Replication in Bacillus subtilis. Nature (New Biology). 231: 274-276.
Begg, K.J. and W.D. Donachie. (1973). Topography of Outer Membrane Growth in
Escherichia coli. Nature (New Biology). 245: 38-39.
Donachie, W.D., K.J. Begg and M. Vicente. (1976) Cell Length, Cell growth and Cell Division. Nature (London). 264: 328-333.
Begg, K.J. and W.D. Donachie. (1977). Growth of the Cell Surface of Escherichia coli.
J. Bacteriol. 129: 1524-1536.
Begg, K.J. (1978). Cell Surface Growth in Escherichia coli. Distribution of Matrix Protein.
J. Bacteriol. 135: 307-310.
Donachie, W.D. and K.J. Begg (1978) Changes in Cell Size and Shape in Thymine Requiring Escherichia coli associated with Growth in Low Concentrations of Thymine.
J. Bacteriol. 133: 452-458.
Begg, K.J., W.D. Donachie, G.P.C. Salmond, J.F. Lutkenhaus, N. Otsuji and M. Vicente. (1979) Amber Mutants of Escherichia coli. Aids in the Analysis of Cell Division. 190th. Genetical Society Meeting. Birmingham University. (England) July 1979.
Donachie, W.D., K.J. Begg, J.F. Lutkenhaus, G.P.C. Salmond and M. Vicente. (1979) A Search for Cell Cycle Control Proteins in Escherichia coli. Abstracts of the EMBO Workshop on Control of Replication and Partitioning of Bacterial Chromosomes and Plasmids. Leicester. (U.K.) September 1979.
Donachie, W.D., K.J. Begg, J.F. Lutkenhaus, G.P.C. Salmond, E. Martinez-Salas and M. Vicente. (1979). The Role of the ftsA Gene Product in the Control of Cell Division in Escherichia coli.
J. Bacteriol. 140: 388-394.
Begg, K.J., G.Hatfull and W.D. Donachie. (1980) Identification of New Genes in the Cell Envelope – Cell Division Cluster of Escherichia coli: The Cell Division Gene ftsQ.
J. Bacteriol. 144: 435-437.
Hatfull, G.F., K.J. Begg, N.F. Sullivan, V. Kagan-Zur, V. Derbyshire and W.D. Donachie. (1982) Genetic Organisation of the sep-envA Cluster in Escherichia coli. Heredity 48: 321-324.
Donachie, W.D., N.F. Sullivan, D.J. Keenan, V. Derbyshire, K.J. Begg and V.Kagan-Zur. (1983) Genes and Cell Division in Escherichia coli. Progress in Cell Cycle Controls. Eds. J. Chaloupka, A. Kotyk and E. Streiblova. 6th. European Cell Cycle Workshop. Prague. Czechoslovakia. 1983.
Begg, K.J. and W.D. Donachie. (1984) Concentration of a Major Outer Membrane Protein at the Cell Poles in Escherichia coli. J. Gen. Microbiol. 130: 2339-2346.
Donachie, W.D., K.J. Begg and N.F. Sullivan. (1984) Morphogenes of Escherichia coli. p 27-62 in ‘Microbial Development’ Eds. Richard Losick and Lucy Shapiro. Cold Spring Harbor Publications. New York.
Begg, K.J. and W.D. Donachie. (1985) Cell Shape and Division in Escherichia coli. Experiments with Shape Mutants. J. Bacteriol. 163: 615-622.
Begg, K.J., B.G. Spratt and W.D. Donachie. (1986) Interaction Between Membrane Protein PBP 3 and Rod A Is Required for Normal Cell Shape and Division in Escherichia coli.
J. Bacteriol. 167: 1004-1008.
Hussain, K., K.J. Begg, G.P.C. Salmond and W.D. Donachie. (1987) parD : A New Gene Coding for a Protein Required for Chromosome Partitioning and Septum Localisation in Escherichia coli. Molecular Microbiology. 1: 73-81.
Robinson, A.C., K.J. Begg and W.D. Donachie. (1988) Mapping and Characterization of the Escherichia coli Cell Division Gene, ftsA. Molecular Microbiology. 2(5). 581-588.
Masters, M., T. Paterson, A.G. Poppelwell, T. Owen-Hughes, J.H. Pringle and K.J. Begg. (1989) The Effect of Dna A Protein Levels and the rate of Initiation at ori C on Transcription Originating in the ftsQ and ftsA genes: in vitro Experiments.
Molec. Gen. Genet. 216: 475-483.
Donachie, W.D. and K.J. Begg. (1989) Cell Length, Nucleoid Separation and Cell Division of Rod-Shaped and Spherical Cells Of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 171: 4633-4639.
Donachie, W.D. and K.J. Begg (1989) Chromosome Partition in Escherichia coli Requires Post-replication Protein Synthesis. J. Bacteriol. 171: 5405-5409
Dewar, S.J., V. Kagan-Zur, K.J. Begg and W.D. Donachie. (1989) Transcriptional Regulation of Cell Division Genes in Escherichia coli. Molecular Microbiology 3(10): 1371-1377.
Donachie, W.D. and K. Begg (1990) Genes and the Replication Cycle of Escherichia coli. Research in Microbiology 141: 64-75.
Begg, K.J., A. Takasuga, D.H. Edwards, S.J. Dewar, B.G. Spratt, H. Adachi, T. Ohta, H. Matsuzawa and W.D. Donachie. (1990) The Balance between Different Peptidoglycan Precursors Determines Whether Escherichia coli Cells Will Elongate or Divide.
J. Bacteriol. 172: 6697-6703.
Ogura, T., T. Tomoyasu, T. Yuki, S. Morimura, K.J. Begg, W.D. Donachie, H. Mori, H. Niki and S. Hiraga. (1991) Structure and Function of the ftsH Gene in Escherichia coli.
Research in Microbiology 142: 279-282.
Begg, K.J. and W.D. Donachie (1991) Experiments on Chromosome Separation and Positioning in Escherichia coli. The New Biologist 3: 475-486.
Robinson, A. C., K.J. Begg and E. MacArthur (1991) Isolation and Characterization of Intragenic Suppressors of an Escherichia coli ftsA Mutation. Research in Microbiology 142: 623-631.
Begg, K.J. (1991) Ring of Bright Metal. Nature 354: 109-110.
Begg, K.J., T. Tomoyasu, W.D. Donachie, M. Khattar, H. Niki, K. Yamanaka, S. Hiraga and T. Ogura. (1992) Escherichia coli Mutant Y16 is a Double Mutant Carrying Thermosensitive ftsH and ftsI Mutations. J. Bacteriol. 174: 2416-2417.
Dewar, S.J., K.J. Begg and W.D. Donachie (1992) Inhibition of Cell Division Initiation by an Imbalance in the Ratio of FtsA to FtsZ. J. Bacteriol. 174: 6314-6316.
Addinall, S.G., K.J. Begg and W.D. Donachie (1993) Is Partitioning of Chromosomes in E. coli random (or worse)? J. Cell Biochem. 17E: 286
Norris, V., J.A. Ayala, K.J. Begg et al (1994) Cell Cycle Control: Prokaryotic Solutions to Eukaryotic Problems. J. Theor. Biology 168: 227-230.
Khattar, M.M., K.J. Begg and W.D. Donachie (1994) Identification of FtsW and Characterization of a New ftsW Division Mutant of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 176: p7140-47.
Donachie, W.D., S. Addinall and K. Begg (1995) Cell Shape and Chromosome Partition in Prokaryotes or why E. coli is Rod-shaped and Haploid. BioEssays 17: No.6: 569-576.
Begg, K.J., S.J. Dewar and W.D. Donachie (1995) A New Escherichia coli Cell Division Gene, ftsK. J. Bacteriol. 177: 6211-6222.
Donachie, W.D. and K.J. Begg. (1996) Division Potential in Escherichia coli J. Bacteriol. 178: 5971-5976.
Begg, K., Y. Nikolaichik, N. Crossland and W.D. Donachie. (1998) Roles of FtsA and FtsZ in Activation of Division Sites. J. Bacteriol. 180: 881-884.
Begg, K.J. and W.D. Donachie. (1998) Division Planes Alternate in Spherical Cells of Eschirichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 180: 2564-2567
Draper, G. Craig, N. McLennan, K. Begg, M. Masters and W. D. Donachie. (1998) Only the N-Terminal Domain of FtsK Functions in Cell Division. J. Bacteriol. 180: 4621-4627
Liu, G., K.J. Begg, A. Geddes and W.D. Donachie. (2002) Transcription of Essential Cell Division Genes is Linked to Chromosome Replication in Escherichia coli. Mol. Microbiol. 40: 1-9.