Plasmid-Encoded ComI Inhibits Competence in the Ancestral 3610 Strain of Bacillus subtilis

A Plasmid-Encoded Phosphatase Regulates Bacillus subtilis Biofilm Architecture, Sporulation, and Genetic Competence

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Inhibition ofBacillus subtilisnatural competence by a native, conjugative plasmid-encodedcomKrepressor protein

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The Cryptic Competence Pathway in Streptococcus pyogenes Is Controlled by a Peptide Pheromone

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Expression of a Cryptic Secondary Sigma Factor Gene Unveils Natural Competence for DNA Transformation in Staphylococcus aureus

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Tracing the Domestication of a Biofilm-Forming Bacterium

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The Three-Layered DNA Uptake Machinery at the Cell Pole in Competent Bacillus subtilis Cells Is a Stable Complex

(2011) M. Kaufenstein et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The secretion ATPase ComGA is required for the binding and transport of transforming DNA

(2011) Kenneth Briley Jr et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Second Messenger-Mediated Adjustment of Bacterial Swimming Velocity

(2010) Alex Boehm et al.   CELL

The c-di-GMP Binding Protein YcgR Controls Flagellar Motor Direction and Speed to Affect Chemotaxis by a “Backstop Brake” Mechanism

(2010) Koushik Paul et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Gene position in a long operon governs motility development inBacillus subtilis

(2010) Loralyn M. Cozy et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A post-translational, c-di-GMP-dependent mechanism regulating flagellar motility

(2010) Xin Fang et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Transformation of Environmental Bacillus subtilis Isolates by Transiently Inducing Genetic Competence

(2010) Reindert Nijland et al.   PLoS One

Functional Analysis of the Stability Determinant AlfB of pBET131, a Miniplasmid Derivative of Bacillus subtilis (natto) Plasmid pLS32

(2009) T. Tanaka   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases

(2009) Daniel G Gibson et al.   NATURE METHODS

A molecular brake, not a clutch, stops theRhodobacter sphaeroidesflagellar motor

(2009) Teuta Pilizota et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Origins of 168, W23, and Other Bacillus subtilis Legacy Strains

(2008) D. R. Zeigler et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

MinJ (YvjD) is a topological determinant of cell division inBacillus subtilis

(2008) Joyce E. Patrick et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A Molecular Clutch Disables Flagella in the Bacillus subtilis Biofilm

(2008) K. M. Blair et al.   SCIENCE

High-Precision, Whole-Genome Sequencing of Laboratory Strains Facilitates Genetic Studies

(2008) Anjana Srivatsan et al.   PLoS Genetics

Large scale variation in Enterococcus faecalis illustrated by the genome analysis of strain OG1RF

(2008) Agathe Bourgogne et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY