Natural Competence and the Evolution of DNA Uptake Specificity

The Evolution of Natural Competence: Disentangling Costs and Benefits of Sex in Bacteria

(2013) Danesh Moradigaravand et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Could DNA uptake be a side effect of bacterial adhesion and twitching motility?

(2013) M. Bakkali   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Homologous Recombination Drives Both Sequence Diversity and Gene Content Variation in Neisseria meningitidis

(2013) Ying Kong et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Significant variation in transformation frequency in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2013) Benjamin A Evans et al.   ISME Journal

Competence and natural transformation in vibrios

(2013) Yan Sun et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The availability of purine nucleotides regulates natural competence by controlling translation of the competence activator Sxy

(2013) Sunita Sinha et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Specific DNA recognition mediated by a type IV pilin

(2013) A. Cehovin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional Analysis of the Interdependence between DNA Uptake Sequence and Its Cognate ComP Receptor during Natural Transformation in Neisseria Species

(2013) Jamie-Lee Berry et al.   PLoS Genetics

Dialects of the DNA Uptake Sequence in Neisseriaceae

(2013) Stephan A. Frye et al.   PLoS Genetics

Conservative Sex and the Benefits of Transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2013) Daniel J. P. Engelmoer et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A Type IV Pilus Mediates DNA Binding during Natural Transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2013) Raphaël Laurenceau et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Natural Transformation of Gallibacterium anatis

(2012) Bodil M. Kristensen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prophage Excision Activates Listeria Competence Genes that Promote Phagosomal Escape and Virulence

(2012) Lev Rabinovich et al.   CELL

CRISPR Interference Can Prevent Natural Transformation and Virulence Acquisition during In Vivo Bacterial Infection

(2012) David Bikard et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Seventeen Sxy-Dependent Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein Site-Regulated Genes Are Needed for Natural Transformation in Haemophilus influenzae

(2012) S. Sinha et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Defining the DNA uptake specificity of naturally competent Haemophilus influenzae cells

(2012) Joshua Chang Mell et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Natural DNA Uptake by Escherichia coli

(2012) Sunita Sinha et al.   PLoS One

Natural Transformation of Campylobacter jejuni Occurs Beyond Limits of Growth

(2012) Christina S. Vegge et al.   PLoS One

Structure-function analysis of pneumococcal DprA protein reveals that dimerization is crucial for loading RecA recombinase onto DNA during transformation

(2012) S. Quevillon-Cheruel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Regulatory Network of Natural Competence and Transformation of Vibrio cholerae

(2012) Mirella Lo Scrudato et al.   PLoS Genetics

Identification of a Chitin-Induced Small RNA That Regulates Translation of the tfoX Gene, Encoding a Positive Regulator of Natural Competence in Vibrio cholerae

(2011) S. Yamamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Complete Genome Sequence of Gallibacterium anatis Strain UMN179, Isolated from a Laying Hen with Peritonitis

(2011) T. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Quorum Sensing Contributes to Natural Transformation of Vibrio cholerae in a Species-Specific Manner

(2011) G. Suckow et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Natural Transformation of Myxococcus xanthus

(2011) J. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Structure and Function of PilQ, a Secretin of the DNA Transporter from the Thermophilic BacteriumThermus thermophilusHB27

(2011) Janin Burkhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Two steps away from novelty - principles of bacterial DNA uptake

(2011) Nora-Johanna Krüger et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Variability and Diversity of Nasopharyngeal Microbiota in Children: A Metagenomic Analysis

(2011) Debby Bogaert et al.   PLoS One

Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

(2011) N. J. Croucher et al.   SCIENCE

Transformation of Natural Genetic Variation into Haemophilus Influenzae Genomes

(2011) Joshua Chang Mell et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Chitin disaccharide (GlcNAc)2 induces natural competence in Vibrio cholerae through transcriptional and translational activation of a positive regulatory gene tfoXVC

(2010) Shouji Yamamoto et al.   GENE

Bacterial DNA Uptake Sequences Can Accumulate by Molecular Drive Alone

(2010) H. Maughan et al.   GENETICS

Inference of Homologous Recombination in Bacteria Using Whole-Genome Sequences

(2010) X. Didelot et al.   GENETICS

Genome Sequencing Reveals Widespread Virulence Gene Exchange among Human Neisseria Species

(2010) Pradeep Reddy Marri et al.   PLoS One

Optimal Strategy for Competence Differentiation in Bacteria

(2010) C. Scott Wylie et al.   PLoS Genetics

EXTENSIVE VARIATION IN NATURAL COMPETENCE INHAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE

(2009) Heather Maughan et al.   EVOLUTION

Episodic Selection and the Maintenance of Competence and Natural Transformation in Bacillus subtilis

(2009) P. J. Johnsen et al.   GENETICS

Coevolution of DNA Uptake Sequences and Bacterial Proteomes

(2009) W. A. Findlay et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Basfia succiniciproducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Pasteurellaceae isolated from bovine rumen

(2009) P. Kuhnert et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Sxy Induces a CRP-S Regulon in Escherichia coli

(2009) S. Sinha et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

High-Force Generation Is a Conserved Property of Type IV Pilus Systems

(2009) M. Clausen et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Regulation of the type IV pili molecular machine by dynamic localization of two motor proteins

(2009) Iryna Bulyha et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Composite system mediates two-step DNA uptake into Helicobacter pylori

(2009) K. Stingl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oscillations in continuous culture populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae: population dynamics and the evolution of clonal suicide

(2009) O. E Cornejo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inference of Microbial Recombination Rates from Metagenomic Data

(2009) Philip L. F. Johnson et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Population and Evolutionary Dynamics of Homologous Gene Recombination in Bacteria

(2009) Bruce R. Levin et al.   PLoS Genetics

Natural Transformation of Helicobacter pylori Involves the Integration of Short DNA Fragments Interrupted by Gaps of Variable Size

(2009) Edward A. Lin et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Extracellular DNA in soil and sediment: fate and ecological relevance

(2008) G. Pietramellara et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Type IV pili: paradoxes in form and function

(2008) Lisa Craig et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Adaptive value of sex in microbial pathogens

(2008) Richard E. Michod et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A comparison of homologous recombination rates in bacteria and archaea

(2008) Michiel Vos et al.   ISME Journal

High Genetic Diversity of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Isolates from Two Children Attending a Day Care Center

(2008) N. C. LaCross et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Double illegitimate recombination events integrate DNA segments through two different mechanisms during natural transformation of Acinetobacter baylyi

(2008) Nils Hülter et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Type IV pili: e pluribus unum?

(2008) Vladimir Pelicic   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A simple, fast, and accurate method of phylogenomic inference

(2008) Martin Wu et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

The impact of the neisserial DNA uptake sequences on genome evolution and stability

(2008) Todd J Treangen et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY