Functional Identification of Conserved Residues Involved inLactobacillus rhamnosusStrain GG Sortase Specificity and Pilus Biogenesis

Adhesion and Nanomechanics of Pili from the Probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG

(2013) Prachi Tripathi et al.   ACS Nano

Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the SpaA backbone-pilin subunit from probioticLactobacillus rhamnosusGG

(2013) Deepak Singh et al.   Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

Comparative Genomic and Functional Analysis of Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus rhamnosus Strains Marketed as Probiotics

(2013) François P. Douillard et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Group B Streptococcus pilus sortase regulation: a single mutation in the lid region induces pilin protein polymerization in vitro

(2013) Roberta Cozzi et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Using Recombinant Lactococci as an Approach to Dissect the Immunomodulating Capacity of Surface Piliation in Probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG

(2013) Ingemar von Ossowski et al.   PLoS One

Characterization of the SpaCBA Pilus Fibers in the Probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG

(2012) Justus Reunanen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Complete genome sequence of Enterococcus faecium strain TX16 and comparative genomic analysis of Enterococcus faecium genomes

(2012) Xiang Qin et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Structural Basis for Group B Streptococcus Pilus 1 Sortases C Regulation and Specificity

(2012) Roberta Cozzi et al.   PLoS One

Functional Analysis of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Pili in Relation to Adhesion and Immunomodulatory Interactions with Intestinal Epithelial Cells

(2011) Sarah Lebeer et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Conservation of Ebp-Type Pilus Genes among Enterococci and Demonstration of Their Role in Adherence of Enterococcus faecalis to Human Platelets

(2011) Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Systems solutions by lactic acid bacteria: from paradigms to practice

(2011) Willem M de Vos   Microbial Cell Factories

Architects at the bacterial surface — sortases and the assembly of pili with isopeptide bonds

(2011) Antoni P. A. Hendrickx et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Functionality of Sortase A in Lactococcus lactis

(2010) Y. Dieye et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mucosal Adhesion Properties of the Probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG SpaCBA and SpaFED Pilin Subunits

(2010) I. von Ossowski et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Differential PilA pilus assembly by a hospital-acquired and a community-derived Enterococcus faecium isolate

(2010) A. P. A. Hendrickx et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Host interactions of probiotic bacterial surface molecules: comparison with commensals and pathogens

(2010) Sarah Lebeer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Sortase Activity Is Controlled by a Flexible Lid in the Pilus Biogenesis Mechanism of Gram-Positive Pathogens,

(2009) Clothilde Manzano et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

A Foreign Protein Incorporated on the Tip of T3 Pili in Lactococcus lactis Elicits Systemic and Mucosal Immunity

(2009) B. R. Quigley et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

The Structure of theStaphylococcus aureusSortase-Substrate Complex Reveals How the Universally Conserved LPXTG Sorting Signal Is Recognized

(2009) Nuttee Suree et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Sortase D Forms the Covalent Bond That Links BcpB to the Tip ofBacillus cereusPili

(2009) Jonathan M. Budzik et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

MEME SUITE: tools for motif discovery and searching

(2009) T. L. Bailey et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Rapid Evolution of Virulence and Drug Resistance in the Emerging Zoonotic Pathogen Streptococcus suis

(2009) Matthew T. G. Holden et al.   PLoS One

Comparative genomic analysis of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG reveals pili containing a human- mucus binding protein

(2009) M. Kankainen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic organization and preferential distribution of putative pilus gene clusters in Streptococcus suis

(2009) Daisuke Takamatsu et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

Identification and characterization of domains responsible for self-assembly and cell wall binding of the surface layer protein of Lactobacillus brevis ATCC 8287

(2008) Silja Åvall-Jääskeläinen et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Pili in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria — structure, assembly and their role in disease

(2008) T. Proft et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Cell Wall Anchor Structure of BcpA Pili inBacillus anthracis

(2008) Jonathan M. Budzik et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Expression of two distinct types of pili by a hospital-acquired Enterococcus faecium isolate

(2008) A. P. A. Hendrickx et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Pili in Gram-positive bacteria: assembly, involvement in colonization and biofilm development

(2008) Anjali Mandlik et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY