Evolution of Conjugation and Type IV Secretion Systems

Structure of the VirB4 ATPase, alone and bound to the core complex of a type IV secretion system

(2012) K. Wallden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Membrane-associated nanomotors for macromolecular transport

(2011) Elena Cabezon et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Conjugal plasmid transfer inStreptomycesresembles bacterial chromosome segregation by FtsK/SpoIIIE

(2011) Jutta Vogelmann et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Transfer of R388 Derivatives by a Pathogenesis-Associated Type IV Secretion System into both Bacteria and Human Cells

(2011) Esther Fernández-González et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Autoinhibitory Regulation of TrwK, an Essential VirB4 ATPase in Type IV Secretion Systems

(2011) Alejandro Peña et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Uncovering the Prevalence and Diversity of Integrating Conjugative Elements in Actinobacteria

(2011) Mariana Gabriela Ghinet et al.   PLoS One

Conjugative DNA transfer into human cells by the VirB/VirD4 type IV secretion system of the bacterial pathogen Bartonella henselae

(2011) G. Schroder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenomic networks

(2011) Tal Dagan   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Efficient Gene Transfer in Bacterial Cell Chains

(2011) A. Babic et al.   mBio

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

(2011) Sean R. Eddy   PLoS Computational Biology

The Repertoire of ICE in Prokaryotes Underscores the Unity, Diversity, and Ubiquity of Conjugation

(2011) Julien Guglielmini et al.   PLoS Genetics

Parallel Evolution of a Type IV Secretion System in Radiating Lineages of the Host-Restricted Bacterial Pathogen Bartonella

(2011) Philipp Engel et al.   PLoS Genetics

Parallelization of the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2010) Kazutaka Katoh et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

BMGE (Block Mapping and Gathering with Entropy): a new software for selection of phylogenetic informative regions from multiple sequence alignments

(2010) Alexis Criscuolo et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

What traits are carried on mobile genetic elements and why?

(2010) D J Rankin et al.   HEREDITY

Functional Dissection of the Conjugative Coupling Protein TrwB

(2010) H. D. de Paz et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pathogenicity Island PAPI-1 Is Transferred via a Novel Type IV Pilus

(2010) M. Q. Carter et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Mobility of Plasmids

(2010) C. Smillie et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Integrative and conjugative elements: mosaic mobile genetic elements enabling dynamic lateral gene flow

(2010) Rachel A. F. Wozniak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks

(2010) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Call of the wild: antibiotic resistance genes in natural environments

(2010) Heather K. Allen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Membrane sphingolipids as essential molecular signals for Bacteroides survival in the intestine

(2010) D. An et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Plasmid transfer systems in the rhizobia

(2009) Hao Ding et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Secretome Drives the Evolution of Bacterial Cooperation and Virulence

(2009) Teresa Nogueira et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Putative Coupling Protein TcpA Interacts with Other pCW3-Encoded Proteins To Form an Essential Part of the Conjugation Complex

(2009) J. A. Steen et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Biological Diversity of Prokaryotic Type IV Secretion Systems

(2009) C. E. Alvarez-Martinez et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The structural biology of type IV secretion systems

(2009) Rémi Fronzes et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Network analyses structure genetic diversity in independent genetic worlds

(2009) S. Halary et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The phage   major tail protein structure reveals a common evolution for long-tailed phages and the type VI bacterial secretion system

(2009) L. G. Pell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Type IV secretion systems: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and virulence

(2008) Mario Juhas et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Functional Characterization and Localization of the TcpH Conjugation Protein from Clostridium perfringens

(2008) W. L. Teng et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Diversifying Selection and Concerted Evolution of a Type IV Secretion System in Bartonella

(2007) B. Nystedt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The integrative element pSAM2 from Streptomyces: kinetics and mode of conjugal transfer

(2003) Christophe Possoz et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY