Autophosphorylation of the Bacterial Tyrosine-Kinase CpsD Connects Capsule Synthesis with the Cell Cycle in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Antibiotic-Induced Replication Stress Triggers Bacterial Competence by Increasing Gene Dosage near the Origin

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Self-regulation of exopolysaccharide production inBacillus subtilisby a tyrosine kinase

(2014) Alexander K.W. Elsholz et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Bright Fluorescent Streptococcus pneumoniae for Live-Cell Imaging of Host-Pathogen Interactions

(2014) Morten Kjos et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Tracking of chromosome dynamics in liveStreptococcus pneumoniaereveals that transcription promotes chromosome segregation

(2014) Morten Kjos et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

MapZ marks the division sites and positions FtsZ rings in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2014) Aurore Fleurie et al.   NATURE

Deciphering key features in protein structures with the new ENDscript server

(2014) Xavier Robert et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Interplay of the Serine/Threonine-Kinase StkP and the Paralogs DivIVA and GpsB in Pneumococcal Cell Elongation and Division

(2014) Aurore Fleurie et al.   PLoS Genetics

Requirement of essential Pbp2x and GpsB for septal ring closure inStreptococcus pneumoniae D39

(2013) Adrian D. Land et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

How to get (a)round: mechanisms controlling growth and division of coccoid bacteria

(2013) Mariana G. Pinho et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Encapsulating Bacteria

(2013) Renato Morona   STRUCTURE

In Situ Probing of Newly Synthesized Peptidoglycan in Live Bacteria with FluorescentD-Amino Acids

(2012) Erkin Kuru et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Attachment of Capsular Polysaccharide to the Cell Wall in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2012) Alice Eberhardt et al.   Microbial Drug Resistance

Bacterial tyrosine kinases: evolution, biological function and structural insights

(2012) C. Grangeasse et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

ParA-like protein uses nonspecific chromosomal DNA binding to partition protein complexes

(2012) M. A. J. Roberts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Control of cell division in Streptococcus pneumoniae by the conserved Ser/Thr protein kinase StkP

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

The ParA/MinD family puts things in their place

(2012) Joe Lutkenhaus   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular Interaction Studies Using Microscale Thermophoresis

(2011) Moran Jerabek-Willemsen et al.   ASSAY AND DRUG DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES

A widespread family of bacterial cell wall assembly proteins

(2011) Yoshikazu Kawai et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

A family of ParA-like ATPases promotes cell pole maturation by facilitating polar localization of chemotaxis proteins

(2011) S. Ringgaard et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Using Superfolder Green Fluorescent Protein for Periplasmic Protein Localization Studies

(2011) T. Dinh et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

SMC is recruited to oriC by ParB and promotes chromosome segregation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2011) Anita Minnen et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Super-resolution microscopy reveals cell wall dynamics and peptidoglycan architecture in ovococcal bacteria

(2011) Richard Wheeler et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Synthesis of capsular polysaccharide at the division septum of Streptococcus pneumoniae is dependent on a bacterial tyrosine kinase

(2011) Mafalda X. Henriques et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

High-throughput, subpixel precision analysis of bacterial morphogenesis and intracellular spatio-temporal dynamics

(2011) Oleksii Sliusarenko et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Mutational dissection of the S/T-kinase StkP reveals crucial roles in cell division of Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2011) Aurore Fleurie et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Capsules ofStreptococcus pneumoniaeand Other Bacteria: Paradigms for Polysaccharide Biosynthesis and Regulation

(2010) Janet Yother   Annual Review of Microbiology

Pushing and Pulling in Prokaryotic DNA Segregation

(2010) Kenn Gerdes et al.   CELL

Commensal pathogens, with a focus on Streptococcus pneumoniae, and interactions with the human host

(2010) Birgitta Henriques-Normark et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Identification of structural and molecular determinants of the tyrosine-kinase Wzc and implications in capsular polysaccharide export

(2010) Emmanuelle Bechet et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Expression and maintenance of ComD-ComE, the two-component signal-transduction system that controls competence ofStreptococcus pneumoniae

(2010) Bernard Martin et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The Streptococcus pneumoniae Capsule Inhibits Complement Activity and Neutrophil Phagocytosis by Multiple Mechanisms

(2009) C. Hyams et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention of pneumococcal pneumonia

(2009) Tom van der Poll et al.   LANCET

I-TASSER server for protein 3D structure prediction

(2008) Yang Zhang   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The role of Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence factors in host respiratory colonization and disease

(2008) Aras Kadioglu et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Jpred 3 secondary structure prediction server

(2008) C. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Structural Basis for the Regulation Mechanism of the Tyrosine Kinase CapB from Staphylococcus aureus

(2008) Vanesa Olivares-Illana et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY