Conserved Streptococcus pneumoniae Spirosomes Suggest a Single Type of Transformation Pilus in Competence

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Secretion of a pneumococcal type II secretion system pilus correlates with DNA uptake during transformation

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Distinct Docking and Stabilization Steps of the Pseudopilus Conformational Transition Path Suggest Rotational Assembly of Type IV Pilus-like Fibers

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Structure of a bifunctional alcohol dehydrogenase involved in bioethanol generation inGeobacillus thermoglucosidasius

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Quorum-Sensing Systems LuxS/Autoinducer 2 and Com Regulate Streptococcus pneumoniae Biofilms in a Bioreactor with Living Cultures of Human Respiratory Cells

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Complex formation and processing of the minor transformation pilins ofBacillus subtilis

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MuB is an AAA+ ATPase that forms helical filaments to control target selection for DNA transposition

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DNA-uptake machinery of naturally competent Vibrio cholerae

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Specific DNA recognition mediated by a type IV pilin

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

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Oxygen Depletion Triggers Switching between Discrete Speed Modes of Gonococcal Type IV Pili

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Substrate channeling and enzyme complexes for biotechnological applications

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Genome-wide essential gene identification in Streptococcus sanguinis

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

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Structure of the hDmc1-ssDNA Filament Reveals the Principles of Its Architecture

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Detailed structural and assembly model of the type II secretion pilus from sparse data

(2010) M. Campos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Generation of Genic Diversity among Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains via Horizontal Gene Transfer during a Chronic Polyclonal Pediatric Infection

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Proteomic analysis of the adaptive response of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to growth under anaerobic conditions

(2009) V. Encheva et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Fratricide in Streptococcus pneumoniae: contributions and role of the cell wall hydrolases CbpD, LytA and LytC

(2009) V. Eldholm et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

SPIDER image processing for single-particle reconstruction of biological macromolecules from electron micrographs

(2009) Tanvir R Shaikh et al.   Nature Protocols

A practical guide to the MaxQuant computational platform for SILAC-based quantitative proteomics

(2009) Jürgen Cox et al.   Nature Protocols