PrgU: a suppressor of sex pheromone toxicity in E nterococcus faecalis

Enterococcal Sex Pheromones: Evolutionary Pathways to Complex, Two-Signal Systems

(2016) Gary M. Dunny et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Multiple Roles for Enterococcus faecalis Glycosyltransferases in Biofilm-Associated Antibiotic Resistance, Cell Envelope Integrity, and Conjugative Transfer

(2015) Jennifer L. Dale et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Streptococcus pyogenes Sortase Mutants Are Highly Susceptible to Killing by Host Factors Due to Aberrant Envelope Physiology

(2015) Assaf Raz et al.   PLoS One

Pheromone killing of multidrug-resistantEnterococcus faecalisV583 by native commensal strains

(2015) Michael S. Gilmore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Death and survival in Streptococcus mutans: differing outcomes of a quorum-sensing signaling peptide

(2015) Vincent Leung et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Friend Turned Foe: Evolution of Enterococcal Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance

(2014) Daria Van Tyne et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Oxidative Stress Enhances Cephalosporin Resistance of Enterococcus faecalis through Activation of a Two-Component Signaling System

(2014) Dušanka Djorić et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Lethality of sortase depletion inActinomyces oriscaused by excessive membrane accumulation of a surface glycoprotein

(2014) Chenggang Wu et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Enterococcus faecalis pCF10-encoded surface proteins PrgA, PrgB (aggregation substance) and PrgC contribute to plasmid transfer, biofilm formation and virulence

(2014) Minny Bhatty et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Structure of a type IV secretion system

(2014) Harry H. Low et al.   NATURE

A Genome-Wide Screen for Bacterial Envelope Biogenesis Mutants Identifies a Novel Factor Involved in Cell Wall Precursor Metabolism

(2014) Catherine Paradis-Bleau et al.   PLoS Genetics

Enterococcal Sex Pheromones: Signaling, Social Behavior, and Evolution

(2013) Gary M. Dunny   Annual Review of Genetics

PrgK, a Multidomain Peptidoglycan Hydrolase, Is Essential for Conjugative Transfer of the Pheromone-Responsive Plasmid pCF10

(2013) J. A. Laverde Gomez et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Focal targeting by human  -defensin 2 disrupts localized virulence factor assembly sites in Enterococcus faecalis

(2013) K. Kandaswamy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Antagonistic self-sensing and mate-sensing signaling controls antibiotic-resistance transfer

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

Crystal structure of human multiple copies in T-cell lymphoma-1 oncoprotein

(2013) Wolfram Tempel et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Emergence of Epidemic Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecium from Animal and Commensal Strains

(2013) F. Lebreton et al.   mBio

Enterococcus faecalis PrgJ, a VirB4-Like ATPase, Mediates pCF10 Conjugative Transfer through Substrate Binding

(2012) F. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Cell Death of Streptococcus mutans Induced by a Quorum-Sensing Peptide Occurs via a Conserved Streptococcal Autolysin

(2012) D. Dufour et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Enterococcus faecalis Produces Abundant Extracellular Structures Containing DNA in the Absence of Cell Lysis during Early Biofilm Formation

(2012) A. M. T. Barnes et al.   mBio

Regulatory circuits controlling enterococcal conjugation: lessons for functional genomics

(2011) Gary M Dunny et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Use of Recombinase-BasedIn VivoExpression Technology To Characterize Enterococcus faecalis Gene Expression during Infection IdentifiesIn Vivo-Expressed Antisense RNAs and Implicates the Protease Eep in Pathogenesis

(2011) Kristi L. Frank et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Biofilm growth alters regulation of conjugation by a bacterial pheromone

(2011) Laura Cook et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Convergent transcription confers a bistable switch in Enterococcus faecalis conjugation

(2011) A. Chatterjee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Horizontal gene transfer and the genomics of enterococcal antibiotic resistance

(2010) Kelli L Palmer et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Direct Evidence for Control of the Pheromone-Inducible prgQ Operon of Enterococcus faecalis Plasmid pCF10 by a Countertranscript-Driven Attenuation Mechanism

(2010) C. M. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Structural analysis of the Anti-Q–Qs interaction: RNA-mediated regulation of E. faecalis plasmid pCF10 conjugation

(2010) Sonia Shokeen et al.   PLASMID

Mechanism for Sortase Localization and the Role of Sortase Localization in Efficient Pilus Assembly in Enterococcus faecalis

(2009) K. A. Kline et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

A fratricidal mechanism is responsible for eDNA release and contributes to biofilm development ofEnterococcus faecalis

(2009) Vinai Chittezham Thomas et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Protein structure prediction on the Web: a case study using the Phyre server

(2009) Lawrence A Kelley et al.   Nature Protocols

Multiple Functional Domains of Enterococcus faecalis Aggregation Substance Asc10 Contribute to Endocarditis Virulence

(2008) O. N. Chuang et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Enterococcus faecalis PcfC, a Spatially Localized Substrate Receptor for Type IV Secretion of the pCF10 Transfer Intermediate

(2008) Y. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY