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Survival of the Fittest: How Bacterial Pathogens Utilize Bile To Enhance Infection

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Exploiting the commons: cyclic diguanylate regulation of bacterial exopolysaccharide production

(2016) Daniel Pérez-Mendoza et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

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(2016) Ricard Albalat et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life

(2016) Hans-Curt Flemming et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Gene Loss Dominates As a Source of Genetic Variation within Clonal Pathogenic Bacterial Species

(2015) Evgeni Bolotin et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Identification of Poly-N-acetylglucosamine as a Major Polysaccharide Component of theBacillus subtilisBiofilm Matrix

(2015) Damien Roux et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Horizontal gene transfer: building the web of life

(2015) Shannon M. Soucy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Salmonellapromotes virulence by repressing cellulose production

(2015) Mauricio H. Pontes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial cellulose biosynthesis: diversity of operons, subunits, products, and functions

(2015) Ute Römling et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Retracing the Evolutionary Path that Led to Flea-Borne Transmission of Yersinia pestis

(2014) Yi-Cheng Sun et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Bile-induced peptidoglycan remodelling inSalmonella enterica

(2014) Sara B. Hernández et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The role of pgaC in Klebsiella pneumoniae virulence and biofilm formation

(2014) Kuang-Ming Chen et al.   MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS

Biofilm formation byBacillus subtilis: new insights into regulatory strategies and assembly mechanisms

(2014) Lynne S. Cairns et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life

(2014) Damian Szklarczyk et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Gallbladder Epithelium as a Niche for Chronic Salmonella Carriage

(2013) Geoffrey Gonzalez-Escobedo et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Cellulose as an Architectural Element in Spatially Structured Escherichia coli Biofilms

(2013) D. O. Serra et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Cyclic di-GMP: the First 25 Years of a Universal Bacterial Second Messenger

(2013) U. Romling et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Conflicting roles for a cell surface modification inSalmonella

(2013) John F. May et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

PATRIC, the bacterial bioinformatics database and analysis resource

(2013) Alice R. Wattam et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Antibody to a conserved antigenic target is protective against diverse prokaryotic and eukaryotic pathogens

(2013) C. Cywes-Bentley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The ABC-Type Efflux Pump MacAB Protects Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium from Oxidative Stress

(2013) L. M. Bogomolnaya et al.   mBio

Microanatomy at Cellular Resolution and Spatial Order of Physiological Differentiation in a Bacterial Biofilm

(2013) D. O. Serra et al.   mBio

Host Specificity of Bacterial Pathogens

(2013) A. Baumler et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Bacterial Adaptation through Loss of Function

(2013) Alison K. Hottes et al.   PLoS Genetics

Allosteric activation of exopolysaccharide synthesis through cyclic di-GMP-stimulated protein–protein interaction

(2012) Samuel Steiner et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Antivirulence Genes: Insights into Pathogen Evolution through Gene Loss

(2012) Kimberly A. Bliven et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Coordinated Cyclic-Di-GMP Repression of Salmonella Motility through YcgR and Cellulose

(2012) V. Zorraquino et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Structure- and Metal-dependent Activity ofEscherichia coliPgaB Provides Insight into the Partial De-N-acetylation of Poly-β-1,6-N-acetyl-d-glucosamine

(2012) Dustin J. Little et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The nucleoid-associated protein Fis directly modulates the synthesis of cellulose, an essential component of pellicle-biofilms in the phytopathogenic bacteriumDickeya dadantii

(2012) Claire Prigent-Combaret et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The helicase DDX41 recognizes the bacterial secondary messengers cyclic di-GMP and cyclic di-AMP to activate a type I interferon immune response

(2012) Kislay Parvatiyar et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Synthase-dependent exopolysaccharide secretion in Gram-negative bacteria

(2012) J.C. Whitney et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Adaptation and Preadaptation of Salmonella enterica to Bile

(2012) Sara B. Hernández et al.   PLoS Genetics

Selection-Driven Gene Loss in Bacteria

(2012) Sanna Koskiniemi et al.   PLoS Genetics

Very Long O-antigen Chains Enhance Fitness during Salmonella-induced Colitis by Increasing Bile Resistance

(2012) Robert W. Crawford et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Characterization of the Poly-β-1,6-N-Acetylglucosamine Polysaccharide Component of Burkholderia Biofilms

(2011) Nandadeva Yakandawala et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Poly-N-Acetyl-β-(1-6)-Glucosamine Is a Target for Protective Immunity against Acinetobacter baumannii Infections

(2011) Leticia V. Bentancor et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

STING is a direct innate immune sensor of cyclic di-GMP

(2011) Dara L. Burdette et al.   NATURE

Rapid and Highly Efficient Method for Scarless Mutagenesis within the Salmonella enterica Chromosome

(2011) Kathrin Blank et al.   PLoS One

Intestinal and chronic infections: Salmonella lifestyles in hostile environments

(2011) Andreas J. Bäumler et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Taming the Elephant: Salmonella Biology, Pathogenesis, and Prevention

(2010) H. L. Andrews-Polymenis et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Phylogeny of Gammaproteobacteria

(2010) K. P. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Systematic analysis of cyclic di-GMP signalling enzymes and their role in biofilm formation and virulence in Yersinia pestis

(2010) Alexander G. Bobrov et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The Bps polysaccharide of Bordetella pertussis promotes colonization and biofilm formation in the nose by functioning as an adhesin

(2010) Matt S. Conover et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Chronic and acute infection of the gall bladder by Salmonella Typhi: understanding the carrier state

(2010) Geoffrey Gonzalez-Escobedo et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Gallstones play a significant role in Salmonella spp. gallbladder colonization and carriage

(2010) R. W. Crawford 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

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The pgaABCD Locus of Acinetobacter baumannii Encodes the Production of Poly- -1-6-N-Acetylglucosamine, Which Is Critical for Biofilm Formation

(2009) A. H. K. Choi et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Second messenger signalling governsEscherichia colibiofilm induction upon ribosomal stress

(2009) Alex Boehm et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Antimicrobial mechanisms of phagocytes and bacterial evasion strategies

(2009) Ronald S. Flannagan et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

lac Repressor Is an Antivirulence Factor of Salmonella enterica: Its Role in the Evolution of Virulence in Salmonella

(2009) Sandeepa M. Eswarappa et al.   PLoS One

Genetic reductionist approach for dissecting individual roles of GGDEF proteins within the c-di-GMP signaling network in Salmonella

(2009) C. Solano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insights into Yersinia pestis biofilm development: topology and co-interaction of Hms inner membrane proteins involved in exopolysaccharide production

(2008) Alexander G. Bobrov et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Loss of a Biofilm-Inhibiting Glycosyl Hydrolase during the Emergence of Yersinia pestis

(2008) D. L. Erickson et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Roles of pgaABCD Genes in Synthesis, Modification, and Export of the Escherichia coli Biofilm Adhesin Poly- -1,6-N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine

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

AcrAB Multidrug Efflux Pump Regulation inSalmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium by RamA in Response to Environmental Signals

(2008) Eiji Nikaido et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY