Peptide conversations in Gram-positive bacteria

Streptococcus pneumoniae detects and responds to foreign bacterial peptide fragments in its environment

(2014) L. J. Hathaway et al.   Open Biology

Development of a Peptide Antagonist against fsr Quorum Sensing of Enterococcus faecalis

(2013) Jiro Nakayama et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

High-Throughput Screening of Inhibitors TargetingAgr/FsrQuorum Sensing inStaphylococcus aureusandEnterococcus faecalis

(2013) Said E. DESOUKY et al.   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Extracellular Life Cycle of ComS, the Competence-Stimulating Peptide of Streptococcus thermophilus

(2013) R. Gardan et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Competence for Natural Genetic Transformation in the Streptococcus bovis Group Streptococci S. infantarius and S. macedonicus

(2013) D. A. Morrison et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Redundant Group A Streptococcus Signaling Peptides Exhibit Unique Activation Potentials

(2013) B. LaSarre et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Exploiting Quorum Sensing To Confuse Bacterial Pathogens

(2013) B. LaSarre et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Activity of theBacillus thuringiensis NprR-NprX cell-cell communication system is co-ordinated to the physiological stage through a complex transcriptional regulation

(2013) Thomas Dubois et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanism of competence activation by the ComRS signalling system in streptococci

(2013) Laetitia Fontaine et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Peptide-binding dependent conformational changes regulate the transcriptional activity of the quorum-sensor NprR

(2013) Samira Zouhir et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Rgg-Associated SHP Signaling Peptides Mediate Cross-Talk in Streptococci

(2013) Betty Fleuchot et al.   PLoS One

Structural basis for the activation mechanism of the PlcR virulence regulator by the quorum-sensing signal peptide PapR

(2013) R. Grenha et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural Basis of Rap Phosphatase Inhibition by Phr Peptides

(2013) Francisca Gallego del Sol et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Quorum-sensing agr mediates bacterial oxidation response via an intramolecular disulfide redox switch in the response regulator AgrA

(2012) F. Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Condition-Dependent Transcriptome Reveals High-Level Regulatory Architecture in Bacillus subtilis

(2012) P. Nicolas et al.   SCIENCE

Antagonistic Rgg Regulators Mediate Quorum Sensing via Competitive DNA Binding in Streptococcus pyogenes

(2012) B. LaSarre et al.   mBio

A cell-cell communication system regulates protease production during sporulation in bacteria of the Bacillus cereus group

(2011) Stéphane Perchat et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

An amino-terminal signal peptide of Vfr protein negatively influences RopB-dependent SpeB expression and attenuates virulence in Streptococcus pyogenes

(2011) Samuel A. Shelburne III et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Rgg proteins associated with internalized small hydrophobic peptides: a new quorum-sensing mechanism in streptococci

(2011) B. Fleuchot et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Use of Fluorescence Microscopy to Study Intracellular Signaling in Bacteria

(2010) David Kentner et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Development of a Versatile Procedure Based on Natural Transformation for Marker-Free Targeted Genetic Modification in Streptococcus thermophilus

(2010) L. Fontaine et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The RNPP family of quorum-sensing proteins in Gram-positive bacteria

(2010) Jorge Rocha-Estrada et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

A Genetic Determinant in Streptococcus gordonii Challis Encodes a Peptide with Activity Similar to That of Enterococcal Sex Pheromone cAM373, Which Facilitates Intergeneric DNA Transfer

(2010) M. M. Vickerman et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Signal diffusion and the mitigation of social exploitation in pneumococcal competence signalling

(2010) J. Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Novel Pheromone Quorum-Sensing System Controls the Development of Natural Competence in Streptococcus thermophilus and Streptococcus salivarius

(2009) L. Fontaine et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Quorum Sensing in Staphylococci

(2008) Richard P. Novick et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Individuality in Bacteria

(2008) Carla J. Davidson et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Bistability, Epigenetics, and Bet-Hedging in Bacteria

(2008) Jan-Willem Veening et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Ambuic Acid Inhibits the Biosynthesis of Cyclic Peptide Quormones in Gram-Positive Bacteria

(2008) J. Nakayama et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Cyclic Peptide Inhibitors of Staphylococcal Virulence Prepared by Fmoc-Based Thiolactone Peptide Synthesis

(2008) Elizabeth A. George et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Molecular basis for group-specific activation of the virulence regulator PlcR by PapR heptapeptides

(2008) L. Bouillaut et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH