Transposon Mutagenesis in Bifidobacterium breve: Construction and Characterization of a Tn5 Transposon Mutant Library for Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003

Review article: probiotics for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome - focus on lactic acid bacteria

(2012) G. Clarke et al.   ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Accessing the Inaccessible: Molecular Tools for Bifidobacteria

(2012) Zhongke Sun et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Development of a Double-Crossover Markerless Gene Deletion System in Bifidobacterium longum: Functional Analysis of the α-Galactosidase Gene for Raffinose Assimilation

(2012) Yosuke Hirayama et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A targeted gene knockout method using a newly constructed temperature-sensitive plasmid mediated homologous recombination in Bifidobacterium longum

(2012) Kouta Sakaguchi et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Use of a Mariner-Based Transposon Mutagenesis System To Isolate Clostridium perfringens Mutants Deficient in Gliding Motility

(2012) H. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Host–microbe interactions that facilitate gut colonization by commensal bifidobacteria

(2012) Marco Ventura et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Carbohydrate metabolism in Bifidobacteria

(2011) Karina Pokusaeva et al.   Genes and Nutrition

Progress in genomics, metabolism and biotechnology of bifidobacteria

(2011) Michelle Cronin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolic activities and probiotic potential of bifidobacteria

(2011) D.A. Russell et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Construction of Bifidobacterium infantis as a live oral vaccine that expresses antigens of the major fimbrial subunit (CfaB) and the B subunit of heat-labile enterotoxin (LTB) from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

(2011) Y. Ma et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate

(2011) Shinji Fukuda et al.   NATURE

Functional genome analysis of Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 reveals type IVb tight adherence (Tad) pili as an essential and conserved host-colonization factor

(2011) M. O'Connell Motherway et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unique Sugar Metabolic Pathways of Bifidobacteria

(2010) Shinya FUSHINOBU   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Characterization and in vitro properties of potentially probiotic Bifidobacterium strains isolated from breast-milk

(2010) Silvia Arboleya et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic Insights into Bifidobacteria

(2010) J.-H. Lee et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Orally Administered Bifidobacteria as Vehicles for Delivery of Agents to Systemic Tumors

(2010) Michelle Cronin et al.   MOLECULAR THERAPY

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

(2010) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

Genetically modified Bifidobacterium displaying Salmonella-antigen protects mice from lethal challenge of Salmonella Typhimurium in a murine typhoid fever model

(2010) Sakura Yamamoto et al.   VACCINE

In vivo Tn5-based transposon mutagenesis of Streptomycetes

(2009) Lutz Petzke et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Bifidobacterium longum as a delivery system of TRAIL and endostatin cooperates with chemotherapeutic drugs to inhibit hypoxic tumor growth

(2009) B Hu et al.   CANCER GENE THERAPY

Identifying Genetic Determinants Needed to Establish a Human Gut Symbiont in Its Habitat

(2009) Andrew L. Goodman et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Characterization of ApuB, an Extracellular Type II Amylopullulanase from Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003

(2008) M. O'Connell Motherway et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Overcoming the restriction barrier to plasmid transformation and targeted mutagenesis inBifidobacterium breveUCC2003

(2008) Mary O'Connell Motherway et al.   Microbial Biotechnology