Prediction of molecular mimicry candidates in human pathogenic bacteria

Potential T cell epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that can instigate molecular mimicry against host: implications in autoimmune pathogenesis

(2012) Sathi Babu Chodisetti et al.   BMC IMMUNOLOGY

Streptococcus and rheumatic fever

(2012) Madeleine W. Cunningham   CURRENT OPINION IN RHEUMATOLOGY

Horizontal Gene Transfer Contributed to the Evolution of Extracellular Surface Structures: The Freshwater Polyp Hydra Is Covered by a Complex Fibrous Cuticle Containing Glycosaminoglycans and Proteins of the PPOD and SWT (Sweet Tooth) Families

(2012) Angelika Böttger et al.   PLoS One

Viral Proteins Acquired from a Host Converge to Simplified Domain Architectures

(2012) Nadav Rappoport et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Streptococcal collagen-like surface protein 1 promotes adhesion to the respiratory epithelial cell

(2011) Shih-Ming Chen et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Mimicking GEFs: a common theme for bacterial pathogens

(2011) Robert C. Orchard et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular Mimicry as a Mechanism of Autoimmune Disease

(2011) Matthew F. Cusick et al.   CLINICAL REVIEWS IN ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

Proteomic Analysis of theVibrio choleraeType II Secretome Reveals New Proteins, Including Three Related Serine Proteases

(2011) Aleksandra E. Sikora et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Genome-Wide Identification of Molecular Mimicry Candidates in Parasites

(2011) Philipp Ludin et al.   PLoS One

Modular Evolution and the Origins of Symmetry: Reconstruction of a Three-Fold Symmetric Globular Protein

(2011) Aron Broom et al.   STRUCTURE

Life on the Outside: The Rescue ofCoxiella burnetiifrom Its Host Cell

(2010) Anders Omsland et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Functional Characterization of a Phospholipase A2 Homolog from Rickettsia typhi

(2010) M. S. Rahman et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Coxiella burnetii Expresses a Functional  24 Sterol Reductase

(2010) S. D. Gilk et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources

(2009) Da Wei Huang et al.   Nature Protocols

The evolutionary conundrum of pathogen mimicry

(2009) Nels C. Elde et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A Novel In Vitro Multiple-Stress Dormancy Model for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Generates a Lipid-Loaded, Drug-Tolerant, Dormant Pathogen

(2009) Chirajyoti Deb et al.   PLoS One

Extracellular ATP in the Immune System: More Than Just a "Danger Signal"

(2009) A. Trautmann   Science Signaling

Molecular Mimicry by an F-Box Effector of Legionella pneumophila Hijacks a Conserved Polyubiquitination Machinery within Macrophages and Protozoa

(2009) Christopher T. Price et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Insights into the evolutionary origins of clostridial neurotoxins from analysis of the Clostridium botulinum strain A neurotoxin gene cluster

(2008) Andrew C Doxey et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

PclA, a pneumococcal collagen-like protein with selected strain distribution, contributes to adherence and invasion of host cells

(2008) Gavin K. Paterson et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection on sphingolipid metabolism in human lung carcinoma A549 cells

(2008) Yuanyuan Yu et al.   MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS

The pathogen protein EspFU hijacks actin polymerization using mimicry and multivalency

(2008) Nathan A. Sallee et al.   NATURE

Staying alive: bacterial inhibition of apoptosis during infection

(2008) Christina S. Faherty et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Vaccinia Virus Proteins A52 and B14 Share a Bcl-2–Like Fold but Have Evolved to Inhibit NF-κB rather than Apoptosis

(2008) Stephen C. Graham et al.   PLoS Pathogens