Genomic analyses of pneumococci reveal a wide diversity of bacteriocins – including pneumocyclicin, a novel circular bacteriocin

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

Dynamic Changes in the Streptococcus pneumoniae Transcriptome during Transition from Biofilm Formation to Invasive Disease upon Influenza A Virus Infection

(2014) Melinda M. Pettigrew et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Defining the Estimated Core Genome of Bacterial Populations Using a Bayesian Decision Model

(2014) Andries J. van Tonder et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Evidence of antimicrobial resistance-conferring genetic elements among pneumococci isolated prior to 1974

(2013) Kelly L Wyres et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Multicoloured greenbeards, bacteriocin diversity and the rock-paper-scissors game

(2013) J. M. Biernaskie et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

BAGEL3: automated identification of genes encoding bacteriocins and (non-)bactericidal posttranslationally modified peptides

(2013) Auke J. van Heel et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Serotype-Specific Changes in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease after Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Introduction: A Pooled Analysis of Multiple Surveillance Sites

(2013) Daniel R. Feikin et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Biochemical, Genetic, and Serological Characterization of Two Capsule Subtypes amongStreptococcus pneumoniaeSerotype 20 Strains

(2012) Juan J. Calix et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Discovering the Bacterial Circular Proteins: Bacteriocins, Cyanobactins, and Pilins

(2012) Manuel Montalbán-López et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Pneumococcal genome sequencing tracks a vaccine escape variant formed through a multi-fragment recombination event

(2012) Tanya Golubchik et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The multidrug-resistant PMEN1 pneumococcus is a paradigm for genetic success

(2012) Kelly L Wyres et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level

(2011) Keith A Jolley et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Shifting Genetic Structure of Invasive Serotype 19A Pneumococci in the United States

(2011) Bernard W. Beall et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Serotype replacement in disease after pneumococcal vaccination

(2011) Daniel M Weinberger et al.   LANCET

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

RATT: Rapid Annotation Transfer Tool

(2011) Thomas D. Otto et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

(2011) N. J. Croucher et al.   SCIENCE

Structure and genetics of circular bacteriocins

(2011) Marco J. van Belkum et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Conserved Mutations in the Pneumococcal Bacteriocin Transporter Gene, blpA, Result in a Complex Population Consisting of Producers and Cheaters

(2011) M. R. Son et al.   mBio

Gap5—editing the billion fragment sequence assembly

(2010) James K. Bonfield et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

BACTIBASE second release: a database and tool platform for bacteriocin characterization

(2010) Riadh Hammami et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

The Abi Proteins and Their Involvement in Bacteriocin Self-Immunity

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

progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss and Rearrangement

(2010) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PLoS One

Cloning and Characterization of the Gene Cluster Involved in the Production of the Circular Bacteriocin Carnocyclin A

(2010) Marco J. van Belkum et al.   Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Between-Strain Competition in Acquisition and Clearance of Pneumococcal Carriage—Epidemiologic Evidence From a Longitudinal Study of Day-Care Children

(2009) Kari Auranen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

The Three-dimensional Structure of Carnocyclin A Reveals That Many Circular Bacteriocins Share a Common Structural Motif

(2009) Leah A. Martin-Visscher et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children younger than 5 years: global estimates

(2009) Katherine L O'Brien et al.   LANCET

Bacterial competition: surviving and thriving in the microbial jungle

(2009) Michael E. Hibbing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

DNAPlotter: circular and linear interactive genome visualization

(2008) T. Carver et al.   BIOINFORMATICS