Hijacking Host Cell Highways: Manipulation of the Host Actin Cytoskeleton by Obligate Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens

Ehrlichia chaffeensis Exploits Canonical and Noncanonical Host Wnt Signaling Pathways To Stimulate Phagocytosis and Promote Intracellular Survival

(2015) Tian Luo et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Proteomic Profiling of the Outer Membrane Fraction of the Obligate Intracellular Bacterial Pathogen Ehrlichia ruminantium

(2015) Amal Moumène et al.   PLoS One

EtpE Binding to DNase X Induces Ehrlichial Entry via CD147 and hnRNP-K Recruitment, Followed by Mobilization of N-WASP and Actin

(2015) Dipu Mohan Kumar et al.   mBio

Coxiella burnetii Phagocytosis Is Regulated by GTPases of the Rho Family and the RhoA Effectors mDia1 and ROCK

(2015) Romina P. Salinas et al.   PLoS One

Knockout of an outer membrane protein operon of Anaplasma marginale by transposon mutagenesis

(2014) Francy L Crosby et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Ehrlichia chaffeensis Exploits Host SUMOylation Pathways To Mediate Effector-Host Interactions and Promote Intracellular Survival

(2014) Paige Selvy Dunphy et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Coxiella burnetiiexploits host cAMP-dependent protein kinase signalling to promote macrophage survival

(2013) Laura J. MacDonald et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Rickettsia Actin-Based Motility Occurs in Distinct Phases Mediated by Different Actin Nucleators

(2013) Shawna C.O. Reed et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rickettsia Sca2 has evolved formin-like activity through a different molecular mechanism

(2013) Y. Madasu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Targeted and Random Mutagenesis of Ehrlichia chaffeensis for the Identification of Genes Required for In vivo Infection

(2013) Chuanmin Cheng et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Two Systems for Targeted Gene Deletion in Coxiella burnetii

(2012) Paul A. Beare et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Coxiella burnetii Alters Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Signaling during Growth in Macrophages

(2012) Laura J. MacDonald et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Establishment of a Replicating Plasmid in Rickettsia prowazekii

(2012) David O. Wood et al.   PLoS One

Cortactin Is Involved in the Entry of Coxiella burnetii into Non-Phagocytic Cells

(2012) Eliana M. Rosales et al.   PLoS One

Microtubule network asymmetry in motile cells: Role of Golgi-derived array

(2011) Tatiana Vinogradova et al.   CELL CYCLE

Transformation Frequency of a mariner-Based Transposon in Rickettsia rickettsii

(2011) T. R. Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Vimentin intermediate filaments modulate the motility of mitochondria

(2011) Oxana E. Nekrasova et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Development of Shuttle Vectors for Transformation of Diverse Rickettsia Species

(2011) Nicole Y. Burkhardt et al.   PLoS One

Anaplasma phagocytophilum AptA modulates Erk1/2 signalling

(2010) Bindu Sukumaran et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Disruption of the Rickettsia rickettsii Sca2 Autotransporter Inhibits Actin-Based Motility

(2010) B. Kleba et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Anaplasma phagocytophiluminduces actin phosphorylation to selectively regulate gene transcription inIxodes scapularisticks

(2010) Hameeda Sultana et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Rickettsia Sca2 is a bacterial formin-like mediator of actin-based motility

(2010) Cat M. Haglund et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis: subversive manipulators of host cells

(2010) Yasuko Rikihisa   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Exit Mechanisms of the Intracellular Bacterium Ehrlichia

(2010) Sunil Thomas et al.   PLoS One

Src kinase Hck association with the WASp and mDia1 cytoskeletal regulators promotes chemoattractant-induced Hck membrane targeting and activation in neutrophilsThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue, entitled CSBMCB’s 51st Annual Meeting – Epigenetics and Chromatin Dynamics, and has undergone the Journal’s usual peer review process.

(2009) Yongquan Shi et al.   Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Actin Dynamics and Rho GTPases Regulate the Size and Formation of Parasitophorous Vacuoles Containing Coxiella burnetii

(2009) M. Aguilera et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Actin and Intermediate Filaments Stabilize the Chlamydia trachomatis Vacuole by Forming Dynamic Structural Scaffolds

(2008) Yadunanda Kumar et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Characterization of a Coxiella burnetii ftsZ Mutant Generated by Himar1 Transposon Mutagenesis

(2008) P. A. Beare et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Exit strategies of intracellular pathogens

(2008) Kevin Hybiske et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Chlamydial Entry Involves TARP Binding of Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors

(2008) B. Josh Lane et al.   PLoS Pathogens