| Rank |
Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
|
Biofilm formation by Streptococcus pneumoniae: role of choline, extracellular DNA, and capsular polysaccharide in microbial accretion.
|
J Bacteriol
|
2006
|
2.42
|
|
2
|
Phage lytic enzymes as therapy for antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in a murine sepsis model.
|
J Antimicrob Chemother
|
2003
|
1.70
|
|
3
|
Purification and polar localization of pneumococcal LytB, a putative endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase: the chain-dispersing murein hydrolase.
|
J Bacteriol
|
2002
|
1.66
|
|
4
|
Molecular peculiarities of the lytA gene isolated from clinical pneumococcal strains that are bile insoluble.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2002
|
1.34
|
|
5
|
Characteristic signatures of the lytA gene provide a basis for rapid and reliable diagnosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2006
|
1.27
|
|
6
|
Pneumococcal biofilms.
|
Int Microbiol
|
2009
|
1.19
|
|
7
|
Genome organization and molecular analysis of the temperate bacteriophage MM1 of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
|
J Bacteriol
|
2003
|
1.16
|
|
8
|
Genomic organization and molecular analysis of the inducible prophage EJ-1, a mosaic myovirus from an atypical pneumococcus.
|
Virology
|
2004
|
1.06
|
|
9
|
Isolation and characterization of a new plasmid pSpnP1 from a multidrug-resistant clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
|
Plasmid
|
2007
|
1.05
|
|
10
|
Two new crystal forms of the choline-binding domain of the major pneumococcal autolysin: insights into the dynamics of the active homodimer.
|
J Mol Biol
|
2002
|
0.98
|
|
11
|
Characterization of LytA-like N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidases from two new Streptococcus mitis bacteriophages provides insights into the properties of the major pneumococcal autolysin.
|
J Bacteriol
|
2004
|
0.92
|
|
12
|
VO1, a temperate bacteriophage of the type 19A multiresistant epidemic 8249 strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae: analysis of variability of lytic and putative C5 methyltransferase genes.
|
Microb Drug Resist
|
2003
|
0.91
|
|
13
|
Skl, a novel choline-binding N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase of Streptococcus mitis SK137 containing a CHAP domain.
|
FEBS Lett
|
2006
|
0.87
|
|
14
|
Key role of amino acid residues in the dimerization and catalytic activation of the autolysin LytA, an important virulence factor in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
|
J Biol Chem
|
2007
|
0.85
|
|
15
|
Peculiarities of the DNA of MM1, a temperate phage of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
|
Int Microbiol
|
2004
|
0.84
|
|
16
|
In vitro interactions of LytA, the major pneumococcal autolysin, with two bacteriophage lytic enzymes (Cpl-1 and Pal), cefotaxime and moxifloxacin against antibiotic-susceptible and -resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains.
|
J Antimicrob Chemother
|
2007
|
0.84
|
|
17
|
Ofloxacin-like antibiotics inhibit pneumococcal cell wall-degrading virulence factors.
|
J Biol Chem
|
2005
|
0.84
|
|
18
|
Allelic variation of polymorphic locus lytB, encoding a choline-binding protein, from streptococci of the mitis group.
|
Appl Environ Microbiol
|
2005
|
0.83
|
|
19
|
Pneumococcal LytA autolysin, a potent therapeutic agent in experimental peritonitis-sepsis caused by highly beta-lactam-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae.
|
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
|
2007
|
0.82
|
|
20
|
Implications of physiological studies based on genomic sequences: Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 synthesizes a functional LytC lysozyme.
|
J Bacteriol
|
2005
|
0.79
|
|
21
|
Molecular and biochemical analysis of the system regulating the lytic/lysogenic cycle in the pneumococcal temperate phage MM1.
|
FEMS Microbiol Lett
|
2003
|
0.78
|
|
22
|
A brief history of the SEM journal(s): staunchly resisting improbability. I. From 1947 to 1997.
|
Int Microbiol
|
2003
|
0.75
|
|
23
|
A brief history of the journal(s) of the SEM: staunchly resisting against improbability. II. From 1998 to 2002.
|
Int Microbiol
|
2003
|
0.75
|