Published in Mol Microbiol on November 01, 2003
Identification of the secretion and translocation domain of the enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli effector Cif, using TEM-1 beta-lactamase as a new fluorescence-based reporter. J Bacteriol (2004) 3.41
Sequence-based prediction of type III secreted proteins. PLoS Pathog (2009) 2.58
Candida albicans cell wall proteins. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2008) 2.11
Protein secretion and membrane insertion systems in gram-negative bacteria. J Membr Biol (2007) 1.51
Secretion signal recognition by YscN, the Yersinia type III secretion ATPase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.23
Cycle inhibiting factors (CIFs) are a growing family of functional cyclomodulins present in invertebrate and mammal bacterial pathogens. PLoS One (2009) 1.08
Structure of Spa15, a type III secretion chaperone from Shigella flexneri with broad specificity. EMBO Rep (2004) 1.03
Rejection of impassable substrates by Yersinia type III secretion machines. J Bacteriol (2005) 1.03
Impassable YscP substrates and their impact on the Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion pathway. J Bacteriol (2008) 1.01
How Yops find their way out of Yersinia. Mol Microbiol (2003) 0.95
Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion of YopR requires a structure in its mRNA. Mol Microbiol (2008) 0.92
Posttranscriptional regulation of flagellin synthesis in Helicobacter pylori by the RpoN chaperone HP0958. J Bacteriol (2008) 0.92
A synonymous mutation in Yersinia enterocolitica yopE affects the function of the YopE type III secretion signal. J Bacteriol (2005) 0.91
Diminished LcrV secretion attenuates Yersinia pseudotuberculosis virulence. J Bacteriol (2007) 0.89
The secretion signal of YopN, a regulatory protein of the Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion pathway. J Bacteriol (2004) 0.86
Translational regulation of Yersinia enterocolitica mRNA encoding a type III secretion substrate. J Biol Chem (2013) 0.85
The first 45 amino acids of SopA are necessary for InvB binding and SPI-1 secretion. J Bacteriol (2006) 0.82
The Yersinia enterocolitica type three secretion chaperone SycO is integrated into the Yop regulatory network and binds to the Yop secretion protein YscM1. BMC Microbiol (2007) 0.82
Cre reporter system to monitor the translocation of type III secreted proteins into host cells. Infect Immun (2006) 0.79
Implications of Spatiotemporal Regulation of Shigella flexneri Type Three Secretion Activity on Effector Functions: Think Globally, Act Locally. Front Cell Infect Microbiol (2016) 0.75
Yersinia pestis YopK inhibits bacterial adhesion to host cells by binding to the extracellular matrix adaptor protein matrilin-2. Infect Immun (2017) 0.75
Exogenous and endogenous glycolipid antigens activate NKT cells during microbial infections. Nature (2005) 7.72
Allelic replacement in Staphylococcus aureus with inducible counter-selection. Plasmid (2005) 6.11
Poring over pores: alpha-hemolysin and Panton-Valentine leukocidin in Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia. Nat Med (2007) 5.95
Sortases and the art of anchoring proteins to the envelopes of gram-positive bacteria. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2006) 4.88
Passage of heme-iron across the envelope of Staphylococcus aureus. Science (2003) 4.83
Iron-source preference of Staphylococcus aureus infections. Science (2004) 4.33
Targeting of alpha-hemolysin by active or passive immunization decreases severity of USA300 skin infection in a mouse model. J Infect Dis (2010) 4.19
Panton-Valentine leukocidin is not a virulence determinant in murine models of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease. J Infect Dis (2008) 4.16
Genome sequence of Staphylococcus aureus strain Newman and comparative analysis of staphylococcal genomes: polymorphism and evolution of two major pathogenicity islands. J Bacteriol (2007) 4.07
Vaccine protection against Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia. J Exp Med (2008) 4.01
Staphylococcus aureus virulence genes identified by bursa aurealis mutagenesis and nematode killing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 3.89
Assembly of pili on the surface of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Mol Microbiol (2003) 3.79
Surface proteins and exotoxins are required for the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia. Infect Immun (2006) 3.41
Staphylococcus aureus degrades neutrophil extracellular traps to promote immune cell death. Science (2013) 3.32
Plague bacteria target immune cells during infection. Science (2005) 3.32
An iron-regulated sortase anchors a class of surface protein during Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 3.23
Genetic requirements for Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation and persistence in host tissues. FASEB J (2009) 2.82
Sortases and pilin elements involved in pilus assembly of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Mol Microbiol (2004) 2.80
Assembly of pili in Gram-positive bacteria. Trends Microbiol (2004) 2.76
Vaccine assembly from surface proteins of Staphylococcus aureus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 2.71
Staphylococcus aureus IsdB is a hemoglobin receptor required for heme iron utilization. J Bacteriol (2006) 2.54
Protein sorting to the cell wall envelope of Gram-positive bacteria. Biochim Biophys Acta (2004) 2.42
IsdG and IsdI, heme-degrading enzymes in the cytoplasm of Staphylococcus aureus. J Biol Chem (2003) 2.39
Iron-regulated surface determinants (Isd) of Staphylococcus aureus: stealing iron from heme. Microbes Infect (2004) 2.37
The Bacillus subtilis quorum-sensing molecule CSF contributes to intestinal homeostasis via OCTN2, a host cell membrane transporter. Cell Host Microbe (2007) 2.26
Prophages of Staphylococcus aureus Newman and their contribution to virulence. Mol Microbiol (2006) 2.20
Comparative analysis of USA300 virulence determinants in a rabbit model of skin and soft tissue infection. J Infect Dis (2011) 2.19
Soluble factors from Lactobacillus GG activate MAPKs and induce cytoprotective heat shock proteins in intestinal epithelial cells. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol (2005) 2.07
Synthesis of glycerol phosphate lipoteichoic acid in Staphylococcus aureus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 2.06
Anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. III. Lipid II is an in vivo peptidoglycan substrate for sortase-catalyzed surface protein anchoring. J Biol Chem (2002) 1.97
hPepT1 transports muramyl dipeptide, activating NF-kappaB and stimulating IL-8 secretion in human colonic Caco2/bbe cells. Gastroenterology (2004) 1.91
Inactivation of the srtA gene in Listeria monocytogenes inhibits anchoring of surface proteins and affects virulence. Mol Microbiol (2002) 1.89
Staphylococcus aureus synthesizes adenosine to escape host immune responses. J Exp Med (2009) 1.85
An oxidation-sensing mechanism is used by the global regulator MgrA in Staphylococcus aureus. Nat Chem Biol (2006) 1.83
Rapidly progressive, fatal, inhalation anthrax-like infection in a human: case report, pathogen genome sequencing, pathology, and coordinated response. Arch Pathol Lab Med (2011) 1.83
Architects at the bacterial surface - sortases and the assembly of pili with isopeptide bonds. Nat Rev Microbiol (2011) 1.79
Nontoxigenic protein A vaccine for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in mice. J Exp Med (2010) 1.77
The structure of sortase B, a cysteine transpeptidase that tethers surface protein to the Staphylococcus aureus cell wall. Structure (2004) 1.76
Contribution of coagulases towards Staphylococcus aureus disease and protective immunity. PLoS Pathog (2010) 1.75
Cross-linked peptidoglycan mediates lysostaphin binding to the cell wall envelope of Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.72
Assembly of pili on the surface of Bacillus cereus vegetative cells. Mol Microbiol (2007) 1.67
Sortase as a target of anti-infective therapy. Pharmacol Rev (2008) 1.64
Iron acquisition and transport in Staphylococcus aureus. Biometals (2006) 1.61
BslA, a pXO1-encoded adhesin of Bacillus anthracis. Mol Microbiol (2008) 1.60
Crystal structures of Staphylococcus aureus sortase A and its substrate complex. J Biol Chem (2004) 1.60
Surface protein IsdC and Sortase B are required for heme-iron scavenging of Bacillus anthracis. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.59
Toll-like receptor 6 drives differentiation of tolerogenic dendritic cells and contributes to LcrV-mediated plague pathogenesis. Cell Host Microbe (2008) 1.59
Staphylococcus aureus IsdG and IsdI, heme-degrading enzymes with structural similarity to monooxygenases. J Biol Chem (2004) 1.58
Preventing Staphylococcus aureus sepsis through the inhibition of its agglutination in blood. PLoS Pathog (2011) 1.57
LcrV plague vaccine with altered immunomodulatory properties. Infect Immun (2005) 1.57
IsdA and IsdB antibodies protect mice against Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation and lethal challenge. Vaccine (2010) 1.57
Recurrent infections and immune evasion strategies of Staphylococcus aureus. Curr Opin Microbiol (2011) 1.54
A play in four acts: Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation. Trends Microbiol (2011) 1.53
Amide bonds assemble pili on the surface of bacilli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.53
Bacillus anthracis IsdG, a heme-degrading monooxygenase. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.51
Targeting proteins to the cell wall of sporulating Bacillus anthracis. Mol Microbiol (2006) 1.49
Genes required for glycolipid synthesis and lipoteichoic acid anchoring in Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol (2007) 1.48
Bacillus anthracis secretes proteins that mediate heme acquisition from hemoglobin. PLoS Pathog (2008) 1.47
Bacillus anthracis sortase A (SrtA) anchors LPXTG motif-containing surface proteins to the cell wall envelope. J Bacteriol (2005) 1.46
YopD and LcrH regulate expression of Yersinia enterocolitica YopQ by a posttranscriptional mechanism and bind to yopQ RNA. J Bacteriol (2002) 1.44
On the role of Staphylococcus aureus sortase and sortase-catalyzed surface protein anchoring in murine septic arthritis. J Infect Dis (2002) 1.39
In vivo detection of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis by targeting pathogen-specific prothrombin activation. Nat Med (2011) 1.38
Type iii protein secretion in yersinia species. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol (2002) 1.38
Signal peptides direct surface proteins to two distinct envelope locations of Staphylococcus aureus. EMBO J (2008) 1.35
Anchor structure of staphylococcal surface proteins. V. Anchor structure of the sortase B substrate IsdC. J Biol Chem (2005) 1.34
Anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. Cysteine 184 and histidine 120 of sortase form a thiolate-imidazolium ion pair for catalysis. J Biol Chem (2001) 1.33
Yersinia pestis caf1 variants and the limits of plague vaccine protection. Infect Immun (2008) 1.32
Intramolecular amide bonds stabilize pili on the surface of bacilli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.31
Structure-based mechanism of lipoteichoic acid synthesis by Staphylococcus aureus LtaS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.30
Characterization of the Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion ATPase YscN and its regulator, YscL. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.29
Distribution of protein A on the surface of Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol (2007) 1.28
Effect of srtA and srtB gene expression on the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus in animal models of infection. J Antimicrob Chemother (2004) 1.28
The YSIRK-G/S motif of staphylococcal protein A and its role in efficiency of signal peptide processing. J Bacteriol (2003) 1.27
The role of Staphylococcus aureus sortase A and sortase B in murine arthritis. Microbes Infect (2003) 1.26
Role of protein A in the evasion of host adaptive immune responses by Staphylococcus aureus. MBio (2013) 1.26
Sortase D forms the covalent bond that links BcpB to the tip of Bacillus cereus pili. J Biol Chem (2009) 1.25
Secretion signal recognition by YscN, the Yersinia type III secretion ATPase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.23
Bacillus anthracis surface-layer proteins assemble by binding to the secondary cell wall polysaccharide in a manner that requires csaB and tagO. J Mol Biol (2010) 1.21
Immunogenicity and protective immunity against bubonic plague and pneumonic plague by immunization of mice with the recombinant V10 antigen, a variant of LcrV. Infect Immun (2006) 1.21
Racemic crystallography of synthetic protein enantiomers used to determine the X-ray structure of plectasin by direct methods. Protein Sci (2009) 1.20
Generating a collection of insertion mutations in the Staphylococcus aureus genome using bursa aurealis. Methods Mol Biol (2008) 1.19
Structures of sortase B from Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus anthracis reveal catalytic amino acid triad in the active site. Structure (2004) 1.18
Immunization with recombinant V10 protects cynomolgus macaques from lethal pneumonic plague. Infect Immun (2008) 1.18
Abscess formation and alpha-hemolysin induced toxicity in a mouse model of Staphylococcus aureus peritoneal infection. Infect Immun (2012) 1.16
Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion: yscM1 and yscM2 regulate yop gene expression by a posttranscriptional mechanism that targets the 5' untranslated region of yop mRNA. J Bacteriol (2002) 1.16
Identifying protective antigens of Staphylococcus aureus, a pathogen that suppresses host immune responses. FASEB J (2011) 1.15
Staphylococcus aureus mutants lacking the LytR-CpsA-Psr family of enzymes release cell wall teichoic acids into the extracellular medium. J Bacteriol (2013) 1.15
Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion: mutational analysis of the yopQ secretion signal. J Bacteriol (2002) 1.14
BslA, the S-layer adhesin of B. anthracis, is a virulence factor for anthrax pathogenesis. Mol Microbiol (2009) 1.14
Structure of surface layer homology (SLH) domains from Bacillus anthracis surface array protein. J Biol Chem (2011) 1.12
Two capsular polysaccharides enable Bacillus cereus G9241 to cause anthrax-like disease. Mol Microbiol (2011) 1.11
Cell wall anchor structure of BcpA pili in Bacillus anthracis. J Biol Chem (2008) 1.10
Activation of inhibitors by sortase triggers irreversible modification of the active site. J Biol Chem (2007) 1.09
Anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. A conserved arginine residue is required for efficient catalysis of sortase A. J Biol Chem (2004) 1.09
Staphylococcus aureus mutants with increased lysostaphin resistance. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.08
YscU cleavage and the assembly of Yersinia type III secretion machine complexes. Mol Microbiol (2008) 1.07
Staphylococcus aureus secretes coagulase and von Willebrand factor binding protein to modify the coagulation cascade and establish host infections. J Innate Immun (2012) 1.07
Protein A-specific monoclonal antibodies and prevention of Staphylococcus aureus disease in mice. Infect Immun (2012) 1.06
Determinants of murein hydrolase targeting to cross-wall of Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan. J Biol Chem (2012) 1.06
Yersinia yopQ mRNA encodes a bipartite type III secretion signal in the first 15 codons. Mol Microbiol (2003) 1.06