Proteomics of protein secretion by Bacillus subtilis: separating the "secrets" of the secretome.

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Published in Microbiol Mol Biol Rev on June 01, 2004

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Harold Tjalsma1, Haike Antelmann, Jan D H Jongbloed, Peter G Braun, Elise Darmon, Ronald Dorenbos, Jean-Yves F Dubois, Helga Westers, Geeske Zanen, Wim J Quax, Oscar P Kuipers, Sierd Bron, Michael Hecker, Jan Maarten van Dijl

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1: Department of Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands.

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The relative value of operon predictions. Brief Bioinform (2008) 1.81

Bacillus subtilis as cell factory for pharmaceutical proteins: a biotechnological approach to optimize the host organism. Biochim Biophys Acta (2004) 1.80

Proteomic approach to understanding antibiotic action. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2003) 1.78

Severe cardiac phenotype with right ventricular predominance in a large cohort of patients with a single missense mutation in the DES gene. Heart Rhythm (2009) 1.78

A comprehensive proteome map of growing Bacillus subtilis cells. Proteomics (2004) 1.78

Quorum quenching by an N-acyl-homoserine lactone acylase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Infect Immun (2006) 1.77

Identification of VceA and VceC, two members of the VjbR regulon that are translocated into macrophages by the Brucella type IV secretion system. Mol Microbiol (2008) 1.76

Influence of the two-component system SaeRS on global gene expression in two different Staphylococcus aureus strains. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.76

Global characterization of disulfide stress in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol (2003) 1.75

The Bacillus subtilis iron-sparing response is mediated by a Fur-regulated small RNA and three small, basic proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.74

Polysulfides link H2S to protein thiol oxidation. Antioxid Redox Signal (2013) 1.70

Time-resolved determination of the CcpA regulon of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.69

Physiological characterization of a heme-deficient mutant of Staphylococcus aureus by a proteomic approach. J Bacteriol (2003) 1.69

Post-translational modification of therapeutic peptides by NisB, the dehydratase of the lantibiotic nisin. Biochemistry (2005) 1.68

FIVA: Functional Information Viewer and Analyzer extracting biological knowledge from transcriptome data of prokaryotes. Bioinformatics (2007) 1.65

Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng (2003) 1.64

CodY of Streptococcus pneumoniae: link between nutritional gene regulation and colonization. J Bacteriol (2007) 1.64

BAGEL: a web-based bacteriocin genome mining tool. Nucleic Acids Res (2006) 1.64

The iturin and fengycin families of lipopeptides are key factors in antagonism of Bacillus subtilis toward Podosphaera fusca. Mol Plant Microbe Interact (2007) 1.61

Transient heterogeneity in extracellular protease production by Bacillus subtilis. Mol Syst Biol (2008) 1.60

Molecular discrimination of responders and nonresponders to anti-TNF alpha therapy in rheumatoid arthritis by etanercept. Arthritis Res Ther (2008) 1.59

Two minimal Tat translocases in Bacillus. Mol Microbiol (2004) 1.58

An ancient pathway combining carbon dioxide fixation with the generation and utilization of a sodium ion gradient for ATP synthesis. PLoS One (2012) 1.57

Effects of phosphorelay perturbations on architecture, sporulation, and spore resistance in biofilms of Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.56

Genome engineering reveals large dispensable regions in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Biol Evol (2003) 1.55

UniFrag and GenomePrimer: selection of primers for genome-wide production of unique amplicons. Bioinformatics (2003) 1.55

Desmoglein-2 and desmocollin-2 mutations in dutch arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomypathy patients: results from a multicenter study. Circ Cardiovasc Genet (2009) 1.54

Host imprints on bacterial genomes--rapid, divergent evolution in individual patients. PLoS Pathog (2010) 1.54

Novel surface display system for proteins on non-genetically modified gram-positive bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.53

Elevated type I interferon-like activity in a subset of multiple sclerosis patients: molecular basis and clinical relevance. J Neuroinflammation (2012) 1.52

Spx is a global effector impacting stress tolerance and biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.52

SpxB regulates O-acetylation-dependent resistance of Lactococcus lactis peptidoglycan to hydrolysis. J Biol Chem (2007) 1.51

Phospholamban R14del mutation in patients diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy or arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: evidence supporting the concept of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Eur J Heart Fail (2012) 1.51

The influence of agr and sigmaB in growth phase dependent regulation of virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus. Proteomics (2004) 1.51

Regulation of glutamine and glutamate metabolism by GlnR and GlnA in Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Biol Chem (2006) 1.50

Autolysis of Lactococcus lactis is increased upon D-alanine depletion of peptidoglycan and lipoteichoic acids. J Bacteriol (2005) 1.49

The novel transcriptional regulator SczA mediates protection against Zn2+ stress by activation of the Zn2+-resistance gene czcD in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mol Microbiol (2007) 1.49

Redox sensing by a Rex-family repressor is involved in the regulation of anaerobic gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus. Mol Microbiol (2010) 1.49

The Rok protein of Bacillus subtilis represses genes for cell surface and extracellular functions. J Bacteriol (2005) 1.49

A novel class of heat and secretion stress-responsive genes is controlled by the autoregulated CssRS two-component system of Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol (2002) 1.48

S-bacillithiolation protects against hypochlorite stress in Bacillus subtilis as revealed by transcriptomics and redox proteomics. Mol Cell Proteomics (2011) 1.48