Published in Curr Opin Microbiol on February 01, 2005
The selective value of bacterial shape. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2006) 3.97
Additive empirical force field for hexopyranose monosaccharides. J Comput Chem (2008) 3.23
How bacteria consume their own exoskeletons (turnover and recycling of cell wall peptidoglycan). Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2008) 3.12
NOD2, RIP2 and IRF5 play a critical role in the type I interferon response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS Pathog (2009) 2.31
New insights into the WalK/WalR (YycG/YycF) essential signal transduction pathway reveal a major role in controlling cell wall metabolism and biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol (2007) 2.30
Bacterial growth and cell division: a mycobacterial perspective. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2008) 2.01
Comparative fecal metagenomics unveils unique functional capacity of the swine gut. BMC Microbiol (2011) 1.89
Virulence mechanisms of Tannerella forsythia. Periodontol 2000 (2010) 1.60
Listeria monocytogenes surface proteins: from genome predictions to function. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2007) 1.59
A mycobacterial enzyme essential for cell division synergizes with resuscitation-promoting factor. PLoS Pathog (2008) 1.47
Unraveling the secret lives of bacteria: use of in vivo expression technology and differential fluorescence induction promoter traps as tools for exploring niche-specific gene expression. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2005) 1.45
NF-kappaB in the immune response of Drosophila. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol (2009) 1.41
Type I interferon production induced by Streptococcus pyogenes-derived nucleic acids is required for host protection. PLoS Pathog (2011) 1.36
Structure and metal-dependent mechanism of peptidoglycan deacetylase, a streptococcal virulence factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.31
The complete genome sequence of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis FRC41 isolated from a 12-year-old girl with necrotizing lymphadenitis reveals insights into gene-regulatory networks contributing to virulence. BMC Genomics (2010) 1.24
Functional analysis of AtlA, the major N-acetylglucosaminidase of Enterococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.21
The Nodosome: Nod1 and Nod2 control bacterial infections and inflammation. Semin Immunopathol (2007) 1.21
A new family of lysozyme inhibitors contributing to lysozyme tolerance in gram-negative bacteria. PLoS Pathog (2008) 1.19
Phylogenomics reveals a diverse Rickettsiales type IV secretion system. Infect Immun (2010) 1.17
Oxidative stress-induced peptidoglycan deacetylase in Helicobacter pylori. J Biol Chem (2009) 1.13
Enterococcus faecalis constitutes an unusual bacterial model in lysozyme resistance. Infect Immun (2007) 1.13
Identification of genetic determinants and enzymes involved with the amidation of glutamic acid residues in the peptidoglycan of Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS Pathog (2012) 1.06
Bacterial peptidoglycan degrading enzymes and their impact on host muropeptide detection. J Innate Immun (2009) 1.04
Binding and Cellular Activation Studies Reveal That Toll-like Receptor 2 Can Differentially Recognize Peptidoglycan from Gram-positive and Gram-negative Bacteria. J Biol Chem (2009) 1.01
Modification of the structure of peptidoglycan is a strategy to avoid detection by nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain protein 1. Infect Immun (2006) 1.00
Membrane vesicles of Clostridium perfringens type A strains induce innate and adaptive immunity. Int J Med Microbiol (2014) 0.91
Genome-wide survey of prokaryotic serine proteases: analysis of distribution and domain architectures of five serine protease families in prokaryotes. BMC Genomics (2008) 0.91
Muropeptide modification-amidation of peptidoglycan D-glutamate does not affect the proinflammatory activity of Staphylococcus aureus. Infect Immun (2007) 0.89
Toll-like receptor 2-mediated peptidoglycan uptake by immature intestinal epithelial cells from apical side and exosome-associated transcellular transcytosis. J Cell Physiol (2010) 0.88
The Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan protects mice against the pathogen and eradicates experimentally induced infection. PLoS One (2011) 0.88
Virulence reduction in bacteriophage resistant bacteria. Front Microbiol (2015) 0.87
Neisseria gonorrhoeae virulence factor NG1686 is a bifunctional M23B family metallopeptidase that influences resistance to hydrogen peroxide and colony morphology. J Biol Chem (2012) 0.85
Illumination of growth, division and secretion by metabolic labeling of the bacterial cell surface. FEMS Microbiol Rev (2015) 0.83
The Legionella pneumophila EnhC protein interferes with immunostimulatory muramyl peptide production to evade innate immunity. Cell Host Microbe (2012) 0.83
Naringenin regulates expression of genes involved in cell wall synthesis in Herbaspirillum seropedicae. Appl Environ Microbiol (2011) 0.81
Comparative genomics for mycobacterial peptidoglycan remodelling enzymes reveals extensive genetic multiplicity. BMC Microbiol (2014) 0.80
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv1096 protein: gene cloning, protein expression, and peptidoglycan deacetylase activity. BMC Microbiol (2014) 0.78
The Absence of a Mature Cell Wall Sacculus in Stable Listeria monocytogenes L-Form Cells Is Independent of Peptidoglycan Synthesis. PLoS One (2016) 0.77
A UDP-X diphosphatase from Streptococcus pneumoniae hydrolyzes precursors of peptidoglycan biosynthesis. PLoS One (2013) 0.76
Structure determination of BA0150, a putative polysaccharide deacetylase from Bacillus anthracis. Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun (2014) 0.76
Divergent responses to peptidoglycans derived from different E. coli serotypes influence inflammatory outcome in trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, macrophages. BMC Genomics (2011) 0.76
Various checkpoints prevent the synthesis of Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan hydrolase LytM in the stationary growth phase. RNA Biol (2016) 0.76
Host actin polymerization tunes the cell division cycle of an intracellular pathogen. Cell Rep (2015) 0.76
Accumulation of Peptidoglycan O-Acetylation Leads to Altered Cell Wall Biochemistry and Negatively Impacts Pathogenesis Factors of Campylobacter jejuni. J Biol Chem (2016) 0.75
Encyclopedia of bacterial gene circuits whose presence or absence correlate with pathogenicity--a large-scale system analysis of decoded bacterial genomes. BMC Genomics (2015) 0.75
Amidase Activity of AmiC Controls Cell Separation and Stem Peptide Release and Is Enhanced by NlpD in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Biol Chem (2016) 0.75
Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the peptidoglycan N-acetylglucosamine deacetylase BC1960 from Bacillus cereus in the presence of its substrate (GlcNAc)6. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun (2008) 0.75