Published in Mol Microbiol on October 01, 2005
Neisseria gonorrhoeae O-linked pilin glycosylation: functional analyses define both the biosynthetic pathway and glycan structure. Mol Microbiol (2007) 1.44
Role of lgtC in resistance of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae strain R2866 to human serum. Infect Immun (2006) 1.12
LuxS promotes biofilm maturation and persistence of nontypeable haemophilus influenzae in vivo via modulation of lipooligosaccharides on the bacterial surface. Infect Immun (2009) 1.08
Structural characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 9A capsule polysaccharide reveals role of glycosyl 6-O-acetyltransferase wcjE in serotype 9V capsule biosynthesis and immunogenicity. J Biol Chem (2012) 1.05
Differential occurrence of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 11E between asymptomatic carriage and invasive pneumococcal disease isolates reflects a unique model of pathogen microevolution. Clin Infect Dis (2012) 1.01
Phosphorylcholine allows for evasion of bactericidal antibody by Haemophilus influenzae. PLoS Pathog (2012) 0.99
Simple sequence repeats in Haemophilus influenzae. Infect Genet Evol (2008) 0.95
Enzymatic modifications of exopolysaccharides enhance bacterial persistence. Front Microbiol (2015) 0.91
Evasion of killing by human antibody and complement through multiple variations in the surface oligosaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae. Mol Microbiol (2013) 0.87
Duplicate copies of lic1 direct the addition of multiple phosphocholine residues in the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae. Infect Immun (2007) 0.85
Changes in membrane fluid state and heat shock response cause attenuation of virulence. J Bacteriol (2010) 0.84
Haemophilus parainfluenzae has a limited core lipopolysaccharide repertoire with no phase variation. Glycoconj J (2012) 0.76
Genomic islands: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and evolution. FEMS Microbiol Rev (2008) 3.80
Sialic acid utilization by bacterial pathogens. Microbiology (2007) 2.62
Structure and dynamics of the pan-genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae and closely related species. Genome Biol (2010) 2.60
Capsular serotype-specific attack rates and duration of carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in a population of children. J Infect Dis (2006) 2.54
Qualitative and quantitative assessment of meningococcal antigens to evaluate the potential strain coverage of protein-based vaccines. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 2.30
Serogroup C meningococcal glycoconjugate vaccine in adolescents: persistence of bactericidal antibodies and kinetics of the immune response to a booster vaccine more than 3 years after immunization. Clin Infect Dis (2006) 1.95
Transferable antibiotic resistance elements in Haemophilus influenzae share a common evolutionary origin with a diverse family of syntenic genomic islands. J Bacteriol (2004) 1.93
Microsatellite instability regulates transcription factor binding and gene expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.85
Neisseria meningitidis is structured in clades associated with restriction modification systems that modulate homologous recombination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.84
Type IV secretion systems: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and virulence. Cell Microbiol (2008) 1.78
Host-derived sialic acid is incorporated into Haemophilus influenzae lipopolysaccharide and is a major virulence factor in experimental otitis media. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.75
Novel type IV secretion system involved in propagation of genomic islands. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.64
The T-helper cell type 1 immune response to gram-negative bacterial infections is impaired in COPD. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2010) 1.56
Neisserial lipooligosaccharide is a target for complement component C4b. Inner core phosphoethanolamine residues define C4b linkage specificity. J Biol Chem (2003) 1.55
The class A macrophage scavenger receptor is a major pattern recognition receptor for Neisseria meningitidis which is independent of lipopolysaccharide and not required for secretory responses. Infect Immun (2002) 1.45
High rates of recombination in otitis media isolates of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae. Infect Genet Evol (2003) 1.45
Phosphorylation of the lipid A region of meningococcal lipopolysaccharide: identification of a family of transferases that add phosphoethanolamine to lipopolysaccharide. J Bacteriol (2003) 1.44
Identification of a gene (lpt-3) required for the addition of phosphoethanolamine to the lipopolysaccharide inner core of Neisseria meningitidis and its role in mediating susceptibility to bactericidal killing and opsonophagocytosis. Mol Microbiol (2002) 1.40
CRM197-conjugated serogroup C meningococcal capsular polysaccharide, but not the native polysaccharide, induces persistent antigen-specific memory B cells. Blood (2006) 1.39
Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccines. Immunology (2004) 1.37
Structural requirements for TLR4-mediated LPS signalling: a biological role for LPS modifications. Microbes Infect (2003) 1.30
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae clearance by alveolar macrophages is impaired by exposure to cigarette smoke. Infect Immun (2009) 1.30
Genome sequencing of disease and carriage isolates of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae identifies discrete population structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 1.27
Role of complement in defense of the middle ear revealed by restoring the virulence of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae siaB mutants. Infect Immun (2006) 1.25
Lack of serum bactericidal activity in preschool children two years after a single dose of serogroup C meningococcal polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2005) 1.24
Sequence and functional analyses of Haemophilus spp. genomic islands. Genome Biol (2007) 1.23
Recombinational switching of the Clostridium difficile S-layer and a novel glycosylation gene cluster revealed by large-scale whole-genome sequencing. J Infect Dis (2012) 1.21
Immunological memory: the role of B cells in long-term protection against invasive bacterial pathogens. JAMA (2005) 1.13
Acquisition of Streptococcus pneumoniae and nonspecific morbidity in infants and their families: a cohort study. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2005) 1.13
Three genes, lgtF, lic2C and lpsA, have a primary role in determining the pattern of oligosaccharide extension from the inner core of Haemophilus influenzae LPS. Microbiology (2004) 1.13
Expression and structural diversity of the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae: implication in virulence. Int J Med Microbiol (2007) 1.10
lpt6, a gene required for addition of phosphoethanolamine to inner-core lipopolysaccharide of Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae. J Bacteriol (2004) 1.07
Identification of Neisseria meningitidis nonlipopolysaccharide ligands for class A macrophage scavenger receptor by using a novel assay. Infect Immun (2006) 1.07
The role of lex2 in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Haemophilus influenzae strains RM7004 and RM153. Microbiology (2003) 1.06
Mutation rates: estimating phase variation rates when fitness differences are present and their impact on population structure. Microbiology (2003) 1.05
Neisseria meningitidis escape from the bactericidal activity of a monoclonal antibody is mediated by phase variation of lgtG and enhanced by a mutator phenotype. Infect Immun (2008) 1.05
High allelic diversity in the methyltransferase gene of a phase variable type III restriction-modification system has implications for the fitness of Haemophilus influenzae. Nucleic Acids Res (2006) 1.05
Involvement of genes of genome maintenance in the regulation of phase variation frequencies in Neisseria meningitidis. Microbiology (2004) 1.03
Immunogenicity and induction of immunological memory of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in preterm UK infants. Vaccine (2006) 1.02
Simple sequence repeats (microsatellites): mutational mechanisms and contributions to bacterial pathogenesis. A meeting review. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol (2004) 1.02
Immunogenicity and safety of a combination pneumococcal-meningococcal vaccine in infants: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA (2005) 0.99
Haemophilus influenzae biofilms: hypothesis or fact? Trends Microbiol (2008) 0.99
Mutations in polI but not mutSLH destabilize Haemophilus influenzae tetranucleotide repeats. EMBO J (2002) 0.99
The macrophage scavenger receptor A is host-protective in experimental meningococcal septicaemia. PLoS Pathog (2009) 0.98
School-aged children: a reservoir for continued circulation of Haemophilus influenzae type b in the United Kingdom. J Infect Dis (2008) 0.97
Capsulate bacteria and the lung. Br Med Bull (2002) 0.97
Relative contributions of lipooligosaccharide inner and outer core modifications to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis. Infect Immun (2013) 0.96
Biosynthesis of cryptic lipopolysaccharide glycoforms in Haemophilus influenzae involves a mechanism similar to that required for O-antigen synthesis. J Bacteriol (2004) 0.96
Identification of a bifunctional lipopolysaccharide sialyltransferase in Haemophilus influenzae: incorporation of disialic acid. J Biol Chem (2006) 0.96
Galectin-3 binds Neisseria meningitidis and increases interaction with phagocytic cells. Cell Microbiol (2012) 0.95
Structure of extended lipopolysaccharide glycoforms containing two globotriose units in Haemophilus influenzae serotype b strain RM7004. Biochemistry (2003) 0.93
Specific amino acids of the glycosyltransferase LpsA direct the addition of glucose or galactose to the terminal inner core heptose of Haemophilus influenzae lipopolysaccharide via alternative linkages. J Biol Chem (2006) 0.92
Development, characterization, and functional activity of a panel of specific monoclonal antibodies to inner core lipopolysaccharide epitopes in Neisseria meningitidis. Infect Immun (2004) 0.92
Highly conserved Neisseria meningitidis inner-core lipopolysaccharide epitope confers protection against experimental meningococcal bacteremia. J Infect Dis (2003) 0.92
Safety and immunogenicity of meningococcus serogroup C conjugate vaccine administered as a primary or booster vaccination to healthy four-year-old children. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2002) 0.92
Structural analysis of the lipopolysaccharide from Neisseria meningitidis strain BZ157 galE: localisation of two phosphoethanolamine residues in the inner core oligosaccharide. Carbohydr Res (2002) 0.90
Elucidation of the monoclonal antibody 5G8-reactive, virulence-associated lipopolysaccharide epitope of Haemophilus influenzae and its role in bacterial resistance to complement-mediated killing. Infect Immun (2005) 0.90
Structural diversity in lipopolysaccharide expression in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. Identification of L-glycerol-D-manno-heptose in the outer-core region in three clinical isolates. Eur J Biochem (2003) 0.90
Sialic acid mediated transcriptional modulation of a highly conserved sialometabolism gene cluster in Haemophilus influenzae and its effect on virulence. BMC Microbiol (2010) 0.90
Structural characterization of lipid A from nontypeable and type f Haemophilus influenzae: variability of fatty acid substitution. Anal Biochem (2005) 0.89
Investigations into genome diversity of Haemophilus influenzae using whole genome sequencing of clinical isolates and laboratory transformants. BMC Microbiol (2012) 0.89
Identification of the functional initiation codons of a phase-variable gene of Haemophilus influenzae, lic2A, with the potential for differential expression. J Bacteriol (2006) 0.89
T helper cells and efficacy of Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccination. Lancet Infect Dis (2004) 0.88
Nontypable Haemophilus influenzae displays a prevalent surface structure molecular pattern in clinical isolates. PLoS One (2011) 0.88
A Haemophilus influenzae strain associated with Fisher syndrome expresses a novel disialylated ganglioside mimic. Biochemistry (2007) 0.88
Digalactoside expression in the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae and its role in intravascular survival. Infect Immun (2005) 0.88
The role familiarity with science and medicine plays in parents' decision making about enrolling a child in vaccine research. Qual Health Res (2007) 0.88
Immunologic memory with no detectable bactericidal antibody response to a first dose of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine at four years. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2003) 0.87
Dihydroxyacetone-induced oscillations in cytoplasmic free Ca2+ and the ATP/ADP ratio in pancreatic beta-cells at substimulatory glucose. J Biol Chem (2003) 0.87
Identification and structural characterization of a sialylated lacto-N-neotetraose structure in the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae. Eur J Biochem (2002) 0.87
Comparative genomics of unintrogressed Campylobacter coli clades 2 and 3. BMC Genomics (2014) 0.85
Duplicate copies of lic1 direct the addition of multiple phosphocholine residues in the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae. Infect Immun (2007) 0.85