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List of works by Michael P. Jennings

A Glutathione-Dependent Detoxification System Is Required for Formaldehyde Resistance and Optimal Survival of Neisseria meningitidis in Biofilms

scientific article

A Sco homologue plays a role in defence against oxidative stress in pathogenic Neisseria

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

A drug delivery strategy: binding enkephalin to asialoglycoprotein receptor by enzymatic galactosylation

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

A glutathione-based system for defense against carbonyl stress in Haemophilus influenzae.

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A novel epigenetic regulator associated with the hypervirulent Neisseria meningitidis clonal complex 41/44.

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A novel nickel responsive MerR-like regulator, NimR, from Haemophilus influenzae

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

A periplasmic thioredoxin-like protein plays a role in defense against oxidative stress in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

scientific article published on 17 August 2009

A random six-phase switch regulates pneumococcal virulence via global epigenetic changes

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A role for lactate dehydrogenases in the survival of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in human polymorphonuclear leukocytes and cervical epithelial cells

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Additive and synergistic bactericidal activity of antibodies directed against minor outer membrane proteins of Neisseria meningitidis.

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Adherence of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae to Cells and Substrates of the Airway Is Differentially Regulated by Individual ModA Phasevarions

scientific article published in 2023

All major cholesterol-dependent cytolysins use glycans as cellular receptors

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Analysis of nontypeable haemophilus influenzae phase-variable genes during experimental human nasopharyngeal colonization

scientific article published on 28 May 2013

Analysis of the role of pglI in pilin glycosylation of Neisseria meningitidis.

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Biased codon usage in signal peptides: a role in protein export

scientific article published on 21 March 2009

Central role of manganese in regulation of stress responses, physiology, and metabolism in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

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Characterization of an ntrX mutant of Neisseria gonorrhoeae reveals a response regulator that controls expression of respiratory enzymes in oxidase-positive proteobacteria

scientific article published on 5 April 2013

Characterization of the OxyR regulon of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

scientific article

Characterization of the Phase-Variable Autotransporter Lav Reveals a Role in Host Cell Adherence and Biofilm Formation in Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae

scientific article published in 2022

Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of a trisaccharide-linked peptide aimed at improved drug-delivery

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Complete Genome Sequence of Serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis Strain C311

publication published on 21 October 2021

Complete Genome Sequences of Seven Neisseria gonorrhoeae Clinical Isolates from Mucosal and Disseminated Gonococcal Infections

publication published on 28 October 2021

Construction of expression systems for Escherichia coli asparaginase II and two-step purification of the recombinant enzyme from periplasmic extracts

scientific article published in April 1991

Coupling between codon usage, translation and protein export in Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 13 May 2011

Defenses against oxidative stress in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis: distinctive systems for different lifestyles

scientific article published on 8 June 2004

Defenses against oxidative stress in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: a system tailored for a challenging environment

scientific article

Detection of N-glycolylneuraminic acid biomarkers in sera from patients with ovarian cancer using an engineered N-glycolylneuraminic acid-specific lectin SubB2M

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Development of non-antibiotic-resistant, chromosomally based, constitutive and inducible expression systems for aroA-attenuated Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

scientific article published on 17 February 2009

Directed evolution of efficient secretion in the SRP-dependent export of TolB

scientific article published on June 16, 2011

Discovery of Bacterial Fimbria–Glycan Interactions Using Whole-Cell Recombinant Escherichia coli Expression

scientific article published in 2021

Distinct physiological roles for the two L-asparaginase isozymes of Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 31 May 2013

Drug repurposing: Misconceptions, challenges, and opportunities for academic researchers

scientific article published in 2021

Dual pili post-translational modifications synergize to mediate meningococcal adherence to platelet activating factor receptor on human airway cells

scientific article

Evaluation of truncated NhhA protein as a candidate meningococcal vaccine antigen

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Evidence for distinctive mechanisms of S-nitrosoglutathione metabolism by AdhC in two closely related species, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis.

scientific article published on 12 January 2007

Exploiting species specificity to understand the tropism of a human-specific toxin

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

F9 fimbriae of uropathogenic Escherichia coli are expressed at low temperature and recognise Galβ1-3GlcNAc-containing glycans

scientific article

Ferrets exclusively synthesize Neu5Ac and express naturally humanized influenza A virus receptors

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Functional analysis of the multi-copper oxidase from Legionella pneumophila

scientific article published on 25 January 2008

Genetic analysis of a plasmid encoding haemocin production in Haemophilus paragallinarum

scientific article published on November 2003

Glutathione-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase AdhC is required for defense against nitrosative stress in Haemophilus influenzae.

scientific article

Glycointeractions in bacterial pathogenesis

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Haemophilus influenzae phasevarions have evolved from type III DNA restriction systems into epigenetic regulators of gene expression.

scientific article

Human CD45 is an F-component-specific receptor for the staphylococcal toxin Panton-Valentine leukocidin.

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Identification and characterisation of a novel conserved outer membrane protein from Neisseria meningitidis

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Identification and characterization of pptA: a gene involved in the phase-variable expression of phosphorylcholine on pili of Neisseria meningitidis.

scientific article published on December 2003

Identification of a crucial residue required for Staphylococcus aureus LukAB cytotoxicity and receptor recognition.

scientific article

Identification of a domain critical for Staphylococcus aureus LukED receptor targeting and lysis of erythrocytes

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Identification of a novel gene involved in pilin glycosylation in Neisseria meningitidis

scientific article published on August 1, 1998

Identification of bacterial protein O-oligosaccharyltransferases and their glycoprotein substrates

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Identification, characterization and immunogenicity of an O-antigen capsular polysaccharide of Francisella tularensis.

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Interplay between manganese and iron in pneumococcal pathogenesis: role of the orphan response regulator RitR

scientific article published on 26 November 2012

Investigation of ansB and sspA derived promoters for multi- and single-copy antigen expression in attenuated Salmonella enterica var. typhimurium

scientific article published in August 2005

Investigation of oxidative stress defenses of Neisseria gonorrhoeae by using a human polymorphonuclear leukocyte survival assay

scientific article

Isolation and characterization of the Neisseria meningitidis lpxD-fabZ-lpxA gene cluster involved in lipid A biosynthesis

scientific article published in May 1997

Lectin activity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa vaccine candidates PSE17-1, PSE41-5 and PSE54

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Liposomes for Improved Enzymatic Glycosylation of Lipid-Modified Lactose Enkephalin

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

MCC950 directly targets the NLRP3 ATP-hydrolysis motif for inflammasome inhibition

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Manganese regulation of virulence factors and oxidative stress resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

scientific article

Metal binding specificity of the MntABC permease of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and its influence on bacterial growth and interaction with cervical epithelial cells

scientific article published on 21 April 2008

ModM DNA methyltransferase methylome analysis reveals a potential role for Moraxella catarrhalis phasevarions in otitis media.

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Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilin glycan contributes to CR3 activation during challenge of primary cervical epithelial cells

scientific article published on 04 March 2011

Neisserial Heparin Binding Antigen (NHBA) Contributes to the Adhesion of Neisseria meningitidis to Human Epithelial Cells

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Origin of the diversity in DNA recognition domains in phasevarion associated modA genes of pathogenic Neisseria and Haemophilus influenzae

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PerR controls Mn-dependent resistance to oxidative stress in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

scientific article published on April 2006

Phasevarion mediated epigenetic gene regulation in Helicobacter pylori

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Phasevarions mediate epigenetic regulation of antimicrobial susceptibility in Neisseria meningitidis.

scientific article published on 28 April 2014

Phasevarions mediate random switching of gene expression in pathogenic Neisseria

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Phenotypic Characterization of acopAMutant of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Identifies a Link between Copper and Nitrosative Stress

scientific article published on December 19, 2011

Plasmid-encoded Tet B tetracycline resistance in Haemophilus parasuis

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Pneumococcal Phasevarions Control Multiple Virulence Traits, Including Vaccine Candidate Expression

scientific article published in 2022

PrrC, a Sco homologue from Rhodobacter sphaeroides, possesses thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase activity

scientific article published on 04 September 2007

Publisher Correction: Human CD45 is an F-component-specific receptor for the staphylococcal toxin Panton-Valentine leukocidin

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Purification of post-translationally modified proteins from bacteria: homologous expression and purification of histidine-tagged pilin from Neisseria meningitidis.

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Rapid and efficient screening of a Representational Difference Analysis library using reverse Southern hybridisation: identification of genetic differences between Haemophilus parasuis isolates

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Recombinant probiotics for treatment and prevention of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhea.

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Recombinant truncated AniA of pathogenic Neisseria elicits a non-native immune response and functional blocking antibodies.

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Repurposing a neurodegenerative disease drug to treat Gram-negative antibiotic-resistant bacterial sepsis

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Secretory signal sequence non-optimal codons are required for expression and export of beta-lactamase

scientific article published on 29 November 2007

Selection against glycosylation sites in potential target proteins of the general HMWC N-glycosyltransferase in Haemophilus influenzae.

scientific article published on 22 February 2014

Selection for phase variation of LOS biosynthetic genes frequently occurs in progression of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae infection from the nasopharynx to the middle ear of human patients.

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Signal peptidase I processed secretory signal sequences: Selection for and against specific amino acids at the second position of mature protein

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Site-specific mutagenesis of Escherichia coli asparaginase II. None of the three histidine residues is required for catalysis

scientific article published in September 1992

Specific blood group antibodies inhibit Shigella flexneri interaction with human cells in the absence of spinoculation

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Specificity and utility of SubB2M, a new N-glycolylneuraminic acid lectin

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

Staphylococcus aureus LukAB cytotoxin kills human neutrophils by targeting the CD11b subunit of the integrin Mac-1.

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

Streptococcus suis Encodes Multiple Allelic Variants of a Phase-Variable Type III DNA Methyltransferase, ModS, That Control Distinct Phasevarions

scientific article published in 2021

Substrate recognition of a structure motif for phosphorylcholine post-translational modification in Neisseria meningitidis.

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

Survey of ferroxidase expression and siderophore production in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on June 2004

Systematic Analysis of REBASE Identifies Numerous Type I Restriction-Modification Systems with Duplicated, Distinct hsdS Specificity Genes That Can Switch System Specificity by Recombination

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

Tetranucleotide repeats identify novel virulence determinant homologues in Neisseria meningitidis

scientific article published on January 1999

The Composition and Metabolic Phenotype of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Biofilms

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The HMW2 adhesin of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae is a human-adapted lectin that mediates high-affinity binding to 2-6 linked N-acetylneuraminic acid glycans

scholarly article by John M Atack published in September 2018

The cholesterol-dependent cytolysins pneumolysin and streptolysin O require binding to red blood cell glycans for hemolytic activity

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The multi-copper-ion oxidase CueO of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is required for systemic virulence

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The multicopper oxidase (CueO) and cell aggregation in Escherichia coli.

scientific article published in August 2007

The multicopper oxidase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ferroxidase with a central role in iron acquisition

scientific article published in September 2002

The phase-variable allele of the pilus glycosylation gene pglA is not strongly associated with strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated from patients with disseminated gonococcal infection

scientific article published on 12 February 2007

The phasevarion: a genetic system controlling coordinated, random switching of expression of multiple genes

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Transcriptional profiling identifies the metabolic phenotype of gonococcal biofilms.

scientific article published on 15 June 2009