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A functional menadione biosynthesis pathway is required for capsule production by

scholarly article

A small membrane stabilising protein critical to the pathogenicity of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

Agr interference between clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains in an insect model of virulence.

scientific article published on 25 August 2006

Antibiotic-resistant sub-populations of the pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus confer population-wide resistance.

scientific article published in October 2002

Bacterial toxins: Offensive, defensive, or something else altogether?

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Characterization of novel LPXTG-containing proteins of Staphylococcus aureus identified from genome sequences

scientific article published in March 2003

Characterizing the genetic basis of bacterial phenotypes using genome-wide association studies: a new direction for bacteriology

scientific article

Clonal differences in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia-associated mortality

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Clonal distribution and phase-variable expression of a major histocompatibility complex analogue protein in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on April 2005

Cytolytic toxin production by Staphylococcus aureus is dependent upon the activity of the protoheme IX farnesyltransferase

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Disease-associated genotypes of the commensal skin bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Environmental regulation of mutation rates at specific sites.

scientific article

Environmentally constrained mutation and adaptive evolution in Salmonella

scientific article

Epistasis analysis uncovers hidden antibiotic resistance-associated fitness costs hampering the evolution of MRSA ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Evidence for Steric Regulation of Fibrinogen Binding to Staphylococcus aureus Fibronectin-binding Protein A (FnBPA)

scientific article

Evolution and Global Transmission of a Multidrug-Resistant, Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lineage from the Indian Subcontinent

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Evolutionary Trade-Offs Underlie the Multi-faceted Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Extensive re-modelling of the cell wall during the development of bacteraemia

preprint

Fibronectin-binding protein A of Staphylococcus aureus has multiple, substituting, binding regions that mediate adherence to fibronectin and invasion of endothelial cells

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

From genotype to phenotype: can systems biology be used to predict Staphylococcus aureus virulence?

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

Functional blocking of Staphylococcus aureus adhesins following growth in ex vivo media

scientific article published on October 2002

Genes encoding a cellulosic polymer contribute toward the ecological success of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 on plant surfaces

scientific article published in November 2003

Genomic exploration of sequential clinical isolates reveals a distinctive molecular signature of persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

scientific article published on 23 August 2018

Genomic identification of cryptic susceptibility to penicillins and β-lactamase inhibitors in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

How does Staphylococcus aureus escape the bloodstream?

scientific article published on 10 January 2011

Identification of factors contributing to T-cell toxicity of Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates

scientific article

Interference competition and parasite virulence

scientific article published in April 2004

Interspecific competition and siderophore-mediated cooperation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Invasion of Human Cells by a Bacterial Pathogen ⬇️

scientific article published on March 21, 2011

Manipulation of Autophagy in Phagocytes Facilitates Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Methicillin resistance alters the biofilm phenotype and attenuates virulence in Staphylococcus aureus device-associated infections.

scientific article

Methicillin resistance reduces the virulence of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by interfering with the agr quorum sensing system.

scientific article published in February 2012

Molecular mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus nasopharyngeal colonization.

scientific article

Natural mutations in a Staphylococcus aureus virulence regulator attenuate cytotoxicity but permit bacteremia and abscess formation

scientific article (publication date: 16 May 2016)

Offsetting virulence and antibiotic resistance costs by MRSA

scientific article published on 14 January 2010

Oxacillin alters the toxin expression profile of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 2 December 2013

Phenotypic switching of antibiotic resistance circumvents permanent costs in Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article

Post-acute COVID-19 associated with evidence of bystander T-cell activation and a recurring AMR bacterial pneumonia

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Predicting the virulence of MRSA from its genome sequence

scientific article

Promiscuous bacteria have staying power.

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Severe infections emerge from commensal bacteria by adaptive evolution

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Severe infections emerge from the microbiome by adaptive evolution

Staphylococcus aureus clumping factor B (ClfB) promotes adherence to human type I cytokeratin 10: implications for nasal colonization

scientific article published on November 2002

Staphylococcus aureus extracellular adherence protein triggers TNFα release, promoting attachment to endothelial cells via protein A.

scientific article

Staphylococcus aureus host cell invasion and virulence in sepsis is facilitated by the multiple repeats within FnBPA

scientific article

Staphylococcus aureus interaction with phospholipid vesicles--a new method to accurately determine accessory gene regulator (agr) activity

scientific article published on 30 January 2014

Staphylococcus aureus keratinocyte invasion is dependent upon multiple high-affinity fibronectin-binding repeats within FnBPA.

scientific article

The Staphyloccous aureus Eap protein activates expression of proinflammatory cytokines.

scientific article published on 10 March 2008

The evolution and maintenance of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus: a role for host-to-host transmission?

scientific article published on December 2006

The ica operon and biofilm production in coagulase-negative Staphylococci associated with carriage and disease in a neonatal intensive care unit

scientific article

The virulence plasmid of Salmonella typhimurium contains an autoregulated gene, rlgA, that codes for a resolvase-like DNA binding protein

scientific article

Timing Is Everything: Impact of Naturally Occurring Staphylococcus aureus AgrC Cytoplasmic Domain Adaptive Mutations on Autoinduction

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Triclosan-resistant small-colony variants of produce less capsule, less phenol-soluble modulins, and are attenuated in a model of infection

scholarly article

Use of peptide-major histocompatibility complex tetramer technology to study interactions between Staphylococcus aureus proteins and human cells

scientific article published on 15 October 2007

Using functional genomics to decipher the complexity of microbial pathogenicity

scientific article

Wall Teichoic Acids Facilitate the Release of Toxins from the Surface of Staphylococcus aureus

scholarly article

Wall teichoic acids facilitate the release of toxins from the surface of Staphylococcus aureus

preprint

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