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List of works by Morten Kjos

A CozE Homolog Contributes to Cell Size Homeostasis of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

A putative amino acid transporter determines sensitivity to the two-peptide bacteriocin plantaricin JK.

scientific article published on 5 May 2016

An extracellular loop of the mannose phosphotransferase system component IIC is responsible for specific targeting by class IIa bacteriocins

scientific article

An overview of the mosaic bacteriocin pln loci from Lactobacillus plantarum

scientific article published on 22 May 2009

Antibiotic-Induced Replication Stress Triggers Bacterial Competence by Increasing Gene Dosage near the Origin

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Autophosphorylation of the Bacterial Tyrosine-Kinase CpsD Connects Capsule Synthesis with the Cell Cycle in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article (publication date: September 2015)

BactMAP: An R package for integrating, analyzing and visualizing bacterial microscopy data

scientific article published on 24 November 2019

Bright fluorescent Streptococcus pneumoniae for live-cell imaging of host-pathogen interactions

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CRISPR Interference for Rapid Knockdown of Essential Cell Cycle Genes in

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CcrZ is a pneumococcal spatiotemporal cell cycle regulator that interacts with FtsZ and controls DNA replication by modulating the activity of DnaA

scientific article published in September 2021

Chromosome segregation drives division site selection in Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Chromosome segregation drives division site selection in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Class A PBPs have a distinct and unique role in the construction of the pneumococcal cell wall

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Class II one-peptide bacteriocins target a phylogenetically defined subgroup of mannose phosphotransferase systems on sensitive cells

scientific article published on 28 May 2009

CozEa and CozEb play overlapping and essential roles in controlling cell division in Staphylococcus aureus

scholarly article by Gro Anita Stamsås published in September 2018

CozEa and CozEb play overlapping and essential roles in controlling cell division inStaphylococcus aureus

Eavesdropping and crosstalk between quorum sensing peptide signals that regulate bacteriocin production inStreptococcus pneumoniae

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Eavesdropping and crosstalk between secreted quorum sensing peptide signals that regulate bacteriocin production in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Expression of Streptococcus pneumoniae Bacteriocins Is Induced by Antibiotics via Regulatory Interplay with the Competence System

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

High-throughput CRISPRi phenotyping identifies new essential genes in Streptococcus pneumoniae

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High-throughput CRISPRi phenotyping in Streptococcus pneumoniae identifies new essential genes involved in cell wall synthesis and competence development

Host glycan sugar-specific pathways in Streptococcus pneumoniae: galactose as a key sugar in colonisation and infection [corrected]

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

How to get (a)round: mechanisms controlling growth and division of coccoid bacteria

scientific article published on September 2013

Identification of EloR (Spr1851) as a regulator of cell elongation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 15 July 2017

Mechanisms of resistance to bacteriocins targeting the mannose phosphotransferase system

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Natural antimicrobial peptides from bacteria: characteristics and potential applications to fight against antibiotic resistance.

scientific article published on 08 June 2012

Penicillin-binding protein PBP2a provides variable levels of protection toward different β-lactams in Staphylococcus aureus RN4220

scientific article published on 17 May 2020

Prevention of EloR/KhpA heterodimerization by introduction of site-specific amino acid substitutions renders the essential elongasome protein PBP2b redundant in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Quorum sensing integrates environmental cues, cell density and cell history to control bacterial competence

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Quorum sensing integrates environmental cues, cell density and cell history to control bacterial competence

Quorum-sensing based bacteriocin production is down-regulated by N-terminally truncated species of gene activators

scientific article published on 19 June 2007

Red Fluorescent Proteins for Gene Expression and Protein Localization Studies in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Efficient Transformation with DNA Assembled via the Gibson Assembly Method

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Sensitivity to the two-peptide bacteriocin lactococcin G is dependent on UppP, an enzyme involved in cell-wall synthesis

scientific article published in 2014

Streptococcus pneumoniae Rapidly Translocate from the Nasopharynx through the Cribriform Plate to Invade the Outer Meninges

scientific article published in 2022

Target recognition, resistance, immunity and genome mining of class II bacteriocins from Gram-positive bacteria.

scientific article published on 06 October 2011

The ParB-parS Chromosome Segregation System Modulates Competence Development in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

The abi proteins and their involvement in bacteriocin self-immunity

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Tracking of chromosome dynamics in live Streptococcus pneumoniae reveals that transcription promotes chromosome segregation

scientific article published on 9 February 2014