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<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Secretes Coagulase and von Willebrand Factor Binding Protein to Modify the Coagulation Cascade and Establish Host Infections

scientific article published on January 3, 2012

A play in four acts: Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation

scientific article published on February 25, 2011

A synonymous mutation in Yersinia enterocolitica yopE affects the function of the YopE type III secretion signal

scientific article

ABI domain‐containing proteins contribute to surface protein display and cell division in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Abscess formation and alpha-hemolysin induced toxicity in a mouse model of Staphylococcus aureus peritoneal infection.

scientific article

Activation of Inhibitors by Sortase Triggers Irreversible Modification of the Active Site

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Allelic replacement in Staphylococcus aureus with inducible counter-selection.

scientific article published on 26 July 2005

Amide bonds assemble pili on the surface of bacilli

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Amino acid residues 196-225 of LcrV represent a plague protective epitope

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An embarrassment of sortases – a richness of substrates? Response

An iron-regulated sortase anchors a class of surface protein during Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis

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An oxidation-sensing mechanism is used by the global regulator MgrA in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 17 September 2006

Anchor structure of staphylococcal surface proteins. V. Anchor structure of the sortase B substrate IsdC.

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Anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. A conserved arginine residue is required for efficient catalysis of sortase A.

scientific article published on 6 July 2004

Anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. Cysteine 184 and histidine 120 of sortase form a thiolate-imidazolium ion pair for catalysis

scientific article published on 19 November 2001

Anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. III. Lipid II is an in vivo peptidoglycan substrate for sortase-catalyzed surface protein anchoring

scientific article published on 20 February 2002

Antibodies against a secreted product of Staphylococcus aureus trigger phagocytic killing

scientific article published on 15 February 2016

Antiinfective therapy with a small molecule inhibitor of Staphylococcus aureus sortase.

scientific article

Architects at the bacterial surface — sortases and the assembly of pili with isopeptide bonds

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Assembly and Function of the Bacillus anthracis S-Layer

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Assembly of pili in Gram-positive bacteria.

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Assembly of pili on the surface of Bacillus cereus vegetative cells

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Assembly of pili on the surface of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

scientific article

Bacillus anthracis Acetyltransferases PatA1 and PatA2 Modify the Secondary Cell Wall Polysaccharide and Affect the Assembly of S-Layer Proteins

scientific article published on December 14, 2012

Bacillus anthracis IsdG, a heme-degrading monooxygenase

scientific article

Bacillus anthracis SlaQ Promotes S-Layer Protein Assembly

scientific article

Bacillus anthracis lcp Genes Support Vegetative Growth, Envelope Assembly, and Spore Formation

scientific article

Bacillus anthracis secretes proteins that mediate heme acquisition from hemoglobin

scientific article

Bacillus anthracis sortase A (SrtA) anchors LPXTG motif-containing surface proteins to the cell wall envelope

scientific article

Bacillus anthracis surface-layer proteins assemble by binding to the secondary cell wall polysaccharide in a manner that requires csaB and tagO

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Bacillus anthracis tagO Is Required for Vegetative Growth and Secondary Cell Wall Polysaccharide Synthesis

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Bacillus anthracisprotease InhA regulates BslA‐mediated adhesion in human endothelial cells

scientific article published on April 17, 2012

Bacillus cereus G9241 S-Layer Assembly Contributes to the Pathogenesis of Anthrax-Like Disease in Mice

scientific article published on November 30, 2012

Bacterial invasins: molecular systems dedicated to the invasion of host tissues

scientific article published in January 2005

Binding of SycH chaperone to YscM1 and YscM2 activates effector yop expression in Yersinia enterocolitica.

scientific article published on February 2004

BslA, a pXO1-encoded adhesin of Bacillus anthracis

scientific article

BslA, the S-layer adhesin of B. anthracis, is a virulence factor for anthrax pathogenesis

scientific article

Capsule anchoring in Bacillus anthracis occurs by a transpeptidation reaction that is inhibited by capsidin

scientific article

CcpA mediates proline auxotrophy and is required for Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis

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Cell wall anchor structure of BcpA pili in Bacillus anthracis

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Characterization of the Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion ATPase YscN and its regulator, YscL.

scientific article

Classic Spotlight: Molecular Biology of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Classic Spotlight: Studies on the Low-Calcium Response of Yersinia pestis Reveal the Secrets of Plague Pathogenesis

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Classic Spotlights: Selected Highlights from the First 100 Years of the Journal of Bacteriology

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Coagulases as Determinants of Protective Immune Responses against Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on July 23, 2012

Comparative analysis of USA300 virulence determinants in a rabbit model of skin and soft tissue infection

scientific article

Contribution of Staphylococcus aureus Coagulases and Clumping Factor A to Abscess Formation in a Rabbit Model of Skin and Soft Tissue Infection

scientific article

Contribution of coagulases towards Staphylococcus aureus disease and protective immunity

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Cross-linked peptidoglycan mediates lysostaphin binding to the cell wall envelope of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Crystal structures of Staphylococcus aureus sortase A and its substrate complex.

scientific article

Determinants of Murein Hydrolase Targeting to Cross-wall of Staphylococcus aureus Peptidoglycan

scientific article published on February 2, 2012

Determination of the X-ray structure of the snake venom protein omwaprin by total chemical synthesis and racemic protein crystallography

scientific article

Distribution of protein A on the surface of Staphylococcus aureus

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Effect of srtA and srtB gene expression on the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus in animal models of infection

scientific article published on 4 February 2004

Enzymatic properties of Staphylococcus aureus adenosine synthase (AdsA)

scientific article published on October 28, 2011

Erratum: Corrigendum: Exogenous and endogenous glycolipid antigens activate NKT cells during microbial infections

scientific article published in Nature

EssD, a Nuclease Effector of the Staphylococcus aureus ESS Pathway

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Exogenous and endogenous glycolipid antigens activate NKT cells during microbial infections

scientific article published in March 2005

Exploring Staphylococcus aureus pathways to disease for vaccine development.

scientific article published on December 2011

Fibrin formation by staphylothrombin facilitates Staphylococcus aureus-induced platelet aggregation

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

Galactosylation of the secondary cell wall polysaccharide of Bacillus anthracis and its contribution to anthrax pathogenesis

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Generating a collection of insertion mutations in the Staphylococcus aureus genome using bursa aurealis

scientific article

Genes Required for Bacillus anthracis Secondary Cell Wall Polysaccharide Synthesis

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Genes required for glycolipid synthesis and lipoteichoic acid anchoring in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Genetic manipulation of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 6 February 2014

Genetic requirements for Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation and persistence in host tissues

scientific article published on 12 June 2009

Genome sequence of Staphylococcus aureus strain Newman and comparative analysis of staphylococcal genomes: polymorphism and evolution of two major pathogenicity islands

scientific journal article

Genome sequencing and analysis of Yersina pestis KIM D27, an avirulent strain exempt from select agent regulation

scientific article

Glutamate Racemase Mutants of Bacillus anthracis

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Glutathionylation of Yersinia pestis LcrV and Its Effects on Plague Pathogenesis

scientific article

GneZ, a UDP-GlcNAc 2-epimerase, is required for S-layer assembly and vegetative growth of Bacillus anthracis

scientific article

Growth and Laboratory Maintenance of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on February 1, 2013

Hereditary Hemochromatosis Restores the Virulence of Plague Vaccine Strains

scientific article published on August 14, 2012

Identification of Chromosomal Genes in Yersinia pestis that Influence Type III Secretion and Delivery of Yops into Target Cells

scientific article published on March 30, 2012

Identification of secreted bacterial proteins by noncanonical amino acid tagging.

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Identifying protective antigens of Staphylococcus aureus, a pathogen that suppresses host immune responses

scientific article published on July 13, 2011

Immunization with recombinant V10 protects cynomolgus macaques from lethal pneumonic plague

scientific article published on 15 September 2008

Immunogenicity and protective immunity against bubonic plague and pneumonic plague by immunization of mice with the recombinant V10 antigen, a variant of LcrV.

scientific article published on August 2006

Impassable YscP substrates and their impact on the Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion pathway.

scientific article published on 18 July 2008

In vivo detection of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis by targeting pathogen-specific prothrombin activation

scientific article

Inactivation of the srtA gene in Listeria monocytogenes inhibits anchoring of surface proteins and affects virulence.

scientific article

Interaction of Staphylococci with Human B cells

scientific article

Intramolecular amide bonds stabilize pili on the surface of bacilli

scientific article

Investigation of a researcher's death due to septicemic plague

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Iron acquisition and transport in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Iron-regulated surface determinants (Isd) of Staphylococcus aureus: stealing iron from heme

scientific article published on April 2004

Iron-source preference of Staphylococcus aureus infections

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

IsdA and IsdB antibodies protect mice against Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation and lethal challenge

scientific article

IsdG and IsdI, heme-degrading enzymes in the cytoplasm of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 21 October 2003

Isopeptide bonds of the major pilin protein BcpA influence pilus structure and bundle formation on the surface of Bacillus cereus

scientific article

LcrV Mutants That Abolish Yersinia Type III Injectisome Function

scientific article published on December 7, 2012

LcrV plague vaccine with altered immunomodulatory properties

scientific article

Lipoteichoic acids, phosphate-containing polymers in the envelope of gram-positive bacteria

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

LytN, a murein hydrolase in the cross-wall compartment of Staphylococcus aureus, is involved in proper bacterial growth and envelope assembly

scientific article

LytR-CpsA-Psr enzymes as determinants of Bacillus anthracis secondary cell wall polysaccharide assembly

scientific article

Microbiology: loading the type III cannon

scientific article published in October 2005

Multiple Ligands of von Willebrand Factor-binding Protein (vWbp) Promote Staphylococcus aureus Clot Formation in Human Plasma

scientific article published on August 19, 2013

N-acetylglucosaminylation of serine-aspartate repeat proteins promotes Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection.

scientific article published on 16 December 2013

Nontoxigenic protein A vaccine for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in mice

scientific article

On the role of Staphylococcus aureus sortase and sortase-catalyzed surface protein anchoring in murine septic arthritis

scientific article

Panton-Valentine leukocidin is not a virulence determinant in murine models of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease

scientific article published on October 2008

Passage of heme-iron across the envelope of Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article

Pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Pathogenic conversion of coagulase-negative staphylococci

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Penetration of the blood-brain barrier by Bacillus anthracis requires the pXO1-encoded BslA protein.

scientific article published on 09 October 2009

Peptidoglycan-linked protein A promotes T cell-dependent antibody expansion during Staphylococcus aureus infection

scientific article published on 02 May 2016

Pili prove pertinent to enterococcal endocarditis

scientific article

Plague bacteria target immune cells during infection

scientific article published on 28 July 2005

Plague in Guinea pigs and its prevention by subunit vaccines

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Plague vaccines and the molecular basis of immunity against Yersinia pestis

scientific article published on December 2009

Pneumonic plague pathogenesis and immunity in Brown Norway rats

scientific article published on 22 January 2009

Polymorphisms in the lcrV Gene of Yersinia enterocolitica and Their Effect on Plague Protective Immunity

scientific article published on January 17, 2012

Poring over pores: alpha-hemolysin and Panton-Valentine leukocidin in Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia

scientific article

Preventing Staphylococcus aureus sepsis through the inhibition of its agglutination in blood.

scientific article

Prevention of pneumonic plague in mice, rats, guinea pigs and non-human primates with clinical grade rV10, rV10-2 or F1-V vaccines

scientific article published on July 16, 2011

Prophages of Staphylococcus aureus Newman and their contribution to virulence

scientific article published in November 2006

Protective immunity against plague

scientific article published on January 2007

Protein A suppresses immune responses during Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection in guinea pigs.

scientific article

Protein A-Specific Monoclonal Antibodies and Prevention of Staphylococcus aureus Disease in Mice

scientific article published on July 23, 2012

Protein A-neutralizing monoclonal antibody protects neonatal mice against Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Protein secretion and surface display in Gram-positive bacteria

scientific article published on April 19, 2012

Protein sorting to the cell wall envelope of Gram-positive bacteria.

scientific article

Racemic crystallography of synthetic protein enantiomers used to determine the X-ray structure of plectasin by direct methods

scientific article

Rapidly Progressive, Fatal, Inhalation Anthrax-like Infection in a Human: Case Report, Pathogen Genome Sequencing, Pathology, and Coordinated Response

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Recurrent infections and immune evasion strategies of Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 14 November 2011

Rejection of impassable substrates by Yersinia type III secretion machines

scientific article

Release of protein A from the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 13 January 2014

Role of protein A in the evasion of host adaptive immune responses by Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 27 August 2013

SagB Glucosaminidase Is a Determinant of Staphylococcus aureus Glycan Chain Length, Antibiotic Susceptibility, and Protein Secretion

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Sec-secretion and sortase-mediated anchoring of proteins in Gram-positive bacteria

scientific article

Secreted Proteases Control Autolysin-mediated Biofilm Growth of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on August 22, 2013

Secretion Genes as Determinants of Bacillus anthracis Chain Length

scientific article published on May 18, 2012

Secretion signal recognition by YscN, the Yersinia type III secretion ATPase.

scholarly article

Septal secretion of protein A in Staphylococcus aureus requires SecA and lipoteichoic acid synthesis

scientific article

Signal peptides direct surface proteins to two distinct envelope locations of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Small molecule inhibitor of lipoteichoic acid synthesis is an antibiotic for Gram-positive bacteria

scientific article published on February 11, 2013

Soluble factors from Lactobacillus GG activate MAPKs and induce cytoprotective heat shock proteins in intestinal epithelial cells

scientific article published on 23 November 2005

Sortase C-mediated anchoring of BasI to the cell wall envelope of Bacillus anthracis

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Sortase D forms the covalent bond that links BcpB to the tip of Bacillus cereus pili

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Sortase as a target of anti-infective therapy

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Sortase-conjugation generates a capsule vaccine that protects guinea pigs against Bacillus anthracis

scientific article published on March 23, 2012

Sortases and pilin elements involved in pilus assembly of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

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Sortases and the art of anchoring proteins to the envelopes of gram-positive bacteria

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Sortases make pili from three ingredients

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Sortases, Surface Proteins, and Their Roles in Disease and Vaccine Development

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Staphylococcal manipulation of host immune responses

scientific article (publication date: September 2015)

Staphylococcal protein A contributes to persistent colonization of mice with Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Staphylococcus aureus IsdB is a hemoglobin receptor required for heme iron utilization.

scientific article

Staphylococcus aureus IsdG and IsdI, heme-degrading enzymes with structural similarity to monooxygenases

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Staphylococcus aureus degrades neutrophil extracellular traps to promote immune cell death

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Staphylococcus aureus infection induces protein A-mediated immune evasion in humans.

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Staphylococcus aureus mutants lacking the LytR-CpsA-Psr family of enzymes release cell wall teichoic acids into the extracellular medium

scientific article published on 09 August 2013

Staphylococcus aureus mutants with increased lysostaphin resistance

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Staphylococcus aureus synthesizes adenosine to escape host immune responses

scientific article published on 28 September 2009

Staphylococcus aureus targets the purine salvage pathway to kill phagocytes.

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

Staphylococcus aureus virulence genes identified by bursa aurealis mutagenesis and nematode killing.

scholarly article

Structural vaccinology to thwart antigenic variation in microbial pathogens

scientific article published on June 13, 2011

Structure of Surface Layer Homology (SLH) Domains from Bacillus anthracis Surface Array Protein

scientific article published on May 13, 2011

Structure-based mechanism of lipoteichoic acid synthesis by Staphylococcus aureus LtaS

scientific article

Structures of sortase B from Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus anthracis reveal catalytic amino acid triad in the active site

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Substrate recognition by the Yersinia type III protein secretion machinery

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Substrate recognition of type III secretion machines--testing the RNA signal hypothesis.

scientific article

Surface protein IsdC and Sortase B are required for heme-iron scavenging of Bacillus anthracis

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Surface proteins and exotoxins are required for the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia

scientific article published on 13 November 2006

Surface-Layer (S-Layer) Proteins Sap and EA1 Govern the Binding of the S-Layer-Associated Protein BslO at the Cell Septa of Bacillus anthracis

scientific article published on May 18, 2012

Synthesis of Lipoteichoic Acids in Bacillus anthracis

scientific article published on June 8, 2012

Synthesis of glycerol phosphate lipoteichoic acid in Staphylococcus aureus

scholarly article

Targeting of alpha-hemolysin by active or passive immunization decreases severity of USA300 skin infection in a mouse model

scientific article

Targeting proteins to the cell wall of sporulating Bacillus anthracis

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

The Bacillus subtilis quorum-sensing molecule CSF contributes to intestinal homeostasis via OCTN2, a host cell membrane transporter

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The Role of Staphylothrombin-Mediated Fibrin Deposition in Catheter-Related Staphylococcus aureus Infections

scientific article published on March 26, 2013

The SLH‐domain protein BslO is a determinant of Bacillus anthracis chain length

scientific article published on May 17, 2011

The YSIRK-G/S motif of staphylococcal protein A and its role in efficiency of signal peptide processing

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The capsular polysaccharide of Staphylococcus aureus is attached to peptidoglycan by the LytR-CpsA-Psr (LCP) family of enzymes

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The giant protein Ebh is a determinant of Staphylococcus aureus cell size and complement resistance

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

The role of Staphylococcus aureus sortase A and sortase B in murine arthritis

scientific article published in July 2003

The role of pili in Bacillus cereus intraocular infection

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

The secretion signal of YopN, a regulatory protein of the Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion pathway.

scientific article

The structure of sortase B, a cysteine transpeptidase that tethers surface protein to the Staphylococcus aureus cell wall

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The ttsA gene is required for low-calcium-induced type III secretion of Yop proteins and virulence of Yersinia enterocolitica W22703

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Toll-like receptor 6 drives differentiation of tolerogenic dendritic cells and contributes to LcrV-mediated plague pathogenesis

scientific article published on October 2008

Total chemical synthesis of the enzyme sortase A(ΔN59) with full catalytic activity

scientific article

Translational regulation of Yersinia enterocolitica mRNA encoding a type III secretion substrate

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Two capsular polysaccharides enable Bacillus cereus G9241 to cause anthrax‐like disease

scientific article published on March 3, 2011

Type iii protein secretion in yersinia species

scientific article

Ubiquitin-Yop hybrids as probes for post-translational transport by the Yersinia type III secretion pathway

scientific article published on 21 June 2007

Vaccine Protection against Bacillus cereus-Mediated Respiratory Anthrax-Like Disease in Mice

scientific article published on January 14, 2013

Vaccine assembly from surface proteins of Staphylococcus aureus.

scholarly article

Vaccine composition formulated with a novel TLR7-dependent adjuvant induces high and broad protection against Staphylococcus aureus

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Vaccine protection against Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia

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Vaccine protection of leukopenic mice against Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection

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Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion of YopR requires a structure in its mRNA

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion: mutational analysis of the yopQ secretion signal

scientific article published on June 2002

Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion: yscM1 and yscM2 regulate yop gene expression by a posttranscriptional mechanism that targets the 5' untranslated region of yop mRNA.

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Yersinia pestis IS1541 transposition provides for escape from plague immunity

scientific article published on 23 February 2009

Yersinia pestis caf1 variants and the limits of plague vaccine protection

scientific article published on 17 March 2008

Yersinia yopQ mRNA encodes a bipartite type III secretion signal in the first 15 codons

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

YfbA, a Yersinia pestis regulator required for colonization and biofilm formation in the gut of cat fleas

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Yop fusions to tightly folded protein domains and their effects on Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion.

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YopD and LcrH regulate expression of Yersinia enterocolitica YopQ by a posttranscriptional mechanism and bind to yopQ RNA.

scientific article published on March 2002

YopR impacts type III needle polymerization in Yersinia species

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YscU cleavage and the assembly of Yersinia type III secretion machine complexes

scientific article published on 29 April 2008

hPepT1 transports muramyl dipeptide, activating NF-kappaB and stimulating IL-8 secretion in human colonic Caco2/bbe cells

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