Mining for microbial gems: integrating proteomics in the postgenomic natural product discovery pipeline

C Du, GP van Wezel - Proteomics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Natural products (NPs) are a major source of compounds for medical, agricultural, and
biotechnological industries. Many of these compounds are of microbial origin, and, in …

Identification of the genes directly controlled by the response regulator CiaR in Streptococcus pneumoniae: five out of 15 promoters drive expression of small non …

A Halfmann, M Kovács, R Hakenbeck… - Molecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The two‐component regulatory system CiaRH of Streptococcus pneumoniae has been
implicated in β‐lactam resistance, maintenance of cell integrity, competence and virulence …

PREDetector: a new tool to identify regulatory elements in bacterial genomes

S Hiard, R Marée, S Colson, PA Hoskisson… - Biochemical and …, 2007 - Elsevier
In the post-genomic area, the prediction of transcription factor regulons by position weight
matrix-based programmes is a powerful approach to decipher biological pathways and to …

A Novel Metal Transporter Mediating Manganese Export (MntX) Regulates the Mn to Fe Intracellular Ratio and Neisseria meningitidis Virulence

FJ Veyrier, IG Boneca, MF Cellier, MK Taha - PLoS pathogens, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) and N. gonorrhoeae (Ng) are adapted to different environments
within their human host. If the basis of this difference has not yet been fully understood …

The SloR/Dlg Metalloregulator Modulates Streptococcus mutans Virulence Gene Expression

E Rolerson, A Swick, L Newlon, C Palmer… - Journal of …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Metal ion availability in the human oral cavity plays a putative role in Streptococcus mutans
virulence gene expression and in appropriate formation of the plaque biofilm. In this report …

RegTransBase—a database of regulatory sequences and interactions in a wide range of prokaryotic genomes

AE Kazakov, MJ Cipriano, PS Novichkov… - Nucleic acids …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
RegTransBase is a manually curated database of regulatory interactions in prokaryotes that
captures the knowledge in public scientific literature using a controlled vocabulary. Although …

Nitrogen metabolism and nitrogen control in corynebacteria: variations of a common theme

B Walter, E Hänssler, J Kalinowski… - Journal of Molecular …, 2007 - karger.com
The published genome sequences of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Corynebacterium
efficiens, Corynebacterium glutamicum and Corynebacterium jeikeium were screened for …

Peroxide stimulon and role of PerR in group A Streptococcus

R Grifantini, C Toukoki, A Colaprico… - Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
We have characterized group A Streptococcus (GAS) genome-wide responses to hydrogen
peroxide and assessed the role of the peroxide response regulator (PerR) in GAS under …

PerR Confers Phagocytic Killing Resistance and Allows Pharyngeal Colonization by Group A Streptococcus

I Gryllos, R Grifantini, A Colaprico, ME Cary… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
The peroxide response transcriptional regulator, PerR, is thought to contribute to virulence of
group A Streptococcus (GAS); however, the specific mechanism through which it enhances …

Computational prediction and experimental verification of novel IdeR binding sites in the upstream sequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis open reading frames

P Prakash, S Yellaboina, A Ranjan, SE Hasnain - Bioinformatics, 2005 - academic.oup.com
IdeR (iron-dependent regulator) is a key regulator of virulence factors and iron acquisition
systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Despite the wealth of information available on IdeR …