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Reciprocal regulation of NagC and quorum sensing systems and their roles in hmsHFRS expression and biofilm formation in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (2023)
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Wiechmann, A., Garcia, V., Elton, L., Williams, P., & Atkinson, S. (2023). Reciprocal regulation of NagC and quorum sensing systems and their roles in hmsHFRS expression and biofilm formation in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Microbiology, 169(10), Article 001397. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001397

Biofilm formation by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is regulated by quorum sensing (QS) and dependent on the haemin storage locus hms, required for the extracellular polysaccharide poly-N-acetylglucosamine (poly-GlcNAc) production. In Escherichia coli N... Read More about Reciprocal regulation of NagC and quorum sensing systems and their roles in hmsHFRS expression and biofilm formation in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.

The role of reservoir species in mediating plague's dynamic response to climate (2023)
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Fell, H. G., Jones, M., Atkinson, S., Stenseth, N. C., & Algar, A. C. (2023). The role of reservoir species in mediating plague's dynamic response to climate. Royal Society Open Science, 10(5), Article 230021. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230021

The distribution and transmission of Yersinia pestis, the bacterial agent of plague, responds dynamically to climate, both within wildlife reservoirs and human populations. The exact mechanisms mediating plague's response to climate are still poorly... Read More about The role of reservoir species in mediating plague's dynamic response to climate.

Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings (2022)
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Fell, H. G., Osborne, O. G., Jones, M. D., Atkinson, S., Tarr, S., Keddie, S. H., & Algar, A. C. (2022). Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(4), 672-684. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13453

Aim: The distribution of Yersinia pestis, the pathogen that causes plague in humans, is reliant upon transmission between host species; however, the degree to which host species distributions dictate the distribution of Y.pestis, compared with limita... Read More about Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings.

The quorum sensing system of Yersinia enterocolitica 8081 regulates swimming motility, host cell attachment, and virulence plasmid maintenance (2018)
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Ng, Y., Grasso, M., Wright, V., Garcia, V., Williams, P., & Atkinson, S. (2018). The quorum sensing system of Yersinia enterocolitica 8081 regulates swimming motility, host cell attachment, and virulence plasmid maintenance. Genes, 9(6), Article 307. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9060307

Although Yersinia enterocolitica genomes are highly heterogeneous, they contain a conserved N-acylhomoserine lactone-dependent (AHL) quorum sensing (QS) system consisting of the luxR and luxI orthologs yenR and yenI respectively. Certain hypervirulen... Read More about The quorum sensing system of Yersinia enterocolitica 8081 regulates swimming motility, host cell attachment, and virulence plasmid maintenance.

Interference with the germination and growth of Ulva zoospores by quorum-sensing molecules from Ulva-associated epiphytic bacteria (2013)
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Twigg, M. S., Tait, K., Williams, P., Atkinson, S., & Cámara, M. (2014). Interference with the germination and growth of Ulva zoospores by quorum-sensing molecules from Ulva-associated epiphytic bacteria. Environmental Microbiology, 16(2), 445-453. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12203

Ulva zoospores preferentially settle on N?acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) producing marine bacterial biofilms. To investigate whether AHL signal molecules also affect the success and rate of zoospore germination in addition to zoospore attraction, the e... Read More about Interference with the germination and growth of Ulva zoospores by quorum-sensing molecules from Ulva-associated epiphytic bacteria.