OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbiology-SGM is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Characterization of tigurilysin, a novel human CD59-specific cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, reveals a role for host specificity in augmenting toxin activity	92
Combined effect of SAR-endolysin LysKpV475 with polymyxin B and Salmonella bacteriophage phSE-5	84
Identification of a novel gene required for competitive growth at high temperature in the thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus	75
Validation of a random Vibrio parahaemolyticus genomic library by selection of quinolone resistance in a heterologous host	69
Mutation of putative glycosyl transferases PslC and PslI confers susceptibility to antibiotics and leads to drastic reduction in biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	39
The nisin O cluster: species dissemination, candidate leader peptide proteases and the role of regulatory systems	39
Microbe Profile: Nitrosopumilus maritimus	36
The dilution effect limits plasmid horizontal transmission in multispecies bacterial communities	35
Corrigendum: Identification and structural characterisation of a catecholate-type siderophore produced by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia K279a	35
Erratum: The type-VI secretion system of the beneficial symbiont Vibrio fischeri	34
Genome-wide analysis of genes involved in efflux function and regulation within Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	34
Suppressor mutants demonstrate the metabolic plasticity of unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1	32
A single amino acid exchange converts FocA into a unidirectional efflux channel for formate	30
Recruitment of C4b-binding protein is not a complement evasion strategy employed by Staphylococcus aureus	30
Sweet and sour synergy: exploring the antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of acetic acid and vinegar combined with medical-grade honeys	30
Fitness costs of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria	29
Topology of the Shigella flexneri Enterobacterial Common Antigen polymerase WzyE	25
The impact of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulators on the pulmonary microbiota	23
Lactobacilli and human dental caries: more than mechanical retention	23
Identification and initial characterization of a new pair of sibling sRNAs of Neisseria gonorrhoeae involved in type IV pilus biogenesis	22
The role of l-arabinose metabolism for Escherichia coli O157:H7 in edible plants	22
Development of a long-read next generation sequencing workflow for improved characterization of fastidious respiratory mycoplasmas	21
Natural products from food sources can alter the spread of antimicrobial resistance plasmids in Enterobacterales	21
Generation of tools for expression and purification of the phage-encoded Type I restriction enzyme inhibitor, Ocr	21
Bacterial secretion system functions: evidence of interactions and downstream implications	20

Structure and ligand binding in the putative anti-microbial peptide transporter protein, YejA	20
Evolution of cyclic di-GMP signalling on a short and long term time scale	20
Comments on the tolerance of Clostridioides difficile spores to disinfection with sodium hypochlorite disinfectant	20
Photochemical changes during rehydration of an intertidal cyanobacterial mat exposed to variations in salinity and light intensity	19
Alterations in cell arrangements of group B streptococcus due to virulence factor expression can bias estimates of bacterial populations based on colony count measures	19
Erratum: DNA damage-induced block of sporulation in Streptomyces venezuelae involves downregulation of ssgB	18
Exploiting cooperative pathogen behaviour for enhanced antibiotic potency: A Trojan horse approach	18
Study of excess manganese stress response highlights the central role of manganese exporter Mnx for holding manganese homeostasis in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803	18
Preclinical testing of antimicrobials for cystic fibrosis lung infections: current needs and future priorities	17
Microbe Profile: Ruminococcus gnavus: the yin and yang of human gut symbionts	17
An abundance of aliC and aliD genes were identified in saliva using a novel multiplex qPCR to characterize group II non-encapsulated pneumococci with improved specificity	17
Before you go: a packing list for portable DNA sequencing of microbiomes and metagenomes	17
Antimicrobial resistance in Bacillus-based biopesticide products	17
The primary transcriptome of hormogonia from a filamentous cyanobacterium defined by cappable-seq	17
Triclosan-resistant small-colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus produce less capsule, less phenol-soluble modulins, and are attenuated in a Galleria mellonella model of infection	17
Structural and functional characteristics of the tripartite ABC transporter	15
Microbe Profile: Bacteriophage ϕ6: a model for segmented RNA viruses and the evolutionary consequences of viral ‘sex’	15
Phylogenetic groups and extraintestinal virulence genes of inflow Escherichia coli entering a municipal drinking water treatment facility (St. Paul, MN, USA)	15
Aspartate aminotransferase of Rhizobium leguminosarum has extended substrate specificity and metabolizes aspartate to enable N2 fixation in pea nodules	15
Cell-free supernatants produced by lactic acid bacteria reduce Salmonella population in vitro	14
Response to comments on the tolerance to Clostridioides difficile spores to sodium hypochlorite disinfection	14
Microbial musings – Summer 2022	14
Corrigendum: Microbe Profile: Pseudomonas aeruginosa: opportunistic pathogen and lab rat	13
Microbe Profile: Salinispora tropica: natural products and the evolution of a unique marine bacterium	13
Analysis of mouse faecal dysbiosis, during the development of cachexia, induced by transplantation with Lewis lung carcinoma cells	13
Genome analysis and phenotypic characterization of Halomonas hibernica isolated from a traditional food process with novel quorum quenching and catalase activities	13
DNA damage-induced block of sporulation in Streptomyces venezuelae involves downregulation of ssgB	13
Interplay between central carbon metabolism and metal homeostasis in mycobacteria and other human pathogens	13
Corynebacterium phoceense, resident member of the urogenital microbiota?	13
Interbacterial competition mediated by the type VIIb secretion system	12
Establishing a national reference laboratory for antimicrobial resistance using a whole-genome sequencing framework: Nigeria’s experience	12
Microbial Primer: The bacterial flagellum – how bacteria swim	12
Streptococcus pneumoniae: ‘captain of the men of death’ and financial burden	12
Deletion of fbiC in Streptomyces venezuelae removes autofluorescence in the excitation-emission range of cyan fluorescent protein	12
Strain background of Candida albicans interacts with SIR2 to alter phenotypic switching	12
RsaM: a unique dominant regulator of AHL quorum sensing in bacteria	12
Rv0802c is an acyltransferase that succinylates and acetylates Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleoid-associated protein HU	12
Use of Rgg quorum-sensing machinery to create an innovative recombinant protein expression system in Streptococcus thermophilus	11
Erratum: Mutation of putative glycosyl transferases PslC and PslI confers susceptibility to antibiotics and leads to drastic reduction in biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	11
Frequency of quorum-sensing mutations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from different environments	11
Microbe Profile: Buchnera aphidicola: ancient aphid accomplice and endosymbiont exemplar	11
Genetic and phenotypic analysis of the virulence plasmid of a non-Shigatoxigenic enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak strain	11
Minority potassium-uptake system Trk2 has a crucial role in yeast survival of glucose-induced cell death	11
The respiratory lipoquinone, menaquinone, functions as an inducer of genes regulated by the Mycobacterium smegmatis repressor MSMEG_2295	11
Role of Pel and Psl polysaccharides in the response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to environmental challenges: oxidative stress agents (UVA, H2O2, sodium hypochlorite) and its competitor Staphylococcus au	11
Symbiont-mediated immune priming in animals through an evolutionary lens	11
Assay development and inhibition of the Mt-DprE2 essential reductase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis	11
Understanding the clinical and environmental drivers of antifungal resistance in the One Health context	11
Plasmodium falciparum hydroxymethylbilane synthase does not house any cosynthase activity within the haem biosynthetic pathway	10
Identification of a system for hydroxamate xenosiderophore-mediated iron transport in Burkholderia cenocepacia	10

Looking through the FOG: microbiome characterization and lipolytic bacteria isolation from a fatberg site	10
A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans	10
New perspectives on an ancient pathogen: thoughts for World Tuberculosis Day 2022	10
Quantifying stochastic establishment of mutants in microbial adaptation	10
Investigation of the polyamine biosynthetic and transport capability of Streptococcus agalactiae: the non-essential PotABCD transporter	9
Mutational hotspots lead to robust but suboptimal adaptive outcomes in certain environments	9
Soil microbial gene expression in an agricultural ecosystem varies with time and neonicotinoid seed treatments	9
Identification of a morphogene required for tapered filament termini in filamentous cyanobacteria	9
Microbe Profile: Geobacter metallireducens: a model for novel physiologies of biogeochemical and technological significance	9
Idification and structural characterisation of a catecholate-type siderophore produced by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia K279a	9
Exploring functional interplay amongst Escherichia coli efflux pumps	9
Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 encodes a microcin system with antimicrobial properties for contact-independent competition	9
Microbial Primer: Phase variation - survival and adaptability by generation of a diverse population	9
Staph wars: the antibiotic pipeline strikes back	9
Efflux-mediated tolerance to cationic biocides, a cause for concern?	9
Genetic and mutational analysis of virulence traits and their modulation in an environmental toxigenic Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 strain, VCE232	9
Microbe Profile: Salmonella Typhimurium: the master of the art of adaptation	9
A novel proteinaceous molecule produced by Lysinibacillus sp. OF-1 depends on the Ami oligopeptide transporter to kill Streptococcus pneumoniae	9
Transcription factors DksA and PsrA are synergistic contributors to Legionella pneumophila virulence in Acanthamoeba castellanii protozoa	9
Iron influences the expression of colonization factor CS6 of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli	9
Mechanism of assembly of type 4 filaments: everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)	8
Seasonal variation in the stomach microbiota of two sympatrically breeding Pygoscelis penguin species at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands	8
d-Serine induces distinct transcriptomes in diverse Escherichia coli pathotypes	8
4′-Deoxypyridoxine disrupts vitamin B6 homeostasis in Escherichia coli K12 through combined inhibition of cumulative B6 uptake and PLP-dependent enzyme activity	8
Regulation of type VI secretion systems at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional and posttranslational level	8
Characterization of microbial communities from rumen and large intestine of lactating creole goats grazing in arid plant communities	8
Gene expression reprogramming of Pseudomonas alloputida in response to arginine through the transcriptional regulator ArgR	8
Topological analysis of a bacterial DedA protein associated with alkaline tolerance and antimicrobial resistance	8
The biogenesis of β-lactamase enzymes	8
Genomic and functional insights into antibiotic resistance genes floR and strA linked with the SXT element of Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139	8
Microbial Primer: What is the stringent response and how does it allow bacteria to survive stress?	8
The involvement of CiaR and the CiaR-regulated serine protease HtrA in thermal adaptation of Streptococcus pneumoniae	8
Regulation of phosphate starvation-specific responses in Escherichia coli	8
Construction and characterisation of a structured, tuneable, and transparent 3D culture platform for soil bacteria	8
Comment on the effectiveness of sodium hypochlorite against Clostridioides difficile spores	8
Population heterogeneity in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium abscessus	8
Characterization of MLST-99 Salmonella Typhimurium and the monophasic variant I:4,[5],12:i:- isolated from Canadian Atlantic coast shellfish	8
Characterization of an operon required for growth on cellobiose in Clostridioides difficile	8
Isolation and identification of chlorate-reducing Hafnia sp. from milk	8
Regulatory role of CsuR (YiaU) in determination of cell surface properties of Escherichia coli K-12	8
Quorum-sensing, intra- and inter-species competition in the staphylococci	8
Modelling host–pathogen interactions: Galleria mellonella as a platform to study Pseudomonas aeruginosa response to host-imposed zinc starvation	8
Escherichia coli type-1 fimbriae are critical to overcome initial bottlenecks of infection upon low-dose inoculation in a porcine model of cystitis	8
Biotin concentration affects anaplerotic reactions functioning in glutamic acid production in Corynebacterium glutamicum	8
Microbe Profile: Euglena gracilis: photogenic, flexible and hardy	7
Rapid divergence in independent aspects of the compatibility phenotype in a Spiroplasma–Drosophila interaction	7
Time-lapse mesoscopy of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus dual-species biofilms reveals a structural role for the hyphae of C. albicans in biofilm formation	7
Induced expression of the zwf gene in the presence of glucose contributes to lowering of glucose 6-phosphate level and consequently reduction of growth rate of Mycobacterium smegmatis	7
Membrane lipid and osmolyte readjustment in the alkaliphilic micromycete Sodiomyces tronii under cold, heat and osmotic shocks	7
Predatory bacteria in the haemolymph of the cultured spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus	7
T-DNA insertion mutagenesis in Penicillium brocae results in identification of an enolase gene mutant impaired in secretion of organic acids and phosphate solubilization	7
100+ years of phase variation: the premier bacterial bet-hedging phenomenon	7
Characterizing a stable five-species microbial community for use in experimental evolution and ecology	7
Transcriptional profiling of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mature single- and dual-species biofilms in response to meropenem	7
The type-VI secretion system of the beneficial symbiont Vibrio fischeri	7
Genetic modification of Candida maltosa, a non-pathogenic CTG species, reveals EFG1 function	7
Clostridioides difficile infection: traversing host–pathogen interactions in the gut	7