OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbiology-SGM is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Bacteria-induced mineral precipitation: a mechanistic review	67
A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans	60
Alternaria alternata as endophyte and pathogen	60
Polymyxin and lipopeptide antibiotics: membrane-targeting drugs of last resort	59
Role of bacterial efflux pumps in antibiotic resistance, virulence, and strategies to discover novel efflux pump inhibitors	46
Predatory bacteria as living antibiotics – where are we now?	36
Bacteriophage infection of Escherichia coli leads to the formation of membrane vesicles via both explosive cell lysis and membrane blebbing	34
Evolution of horizontal transmission in antimicrobial resistance plasmids	32
Extreme genetic diversity in the type VII secretion system of Listeria monocytogenes suggests a role in bacterial antagonism	31
Improved growth and morphological plasticity of Haloferax volcanii	31
Bacterial protein secretion systems: Game of types	28
Bacterial pore-forming toxins	27
The genetic basis of phage susceptibility, cross-resistance and host-range in Salmonella	27
The Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm type IV secretion system and its effectors	25
Presence and absence of type VI secretion systems in bacteria	24
Multiple holins contribute to extracellular DNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	24
A tale of two habitats: Bacteroides fragilis, a lethal pathogen and resident in the human gastrointestinal microbiome	23
Microcins reveal natural mechanisms of bacterial manipulation to inform therapeutic development	22
Adaptive laboratory evolution of Pseudomonas putida and Corynebacterium glutamicum to enhance anthranilate tolerance	22
Roles for phthiocerol dimycocerosate lipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis	21
At the metal–metabolite interface in Aspergillus fumigatus: towards untangling the intersecting roles of zinc and gliotoxin	20
How bacteria utilize sialic acid during interactions with the host: snip, snatch, dispatch, match and attach	20
Lactobacilli and human dental caries: more than mechanical retention	19
The general stress response of Staphylococcus aureus promotes tolerance of antibiotics and survival in whole human blood	19
Frequency of quorum-sensing mutations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from different environments	18

Conserved and specialized functions of Type VII secretion systems in non-tuberculous mycobacteria	18
MexXY RND pump of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA7 effluxes bi-anionic β-lactams carbenicillin and sulbenicillin when it partners with the outer membrane factor OprA but not with OprM	17
Effect of host-mimicking medium and biofilm growth on the ability of colistin to kill Pseudomonas aeruginosa	17
Fitness costs of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria	17
Killing in the name of: T6SS structure and effector diversity	17
Escherichia coli type-1 fimbriae are critical to overcome initial bottlenecks of infection upon low-dose inoculation in a porcine model of cystitis	17
Expansin-related proteins: biology, microbe–plant interactions and associated plant-defense responses	17
Colistin resistance in Escherichia coli confers protection of the cytoplasmic but not outer membrane from the polymyxin antibiotic	17
rpoB mutations conferring rifampicin-resistance affect growth, stress response and motility in Vibrio vulnificus	16
Microbe Profile: Legionella pneumophila - a copycat eukaryote	16
Speaking the host language: how Salmonella effector proteins manipulate the host	16
From infection niche to therapeutic target: the intracellular lifestyle of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	16
Microbe Profile: Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus: a specialized bacterial predator of bacteria	16
Ribosome hibernation: a new molecular framework for targeting nonreplicating persisters of mycobacteria	15
Quorum-sensing, intra- and inter-species competition in the staphylococci	15
Microbe Profile: Aeromonas salmonicida: an opportunistic pathogen with multiple personalities	15
Investigating zinc toxicity responses in marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus	15
Streptococcus pneumoniae, S. pyogenes and S. agalactiae membrane phospholipid remodelling in response to human serum	14
Effect of pH on the antimicrobial activity of the macrophage metabolite itaconate	14
A guide for membrane potential measurements in Gram-negative bacteria using voltage-sensitive dyes	14
An ex vivo cystic fibrosis model recapitulates key clinical aspects of chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection	14
The dilution effect limits plasmid horizontal transmission in multispecies bacterial communities	14
Of zones, bridges and chaperones – phospholipid transport in bacterial outer membrane assembly and homeostasis	14
Leafy greens as a potential source of multidrug-resistant diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella	14
Remodelling of the Gram-negative bacterial Kdo2-lipid A and its functional implications	13
Characterization of an operon required for growth on cellobiose in Clostridioides difficile	13
Sustained coevolution of phage Lambda and Escherichia coli involves inner- as well as outer-membrane defences and counter-defences	13
Prevalence of multidrug-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci in canine and feline dermatological patients over a 10-year period: a retrospective study	13
The FocA channel functions to maintain intracellular formate homeostasis during Escherichia coli fermentation	13
Siderophore piracy enhances Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and pathogenesis	13
Membrane lipids from gut microbiome-associated bacteria as structural and signalling molecules	12
What have molecular simulations contributed to understanding of Gram-negative bacterial cell envelopes?	12
Reclassification of the biocontrol agents Bacillus subtilis BY-2 and Tu-100 as Bacillus velezensis and insights into the genomic and specialized metabolite diversity of the species	12
A single amino acid exchange converts FocA into a unidirectional efflux channel for formate	12
A functional menadione biosynthesis pathway is required for capsule production by Staphylococcus aureus	11
Hydrogen production in the presence of oxygen by Escherichia coli K-12	11
Presence of optrA-mediated linezolid resistance in multiple lineages and plasmids of Enterococcus faecalis revealed by long read sequencing	11
The distribution of fitness effects of plasmid pOXA-48 in clinical enterobacteria	11
Symbiont-mediated immune priming in animals through an evolutionary lens	11
Structural and functional characteristics of the tripartite ABC transporter	11
Peptide transport in Bacillus subtilis – structure and specificity in the extracellular solute binding proteins OppA and DppE	10
Donor plasmids for phenotypically neutral chromosomal gene insertions in Enterobacteriaceae	10
Vitamin B12 biosynthesis of Cetobacterium ceti isolated from the intestinal content of captive common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	10
Efflux-mediated tolerance to cationic biocides, a cause for concern?	10
Functional diversity increases the efficacy of phage combinations	10
Bacterial secretion system functions: evidence of interactions and downstream implications	10
The biogenesis of β-lactamase enzymes	10
Role of the gut microbiota in nutrient competition and protection against intestinal pathogen colonization	10
A palette of fluorophores that are differentially accumulated by wild-type and mutant strains of Escherichia coli: surrogate ligands for profiling bacterial membrane transporters	10
Rare actinobacteria isolated from the hypersaline Ojo de Liebre Lagoon as a source of novel bioactive compounds with biotechnological potential	10

A mutagenic screen reveals NspS residues important for regulation of Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation	9
Establishing a national reference laboratory for antimicrobial resistance using a whole-genome sequencing framework: Nigeria’s experience	9
Ruminococcus bromii enables the growth of proximal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron by releasing glucose during starch degradation	9
Exposure to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretome alters the proteome and secondary metabolite production of Aspergillus fumigatus	9
Isolation and characterization of bacteria from activated sludge capable of degrading 17α-ethinylestradiol, a contaminant of high environmental concern	9
Interspecies killing activity of Pseudomonas syringae tailocins	9
Orchestrating a heist: uptake and storage of metals by apicomplexan parasites	9
Rv0802c is an acyltransferase that succinylates and acetylates Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleoid-associated protein HU	9
A unique global metabolic trait of Pseudomonas bharatica CSV86T: metabolism of aromatics over simple carbon sources and co-metabolism with organic acids	9
Mechanism of assembly of type 4 filaments: everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)	9
CpxR regulates the Rcs phosphorelay system in controlling the Ysc-Yop type III secretion system in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis	9
A global perspective on bacterial diversity in the terrestrial deep subsurface	9
Cell-free supernatants produced by lactic acid bacteria reduce Salmonella population in vitro	9
Microbe Profile: Dictyostelium discoideum: model system for development, chemotaxis and biomedical research	9
Microbial Primer: An introduction to biofilms – what they are, why they form and their impact on built and natural environments	9
R-type bacteriocins of Xenorhabdus bovienii determine the outcome of interspecies competition in a natural host environment	9
Tripartite efflux pumps of the RND superfamily: what did we learn from computational studies?	9
Microbe Profile: Buchnera aphidicola: ancient aphid accomplice and endosymbiont exemplar	8
The MpsB protein contributes to both the toxicity and immune evasion capacity of Staphylococcus aureus	8
The role of sigma factor competition in bacterial adaptation under prolonged starvation	8
Significant variability exists in the cytotoxicity of global methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineages	8
Genome-wide analysis of genes involved in efflux function and regulation within Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	8
The Bacillus virulome in endophthalmitis	8
E. coli ST11 (O157:H7) does not encode a functional AcrF efflux pump	8
A mathematician’s guide to plasmids: an introduction to plasmid biology for modellers	8
Topological analysis of a bacterial DedA protein associated with alkaline tolerance and antimicrobial resistance	8
Transient internalization of Campylobacter jejuni in Amoebae enhances subsequent invasion of human cells	8
FocA and its central role in fine-tuning pH homeostasis of enterobacterial formate metabolism	8
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	8
Fungal endophytes from salt-adapted plants confer salt tolerance and promote growth in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) at early seedling stage	8
Distribution of RecBCD and AddAB recombination-associated genes among bacteria in 33 phyla	8
The role of l-arabinose metabolism for Escherichia coli O157:H7 in edible plants	8
A NiCoT family metal transporter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Rv2856/NicT) behaves as a drug efflux pump that facilitates cross-resistance to antibiotics	8
A novel hemA mutation is responsible for a small-colony-variant phenotype in Escherichia coli	8
Alanine-scanning mutagenesis of protein mannosyl-transferase from Streptomyces coelicolor reveals strong activity-stability correlation	7
Biofilms as protective cocoons against biocides: from bacterial adaptation to One Health issues	7
The role of nitrogen-responsive regulators in controlling inorganic polyphosphate synthesis in Escherichia coli	7
An OregonGreen488-labelled d-amino acid for visualizing peptidoglycan by super-resolution STED nanoscopy	7
PacBio sequencing revealed variation in the microbiota diversity, species richness and composition between milk collected from healthy and mastitis cows	7
Diverse functions for acyltransferase-3 proteins in the modification of bacterial cell surfaces	7
Berberine at sub-inhibitory concentration inhibits biofilm dispersal in Staphylococcus aureus	7
Regulation of type VI secretion systems at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional and posttranslational level	7
Two reasons to kill: predation and kin discrimination in myxobacteria	7
Tn1 transposition in the course of natural transformation enables horizontal antibiotic resistance spread in Acinetobacter baylyi	7
The impact of intra-specific diversity in the rhizobia-legume symbiosis	7
Interplay between central carbon metabolism and metal homeostasis in mycobacteria and other human pathogens	7
Analysis of mouse faecal dysbiosis, during the development of cachexia, induced by transplantation with Lewis lung carcinoma cells	7
Biofilm hydrophobicity in environmental isolates of Bacillus subtilis	7
Wildy Prize Lecture, 2020–2021: Who wouldn’t want to discover a new virus?	7
Hydrogen peroxide, sodium dichloro-s-triazinetriones and quaternary alcohols significantly inactivate the dry-surface biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa more than quaternary	7
Influence of core divisome proteins on cell division in Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10712	7
Multifunctional transcription factor CytR of Vibrio cholerae is important for pathogenesis	7
Role of horizontally transferred copper resistance genes in Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes	7
Disruption of MenT2 toxin impairs the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in guinea pigs	7
Oral probiotic and its delivery carriers to improve oral health: A review	7
A journey with type IX secretion system effectors: selection, transport, processing and activities	7
Markerless gene editing in Neisseria gonorrhoeae	6
Virulence-associated type III secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria	6
A type IVB pilin influences twitching motility and in vitro adhesion to epithelial cells in Burkholderia pseudomallei	6
Regulatory role of CsuR (YiaU) in determination of cell surface properties of Escherichia coli K-12	6
Bacterial survivors: evaluating the mechanisms of antibiotic persistence	6
The lipoprotein DolP affects cell separation in Escherichia coli, but not as an upstream regulator of NlpD	6
Minority potassium-uptake system Trk2 has a crucial role in yeast survival of glucose-induced cell death	6
Drug resistance and physiological roles of RND multidrug efflux pumps in Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa	6
Membrane lipid and osmolyte readjustment in the alkaliphilic micromycete Sodiomyces tronii under cold, heat and osmotic shocks	6
Microbe Profile: Xylella fastidiosa – a devastating agricultural pathogen with an endophytic lifestyle	6
Microbiology challenges and opportunities in the circular economy	6
Lactic acid bacterial exopolysaccharides strongly bind histamine and can potentially be used to remove histamine contamination in food	6
Promiscuous evolution of Group A Streptococcal M and M-like proteins	6
Antimicrobial resistance in Bacillus-based biopesticide products	6
Impact of growth media and pressure on the diversity and antimicrobial activity of isolates from two species of hexactinellid sponge	6
Biochemical and functional characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ketol-acid reductoisomerase	6
DNA binding and gene regulatory functions of MSMEG_2295, a repressor encoded by the dinB2 operon of Mycobacterium smegmatis	6
A bacterial secretosome for regulated envelope biogenesis and quality control?	6