OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbiology-SGM is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Validation of a random Vibrio parahaemolyticus genomic library by selection of quinolone resistance in a heterologous host	166
Identification of a novel gene required for competitive growth at high temperature in the thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus	127
Culturomics from field-grown crop plants using dilution to extinction, two-step library preparation and amplicon sequencing	98
Pharmaco-psychiatry and gut microbiome: a systematic review of effects of psychotropic drugs for bipolar disorder	87
Antibiotic use in rural Kenyan livestock: navigating misuse, experience gaps and AMR risks	61
Genome-wide analysis of genes involved in efflux function and regulation within Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	51
Microbe Profile: Nitrosopumilus maritimus	49
Combined effect of SAR-endolysin LysKpV475 with polymyxin B and Salmonella bacteriophage phSE-5	48
Characterization of tigurilysin, a novel human CD59-specific cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, reveals a role for host specificity in augmenting toxin activity	47
The nisin O cluster: species dissemination, candidate leader peptide proteases and the role of regulatory systems	45
Mutation of putative glycosyl transferases PslC and PslI confers susceptibility to antibiotics and leads to drastic reduction in biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	44
Erratum: The type-VI secretion system of the beneficial symbiont Vibrio fischeri	42
Comments on the tolerance of Clostridioides difficile spores to disinfection with sodium hypochlorite disinfectant	42
Evolution of cyclic di-GMP signalling on a short and long term time scale	39
Natural products from food sources can alter the spread of antimicrobial resistance plasmids in Enterobacterales	39
Topology of the Shigella flexneri Enterobacterial Common Antigen polymerase WzyE	38
The impact of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulators on the pulmonary microbiota	37
Generation of tools for expression and purification of the phage-encoded Type I restriction enzyme inhibitor, Ocr	34
Recruitment of C4b-binding protein is not a complement evasion strategy employed by Staphylococcus aureus	34
Development of a long-read next generation sequencing workflow for improved characterization of fastidious respiratory mycoplasmas	33
Purification and characterization of a novel antibacterial peptide against Clostridium perfringens	32
Microbial Primer: Biosurfactants – the ABCs of microbial surface-active metabolites	30
Lactobacilli and human dental caries: more than mechanical retention	30
Fitness costs of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria	29
Sweet and sour synergy: exploring the antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of acetic acid and vinegar combined with medical-grade honeys	29

A single amino acid exchange converts FocA into a unidirectional efflux channel for formate	28
Suppressor mutants demonstrate the metabolic plasticity of unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1	27
Aspartate aminotransferase of Rhizobium leguminosarum has extended substrate specificity and metabolizes aspartate to enable N2 fixation in pea nodules	25
Erratum: DNA damage-induced block of sporulation in Streptomyces venezuelae involves downregulation of ssgB	25
Bacterial secretion system functions: evidence of interactions and downstream implications	25
Exploiting cooperative pathogen behaviour for enhanced antibiotic potency: A Trojan horse approach	24
An invasive phenotype induced by relaxation of DNA supercoiling in Campylobacter jejuni triggers disruption of tight junctions of intestinal spheroids	24
Microbe Profile: Ruminococcus gnavus: the yin and yang of human gut symbionts	23
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	22
Phylogenetic groups and extraintestinal virulence genes of inflow Escherichia coli entering a municipal drinking water treatment facility (St. Paul, MN, USA)	22
Alterations in cell arrangements of group B streptococcus due to virulence factor expression can bias estimates of bacterial populations based on colony count measures	21
Preclinical testing of antimicrobials for cystic fibrosis lung infections: current needs and future priorities	21
Structure and ligand binding in the putative anti-microbial peptide transporter protein, YejA	21
Assessing the effect of temperature on Rhodococcus metabolite production	20
Before you go: a packing list for portable DNA sequencing of microbiomes and metagenomes	20
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	20
Microbe Profile: Bacteriophage ϕ6: a model for segmented RNA viruses and the evolutionary consequences of viral ‘sex’	20
Structural and functional characteristics of the tripartite ABC transporter	19
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	19
Microbial musings – Summer 2022	18
DNA damage-induced block of sporulation in Streptomyces venezuelae involves downregulation of ssgB	18
Deletion of fbiC in Streptomyces venezuelae removes autofluorescence in the excitation-emission range of cyan fluorescent protein	18
The primary transcriptome of hormogonia from a filamentous cyanobacterium defined by cappable-seq	18
Genome analysis and phenotypic characterization of Halomonas hibernica isolated from a traditional food process with novel quorum quenching and catalase activities	17
Cell-free supernatants produced by lactic acid bacteria reduce Salmonella population in vitro	17
Response to comments on the tolerance to Clostridioides difficile spores to sodium hypochlorite disinfection	17
Erratum: Mutation of putative glycosyl transferases PslC and PslI confers susceptibility to antibiotics and leads to drastic reduction in biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	16
Effects of influenza A infection on liberation of bacteria from biofilms and inflammatory response in an in vitro model of chronic rhinosinusitis	16
Microbe Profile: Salinispora tropica: natural products and the evolution of a unique marine bacterium	16
Genetic and phenotypic analysis of the virulence plasmid of a non-Shigatoxigenic enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak strain	16
Establishing a national reference laboratory for antimicrobial resistance using a whole-genome sequencing framework: Nigeria’s experience	16
Use of Rgg quorum-sensing machinery to create an innovative recombinant protein expression system in Streptococcus thermophilus	15
Streptococcus pneumoniae: ‘captain of the men of death’ and financial burden	15
Assay development and inhibition of the Mt-DprE2 essential reductase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis	15
Microbial Primer: The bacterial flagellum – how bacteria swim	15
Understanding the clinical and environmental drivers of antifungal resistance in the One Health context	15
Genome-wide mapping of cAMP receptor protein binding in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli reveals targeting of virulence-associated genes	15
Strain background of Candida albicans interacts with SIR2 to alter phenotypic switching	15
Microbe Profile: Buchnera aphidicola: ancient aphid accomplice and endosymbiont exemplar	15
RsaM: a unique dominant regulator of AHL quorum sensing in bacteria	15
Disulphide bond-forming enzymes in clostridial species	14
Frequency of quorum-sensing mutations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from different environments	14
A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans	14
Symbiont-mediated immune priming in animals through an evolutionary lens	14
Interbacterial competition mediated by the type VIIb secretion system	14
The respiratory lipoquinone, menaquinone, functions as an inducer of genes regulated by the Mycobacterium smegmatis repressor MSMEG_2295	14
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	14
Looking through the FOG: microbiome characterization and lipolytic bacteria isolation from a fatberg site	13
New perspectives on an ancient pathogen: thoughts for World Tuberculosis Day 2022	13
Plasmodium falciparum hydroxymethylbilane synthase does not house any cosynthase activity within the haem biosynthetic pathway	13

Quantifying stochastic establishment of mutants in microbial adaptation	12
Transcription factors DksA and PsrA are synergistic contributors to Legionella pneumophila virulence in Acanthamoeba castellanii protozoa	12
A novel proteinaceous molecule produced by Lysinibacillus sp. OF-1 depends on the Ami oligopeptide transporter to kill Streptococcus pneumoniae	12
Microbe Profile: Geobacter metallireducens: a model for novel physiologies of biogeochemical and technological significance	12
Comparative genomic analysis of Latilactobacillus sakei strains provides new insights into their association with different niche adaptations	12
Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 encodes a microcin system with antimicrobial properties for contact-independent competition	12
Soil microbial gene expression in an agricultural ecosystem varies with time and neonicotinoid seed treatments	11
Microbe Profile: Salmonella Typhimurium: the master of the art of adaptation	11
Investigation of the polyamine biosynthetic and transport capability of Streptococcus agalactiae: the non-essential PotABCD transporter	11
Microbial Primer: Phase variation - survival and adaptability by generation of a diverse population	11
Identification of a system for hydroxamate xenosiderophore-mediated iron transport in Burkholderia cenocepacia	11
Exploring functional interplay amongst Escherichia coli efflux pumps	11
Efflux-mediated tolerance to cationic biocides, a cause for concern?	11
Identification of a morphogene required for tapered filament termini in filamentous cyanobacteria	11
Staph wars: the antibiotic pipeline strikes back	11
Emergence of clade 3 emm89 group A Streptococcus in Queensland, Australia	11
Clostridioides difficile infection: traversing host–pathogen interactions in the gut	10
KpSC-ID: a multiplex real-time PCR assay for the simultaneous detection of the Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex and specific identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella quasipneumoniae an	10
Mutational hotspots lead to robust but suboptimal adaptive outcomes in certain environments	10
4′-Deoxypyridoxine disrupts vitamin B6 homeostasis in Escherichia coli K12 through combined inhibition of cumulative B6 uptake and PLP-dependent enzyme activity	10
Oxygen microenvironments in Escherichia coli biofilm nutrient transport channels: insights from complementary sensing approaches	10
Assessing lactococcal and enterococcal strains derived from traditionally fermented kefir and nabeez for their prospects as probiotics	10
The biogenesis of β-lactamase enzymes	10
Regulation of type VI secretion systems at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional and posttranslational level	10
Genomic and functional insights into antibiotic resistance genes floR and strA linked with the SXT element of Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139	10
Characterization of MLST-99 Salmonella Typhimurium and the monophasic variant I:4,[5],12:i:- isolated from Canadian Atlantic coast shellfish	10
Quorum-sensing, intra- and inter-species competition in the staphylococci	10
Mechanism of assembly of type 4 filaments: everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)	10
Modelling host–pathogen interactions: Galleria mellonella as a platform to study Pseudomonas aeruginosa response to host-imposed zinc starvation	10
Gene expression reprogramming of Pseudomonas alloputida in response to arginine through the transcriptional regulator ArgR	10
Regulatory role of CsuR (YiaU) in determination of cell surface properties of Escherichia coli K-12	10
Genetic and mutational analysis of virulence traits and their modulation in an environmental toxigenic Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 strain, VCE232	10
Seasonal variation in the stomach microbiota of two sympatrically breeding Pygoscelis penguin species at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands	10
Isolation and identification of chlorate-reducing Hafnia sp. from milk	10
Microbial Primer: What is the stringent response and how does it allow bacteria to survive stress?	10
Regulation of phosphate starvation-specific responses in Escherichia coli	10
Population heterogeneity in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium abscessus	9
Escherichia coli type-1 fimbriae are critical to overcome initial bottlenecks of infection upon low-dose inoculation in a porcine model of cystitis	9
Genetic modification of Candida maltosa, a non-pathogenic CTG species, reveals EFG1 function	9
Comment on the effectiveness of sodium hypochlorite against Clostridioides difficile spores	9
The involvement of CiaR and the CiaR-regulated serine protease HtrA in thermal adaptation of Streptococcus pneumoniae	9
Topological analysis of a bacterial DedA protein associated with alkaline tolerance and antimicrobial resistance	9
Exploration of the presence and abundance of multidrug resistance efflux genes in oil and gas environments	9
Biotin concentration affects anaplerotic reactions functioning in glutamic acid production in Corynebacterium glutamicum	9
Construction and characterisation of a structured, tuneable, and transparent 3D culture platform for soil bacteria	9
Characterizing a stable five-species microbial community for use in experimental evolution and ecology	9
An unexpected abundance of bidirectional promoters within Salmonella Typhimurium plasmids	8
Mycobacteriophage D29 induced association of Mycobacterial RNA polymerase with ancillary factors leads to increased transcriptional activity	8
T-DNA insertion mutagenesis in Penicillium brocae results in identification of an enolase gene mutant impaired in secretion of organic acids and phosphate solubilization	8
Predatory bacteria in the haemolymph of the cultured spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus	8
Membrane lipid and osmolyte readjustment in the alkaliphilic micromycete Sodiomyces tronii under cold, heat and osmotic shocks	8
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	8
Transcriptional profiling of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mature single- and dual-species biofilms in response to meropenem	8
Orchestrating a heist: uptake and storage of metals by apicomplexan parasites	8
Microbe Profile: Euglena gracilis: photogenic, flexible and hardy	8
100+ years of phase variation: the premier bacterial bet-hedging phenomenon	8
The type-VI secretion system of the beneficial symbiont Vibrio fischeri	8
Rapid divergence in independent aspects of the compatibility phenotype in a Spiroplasma–Drosophila interaction	8
Killing in the name of: T6SS structure and effector diversity	8
Enterococcus faecalis requires unsaturated fatty acids to overcome toxicity of environmental saturated fatty acids	8
Microbial Primer: Lipopolysaccharide – a remarkable component of the Gram-negative bacterial surface	8
Distribution of mutation rates challenges evolutionary predictability	8
Broadening the application of Yarrowia lipolytica synthetic biology tools to explore the potential of Yarrowia clade diversity	8
A new model of endotracheal tube biofilm identifies combinations of matrix-degrading enzymes and antimicrobials able to eradicate biofilms of pathogens that cause ventilator-associated pneumonia	8