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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Microbe Profile: Bacillus subtilis: model organism for cellular development, and industrial workhorse	69
Bacteria-induced mineral precipitation: a mechanistic review	45
Alternaria alternata as endophyte and pathogen	40
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is capable of natural transformation in biofilms	37
Polymyxin and lipopeptide antibiotics: membrane-targeting drugs of last resort	34
Predatory bacteria as living antibiotics – where are we now?	34
Facultative methanotrophs – diversity, genetics, molecular ecology and biotechnological potential: a mini-review	30
A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans	29
Salmonella Typhimurium encoded cold shock protein E is essential for motility and biofilm formation	28
Improved growth and morphological plasticity of Haloferax volcanii	27
Extreme genetic diversity in the type VII secretion system of Listeria monocytogenes suggests a role in bacterial antagonism	26
Photorhabdus: a tale of contrasting interactions	24
Candida albicans increases the pathogenicity of Staphylococcus aureus during polymicrobial infection of Galleria mellonella larvae	24
Bacteriophage infection of Escherichia coli leads to the formation of membrane vesicles via both explosive cell lysis and membrane blebbing	24
Multigenic engineering of the chloroplast genome in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	22
Presence and absence of type VI secretion systems in bacteria	21
Adaptive laboratory evolution of Pseudomonas putida and Corynebacterium glutamicum to enhance anthranilate tolerance	20
The genetic basis of phage susceptibility, cross-resistance and host-range in Salmonella	20
Advances in actinomycete research: an ActinoBase review of 2019	20
Evolution of horizontal transmission in antimicrobial resistance plasmids	20
Multiple holins contribute to extracellular DNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	20
A systematic review of the genera Geobacillus and Parageobacillus: their evolution, current taxonomic status and major applications	20
Novel regulators of the csgD gene encoding the master regulator of biofilm formation in Escherichia coli K-12	19
Bacterial protein secretion systems: Game of types	19
Microbe Profile: Komagataella phaffii: a methanol devouring biotech yeast formerly known as Pichia pastoris	18

The Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm type IV secretion system and its effectors	18
Microcins reveal natural mechanisms of bacterial manipulation to inform therapeutic development	18
Roles for phthiocerol dimycocerosate lipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis	17
A tale of two habitats: Bacteroides fragilis, a lethal pathogen and resident in the human gastrointestinal microbiome	17
Anti-biofilm and anti-virulence effects of zerumbone against Acinetobacter baumannii	17
Microbial metabolism of isoprene: a much-neglected climate-active gas	16
The general stress response of Staphylococcus aureus promotes tolerance of antibiotics and survival in whole human blood	16
At the metal–metabolite interface in Aspergillus fumigatus: towards untangling the intersecting roles of zinc and gliotoxin	16
Frequency of quorum-sensing mutations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from different environments	16
Microbe Profile: Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus: a specialized bacterial predator of bacteria	15
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	15
Protective effects of Helicobacter pylori membrane vesicles against stress and antimicrobial agents	15
From infection niche to therapeutic target: the intracellular lifestyle of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	15
Colistin resistance in Escherichia coli confers protection of the cytoplasmic but not outer membrane from the polymyxin antibiotic	15
Microbiome diversity and composition varies across body areas in a freshwater turtle	14
Ribosome hibernation: a new molecular framework for targeting nonreplicating persisters of mycobacteria	14
rpoB mutations conferring rifampicin-resistance affect growth, stress response and motility in Vibrio vulnificus	14
Role of bacterial efflux pumps in antibiotic resistance, virulence, and strategies to discover novel efflux pump inhibitors	14
Conserved and specialized functions of Type VII secretion systems in non-tuberculous mycobacteria	14
Of zones, bridges and chaperones – phospholipid transport in bacterial outer membrane assembly and homeostasis	14
Microbial gas vesicles as nanotechnology tools: exploiting intracellular organelles for translational utility in biotechnology, medicine and the environment	14
Bacterial pore-forming toxins	14
Expansin-related proteins: biology, microbe–plant interactions and associated plant-defense responses	13
Mycoplasma pneumoniae biofilms grown in vitro: traits associated with persistence and cytotoxicity	13
Microbe Profile: Legionella pneumophila - a copycat eukaryote	13
A palette of fluorophores that are differentially accumulated by wild-type and mutant strains of Escherichia coli: surrogate ligands for profiling bacterial membrane transporters	13
Escherichia coli type-1 fimbriae are critical to overcome initial bottlenecks of infection upon low-dose inoculation in a porcine model of cystitis	13
Sustained coevolution of phage Lambda and Escherichia coli involves inner- as well as outer-membrane defences and counter-defences	13
Investigating zinc toxicity responses in marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus	13
Effect of host-mimicking medium and biofilm growth on the ability of colistin to kill Pseudomonas aeruginosa	12
The dilution effect limits plasmid horizontal transmission in multispecies bacterial communities	12
How bacteria utilize sialic acid during interactions with the host: snip, snatch, dispatch, match and attach	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
Effect of pH on the antimicrobial activity of the macrophage metabolite itaconate	12
The FocA channel functions to maintain intracellular formate homeostasis during Escherichia coli fermentation	12
A single amino acid exchange converts FocA into a unidirectional efflux channel for formate	12
Microbe Profile: Cryptococcus neoformans species complex	12
The interaction of Escherichia coli O157 :H7 and Salmonella Typhimurium flagella with host cell membranes and cytoskeletal components	11
A functional menadione biosynthesis pathway is required for capsule production by Staphylococcus aureus	11
Lactobacilli and human dental caries: more than mechanical retention	11
An ex vivo cystic fibrosis model recapitulates key clinical aspects of chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection	11
Siderophore piracy enhances Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and pathogenesis	11
Microbe Profile: Aeromonas salmonicida: an opportunistic pathogen with multiple personalities	11
RRNPP-type quorum sensing affects solvent formation and sporulation in Clostridium acetobutylicum	11
Identification of Photorhabdus symbionts by MALDI-TOF MS	10
Leafy greens as a potential source of multidrug-resistant diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella	10
What have molecular simulations contributed to understanding of Gram-negative bacterial cell envelopes?	10
Nutrient-dependent morphological variability of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron	10
Molecular mechanism of sulfur chemolithotrophy in the betaproteobacterium Pusillimonas ginsengisoli SBSA	10
The PASTA domains of Bacillus subtilis PBP2B strengthen the interaction of PBP2B with DivIB	10

Genetic and physiological analysis of biofilm formation on different plastic surfaces by Sphingomonas sp. strain S2M10 reveals an essential function of sphingan biosynthesis	10
Role of quorum sensing in UVA-induced biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	10
Characterization of an operon required for growth on cellobiose in Clostridioides difficile	10
Speaking the host language: how Salmonella effector proteins manipulate the host	9
A mutagenic screen reveals NspS residues important for regulation of Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation	9
Hydrogen production in the presence of oxygen by Escherichia coli K-12	9
CpxR regulates the Rcs phosphorelay system in controlling the Ysc-Yop type III secretion system in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis	9
Cell-free supernatants produced by lactic acid bacteria reduce Salmonella population in vitro	9
Combinatorial quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa allows for novel cheating strategies	9
Isolation and characterization of bacteria from activated sludge capable of degrading 17α-ethinylestradiol, a contaminant of high environmental concern	9
Busting biofilms: free-living amoebae disrupt preformed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Mycobacterium bovis biofilms	9
Streptococcus pneumoniae, S. pyogenes and S. agalactiae membrane phospholipid remodelling in response to human serum	9
Fitness costs of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria	9
AsnB is responsible for peptidoglycan precursor amidation in Clostridium difficile in the presence of vancomycin	8
Lactobacillus commensals autochthonous to human milk have the hallmarks of potent probiotics	8
Significant variability exists in the cytotoxicity of global methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineages	8
R-type bacteriocins of Xenorhabdus bovienii determine the outcome of interspecies competition in a natural host environment	8
The MpsB protein contributes to both the toxicity and immune evasion capacity of Staphylococcus aureus	8
MifS, a DctB family histidine kinase, is a specific regulator of α-ketoglutarate response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1	8
A novel hemA mutation is responsible for a small-colony-variant phenotype in Escherichia coli	8
A guide for membrane potential measurements in Gram-negative bacteria using voltage-sensitive dyes	8
A response regulator protein with antar domain, AvnR, in Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 impacts its virulence and amino acid metabolism	8
Presence of optrA-mediated linezolid resistance in multiple lineages and plasmids of Enterococcus faecalis revealed by long read sequencing	8
FocA and its central role in fine-tuning pH homeostasis of enterobacterial formate metabolism	8
The role of sigma factor competition in bacterial adaptation under prolonged starvation	7
Donor plasmids for phenotypically neutral chromosomal gene insertions in Enterobacteriaceae	7
ChpC controls twitching motility-mediated expansion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms in response to serum albumin, mucin and oligopeptides	7
Genome-wide analysis of genes involved in efflux function and regulation within Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	7
The biogenesis of β-lactamase enzymes	7
Tripartite efflux pumps of the RND superfamily: what did we learn from computational studies?	7
Functional diversity increases the efficacy of phage combinations	7
An OregonGreen488-labelled d-amino acid for visualizing peptidoglycan by super-resolution STED nanoscopy	7
Role of the unique, non-essential phosphatidylglycerol::prolipoprotein diacylglyceryl transferase (Lgt) in Corynebacterium glutamicum	7
Ruminococcus bromii enables the growth of proximal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron by releasing glucose during starch degradation	7
Biofilm hydrophobicity in environmental isolates of Bacillus subtilis	7
Exposure to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretome alters the proteome and secondary metabolite production of Aspergillus fumigatus	7
Rare actinobacteria isolated from the hypersaline Ojo de Liebre Lagoon as a source of novel bioactive compounds with biotechnological potential	7
The need to unravel the twisted nature of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex across Europe	7
Identification of Essential Residues for Ciprofloxacin Resistance of Ciprofloxacin-Modifying Enzyme (CrpP) of pUM505	7
Symbiont-mediated immune priming in animals through an evolutionary lens	7
Remodelling of the Gram-negative bacterial Kdo2-lipid A and its functional implications	7
Rv0802c is an acyltransferase that succinylates and acetylates Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleoid-associated protein HU	7
Microbe Profile: Dictyostelium discoideum: model system for development, chemotaxis and biomedical research	7
Prevalence of multidrug-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci in canine and feline dermatological patients over a 10-year period: a retrospective study	7
The Bacillus virulome in endophthalmitis	7
A NiCoT family metal transporter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Rv2856/NicT) behaves as a drug efflux pump that facilitates cross-resistance to antibiotics	7
The signaling peptide PapR is required for the activity of the quorum-sensor PlcRa in Bacillus thuringiensis	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
Establishing a national reference laboratory for antimicrobial resistance using a whole-genome sequencing framework: Nigeria’s experience	7
Peptide transport in Bacillus subtilis – structure and specificity in the extracellular solute binding proteins OppA and DppE	6
Interplay between central carbon metabolism and metal homeostasis in mycobacteria and other human pathogens	6
Diverse functions for acyltransferase-3 proteins in the modification of bacterial cell surfaces	6
A type IVB pilin influences twitching motility and in vitro adhesion to epithelial cells in Burkholderia pseudomallei	6
Bacterial secretion system functions: evidence of interactions and downstream implications	6
Transient internalization of Campylobacter jejuni in Amoebae enhances subsequent invasion of human cells	6
Vitamin B12 biosynthesis of Cetobacterium ceti isolated from the intestinal content of captive common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	6
Control of acetyl phosphate-dependent phosphorylation of the response regulator CiaR by acetate kinase in Streptococcus pneumoniae	6
The impact of intra-specific diversity in the rhizobia-legume symbiosis	6
PacBio sequencing revealed variation in the microbiota diversity, species richness and composition between milk collected from healthy and mastitis cows	6
A genuine mycobacterial thermophile: Mycobacterium hassiacum growth, survival and GpgS stability at near-pasteurization temperatures	6
Topological analysis of a bacterial DedA protein associated with alkaline tolerance and antimicrobial resistance	6
Berberine at sub-inhibitory concentration inhibits biofilm dispersal in Staphylococcus aureus	6
Mechanism of assembly of type 4 filaments: everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)	6
Microbe Profile: Xylella fastidiosa – a devastating agricultural pathogen with an endophytic lifestyle	6
Efflux-mediated tolerance to cationic biocides, a cause for concern?	6
Tn1 transposition in the course of natural transformation enables horizontal antibiotic resistance spread in Acinetobacter baylyi	6
Orchestrating a heist: uptake and storage of metals by apicomplexan parasites	6
Role of horizontally transferred copper resistance genes in Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes	6
Three biofilm types produced by a model pseudomonad are differentiated by structural characteristics and fitness advantage	6
The role of l-arabinose metabolism for Escherichia coli O157:H7 in edible plants	6
A unique global metabolic trait of Pseudomonas bharatica CSV86T: metabolism of aromatics over simple carbon sources and co-metabolism with organic acids	6
Regulatory role of CsuR (YiaU) in determination of cell surface properties of Escherichia coli K-12	6
Biofilms as protective cocoons against biocides: from bacterial adaptation to One Health issues	6