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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Microbe Profile: Bacillus subtilis: model organism for cellular development, and industrial workhorse	69
Bacteria-induced mineral precipitation: a mechanistic review	46
Alternaria alternata as endophyte and pathogen	42
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is capable of natural transformation in biofilms	37
Polymyxin and lipopeptide antibiotics: membrane-targeting drugs of last resort	35
Predatory bacteria as living antibiotics – where are we now?	34
Facultative methanotrophs – diversity, genetics, molecular ecology and biotechnological potential: a mini-review	33
A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans	31
Salmonella Typhimurium encoded cold shock protein E is essential for motility and biofilm formation	28
Improved growth and morphological plasticity of Haloferax volcanii	28
Extreme genetic diversity in the type VII secretion system of Listeria monocytogenes suggests a role in bacterial antagonism	26
Bacteriophage infection of Escherichia coli leads to the formation of membrane vesicles via both explosive cell lysis and membrane blebbing	26
Multigenic engineering of the chloroplast genome in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	23
The genetic basis of phage susceptibility, cross-resistance and host-range in Salmonella	22
A systematic review of the genera Geobacillus and Parageobacillus: their evolution, current taxonomic status and major applications	22
Advances in actinomycete research: an ActinoBase review of 2019	21
Presence and absence of type VI secretion systems in bacteria	21
Adaptive laboratory evolution of Pseudomonas putida and Corynebacterium glutamicum to enhance anthranilate tolerance	21
Evolution of horizontal transmission in antimicrobial resistance plasmids	21
Multiple holins contribute to extracellular DNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	20
Microbe Profile: Komagataella phaffii: a methanol devouring biotech yeast formerly known as Pichia pastoris	19
Role of bacterial efflux pumps in antibiotic resistance, virulence, and strategies to discover novel efflux pump inhibitors	19
Bacterial protein secretion systems: Game of types	19
Novel regulators of the csgD gene encoding the master regulator of biofilm formation in Escherichia coli K-12	19
The Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm type IV secretion system and its effectors	19

Bacterial pore-forming toxins	19
A tale of two habitats: Bacteroides fragilis, a lethal pathogen and resident in the human gastrointestinal microbiome	19
Microcins reveal natural mechanisms of bacterial manipulation to inform therapeutic development	19
Roles for phthiocerol dimycocerosate lipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis	18
Frequency of quorum-sensing mutations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from different environments	17
Anti-biofilm and anti-virulence effects of zerumbone against Acinetobacter baumannii	17
At the metal–metabolite interface in Aspergillus fumigatus: towards untangling the intersecting roles of zinc and gliotoxin	17
rpoB mutations conferring rifampicin-resistance affect growth, stress response and motility in Vibrio vulnificus	16
The general stress response of Staphylococcus aureus promotes tolerance of antibiotics and survival in whole human blood	16
Protective effects of Helicobacter pylori membrane vesicles against stress and antimicrobial agents	16
From infection niche to therapeutic target: the intracellular lifestyle of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	16
Colistin resistance in Escherichia coli confers protection of the cytoplasmic but not outer membrane from the polymyxin antibiotic	16
Microbial metabolism of isoprene: a much-neglected climate-active gas	16
Microbe Profile: Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus: a specialized bacterial predator of bacteria	15
Expansin-related proteins: biology, microbe–plant interactions and associated plant-defense responses	15
How bacteria utilize sialic acid during interactions with the host: snip, snatch, dispatch, match and attach	15
Microbiome diversity and composition varies across body areas in a freshwater turtle	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
Ribosome hibernation: a new molecular framework for targeting nonreplicating persisters of mycobacteria	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
Microbe Profile: Legionella pneumophila - a copycat eukaryote	14
Microbial gas vesicles as nanotechnology tools: exploiting intracellular organelles for translational utility in biotechnology, medicine and the environment	14
Microbe Profile: Cryptococcus neoformans species complex	14
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
Mycoplasma pneumoniae biofilms grown in vitro: traits associated with persistence and cytotoxicity	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
Microbe Profile: Aeromonas salmonicida: an opportunistic pathogen with multiple personalities	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
Siderophore piracy enhances Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and pathogenesis	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
RRNPP-type quorum sensing affects solvent formation and sporulation in Clostridium acetobutylicum	12
A single amino acid exchange converts FocA into a unidirectional efflux channel for formate	12
Effect of host-mimicking medium and biofilm growth on the ability of colistin to kill Pseudomonas aeruginosa	12
Lactobacilli and human dental caries: more than mechanical retention	12
The dilution effect limits plasmid horizontal transmission in multispecies bacterial communities	12
A functional menadione biosynthesis pathway is required for capsule production by Staphylococcus aureus	11
Leafy greens as a potential source of multidrug-resistant diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella	11
Speaking the host language: how Salmonella effector proteins manipulate the host	11
Fitness costs of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria	11
An ex vivo cystic fibrosis model recapitulates key clinical aspects of chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection	11
The interaction of Escherichia coli O157 :H7 and Salmonella Typhimurium flagella with host cell membranes and cytoskeletal components	11
Nutrient-dependent morphological variability of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron	10
What have molecular simulations contributed to understanding of Gram-negative bacterial cell envelopes?	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
The PASTA domains of Bacillus subtilis PBP2B strengthen the interaction of PBP2B with DivIB	10

Identification of Photorhabdus symbionts by MALDI-TOF MS	10
Hydrogen production in the presence of oxygen by Escherichia coli K-12	10
Characterization of an operon required for growth on cellobiose in Clostridioides difficile	10
A mutagenic screen reveals NspS residues important for regulation of Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation	9
Presence of optrA-mediated linezolid resistance in multiple lineages and plasmids of Enterococcus faecalis revealed by long read sequencing	9
Isolation and characterization of bacteria from activated sludge capable of degrading 17α-ethinylestradiol, a contaminant of high environmental concern	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
Establishing a national reference laboratory for antimicrobial resistance using a whole-genome sequencing framework: Nigeria’s experience	9
Killing in the name of: T6SS structure and effector diversity	9
Streptococcus pneumoniae, S. pyogenes and S. agalactiae membrane phospholipid remodelling in response to human serum	9
AsnB is responsible for peptidoglycan precursor amidation in Clostridium difficile in the presence of vancomycin	9
Combinatorial quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa allows for novel cheating strategies	9
Busting biofilms: free-living amoebae disrupt preformed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Mycobacterium bovis biofilms	9
Prevalence of multidrug-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci in canine and feline dermatological patients over a 10-year period: a retrospective study	8
R-type bacteriocins of Xenorhabdus bovienii determine the outcome of interspecies competition in a natural host environment	8
Tripartite efflux pumps of the RND superfamily: what did we learn from computational studies?	8
Remodelling of the Gram-negative bacterial Kdo2-lipid A and its functional implications	8
Rv0802c is an acyltransferase that succinylates and acetylates Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleoid-associated protein HU	8
MifS, a DctB family histidine kinase, is a specific regulator of α-ketoglutarate response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1	8
Significant variability exists in the cytotoxicity of global methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineages	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
Orchestrating a heist: uptake and storage of metals by apicomplexan parasites	8
The MpsB protein contributes to both the toxicity and immune evasion capacity of Staphylococcus aureus	8
Donor plasmids for phenotypically neutral chromosomal gene insertions in Enterobacteriaceae	8
Rare actinobacteria isolated from the hypersaline Ojo de Liebre Lagoon as a source of novel bioactive compounds with biotechnological potential	8
FocA and its central role in fine-tuning pH homeostasis of enterobacterial formate metabolism	8
Symbiont-mediated immune priming in animals through an evolutionary lens	8
A response regulator protein with antar domain, AvnR, in Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 impacts its virulence and amino acid metabolism	8
Lactobacillus commensals autochthonous to human milk have the hallmarks of potent probiotics	8
A global perspective on bacterial diversity in the terrestrial deep subsurface	7
Multifunctional transcription factor CytR of Vibrio cholerae is important for pathogenesis	7
The role of sigma factor competition in bacterial adaptation under prolonged starvation	7
Biofilm hydrophobicity in environmental isolates of Bacillus subtilis	7
ChpC controls twitching motility-mediated expansion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms in response to serum albumin, mucin and oligopeptides	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
Influence of core divisome proteins on cell division in Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10712	7
The impact of intra-specific diversity in the rhizobia-legume symbiosis	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
The role of l-arabinose metabolism for Escherichia coli O157:H7 in edible plants	7
Exposure to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretome alters the proteome and secondary metabolite production of Aspergillus fumigatus	7
Mechanism of assembly of type 4 filaments: everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)	7
The biogenesis of β-lactamase enzymes	7
Peptide transport in Bacillus subtilis – structure and specificity in the extracellular solute binding proteins OppA and DppE	7
An OregonGreen488-labelled d-amino acid for visualizing peptidoglycan by super-resolution STED nanoscopy	7
Membrane lipids from gut microbiome-associated bacteria as structural and signalling molecules	7
Microbe Profile: Dictyostelium discoideum: model system for development, chemotaxis and biomedical research	7
A unique global metabolic trait of Pseudomonas bharatica CSV86T: metabolism of aromatics over simple carbon sources and co-metabolism with organic acids	7
Vitamin B12 biosynthesis of Cetobacterium ceti isolated from the intestinal content of captive common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	7
Genome-wide analysis of genes involved in efflux function and regulation within Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	7
The need to unravel the twisted nature of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex across Europe	7
Functional diversity increases the efficacy of phage combinations	7
A mycobacterial DivIVA domain-containing protein involved in cell length and septation	6
The role of nitrogen-responsive regulators in controlling inorganic polyphosphate synthesis in Escherichia coli	6
Role of horizontally transferred copper resistance genes in Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes	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
The distribution of fitness effects of plasmid pOXA-48 in clinical enterobacteria	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
Biofilms as protective cocoons against biocides: from bacterial adaptation to One Health issues	6
Interplay between central carbon metabolism and metal homeostasis in mycobacteria and other human pathogens	6
Structural and functional characteristics of the tripartite ABC transporter	6
Three biofilm types produced by a model pseudomonad are differentiated by structural characteristics and fitness advantage	6
Bacterial secretion system functions: evidence of interactions and downstream implications	6
Regulatory role of CsuR (YiaU) in determination of cell surface properties of Escherichia coli K-12	6
Transient internalization of Campylobacter jejuni in Amoebae enhances subsequent invasion of human cells	6
Tn1 transposition in the course of natural transformation enables horizontal antibiotic resistance spread in Acinetobacter baylyi	6
Microbe Profile: Buchnera aphidicola: ancient aphid accomplice and endosymbiont exemplar	6
PacBio sequencing revealed variation in the microbiota diversity, species richness and composition between milk collected from healthy and mastitis cows	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
Berberine at sub-inhibitory concentration inhibits biofilm dispersal in Staphylococcus aureus	6
Biochemical and functional characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ketol-acid reductoisomerase	6