Isolation of Listeria monocytogenes small-plaque mutants defective for intracellular growth and cell-to-cell spread

Experiments in molecular genetics

1972 • 28,260 citations

Rapid and Sensitive Protein Similarity Searches

1985 • 4,091 citations

CELLULAR RESISTANCE TO INFECTION

1962 • 1,422 citations

Actin filaments and the growth, movement, and spread of the intracellular bacterial parasite, Listeria monocytogenes.

1989 • 1,268 citations

Use of phoA gene fusions to identify a pilus colonization factor coordinately regulated with cholera toxin.

1987 • 1,041 citations

‘DNA Strider’: a ‘C’ program for the fast analysis of DNA and protein sequences on the Apple Macintosh family of computers

1988 • 1,010 citations

Role of hemolysin for the intracellular growth of Listeria monocytogenes.

1988 • 881 citations

Identification of icsA, a plasmid locus of Shigella flexneri that governs bacterial intra- and intercellular spread through interaction with F-actin.

1989 • 724 citations

In vitro model of penetration and intracellular growth of Listeria monocytogenes in the human enterocyte-like cell line Caco-2

1987 • 714 citations

Coordinate Regulation and Sensory Transduction in the Control of Bacterial Virulence

1989 • 626 citations

Regulation of exoprotein gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus by agr

1986 • 618 citations

Multiplication of Shigella flexneri within HeLa cells: lysis of the phagocytic vacuole and plasmid-mediated contact hemolysis

1986 • 509 citations

From signal to pseudopod

1989 • 460 citations

The Role of Cell-Mediated Immunity in Bacterial Infections

1981 • 452 citations

Transposon mutagenesis as a tool to study the role of hemolysin in the virulence of Listeria monocytogenes

1986 • 431 citations

Listeriolysin O is essential for virulence of Listeria monocytogenes: direct evidence obtained by gene complementation

1989 • 426 citations

Adoptive transfer of immunity to Listeria monocytogenes. The influence of in vitro stimulation on lymphocyte subset requirements.

1987 • 387 citations

Bacillus subtilis expressing a haemolysin gene from Listeria monocytogenes can grow in mammalian cells

1990 • 355 citations

Tn916-induced mutations in the hemolysin determinant affecting virulence of Listeria monocytogenes

1987 • 342 citations

THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF BLOOD MONOCYTES AND FIXED MACROPHAGES TO THE EXPRESSION OF CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY TO INFECTION

1970 • 326 citations

Listeria monocytogenes moves rapidly through the host-cell cytoplasm by inducing directional actin assembly.

1990 • 321 citations

A genetic determinant required for continuous reinfection of adjacent cells on large plasmid in S. flexneri 2a

1986 • 312 citations

Trypanosoma cruzi: mechanism of entry and intracellular fate in mammalian cells.

1976 • 309 citations

Intracellular and cell-to-cell spread of Listeria monocytogenes involves interaction with F-actin in the enterocytelike cell line Caco-2

1990 • 301 citations

Expression in Escherichia coli and sequence analysis of the listeriolysin O determinant of Listeria monocytogenes

1988 • 286 citations

Identification of an extracellular protein of Listeria monocytogenes possibly involved in intracellular uptake by mammalian cells

1989 • 280 citations

Identification and characterization of genes controlled by the sporulation-regulatory gene spo0H in Bacillus subtilis

1989 • 266 citations

Plaque formation by virulent Shigella flexneri

1985 • 253 citations

virG, a plasmid-coded virulence gene of Shigella flexneri: identification of the virG protein and determination of the complete coding sequence

1989 • 240 citations

Exacerbation of murine listeriosis by a monoclonal antibody specific for the type 3 complement receptor of myelomonocytic cells. Absence of monocytes at infective foci allows Listeria to multiply in nonphagocytic cells.

1989 • 232 citations

Gamma interferon limits access of Listeria monocytogenes to the macrophage cytoplasm.

1989 • 215 citations

Experimental Listeria enteritis. I. An electron microscopic study of the epithelial phase in experimental listeria infection.

1972 • 193 citations

Hemolysin supports survival but not entry of the intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes

1988 • 192 citations

Insertional mutagenesis of Listeria monocytogenes with a novel Tn917 derivative that allows direct cloning of DNA flanking transposon insertions

1990 • 174 citations

The gene coding for protein p60 of Listeria monocytogenes and its use as a specific probe for Listeria monocytogenes

1990 • 169 citations

GENETIC REGULATION OF BACTERIAL VIRULENCE

1989 • 123 citations

Transcriptional mapping and nucleotide sequence of the Listeria monocytogenes hlyA region reveal structural features that may be involved in regulation

1989 • 111 citations

Secretion by Trypanosoma cruzi of a hemolysin active at low pH

1989 • 99 citations

Intracellular spread of Shigella flexneri associated with the kcpA locus and a 140-kilodalton protein

1989 • 96 citations

Experimental infection of mouse peritoneal mesothelium with scrub typhus rickettsiae: an ultrastructural study

1978 • 92 citations

Synthesis and secretion of interferon by murine fibroblasts in response to intracellular Listeria monocytogenes

1986 • 88 citations

Study on the growth of rickettsiae

1957 • 87 citations

Sequence of theBacillus thuringiensisphosphatidylinositol specific phospholipase C

1988 • 73 citations

Intracellular methicillin selection of Listeria monocytogenes mutants unable to replicate in a macrophage cell line.

1989 • 62 citations

Molecular characterization and sequence of phosphatidylinositol‐specific phospholipase C of Bacillus thuringiensis

1989 • 43 citations

Rickettsia prowazekii and the host cell: entry, growth and control of the parasite.

1988 • 32 citations

Production of Opacity in Egg-Yolk Medium by Listeria monocytogenes

1962 • 27 citations