Recent advances in understanding enteric pathogenic Escherichia coli

MA Croxen, RJ Law, R Scholz… - Clinical microbiology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although Escherichia coli can be an innocuous resident of the gastrointestinal tract, it also
has the pathogenic capacity to cause significant diarrheal and extraintestinal diseases …

E. coli as an All-Rounder: The Thin Line Between Commensalism and Pathogenicity

A Leimbach, J Hacker, U Dobrindt - Between pathogenicity and …, 2013 - Springer
Escherichia coli is a paradigm for a versatile bacterial species which comprises harmless
commensal as well as different pathogenic variants with the ability to either cause intestinal …

BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG): simple prokaryote genome comparisons

NF Alikhan, NK Petty, NL Ben Zakour, SA Beatson - BMC genomics, 2011 - Springer
Background Visualisation of genome comparisons is invaluable for hel** to determine
genotypic differences between closely related prokaryotes. New visualisation and …

A review of the taxonomy, genetics, and biology of the genus Escherichia and the type species Escherichia coli

D Yu, G Banting, NF Neumann - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Historically, bacteriologists have relied heavily on biochemical and structural phenotypes for
bacterial taxonomic classification. However, advances in comparative genomics have led to …

The evolution of the Escherichia coli phylogeny

RR Chaudhuri, IR Henderson - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
Escherichia coli is familiar to biologists as a classical model system, ubiquitous in molecular
biology laboratories around the world. Outside of the laboratory, E. coli strains exist as an …

Discovery of the curcumin metabolic pathway involving a unique enzyme in an intestinal microorganism

A Hassaninasab, Y Hashimoto… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Polyphenol curcumin, a yellow pigment, derived from the rhizomes of a plant (Curcuma
longa Linn) is a natural antioxidant exhibiting a variety of pharmacological activities and …

Chaperone-Usher Fimbriae of Escherichia coli

DJ Wurpel, SA Beatson, M Totsika, NK Petty… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Chaperone-usher (CU) fimbriae are adhesive surface organelles common to many Gram-
negative bacteria. Escherichia coli genomes contain a large variety of characterised and …

The influence of the accessory genome on bacterial pathogen evolution

RW Jackson, B Vinatzer, DL Arnold, S Dorus… - Mobile genetic …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Bacterial pathogens exhibit significant variation in their genomic content of virulence factors.
This reflects the abundance of strategies pathogens evolved to infect host organisms by …

Impact of homologous and non-homologous recombination in the genomic evolution of Escherichia coli

X Didelot, G Méric, D Falush, AE Darling - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Escherichia coli is an important species of bacteria that can live as a harmless
inhabitant of the guts of many animals, as a pathogen causing life-threatening conditions or …

Rapid Identification of Protein Biomarkers of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time-of-Flight−Time-of-Flight Mass …

CK Fagerquist, BR Garbus, WG Miller… - Analytical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Six protein biomarkers from two strains of Escherichia coli O157: H7 and one non-O157: H7,
nonpathogenic strain of E. coli have been identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption …