European Initiative for basic research in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
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• Abrusci P, Vergara-Irigaray M, Johnson S, Beeby M, Hendrixson D, Roversi P, Friede ME,  Deane JE, Jensen GJ, Tang CM, Lea SM.
  Architecture of the major component of the type III secretion system export apparatus.
  Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 2013 more
  

• Bensi G, Mora M, Tuscano G, Biagini M, Chiarot E, Bombaci M, Capo S, Falugi F, Manetti AG, Donato P, Swennen E, Gallotta M, Garibaldi M, Pinto V, Chiappini N, Musser JM, Janulczyk R, Mariani M, Scarselli M, Telford JL, Grifantini R, Norais N, Margarit I, Grandi G.
  Multi high-throughput approach for highly selective identification of vaccine candidates: the Group A Streptococcus case.
  Mol Cell Proteomics. 2012 more

• Mellroth P, Daniels R, Eberhardt A, Ronnlund D, Blom H, Widengren J, Normark S and Henriques-Normark B.
  LytA, major autolysin of Streptococcus pneumoniae, requires access to nascent peptidoglycan.
  J Biol Chem. 2012 more
  

• Gazi AD, Sarris PF, Fadouloglou VE, Charova SN, Mathioudakis N, Panopoulos NJ and Kokkinidis M.
  Phylogenetic Analysis of a Gene Cluster Encoding an Additional, Rhizobial – like Type III Secretion System that is Narrowly Distributed among Pseudomonas syringae strains.
  BMC Microbiol. 2012 more

• Georgiadou M, Castagnini M, Karimova G, Ladant D, Pelicic V.
  Large-scale study of the interactions between proteins involved in type IV pilus biology in Neisseria meningitidis: characterization of a subcomplex involved in pilus assembly.
  Mol Microbiol. 2012 more
  

• Castagnini M, Picchianti M, Talluri E, Biagini M, Del Vecchio M, Di Procolo P, Norais N, Nardi-Dei V, Balducci E.
  Arginine-specific mono ADP-ribosylation in vitro of antimicrobial peptides by ADP-ribosylating toxins.
  PLoS One. 2012 more
  
  
• Orrskog S, Rounioja S, Spadafina T, Gallotta M, Norman M, Hentrich K, Fälker S, Ygberg-Eriksson S, Hasenberg M, Johansson B, Uotila LM, Gahmberg CG, Barocchi M, Gunzer M, Normark S, Henriques-Normark B.
  Pilus Adhesin RrgA Interacts with Complement Receptor 3, Thereby Affecting Macrophage Function and Systemic Pneumococcal Disease.
  MBio. 2012 more
  
  
• Marteyn B, Scorza FB, Sansonetti PJ, Tang C.
  Breathing life into pathogens: the influence of oxygen on bacterial virulence and host responses in the gastrointestinal tract.
  Cell Microbioll. 2011 more
  
  
• Konradt C, Frigimelica E, Nothelfer K, Puhar A, Salgado-Pabon W, Di Bartolo V, Scott-Algara D, Rodriguez C, Sansonetti PJ, Phalipon A
  The Shigella flexneri Type Three Secretion System effector IpgD inhibits T cell migration by manipulating host phosphoinositide metabolism.
  Cell Host Microbe. 2011 more
  
  
• Finco O, Frigimelica E, Buricchi F, Petracca R, Galli G, Faenzi E, Meoni E, Bonci A, Agnusdei M, Nardelli F, Bartolini E, Scarselli M, Caproni E, Laera D, Zedda L, Skibinski D, Giovinazzi S, Bastone R, Ianni E, Cevenini R, Grandi G, Grifantini R
  Approach to discover T- and B-cell antigens of intracellular pathogens applied to the design of Chlamydia trachomatis vaccines.
  PNAS. 2011 more
  
  
• Serruto D, Spadafina T, Ciucchi L, Lewis LA, Ram S, Tontini M, Santini L, Biolchi A, Seib KL, Giuliani MM, Donnelly JJ, Berti F, Savino S, Scarselli M, Costantino P, Kroll SJ, O'Dwyer C, Qiu J, Plaut AG, Moxon R, Rappuoli R, Pizza M and Aricò B
  Neisseria meningitidis GNA2132 is a heparin binding protein that induces protective immunity in humans.
  PNAS. 2010 more

• Furthermore, the developed pipeline for next generation sequencing (by Garcia F) is available for the public on the following website: http://qualimap.bioinfo.cipf.es