Recent Publications on Enterococcus faecalis genome : |  | |
| Virulence factors and bacteriocins in faecal enterococci of wild boars.
The production of antimicrobial, haemolytic and gelatinase activities was... | Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Departamento de Ciencias | J Basic Microbiol. 2008 Oct;48(5):385-92.
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| Vancomycin resistance VanS/VanR two-component systems.
Vancomycin is a member of the glycopeptide class of antibiotics.... | Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. | Adv Exp Med Biol. 2008;631:200-13. |
| Identification and phenotypic characterization of a second collagen adhesin, Scm, and genome-based identification and analysis of 13 other predicted MSCRAMMs, including four distinct pilus loci, in Enterococcus faecium.
Attention has recently been drawn to Enterococcus faecium because of an... | Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, | Microbiology. 2008 Oct;154(Pt 10):3199-211.
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| The Orf18 gene product from conjugative transposon Tn916 is an ArdA antirestriction protein that inhibits type I DNA restriction-modification systems.
Gene orf18, which is situated within the intercellular transposition... | School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, | J Mol Biol. 2008 Nov 28;383(5):970-81. Epub 2008 Jun 7.
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| Innate immunity in Caenorhabditis elegans is regulated by neurons expressing NPR-1/GPCR.
A large body of evidence indicates that metazoan innate immunity is... | Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical | Science. 2008 Oct 17;322(5900):460-4. Epub 2008 Sep 18.
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Patents: |  |
| US Patent No. | Title |
| 7349808 | System and method for tracking and controlling infections |
| 7101969 | Compositions and methods involving an essential Staphylococcus aureus gene and its encoded protein |