Maria Sanchez-Contreras

Summary

Affiliation: University of Bath
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Comparative genomics of the emerging human pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica with the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens
    Paul Wilkinson
    School of Biosciences, University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn TR10 9EZ, UK
    BMC Genomics 10:302. 2009
  2. ncbi The diversity of insect-bacteria interactions and its applications for disease control
    Maria Shanchez-Contreras
    Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK
    Biotechnol Genet Eng Rev 25:203-43. 2008
  3. ncbi Influence of the Photorhabdus luminescens phosphomannose isomerase gene, manA, on mannose utilization, exopolysaccharide structure, and biofilm formation
    Matthew R Amos
    Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 77:776-85. 2011
  4. ncbi Photorhabdus adhesion modification protein (Pam) binds extracellular polysaccharide and alters bacterial attachment
    Robert T Jones
    Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA27AY, UK
    BMC Microbiol 10:141. 2010
  5. ncbi Rapid Virulence Annotation (RVA): identification of virulence factors using a bacterial genome library and multiple invertebrate hosts
    Nicholas R Waterfield
    Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:15967-72. 2008

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Publications5

  1. ncbi Comparative genomics of the emerging human pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica with the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens
    Paul Wilkinson
    School of Biosciences, University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn TR10 9EZ, UK
    BMC Genomics 10:302. 2009
    ..Here we compare the complete genome of Pa ATCC43949 with that of the previously sequenced insect pathogen P. luminescens strain TT01 which was isolated from its entomopathogenic nematode vector collected from soil in Trinidad and Tobago...
  2. ncbi The diversity of insect-bacteria interactions and its applications for disease control
    Maria Shanchez-Contreras
    Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK
    Biotechnol Genet Eng Rev 25:203-43. 2008
    ..Furthermore, many mechanisms involved in the establishment of the associations have been scrutinised, along with the development of new methods for the management of insect populations...
  3. ncbi Influence of the Photorhabdus luminescens phosphomannose isomerase gene, manA, on mannose utilization, exopolysaccharide structure, and biofilm formation
    Matthew R Amos
    Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 77:776-85. 2011
    ..A compositional analysis of P. luminescens EPS reveals how the manA mutation has a major effect on the formation of a complete, branched EPS...
  4. ncbi Photorhabdus adhesion modification protein (Pam) binds extracellular polysaccharide and alters bacterial attachment
    Robert T Jones
    Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA27AY, UK
    BMC Microbiol 10:141. 2010
    ..We investigated the secreted proteome of a clinical isolate of P. asymbiotica at different temperatures in order to identify proteins relevant to the infection of the two different hosts...
  5. ncbi Rapid Virulence Annotation (RVA): identification of virulence factors using a bacterial genome library and multiple invertebrate hosts
    Nicholas R Waterfield
    Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:15967-72. 2008
    ..The application of RVA to other pathogen genomes promises to ascribe biological function to otherwise uncharacterized virulence genes...