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Reviews and Book Chapters

  1. Pereira CS, Thompson JA, Xavier KB. (2012). AI-2-mediated signalling in bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Rev. Jun 19. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2012.00345.x. (Epub ahead of print)
  2. Nadal Jimenez, P., Koch, G., Thompson, J. A., Xavier, K. B., Cool, R. H., Quax, W. J. (2012). The Multiple Signaling Systems Regulating Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 76:46-65. 4.
  3. Taga, M. E., Xavier, K. B. (2011). Methods for analysis of bacterial autoinducer-2 production. Curr Protoc Microbiol. Chapter 1:Unit1C.1.
  4. Bejerano-Sagie, M. and Xavier, K.B. (2007). The Role of Small RNAs in Quorum-Sensing Curr Opin Microbiol. 10 :189-98
  5. Xavier, K. B. and Bassler, B. L. (2003). LuxS quorum sensing: more than just a numbers game. Curr Opin Microbiol 6 :191-197

Research Papers (Selected) Updated September (2012)

  1. Pereira, C. S., Santos, A. J. M., Bejerano-Sagie, M., Correia, P. B., Marques, J. C., and Xavier, K. B. 2012. Phosphoenolpyruvate Phosphotransferase System regulates detection and processing of the quorum sensing signal Autoinducer-2. Mol. Micro. 84: 93–104.
  2. Rui, F., Marques, J. C., Miller, S. T., Maycock, C. D., Xavier, K. B., Ventura, M. R.. (2012). Stereochemical diversity of AI-2 analogs modulates quorum sensing in Vibrio harveyi and Escherichia coli. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 20:249-56.
  3. Marques, J.C., Lamosa, P., Russell, C., Ventura, R., Maycock, C., Semmelhack, M.F., Miller, S.T., Xavier, K.B. (2011). Processing the Interspecies Quorum-sensing Signal Autoinducer-2 (AI-2): CHARACTERIZATION OF PHOSPHO-(S)-4,5-DIHYDROXY-2,3-PENTANEDIONE ISOMERIZATION BY LsrG PROTEIN J Biol Chem. 286 :18331-43
  4. Ascenso, O. S, Marques, J. C., Santos, A. R., Xavier, K. B., Ventura, R., Maycock, C. D. (2011). An efficient synthesis of the precursor of AI-2, the signalling molecule for inter-species quorum sensing. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 19 :1236-41
  5. Pereira, C. S., de Regt, A. K., Brito, P. H, Miller, S. T., Xavier, K.B. (2009). Identification of functional LsrB-like autoinducer-2 receptors J Bacteriol. 191:6975-87.
  6. Trindade, S., Sousa, A., Xavier, K. B., Dionisio, F., Ferreira, M.G., Gordo, I. (2009). Positive epistasis drives the acquisition of multidrug resistance. PLoS Genet 5:e1000578
  7. Pereira, C.S., McAuley, J.R., Taga, M. E., Xavier, K. B., Miller, S.T. (2008). Sinorhizobium meliloti, a bacterium lacking the autoinducer-2 synthase, responds to AI-2 supplied by other bacteria. Mol. Micro. 70 :1223-35
  8. Xavier, K.B., Miller, S.T., Lu, W., Kim, J.H., Rabinowitz,J., Pelczer,I., Semmelhack, M.F.and Bassler, B.L. (2007). Phosphorylation and processing of AI-2 in Enteric Bacteria. (See “Point of View” in ACS Chemical Biology. 2: 89-91 and “Research Highlight” in Nature Reviews Microbiology. 5: 246-247 (April 2007)) ACS Chemical Biology 2 :128-136.
  9. Xavier, K. B. and Bassler, B. L. (2005). Interference with AI-2-mediated bacterial cell-cell communication. Nature 437 :750-753
  10. Xavier, K.B. and Bassler, B.L. (2005). Regulation of uptake and processing of the quorum-sensing autoinducer AI-2 in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 187 :238-48
  11. Miller, S. T., Xavier, K. B., Campagna, S. R., Taga, M. E., Semmelhack, M. F., Bassler, B. L. and Hughson, F. M. (2004). Salmonella typhimurium recognizes a chemically distinct form of the bacterial quorum-sensing signal AI-2 Mol. Cell. 15 :677-87
  12. Xavier, K. B, da Costa, M. S., and Santos, H. (2000). Demonstration of a novel glycolytic pathway in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus zilligii by 13C-labeling experiments and nuclear magnetic resonance analysis J. Bacteriol. 182 :4632-4636
  13. Xavier, K. B., Peist, R., Kossmann, M, Boos, W., and Santos, H. (1999). Maltose metabolism in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus litoralis: purification and characterization of key-enzymes J. Bacteriol. 181 :3358-3367
  14. Selig, M., Xavier, K. B., Santos, H, and Schönheit, P. . (1997). Comparative analysis of Embden-Meyerhof and Entner-Doudoroff glycolytic pathways in hyperthermophilic archaea and the bacterium Thermotoga. Arch. Microbiol. 167 :217-232.

News releases in different fields from Business and Technology to Medical Research 

Expresso. National Newspaper. 28 Jan. 2012.

Red Herring. The Business of Technology. 12 Oct. 2005. Bacteria Talk and Manipulate.

News-Medical.Net - Medical Research News – 4 Oct. 2005. Bacteria of different species can talk to each other using a common language.

Seed Magazine. The Esperanto of the Bacteria World.

American Society For Biochemistry Magazine (ASBMB Today). Say What? Bacterial Conversation Stoppers. Page 10, Jan. 2006. 

Biology-online

      (http://www.biology-online.org/articles/bacterial_conversation_stoppers.html)

Comments in top-rank journal of different disciplines
Research Highlight: Sequester and destroy. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 2007. 5: 246-247
Point of View: Bacterial Signal Destruction. ACS Chemical Biology. 2007. 2: 89-91.
News and Views: Interrupters on the bacteria party line. Nature Chemical Biology. 2005. 1: 321-322.
News and Views: Thieves, assassins and spies of the microbial world. Nature Cell Biology. 2005. 7: 933-934.
Research Highlight: Signal interference. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 2005. 5: 246-247.
Editor’s Choice: BIOCHEMISTRY. Isomeric Inducers. Science. 2004. 305: 1875.

 

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