Publications

Irwin AD, Coin LJM, Harris PNA, Cotta MO, Bauer MJ, Buckley C, Balch R, Kruger P, Meyer J, Shekar K, Brady K, Fourie C, Sharp N, Vlad L, Whiley D, Beatson SA, Forde BM, Paterson D, Clark J, Hajkowicz K, Raman S, Bialasiewicz S, Lipman J, Schlapbach LJ, Roberts JA. Optimising Treatment Outcomes for Children and Adults Through Rapid Genome Sequencing of Sepsis Pathogens. A Study Protocol for a Prospective, Multi-Centre Trial (DIRECT). Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2021 Jun 23;11:667680. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.667680. eCollection 2021.

Murigneux V, Roberts LW, Forde BM, Phan MD, Nhu NTK, Irwin AD, Harris PNA, Paterson DL, Schembri MA, Whiley DM, Beatson SA. MicroPIPE: validating an end-to-end workflow for high-quality complete bacterial genome construction. BMC Genomics. 2021 Jun 25;22(1):474. doi: 10.1186/s12864-021-07767-z.

Rynhoud H, Forde BM, Beatson SA, Abraham S, Meler E, Soares Magalhães RJ, Gibson JS. Molecular Epidemiology of Clinical and Colonizing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Isolates in Companion Animals. Front Vet Sci. 2021 Apr 23;8:620491. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.620491. eCollection 2021.

Sherrard LJ, Wee BA, Duplancic C, Ramsay KA, Dave KA, Ballard E, Wainwright CE, Grimwood K, Sidjabat HE, Whiley DM, Beatson SA, Kidd TJ, Bell SC. Emergence and impact of oprD mutations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains in cystic fibrosis. J Cyst Fibros. 2021 Mar 25:S1569-1993(21)00056-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jcf.2021.03.007. Online ahead of print.

Roberts LW, Forde BM, Hurst T, Ling W, Nimmo GR, Bergh H, George N, Hajkowicz K, McNamara JF, Lipman J, Permana B, Schembri MA, Paterson D, Beatson SA, Harris PNA. Genomic surveillance, characterization and intervention of a polymicrobial multidrug-resistant outbreak in critical care. Microb Genom. 2021 Mar;7(3):mgen000530. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000530. Epub 2021 Feb 18.

Hancock SJ, Phan MD, Roberts LW, Vu TNM, Harris PNA, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Characterization of DtrJ as an IncC plasmid conjugative DNA transfer component. Mol Microbiol. 2021 Feb 10. doi: 10.1111/mmi.14697. Online ahead of print.

De Oliveira DMP, Bohlmann L, Conroy T, Jen FE, Everest-Dass A, Hansford KA, Bolisetti R, El-Deeb IM, Forde BM, Phan MD, Lacey JA, Tan A, Rivera-Hernandez T, Brouwer S, Keller N, Kidd TJ, Cork AJ, Bauer MJ, Cook GM, Davies MR, Beatson SA, Paterson DL, McEwan AG, Li J, Schembri MA, Blaskovich MAT, Jennings MP, McDevitt CA, von Itzstein M, Walker MJ. Repurposing a neurodegenerative disease drug to treat Gram-negative antibiotic-resistant bacterial sepsis. Sci Transl Med. 2020 Nov 18;12(570):eabb3791. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abb3791.

Henderson A, Paterson DL, Chatfield MD, Tambyah PA, Lye DC, De PP, Lin RTP, Chew KL, Yin M, Lee TH, Yilmaz M, Cakmak R, Alenazi TH, Arabi YM, Falcone M, Bassetti M, Righi E, Ba R, Kanj SS, Bhally H, Iredell J, Mendelson M, Boyles TH, Looke DFM, Runnegar NJ, Miyakis S, Walls G, Ai Khamis M, Zikri A, Crowe A, Ingram PR, Daneman NN, Griffin P, Athan E, Roberts L, Beatson SA, Peleg AY, Cottrell KK, Bauer MJ, Tan E, Chaw K, Nimmo GR, Harris-Brown T, Harris PNA; MERINO Trial Investigators and the Australasian Society for Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (ASID-CRN). Association between minimum inhibitory concentration, beta-lactamase genes and mortality for patients treated with piperacillin/tazobactam or meropenem from the MERINO study. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 27:ciaa1479. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1479. Online ahead of print.

Kidsley AK, White RT, Beatson SA, Saputra S, Schembri MA, Gordon D, Johnson JR, O’Dea M, Mollinger JL, Abraham S, Trott DJ. Companion Animals Are Spillover Hosts of the Multidrug-Resistant Human Extraintestinal Escherichia coli Pandemic Clones ST131 and ST1193. Front Microbiol. 2020 Sep 2;11:1968. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01968. eCollection 2020.

Guglielmino CJD, Kakkanat A, Forde BM, Rubenach S, Merone L, Stafford R, Graham RMA, Beatson SA, Jennison AV. Outbreak of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) Shigella flexneri in northern Australia due to an endemic regional clone acquiring an IncFII plasmid. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2021 Feb;40(2):279-286. doi: 10.1007/s10096-020-04029-w. Epub 2020 Sep 4.

Hancock SJ, Phan MD, Luo Z, Lo AW, Peters KM, Nhu NTK, Forde BM, Whitfield J, Yang J, Strugnell RA, Paterson DL, Walsh TR, Kobe B, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Comprehensive analysis of IncC plasmid conjugation identifies a crucial role for the transcriptional regulator AcaB. Nat Microbiol. 2020 Nov;5(11):1340-1348. doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-0775-0. Epub 2020 Aug 17.

Forde BM, Henderson A, Playford EG, Looke D, Henderson BC, Watson C, Steen JA, Sidjabat HE, Laurie G, Muttaiyah S, Nimmo GR, Lampe G, Smith H, Jennison AV, McCall B, Carroll H, Cooper MA, Paterson DL, Beatson SA. Fatal respiratory diphtheria caused by β-lactam-resistant Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Aug 9:ciaa1147. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1147. Online ahead of print.

De Oliveira DMP, Forde BM, Kidd TJ, Harris PNA, Schembri MA, Beatson SA, Paterson DL, Walker MJ. Antimicrobial Resistance in ESKAPE Pathogens. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2020 May 13;33(3):e00181-19. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00181-19. Print 2020 Jun 17.

Omaleki L, Beatson SA, Thomrongsuwannakij T, Blackall PJ, Buller NB, Hair SD, Vitali SD, Wallace AM, Turni C, Forde BM. Phase variation in latB associated with a fatal Pasteurella multocida outbreak in captive squirrel gliders. Vet Microbiol. 2020 Apr;243:108612. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2020.108612. Epub 2020 Feb 14.

Omaleki L, Blackall PJ, Cuddihy T, Beatson SA, Forde BM, Turni C. Using genomics to understand inter- and intra- outbreak diversity of Pasteurella multocida isolates associated with fowl cholera in meat chickens. Microb Genom. 2020 Mar;6(3):e000346. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000346.

Chapman P, Forde BM, Roberts LW, Bergh H, Vesey D, Jennison AV, Moss S, Paterson DL, Beatson SA, Harris PNA. Genomic Investigation Reveals Contaminated Detergent as the Source of an Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella michiganensis Outbreak in a Neonatal Unit. J Clin Microbiol. 2020 Apr 23;58(5):e01980-19. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01980-19. Print 2020 Apr 23.

Lee BM, Harold LK, Almeida DV, Afriat-Jurnou L, Aung HL, Forde BM, Hards K, Pidot SJ, Ahmed FH, Mohamed AE, Taylor MC, West NP, Stinear TP, Greening C, Beatson SA, Nuermberger EL, Cook GM, Jackson CJ. Predicting nitroimidazole antibiotic resistance mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with protein engineering. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Feb 7;16(2):e1008287. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008287. eCollection 2020 Feb.

Roberts LW, Harris PNA, Forde BM, Ben Zakour NL, Catchpoole E, Stanton-Cook M, Phan MD, Sidjabat HE, Bergh H, Heney C, Gawthorne JA, Lipman J, Allworth A, Chan KG, Chong TM, Yin WF, Schembri MA, Paterson DL, Beatson SA. Integrating multiple genomic technologies to investigate an outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter hormaechei. Nat Commun. 2020 Jan 24;11(1):466. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-14139-5.

Roberts LW, Catchpoole E, Jennison AV, Bergh H, Hume A, Heney C, George N, Paterson DL, Schembri MA, Beatson SA, Harris PNA. Genomic analysis of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Queensland reveals widespread transmission of bla (IMP-4) on an IncHI2 plasmid. Microb Genom. 2020 Jan;6(1):e000321. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000321. Epub 2019 Dec 19.

Nhu NTK, Phan MD, Forde BM, Murthy AMV, Peters KM, Day CJ, Poole J, Kidd TJ, Welch RA, Jennings MP, Ulett GC, Sweet MJ, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Complex Multilevel Control of Hemolysin Production by Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. mBio. 2019 Oct 1;10(5):e02248-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02248-19.

Buckley C, Beatson SA, Limnios A, Lahra MM, Whiley DM, Forde BM. Whole-genome sequencing as an improved means of investigating Neisseria gonorrhoeae treatment failures. Sex Health. 2019 Sep;16(5):500-507. doi: 10.1071/SH19012.

Forde BM, Roberts LW, Phan MD, Peters KM, Fleming BA, Russell CW, Lenherr SM, Myers JB, Barker AP, Fisher MA, Chong TM, Yin WF, Chan KG, Schembri MA, Mulvey MA, Beatson SA. Population dynamics of an Escherichia coli ST131 lineage during recurrent urinary tract infection. Nat Commun. 2019 Aug 13;10(1):3643. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11571-5.

Forde BM, McAllister LJ, Paton JC, Paton AW, Beatson SA. SMRT sequencing reveals differential patterns of methylation in two O111:H- STEC isolates from a hemolytic uremic syndrome outbreak in Australia. Sci Rep. 2019 Jul 1;9(1):9436. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45760-5.

Tan YJC, Zhao C, Nasreen M, O’Rourke L, Dhouib R, Roberts L, Wan Y, Beatson SA, Kappler U. Control of Bacterial Sulfite Detoxification by Conserved and Species-Specific Regulatory Circuits. Front Microbiol. 2019 May 14;10:960. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00960. eCollection 2019.

Crawford RL, Blyde D, Blackall PJ, Forde BM, Beatson SA, Harris LM, Turni C, Omaleki L. Novel insights into pasteurellosis in captive pinnipeds. Vet Microbiol. 2019 Apr;231:232-237. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2019.03.017. Epub 2019 Mar 14.

Murthy AMV, Sullivan MJ, Nhu NTK, Lo AW, Phan MD, Peters KM, Boucher D, Schroder K, Beatson SA, Ulett GC, Schembri MA, Sweet MJ. Variation in hemolysin A expression between uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates determines NLRP3-dependent vs. -independent macrophage cell death and host colonization. FASEB J. 2019 Jun;33(6):7437-7450. doi: 10.1096/fj.201802100R. Epub 2019 Mar 14.

Walker MJ, Brouwer S, Forde BM, Worthing KA, McIntyre L, Sundac L, Maloney S, Roberts LW, Barnett TC, Richter J, Cork AJ, Irwin AD, You Y, Zhang J, Dougan G, Yuen KY, Nizet V, Beatson SA, Grimwood K, Davies MR. Detection of Epidemic Scarlet Fever Group A Streptococcus in Australia. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Sep 13;69(7):1232-1234. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz099.

Sherrard LJ, Tai AS, Wee BA, Ramsay KA, Kidd TJ, Ben Zakour NL, Whiley DM, Beatson SA, Bell SC. Correction: Within-host whole genome analysis of an antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain sub-type in cystic fibrosis. PLoS One. 2019 Jan 14;14(1):e0210929. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210929. eCollection 2019.

Forde BM, Zowawi HM, Harris PNA, Roberts L, Ibrahim E, Shaikh N, Deshmukh A, Sid Ahmed MA, Al Maslamani M, Cottrell K, Trembizki E, Sundac L, Yu HH, Li J, Schembri MA, Whiley DM, Paterson DL, Beatson SA. Discovery of mcr-1-Mediated Colistin Resistance in a Highly Virulent Escherichia coli Lineage. mSphere. 2018 Oct 10;3(5):e00486-18. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00486-18.

Harris PNA, Tambyah PA, Lye DC, Mo Y, Lee TH, Yilmaz M, Alenazi TH, Arabi Y, Falcone M, Bassetti M, Righi E, Rogers BA, Kanj S, Bhally H, Iredell J, Mendelson M, Boyles TH, Looke D, Miyakis S, Walls G, Al Khamis M, Zikri A, Crowe A, Ingram P, Daneman N, Griffin P, Athan E, Lorenc P, Baker P, Roberts L, Beatson SA, Peleg AY, Harris-Brown T, Paterson DL; MERINO Trial Investigators and the Australasian Society for Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (ASID-CRN). Effect of Piperacillin-Tazobactam vs Meropenem on 30-Day Mortality for Patients With E coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae Bloodstream Infection and Ceftriaxone Resistance: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2018 Sep 11;320(10):984-994. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.12163.

Wee BA, Tai AS, Sherrard LJ, Ben Zakour NL, Hanks KR, Kidd TJ, Ramsay KA, Lamont I, Whiley DM, Bell SC, Beatson SA. Whole genome sequencing reveals the emergence of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa shared strain sub-lineage among patients treated within a single cystic fibrosis centre. BMC Genomics. 2018 Aug 30;19(1):644. doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-5018-x.

Nhu NTK, Phan MD, Peters KM, Lo AW, Forde BM, Min Chong T, Yin WF, Chan KG, Chromek M, Brauner A, Chapman MR, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Discovery of New Genes Involved in Curli Production by a Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strain from the Highly Virulent O45:K1:H7 Lineage. mBio. 2018 Aug 21;9(4):e01462-18. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01462-18.

Buckley C, Forde BM, Trembizki E, Lahra MM, Beatson SA, Whiley DM. Use of whole genome sequencing to investigate an increase in Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection among women in urban areas of Australia. Sci Rep. 2018 Jan 24;8(1):1503. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20015-x.

Harris PNA, Ben Zakour NL, Roberts LW, Wailan AM, Zowawi HM, Tambyah PA, Lye DC, Jureen R, Lee TH, Yin M, Izharuddin E, Looke D, Runnegar N, Rogers B, Bhally H, Crowe A, Schembri MA, Beatson SA, Paterson DL; MERINO Trial investigators. Whole genome analysis of cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli from bloodstream infections in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore: high prevalence of CMY-2 producers and ST131 carrying blaCTX-M-15 and blaCTX-M-27. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2018 Mar 1;73(3):634-642. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkx466.

Phan MD, Nhu NTK, Achard MES, Forde BM, Hong KW, Chong TM, Yin WF, Chan KG, West NP, Walker MJ, Paterson DL, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Modifications in the pmrB gene are the primary mechanism for the development of chromosomally encoded resistance to polymyxins in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2017 Oct 1;72(10):2729-2736. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkx204.

Goh KGK, Phan MD, Forde BM, Chong TM, Yin WF, Chan KG, Ulett GC, Sweet MJ, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Genome-Wide Discovery of Genes Required for Capsule Production by Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. mBio. 2017 Oct 24;8(5):e01558-17. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01558-17.

Sullivan MJ, Forde BM, Prince DW, Ipe DS, Ben Zakour NL, Davies MR, Dougan G, Beatson SA, Ulett GC. Complete Genome Sequence of Serotype III Streptococcus agalactiae Sequence Type 17 Strain 874391. Genome Announc. 2017 Oct 19;5(42):e01107-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01107-17.

Chhabra Y, Yong HXL, Fane ME, Soogrim A, Lim W, Mahiuddin DN, Kim RSQ, Ashcroft M, Beatson SA, Ainger SA, Smit DJ, Jagirdar K, Walker GJ, Sturm RA, Smith AG. Genetic variation in IRF4 expression modulates growth characteristics, tyrosinase expression and interferon-gamma response in melanocytic cells. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res. 2018 Jan;31(1):51-63. doi: 10.1111/pcmr.12620. Epub 2017 Oct 23.

Lo AW, Moriel DG, Phan MD, Schulz BL, Kidd TJ, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. ‘Omic’ Approaches to Study Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Virulence. Trends Microbiol. 2017 Sep;25(9):729-740. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2017.04.006. Epub 2017 May 24.

Kakkanat A, Phan MD, Lo AW, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Novel genes associated with enhanced motility of Escherichia coli ST131. PLoS One. 2017 May 10;12(5):e0176290. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176290. eCollection 2017.

Beatson SA, Bartley PB. Diving Deep Into Hospital-Acquired Legionella pneumophila With Whole-Genome Sequencing. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 May 1;64(9):1260-1262. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix156.

Sherrard LJ, Tai AS, Wee BA, Ramsay KA, Kidd TJ, Ben Zakour NL, Whiley DM, Beatson SA, Bell SC. Within-host whole genome analysis of an antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain sub-type in cystic fibrosis. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 8;12(3):e0172179. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172179. eCollection 2017.

Moriel DG, Tan L, Goh KG, Phan MD, Ipe DS, Lo AW, Peters KM, Ulett GC, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. A Novel Protective Vaccine Antigen from the Core Escherichia coli Genome. mSphere. 2016 Nov 23;1(6):e00326-16. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00326-16. eCollection 2016 Nov-Dec.

Hancock SJ, Phan MD, Peters KM, Forde BM, Chong TM, Yin WF, Chan KG, Paterson DL, Walsh TR, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Identification of IncA/C Plasmid Replication and Maintenance Genes and Development of a Plasmid Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017 Jan 24;61(2):e01740-16. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01740-16. Print 2017 Feb.

Tan L, Moriel DG, Totsika M, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Differential Regulation of the Surface-Exposed and Secreted SslE Lipoprotein in Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli. PLoS One. 2016 Sep 6;11(9):e0162391. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162391. eCollection 2016.

Ben Zakour NL, Alsheikh-Hussain AS, Ashcroft MM, Khanh Nhu NT, Roberts LW, Stanton-Cook M, Schembri MA, Beatson SA. Erratum for Ben Zakour et al., Sequential Acquisition of Virulence and Fluoroquinolone Resistance Has Shaped the Evolution of Escherichia coli ST131. mBio. 2016 Jun 28;7(3):e00958-16. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00958-16.

Sarkar S, Roberts LW, Phan MD, Tan L, Lo AW, Peters KM, Paterson DL, Upton M, Ulett GC, Beatson SA, Totsika M, Schembri MA. Comprehensive analysis of type 1 fimbriae regulation in fimB-null strains from the multidrug resistant Escherichia coli ST131 clone. Mol Microbiol. 2016 Sep;101(6):1069-87. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13442. Epub 2016 Jul 15.

Ben Zakour NL, Alsheikh-Hussain AS, Ashcroft MM, Khanh Nhu NT, Roberts LW, Stanton-Cook M, Schembri MA, Beatson SA. Sequential Acquisition of Virulence and Fluoroquinolone Resistance Has Shaped the Evolution of Escherichia coli ST131. mBio. 2016 Apr 26;7(2):e00347-16. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00347-16.

Wailan AM, Sidjabat HE, Yam WK, Alikhan NF, Petty NK, Sartor AL, Williamson DA, Forde BM, Schembri MA, Beatson SA, Paterson DL, Walsh TR, Partridge SR. Mechanisms Involved in Acquisition of blaNDM Genes by IncA/C2 and IncFIIY Plasmids. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016 Jun 20;60(7):4082-8. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00368-16. Print 2016 Jul.

Moriel DG, Heras B, Paxman JJ, Lo AW, Tan L, Sullivan MJ, Dando SJ, Beatson SA, Ulett GC, Schembri MA. Molecular and Structural Characterization of a Novel Escherichia coli Interleukin Receptor Mimic Protein. mBio. 2016 Mar 15;7(2):e02046. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02046-15.

Nichols KB, Totsika M, Moriel DG, Lo AW, Yang J, Wurpel DJ, Rossiter AE, Strugnell RA, Henderson IR, Ulett GC, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Molecular Characterization of the Vacuolating Autotransporter Toxin in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 2016 Apr 28;198(10):1487-98. doi: 10.1128/JB.00791-15. Print 2016 May 15.

Ho CH, Stanton-Cook M, Beatson SA, Bansal N, Turner MS. Stability of active prophages in industrial Lactococcus lactis strains in the presence of heat, acid, osmotic, oxidative and antibiotic stressors. Int J Food Microbiol. 2016 Mar 2;220:26-32. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2015.12.012. Epub 2015 Dec 30.

McAllister LJ, Bent SJ, Petty NK, Skippington E, Beatson SA, Paton JC, Paton AW. Genomic Comparison of Two O111:H- Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Isolates from a Historic Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome Outbreak in Australia. Infect Immun. 2016 Jan 4;84(3):775-81. doi: 10.1128/IAI.01229-15.

Forde BM, Phan MD, Gawthorne JA, Ashcroft MM, Stanton-Cook M, Sarkar S, Peters KM, Chan KG, Chong TM, Yin WF, Upton M, Schembri MA, Beatson SA. Lineage-Specific Methyltransferases Define the Methylome of the Globally Disseminated Escherichia coli ST131 Clone. mBio. 2015 Nov 17;6(6):e01602-15. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01602-15.

Ipe DS, Ben Zakour NL, Sullivan MJ, Beatson SA, Ulett KB, Benjamin WH Jr, Davies MR, Dando SJ, King NP, Cripps AW, Schembri MA, Dougan G, Ulett GC. Discovery and Characterization of Human-Urine Utilization by Asymptomatic-Bacteriuria-Causing Streptococcus agalactiae. Infect Immun. 2015 Nov 9;84(1):307-19. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00938-15. Print 2016 Jan.

Kakkanat A, Totsika M, Schaale K, Duell BL, Lo AW, Phan MD, Moriel DG, Beatson SA, Sweet MJ, Ulett GC, Schembri MA. The role of H4 flagella in Escherichia coli ST131 virulence. Sci Rep. 2015 Nov 9;5:16149. doi: 10.1038/srep16149.

Ben Zakour NL, Davies MR, You Y, Chen JH, Forde BM, Stanton-Cook M, Yang R, Cui Y, Barnett TC, Venturini C, Ong CL, Tse H, Dougan G, Zhang J, Yuen KY, Beatson SA, Walker MJ. Transfer of scarlet fever-associated elements into the group A Streptococcus M1T1 clone. Sci Rep. 2015 Nov 2;5:15877. doi: 10.1038/srep15877.

Zowawi HM, Forde BM, Alfaresi M, Alzarouni A, Farahat Y, Chong TM, Yin WF, Chan KG, Li J, Schembri MA, Beatson SA, Paterson DL. Stepwise evolution of pandrug-resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae. Sci Rep. 2015 Oct 19;5:15082. doi: 10.1038/srep15082.

Bartley PB, Ben Zakour NL, Stanton-Cook M, Muguli R, Prado L, Garnys V, Taylor K, Barnett TC, Pinna G, Robson J, Paterson DL, Walker MJ, Schembri MA, Beatson SA. Hospital-wide Eradication of a Nosocomial Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Outbreak. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Feb 1;62(3):273-279. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ870. Epub 2015 Oct 13.

Schembri MA, Zakour NL, Phan MD, Forde BM, Stanton-Cook M, Beatson SA. Molecular Characterization of the Multidrug Resistant Escherichia coli ST131 Clone. Pathogens. 2015 Jun 26;4(3):422-30. doi: 10.3390/pathogens4030422.

Phan MD, Forde BM, Peters KM, Sarkar S, Hancock S, Stanton-Cook M, Ben Zakour NL, Upton M, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Molecular characterization of a multidrug resistance IncF plasmid from the globally disseminated Escherichia coli ST131 clone. PLoS One. 2015 Apr 15;10(4):e0122369. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122369. eCollection 2015.

Lo R, Stanton-Cook MJ, Beatson SA, Turner MS, Bansal N. Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas fluorescens SRM1, an Isolate from Spoiled Raw Milk. Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 19;3(2):e00138-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00138-15.

Phan MD, Peters KM, Sarkar S, Forde BM, Lo AW, Stanton-Cook M, Roberts LW, Upton M, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Third-generation cephalosporin resistance conferred by a chromosomally encoded blaCMY-23 gene in the Escherichia coli ST131 reference strain EC958. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2015 Jul;70(7):1969-72. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkv066. Epub 2015 Mar 18.

Connolly JP, Goldstone RJ, Burgess K, Cogdell RJ, Beatson SA, Vollmer W, Smith DG, Roe AJ. The host metabolite D-serine contributes to bacterial niche specificity through gene selection. ISME J. 2015 Mar 17;9(4):1052. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2015.17.

Beatson SA, Ben Zakour NL, Totsika M, Forde BM, Watts RE, Mabbett AN, Szubert JM, Sarkar S, Phan MD, Peters KM, Petty NK, Alikhan NF, Sullivan MJ, Gawthorne JA, Stanton-Cook M, Nhu NT, Chong TM, Yin WF, Chan KG, Hancock V, Ussery DW, Ulett GC, Schembri MA. Molecular analysis of asymptomatic bacteriuria Escherichia coli strain VR50 reveals adaptation to the urinary tract by gene acquisition. Infect Immun. 2015 May;83(5):1749-64. doi: 10.1128/IAI.02810-14. Epub 2015 Feb 9.

Connolly JP, Goldstone RJ, Burgess K, Cogdell RJ, Beatson SA, Vollmer W, Smith DG, Roe AJ. The host metabolite D-serine contributes to bacterial niche specificity through gene selection. ISME J. 2015 Mar 17;9(4):1039-51. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.242.

Mavromatis CH, Bokil NJ, Totsika M, Kakkanat A, Schaale K, Cannistraci CV, Ryu T, Beatson SA, Ulett GC, Schembri MA, Sweet MJ, Ravasi T. The co-transcriptome of uropathogenic Escherichia coli-infected mouse macrophages reveals new insights into host-pathogen interactions. Cell Microbiol. 2015 May;17(5):730-46. doi: 10.1111/cmi.12397. Epub 2015 Jan 24.

Henningham A, Yamaguchi M, Aziz RK, Kuipers K, Buffalo CZ, Dahesh S, Choudhury B, Van Vleet J, Yamaguchi Y, Seymour LM, Ben Zakour NL, He L, Smith HV, Grimwood K, Beatson SA, Ghosh P, Walker MJ, Nizet V, Cole JN. Mutual exclusivity of hyaluronan and hyaluronidase in invasive group A Streptococcus. J Biol Chem. 2014 Nov 14;289(46):32303-32315. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M114.602847. Epub 2014 Sep 29.

Easton DM, Allsopp LP, Phan MD, Moriel DG, Goh GK, Beatson SA, Mahony TJ, Cobbold RN, Schembri MA. The Intimin-Like Protein FdeC Is Regulated by H-NS and Temperature in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014 Dec;80(23):7337-47. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02114-14. Epub 2014 Sep 19.

Beatson SA, Walker MJ. Microbiology. Tracking antibiotic resistance. Science. 2014 Sep 19;345(6203):1454-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1260471.

Forde BM, Ben Zakour NL, Stanton-Cook M, Phan MD, Totsika M, Peters KM, Chan KG, Schembri MA, Upton M, Beatson SA. The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli EC958: a high quality reference sequence for the globally disseminated multidrug resistant E. coli O25b:H4-ST131 clone. PLoS One. 2014 Aug 15;9(8):e104400. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104400. eCollection 2014.

Alghoribi MF, Gibreel TM, Dodgson AR, Beatson SA, Upton M. Galleria mellonella infection model demonstrates high lethality of ST69 and ST127 uropathogenic E. coli. PLoS One. 2014 Jul 25;9(7):e101547. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101547. eCollection 2014.

Bachmann NL, Petty NK, Ben Zakour NL, Szubert JM, Savill J, Beatson SA. Genome analysis and CRISPR typing of Salmonella enterica serovar Virchow. BMC Genomics. 2014 May 21;15(1):389. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-389.

Beckham KS, Connolly JP, Ritchie JM, Wang D, Gawthorne JA, Tahoun A, Gally DL, Burgess K, Burchmore RJ, Smith BO, Beatson SA, Byron O, Wolfe AJ, Douce GR, Roe AJ. The metabolic enzyme AdhE controls the virulence of Escherichia coli O157:H7. Mol Microbiol. 2014 Jul;93(1):199-211. doi: 10.1111/mmi.12651. Epub 2014 Jun 9.

Petty NK, Ben Zakour NL, Stanton-Cook M, Skippington E, Totsika M, Forde BM, Phan MD, Gomes Moriel D, Peters KM, Davies M, Rogers BA, Dougan G, Rodriguez-Baño J, Pascual A, Pitout JD, Upton M, Paterson DL, Walsh TR, Schembri MA, Beatson SA. Global dissemination of a multidrug resistant Escherichia coli clone. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Apr 15;111(15):5694-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1322678111. Epub 2014 Mar 31.

Skarshewski A, Stanton-Cook M, Huber T, Al Mansoori S, Smith R, Beatson SA, Rothnagel JA. uPEPperoni: an online tool for upstream open reading frame location and analysis of transcript conservation. BMC Bioinformatics. 2014 Feb 1;15:36. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-36.

Wee BA, Woolfit M, Beatson SA, Petty NK. A distinct and divergent lineage of genomic island-associated Type IV Secretion Systems in Legionella. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 16;8(12):e82221. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082221. eCollection 2013.

Woolfit M, Iturbe-Ormaetxe I, Brownlie JC, Walker T, Riegler M, Seleznev A, Popovici J, Rancès E, Wee BA, Pavlides J, Sullivan MJ, Beatson SA, Lane A, Sidhu M, McMeniman CJ, McGraw EA, O’Neill SL. Genomic evolution of the pathogenic Wolbachia strain, wMelPop. Genome Biol Evol. 2013;5(11):2189-204. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evt169.

Moriel DG, Beatson SA, Wurpel DJ, Lipman J, Nimmo GR, Paterson DL, Schembri MA. Identification of novel vaccine candidates against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. PLoS One. 2013 Oct 8;8(10):e77631. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077631. eCollection 2013.

Phan MD, Peters KM, Sarkar S, Lukowski SW, Allsopp LP, Gomes Moriel D, Achard ME, Totsika M, Marshall VM, Upton M, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. The serum resistome of a globally disseminated multidrug resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli clone. PLoS Genet. 2013;9(10):e1003834. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003834. Epub 2013 Oct 3.

Goh HM, Beatson SA, Totsika M, Moriel DG, Phan MD, Szubert J, Runnegar N, Sidjabat HE, Paterson DL, Nimmo GR, Lipman J, Schembri MA. Molecular analysis of the Acinetobacter baumannii biofilm-associated protein. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2013 Nov;79(21):6535-43. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01402-13. Epub 2013 Aug 16.

Dunne KA, Allam A, McIntosh A, Houston SA, Cerovic V, Goodyear CS, Roe AJ, Beatson SA, Milling SW, Walker D, Wall DM. Increased S-nitrosylation and proteasomal degradation of caspase-3 during infection contribute to the persistence of adherent invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) in immune cells. PLoS One. 2013 Jul 4;8(7):e68386. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068386. Print 2013.

Totsika M, Kostakioti M, Hannan TJ, Upton M, Beatson SA, Janetka JW, Hultgren SJ, Schembri MA. A FimH inhibitor prevents acute bladder infection and treats chronic cystitis caused by multidrug-resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli ST131. J Infect Dis. 2013 Sep;208(6):921-8. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jit245. Epub 2013 Jun 3.

Handley KM, Upton M, Beatson SA, Héry M, Lloyd JR. Genome Sequence of Hydrothermal Arsenic-Respiring Bacterium Marinobacter santoriniensis NKSG1T. Genome Announc. 2013 May 9;1(3):e00231-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00231-13.

Tsatsaronis JA, Hollands A, Cole JN, Maamary PG, Gillen CM, Ben Zakour NL, Kotb M, Nizet V, Beatson SA, Walker MJ, Sanderson-Smith ML. Streptococcal collagen-like protein A and general stress protein 24 are immunomodulating virulence factors of group A Streptococcus. FASEB J. 2013 Jul;27(7):2633-43. doi: 10.1096/fj.12-226662. Epub 2013 Mar 26.

Venturini C, Ong CL, Gillen CM, Ben-Zakour NL, Maamary PG, Nizet V, Beatson SA, Walker MJ. Acquisition of the Sda1-encoding bacteriophage does not enhance virulence of the serotype M1 Streptococcus pyogenes strain SF370. Infect Immun. 2013 Jun;81(6):2062-9. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00192-13. Epub 2013 Mar 25.

Wurpel DJ, Beatson SA, Totsika M, Petty NK, Schembri MA. Chaperone-usher fimbriae of Escherichia coli. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e52835. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052835. Epub 2013 Jan 30.

Duplouy A, Iturbe-Ormaetxe I, Beatson SA, Szubert JM, Brownlie JC, McMeniman CJ, McGraw EA, Hurst GD, Charlat S, O’Neill SL, Woolfit M. Draft genome sequence of the male-killing Wolbachia strain wBol1 reveals recent horizontal gene transfers from diverse sources. BMC Genomics. 2013 Jan 16;14:20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-20.

Nolan LM, Beatson SA, Croft L, Jones PM, George AM, Mattick JS, Turnbull L, Whitchurch CB. Extragenic suppressor mutations that restore twitching motility to fimL mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are associated with elevated intracellular cyclic AMP levels. Microbiologyopen. 2012 Dec;1(4):490-501. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.49. Epub 2012 Nov 28.

Walker MJ, Beatson SA. Epidemiology. Outsmarting outbreaks. Science. 2012 Nov 30;338(6111):1161-2. doi: 10.1126/science.1232327.

Smith WM, Pham TH, Lei L, Dou J, Soomro AH, Beatson SA, Dykes GA, Turner MS. Heat resistance and salt hypersensitivity in Lactococcus lactis due to spontaneous mutation of llmg_1816 (gdpP) induced by high-temperature growth. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Nov;78(21):7753-9. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02316-12. Epub 2012 Aug 24.

Ben Zakour NL, Beatson SA, van den Broek AH, Thoday KL, Fitzgerald JR. Comparative genomics of the Staphylococcus intermedius group of animal pathogens. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2012 Apr 18;2:44. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2012.00044. eCollection 2012.

Maamary PG, Ben Zakour NL, Cole JN, Hollands A, Aziz RK, Barnett TC, Cork AJ, Henningham A, Sanderson-Smith M, McArthur JD, Venturini C, Gillen CM, Kirk JK, Johnson DR, Taylor WL, Kaplan EL, Kotb M, Nizet V, Beatson SA, Walker MJ. Tracing the evolutionary history of the pandemic group A streptococcal M1T1 clone. FASEB J. 2012 Nov;26(11):4675-84. doi: 10.1096/fj.12-212142. Epub 2012 Aug 9.

Xu X, McAteer SP, Tree JJ, Shaw DJ, Wolfson EB, Beatson SA, Roe AJ, Allison LJ, Chase-Topping ME, Mahajan A, Tozzoli R, Woolhouse ME, Morabito S, Gally DL. Lysogeny with Shiga toxin 2-encoding bacteriophages represses type III secretion in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. PLoS Pathog. 2012;8(5):e1002672. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002672. Epub 2012 May 17.

Ben Zakour NL, Venturini C, Beatson SA, Walker MJ. Analysis of a Streptococcus pyogenes puerperal sepsis cluster by use of whole-genome sequencing. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Jul;50(7):2224-8. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00675-12. Epub 2012 Apr 18.

Gawthorne JA, Beatson SA, Srikhanta YN, Fox KL, Jennings MP. Origin of the diversity in DNA recognition domains in phasevarion associated modA genes of pathogenic Neisseria and Haemophilus influenzae. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e32337. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032337. Epub 2012 Mar 23.

King NP, Sakinç T, Ben Zakour NL, Totsika M, Heras B, Simerska P, Shepherd M, Gatermann SG, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. Characterisation of a cell wall-anchored protein of Staphylococcus saprophyticus associated with linoleic acid resistance. BMC Microbiol. 2012 Jan 15;12:8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-8.

Totsika M, Beatson SA, Sarkar S, Phan MD, Petty NK, Bachmann N, Szubert M, Sidjabat HE, Paterson DL, Upton M, Schembri MA. Insights into a multidrug resistant Escherichia coli pathogen of the globally disseminated ST131 lineage: genome analysis and virulence mechanisms. PLoS One. 2011;6(10):e26578. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026578. Epub 2011 Oct 28.

Alikhan NF, Petty NK, Ben Zakour NL, Beatson SA. BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG): simple prokaryote genome comparisons. BMC Genomics. 2011 Aug 8;12:402. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-402.

Easton DM, Totsika M, Allsopp LP, Phan MD, Idris A, Wurpel DJ, Sherlock O, Zhang B, Venturini C, Beatson SA, Mahony TJ, Cobbold RN, Schembri MA. Characterization of EhaJ, a New Autotransporter Protein from Enterohemorrhagic and Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. Front Microbiol. 2011 Jun 1;2:120. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00120. eCollection 2011.

Al-Mahrous MM, Jack RW, Sandiford SK, Tagg JR, Beatson SA, Upton M. Identification of a haemolysin-like peptide with antibacterial activity using the draft genome sequence of Staphylococcus epidermidis strain A487. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2011 Aug;62(3):273-82. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2011.00811.x. Epub 2011 May 27.

Tree JJ, Roe AJ, Flockhart A, McAteer SP, Xu X, Shaw D, Mahajan A, Beatson SA, Best A, Lotz S, Woodward MJ, La Ragione R, Murphy KC, Leong JM, Gally DL. Transcriptional regulators of the GAD acid stress island are carried by effector protein-encoding prophages and indirectly control type III secretion in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Mol Microbiol. 2011 Jun;80(5):1349-65. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07650.x. Epub 2011 Apr 15.

Sullivan MJ, Petty NK, Beatson SA. Easyfig: a genome comparison visualizer. Bioinformatics. 2011 Apr 1;27(7):1009-10. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr039. Epub 2011 Jan 28.

King NP, Beatson SA, Totsika M, Ulett GC, Alm RA, Manning PA, Schembri MA. UafB is a serine-rich repeat adhesin of Staphylococcus saprophyticus that mediates binding to fibronectin, fibrinogen and human uroepithelial cells. Microbiology (Reading). 2011 Apr;157(Pt 4):1161-1175. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.047639-0. Epub 2011 Jan 20.

Beatson SA, das Graças de Luna M, Bachmann NL, Alikhan NF, Hanks KR, Sullivan MJ, Wee BA, Freitas-Almeida AC, Dos Santos PA, de Melo JT, Squire DJ, Cunningham AF, Fitzgerald JR, Henderson IR. Genome sequence of the emerging pathogen Aeromonas caviae. J Bacteriol. 2011 Mar;193(5):1286-7. doi: 10.1128/JB.01337-10. Epub 2010 Dec 23.

Schroeder GN, Petty NK, Mousnier A, Harding CR, Vogrin AJ, Wee B, Fry NK, Harrison TG, Newton HJ, Thomson NR, Beatson SA, Dougan G, Hartland EL, Frankel G. Legionella pneumophila strain 130b possesses a unique combination of type IV secretion systems and novel Dot/Icm secretion system effector proteins. J Bacteriol. 2010 Nov;192(22):6001-16. doi: 10.1128/JB.00778-10. Epub 2010 Sep 10.

Crossman LC, Chaudhuri RR, Beatson SA, Wells TJ, Desvaux M, Cunningham AF, Petty NK, Mahon V, Brinkley C, Hobman JL, Savarino SJ, Turner SM, Pallen MJ, Penn CW, Parkhill J, Turner AK, Johnson TJ, Thomson NR, Smith SG, Henderson IR. A commensal gone bad: complete genome sequence of the prototypical enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strain H10407. J Bacteriol. 2010 Nov;192(21):5822-31. doi: 10.1128/JB.00710-10. Epub 2010 Aug 27.

Ong CL, Beatson SA, Totsika M, Forestier C, McEwan AG, Schembri MA. Molecular analysis of type 3 fimbrial genes from Escherichia coli, Klebsiella and Citrobacter species. BMC Microbiol. 2010 Jun 24;10:183. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-183.

Allsopp LP, Totsika M, Tree JJ, Ulett GC, Mabbett AN, Wells TJ, Kobe B, Beatson SA, Schembri MA. UpaH is a newly identified autotransporter protein that contributes to biofilm formation and bladder colonization by uropathogenic Escherichia coli CFT073. Infect Immun. 2010 Apr;78(4):1659-69. doi: 10.1128/IAI.01010-09. Epub 2010 Feb 9.

Oliver PL, Goodstadt L, Bayes JJ, Birtle Z, Roach KC, Phadnis N, Beatson SA, Lunter G, Malik HS, Ponting CP. Accelerated evolution of the Prdm9 speciation gene across diverse metazoan taxa. PLoS Genet. 2009 Dec;5(12):e1000753. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000753. Epub 2009 Dec 4.

Venturini C, Beatson SA, Djordjevic SP, Walker MJ. Multiple antibiotic resistance gene recruitment onto the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli virulence plasmid. FASEB J. 2010 Apr;24(4):1160-6. doi: 10.1096/fj.09-144972. Epub 2009 Nov 16.

Ong CL, Beatson SA, McEwan AG, Schembri MA. Conjugative plasmid transfer and adhesion dynamics in an Escherichia coli biofilm. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Nov;75(21):6783-91. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00974-09. Epub 2009 Aug 28.

Badea L, Beatson SA, Kaparakis M, Ferrero RL, Hartland EL. Secretion of flagellin by the LEE-encoded type III secretion system of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. BMC Microbiol. 2009 Feb 6;9:30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-30.

Wells TJ, Sherlock O, Rivas L, Mahajan A, Beatson SA, Torpdahl M, Webb RI, Allsopp LP, Gobius KS, Gally DL, Schembri MA. EhaA is a novel autotransporter protein of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 that contributes to adhesion and biofilm formation. Environ Microbiol. 2008 Mar;10(3):589-604. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01479.x.

Totsika M, Beatson SA, Holden N, Gally DL. Regulatory interplay between pap operons in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol. 2008 Mar;67(5):996-1011. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06098.x. Epub 2008 Jan 14.

Ong CL, Ulett GC, Mabbett AN, Beatson SA, Webb RI, Monaghan W, Nimmo GR, Looke DF, McEwan AG, Schembri MA. Identification of type 3 fimbriae in uropathogenic Escherichia coli reveals a role in biofilm formation. J Bacteriol. 2008 Feb;190(3):1054-63. doi: 10.1128/JB.01523-07. Epub 2007 Nov 30.

Tobe T, Beatson SA, Taniguchi H, Abe H, Bailey CM, Fivian A, Younis R, Matthews S, Marches O, Frankel G, Hayashi T, Pallen MJ. An extensive repertoire of type III secretion effectors in Escherichia coli O157 and the role of lambdoid phages in their dissemination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Oct 3;103(40):14941-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604891103. Epub 2006 Sep 21.

Beatson SA, Minamino T, Pallen MJ. Variation in bacterial flagellins: from sequence to structure. Trends Microbiol. 2006 Apr;14(4):151-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.02.008. Epub 2006 Mar 15.

Pallen MJ, Bailey CM, Beatson SA. Evolutionary links between FliH/YscL-like proteins from bacterial type III secretion systems and second-stalk components of the FoF1 and vacuolar ATPases. Protein Sci. 2006 Apr;15(4):935-41. doi: 10.1110/ps.051958806. Epub 2006 Mar 7.

Desvaux M, Khan A, Beatson SA, Scott-Tucker A, Henderson IR. Protein secretion systems in Fusobacterium nucleatum: genomic identification of Type 4 piliation and complete Type V pathways brings new insight into mechanisms of pathogenesis. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2005 Jul 30;1713(2):92-112. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2005.05.002.

Parham NJ, Pollard SJ, Chaudhuri RR, Beatson SA, Desvaux M, Russell MA, Ruiz J, Fivian A, Vila J, Henderson IR. Prevalence of pathogenicity island IICFT073 genes among extraintestinal clinical isolates of Escherichia coli. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 May;43(5):2425-34. doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.5.2425-2434.2005.

Garske LA, Beatson SA, Leech AJ, Walsh SL, Bell SC. Sub-inhibitory concentrations of ceftazidime and tobramycin reduce the quorum sensing signals of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pathology. 2004 Dec;36(6):571-5. doi: 10.1080/00313020400011300.

Pallen MJ, Beatson SA, Bailey CM. Bioinformatics, genomics and evolution of non-flagellar type-III secretion systems: a Darwinian perspective. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2005 Apr;29(2):201-29. doi: 10.1016/j.femsre.2005.01.001.

Pallen MJ, Beatson SA, Bailey CM. Bioinformatics analysis of the locus for enterocyte effacement provides novel insights into type-III secretion. BMC Microbiol. 2005 Mar 9;5:9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-5-9.

Whitchurch CB, Beatson SA, Comolli JC, Jakobsen T, Sargent JL, Bertrand JJ, West J, Klausen M, Waite LL, Kang PJ, Tolker-Nielsen T, Mattick JS, Engel JN. Pseudomonas aeruginosa fimL regulates multiple virulence functions by intersecting with Vfr-modulated pathways. Mol Microbiol. 2005 Mar;55(5):1357-78. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04479.x.

Ren CP, Beatson SA, Parkhill J, Pallen MJ. The Flag-2 locus, an ancestral gene cluster, is potentially associated with a novel flagellar system from Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 2005 Feb;187(4):1430-40. doi: 10.1128/JB.187.4.1430-1440.2005.

Ghysels B, Dieu BTM, Beatson SA, Pirnay JP, Ochsner UA, Vasil ML, Cornelis P. FpvB, an alternative type I ferripyoverdine receptor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbiology (Reading). 2004 Jun;150(Pt 6):1671-1680. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.27035-0.

Whitchurch CB, Leech AJ, Young MD, Kennedy D, Sargent JL, Bertrand JJ, Semmler AB, Mellick AS, Martin PR, Alm RA, Hobbs M, Beatson SA, Huang B, Nguyen L, Commolli JC, Engel JN, Darzins A, Mattick JS. Characterization of a complex chemosensory signal transduction system which controls twitching motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol Microbiol. 2004 May;52(3):873-93. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04026.x.

Emes RD, Beatson SA, Ponting CP, Goodstadt L. Evolution and comparative genomics of odorant- and pheromone-associated genes in rodents. Genome Res. 2004 Apr;14(4):591-602. doi: 10.1101/gr.1940604.

Gibbs RA, Weinstock GM, Metzker ML, Muzny DM, Sodergren EJ, Scherer S, Scott G, Steffen D, Worley KC, Burch PE, Okwuonu G, Hines S, Lewis L, DeRamo C, Delgado O, Dugan-Rocha S, Miner G, Morgan M, Hawes A, Gill R, Celera, Holt RA, Adams MD, Amanatides PG, Baden-Tillson H, Barnstead M, Chin S, Evans CA, Ferriera S, Fosler C, Glodek A, Gu Z, Jennings D, Kraft CL, Nguyen T, Pfannkoch CM, Sitter C, Sutton GG, Venter JC, Woodage T, Smith D, Lee HM, Gustafson E, Cahill P, Kana A, Doucette-Stamm L, Weinstock K, Fechtel K, Weiss RB, Dunn DM, Green ED, Blakesley RW, Bouffard GG, De Jong PJ, Osoegawa K, Zhu B, Marra M, Schein J, Bosdet I, Fjell C, Jones S, Krzywinski M, Mathewson C, Siddiqui A, Wye N, McPherson J, Zhao S, Fraser CM, Shetty J, Shatsman S, Geer K, Chen Y, Abramzon S, Nierman WC, Havlak PH, Chen R, Durbin KJ, Egan A, Ren Y, Song XZ, Li B, Liu Y, Qin X, Cawley S, Worley KC, Cooney AJ, D’Souza LM, Martin K, Wu JQ, Gonzalez-Garay ML, Jackson AR, Kalafus KJ, McLeod MP, Milosavljevic A, Virk D, Volkov A, Wheeler DA, Zhang Z, Bailey JA, Eichler EE, et al. Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution. Nature. 2004 Apr 1;428(6982):493-521. doi: 10.1038/nature02426.

Nouwens AS, Beatson SA, Whitchurch CB, Walsh BJ, Schweizer HP, Mattick JS, Cordwell SJ. Proteome analysis of extracellular proteins regulated by the las and rhl quorum sensing systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Microbiology (Reading). 2003 May;149(Pt 5):1311-1322. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.25967-0.

de Chial M, Ghysels B, Beatson SA, Geoffroy V, Meyer JM, Pattery T, Baysse C, Chablain P, Parsons YN, Winstanley C, Cordwell SJ, Cornelis P. Identification of type II and type III pyoverdine receptors from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbiology (Reading). 2003 Apr;149(Pt 4):821-831. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.26136-0.

Beatson SA, Whitchurch CB, Sargent JL, Levesque RC, Mattick JS. Differential regulation of twitching motility and elastase production by Vfr in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Bacteriol. 2002 Jul;184(13):3605-13. doi: 10.1128/JB.184.13.3605-3613.2002.

Beatson SA, Whitchurch CB, Semmler AB, Mattick JS. Quorum sensing is not required for twitching motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Bacteriol. 2002 Jul;184(13):3598-604. doi: 10.1128/JB.184.13.3598-3604.2002.

Huang B, Whitchurch CB, Croft L, Beatson SA, Mattick JS. A minimal tiling path cosmid library for functional analysis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 genome. Microb Comp Genomics. 2000;5(4):189-203. doi: 10.1089/omi.1.2000.5.189.

Croft L, Beatson SA, Whitchurch CB, Huang B, Blakeley RL, Mattick JS. An interactive web-based Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome database: discovery of new genes, pathways and structures. Microbiology (Reading). 2000 Oct;146 ( Pt 10):2351-2364. doi: 10.1099/00221287-146-10-2351.

Beatson SA, Sloan GL, Simmonds RS. Zoocin A immunity factor: a femA-like gene found in a group C streptococcus. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 1998 Jun 1;163(1):73-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb13028.x.