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  1. Fluorescence enzymatic assay for bacterial polyphosphate kinase 1 (PPK1) as a platform for screening antivirulence molecules

    Article • Infection and Drug Resistance, July 2019, Dove Medical Press

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  2. Static Immersion and Injection Methods for Live Cell Imaging of Foodborne Pathogen Infections in Zebrafish Larvae

    Article • December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  3. Use of C. elegans Diapause to Study Transgenerational Responses to Pathogen Infection

    Article • December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  4. Inhibiting pathogen surface adherence by multilayer polyelectrolyte films functionalized with glucofuranose derivatives

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, July 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  5. Evaluating Different Virulence Traits of Klebsiella pneumoniae Using Dictyostelium discoideum and Zebrafish Larvae as Host Models

    Article • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, February 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  6. Inorganic Polyphosphate Is Essential for Salmonella Typhimurium Virulence and Survival in Dictyostelium discoideum

    Article • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, January 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  7. Transgenerational Diapause as an Avoidance Strategy against Bacterial Pathogens in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Article • mBio, October 2017, ASM Journals

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  8. In vivo Host-Pathogen Interaction as Revealed by Global Proteomic Profiling of Zebrafish Larvae

    Article • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, July 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  9. Salmonella Typhimurium induces cloacitis-like symptomsin zebrafish larvae

    Article • Microbial Pathogenesis, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  10. Datasets for transcriptomics, q-proteomics and phenotype microarrays of polyphosphate metabolism mutants from Escherichia coli

    Article • Data in Brief, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  11. In Vivo Host-Pathogen Interaction As Revealed By Global Proteomic Profiling Of Zebrafish Larvae

    Article • May 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  12. Live-cell imaging of Salmonella Typhimurium interaction with zebrafish larvae after injection and immersion delivery methods

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  13. Multi-level evaluation of Escherichia coli polyphosphate related mutants using global transcriptomic, proteomic and phenomic analyses

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  14. Salmonella Typhimurium Induces Cloacitis-Like Symptoms in Zebrafish Larvae

    Article • February 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  15. Relevant Genes Linked to Virulence Are Required for Salmonella Typhimurium to Survive Intracellularly in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  16. Live cell imaging of Salmonella Typhimurium interaction with zebrafish larvae after injection and immersion delivery methods

    Article • July 2016, PeerJ

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  17. Live cell imaging of Salmonella Typhimurium interaction with zebrafish larvae after injection and immersion delivery methods

    Article • July 2016, PeerJ

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  18. Dictyostelium discoideum as a surrogate host–microbe model for antivirulence screening in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

    Article • International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, May 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  19. Multiple antibiotic susceptibility of polyphosphate kinase mutants (ppk1 and ppk2) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 as revealed by global phenotypic analysis

    Article • April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  20. Polyphosphate Synthesis as a Target for Novel Antibiotics

    Article • Current Enzyme Inhibition, October 2011, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez, Nicolas Guiliani

  21. New structural and functional defects in polyphosphate deficient bacteria: A cellular and proteomic study

    Article • BMC Microbiology, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  22. Constitutive and regulated expression vectors to construct polyphosphate deficient bacteria

    Article • BMC Research Notes, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  23. Motility and chemotaxis of Pseudomonas sp. B4 towards polychlorobiphenyls and chlorobenzoates

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, May 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  24. Adaptive responses and cellular behaviour of biphenyl-degrading bacteria toward polychlorinated biphenyls

    Article • Biotechnology Advances, May 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  25. Growth of Polychlorinated-Biphenyl-Degrading Bacteria in the Presence of Biphenyl and Chlorobiphenyls Generates Oxidative Stress and Massive Accumulation of Inorganic Polyphosphate

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2004, ASM Journals

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  26. Cloning and sequence analysis of the Candida utilis HIS3 gene

    Article • Biomolecular Engineering, January 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  27. The Exopolyphosphatase Gene from Sulfolobus solfataricus: Characterization of the First Gene Found To Be Involved in Polyphosphate Metabolism in Archaea

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2002, ASM Journals

    Dr Silvia T Cardona, Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  28. Isolation and sequence analysis of the orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase gene (URA3) ofCandida utilis. Comparison with the OMP decarboxylase gene family

    Article • Yeast, November 1998, Wiley

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  29. Isolation and sequence analysis of the orotidine‐5'‐phosphate decarboxylase gene (URA3) of Candida utilis. Comparison with the OMP decarboxylase gene family

    Article • Yeast, November 1998, Wiley

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  30. Cloning and sequence analysis of the gene encoding invertase (INV1) from the yeast Candida utilis

    Article • Yeast, September 1998, Wiley

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  31. Cloning and sequence analysis of the gene encoding invertase (INV1) from the yeastCandida utilis

    Article • Yeast, September 1998, Wiley

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  32. Development of an integrative DNA transformation system for the yeast Candida utilis

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, August 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  33. Development of an integrative DNA transformation system for the yeast Candida utilis

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, August 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez

  34. Purification and characterization of an invertase from Candida utilis: comparison with natural and recombinant yeast invertases

    Article • Journal of Biotechnology, February 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco P. Chavez