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  1. A new flavor of entry exclusion in ICE elements provides a selective advantage for the element and its host

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  2. Effects of endogenous levels of master regulator PrgX and peptide pheromones on inducibility of conjugation in the enterococcal pCF 10 system

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  3. Comprehensive Functional Analysis of the Enterococcus faecalis Core Genome Using an Ordered, Sequence-Defined Collection of Insertional Mutations in Strain OG1RF

    Article • mSystems, September 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny, Julia Willett

  4. Expression of Adhesive Pili and the Collagen-Binding Adhesin Ace Is Activated by ArgR Family Transcription Factors in Enterococcus faecalis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  5. Enterococcus faecalis Sex Pheromone cCF10 Enhances Conjugative Plasmid Transfer In Vivo

    Article • mBio, February 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  6. Mechanistic Features of the Enterococcal pCF10 Sex Pheromone Response and the Biology ofEnterococcus faecalisin Its Natural Habitat

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, February 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  7. Enterococcal Sex Pheromones: Evolutionary Pathways to Complex, Two-Signal Systems

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, March 2016, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  8. Multiple Roles for Enterococcus faecalis Glycosyltransferases in Biofilm-Associated Antibiotic Resistance, Cell Envelope Integrity, and Conjugative Transfer

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, April 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  9. Modified Lactic Acid Bacteria Detect and Inhibit Multiresistant Enterococci

    Article • ACS Synthetic Biology, March 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Gary M Dunny, Yiannis Kaznessis

  10. Transcriptome Analysis of Enterococcus faecalis during Mammalian Infection Shows Cells Undergo Adaptation and Exist in a Stringent Response State

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2014, PLOS

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  11. Enterococcus faecalis 6-Phosphogluconolactonase Is Required for Both Commensal and Pathogenic Interactions with Manduca sexta

    Article • Infection and Immunity, November 2014, ASM Journals

    Nichole Broderick, Dr Gary M Dunny

  12. The Influence of Biofilms in the Biology of Plasmids

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, October 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  13. A Widely Used In Vitro Biofilm Assay Has Questionable Clinical Significance for Enterococcal Endocarditis

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2014, PLOS

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  14. Genetic Exchange in Gram-Positive Bacteria

    Article • April 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  15. Conjugation and Genetic Exchange in Enterococci

    Article • April 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  16. New Insights into Pheromone Control and Response in Enterococcus faecalis pCF10

    Article • April 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  17. Environmental and Animal-Associated Enterococci

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  18. Enterococcal Sex Pheromones: Signaling, Social Behavior, and Evolution

    Article • Annual Review of Genetics, November 2013, Annual Reviews

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  19. Effects of Biofilm Growth on Plasmid Copy Number and Expression of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Enterococcus faecalis

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, February 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  20. Bistability versus Bimodal Distributions in Gene Regulatory Processes from Population Balance

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, August 2011, PLOS

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  21. Biofilm growth alters regulation of conjugation by a bacterial pheromone

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  22. Relation between Antibiotic Susceptibility and Ultrastructure of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms on Surgical Suture

    Article • Surgical Infections, August 2011, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  23. Regulatory circuits controlling enterococcal conjugation: lessons for functional genomics

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  24. Acceleration of Enterococcus faecalis Biofilm Formation by Aggregation Substance Expression in an Ex Vivo Model of Cardiac Valve Colonization

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2010, PLOS

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  25. Enterococcus faecalis Endocarditis Severity in Rabbits Is Reduced by IgG Fabs Interfering with Aggregation Substance

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2010, PLOS

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  26. Bacterial Contamination of Surgical Suture Resembles a Biofilm

    Article • Surgical Infections, October 2010, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  27. Structural analysis of the Anti-Q–Qs interaction: RNA-mediated regulation of E. faecalis plasmid pCF10 conjugation

    Article • Plasmid, July 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  28. Multicellular behavior in bacteria: communication, cooperation, competition and cheating

    Article • BioEssays, January 2008, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  29. Specificity determinants of conjugative DNA processing in the Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pCF10 and the Lactococcus lactis plasmid pRS01

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2007, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  30. Development of a host-genotype-independent counterselectable marker and a high-frequency conjugative delivery system and their use in genetic analysis of Enterococcus faecalis

    Article • Plasmid, March 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  31. Molecular basis for control of conjugation by bacterial pheromone and inhibitor peptides

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, November 2006, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  32. Genetic characterization of the conjugative DNA processing system of enterococcal plasmid pCF10

    Article • Plasmid, September 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  33. Enterococcal peptide sex pheromones: synthesis and control of biological activity

    Article • Peptides, September 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  34. Enterococcus faecalis pheromone-responsive protein PrgX: genetic separation of positive autoregulatory functions from those involved in negative regulation of conjugative plasmid transfer

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, August 2004, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  35. Dominant-negative mutants of prgX: evidence for a role for PrgX dimerization in negative regulation of pheromone-inducible conjugation

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, February 2004, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  36. Characterization of cis-acting prgQ mutants: evidence for two distinct repression mechanisms by Qa RNA and PrgX protein in pheromone-inducible enterococcal plasmid pCF10

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, November 2003, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  37. High Resolution CryoFESEM of Microbial Surfaces

    Article • Microscopy and Microanalysis, August 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  38. The Enterococci

    Article • May 2002, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  39. Formation of Vegetations during Infective Endocarditis Excludes Binding of Bacterial‐Specific Host Antibodies to Enterococcus faecalis

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, April 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  40. Two targets in pCF10 DNA for PrgX binding: their role in production of Qa and prgX mRNA and in regulation of pheromone-inducible conjugation

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, February 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  41. Regulation of intron function: efficient splicing in vivo of a bacterial group II intron requires a functional promoter within the intron

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, January 2002, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  42. Group effort in toxin synthesis

    Article • Nature, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  43. Dominant-negative mutants of prgX: evidence for a role for PrgX dimerization in negative regulation of pheromone-inducible conjugation

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2001, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  44. Improved Vectors for Nisin-Controlled Expression in Gram-Positive Bacteria

    Article • Plasmid, January 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  45. Pathogenic mechanisms of enterococcal endocarditis

    Article • Current Infectious Disease Reports, July 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  46. Tagging ribosomal protein S7 allows rapid identification of mutants defective in assembly and function of 30 s subunits

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, May 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  47. Analysis of expression of prgX, a key negative regulator of the transfer of the Enterococcus faecalis pheromone-inducible plasmid pCF10

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, April 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  48. Enterococcal sex pheromone precursors are part of signal sequences for surface lipoproteins

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, January 2000, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  49. A sensitive method to detect initiation of growth in Streptococcus gordonii using ribosomal RNA operon–reporter gene fusions

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, January 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  50. Enterococcus faecalis aggregation substance promotes opsonin-independent binding to human neutrophils via a complement receptor type 3-mediated mechanism

    Article • FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, October 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  51. Flow cytometric analysis of growth of two Streptococcus gordonii derivatives

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, January 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  52. Group II introns and expression of conjugative transfer functions in lactic acid bacteria

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  53. Retrohoming of a Bacterial Group II Intron

    Article • Cell, August 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  54. Use of electroporation in genetic analysis of enterococcal virulence

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  55. Characterization of the lactococcal conjugative element pRS01 using IS946-mediated mutagenesis

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  56. CELL-CELL COMMUNICATION IN GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA

    Article • Annual Review of Microbiology, October 1997, Annual Reviews

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  57. Pheromone‐inducible expression of an aggregation protein in Enterococcus faecalis requires interaction of a plasmid‐encoded RNA with components of the ribosome

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, April 1997, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  58. Pheromone cCF10 and plasmid pCF10‐encoded regulatory molecules act post‐transcriptionally to activate expression of downstream conjugation functions

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, April 1997, Wiley

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  59. Novel Insertion Sequence-like Element IS982 in Lactococci

    Article • Plasmid, May 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  60. High Resolution Detection of Cell Adhesion Molecules Using Low Voltage FESEM.

    Article • ACTA HISTOCHEMICA ET CYTOCHEMICA, January 1994, Japan Society of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  61. Ultrastructure and Lytic Activity of Bacteriophages Isolated from Cheese Wheys

    Article • Journal of Dairy Science, June 1992, American Dairy Science Association

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  62. Microtiter plate assays for the measurement of phage adsorption and infection in Lactococcus and Enterococcus

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, February 1991, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  63. Mutants ofEnterococcus faecalis deficient as recipients in mating with donors carrying pheromone-inducible plasmids

    Article • Plasmid, July 1990, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  64. Identification of cell wall antigens associated with a large conjugative plasmid encoding phage resistance and lactose fermentation ability in lactic streptococci

    Article • Biochimie, March 1988, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  65. Identification of regions of the Streptococcus faecalis plasmid pCF-10 that encode antibiotic resistance and pheromone response functions

    Article • Plasmid, May 1986, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  66. Specific Agglutination of Streptococcus agalactiae from Bovine Mastitis by Casein Components of Bovine Milk

    Article • Journal of Dairy Science, October 1984, American Dairy Science Association

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  67. Direct stimulation of the transfer of antibiotic resistance by sex pheromones in Streptococcus faecalis

    Article • Plasmid, November 1981, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  68. Effects of Antibiotics in Animal Feed on the Antibiotic Resistance of the Gram Positive Bacterial Flora of Animals and Man

    Article • January 1981, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  69. PLASMID RELATED SEX PHEROMONES IN Streptococcus faecalis

    Article • January 1980, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny

  70. Plasmid transfer in Streptococcus faecalis: Production of multiple sex pheromones by recipients

    Article • Plasmid, July 1979, Elsevier

    Dr Gary M Dunny