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  1. Staphylococcal Plasmids, Transposable and Integrative Elements

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, November 2018, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  2. Construction of Challenging Proline–Proline Junctions via Diselenide–Selenoester Ligation Chemistry

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  3. Mobile Genetic Elements Associated with Antimicrobial Resistance

    Article • Clinical Microbiology Reviews, August 2018, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  4. Replication of Staphylococcal Resistance Plasmids

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, November 2017, Frontiers

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  5. Diverse mobilization strategies facilitate transfer of non-conjugative mobile genetic elements

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, August 2017, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  6. An updated view of plasmid conjugation and mobilization inStaphylococcus

    Article • Mobile Genetic Elements, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  7. Dynamic Filament Formation by a Divergent Bacterial Actin-Like ParM Protein

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2016, PLOS

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  8. Processing of Nonconjugative Resistance Plasmids by Conjugation Nicking Enzyme of Staphylococci

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 2016, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  9. Convergent Adaptation in the Dominant Global Hospital Clone ST239 of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Article • mBio, March 2015, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  10. Structural and sequence requirements for the antisense RNA regulating replication of staphylococcal multiresistance plasmid pSK41

    Article • Plasmid, March 2015, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  11. Mechanism of staphylococcal multiresistance plasmid replication origin assembly by the RepA protein

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  12. Staphylococcus aureus Surface Proteins Involved in Adaptation to Oxacillin Identified Using a Novel Cell Shaving Approach

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, June 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  13. Genetics: Accessory Elements and Genetic Exchange

    Article • April 2014, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  14. Perivascular macrophages mediate neutrophil recruitment during bacterial skin infection

    Article • Nature Immunology, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Neville Firth, Dr Rohit Jain

  15. Preface

    Article • Plasmid, July 2013, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  16. Biology of the staphylococcal conjugative multiresistance plasmid pSK41

    Article • Plasmid, July 2013, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  17. Two-Plasmid Vector System for Independently Controlled Expression of Green and Red Fluorescent Fusion Proteins in Staphylococcus aureus

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 2013, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  18. Molecular basis of antibiotic multiresistance transfer in Staphylococcus aureus

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Rebecca M Pollet, Associate Professor Neville Firth

  19. Genetic requirements for replication initiation of the staphylococcal multiresistance plasmid pSK41

    Article • Microbiology, March 2012, Society for General Microbiology

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  20. Major Families of Multiresistant Plasmids from Geographically and Epidemiologically Diverse Staphylococci

    Article • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, December 2011, Genetics Society of America

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  21. A simple plasmid-based system that allows rapid generation of tightly controlled gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus

    Article • Microbiology, November 2010, Society for General Microbiology

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  22. Analysis of the prototypical Staphylococcus aureus multiresistance plasmid pSK1

    Article • Plasmid, November 2010, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  23. Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Strain JKD6008, an ST239 Clone of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Intermediate-Level Vancomycin Resistance

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, August 2010, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  24. Structure and filament dynamics of the pSK41 actin-like ParM protein.

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, May 2010, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  25. Complete Nucleotide Sequence and Comparative Analysis of pPR9, a 41.7-Kilobase Conjugative Staphylococcal Multiresistance Plasmid Conferring High-Level Mupirocin Resistance

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2010, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  26. Prevalence of Fst-like toxin-antitoxin systems

    Article • Microbiology, February 2010, Society for General Microbiology

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  27. Structure and Filament Dynamics of the pSK41 Actin-like ParM Protein

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 2010, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  28. The Staphylococcus aureus pSK41 plasmid-encoded ArtA protein is a master regulator of plasmid transmission genes and contains a RHH motif used in alternate DNA-binding modes

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, September 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  29. The replicons of Gram-positive bacteria: A family of broadly distributed but narrow host range plasmids

    Article • Plasmid, March 2009, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  30. Analysis of the pSK1 replicon, a prototype from the staphylococcal multiresistance plasmid family

    Article • Microbiology, October 2008, Society for General Microbiology

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  31. A multimer resolution system contributes to segregational stability of the prototypical staphylococcal conjugative multiresistance plasmid pSK41

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, July 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  32. Segrosome structure revealed by a complex of ParR with centromere DNA

    Article • Nature, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  33. Molecular Evolution of Multiply-Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococci

    Article • September 2007, Wiley

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  34. Replication Control of Staphylococcal Multiresistance Plasmid pSK41: an Antisense RNA Mediates Dual-Level Regulation of Rep Expression

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, June 2006, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  35. Staphylococcus aureus multiresistance plasmid pSK41: analysis of the replication region, initiator protein binding and antisense RNA regulation

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, February 2004, Wiley

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  36. Analysis and characterization of the IncFV plasmid pED208 transfer region

    Article • Plasmid, July 2002, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  37. In Vitro Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to Thrombin-Induced Platelet Microbicidal Protein Is Associated with Alterations in Cytoplasmic Membrane Fluidity

    Article • Infection and Immunity, June 2000, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  38. Replication of Staphylococcal Multiresistance Plasmids

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, April 2000, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  39. Nucleotide Sequence of the F Plasmid Leading Region

    Article • Plasmid, May 1999, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  40. Mobile elements in the evolution and spread of multiple-drug resistance in staphylococci

    Article • Drug Resistance Updates, March 1998, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  41. Molecular Analysis of a Mobilizable Theta-Mode Trimethoprim Resistance Plasmid from Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci

    Article • Plasmid, July 1997, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  42. Enterococcal Pheromone-Like Activity Derived from a Lipoprotein Signal Peptide Encoded by a Staphylococcus aureus Plasmid

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  43. A protein family associated with filament biogenesis in bacteria

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, September 1995, Wiley

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  44. Multidrug Resistance Plasmid pSK108 from Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci; Relationships to Staphylococcus aureus qacC Plasmids

    Article • Plasmid, July 1995, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  45. A lipoprotein signal peptide encoded by the staphylococcal conjugative plasmid pSK41 exhibits an activity resembling that of Enterococcus faecalis pheromone cAD1.

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 1994, ASM Journals

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  46. Analysis of a transfer region from the staphylococcal conjugative plasmid pSK41

    Article • Gene, December 1993, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  47. Characterization of the F plasmid bifunctional conjugation gene, traG

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Neville Firth

  48. Nucleotide sequence of the F plasmid transfer gene, traH: identification of a new gene and a promoter within the transfer operon

    Article • Gene, January 1989, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Neville Firth