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  1. Identification of Two Regulators of Virulence That Are Conserved inKlebsiella pneumoniaeClassical and Hypervirulent Strains

    Article • mBio, August 2018, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  2. A Serendipitous Mutation Reveals the Severe Virulence Defect of a Klebsiella pneumoniae fepB Mutant

    Article • mSphere, August 2017, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  3. Comparison of Models for Bubonic Plague Reveals Unique Pathogen Adaptations to the Dermis

    Article • Infection and Immunity, May 2015, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  4. Dissemination of a Highly Virulent Pathogen: Tracking The Early Events That Define Infection

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, January 2015, PLOS

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  5. Klebsiella: a long way to go towards understanding this enigmatic jet-setter

    Article • F1000Prime Reports, August 2014, F1000Research

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  6. YaxAB, a Yersinia enterocolitica Pore-Forming Toxin Regulated by RovA

    Article • Infection and Immunity, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  7. Acquisition of omptin reveals cryptic virulence function of autotransporter YapE inYersinia pestis

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, June 2013, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller, Matthew B Lawrenz

  8. Whole-Genome Draft Sequences of Three Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains Available from the American Type Culture Collection

    Article • Genome Announcements, May 2013, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  9. Proteolytic processing of the Yersinia pestis YapG autotransporter by the omptin protease Pla and the contribution of YapG to murine plague pathogenesis

    Article • Journal of Medical Microbiology, May 2013, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  10. A Phenotype at Last: Essential Role for the Yersinia enterocolitica Ysa Type III Secretion System in a Drosophila melanogaster S2 Cell Model

    Article • Infection and Immunity, April 2013, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  11. Evolution and Virulence Contributions of the Autotransporter Proteins YapJ and YapK of Yersinia pestis CO92 and Their Homologs in Y. pseudotuberculosis IP32953

    Article • Infection and Immunity, July 2012, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  12. Low copy expression vectors for use in Yersinia sp. and related organisms

    Article • Plasmid, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  13. Bioluminescence imaging to track bacterial dissemination of Yersinia pestis using different routes of infection in mice

    Article • BMC Microbiology, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  14. Expression during Host Infection and Localization of Yersinia pestis Autotransporter Proteins

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, August 2011, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller, Matthew B Lawrenz

  15. The Dependence of theYersiniapestisCapsule on Pathogenesis Is Influenced by the Mouse Background

    Article • Infection and Immunity, November 2010, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller, Matthew B Lawrenz

  16. Identification of YsrT and Evidence that YsrRST Constitute a Unique Phosphorelay System in Yersinia enterocolitica

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, September 2010, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  17. Mucosal Lipocalin 2 Has Pro-Inflammatory and Iron-Sequestering Effects in Response to Bacterial Enterobactin

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, October 2009, PLOS

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  18. Synchronous Gene Expression of the Yersinia enterocolitica Ysa Type III Secretion System and Its Effectors

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 2009, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  19. YspM, a Newly Identified Ysa Type III Secreted Protein of Yersinia enterocolitica

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, September 2008, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  20. Identification of regions of Ail required for the invasion and serum resistance phenotypes

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  21. The RovA regulons of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pestis are distinct: evidence that many RovA-regulated genes were acquired more recently than the core genome

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, October 2007, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  22. Comparative Analysis of the Regulation of rovA from the Pathogenic Yersiniae

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, June 2007, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller, Matthew B Lawrenz

  23. General and specific host responses to bacterial infection in Peyer's patches: a role for stromelysin-1 (matrix metalloproteinase-3) during Salmonella enterica infection

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  24. Yersiniabactin Is a Virulence Factor for Klebsiella pneumoniae during Pulmonary Infection

    Article • Infection and Immunity, January 2007, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  25. Environmental Stimuli Affecting Expression of the Ysa Type Three Secretion Locus

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  26. YtxR, a Conserved LysR-Like Regulator That Induces Expression of Genes Encoding a Putative ADP-Ribosyltransferase Toxin Homologue in Yersinia enterocolitica

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, September 2006, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  27. RovA, a global regulator of Yersinia pestis , specifically required for bubonic plague

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  28. H-NS Represses inv Transcription in Yersinia enterocolitica through Competition with RovA and Interaction with YmoA

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2006, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  29. Characterization of a Novel Porin Involved in Systemic Yersinia enterocolitica Infection

    Article • Infection and Immunity, July 2006, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  30. Histamine signaling through the H2receptor in the Peyer’s patch is important for controllingYersinia enterocoliticainfection

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  31. Regulation of virulence by members of the MarR/SlyA family

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, April 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  32. Yersinia enterocolitica Invasin-Dependent and Invasin-Independent Mechanisms of Systemic Dissemination

    Article • Infection and Immunity, December 2005, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  33. Identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae virulence determinants using an intranasal infection model

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, October 2005, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  34. Regulation of the Ysa Type III Secretion System of Yersinia enterocolitica by YsaE/SycB and YsrS/YsrR

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2004, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  35. Invasin and beyond: regulation of Yersinia virulence by RovA

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, June 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller, Matthew B Lawrenz

  36. Protective Role of Interleukin-6 during Yersinia enterocolitica Infection Is Mediated through the Modulation of Inflammatory Cytokines

    Article • Infection and Immunity, June 2004, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  37. Characterization of Oral Yersinia enterocolitica Infection in Three Different Strains of Inbred Mice

    Article • Infection and Immunity, March 2004, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  38. Regulation of htrA expression in Yersinia enterocolitica

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, February 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  39. YmoA Negatively Regulates Expression of Invasin fromYersiniaenterocolitica

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, December 2003, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  40. The AGUAAA motif in cspA1/A2 mRNA is important for adaptation of Yersinia enterocolitica to grow at low temperature

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller, Prof Michael R Hamblin

  41. Identification of rpoE and nadB as host responsive elements of Yersinia enterocolitica

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, September 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  42. The rovA Mutant of Yersinia enterocolitica Displays Differential Degrees of Virulence Depending on the Route of Infection

    Article • Infection and Immunity, June 2003, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  43. A chromosomally encoded regulator is required for expression of the Yersinia enterocolitica inv gene and for virulence

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, April 2002, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  44. Yersinia virulence: more than a plasmid

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, December 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  45. Identification of a Locus Involved in Systemic Dissemination of Yersinia enterocolitica

    Article • Infection and Immunity, October 2001, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  46. HreP, an In Vivo-Expressed Protease of Yersinia enterocolitica, Is a New Member of the Family of Subtilisin/Kexin-Like Proteases

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, June 2001, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  47. The psp locus of Yersinia enterocolitica is required for virulence and for growth in vitro when the Ysc type III secretion system is produced

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  48. Monitoring phase-specific gene expression in Histoplasma capsulatum with telomeric GFP fusion plasmids

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, December 2000, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  49. Yersinia enterocolitica ClpB Affects Levels of Invasin and Motility

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, October 2000, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  50. Motility Is Required To Initiate Host Cell Invasion by Yersinia enterocolitica

    Article • Infection and Immunity, July 2000, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  51. The Yersinia enterocoliticaPhospholipase Gene yplA Is Part of the Flagellar Regulon

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, April 2000, ASM Journals

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  52. The putative invasion protein chaperone SicA acts together with InvF to activate the expression of Salmonella typhimurium virulence genes

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, February 2000, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  53. Bacterial phospholipases and pathogenesis

    Article • Microbes and Infection, November 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  54. Signature-tagged mutagenesis and the hunt for virulence factors: Response

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, October 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  55. Identification of Yersinia enterocolitica genes affecting survival in an animal host using signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, April 1999, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  56. Identification of novel chromosomal loci affecting Yersinia enterocolitica pathogenesis

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 1997, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  57. Temperature‐dependent regulation of Yersinia enterocolitica Class III flagellar genes

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 1996, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  58. Salmonella enteritidis has a homologue of tolC that is required for virulence in BALB/c mice

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, August 1995, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  59. Tissue-culture invasion: fact or artefact?

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, February 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  60. Growth phase and low pH affect the thermal regulation of the Yersinia enterocolitica inv gene

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, January 1994, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  61. Molecular cloning of invasion genes from Yersinia and Salmonella

    Article • January 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  62. Cloning of the YenI restriction endonuclease and methyltransferase from Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O8 and construction of a transformable R−M+ mutant

    Article • Gene, December 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  63. Yersinia enterocolitica invasin: a primary role in the initiation of infection.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 1993, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  64. Bacterium-host cell interactions in Monterey

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, June 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  65. Sequence, localization and function of the invasin protein of Yersinia enterocoiitica

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 1990, Wiley

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  66. Cholera toxin transcriptional activator ToxR is a transmembrane DNA binding protein

    Article • Cell, January 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia L Miller

  67. Synthesis of cholera toxin is positively regulated at the transcriptional level by toxR.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 1984, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Virginia L Miller