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  1. Serratia marcescens Outer Membrane Vesicles rapidly paralyze Drosophila melanogaster through triggering apoptosis in the nervous system

    Article • December 2025, eLife

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  2. Argentine microbiology: between scientific legacy and systemic fragility

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  3. PrtA-mediated flagellar turnover is essential for robust biofilm development in Serratia marcescens

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2025, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  4. Unraveling the role of UilS, a urea-induced acyl-homoserine lactonase that enhances Serratia marcescens fitness, interbacterial competition, and urinary tract infection

    Article • mBio, December 2024, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  5. An allosteric inhibitor of the PhoQ histidine kinase with therapeutic potential against Salmonella infection

    Article • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, June 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  6. Enhancing colistin efficacy against Salmonella infections with a quinazoline-based dual therapeutic strategy

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  7. ShlA toxin of Serratia induces P2Y2- and α5β1-dependent autophagy and bacterial clearance from host cells

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  8. A serralysin-like protein of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus modulates components of the bacterial extracellular matrix

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, October 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  9. A natural product from Streptomyces targets PhoP and exerts antivirulence action against Salmonella enterica

    Article • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  10. Effect-Directed Synthesis of PhoP/PhoQ Inhibitors to Regulate Salmonella Virulence

    Article • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, May 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  11. The fliR gene contributes to the virulence of S. marcescens in a Drosophila intestinal infection model

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  12. Histone-like nucleoid-structuring protein (H-NS) regulatory role in antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  13. Serratia marcescens RamA Expression Is under PhoP-Dependent Control and Modulates Lipid A-Related Gene Transcription and Antibiotic Resistance Phenotypes

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, June 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  14. Correction to: Genome analysis of Salmonella enterica subsp. diarizonae isolates from invasive human infections reveals enrichment of virulence-related functions in lineage ST1256

    Article • BMC Genomics, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  15. PhoQ is an unsaturated fatty acid receptor that fine-tunesSalmonellapathogenic traits

    Article • Science Signaling, April 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  16. Quinazoline-Based Antivirulence Compounds Selectively Target Salmonella PhoP/PhoQ Signal Transduction System

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, December 2019, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  17. Selective blockage ofSerratia marcescensShlA by nickel inhibits the pore‐forming toxin‐mediated phenotypes in eukaryotic cells

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, May 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  18. Genome analysis of Salmonella enterica subsp. diarizonae isolates from invasive human infections reveals enrichment of virulence-related functions in lineage ST1256

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  19. CpxR-Dependent Thermoregulation ofSerratia marcescensPrtA Metalloprotease Expression and Its Contribution to Bacterial Biofilm Formation

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  20. Soybean hulls, an alternative source of bioactive compounds: Combining pyrolysis with bioguided fractionation

    Article • Industrial Crops and Products, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  21. A Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanism Finely Tunes the Firing of Type VI Secretion System in Response to Bacterial Enemies

    Article • mBio, August 2017, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  22. Draft Genome Sequence of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Infantis Strain SPE101, Isolated from a Chronic Human Infection

    Article • Genome Announcements, July 2017, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  23. Dissemination mechanism of a clinical emergent bacterial pathogen

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, September 2016, Wiley

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  24. Mechanisms of Bacterial (Serratia marcescens) Attachment to, Migration along, and Killing of Fungal Hyphae

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2016, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  25. Erratum

    Article • Autophagy, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Janos KristonVizi, Juan Segura-Aguilar, Professor Nektarios Tavernarakis, Dr Reinhard Dechant, Dr Vasilis J Promponas, Professor Marc Lecuit, Professor Paula I. Moreira, Professor Mark Cragg, Executive Director, The Hormel Institute Robert Clarke, Dr Eleonora García Véscovi, Professor Jean-François Beaulieu, Shile Huang, Maria João Sousa, Professor Godefridus J Peters, PD Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Werner J Kovacs, Professor Abdel Halim Harrath, Professor Günther Weindl

  26. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Article • Autophagy, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor CIRO ISIDORO, Dr Akira Matsuura, Prof Hirokazu Arimoto, Professor Marc Diederich, Maria Vaccaro, Professor Abdel Halim Harrath, Professor Hyun Kyu Song, Dr Takeshi Noda, Dr Regina Menezes, Dr Janos KristonVizi, Cristina Muñoz-Pinedo, Professor Nektarios Tavernarakis, Juan Segura-Aguilar, Professor Marc Lecuit, Leonardo Travassos, Prof Robert Bryson-Richardson, Isabelle Dugail, PD Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Werner J Kovacs, Dr Luca Galluzzi, Dr Reinhard Dechant, Dr. Sandra Moreno, Maurizio Molinari, Dr Vasilis J Promponas, Professor Günther Weindl, Dr Marc Etienne Poirot, Professor Paula I. Moreira, Maria João Sousa, Dr Janna Morrison, Professor Mark Cragg, Executive Director, The Hormel Institute Robert Clarke, Dr Eleonora García Véscovi, Paula Ludovico, Professor Jean-François Beaulieu, Shile Huang, Professor George Perry, Professor Godefridus J Peters, Shuo-Chien Ling, Professor Jiwu Wei, Deepak Shukla

  27. Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of Serratia marcescens Strain RM66262, Isolated from a Patient with a Urinary Tract Infection

    Article • Genome Announcements, December 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  28. Serratia marcescens ShlA Pore-Forming Toxin Is Responsible for Early Induction of Autophagy in Host Cells and Is Transcriptionally Regulated by RcsB

    Article • Infection and Immunity, June 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  29. A Thin-layer Chromatography Autographic Method for the Detection of Inhibitors of theSalmonellaPhoP-PhoQ Regulatory System

    Article • Phytochemical Analysis, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  30. Unsaturated Long Chain Free Fatty Acids Are Input Signals of the Salmonella enterica PhoP/PhoQ Regulatory System

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  31. Biogenesis of Outer Membrane Vesicles in Serratia marcescens Is Thermoregulated and Can Be Induced by Activation of the Rcs Phosphorelay System

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, April 2012, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  32. The PhoP/PhoQ System and Its Role in Serratia marcescens Pathogenesis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, March 2012, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  33. Serratia marcescens Is Able to Survive and Proliferate in Autophagic-Like Vacuoles inside Non-Phagocytic Cells

    Article • PLOS One, August 2011, PLOS

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  34. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Single-domain llama antibodies as specific intracellular inhibitors of SpvB, the actin ADP-ribosylating toxin of Salmonella typhimurium.

    Article • February 2011, F1000Research

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  35. Faculty Opinions recommendation of The Rcs signal transduction pathway is triggered by enterobacterial common antigen structure alterations in Serratia marcescens.

    Article • January 2011, F1000Research

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  36. YqiC of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a membrane fusogenic protein required for mice colonization

    Article • BMC Microbiology, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  37. The Rcs Signal Transduction Pathway Is Triggered by Enterobacterial Common Antigen Structure Alterations in Serratia marcescens

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, October 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  38. Single‐domain llama antibodies as specific intracellular inhibitors of SpvB, the actin ADP‐ribosylating toxin of Salmonella typhimurium

    Article • The FASEB Journal, October 2010, Wiley

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  39. Two component systems in the spatial program of bacteria

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  40. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Cytolocalization of the PhoP response regulator in Salmonella enterica: modulation by extracellular Mg2+ and by the SCV environment.

    Article • October 2008, F1000Research

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  41. Cytolocalization of the PhoP response regulator inSalmonella enterica: modulation by extracellular Mg2+and by the SCV environment

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, October 2008, Wiley

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  42. mgtA Expression Is Induced by Rob Overexpression and Mediates a Salmonella enterica Resistance Phenotype

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, May 2008, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  43. Regulation of magnesium homeostasis in Salmonella: Mg2+ targets the mgtA transcript for degradation by RNase E

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

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  44. Enterobacterial Common Antigen Integrity Is a Checkpoint for Flagellar Biogenesis in Serratia marcescens

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, November 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  45. Induction of RpoS Degradation by the Two-Component System Regulator RstA in Salmonella enterica

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, August 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  46. PhoP-Induced Genes within Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 1

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, October 2006, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  47. PhoP Can Activate Its Target Genes in a PhoQ-Independent Manner

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, April 2004, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  48. Molecular Characterization of the Mg2+-Responsive PhoP-PhoQ Regulon in Salmonella enterica

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, November 2003, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  49. The H Box-harboring Domain Is Key to the Function of the Salmonella enterica PhoQ Mg2+-sensor in the Recognition of Its Partner PhoP

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, June 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  50. Activation of Multiple Antibiotic Resistance in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains by Aryloxoalcanoic Acid Compounds

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2001, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  51. Phosphorylated PmrA Interacts with the Promoter Region of ugd in Salmonella entericaSerovar Typhimurium

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2000, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  52. The Phosphatase Activity Is the Target for Mg2+ Regulation of the Sensor Protein PhoQ in Salmonella

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  53. Characterization of the Bacterial Sensor Protein PhoQ

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  54. Molecular basis of the magnesium deprivation response in Salmonella typhimurium: identification of PhoP-regulated genes.

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 1996, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  55. Mg2+ as an Extracellular Signal: Environmental Regulation of Salmonella Virulence

    Article • Cell, January 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  56. Transcriptional autoregulation of the Salmonella typhimurium phoPQ operon.

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 1995, ASM Journals

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  57. The role of the PhoP/PhoQ regulon in Salmonella virulence

    Article • Research in Microbiology, January 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  58. Protein Phosphorylation in Plastids from Ripening Tomato Fruits {<italic>Lycopersicon esculentum</italic>)

    Article • Plant and Cell Physiology, September 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  59. Phosphorylation of serine residues in endogenous proteins of thylakoids and subthylakoid particles in the dark under nonreducing conditions

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, July 1990, Elsevier

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi

  60. Serine Protein Phosphorylation in the Non-Appressed (Stroma) Thylakoid Membranes

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eleonora García Véscovi