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  1. One Gene and Two Proteins: a Leaderless mRNA Supports the Translation of a Shorter Form of theShigellaVirF Regulator

    Article • mBio, November 2016, ASM Journals

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  2. The Multifaceted Activity of the VirF Regulatory Protein in the Shigella Lifestyle

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, September 2016, Frontiers

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  3. Characterization of an emergent clone of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli circulating in Europe

    Article • Clinical Microbiology and Infection, March 2016, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  4. Multifactor Regulation of the MdtJI Polyamine Transporter in Shigella

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2015, PLOS

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  5. Molecular and Functional Profiling of the Polyamine Content in Enteroinvasive E. coli : Looking into the Gap between Commensal E. coli and Harmful Shigella

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2014, PLOS

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  6. Polar Localization of PhoN2, a Periplasmic Virulence-Associated Factor of Shigella flexneri, Is Required for Proper IcsA Exposition at the Old Bacterial Pole

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2014, PLOS

    Full Professor of Biochemistry Fabio Polticelli, PhD Gianni Prosseda

  7. A tumor-promoting mechanism mediated by retrotransposon-encoded reverse transcriptase is active in human transformed cell lines

    Article • Oncotarget, December 2013, Impact Journals, LLC

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  8. Polyamines: Emerging players in bacteria–host interactions

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, December 2013, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  9. Molecular evolution of the nicotinic acid requirement within the Shigella/EIEC pathotype

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, December 2013, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  10. Shedding of genes that interfere with the pathogenic lifestyle: the Shigella model

    Article • Research in Microbiology, July 2012, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  11. A New Piece of the Shigella Pathogenicity Puzzle: Spermidine Accumulationby Silencing of the speG Gene

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2011, PLOS

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  12. A multifactor regulatory circuit involving H-NS, VirF and an antisense RNA modulates transcription of the virulence gene icsA of Shigella flexneri

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, June 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  13. Analysis of heat-induced changes in protein expression of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia K279a reveals a role for GroEL in the host-temperature adaptation

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, April 2011, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  14. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strains from cystic fibrosis patients: Genomic variability and molecular characterization of some virulence determinants

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, January 2011, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  15. Interference of the CadC regulator in the arginine-dependent acid resistance system of Shigella and enteroinvasive E. coli

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, June 2010, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  16. A Temperature-Induced Narrow DNA Curvature Range Sustains the Maximum Activity of a Bacterial Promoter in Vitro

    Article • Biochemistry, April 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  17. A novel antisense RNA regulates at transcriptional level the virulence gene icsA of Shigella flexneri

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, February 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  18. The two-faced role of cad genes in the virulence of pathogenic Escherichia coli

    Article • Research in Microbiology, July 2007, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  19. Plasticity of the Pjunc Promoter of ISEc11, a New Insertion Sequence of the IS1111 Family

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2006, ASM Journals

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  20. Molecular evolution of the lysine decarboxylase-defective phenotype in

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, March 2005, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  21. The virF promoter in Shigella: more than just a curved DNA stretch

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, February 2004, Wiley

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  22. CadC Is the Preferential Target of a Convergent Evolution Driving Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli toward a Lysine Decarboxylase-Defective Phenotype

    Article • Infection and Immunity, October 2003, ASM Journals

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  23. Histone-like proteins and the Shigella invasivity regulon

    Article • Research in Microbiology, September 2002, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  24. Involvement of FIS in the H-NS-mediated regulation of virF gene of Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, October 2001, Wiley

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  25. The looped domain organization of the nucleoid in histone-like protein defective Escherichia coli strains***This work is dedicated to Maurice Hofnung, tragically deceased on June 28th, 2001.

    Article • Biochimie, September 2001, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  26. Thermoregulation of Shigella and Escherichia coli EIEC pathogenicity. A temperature-dependent structural transition of DNA modulates accessibility of virF promoter to transcriptional repressor H-NS

    Article • The EMBO Journal, December 1998, Wiley

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  27. A role for H-NS in the regulation of the virF gene of Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli

    Article • Research in Microbiology, January 1998, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Prosseda

  28. H-NS regulation of virulence gene expression in enteroinvasive Escherichia coli harboring the virulence plasmid integrated into the host chromosome.

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 1995, ASM Journals

    PhD Gianni Prosseda