Dr. Kirsty Agnoli-Antkowiak
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Biocontrol, synthetic biology, regulation and pathogenicity Funding: Gebert Ruef Stiftung grant GRS-076/19
Butt, A. T., Banyard, C. D., Haldipurkar, S. S., Agnoli, K., Mohsin, M. I., Vitovski, S., Paleja, A., Tang, Y., Lomax, R., Ye, F., Green, J., and M.S. Thomas. 2022. The Burkholderia cenocepacia iron starvation sigma factor, OrbS, possesses an on-board iron sensor. Nucleic Acids Res. 5 (7):3709-26.
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Purtschert-Montenegro, G., Carcamo-Oyarce, G., Pinto-Carbo, M., Agnoli, K., Bailly, A., and L. Eberl. 2022. Pseudomonas putida mediates bacterial killing, biofilm invasion and biocontrol with a type IVB secretion system. Nat Microbiol.1547-57
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Schnyder, A., Eberl, L., and K. Agnoli. 2022. Investigating the Biocontrol Potential of the Natural Microbiota of the Apple Blossom. Microorganisms. 1 (12).
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Mannweiler, O., Pinto-Carbo, M., Lardi, M., Agnoli, K., and L. Eberl. 2021. Investigation of Burkholderia cepacia Complex Methylomes via Single-Molecule, Real-Time Sequencing and Mutant Analysis. J Bacteriol. 20 (12):e0068320.
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Agnoli, K., Haldipurkar, S. S., Tang, Y., Butt, A. T., and M.S. Thomas. 2019. Distinct Modes of Promoter Recognition by Two Iron Starvation sigma Factors with Overlapping Promoter Specificities. J Bacteriol. 20 (3).
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Sathe, S., Mathew, A., Agnoli, K., Eberl, L., and R. Kummerli. 2019. Genetic architecture constrains exploitation of siderophore cooperation in the bacterium Burkholderia cenocepacia. Evol Lett. (6):610-22. doi: 10.1002/evl3.144. PubMed PMID: 31844554; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC6906993.
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Gomes, M.C., Tasrini, Y., Subramoni, S., Agnoli, K., Feliciano, J.R., Eberl, L., Sokol, P., O'Callaghan, D., and A.C. Vergunst. 2018. The afc antifungal activity cluster, which is under tight regulatory control of ShvR, is essential for transition from intracellular persistence of Burkholderia cenocepacia to acute pro-inflammatory infection. PLoSPathog. 2018 Dec 4;1 (12):e1007473. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007473.
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Agnoli, K., Freitag, R., Gomes, M.C., Jenul, C., Suppiger, A., Mannweiler, O., Frauenknecht, C., Janser, D., Vergunst, A.C., and L. Eberl. 2017. Use of synthetic hybrid strains to determine the role of replicon 3 in virulence of the Burkholderia cepacia complex. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 16;8 (13). doi: 10.1128/AEM.00461-17.
Agnoli, K., Frauenknecht, C., Freitag, R., Schwager, S., Jenul, C., Vergunst, A., Carlier, A., and L. Eberl. 2014. The third replicon of members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex, plasmid pC3, plays a role in stress tolerance. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2013 Dec 13. PMID: 24334662 [Epub ahead of print
Carlier, A., Agnoli, K., Pessi, G., Suppiger, A., Jenul, C., Schmid, N., Tümmler, B., Pinto-Carbo, M., and L. Eberl. 2014. Genome Sequence of Burkholderia cenocepacia H111, a Cystic Fibrosis Airway Isolate. Genome Announc. 10; (2). pii: e00298-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00298-14.
Kost, T., Stopnisek, N., Agnoli, K., Eberl, L., and L. Weisskopf. 2014. Oxalotrophy, a widespread trait of plant-associated Burkholderia species, is involved in successful root colonization of lupin and maize by Burkholderia phytofirmans. Front Microbiol. 2014 Jan 9;4:421. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00421
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Sass, A.M., Schmerk, C., Agnoli, K., Norville, P.J., Eberl, L., Valvano, M.A, and E. Mahenthiralingam. 2013. The unexpected discovery of a novel low-oxygen-activated locus for the anoxic persistence of Burkholderia cenocepacia. ISME J. 2013 7:1568-81. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.36.
Schwager, S., Agnoli, K., Köthe, M., Feldmann, F., Givskov, M., Carlier, A.L., and L. Eberl. 2013. Identification of Burkholderia cenocepacia H111 virulence factors using non-mammalian infection hosts. Infect. Immun. 81:143-53
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Subramoni, S., Agnoli, K., Eberl, L., Lewenza, S., and P.A. Sokol. 2013. Role of Burkholderia cenocepacia afcE and afcF genes in determining lipid-metabolism-associated phenotypes. Microbiology 159:603-14.
Agnoli, K., Schwager, S., Uehlinger, S., Vergunst, A., Viteri, D.F., Nguyen, D.T., Sokol, P.A., Carlier, A., and L. Eberl. 2012. Exposing the third chromosome of Burkholderia cepacia complex strains as a virulence plasmid. Mol. Microbiol. 83:362-78
Asghar, A. H., Shastri, S., Dave, E., Wowk, I., Agnoli, K., Cook, A. M., Thomas, M. S. 2011. The pobA gene of Burkholderia cenocepacia encodes a Group I Sfp-type phosphopantetheinyltransferase required for biosynthesis of the siderophores ornibactin and pyochelin. Microbiology-Sgm. 157:349-61
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Agnoli, K., Lowe, C. A., Farmer, K. L., Husnain, S. I., Thomas, M. S. 2006. The ornibactin biosynthesis and transport genes of Burkholderia cenocepacia are regulated by an extracytoplasmic function sigma factor which is a part of the Fur regulon. J Bacteriol. 18 (10):3631-44.
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