Vincent Burrus

Publications

• A ProQ/FinO family protein involved in plasmid copy number control favours fitness of bacteria carrying mcr-1-bearing IncI2 plasmids
• Genomic islands targeting dusA in Vibrio species are distantly related to Salmonella Genomic Island 1 and mobilizable by IncC conjugative plasmids
• DNA Data Visualization (DDV): Software for Generating Web-Based Interfaces Supporting Navigation and Analysis of DNA Sequence Data of Entire Genomes.
• The extended regulatory networks of SXT/R391 integrative and conjugative elements and IncA/C conjugative plasmids.
• Effect of organic matter on nitrogenase metal cofactors homeostasis in Azotobacter vinelandii under diazotrophic conditions.
• A λ Cro-Like Repressor Is Essential for the Induction of Conjugative Transfer of SXT/R391 Elements in Response to DNA Damage.
• Identification of genetic and environmental factors stimulating excision from Streptomyces scabiei chromosome of the toxicogenic region responsible for pathogenicity.
• Replication and Active Partition of Integrative and Conjugative Elements (ICEs) of the SXT/R391 Family: The Line between ICEs and Conjugative Plasmids Is Getting Thinner.
• Diversity of integrating conjugative elements in actinobacteria: Coexistence of two mechanistically different DNA-translocation systems.
• Uncovering the prevalence and diversity of integrating conjugative elements in actinobacteria.
• Integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family trigger the excision and drive the mobilization of a new class of Vibrio genomic islands.
• Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) reshapes the mating apparatus of IncC conjugative plasmids to promote self-propagation
• Redefinition and Unification of the SXT/R391 Family of Integrative and Conjugative Elements
• Genome Sequence of a Canadian Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolate with Unique Mobilizing Capacity
• Replication of the Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1) triggered by helper IncC conjugative plasmids promotes incompatibility and plasmid loss
• High‐efficiency delivery of CRISPR‐Cas9 by engineered probiotics enables precise microbiome editing
• Biofilm Formation Drives Transfer of the Conjugative Element ICE Bs1 in Bacillus subtilis
• IncC conjugative plasmids and SXT/R391 elements repair double-strand breaks caused by CRISPR–Cas during conjugation
• Antibiotic Resistance in Vibrio cholerae: Mechanistic Insights from IncC Plasmid-Mediated Dissemination of a Novel Family of Genomic Islands Inserted at trmE
• Crucial Role of Salmonella Genomic Island 1 Master Activator in Parasitism of IncC plasmids
• Highly efficient gene transfer in the mouse gut microbiota is enabled by the Incl2 conjugative plasmid TP114
• ICETh1 and ICETh2, two interdependent mobile genetic elements in Thermus thermophilus transjugation
• Entry Exclusion of Conjugative Plasmids of the IncA, IncC, and Related Untyped Incompatibility Groups
• PixR, a Novel Activator of Conjugative Transfer of IncX4 Resistance Plasmids, Mitigates the Fitness Cost of mcr-1 Carriage in Escherichia coli
• Development of pVCR94ΔX from Vibrio cholerae, a prototype for studying multidrug resistant IncA/C conjugative plasmids.
• A diaminopimelic acid auxotrophic Escherichia coli donor provides improved counterselection following intergeneric conjugation with actinomycetes.
• Biology of Three ICE Families: SXT/R391, ICEBs1, and ICESt1/ICESt3.
• Regulation of Type IV Pili Contributes to Surface Behaviors of Historical and Epidemic Strains of Clostridium difficile.
• Unraveling the regulatory network of IncA/C plasmid mobilization: When genomic islands hijack conjugative elements.
• Cyclic-di-GMP signaling in the Gram-positive pathogen Clostridium difficile.
• Transfer activation of SXT/R391 integrative and conjugative elements: unraveling the SetCD regulon.
• Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay Using Radiolabeled DNA Probes.
• Cyclic di-GMP riboswitch-regulated type IV pili contribute to aggregation of Clostridium difficile.
• The master activator of IncA/C conjugative plasmids stimulates genomic islands and multidrug resistance dissemination.
• Dynamics of the SetCD-regulated integration and excision of genomic islands mobilized by integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family.
• Origin of Vibrio cholerae in Haiti.
• DNA-damaging agents induce the RecA-independent homologous recombination functions of integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family.
• Comparative analysis of mobilizable genomic islands.
• c-di-GMP turn-over in Clostridium difficile is controlled by a plethora of diguanylate cyclases and phosphodiesterases.
• ICEVchInd5 is prevalent in epidemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains isolated in India.
• Comparative ICE genomics: insights into the evolution of the SXT/R391 family of ICEs.
• Mobile antibiotic resistance encoding elements promote their own diversity.
• Beyond antibiotic resistance: integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family that encode novel diguanylate cyclases participate to c-di-GMP signalling in Vibrio cholerae.
• Identification of the origin of transfer (oriT) and a new gene required for mobilization of the SXT/R391 family of integrating conjugative elements.
• The dualistic nature of integrative and conjugative elements.
• IncA/C Conjugative Plasmids Mobilize a New Family of Multidrug Resistance Islands in Clinical Vibrio cholerae Non-O1/Non-O139 Isolates from Haiti.
• Novel chromosome-encoded erm(47) determinant responsible for constitutive MLSB resistance in Helcococcus kunzii.
• Mechanisms of stabilization of integrative and conjugative elements.
• Mobilizable genomic islands, different strategies for the dissemination of multidrug resistance and other adaptive traits.
• Crucial role of Salmonella genomic island 1 master activator in the parasitism of IncC plasmids
• Genomic and functional analysis of ICEPdaSpa1, a fish-pathogen-derived SXT-related integrating conjugative element that can mobilize a virulence plasmid.
• Requirement for Vibrio cholerae integration host factor in conjugative DNA transfer.
• SXT-related integrating conjugative element in New World Vibrio cholerae.
• The current ICE age: biology and evolution of SXT-related integrating conjugative elements.
• Shaping bacterial genomes with integrative and conjugative elements.
• Formation of SXT tandem arrays and SXT-R391 hybrids.
• Evolution of genomic islands by deletion and tandem accretion by site-specific recombination: ICESt1-related elements from Streptococcus thermophilus.
• Control of SXT integration and excision.
• Comparison of SXT and R391, two conjugative integrating elements: definition of a genetic backbone for the mobilization of resistance determinants.
• Conjugative transposons: the tip of the iceberg.
• The ICESt1 element of Streptococcus thermophilus belongs to a large family of integrative and conjugative elements that exchange modules and change their specificity of integration.
• Characterization of a novel type II restriction-modification system, Sth368I, encoded by the integrative element ICESt1 of Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ368.
• Characterization of a novel integrative element, ICESt1, in the lactic acid bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus.
• Surface exclusion of IncC conjugative plasmids and their relatives
• A systematic approach to classify and characterize genomic islands driven by conjugative mobility using protein signatures
• Crucial Role ofSalmonellaGenomic Island 1 Master Activator in Parasitism of IncC plasmids