Jean‐Pierre Claverys

Competence and virulence of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>: Adc and PsaA mutants exhibit a requirement for Zn and Mn resulting from inactivation of putative ABC metal permeases

Agnès Dintilhac, Geneviève Alloing, Chantal Granadel et al. · Molecular Microbiology · 1997 · 379 citations · Full text

A highly conserved repeated DNA element located in the chromosome of<i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>

Bernard Martin, Odile Humbert, Miguel Cámara et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 1992 · 379 citations · Full text

Box Elements, Dna, Virulence Factor +15

Competence-programmed predation of noncompetent cells in the human pathogen <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> : Genetic requirements

Sébastien Guiral, Timothy J. Mitchell, Bernard Martin et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005 · 300 citations · Full text

A Key Presynaptic Role in Transformation for a Widespread Bacterial Protein: DprA Conveys Incoming ssDNA to RecA

Isabelle Mortier‐Barrière, Marion Velten, P. Dupaigne et al. · Cell · 2007 · 245 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Virulence Factor, Bacteriophage +8

Interconnection of competence, stress and CiaR regulons in<i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>: competence triggers stationary phase autolysis of<i>ciaR</i>mutant cells

Adilia Dagkessamanskaia, Miriam Moscoso, Vincent Hénard et al. · Molecular Microbiology · 2004 · 241 citations