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Publication 2024

• Robin B, Dewitte A, Alaimo V, Lecoeur C, Pierre F, Billon G, Sebbane F, Bontemps-Gallo S^c. The CpxAR signaling system confers a fitness advantage for flea gut colonization by the plague bacillus. J Bacteriol. 2024 Sep 19;206(9):e0017324. doi: 10.1128/jb.00173-24. Epub 2024 Aug 19. PMID: 39158280; PMCID: PMC11411919.

Publication 2023

• Cochard C, Caby M, Gruau P, Madec E, Marceau M, Macavei I, Lemoine J, Le Danvic C, Bouchart F, Delrue B, Bontemps-Gallo S^*,C, Lacroix JM^*,C. Emergence of the Dickeya genus involved duplication of the OmpF porin and the adaptation of the EnvZ-OmpR signaling network. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 Aug 29;11(5):e0083323. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00833-23. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37642428; PMCID: PMC10581057.
• Dewitte A, Werkmeister E, Pierre F, Sebbane F^*,C, Bontemps-Gallo S^*,C. A Widefield Light Microscopy-Based Approach Provides Further Insights into the Colonization of the Flea Proventriculus by Yersinia pestis. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2023 Apr 26;89(4):e0209122. doi: 10.1128/aem.02091-22. Epub 2023 Mar 20. PMID: 36939324; PMCID: PMC10132112.

• Richards CL, Bontemps-Gallo S, Bourret TJ. Editorial: Host-pathogen interactions: the metabolic crossroads. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023 May 16;13:1212051. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1212051. PMID: 37260702; PMCID: PMC10227595.

Publication 2022

• Richards CL^*, Raffel SJ^*, Bontemps-Gallo S, Dulebohn DP, Herbert TC, Gherardini FC. The arginine deaminase system plays distinct roles in Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii. PLoS Pathog. 2022 Mar 14;18(3):e1010370. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010370. Erratum in: PLoS Pathog. 2022 May 10;18(5):e1010549. PMID: 35286343; PMCID: PMC8947608.

Publication 2021

• Bouvenot T, Dewitte A, Bennaceur N, Pradel E, Pierre F, Bontemps-Gallo S, Sebbane F. Interplay between Yersinia pestis and its flea vector in lipoate metabolism. ISME J. 2021 Apr;15(4):1136-1149. doi: 10.1038/s41396-020-00839-0. Epub 2021 Jan 21. PMID: 33479491; PMCID: PMC8182812.

• Bontemps-Gallo S^C, Lacroix JM, Sebbane F. What do we know about osmoadaptation of Yersinia pestis? Arch Microbiol. 2021 Dec 8;204(1):11. doi: 10.1007/s00203-021-02610-1. PMID: 34878588.

Publication 2020

• Dewitte A, Bouvenot T, Pierre F, Ricard I, Pradel E, Barois N, Hujeux A, Bontemps-Gallo S, Sebbane F. A refined model of how Yersinia pestis produces a transmissible infection in its flea vector. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Apr 15;16(4):e1008440. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008440. PMID: 32294143; PMCID: PMC7185726.

Publication 2019

• Bontemps-Gallo S^*, Fernandez M^*, Dewitte A, Raphaël E, Gherardini FC, Elizabeth P, Koch L, Biot F, Reboul A, Sebbane F. Nutrient depletion may trigger the Yersinia pestis OmpR-EnvZ regulatory system to promote flea-borne plague transmission. Mol Microbiol. 2019 Nov;112(5):1471-1482. doi: 10.1111/mmi.14372. Epub 2019 Sep 13. PMID: 31424585; PMCID: PMC6842400.
• Daniel C, Dewitte A, Poiret S, Marceau M, Simonet M, Marceau L, Descombes G, Boutillier D, Bennaceur N, Bontemps-Gallo S, Lemaître N, Sebbane F. Polymorphism in the Yersinia LcrV Antigen Enables Immune Escape From the Protection Conferred by an LcrV-Secreting Lactococcus Lactis in a Pseudotuberculosis Mouse Model. Front Immunol. 2019 Aug 2;10:1830. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.01830. PMID: 31428104; PMCID: PMC6688116.

Publication 2018

• Caby M, Bontemps-Gallo S, Gruau P, Delrue B, Madec E, Lacroix JM. The EnvZ-OmpR Two-Component Signaling System Is Inactivated in a Mutant Devoid of Osmoregulated Periplasmic Glucans in Dickeya dadantii. Front Microbiol. 2018 Oct 30;9:2459. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02459. PMID: 30425688; PMCID: PMC6218677.
• Bontemps-Gallo S, Gaviard C, Richards CL, Kentache T, Raffel SJ, Lawrence KA, Schindler JC, Lovelace J, Dulebohn DP, Cluss RG, Hardouin J, Gherardini FC. Global Profiling of Lysine Acetylation in Borrelia burgdorferi B31 Reveals Its Role in Central Metabolism. Front Microbiol. 2018 Aug 31;9:2036. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02036. PMID: 30233522; PMCID: PMC6127242.
• Bontemps-Gallo S, Lawrence KA, Richards CL, Gherardini FC. Genomic and phenotypic characterization of Borrelia afzelii BO23 and Borrelia garinii CIP 103362. PLoS One. 2018 Jun 26;13(6):e0199641. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199641. PMID: 29944685; PMCID: PMC6019248.
• Bontemps-Gallo S, Lawrence KA, Richards CL, Gherardini FC. Borrelia burgdorferi genes, bb0639-0642, encode a putative putrescine/spermidine transport system, PotABCD, that is spermidine specific and essential for cell survival. Mol Microbiol. 2018 May;108(4):350-360. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13940. Epub 2018 Mar 11. PMID: 29476656; PMCID: PMC5943160.

Publication 2017

• Rougemont B, Bontemps Gallo S, Ayciriex S, Carrière R, Hondermarck H, Lacroix JM, Le Blanc JC, Lemoine J. Scout-MRM: Multiplexed Targeted Mass Spectrometry-Based Assay without Retention Time Scheduling Exemplified by Dickeya dadantii Proteomic Analysis during Plant Infection. Anal Chem. 2017 Feb 7;89(3):1421-1426. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b03201. Epub 2017 Jan 9. PMID: 28029036.

• Bontemps-Gallo S, Bohin JP, Lacroix JM. Osmoregulated Periplasmic Glucans. EcoSal Plus. 2017 Jun;7(2). doi: 10.1128/ecosalplus.ESP-0001-2017. PMID: 28593831.

Publication 2016

• Bontemps-Gallo S, Lawrence K, Gherardini FC. Two Different Virulence-Related Regulatory Pathways in Borrelia burgdorferi Are Directly Affected by Osmotic Fluxes in the Blood Meal of Feeding Ixodes Ticks. PLoS Pathog. 2016 Aug 15;12(8):e1005791. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005791. PMID: 27525653; PMCID: PMC4985143.
• Bontemps-Gallo S, Madec E, Robbe-Masselot C, Souche E, Dondeyne J, Lacroix JM. The opgC gene is required for OPGs succinylation and is osmoregulated through RcsCDB and EnvZ/OmpR in the phytopathogen Dickeya dadantii. Sci Rep. 2016 Jan 21;6:19619. doi: 10.1038/srep19619. PMID: 26790533; PMCID: PMC4726272.

Publication 2015

• Bontemps-Gallo S^C, Madec E, Lacroix JM. The two-component system CpxAR is essential for virulence in the phytopathogen bacteria Dickeya dadantii EC3937. Environ Microbiol. 2015 Nov;17(11):4415-28. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12874. Epub 2015 May 8. PMID: 25856505; PMCID: PMC4600041.
• Quintard K, Dewitte A, Reboul A, Madec E, Bontemps-Gallo S, Dondeyne J, Marceau M, Simonet M, Lacroix JM, Sebbane F. Evaluation of the Role of the opgGH Operon in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Its Deletion during the Emergence of Yersinia pestis. Infect Immun. 2015 Sep;83(9):3638-47. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00482-15. Epub 2015 Jul 6. PMID: 26150539; PMCID: PMC4534638.

• Bontemps-Gallo S, Lacroix JM. New insights into the biological role of the osmoregulated periplasmic glucans in pathogenic and symbiotic bacteria. Environ Microbiol Rep. 2015 Oct;7(5):690-7. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12325. Epub 2015 Sep 10. PMID: 26265506; PMCID: PMC4618058.

Publication 2014

• Bontemps-Gallo S, Madec E, Lacroix JM. Inactivation of pecS restores the virulence of mutants devoid of osmoregulated periplasmic glucans in the phytopathogenic bacterium Dickeya dadantii. Microbiology (Reading). 2014 Apr;160(Pt 4):766-777. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.074484-0. Epub 2014 Feb 18. PMID: 24550070.
• Madec E, Bontemps-Gallo S, Lacroix JM. Increased phosphorylation of the RcsB regulator of the RcsCDB phosphorelay in strains of Dickeya dadantii devoid of osmoregulated periplasmic glucans revealed by Phos-tag gel analysis. Microbiology (Reading). 2014 Dec;160(Pt 12):2763-2770. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.081273-0. Epub 2014 Oct 15. PMID: 25320363.

Publication 2013

• Bontemps-Gallo S, Madec E, Dondeyne J, Delrue B, Robbe-Masselot C, Vidal O, Prouvost AF, Boussemart G, Bohin JP, Lacroix JM. Concentration of osmoregulated periplasmic glucans (OPGs) modulates the activation level of the RcsCD RcsB phosphorelay in the phytopathogen bacteria Dickeya dadantii. Environ Microbiol. 2013 Mar;15(3):881-94. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12054. Epub 2012 Dec 16. PMID: 23253096.
• Bontemps-Gallo S, Cogez V, Robbe-Masselot C, Quintard K, Dondeyne J, Madec E, Lacroix JM. Biosynthesis of osmoregulated periplasmic glucans in Escherichia coli: the phosphoethanolamine transferase is encoded by opgE. Biomed Res Int. 2013;2013:371429. doi: 10.1155/2013/371429. Epub 2013 Oct 22. PMID: 24228245.