Alison K. Criss

Coordinate regulation of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium invasion of epithelial cells by the Arp2/3 complex and Rho GTPases.

The frequency and rate of pilin antigenic variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

The transcriptome response of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to hydrogen peroxide reveals genes with previously uncharacterized roles in oxidative damage protection.

Gonococci exit apically and basally from polarized epithelial cells and exhibit dynamic changes in type IV pili.

Transposon mutagenesis identifies sites upstream of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilE gene that modulate pilin antigenic variation.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae suppresses the oxidative burst of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

Resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to non-oxidative killing by adherent human polymorphonuclear leucocytes.

Mismatch correction modulates mutation frequency and pilus phase and antigenic variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Genetic characterization of the nucleotide excision repair system of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

The DNA-binding activity of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae LexA orthologue NG1427 is modulated by oxidation.

Resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to neutrophils.

A bacterial siren song: intimate interactions between Neisseria and neutrophils.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae phagosomes delay fusion with primary granules to enhance bacterial survival inside human neutrophils.

Constitutively Opa-expressing and Opa-deficient neisseria gonorrhoeae strains differentially stimulate and survive exposure to human neutrophils.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae metalloprotease NGO1686 is required for full piliation, and piliation is required for resistance to H2O2- and neutrophil-mediated killing.