Daniel B. Kearns

An extracellular matrix-associated zinc metalloprotease is required for dilauroyl phosphatidylethanolamine chemotactic excitation in Myxococcus xanthus.

Swarming motility in undomesticated Bacillus subtilis.

Genes governing swarming in Bacillus subtilis and evidence for a phase variation mechanism controlling surface motility.

Novel genes that influence development in Streptomyces coelicolor.

A master regulator for biofilm formation by Bacillus subtilis.

Genetic requirements for potassium ion-dependent colony spreading in Bacillus subtilis.

Cell population heterogeneity during growth of Bacillus subtilis.

Targets of the master regulator of biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis.

A major protein component of the Bacillus subtilis biofilm matrix.

A defined medium to investigate sliding motility in a Bacillus subtilis flagella-less mutant.

Microbiology. Bright insight into bacterial gliding.

Division of labour during Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation.

A novel regulatory protein governing biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis.

A molecular clutch disables flagella in the Bacillus subtilis biofilm.

MinJ (YvjD) is a topological determinant of cell division in Bacillus subtilis.

RemA (YlzA) and RemB (YaaB) regulate extracellular matrix operon expression and biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis.

Role of the sigmaD-dependent autolysins in Bacillus subtilis population heterogeneity.

Growing Bacillus subtilis tendrils sense and avoid each other.

Laboratory strains of Bacillus subtilis do not exhibit swarming motility.

Gene position in a long operon governs motility development in Bacillus subtilis.

A field guide to bacterial swarming motility.

Multi-species integrative biclustering.

The EpsE flagellar clutch is bifunctional and synergizes with EPS biosynthesis to promote Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation.

Tracing the domestication of a biofilm-forming bacterium.

DegU-phosphate activates expression of the anti-sigma factor FlgM in Bacillus subtilis.

New inhibitors of colony spreading in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus anthracis.

CsrA-FliW interaction governs flagellin homeostasis and a checkpoint on flagellar morphogenesis in Bacillus subtilis.

Swarming motility and the control of master regulators of flagellar biosynthesis.

Modified mariner transposons for random inducible-expression insertions and transcriptional reporter fusion insertions in Bacillus subtilis.

SlrA/SinR/SlrR inhibits motility gene expression upstream of a hypersensitive and hysteretic switch at the level of σ(D) in Bacillus subtilis.

Molecular characterization of the flagellar hook in Bacillus subtilis.

Selective penicillin-binding protein imaging probes reveal substructure in bacterial cell division.

Microbe-associated molecular patterns-triggered root responses mediate beneficial rhizobacterial recruitment in Arabidopsis.

FliW and FliS function independently to control cytoplasmic flagellin levels in Bacillus subtilis.

The cell biology of peritrichous flagella in Bacillus subtilis.

Regulation of flagellar motility during biofilm formation.

A plasmid-encoded phosphatase regulates Bacillus subtilis biofilm architecture, sporulation, and genetic competence.

RemA is a DNA-binding protein that activates biofilm matrix gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.

Plasmid-encoded ComI inhibits competence in the ancestral 3610 strain of Bacillus subtilis.

Functional characterization of core components of the Bacillus subtilis cyclic-di-GMP signaling pathway.

You get what you select for: better swarming through more flagella.

Defects in the flagellar motor increase synthesis of poly-γ-glutamate in Bacillus subtilis.

The canonical twin-arginine translocase components are not required for secretion of folded green fluorescent protein from the ancestral strain of Bacillus subtilis.

Protection from intestinal inflammation by bacterial exopolysaccharides.

Bacillaene and sporulation protect Bacillus subtilis from predation by Myxococcus xanthus.

Engineering of Bacillus subtilis strains to allow rapid characterization of heterologous diguanylate cyclases and phosphodiesterases.

Global analysis of mRNA decay intermediates in Bacillus subtilis wild-type and polynucleotide phosphorylase-deletion strains.

The structure and regulation of flagella in Bacillus subtilis.

FlgM is secreted by the flagellar export apparatus in Bacillus subtilis.

Predation by Myxococcus xanthus induces Bacillus subtilis to form spore-filled megastructures.

Adaptor-mediated Lon proteolysis restricts Bacillus subtilis hyperflagellation.