Scientific Publications:

Screening highly expressed mycobacterial genes identifies Rv3615c as a useful differential diagnostic antigen for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
Sidders B, Pirson C, Hogarth PJ, Hewinson RG, Stoker NG, Vordermeier HM and Ewer K.
Infection and Immunity. 2008. E-Pub Ahead of Print.
Antigens 2008


Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains disrupted in mce3 and mce4 operons are attenuated in mice
Senaratne R, Sidders B, Sequeira P, Saunders G, Dunphy K, Marjanovic O, Reader J.R, Lima P, Chan S, Kendall S, McFadden J and Riley L.W.
J. Med. Microbiology. 2008. 57: 164-170.
mce3/4 2008


Quantification of global transcription patterns in prokaryotes using spotted microarrays
Sidders B, Withers M, Kendall SL, Bacon J, Waddell SJ, Hinds J, Golby P, Movahedzadeh F, Cox RA, Frita R, ten Bokum AMC, Wernisch L and Stoker NG.
Genome Biology. 2007. 8(12): R265.
Arrays 2007 (Open Access)


A highly conserved transcriptional repressor controls a large regulon involved in lipid degradation in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Kendall SL, Withers M, Soffair CN, Moreland NJ, Gurcha S, Sidders B, Frita R, Ten Bokum A, Lott S, Besra GS and Stoker NG.
Mol. Microbiology. 2007. 65(3): 684-699.
kstR 2007 (Open Access)


Enhanced mortality despite control of lung infection in mice aerogenically infected with a Mycobacterium tuberculosis mce1 operon mutant
Lima P, Sidders B, Morici L, Reader R, Senaratne R, Casali N and Riley LW.
Microbes and Infection. 2007. 9(11): 1285-1290.
mce1 2007


Mycobacteria: Biology
Sidders B and Stoker N. 2007.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0020389.
ELS Chapter 2007
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Transcriptome Analysis: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Global Transcription Activity.
Sidders B and Stoker N. 2006.
Chapter in: Pathogenomics: Genome Analysis of Pathogenic Microbes, Edited by Hacker J and Dobrindt U. Published by Wiley-VCH. ISBN: 3-527-31265-X.
Pathogenomics Chapter - Publisher's site (Wiley VCH)


5'-Adenosinephosphosulphate reductase (CysH) protects Mycobacterium tuberculosis against free radicals during chronic infection phase in mice.
Senaratne RH, De Silva AD, Williams SJ, Mougous JD, Reader JR, Zhang T, Chan S, Sidders B, Lee DH, Chan J, Bertozzi CR, Riley LW.
Mol Microbiol. 2006 59(6):1744-53.
CysH 2006
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Hypervirulent mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resulting from disruption of the mce1 operon.
Shimono N, Morici L, Casali N, Cantrell S, Sidders B, Ehrt S, Riley LW.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 100(26):15918-23.
mce1 2003
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