For a full list of publications, please see:

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Selected publications

Breidenstein A, Svedberg D, Ter Beek J and Berntsson R.P-A. (2025) Advances in protein structure prediction highlight unexpected commonalities between Gram-positive and Gram-negative conjugative T4SSs. J Mol Biol. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168924.

Sun W, Torrens G, ter Beek J, Cava F, and Berntsson R.P-A.  (2024) Breaking barriers: pCF10 type 4 secretion system relies on a self-regulating muramidase to modulate the cell wall. mBio0:e00488-24. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00488-24 

Breidenstein, A., Lamy, A., Bader, C.P.J., Sun, W-S., Wanrooij, P.H. and Berntsson R.P.-A. (2024) PrgE: an OB-fold protein from plasmid pCF10 with striking differences to prototypical bacterial SSBs. Life Sci. Alliance. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202402693.

Espaillat A, Alvarez L, Torrens G, Ter Beek J, Miguel-Ruano V, Irazoki O, Gago F, Hermoso JA, Berntsson R.P.-A., Cava F. (2024) A distinctive family of L,D-transpeptidases catalyzing L-Ala-mDAP crosslinks in Alpha- and Betaproteobacteria. Nat Commun. 15(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45620-5 

Sun, W-S., Lassinantti, L., Järvå, M., Schmitt, A., ter Beek, J., and Berntsson, R. P. A. (2023). Structural foundation for the role of enterococcal PrgB in conjugation, biofilm formation and virulence. eLife, accepted. doi:10.7554/eLife.84427.1

Irazoki, O., ter Beek, J., Alvarez, L. Mateus, A., Colin, R., Typas, A., Savitski M.M., Sourjik, V., Berntsson, R. P.-A., and Cava, F. (2023) D-amino acids signal a stress-dependent run-away response in Vibrio cholerae. Nat Microbiol 8, 1549–1560. doi:10.1038/s41564-023-01419-6

Breidenstein, A., ter Beek, J., and Berntsson, R. P.-A. (2023). Structural and functional characterization of TraI from pKM101 reveals basis for DNA processing. Life Sci. Alliance 6. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202201775

Jäger, F., Lamy, A., Sun, W.-S., Guerini, N., and Berntsson, R.P.-A. (2022). Structure of the enterococcal T4SS protein PrgL reveals unique dimerization interface in the VirB8 protein family. Structure 30, 876-885.e5.

Lassinantti L, Camacho MI, Erickson RJB, Willett JLE, De Lay NR, ter Beek J, Dunny GM, Christie PJ, Berntsson RP-A. (2021). Enterococcal PrgU Provides Additional Regulation of Pheromone-Inducible Conjugative Plasmids. mSphere6:e00264-21. doi:10.1128/msphere.00264-21

Järvå MA, Hirt H, Dunny GM, Berntsson RPA. (2020). Polymer Adhesin Domains in Gram-Positive Cell Surface Proteins. Front Microbiol. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.599899

Schmitt A, Hirt H, Järvå MA, Sun WS, ter Beek J, Dunny GM, Berntsson RPA. (2020). Enterococcal PrgA Extends Far Outside the Cell and Provides Surface Exclusion to Protect against Unwanted Conjugation. J Mol Biol 432:5681–5695. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2020.08.018

Rehman S, Li YG, Schmitt A, Lassinantti L, Christie PJ and Berntsson RP-A (2019) Enterococcal PcfF Is a Ribbon-Helix-Helix Protein That Recruits the Relaxase PcfG Through Binding and Bending of the oriT Sequence. Front Microbiol 10, 958

Schmitt A, Jiang K, Camacho MI, Jonna VR, Hofer A, Westerlund F, Christie PJ and Berntsson RP-A (2018) PrgB Promotes Aggregation, Biofilm Formation, and Conjugation through DNA Binding and Compaction. Molecular Microbiology doi: 10.1111/mmi.13980 

Dunny G. and Berntsson RP-A. (2016) Enterococcal sex pheromones: evolutionary pathways to complex two-signal systems. Journal of Bacteriology 198: 1556-1562