Calum Johnston

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Publications

• Calum H G Johnston, Rachel Hope, Anne-Lise Soulet, Marie Dewailly, David De Lemos, Patrice Polard.
  The RecA-directed recombination pathway of natural transformation initiates at chromosomal replication forks in the pneumococcus
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
  2023 Feb
• Johnston CHG, Soulet AL, Bergé M, Prudhomme M, De Lemos D, Polard P..
  The alternative sigma factor σX mediates competence shut-off at the cell pole in Streptococcus pneumoniae
  eLife
  2020 Nov
• De Ste Croix M, Chen K, Vacca I, Manso A, Johnston C, Polard P, Kwun M, Bentley S, Croucher N, Bayliss C, Haigh R, Oggioni M..
  Recombination of the Phase-Variable spnIII Locus Is Independent of All Known Pneumococcal Site-Specific Recombinases.
  Journal of Bacteriology
  2019 Jul
• Johnston, C. Mortier-Barriere, I., Khemici, V. Polard, P..
  Fine-tuning cellular levels of DprA ensures transformant fitness in the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae.
  Molecular Microbiology
  2018 Sep
• Johnston C, Hauser C, Hermans PW, Martin B, Polard P, Bootsma HJ, Claverys JP..
  Fine-tuning of choline metabolism is important for pneumococcal colonization.
  Molecular Microbiology
  2016 Jun

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