| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Flagellar and twitching motility are necessary forPseudomonas aeruginosabiofilm development | Molecular Microbiology | 1998 | 2,399 |
| 2 | Genes required for mycobacterial growth defined by high density mutagenesis | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 2,302 |
| 3 | Initiation of biofilm formation inPseudomonas fluorescensWCS365 proceeds via multiple, convergent signalling pathways: a genetic analysis | Molecular Microbiology | 1998 | 2,233 |
| 4 | Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective | Molecular Microbiology | 2006 | 1,806 |
| 5 | Identification of genes that are associated with DNA repeats in prokaryotes | Molecular Microbiology | 2002 | 1,516 |
| 6 | Genetic analysis ofEscherichia colibiofilm formation: roles of flagella, motility, chemotaxis and type I pili | Molecular Microbiology | 1998 | 1,461 |
| 7 | Bacillus subtilis antibiotics: structures, syntheses and specific functions | Molecular Microbiology | 2005 | 1,292 |
| 8 | Evaluation of a nutrient starvation model ofMycobacterium tuberculosispersistence by gene and protein expression profiling | Molecular Microbiology | 2002 | 1,274 |
| 9 | Isolation and characterization of efficient plasmid transformation mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis | Molecular Microbiology | 1990 | 1,217 |
| 10 | Autoinduction and signal transduction in the regulation of staphylococcal virulence | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 1,141 |
| 11 | Pathogenicity islands of virulent bacteria: structure, function and impact on microbial evolution | Molecular Microbiology | 1997 | 1,051 |
| 12 | Staphylococcus and biofilms | Molecular Microbiology | 2002 | 1,048 |
| 13 | Structure and function of bacterial outer membrane proteins: barrels in a nutshell | Molecular Microbiology | 2000 | 1,026 |
| 14 | The LuxS family of bacterial autoinducers: biosynthesis of a novel quorum-sensing signal molecule | Molecular Microbiology | 2001 | 909 |
| 15 | Molecular basis of intercellular adhesion in the biofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis | Molecular Microbiology | 1996 | 899 |
| 16 | Selenocysteine: the 21st amino acid | Molecular Microbiology | 1991 | 883 |
| 17 | Biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa wild type, flagella and type IV pili mutants | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 880 |
| 18 | A characterization of DNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa cultures and biofilms | Molecular Microbiology | 2006 | 851 |
| 19 | The multicellular morphotypes of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli produce cellulose as the second component of the extracellular matrix | Molecular Microbiology | 2001 | 838 |
| 20 | GGDEF and EAL domains inversely regulate cyclic di-GMP levels and transition from sessility to motility | Molecular Microbiology | 2004 | 834 |
| 21 | Prophages and bacterial genomics: what have we learned so far? | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 813 |
| 22 | A novel family of potentially mobile DNA elements encoding site-specific gene-integration functions: integrons | Molecular Microbiology | 1989 | 807 |
| 23 | Unravelling the biology of macrophage infection by gene expression profiling of intracellular Salmonella enterica | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 804 |
| 24 | The cell wall: a carbohydrate armour for the fungal cell | Molecular Microbiology | 2007 | 779 |
| 25 | Quorum sensing controls biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 760 |
| 26 | Identification of a central regulator of stationary-phase gene expression inEscherichia coli | Molecular Microbiology | 1991 | 750 |
| 27 | A bacterial genome in flux: the twelve linear and nine circular extrachromosomal DNAs in an infectious isolate of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi | Molecular Microbiology | 2002 | 730 |
| 28 | Quorum sensing by peptide pheromones and two‐component signal‐transduction systems in Gram‐positive bacteria | Molecular Microbiology | 1997 | 710 |
| 29 | Quelling: transient inactivation of gene expression in Neurospora crassa by transformation with homologous sequences | Molecular Microbiology | 1992 | 709 |
| 30 | Intercellular signalling in Vibrio harveyi: sequence and function of genes regulating expression of luminescence | Molecular Microbiology | 1993 | 690 |
| 31 | Rv3133c/dosR is a transcription factor that mediates the hypoxic response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 674 |
| 32 | A hierarchical quorum-sensing cascade in Pseudomonas aeruginosa links the transcriptional activators LasR and RhlR (VsmR) to expression of the stationary-phase sigma factor RpoS | Molecular Microbiology | 1996 | 659 |
| 33 | Evidence for autolysin‐mediated primary attachment of Staphylococcus epidermidis to a polystyrene surface | Molecular Microbiology | 1997 | 651 |
| 34 | Genes involved in matrix formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 biofilms | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 649 |
| 35 | Selective upregulation of a single distinctly structured var gene in chondroitin sulphate A-adhering Plasmodium falciparum involved in pregnancy-associated malaria | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 648 |
| 36 | Loss of RD1 contributed to the attenuation of the live tuberculosis vaccines Mycobacterium bovis BCG and Mycobacterium microti | Molecular Microbiology | 2002 | 645 |
| 37 | Mobile gene cassettes and integrons: capture and spread of genes by site-specific recombination | Molecular Microbiology | 2006 | 641 |
| 38 | The phenazine pyocyanin is a terminal signalling factor in the quorum sensing network of Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Molecular Microbiology | 2006 | 639 |
| 39 | Biological significance of a family of regularly spaced repeats in the genomes of Archaea, Bacteria and mitochondria | Molecular Microbiology | 2000 | 627 |
| 40 | Multiple signalling systems controlling expression of luminescence inVibrio harveyi: sequence and function of genes encoding a second sensory pathway | Molecular Microbiology | 1994 | 624 |
| 41 | Bistability in bacteria | Molecular Microbiology | 2006 | 624 |
| 42 | Enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli : more subversive elements | Molecular Microbiology | 1998 | 623 |
| 43 | Two distinct defects in intracellular growth complemented by a single genetic locus in Legionella pneumophila | Molecular Microbiology | 1993 | 619 |
| 44 | A common export pathway for proteins binding complex redox cofactors? | Molecular Microbiology | 1996 | 610 |
| 45 | Novel sensing mechanisms and targets for the cAMP-protein kinase A pathway in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Molecular Microbiology | 1999 | 609 |
| 46 | Identification of FleQ from Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a c‐di‐GMP‐responsive transcription factor | Molecular Microbiology | 2008 | 606 |
| 47 | A major protein component of the Bacillus subtilis biofilm matrix | Molecular Microbiology | 2006 | 605 |
| 48 | Genes acrA and acrB encode a stress-induced efflux system of Escherichia coli | Molecular Microbiology | 1995 | 598 |
| 49 | Pore-forming cytolysins of Gram-negative bacteria | Molecular Microbiology | 1991 | 595 |
| 50 | Iron-sulphur clusters and the problem with oxygen | Molecular Microbiology | 2006 | 594 |
