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Ronald K. Taylor
Researcher at Dartmouth College
Publications - 107
Citations - 8463
Ronald K. Taylor is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vibrio cholerae & Pilus. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 107 publications receiving 7930 citations.
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Parallel Quorum Sensing Systems Converge to Regulate Virulence in Vibrio cholerae
TL;DR: This report identifies and characterize the genes encoding an additional V. cholerae autoinducer synthase and its cognate sensor and shows that in V.cholerae these communication systems converge to control virulence.
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Positive selection vectors for allelic exchange
Karen Skorupski,Ronald K. Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that these vectors can be used to efficiently introduce point mutations and deletions into the chromosome of Vibrio cholerae.
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The major Vibrio cholerae autoinducer and its role in virulence factor production
Douglas A. Higgins,Megan E. Pomianek,Christina M. Kraml,Ronald K. Taylor,Martin F. Semmelhack,Bonnie L. Bassler +5 more
TL;DR: Synthetic (S)-3-hydroxytridecan-4-one functions as effectively as natural CAI-1 in repressing production of the canonical virulence factor TCP (toxin co-regulated pilus) and is suggested to be a new type of bacterial autoinducer.
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Toxin-coregulated pilus, but not mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin, is required for colonization by Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype and O139 strains.
K H Thelin,Ronald K. Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: Both the El Tor and O139 tcpA mutant strains showed a dramatic defect in colonization as indicated by their competitive indices, whereas deletion of mshA had a negligible effect on colonization in either background.
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A colonization factor links Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and human infection
TL;DR: A single protein required for efficient intestinal colonization that mediates attachment to both zooplankton and human epithelial cells by binding to a sugar present on both surfaces is identified.