Publications by the group:

Coureuil, M., Mikaty, G., Miller, F., Lecuyer, H., Bernard, C., Bourdoulous, S., Dumenil, G., Mege, R. M., Weksler, B. B., Romero, I. A., et al. (2009). Meningococcal type IV pili recruit the polarity complex to cross the brain endothelium. Science 325, 83-87.

Konto-Ghiorghi, Y., Mairey, E., Mallet, A., Dumenil, G., Caliot, E., Trieu-Cuot, P., and Dramsi, S. (2009). Dual role for pilus in adherence to epithelial cells and biofilm formation in Streptococcus agalactiae. PLoS Pathog 5, e1000422.

Raychaudhury, S., Farelli, J. D., Montminy, T. P., Matthews, M., Menetret, J. F., Dumenil, G., Roy, C. R., Head, J. F., Isberg, R. R., and Akey, C. W. (2009). Structure and Function of Interacting IcmR-IcmQ Domains from a Type IVb Secretion System in Legionella pneumophila. Structure 17, 590-601.

Guillain Mikaty, Magali Soyer, Emilie Mairey, Nelly Henry, Dave Dyer, Katrina T. Forest, Philippe Morand, Stéphanie Guadagnini, Marie Christine Prévost, Xavier Nassif, and Guillaume Duménil (2009). Extracellular bacterial pathogen induces host cell surface reorganization to resist shear stress. PLOS Pathogens, PLoS Pathog 5, e1000314.

Chamot-Rooke, J., Rousseau, B., Lanternier, F., Mikaty, G., Mairey, E., Malosse, C., Bouchoux, G., Pelicic, V., Camoin, L., Nassif, X., and Dumenil, G. (2007). Alternative Neisseria spp. type IV pilin glycosylation with a glyceramido acetamido trideoxyhexose residue. Proc Natl Acad Sci US A 104, 14783-14788.

Mairey, E., A. Genovesio, E. Donnadieu, C. Bernard, F. Jaubert, E. Pinard, J. Seylaz, J.C. Olivo-Marin, X. Nassif, and G. Dumenil, Cerebral microcirculation shear stress levels determine Neisseria meningitidis attachment sites along the blood-brain barrier. J Exp Med, 2006. 203(8): p. 1939-50.

Reviews

 Mairey, E. and G. Duménil, Microcirculation cérébrale et pathogenèse du méningocoque, Bulletin de la société française d'immunologie, 2007. 115.

Dumenil, G. and X. Nassif, Extracellular bacterial pathogens and small GTPases of the Rho family: an unexpected combination, in Bacterial virulence factors and Rho GTPases. Current topics in immunology and microbiology 2005. p. 11-28.