Fengxia Qi

Overview

Best Publications

• Competition and Coexistence between Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguinis in the Dental Biofilm

  Jens Kreth;Justin Merritt;Wenyuan Shi;Fengxia Qi

  584
  Citations

• Interleukin 6 and interleukin 8 as potential biomarkers for oral cavity and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

  Maie A R St. John;Yang Li;Xiaofeng C. Zhou;Paul Denny

  544
  Citations

• Mutation of luxS Affects Biofilm Formation in Streptococcus mutans

  Justin Merritt;Fengxia Qi;Steven D. Goodman;Maxwell H. Anderson

  413
  Citations

• Targeted killing of Streptococcus mutans by a pheromone-guided "smart" antimicrobial peptide.

  Randal Eckert;Jian He;Daniel K. Yarbrough;Fengxia Qi

  329
  Citations

• Co‐ordinated bacteriocin production and competence development: a possible mechanism for taking up DNA from neighbouring species

  Jens Kreth;Justin Merritt;Wenyuan Shi;Fengxia Qi

  283
  Citations

• The Group I Strain of Streptococcus mutans, UA140, Produces Both the Lantibiotic Mutacin I and a Nonlantibiotic Bacteriocin, Mutacin IV

  Fengxia Qi;Ping Chen;Page W. Caufield

  277
  Citations

• Bacterial and host interactions of oral streptococci.

  Jens Kreth;Justin Merritt;Fengxia Qi

  268
  Citations

• Adding selectivity to antimicrobial peptides: rational design of a multidomain peptide against Pseudomonas spp.

  Randal Eckert;Fengxia Qi;Daniel K. Yarbrough;Jian He

  212
  Citations

• The mutacins of Streptococcus mutans: Regulation and ecology

  Justin Merritt;Fengxia Qi

  212
  Citations

• Purification of Mutacin III from Group III Streptococcus mutans UA787 and Genetic Analyses of Mutacin III Biosynthesis Genes

  Fengxia Qi;Ping Chen;Page W. Caufield

  175
  Citations

• Streptococcus oligofermentans inhibits Streptococcus mutans through conversion of lactic acid into inhibitory H2O2: A possible counteroffensive strategy for interspecies competition

  Huichun Tong;Wei Chen;Justin Merritt;Fengxia Qi

  173
  Citations

• Inactivation of the ciaH Gene in Streptococcus mutans Diminishes Mutacin Production and Competence Development, Alters Sucrose-Dependent Biofilm Formation, and Reduces Stress Tolerance

  Fengxia Qi;Justin Merritt;Renate Lux;Wenyuan Shi

  170
  Citations

• Detection of picomolar levels of interleukin-8 in human saliva by SPR

  Chu Ya Yang;Evan Brooks;Yang Li;Paul Denny

  169
  Citations

• Cloning-Independent and Counterselectable Markerless Mutagenesis System in Streptococcus mutans

  Zhoujie Xie;Toshinori Okinaga;Toshinori Okinaga;Fengxia Qi;Zhijun Zhang

  160
  Citations

• Mutanobactin A from the human oral pathogen Streptococcus mutans is a cross-kingdom regulator of the yeast-mycelium transition

  P. Matthew Joyner;Jinman Liu;Zhijun Zhang;Justin Merritt

  151
  Citations

• Purification and Biochemical Characterization of Mutacin I from the Group I Strain of Streptococcus mutans, CH43, and Genetic Analysis of Mutacin I Biosynthesis Genes

  Fengxia Qi;Ping Chen;Page W. Caufield

  142
  Citations

• LuxS controls bacteriocin production in Streptococcus mutans through a novel regulatory component

  Justin Merritt;Jens Kreth;Wenyuan Shi;Fengxia Qi

  122
  Citations

• Cell density- and ComE-dependent expression of a group of mutacin and mutacin-like genes in Streptococcus mutans.

  Jens Kreth;Justin Merritt;Lin Zhu;Wenyuan Shi

  119
  Citations

• Functional Analyses of the Promoters in the Lantibiotic Mutacin II Biosynthetic Locus in Streptococcus mutans

  Fengxia Qi;Ping Chen;Page W. Caufield

  119
  Citations

• SO-LAAO, a Novel l-Amino Acid Oxidase That Enables Streptococcus oligofermentans To Outcompete Streptococcus mutans by Generating H2O2 from Peptone

  Huichun Tong;Wei Chen;Wenyuan Shi;Fengxia Qi

  118
  Citations