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José L. Puente is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research activities are primarily situated within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, encompassing 20 publications. Subfields explored include Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Food Science, and Genetics.

The scientist's work focuses on various topics, notably including:

  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

José L. Puente has published in multiple scientific venues with frequent contributions in:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Genome biology
  • Archives of Microbiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • npj Antimicrobials and Resistance

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by José L. Puente are:

  • An accessible, efficient and global approach for the large-scale sequencing of bacterial genomes, 2021, Genome biology
  • Type 1 fimbria and P pili: regulatory mechanisms of the prototypical members of the chaperone-usher fimbrial family, 2024, Archives of Microbiology
  • The transcriptional activator of the bfp operon in EPEC (PerA) interacts with the RNA polymerase alpha subunit, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • The Fis Nucleoid Protein Negatively Regulates the Phase Variation fimS Switch of the Type 1 Pilus Operon in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • B4galnt2-mediated host glycosylation influences the susceptibility to Citrobacter rodentium infection, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent collaborators in their publications include:

  • Ygnacio Martínez-Laguna
  • Blanca M. Perez-Sepulveda
  • Darren Heavens
  • Caisey V. Pulford
  • Alexander V. Predeus

Best Publications

  • Regulated virulence controls the ability of a pathogen to compete with the gut microbiota.

    Nobuhiko Kamada;Yun Gi Kim;Ho Pan Sham;Bruce A. Vallance

  • Dissecting virulence: Systematic and functional analyses of a pathogenicity island

    Wanyin Deng;José L. Puente;Samantha Gruenheid;Yuling Li

  • Commensal and pathogenic Escherichia coli use a common pilus adherence factor for epithelial cell colonization

    María A. Rendón;Zeus Saldaña;Ayşen L. Erdem;Valério Monteiro-Neto

  • Synergistic role of curli and cellulose in cell adherence and biofilm formation of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli and identification of Fis as a negative regulator of curli

    Zeus Saldaña;Juan Xicohtencatl-Cortes;Fabiola Avelino;Alan D. Phillips

  • Transcriptional regulation of type III secretion genes in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli: Ler antagonizes H-NS-dependent repression.

    Vı´ctor H. Bustamante;Francisco J. Santana;Edmundo Calva;José Luis Puente

  • Citrobacter rodentium translocated intimin receptor (Tir) is an essential virulence factor needed for actin condensation, intestinal colonization and colonic hyperplasia in mice.

    Wanyin Deng;Bruce A. Vallance;Yuling Li;Jose L. Puente

  • Regulation of Type III Secretion Hierarchy of Translocators and Effectors in Attaching and Effacing Bacterial Pathogens

    Wanyin Deng;Yuling Li;Philip R. Hardwidge;Elizabeth A. Frey

  • HilD-mediated transcriptional cross-talk between SPI-1 and SPI-2

    Víctor H. Bustamante;Luary C. Martínez;Francisco J. Santana;Leigh A. Knodler

  • Secretin of the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Type III Secretion System Requires Components of the Type III Apparatus for Assembly and Localization

    Annick Gauthier;Jose Luis Puente;B. Brett Finlay

  • The bundle‐forming pili of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli: transcriptional regulation by environmental signals

    Jose Luis Puente;David Bieber;Sandra W. Ramer;William Murray

  • Bacterial Effector Binding to Ribosomal Protein S3 Subverts NF-κB Function

    Xiaofei Gao;Fengyi Wan;Kristina Mateo;Eduardo Callegari

  • Integration of a complex regulatory cascade involving the SirA/BarA and Csr global regulatory systems that controls expression of the Salmonella SPI-1 and SPI-2 virulence regulons through HilD.

    Luary C. Martínez;Helen Yakhnin;Martha I. Camacho;Dimitris Georgellis

  • A Positive Regulatory Loop Controls Expression of the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement-Encoded Regulators Ler and GrlA

    Jeannette Barba;Víctor H. Bustamante;Mario A. Flores-Valdez;Wanyin Deng

  • Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli translocated intimin receptor, Tir, requires a specific chaperone for stable secretion.

    Akio Abe;Myriam De Grado;Richard A. Pfuetzner;Claudia Sánchez-SanMartín

  • Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli : identification of a gene cluster coding for bundle-forming pilus morphogenesis

    I Sohel;J L Puente;S W Ramer;D Bieber

  • CesT is a multi-effector chaperone and recruitment factor required for the efficient type III secretion of both LEE- and non-LEE-encoded effectors of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

    Nikhil A. Thomas;Wanyin Deng;Jose L. Puente;Jose L. Puente;Elizabeth A. Frey

  • Cloning and characterization of bfpTVW, genes required for the transcriptional activation of bfpA in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

    Toru Tobe;Gary K. Schoolnik;Indira Sohel;Victor H. Bustamante

  • Intestinal adherence associated with type IV pili of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7

    Juan Xicohtencatl-Cortes;Valério Monteiro-Neto;Maria A. Ledesma;Dianna M. Jordan

  • Humoral Immunity in the Gut Selectively Targets Phenotypically Virulent Attaching-and-Effacing Bacteria for Intraluminal Elimination

    Nobuhiko Kamada;Kei Sakamoto;Sang Uk Seo;Melody Y. Zeng

  • Enterohaemorrhagic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli use a different Tir-based mechanism for pedestal formation.

    Rebekah DeVinney;Jose Luis Puente;Annick Gauthier;Danika Goosney

Frequent Co-Authors

B. Brett Finlay
B. Brett Finlay University of British Columbia
Wanyin Deng
Wanyin Deng University of British Columbia
Bruce A. Vallance
Bruce A. Vallance University of British Columbia
Brian K. Coombes
Brian K. Coombes McMaster University
Gary K. Schoolnik
Gary K. Schoolnik Stanford University
James B. Kaper
James B. Kaper University of Maryland, Baltimore
Francisco García-del Portillo
Francisco García-del Portillo Spanish National Research Council
Nobuhiko Kamada
Nobuhiko Kamada University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gabriel Núñez
Gabriel Núñez University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jay C. D. Hinton
Jay C. D. Hinton University of Liverpool

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