Mary O'Connell Motherway

Best Publications

• Bifidobacterial surface-exopolysaccharide facilitates commensal-host interaction through immune modulation and pathogen protection

  Saranna Fanning;Lindsay J. Hall;Michelle Cronin;Aldert Zomer

  645
  Citations

• Complete Genome Sequence of the Prototype Lactic Acid Bacterium Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363

  Udo Wegmann;Mary O'Connell-Motherway;Aldert Zomer;Girbe Buist

  548
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• Functional genome analysis of Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 reveals type IVb tight adherence (Tad) pili as an essential and conserved host-colonization factor

  Mary O'Connell Motherway;Aldert Zomer;Sinead C. Leahy;Justus Reunanen

  443
  Citations

• Molecular dialogue between the human gut microbiota and the host: a Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium perspective

  Francesca Turroni;Marco Ventura;Ludovica F. Buttó;Sabrina Duranti

  368
  Citations

• Identification of probiotic effector molecules: present state and future perspectives

  Sarah Lebeer;Peter A Bron;Maria L Marco;Jan-Peter Van Pijkeren

  290
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• Selective carbohydrate utilization by lactobacilli and bifidobacteria

  D. Watson;M. O'Connell Motherway;M.H.C. Schoterman;R.J. Joost van Neerven

  266
  Citations

• Riboflavin production in Lactococcus lactis: potential for in situ production of vitamin-enriched foods.

  Catherine Burgess;Mary O'Connell-Motherway;Wilbert Sybesma;Jeroen Hugenholtz

  258
  Citations

• Role of sortase-dependent pili of Bifidobacterium bifidum PRL2010 in modulating bacterium–host interactions

  Francesca Turroni;Fausta Serafini;Elena Foroni;Sabrina Duranti

  256
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• Host–microbe interactions that facilitate gut colonization by commensal bifidobacteria

  Marco Ventura;Francesca Turroni;Mary O`Connell Motherway;John MacSharry

  221
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• The Surface-Associated Exopolysaccharide of Bifidobacterium longum 35624 Plays an Essential Role in Dampening Host Proinflammatory Responses and Repressing Local TH17 Responses.

  Elisa Schiavi;Marita Gleinser;Evelyn Molloy;David Groeger

  205
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• Cross-feeding by Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 during co-cultivation with Bifidobacterium bifidum PRL2010 in a mucin-based medium.

  Muireann Egan;Mary O¿Connell Motherway;Michelle Kilcoyne;Marian Kane

  196
  Citations

• Diversity, ecology and intestinal function of bifidobacteria

  Francesca Bottacini;Francesca Bottacini;Marco Ventura;Douwe van Sinderen;Mary O'Connell Motherway

  187
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• Comparative genomics of the Bifidobacterium breve taxon

  Francesca Bottacini;Mary O’Connell Motherway;Justin Kuczynski;Kerry Joan O’Connell

  177
  Citations

• Overcoming the restriction barrier to plasmid transformation and targeted mutagenesis in Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003

  Mary O'Connell Motherway;Jonathan O'Driscoll;Gerald F. Fitzgerald;Douwe Van Sinderen

  161
  Citations

• Metabolism of sialic acid by Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003.

  Muireann Egan;Mary O'Connell Motherway;Marco Ventura;Douwe van Sinderen

  159
  Citations

• Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 metabolises the human milk oligosaccharides lacto-N-tetraose and lacto-N-neo-tetraose through overlapping, yet distinct pathways

  Kieran James;Mary O. 'Connell Motherway;Francesca Bottacini;Douwe van Sinderen

  156
  Citations

• Autoinducer-2 Plays a Crucial Role in Gut Colonization and Probiotic Functionality of Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003

  Steven E. A. Christiaen;Mary O'Connell Motherway;Francesca Bottacini;Noreen Lanigan

  132
  Citations

• Characterization of ApuB, an extracellular type II amylopullulanase from Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003

  Mary O'Connell Motherway;Gerald F. Fitzgerald;Sabine Neirynck;Sinead Ryan

  131
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• Genome Analysis and Characterisation of the Exopolysaccharide Produced by Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum 35624

  Friedrich Altmann;Paul Kosma;Amy O'Callaghan;Sinead C. Leahy

  121
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• Genetic analysis and morphological identification of pilus-like structures in members of the genus Bifidobacterium

  Elena Foroni;Fausta Serafini;Davide Amidani;Francesca Turroni

  112
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