University of Calgary

Publications

Agnoli K, Schwager S, Uehlinger S, Vergunst A, Viteri DF, Nguyen DT, Sokol PA, Carlier A, Eberl L.  Exposing the third chromosome of Burkholderia cepacia complex strains as a virulence plasmid. Mol Microbiol. 83(2):362-78, 2012

Subramoni S, Nguyen DT, Sokol PA.  Burkholderia cenocepacia ShvR Regulated Genes that Influence Colony Morphology, Biofilm Formation and Virulence.  Infect Immun. 2011 Aug;79(8):2984-97

McKeon SA, Nguyen DT, Viteri DF, Zlosnik JEA, Sokol PA.  Functional Quorum Sensing Systems are Maintained during Chronic Burkholderia cepacia Complex Infections in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis. J Infect Dis. 203(3):383-92, 2011

O'Grady EP, Nguyen DT, Weisskopf L, Eberl L, Sokol PA.  The Burkholderia cenocepacia LysR-type transcriptional regulator ShvR influences expression of quorum sensing, protease, type II secretion and afc genes.  J Bacteriol. 193(1):163-76, 2010

O'Grady EP, Viteri DF, Malott RJ, Sokol PA.  Reciprocal regulation by the CepIR and CciIR quorum sensing systems in Burkholderia cenocepacia. BMC Genomics 17;10:441, 2009

Kooi C, Sokol PA. Burkholderia cenocepacia zinc matalloproteases influence resistance to antimicrobial peptides. Microbiology 155(Pt 9):2818-25, 2009

Uehlinger S, Schwager S, Bernier SP, Riedel K, Nguyen DT, Sokol PA, Eberl L. Identification of specific and universal virulence factors in Burkholderia cenocepacia strains by using multiple infection hosts. Infect Immun 77(9): 4102-10, 2009 

Malott RJ, O'Grady EP, Toller J, Inhulsen S, Eberl L, Sokol PA. A Burkholderia cenocepacia orphan LuxR homolog is involved in quorum sensing regulation. J Bacteriol 191(8):2447-60, 2009

Bernier SP, Beeston AL, Sokol PA. Detection of N-acyl homoserine lactones using a tral-luxCDABE-based biosensor as a high-throughput screening tool. BMC Biotechnol 8: 59, 2008 

Bernier SP, Nguyen DT, Sokol PA.  A LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulator in Burkholderia cenocepacia Influences Colony Morphology and Virulence. Infect Immun 76(1):38-47, 2008

Sokol P, Malott RJ, Riedel K, Eberl L. Communication systems in the genus Burkholderia: global regulators and targets for novel antipathogenic drugs. Future Microbiol 2: 555-63, 2007

Malott RJ, Sokol PA. Expression of the bvilIR and cepIR Quorum-Sensing Systems of Burkholderia vietnamiensis. J Bacteriol  189(8): 3006-16, 2007

Flannagan RS, Aubert D, Kooi C, Sokol PA, Valvano MA. Burkholderia cenocepacia requires a periplasmic HtrA protease for growth under thermal and osmotic stress and for survival in vivo. Infect Immun 75(4):1679-89, 2007

Chambers CE, Lutter EI, Visser MB, Law PP, Sokol PA. Identification of potential CepR regulated genes using a cep box motif-based search of the Burkholderia cenocepacia genome. BMC Microbiol 6: 104, 2006

Subsin B, Chambers CE, Visser MB, Sokol PA. Identification of Genes Regulated by the cepIR Quorum Sensing System in Burkholderia cenocepacia by High-Throughput Screening of a Random Promoter Library. J Bacteriol. 189(3): 968-79, 2006

Kooi C, Subsin B, Chen R, Pohorelic B, Sokol PA.  Burkholderia cenocepacia ZmpB is a broad-specificity zinc metalloprotease involved in virulence.  Infect Immun. 74(7):4083-93. 2006