Karolis Vaitkevicius

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Staff scientist at Department of Molecular Biology Section: Research group Jörgen Johansson

6K och 6L, Sjukhusområdet Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

A highly substituted ring-fused 2-pyridone compound targeting PrfA and the efflux regulator BrtA in listeria monocytogenes

mBio, American Society for Microbiology 2023, Vol. 14, (3)

Tükenmez, Hasan; Singh, Pardeep; Sarkar, Souvik; et al.

Structural basis for HflXr-mediated antibiotic resistance in Listeria monocytogenes

Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford University Press 2022, Vol. 50, (19) : 11285-11300

Koller, Timm O.; Turnbull, Kathryn Jane; Vaitkevicius, Karolis; et al.

Structural basis of ABCF-mediated resistance to pleuromutilin, lincosamide, and streptogramin A antibiotics in Gram-positive pathogens

Nature Communications, Springer Nature 2021, Vol. 12, (1)

Crowe-McAuliffe, Caillan; Murina, Victoriia; Turnbull, Kathryn Jane; et al.

An mRNA-mRNA Interaction Couples Expression of a Virulence Factor and Its Chaperone in Listeria monocytogenes

Cell Reports, cell press 2020, Vol. 30, (12) : 4027-+

Ignatov, Dmitriy; Vaitkevicius, Karolis; Durand, Sylvain; et al.

Generation of Sequencing Libraries for Structural Analysis of Bacterial 5′ UTRs

STAR Protocols, Vol. 1, (2)

Ignatov, Dmitriy; Vaitkevicius, Karolis; Johansson, Jörgen

Attenuating Listeria monocytogenes virulence by targeting the regulatory protein PrfA

Cell chemical biology, Vol. 23, (3) : 404-414

Good, James A. D.; Andersson, Christopher; Hansen, Sabine; et al.

RNA helicase important for Listeria monocytogenes hemolytic activity and virulence factor expression

Infection and Immunity, American Society for Microbiology 2016, Vol. 84, (1) : 67-76

Netterling, Sakura; Bäreclev, Caroline; Vaitkevicius, Karolis; et al.

DExD-box RNA-helicases in Listeria monocytogenes are important for growth, ribosomal maturation, rRNA processing and virulence factor expression

RNA Biology, Vol. 11, (11) : 1458-1467

Bäreclev, Caroline; Vaitkevicius, Karolis; Netterling, Sakura; et al.

An unstructured 5'-coding region of the prfA mRNA is required for efficient translation

Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press 2012, Vol. 40, (4) : 1818-1827

Loh, Edmund; Memarpour, Faranak; Vaitkevicius, Karolis; et al.

A listeria monocytogenes RNA-helicase essential for growth and ribosomal maturation at low temperatures, uses its C-terminus for appropriate interaction with the ribosome

Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 194, (16) : 4377-4385

Netterling, Sakura; Vaitkevicius, Karolis; Nord, Stefan; et al.

Outer membrane vesicle-mediated release of cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) from Campylobacter jejuni

BMC Microbiology, Vol. 16, (9) : 220-

Lindmark, Barbro; Rompikuntal, Pramod Kumar; Vaitkevicius, Karolis; et al.

A trans-acting riboswitch controls expression of the virulence regulator PrfA in Listeria monocytogenes

Cell, Vol. 139, (4) : 770-779

Loh, Edmund; Dussurget, Olivier; Gripenland, Jonas; et al.

Vibrio cholerae cytolysin causes an inflammatory response in human intestinal epithelial cells that is modulated by the PrtV protease

PLOS ONE, San Francisco: Public Library of Science 2009, Vol. 4, (11)

Ou, Gangwei; Rompikuntal, Pramod Kumar; Bitar, Aziz; et al.

Vibrio cholerae cytolysin causes an inflammatory response in human intestinal cells that is modulated by the protease PrtV secreted by the same bacterium

Ou, Gangwei; Vaitkevicius, Karolis; Bitar, Aziz; et al.

The Listeria transcriptional landscape from saprophytism to virulence

Nature, Vol. 459, (7249) : 950-956

Toledo-Arana, Alejandro; Dussurget, Olivier; Nikitas, Georgios; et al.

Role of melanin pigment in expression of Vibrio cholerae virulence factors

Infection and Immunity, American Society for Microbiology 2009, Vol. 77, (3) : 935-942

Valeru, Soni Priya; Rompikuntal, Pramod Kumar; Ishikawa, Takahiko; et al.

The metalloprotease PrtV from Vibrio cholerae

The FEBS Journal, Vol. 275, (12) : 3167-3177

Vaitkevicius, Karolis; Rompikuntal, Pramod Kumar; Lindmark, Barbro; et al.

Effects of Vibrio cholerae protease and pigment production on environmental survival and host interaction

Umeå University medical dissertations, 1144

Vaitkevicius, Karolis

A Vibrio cholerae protease needed for killing of Caenorhabditis elegans has a role in protection from natural predator grazing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, (24) : 9280-9285

Vaitkevicius, Karolis; Lindmark, Barbro; Ou, Gangwei; et al.

Rli38, a novel stress induced small RNA required for Listeria monocytogenes virulence

Gripenland, Jonas; Dussurget, Olivier; Sesto, Nina; et al.

The PrtV protease in Vibrio cholerae influenses expression of the VCC/HlyA cytolytic activity

Vaitkevicius, Karolis; Lindmark, Barbro; Rompikuntal, Pramod Kumar; et al.

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Research groups

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Jan Larsson Lab

Jörgen Johansson Lab

Research projects

1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024

Chromosomal Gene Regulatory Systems and Chromosome-Specific Adaptations