Ing. Jan Čapek, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Publication

Emerging Microbes & Infections. 2025; 14(1); 2451718

An IS element-driven antisense RNA attenuates the expression of serotype 2 fimbriae and the cytotoxicity of Bordetella pertussis

Nucleic Acids Research. 2025; 53(13); gkaf614

Global analysis of the Hfq-mediated RNA interactome discovers a MicA homolog that affects the cytotoxicity; biofilm formation; and resistance to complement of Bordetella pertussis

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 2023; 13(3 February); 943390

Why is manganese so valuable to bacterial pathogens?

Emerging Microbes & Infections. 2023; 12(1); e2146536

Avirulent phenotype promotes Bordetella pertussis adaptation to the intramacrophage environment

Frontiers in Microbiology. 2021; 12(OCT 14 2021); 644708

Predominant Biphenyl Dioxygenase From Legacy Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB)-Contaminated Soil Is a Part of Unusual Gene Cluster and Transforms Flavone and Flavanone

mBio. 2021; 12(5); e0190221

A Unique Reverse Adaptation Mechanism Assists Bordetella pertussis in Resistance to Both Scarcity and Toxicity of Manganese

Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2021; 27(1); 57-68

Comparative Omics Analysis of Historic and Recent Isolates of Bordetella pertussis and Effects of Genome Rearrangements on Evolution